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Question for bowmen who APQs: how do you fight geist balrog effectively?

Last night, I had my first APQ and I was lucky enough to have KaidaTan and a pretty high level party, so Geist was dead before I knew it. But, during the whole boss stage, I felt really useless because I spent almost the entire time trying to find Geist only to have the teleporters lead me nowhere or missing when it teleported. I think 3 Strafes hit, at most. So, after the pq, I was wondering what would happen if I was in a lower level party that actually needs my contribution in killing Geist.

Any advice?

If your party lures Geist after it flies off the screen then just chill at the bottom. If everyone chases it around like mad, just try to find where it is and shoot. Memorizing where the teleporters go is useful.

If you're strictly soloing, have other party members hide in a corner and use puppet to lure it down, and attack. Repeat everytime it flies off. This will probably be pretty painful.

The fastest boss kills I've been in either had a massively strong and quick physical damage dealers to kill it before it does its def-up, or both magic and physical attackers to keep it from running off even if it does def up, because it can't teleport while it's being KBed. Attacking from both sides help. Unfortunately, as an archer, you're role is basically stand and shoot and hope it hits something.