Original General Dungeon Fighter Thread

Magic Missle is terrible. My normal dusted attacks are 10x faster and do twice as much damage.

That's your downfall against Giant Octo. You're thinking far too simply. Magic Missle has speed (especially for Cloth wearers) and RANGE. Power is not everything. Strategy will serve you far better in this fight. Besides, you don't have to tell me about Dusting. I'm almost always Dusted 100% of the time, too. However, I realized there's times with better ways to do things. I would never deem any of my skills "useless."

In all the countless times I've fought Giant Octo, I have only seen him use his crazy spin attack four times. Four. Two of those was when I was duoing with someone (which included my first ever fight against him). You should never have to worry about him even attempting to use the spin if you know how to fight him. Spam MM from outside his poison/bleeding inducing range and attack him with Chain Florae and Swatter every chance you get. Cast a Rain over him for added quickness in victory (not necessary, though).

He should be one of the simplest bosses you face in DFO.