DFOArchive: Castle of the Apostate Made Simple

This is a new advance dungeon in level 115 Cap. This post will only go over briefly how this dungeon works. For full and complete information, visit this Season 11. Sky of a Thousand Seas. A New Leap post.

General Approach

The Apostate's Sanctuary content provides two types of Radiant weapons: the Spear of Judgmental Radiance and the Shield of Compassionate Radiance, and players can choose to use one of the two.
You can switch to one of the following weapons by approaching an object depicting a spear and a shield: the Spear of Judgmental Radiance or the Shield of Compassionate Radiance.
When acquiring a Radiant Weapon, the type of weapon currently acquired and its cooldown are displayed above the health bar UI.
The Weapon of Radiance can be used by pressing the 'Dungeon Special Key 1' key.
When entering a boss monster area, the spear/shield resistance value is displayed below the monster's health bar.
The spear/shield correspondence indicator changes when the monster initiates an attack corresponding to each weapon.
The Shield of Compassionate Radiance defends against enemy attacks and has the effect of deflecting attacks at specific timings.
Just before a monster uses an attack marked with a shield, use the Shield of Radiance weapon to interrupt the enemy's attack and reduce the Spear/Shield counter value.

When using the Spear of Judgmental Radiance, the player charges toward the direction they are facing, and interrupts monster attacks when used at a specific timing.

When a monster prepares to attack with a spear displayed, use the Spear of Radiance weapon to interrupt the enemy's attack and reduce their Spear/Shield resistance.

When the Spear/Shield Counter value reaches 0, the monster performs a special attack, and during that attack, you can use a suppression skill to end the attack and put it in a stunned state.

Outer area of the Apostate's Castle: The Outer Fortress area is a region composed of three Bell Towers of Radiance and two Paths of True Radiance areas.

Three named monsters are placed in the Bell Tower of Radiance, and their locations change every week.
Defeating named monsters placed in the North/South Bell Tower increases the level of the Weapon of Radiance, and provides a buff that increases the character's attack power during the battle with `Veridicus of Lies`.
Defeating the named monster in the East Bell Tower opens a path to the Resistance Area.

Upon defeating all monsters in the area, a buff is provided that increases the character's attack power during the battle with 'Veridicus of Lies'.

In the Resistance Area, you can move to the Confessional of Atonement area, where you can reach the final boss, Untruthful Veridicus, through the Altar of Radiance.
If you enter the Inner Fortress area without defeating all three named monsters in the Outer Fortress area, the hidden named monster 'Violentias Stained by the Apocalypse' will appear in the Altar of Radiance area.
If 'Violentias Stained by the Apocalypse' is not defeated within the time limit, you will return to the outer fortress starting point, and the inner fortress area will now only open after all three named monsters are defeated.

Outer Area Bosses

Indifferent Carita

One notable pattern is that she create two orb colors on the map, red and white. Make sure to push them away so that they don't touch.
Red one can be pushed with you picked shield. White can be pushed if you pick the spear.

Liberated Violentia

If hit with her attack, you get a slash mark on you. Get 3 mark and you get an orb on you that continuously cause damage. Eat one of the yellow orb on the map to clear out the slashes.

Violentia create a green ring that expand, simple jump to dodge. Then watch for the red area to time where you need to be. In this example, the player stay away from Violentia, then go toward her to dodge those red areas.

One special pattern is that you need to touch the blue orb. A bird is created and you need to guide it to the top area. Each success bird guide will reduce pattern stack by one stack. If you get too far, the bird will stop moving.

The Fallen Crites

He has lots of annoying attack but one notable pattern is that he create clones of himself. Simple push those clones to him to reduce pattern stack count.

Inner Fortress Area Bosses

Violentia of the Apocalypse

Remember, if 'Violentia of the Apocalypse' is not defeated within 3 minutes limit, you will return to the outer fortress starting point, and the inner fortress area will now only open after all three named monsters are defeated. This is like a harder version of the outer fortress Violentia.
During the fight, you see red smear running across the map. This is the indication that the vines will grow there. Step in the red vines will temporary hold you.

If you see 3 pit moving in circle shooting out bird on the map, stay away from them.

In her special pattern, if you get hit too many time, the pattern will fail. First, when she does red area pattern in the middle, birds will spread out starting at the middle. You need to run to the middle.
When you see diagonal red area, it will come with a shockwave. so avoid the diagonal and jump.
Then 3 rings will form and start to shrink. Jump appropriately to not touch the rings.

Untruthful Veridicus

A common pattern is Veridicus create circle on the map that deal damage if you touch it. In this example, the circle follows Veridicus and you can see where he will move next so jump accordingly.

In phase 1 special pattern, you need to counter Veridicus (either spear or shield) to reduce pattern stack count. Reduce stack count to zero to complete pattern.

On this phase 2 pattern, you see a green area indicating the safe zone. Afterward, the circle area is the safe zone.

Phase 2 also has circle pattern that expand and shrink like phase 1. Here are some examples.

In this next pattern, he summons big red orbs that fire smaller orbs at you. This will repeat 2 more times, with each time more big red orbs are on the map. Afterward, the 3 big orbs will follow you, simply run away. Then avoid the laser.

When you see multiple safe zones flashing on the map, remember where they are. Stand there when he cast the pattern.

Phase 2 special pattern is Veridicus summoning circles with number on them. Each time the circle move, number reduce by 1. When it hit zero, the circle explode.
Watch for the coloration around the orb, dark is the damage area, light is the safe zone. So sometimes you stay inside the circle, sometime outside.
You will see vertical and horizontal line with number as well. This follow the same concept.

References

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