DFOArchive: Star Turtle Grand Archives 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

Content progress: You will explore the Star Turtle Grand Archives to stop Vanitas's invasion and wake Meyer before them.
Star Turtle Grand Archives:

There are two forks in the path at the Star Turtle Grand Archives, and you can choose which branch to proceed by moving up or down at the forks.
In each quarter, you encounter the "Book of Distorted Memories" monster, and if you defeat it within the time limit, you can obtain a buff.
If you defeat the mid-boss in battle, you will acquire the Star Turtle's assistance and gain an effect that increases the damage taken from the final boss.
If you are 'expelled from the dungeon for exceeding the time limit' or 'retreat' during the final boss battle, the path will be fixed to a battle with a mid-boss upon re-entry.
The placement of the 3 mid-bosses changes through a weekly rotation.

Fork in the road:

While progressing through the dungeon, you will enter a fork in the road.
At the fork in the road, moving up leads to a branch where you fight a mid-boss, while moving down leads to a branch where you skip the mid-boss battle.
The difficulty of the final boss battle changes depending on the branch you choose to proceed with.
The branch selected on the fork map cannot be changed.

Help from the star tortoise:

This occurs when proceeding to the branch where you fight a mid-boss.
If you defeat the mid-boss, you can receive help from the Star Turtle in the battle against the final boss.
For every Star Turtle's Help, the final boss's damage taken increases by 15%.

Skip mid-boss battle:

This occurs when proceeding to the branch that skips the mid-boss battle.
The time limit for the final boss battle is set to 3 minutes.
If you exceed the time limit or retreat during the final boss battle, you will be expelled from the dungeon, and upon re-entry, you will be fixed to a branch where you fight a mid-boss.

Magic Book/Forbidden Book Buff:

If you proceed after selecting the branch at the fork in the road, you will encounter the "Book of Distorted Memories" monster.
If you defeat the "Book of Distorted Memories" monster within the time limit, you can obtain one of 12 types of magic books or forbidden books buff effects.
Depending on the type, each buff provides effects applied during the final boss battle as well as constant effects.
Forbidden Book buffs have a relatively low chance of being obtained, but they provide more powerful effects than Magic Book buffs.
Acquired buffs are stored in the buff slots on the minimap, allowing you to check their effects.
You can obtain up to 2 buffs.

Image	Designation	Effect
	The Magic Book of Struggle	Damage increases by 15% in the final boss battle, and the effect temporarily disappears upon being hit. (7-second cooldown)
	The Magic Book of Time	Permanent Effect: Resets 1 skill currently on cooldown at regular intervals. (Cooldown 15 seconds, excluding awakening skills)
	Jewish magic book	Damage increases by 10% in the final boss battle. Permanent Effect: Damage taken is reduced by 20%.
	The Magic Book of Travel	Damage increases by 10% in the final boss battle. Permanent Effect: All speeds increase by 50%.
	The Book of Life	Damage increases by 10% in the final boss battle. Permanent Effect: Recovers HP upon hitting an enemy. (Cooldown 5 seconds)
	The Book of Patience	Damage increases by 10% in the final boss battle. Always active: Creates a small shield upon acquisition/hit. (Cooldown 30 seconds)
	Forbidden Book of Slaughter	Damage increases by 20% in the final boss battle.
	The Forbidden Book of Reversal	Permanent Effect: When an attack hits, there is a certain probability of resetting the cooldown of all skills. (30-second cooldown, excluding awakening skills)
	The Forbidden Book of Apostasy	You gain 1 Star Turtle's Help. The damage taken by the final boss increases by 15%.
	The Forbidden Book of Exile	Damage increases by 15% in the final boss battle. Permanent Effect: All speeds increase by 50%.
	The Forbidden Book of Rampant	Damage increases by 15% in the final boss battle. Permanent Effect: Recovers HP upon hitting. (Cooldown 5 seconds)
	Forbidden book of oppression	Damage increases by 15% in the final boss battle. Permanent Effect: Creates a large shield upon acquisition or being hit. (Cooldown 30 seconds)

The Calla of Silence

Her main pattern is to create blue and purple lanterns on the map. If you touch the blue lantern, it shrink and disappear. Vice versa, touching the purple lantern will expand it.
If both lanterns touch, they will cause great damage. Fix this by touching the blue lantern to destroy it.

If there are multiple blue lanterns heading toward the purple lantern, try to reduce the blue ones little by little instead of trying to get rid of them one by one.

One special pattern is the rotating blue and purple lanterns. You can get groggy by destroying the amount of blue lanterns indicated in the pattern stack count.

In this next pattern, you collect the blue spirit on the map to increase the number above your character. Then touch the boss to reduce the pattern stack count by the amount of spirit you gathered.

Uncontrollable Fabia

Fabia starts off with many simple pattern where you jump and avoid red areas / beems.

After all the attacks, you will see cooldown drones on the map. The goal here is to let her attack and destroy the drones. Then you approach the drones and press the key. Do that to all the drones will get groggy.
If you don't get it the first time, there are other opportunity. There's a special version of this where you have to follow the drones and press the key.

Noble Billis

Billis has a gauge next to her. The goal is guide the objects to toward her. Each success charge will fill up her gauge. Fill up 100% will stun Billis.

When you stun her about 2 times, she cast a special pattern. The map will be filled with contaminated area (yellow) and clean area (clear). When you enter the yellow area, your gauge will fill up so make sure you manage it appropriately. The goal is to collect blue water droplet to decrease pattern stack counts.

Peccator of Innocence

Peccator do lots of slashing attack on the map. One specific attack is the "Great Slash" sword that has a gauge. Standing on this sword and pressing the 'X' key initiates a Quick Time Event (QTE). Use the arrow key to remove the four incoming blades. A successful attempt resets the cooldowns of three random skills (excluding Awakening skills) that are currently on cooldown.
The QTE allows for a maximum of two failures, meaning at least three of the four blades must be successfully deflected to succeed. Failing the QTE knocks the character back, and if the sword is not removed before the gauge fills completely, it unleashes a wide-range attack.

The special pattern will include this gimmick. Each success QTE will reduce pattern stack count. Just make sure you dodge all the red area and spike while getting to the "Great Slash" sword.

On this next pattern, he does pre-attack slash pattern. So memorize where they are to dodge. There is also pattern stack count, so clear out "Great Slash" sword with QTE gimmick to get groggy.