DFOArchive: Mahnabal, the Mad

Gauge Gimmick

Everyone has a gauge next them while fighting Mahnabal. This gauge will continuously fill up. When you're hit with his attack, the gauge deplete.
When the gauge is completely depleted, the player will be held in an invincible state. If everyone is held, Mahnabal use big area damage pattern, so don't get hit too much.

Jump Pattern

If you see a jump arrow on top of Mahnabal, jump on him to break pattern. This happens quite frequently, so watch out for the arrow.

Tornado Spin

Mahnabal does a stance then cast spinning tornado pattern. Just run away from him. Another variation is his tornado will have a safe zone area, stay inside the area while dodging his spinning.

A Merciless Rush

Mahnabal summons 4 cracks on the map and fill room with attach. He will do a rush pattern from side to side (indicated with a purple area on the map). If you jump on him during this rush, you're launched in the air, thus dodging the room wide attack.
After that, 1of the 4 cracks is still on the map, make sure you guide him to this crack to get a short groggy.

The next phase of the attack is he doing multiple side to side rushing pattern. You need to make sure to jump on him to stop the rush. Thorns / attacks will form on wherever he got stopped. So if he's not stopped, thorns / attacks will spawn all over the map.
Whoever stopped him will be held. When there is one person left, you will see purple circle underneath this person. Guide the circle to the people that are being held, then do jump pattern on Mahnabal to free these party member.
When all party members are freed, pattern is complete.

Swirling Storm

Mahnabal does tornado spin, make sure you stay in the safe zone to avoid damage. There will be a hammer on the map with a jump icon on it. Jump on the hammer to launch yourself up and guide the hammer so that it drop on Mahnabal to reduce pattern stack count.
Note that there are some delay in the hammer dropping, so time it carefully.

Growling

Mahnabal drops a hammer that send a shock wave. Jump to dodge the shock wave, then damage area appear around the hammer. Another variation is the damage area is on the outside and safe zone is around the hammer. So dodge the shockwave then run to the safe zone, wherever that would be.
Afterward, Bluehawk Captain Birdie sends an arrow to free all party member.

After Captain Birdie, Mahnabal summons thorns around the map and does the same pattern 3 times. Note that this time, the damage area is always on the outside and safe zones is on the inside.
Note that some thorns will turn red, and if you can drop the hammer on them, those thorns will be destroyed, thus giving you more space to dodge pattern.
After all the hammer drop, Mahnabal will do room wide attack, jump on him to create groggy.

References

Namu Wiki

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