Dislyte Desolate Lands Guide [Shadowgale, Shadowstream and Shadowfire Strategies]

Welcome to the Desolate Lands strategy guide! This tutorial will cover most of the basics and what you need to know to attempt these bosses. They are strictly catered to mid-late game players. Here is where you know you are transitioning from early to mid game:

• You can farm Kronos and Apep 10 comfortably without failing
• You can complete the Fafnir 10 auto achievement

Now if you cannot complete the above, that doesn’t mean you won’t be able to do Desolate Lands, but getting a C and B grade gems as rewards in this mode is not very lucrative at all.

Rewards

The biggest draw to doing these bosses are the relic stones that you can use to boost your relic’s sub stats. Below are the drops from the following bosses:

• Shadowfire – War Machine, Wind Walker, Snow Dowager, Master Grove, Stoneveins and Apollo’s Bow
• Shadowgale – Hades, Abiding Panacea, Ocean Waves, Fiery Incandescence, Sword Avatara and Adamantine
• Shadowstream – Hammer of Thor, Tyranny of Zeus, Astral Witchcraft, Immensus Peak, The Enchanter, The Light Above

So basically it follows the big 3 bosses (Kronos, Apep and Fafnir) respectively when it comes to getting their relic stones. Shadowfire is the most popular one as it contains Wind Walker and War Machine, which is what the majority of the DPS and Support units are on. The speed sub stat relic stone is highly sought after in these sets.

Shadowgale is the second most popular as there is Hades, Ocean Waves, Fiery Incandescence, Sword Avatara and Adamantine, which are all popular sets used as well.

Shadowstream is the least popular and it won’t be a priority for most mid game players anyway.

A is the bare minimum you want to have, since it will drop some rare and epic stones. At A+ rank, it becomes okay to farm since there is no uncommon stones.

Shadowfire (Inferno) Mechanics

Since the majority of the people are going to focus on this boss, it is vital to build a team to try and get at least S grade for it to be worthwhile. Took me a while to get S rank, but it was worth it.

The boss mechanics is quite simple. He is at about 180ish speed.

Here are his skills:

Falling Flames – Prioritizes attacking all enemies in the front line. Deals damage 1 time. The lower the enemy DEF, the higher the damage dealt.

Flamelight Wheel – Attacks all enemies 1 time. Deals bonus damage to the front line. Summons 8 Fiery Eyes to assist in battle.

Burning Dust Storm – Attacks all enemies 1 time. At the end of casting the ability, surviving Fury Eyes attack all enemies 1 time and inflict Raging Flames.

Flutter of Wings – Attacks all enemies 1 time. Deals bonus damage to the front line.

Searing Hurricane – After dispelling all buffs from all enemies, deals massive damage 1 more time, ignoring all DMG Mitigation effects.

Shadow Prayer (Passive) – Shadowfire is immune to all debuffs. When its enemy doesn’t have an Espers in the front line, the enemy backline takes more damage.

The Attack Sequence 

The boss will do a series of attacks in this order:

• Attack all frontline 1 time
• Attack everyone, summon fiery eyes
• You have 2 turns to try and kill as many fiery eyes as possible to get a nice damage multiplier
• Any remaining fiery eyes will explode and deal damage to your team
• Boss gets “stunned” after, giving you time to do damage
• Boss attacks everyone once.
• Boss attacks with final move. If you survive with at least 1 unit, you can get S rank or higher with a 6x multiplier or more.

The petal that appears on the top left corner during the fiery eyes phase will light up as you kill more fiery eyes. The more you kill, the higher the damage multiplier during the stun phase.

Here is the F2P team I used:

Frontline

Support

ATK
962
HP
14005

DEF
1002
SPEED
106

5   Gabrielle  [Njord]

Support

ATK
963
HP
12081

DEF
850
SPEED
94

3   Chang Pu  [Yao Ji]

Support

ATK
859
HP
11217

DEF
1031
SPEED
101

3   Ye Suhua  [Shao Siming]

Backline

Fighter

ATK
1254
HP
11505

DEF
733
SPEED
103

4   Chloe  [Medea]

Fighter

ATK
1204
HP
12392

DEF
861
SPEED
105

5   Li Ling  [Nezha]

Fighter

ATK
1255
HP
9680

DEF
860
SPEED
97

4   Mona  [Artemis]

Here are the stats:

• Gabrielle – Wind Walker/Stoneveins (Hp%/Hp%/SPD)
• Chang Pu – Ocean Waves/Adamantine (Hp%/Hp%/SPD)
• Ye Suhua – Ocean Waves/Adamantine (Hp%/Hp%/SPD)
• Li Ling – War Machine/The Light Above (Crit R%/ATK%/ATK%)
• Chloe – War Machine/Fiery Incandescence (Crit DMG%/ATK%/ATK%)
• Mona – Hades/Fiery Incandescence (Crit DMG%/ATK%/SPD)

I am planning to try out Jiang Man and Xie Chuyi here later to see if I can push for SSS.

The strategy is to have enough AoE attacks with an AoE defense breaker. This will help kill the fiery eyes with enough damage. I don’t have enough just yet.

Other Alternatives

Fighter

ATK
1224
HP
11294

DEF
794
SPEED
95

4   Lin Xiao  [White Tiger]

The best AoE defense breaker to help kill the fiery eyes!

Fighter

ATK
1242
HP
12659

DEF
830
SPEED
103

5   Zora  [Amunet]

Elemental advantage with tonnes of AoE attack. She is perfect here, although she is hard to pull for F2P.

Defender

ATK
831
HP
11749

DEF
1143
SPEED
98

4   Ren Si  [Black Tortoise]

Ren Si is good since he has high defense and he won’t die from the final blast of the bosses’ attack, which you need to survive in order to get S rank or higher.

Here is a guide by DaddyF2P on it:

Don’t feel too bad if you cannot get A+ rank or higher. This is end game content, it is not suppose to be easy!

I will update the guide as soon as I am able to get S rank or higher on the other 2 bosses.

Here are some clears of other players who did SSS on them.

Shadowstream

This boss requires high esper speed on many of yours, AP pushing and ideally a speed leader.

Shadowgale

This boss requires buffing and cleansing to clear the Wind Chain stacks. Since I don’t have a cleanser, this one is a lot harder for me.