Castle Hein

Introduction

Reference: Announcement

Overview

Final Fantasy III Event

King Mog will exchange various rewards for special currency within the event period. You can obtain this currency by defeating enemies inside the event vortex dungeon. Having a bonus unit in your party will give an additional bonus to the amount of currency earned.

Unit Bonus

Using the following bonus units will increase the amount of currency received in the vortex dungeon. The bonus is cumulative so you can use as many as you can, including one from a friend unit.

Unit Bonus
Onion Knight	Desch	Aria	Sara
+100%	+75%	+75%	+50%

King Mog

You can find King Mog in the Farplane to purchase time-limited event items with event currencies until item exchange period is over.

• Exclusive
• Common
• Materials
• Recommendation

Exclusive Items

Item	Type	Description	Currency	Limit
Onion Helm	Helm	ATK+15, DEF+20 Healthy (Onion Knight only)	6,000	1
Onion Armor	Light Armor	ATK+10, DEF+40 Naughty (Onion Knight only)	15,000	1
Casanova	Materia	Increase HP (15%) Casanova Exclusive: Desch only	8,000	1
Water Maiden Blessing	Materia	Increase SPR (15%) Water Maiden Blessing Exclusive: Aria only	8,000	1
Heart of Fire	Materia	Increase HP (10%) Increase fire resistance (5%)	1,200	4
Heart of Water	Materia	Increase HP (10%) Increase water resistance (5%)	1,200	4
Heart of Wind	Materia	Increase HP (10%) Increase wind resistance (5%)	1,200	4
Heart of Earth	Materia	Increase HP (10%) Increase earth resistance (5%)	1,200	4

Common Items

Item	Type	Description	Currency	Limit
Remedy	Item	Cure poison, blind, sleep, silence, paralyze and confuse to one ally	5	10
Y-Potion	Item	Restore HP (1500) to one ally	100	10
Mega Ether	Item	Restore MP (120) to one ally	200	5
Phoenix Down	Item	Revive one KO'd ally (20% HP)	200	10
Elixir	Item	Recover HP/MP (100%) to one ally	100	10
Metal Gigantuar	EXP Unit	Increase experience when fused (30000)	100	100
Screamroot	Material	Root from a plant that has a terrible death cry	150	10
Fine Alcryst	Material	A stone that can become a powerful ability crystal	150	10
Star Quartz	Item	Can be exchanged with Fat Chocobo	300	4
			600	3
			900	3
Rare Summon Ticket	Item	Can be exchanged for a rare summon	500	2
			1,000	3
			3,000	2
			6,000	3
Mini Burst Pot	Enhancer	Increase LB experience when fused (100)	1,500	30
Trust Moogle (ALL 1%)	Enhancer	Increase trust mastery when fused (1%)	10,000	5
Trust Moogle (ALL 10%)	Enhancer	Increase trust mastery when fused (10%)	30,000	1

Awakening Materials

Item	Type	Description	Currency	Limit
Bizarre Box	Material	A box that looks as if something might pop out of it	100	300
Lucky Seedling	Material	A seedling said to bring happiness	100	300
Brilliant Ray	Material	A shard that gives off a ray of brilliance	100	300
Wicked Drop	Material	A liquid that consists of liquefied magical power	100	300
Fury Seed	Material	A seed that promotes fighting strength	100	300
Hard Rock	Material	A stone that offers firm protection	100	300
Sacred Crystal	Material	A large crystal that can awaken latent power	150	20
Divine Crystal	Material	A beautiful crystal that can awaken dormant powers	160	30
			540	200
Calamity Writ	Material	A writ of prophecy left by the ancients	160	30
			540	200
Prismatic Horn	Material	The sparkling prismatic horn of a divine beast	160	30
			540	200
Calamity Gem	Material	A gem infused with the power of great calamity	160	30
			540	200
Rainbow Bloom	Material	A flower said to bloom in paradise	160	30
			540	200
Fairies' Writ	Material	A secret message inscribed by the king of fairies	160	30
			540	200
White Giancryst	Material	A very large crystal which brings out the potential of abilities It is necessary in awakening white magic	30,000	3
Black Giancryst	Material	A very large crystal which brings out the potential of abilities It is necessary in awakening black magic	30,000	3
Green Giancryst	Material	A very large crystal which brings out the potential of abilities It is necessary in awakening green magic	30,000	3
Power Giancryst	Material	A very large crystal which brings out the potential of abilities It is necessary in awakening offensive abilities	30,000	3
Guard Giancryst	Material	A very large crystal which brings out the potential of abilities It is necessary in awakening defensive abilities	30,000	3
Healing Giancryst	Material	A very large crystal which brings out the potential of abilities It is necessary in awakening healing abilities	30,000	3
Support Giancryst	Material	A very large crystal which brings out the potential of abilities It is necessary in awakening support abilities	30,000	3
Tech Giancryst	Material	A very large crystal which brings out the potential of abilities It is necessary in awakening technical abilities	30,000	3
White Purecryst	Material	A huge crystal which brings out the potential of abilities It is necessary in awakening white magic	80,000	1
Black Purecryst	Material	A huge crystal which brings out the potential of abilities It is necessary in awakening black magic	80,000	1
Green Purecryst	Material	A huge crystal which brings out the potential of abilities It is necessary in awakening green magic	80,000	1
Power Purecryst	Material	A huge crystal which brings out the potential of abilities It is necessary in awakening offensive abilities	80,000	1
Guard Purecryst	Material	A huge crystal which brings out the potential of abilities It is necessary in awakening defensive abilities	80,000	1
Healing Purecryst	Material	A huge crystal which brings out the potential of abilities It is necessary in awakening healing abilities	80,000	1
Support Purecryst	Material	A huge crystal which brings out the potential of abilities It is necessary in awakening support abilities	80,000	1
Tech Purecryst	Material	A huge crystal which brings out the potential of abilities It is necessary in awakening technical abilities	80,000	1

Beginner's Recommendation

This purchase list recommendation is meant for people who have just started the game or have only played for less than 3 months of playtime or with rank lower than 50.

First Priority
Metal Gigantuar (100) {{#tip-info: Remember not to buy them all at once, otherwise they will clog up your unit box!!}}	10,000
Rare Summon Ticket (7)	10,000
Onion Helm	6,000
Onion Armor	15,000
Total	41,000
Second Priority
Rare Summon Ticket (3)	18,000
Star Quartz (10)	5,700
Sacred Crystal (20)	3,000
5-star Trust Moogle	30,000
Total	56,700
Buy as you need them
Cheap 6-star awakening materials
Consumable items e.g. Elixir/Phoenix Down
Screamroot
Other awakening materials
Exclusive ability materias and equipment

Battle Dialogue

Main article: Castle Hein/Battle Dialogue

Battle Info

• BGN
• INT
• ADV
• PRO
• ELT
• Challenge

Hein's Castle - BGN

Difficulty	Energy	Battle	Gil	Unit XP	Rank XP	Clear Reward
	5	2	33	300	100	Rare Summon Ticket
Mission
Complete the quest						X-Potion
No items						10
No continues						10
Clear without an ally being KO'd						10
Monster			Boss			Drop
Pharaoh			Lemur			45−47

Hein's Castle - INT

Difficulty	Energy	Battle	Gil	Unit XP	Rank XP	Clear Reward
	10	3	117	900	210	200
Mission
Complete the quest						Tent
No limit bursts						10
Defeat lamia with magic						10
Clear without an ally being KO'd						10
Monster			Boss			Drop
Lemur Pharaoh			Lamia			100−104

Hein's Castle - ADV

Difficulty	Energy	Battle	Gil	Unit XP	Rank XP	Clear Reward
	15	3	610	4650	310	300
Mission
Complete the quest						Remedy
Deal light damage to an enemy						10
Defeat the demon with magic						10
Clear without an ally being KO'd						10
Monster			Boss			Drop
Lamia Lemur Pharaoh			Demon			180−186

Hein's Castle - PRO

Difficulty	Energy	Battle	Gil	Unit XP	Rank XP	Clear Reward
	20	4	730	6600	500	500
Mission
Complete the quest						Phoenix Down
Deal light damage 3 or more times to an enemy						10
Defeat the dullahan with a limit burst						10
Clear without an ally being KO'd						10
Monster			Boss			Drop
Demon Lamia Lemur Pharaoh			Dullahan			240−248

Hein's Castle - ELT

Difficulty	Energy	Battle	Gil	Unit XP	Rank XP	Clear Reward
	25	5	2085	26000	600	500
Mission
Complete the quest						20
Party of 4 or less (Companion included)						MP +15%
Defeat Hein with magic						10
Clear without an ally being KO'd						10
Monster			Boss			Drop
Demon Dullahan Lamia Lemur			Hein			420−432

Main article: Hein the Mage

Difficulty	Energy	Battle	Gil	Unit XP	Rank XP	Clear Reward
	30	1	1117	10000	365	4-star Trust Moogle
Mission
Complete the quest						4-star Trust Moogle
No items						10,000
Party of 5 or less (Companion included)						Water Resistance +15%
Clear within 15 turns						Onion Gauntlets
Boss
Hein

Event Guide

• Sea Lion and Ouroboros will spawn in ADV, PRO and ELT. Each may spawn solo, double, or one of each, dropping 100 and 500 extra Fang of Winds, respectively.

Boss Guide (ELT)

Hein
Race	Reaper
Level	75
HP	450,000
MP	500
ATK	350
DEF	9,999
MAG	350
SPR	45

Element Resistance
+200%	+200%	+200%	+200%	+200%	+200%	+200%	+200%
Status Ailment Resistance
null	-	null	null	null	null	-	null
Other Resistance
Immune to Gravity and Death. Immune to ATK/MAG/DEF Break. Vulnerable to SPR Break. Increase resistance against status ailments by 10% per infliction.

Abilities

• Barrier Shift:
  • Decreases fire resistance (250%) for 3 turns to caster.
  • Decreases ice resistance (250%) for 3 turns to caster.
  • Decreases lightning resistance (250%) for 3 turns to caster.
• Bioga: Dark magic damage (1.6x) to all enemies and inflict poison (100%) on all enemies.
• Firaga: Fire magic damage (1.8x) to all enemies.
• Blizzaga: Ice magic damage (1.8x) to all enemies.
• Thundaga: Lightning magic damage (1.8x) to all enemies.
• Confuse: Inflict confuse (50%) on one enemy.
• Sleep: Inflict sleep (40%) on one enemy.

Hein casts 3-4 spells each turn. See below for examples.

Turn examples

• Turn 1: Barrier Shift, Confuse, Bioga, Thundaga
• Turn 2: Confuse, Bioga, Blizzaga
• Turn 3: Barrier Shift, Confuse, Bioga, Blizzaga
• Turn 4: Confuse, Sleep, Blizzaga
• Turn 5: Barrier Shift, Confuse, Bioga, Blizzaga

Strategy

Debuff

• Hein is vulnerable to SPR break. Options are:
  • 65% Helm Break +2
  • 60% Ravaging Blow +2
  • 55% Ravaging Blow +1
  • 50% Ravaging Blow, Spirit Kill, Purge: MAG/SPR, Helm Break +1
  • 45% Armor Eraser, Feint Step, Anti-ATK/SPR Spark
  • 40% Helm Break, Last Footstep, Liberating Flash, Farewell to Wisdom
  • 35% World Destroyer, Cannon Dance +2
  • 30% Full Break, Undermine, Breaker, Chaos Grenade, Cannon Dance +1
  • 20% Deshell
  • 15% Mental Break
• Hein is vulnerable to blind and disease.
• Undead Killer is only applied through physical or hybrid skills. It does not apply through MAG only spells.
• Undead Killer can be gained through crafting or from Odin.
• License to Kill is another killer effect that affects the boss, however Light Veritas's standard builds utilize Light (ineffective) damage. She can take advantage of either Alterna or Ultima, and Dualcast for this fight.

Damage

• Mages with non-elemental spells are most effective whereas physical attackers aren't even worth bringing. Be sure to bring magic attackers with access to a non-elemental magic like Meteor, Ultima, and Alterna.
• Chain non-elemental magic damage such as Exdeath's or Victoria's Meteor, Zyrus's Blood Pulsar, Ace's Tri-beam Laser, Dark Fina's Ultima, Ashe's Heaven's Fury, or Kefka's three top abilities.
• Rem's Dagger Boomerang is very effective.
• Equip other characters with non-elemental magic damage materia such as Drain and Drain Blade.
• Carbuncle's reflect works well against him as most of his attacks are spells. It seems to also reflect the status ailments as well. In addition, equipping Carbuncle offers the most SPR compared to other Esper bonuses, and allows you to cast Bar spells to reduce damage from his common elements.
• An enhanced Dark Fina with 800+ MAG paired with Desch's Anti-ATK/SPR Spark can OTK Every wave on ELT.
• To conserve MP throughout the various waves, using a unit that has Dualcast or a similar ability paired with Osmose and a non-elemental spell like Ultima will allow the player to hit the repeat button for most all waves, while clearing mobs.
• Soleil's Cannon Dance +2 and chained Schwert Dance +2 can boost MAG 120% for all allies. Cannon Dance +1/+2 can also decrease SPR (30%/35%) on top of MAG boosting.
• As a sole exception to the rule, Fryevia can be of use. Her damage will be halved due to her attack being half physical and you won't be able to attack the first turn. Hein will always be weak to ice turn 2, and most of the time on turn 3.
• Sasune's Protection, Sara's limit burst, can provide a significant increase in MAG by providing a buff from 30-50% at base.
• Any mage with Dualcast, 700+ MAG, Ultima or Alterna, 30% or higher MAG buff and 30% or higher SPR debuff can take him out in two turns.
• Onion Knight can be equipped to get 600+ MAG, Dual Cast and Alterna with some TMR farming, it's weird but it works with the innate Dual Wield and ability to equip rods and swords.
• Fryevia with 700+ MAG paired with Desch's Anti-ATK/SPR Spark can OTK every wave on ELT before Hein and take Hein out on second turn.

Cure status ailments

• Bring accessories and items to protect against poison, confuse, and sleep.
• If you do not have a full team of non-elemental magic units, bring units that have Esunaga and can heal, such as Rasler and Lunera.
• Healing Affection can be found on the bonus unit Aria as a group status removal ability.
• Lakshmi with Assuring Protection is effective against countering confusion.

Defense and resist

• Barfira/Barblizzara/Barthundara, Omni-Veil, Durai Papers and similar AoE abilities will help increase elemental resistances.
  • Onion Knight's Splendor of the Water will reduce the damage of Hein's Firaga significantly.
  • Barblizzara/Barfira/Barthundara craftable.
• Remove the following Espers to prevent extra elemental damage (or use it on a shield-wielding character and equip an opposing elemental shield to turn the resistance bonus to 0%): Shiva, Siren, Ifrit.
• Equipping Exdeath with a Thunder Shield and Ramuh gives 100% Lightning resistance.
• 6* Cerius (3k+ HP required) with a Healing Staff equipped is a great non-fighter choice to add 70% resist for fire, ice, and thunder. This will not protect you against the dark/poison attacks but reduce the overall damage of your team by almost 25-50% each round.
• An average team with SPR values of 100-250 will receive 1000-1700 damage per attack. Having two or three healers is a must at this level.
• Reflect works. You can equip Carbuncle on a weaker unit.
• Having Marie cast Love You All +2 will give your party a 50% resistance to Hein's elemental magic and heal your party at the end of each turn, giving the entire team much better survivability

Videos

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Castle Hein - ELT

Username	Description	Units	Link
Elegantique	4 Missions Guide	Sara, Sara, Sara, Seabreeze Dark Fina	YouTube
Sephiroth FFBE	ELT stage | All mission	Sara, Sara, Trance Terra, Friend: Onion Knight	YouTube
claudius415	Sea Lion & 2 Ouroboros spotted! | solo DF carry	Aria, Aria, Aria, Friend: Dark Fina(876MAG)	YouTube
Khimaira	Full Bonus Team MAG OK	Sara, Sara, Aria, Onion Knight, Onion Knight, Friend: Onion Knight	YouTube
DX3mis	ELT Farming 5 bonus units	Sara x3, Desch, Seabreeze Dark Fina, Friend: Onion Knight	YouTube
Nagashi HD	ELT All Missions	Aria, Desch, Dark Fina, Friend: Onion Knight	YouTube
Flail	4 Missions - MAG Onion Knight	Desch, Onion Knight, Onion Knight, Friend: Onion Knight	YouTube
MasterB	Easy Kill - Trance Terra/Chaos Wave	Sara, Trance Terra, Trance Terra, Friend: Onion Knight	YouTube
ffbeMYcommunity	Hein' Castle ELT - AllMissionClear	Ashe, Ashe, Dark Fina, Friend: Desch	YouTube
Mitch3ll	ELT All Missions	Sara, Sara, Dark Fina, Friend: Dark Fina	YouTube
Khimaira	Repeat(Macro Way) not F2P	Aria, Desch, Aria, Onion Knight, Onion Knight, Friend: Random	YouTube

Event Period

Event Period:

• Start: Friday 9/1/17 00:00 PST
• End: Thursday 9/14/17 23:59 PST

Item Exchange Period:

• Start: Friday 9/1/17 00:00 PST
• End: Wednesday 9/20/17 23:59 PST

Make sure to trade all event currency before the claim period is over! King Mog will no longer sell event items once it does.