"Passive Protection"

• Sephirot has a passive defense that reduces damage from Normal Attacks by a flat 75%, but only when it is not attacking.
  • Using skills such as Smash and Magnum Shot are recommended to combat Sephirot.

Okay, After thirty or forty runs of running with both physical and magical, this seems to be a bunch of hooey.

I've got about 190% crit with my fire wand and probably more with guns and other physical forms best for bossing. He takes a flat damage with magical, about a 60~70% reduction, putting his protection at about 90~110. Which fits because I still crit at 190% but not nearly enough. When he's attacking however, I crit perfectly fine, but the damage stays the same. He's got a passive modifier that changes his protection between its normal amount and a grand total of 0%. But not for magical because that's how devcat's decided to combat how stupid overpowered they've made magic due to cast time in KR compared to everything else, or just 'm a g i c a l l y' forgets to fix that change from Enlightenment/'Balance' Patch. Sounds familiar eh?.

I use physical either via autobash or way of the gun/rooty tooty point and shooty, and the damage just flies through the roof when his passive protection is down.

I'll perfect his protection when I can, but from regular 25k crits to under 10k, That's 60% reduction from magical. I don't offhand remember the difference between physical because I haven't run it with that in ages. Probably later today if nobody decides to beat me to the punch it'll get stuffed in.

Ever since they implemented this guy and Girgashiy, I've wondered if we needed to change a monsters defensive stats to something more like % Damage Reduction and Critical Resistance. So many of the new bosses are just breaking the traditional formulas for these calculations.

If you ask me (and you shouldn't), I think more of a reduction til Sephirot's defenses are down due to using attacks...like counterattack damage (Not the skill counter).

Also regarding the bullet, this was during a time where Bash did not exist and such...There are much better methods now.