in the early chapters, the final boss is Dreska, the dragon-mother

in order to defeat her you are tasked with retrieving your father's sword, armor, and shield

which you find in various plalces

they're very powerful and have some cool passives as well

like casting lesser heal on you every third turn for free

and intimidating enemies into inaction on the first turn

and having crazy huge numbers

eventually the plot happens, and you learn that you're the baddies

and in the final chapter you're racing to Dreska in order to protect her from your father

in this chapter, as you explore the randomizer

you start to go "hmm"

"where the hell is the Ludriel set"

they are not available.

Because

Your dad is Ludriel

so when you fight him he has all the passives from the set you busted the game in half with back in chapter 1

but also!

part of the intended design of the game's equipment

is that Ludriel's set is really reliable and easy to use and powerful

but really specific clever builds will outpace it

so by literally giving the Ludriel set to the final boss

the game is saying, okay

show me you've broken the system

I've got the best gear in the game. Beat me using your shenanigans

ooh, I like that

ooh, I like that

oh that's really clever!

can you give an example of a winning build?

I had a build that replaced Magic Bolt with Lightning Slash, which made it so that any time I attacked it would also spend 3 MP to cast a jacked Magic Bolt on the same turn

then I had another thing that gave magic bolt a change to explode, hitting twice

and something else that gave magic bolt the Echo property, so the turn after casting it if I didn't cast it again it would echo the previous cast once

and also each basic attack would reduce enemy magic resistance

so I was machine gunning magic bolts that did abnormally high damage, almost always hit, and if they missed or I stopped to heal they would just keep casting more magic bolts for me

while constantly eroding magic defense

I love that kind of stuff

the time magic that just echoes attacks in absolum is so much fun