Lord Balseph Boss Guide: Recommended Setup and How to Beat

Lord Balseph is a boss you fight in the Tales of Arise (Beyond the Dawn)! Read on to learn more about tips on how to beat Lord Balseph, as well as stats, weaknesses, attack patterns, and the best party setup including Artes and Equipment in this boss guide!

Lord Balseph Stats and General Info

Recommended Level: 10
HP: 19,010
Attack	162	Defense	167
Elemental Attack	177	Elemental Defense	86
Penetration	406	Resistance	428
Weakness		Resistance
None		None

How to Beat Lord Balseph

To aid in your battle against Lord Balseph, here are some tips that you can utilize in your fight.

1. Avoid Charged Axe Attacks
2. Play As Alphen
3. Keep an Eye On the Fire Avatar
4. Disrupt His Gathering of Energy

Avoid His Charged Attacks

Balseph is a pretty powerful boss to come up against that packs several strong attacks. As much as possible, try and avoid getting hit by his attacks that he charges up first, as these often take away good amounts of your HP if you are unable to dodge them.

Play As Alphen

Being able to make use of Alphen's much more agile build against Balseph is the best choice you can make when choosing between which of your currently available party members to control for a majority of the fight.

You can keep Shionne in reserve, or in a role that sees her cast more Artes or use more Items to keep your HP up without direct player intervention.

Keep an Eye On the Fire Avatar

During the second phase of the fight, a Fire Avatar will appear, assisting Balseph in the fight against you. It will send down Fireballs that can quickly drain you of HP if you do not keep moving around the tight area you find yourself in.

Disrupt His Gathering of Energy

Close to dying, Balseph will try to gather energy for an attack. You can disrupt this instead however by unleashing all that you have against Balseph as he gathers this energy – if you leave him alone, he will cast a powerful attack that sends waves of fire in every direction, which can be difficult to avoid.

Use Boost Attacks until he loses his health, finishing the fight.

Recommended Party Setup for Lord Balseph

Party Members

Leader	Members
Alphen Lv. 10	Shionne Lv. 10

Only Alphen and Shionne

For this fight against Balseph, you will only have Alphen and Shionne available for your party. It is recommended that they be leveled up to 10 prior to engaging in the fight against Balseph, in order to have better stats that can harm the Lord of Calaglia more thoroughly.

Alphen Equipment and Artes

Alphen Lv. 10	Equipment
	Long Sword
	Ocean Blue Battle Garb
	-
Ground Artes	Aerial Artes
Rising Wyvern	Mirage
Swallow Blade	-
-	-

Play Through Alphen

Due to the physical nature of this fight, playing through Alphen is essential in order to more effectively take down Balseph. Keep his HP up in order to preserve your CP for the second stage of the fight.

Draw Balseph Away

By using Alphen as your primary damage dealer, it can sometimes leave Shionne wide open to attacks if you're trying to avoid Balseph's hits. Try to lure him away by getting close and attacking the Lord, before moving further away to get Balseph to move further from Shionne.

Shionne Equipment and Artes

Shionne Lv. 10	Equipment
	Noble Rose
	Noble Scarlet
	-
Ground Artes	Aerial Artes
First Aid	-
Magna Ray	-
-	-

Keep in Healer Role

Although Shionne deals good amounts of damage against Balseph from afar, her healing abilities are far more useful to you. Keep her out of harm's way by setting the strategy to Heal Only in order to have stand afar from the battle.

Lord Balseph Attack Patterns

Explosion

Balseph will close in on himself, glowing a deep shade of red before releasing the energy in a small, outward explosion. This attack causes minimal damage but can, however, stagger you. This leaves you vulnerable to any of his other attacks.

Axe Slam

This attack will see Balseph slam his battleax down to the ground. Getting caught in this attack can easily diminish your HP to critical levels, or outright K.O. you if you do not manage to avoid it. He can also do this attack by jumping in the air before slamming his ax down to the ground.

Jump Attack

Two variations of this attack exist, both of which can easily be avoided by observing how Balseph moves. Both variations occur in the same manner, but the first variation will create a wave of fire that expands outwards, which can be avoided by jumping.

The second variation does not have the fire wave but instead creates a small explosion that can stagger you if you get caught in the attack.

Swing Attack

Easy to avoid but difficult to recover from once hit, Balseph will swing his battleax around in a circular formation. The lead-up time to him actually doing the attack is quite long, leaving you enough time to move out of the way before the attack can commence.

Note however that he can do this attack one after the other – it is best to wait for him to raise his battleax back onto his shoulder before resuming any attacks on him.

Axe Charge

Balseph will charge at you, dragging his ax down on the ground before swinging it in an upwards direction. Three separate prongs of energy will blast out from this attack but can be easily avoided by moving to the side.

Fire Avatar Fireballs

During the second phase of the fight, a giant Fire Avatar will appear. You can ignore this, focusing all your attention instead on Balseph. However, it does possess the ability to attack, shooting fireballs at you that can easily K.O. you if you're not careful.

Other attacks from the Fire Avatar include letting burning rocks fall on top of you and slamming its fist on the ground which can easily be avoided.

Tales of Arise Related Guides

List of All Bosses

Beyond the Dawn DLC Bosses

Beyond the Dawn Story Bosses

Story Bosses
Nimus Pandemonium	Venoflage
Nazamil	Nazamil Nether
Ooze Hive	Nazamil Nether (2nd Encounter)
Nazamil Nether (3rd Encounter)	Captive Nazamil
Oppressor	Emergence Suppressor

Beyond the Dawn Optional Bosses

Optional Bosses
Ruthless	Boisterous Roper	Cruel Keeper
Megawrecker	Ghoulish Arms	Nimus Juggernaut
Grinymuk	Mother Boomy	-

Story Bosses

Story Bosses
Balseph	Ice Wolf Leader
Ooze Hive	Lord Ganabelt
Zacarania	Kisara
Dohalim	Venoflage
Temararus	Grinymuk
Almeidrea & Mesmald	Meria Phein
Kalmarzel & Kaldinzel	Vholran
Eljarania	Efreet
Tormented Limbs	Red Woman
Valclynimus	Great Astral Spirit
Subsumer	Vholran (Final Boss)

Optional Bosses

Toxidillo	Boisterous Roper	Polycephus
Great Dragon	Relentless Charger	Flamewrecker
Alpha Reaper	Stormbringer	Elemental
Regent Bee	Agony Keeper	Mother Boomy
Ruthless	Thunderite	Mantis
Calamity Arms	Meneiys	Ezamamuk
Sword Dancer	Undine Drop	Luo Undine
Grand Gnome & Vas Phein	Masher Mare & Masher Bull	Procella Sylph & Sylph Zloa
Mesmald	Edna	Nimus Origin
Eizen	Edna & Eizen	Chronos
Dulneiys, Maleiys, & Vasneiys