Calamity Bound Critical Encounter Guide

A guide to the "Calamity Bound" Critical Encounter on the Occult Crescent: South Horn.

How to Spawn the Calamity Bound Critical Encounter

Defeat 20 Crescent Inkstains, located in southwestern South Horn, to spawn the Calamity Bound Critical Encounter.

How to Defeat Cloister Demon in "Calamity Bound"

Sunderseal Roar damages all participants.

Seal Asunder places glowing markers on the floor. Four players need to stand in each marker to make it disappear. This will fill the Seal Power gauge. During this time, alternating line attack markers will appear. After several repetitions of these line markers, another set will appear, perpendicular to the original direction, so you will need to find a safe square until the first set of line attacks has disappeared. Make sure to dodge the line markers while standing in the glowing four-person markers.

Great Ball of Fire places a pair of fireballs across from each other in the area, followed by another pair. Stand far away from the first set, which will each do a large circle attack centered on itself, then move far away from the second set.

Gigaflare damages all participants and inflicts a damage-over-time Bleeding status, which can be removed with Esuna.

Tidal Breath hits the entire area in front of the boss. The attack marker only appears briefly, just before the attack goes off, so be sure to get behind the boss when you see it casting Tidal Wave.

The next time the boss casts Seal Asunder, it will also cast alternating cone attacks pointing outward from itself, which may later be followed by alternating line attacks. Dodge the cone attacks and line attacks while you stand in the glowing four-person symbols.

The next time the boss casts Great Ball of Fire, stay far away from the fireballs as usual, but you will have to dodge additional circle attack markers throughout this time.

Rewards from the "Calamity Bound" Critical Encounter

If you have progressed in the quest "Past and Crescent" (part of the Occult Crescent storyline quests), you will get a Voidsent Contract on completing this quest. This Critical Encounter has a chance of dropping the Notes on the Cloister Demon. In addition, if you have started the Arcane Artistry quest in Phantom Village, this Critical Encounter has a chance of dropping a Verdigris Demiatma.