Something wrong with this week's Blue Mage advanced challenge - a bug?

[Caimie_Tsukino]

I got it!
Thank you all for the tips!

For dealing with the adds in Act 2, I tried Petrify, Acorn bombs and Plaincracker, but they didn't work too well for me. For Petrify, many adds didn't get petrified. As for Acorn Bomb, AoE attacks just wake them all up instantly. In the end, the strategy that worked for me was really the Ram's Voice + Mind Blast + Dragon's Voice combo:
- First, silence the boss's Magitek spell.
- Next, use Bristle while waiting for the adds to group up onto me.
- Then use Peculiar Light.
- Ram's Voice to freeze them.
- 3x Mind Blast (which also added paralyze on them) [this is super good as they have a long freezing time, so waking up immediately with Dragon's Voice would have been a waste. Doing 3x Mind Blast while Peculiar Light is still active is very effective]
- Run away, and use Dragon's Voice before freezing effect ended. This will deal insane damage.
- Next, just freeze them up again with Ram's Voice, do 1x Mind Blast, and then run away and do Dragon's Voice once more.
- Repeat once more with freeze and (no more Mind Blast this time) then Dragon's Voice, and they should all be dead.
- Drain as needed.

The same strategy also worked extremely well with Act 1. Fitting 3x Mind Blast between the first Ram's Voice + Dragon Voice combo while Peculiar Light is active makes a big difference. Once the two bats are dead, the doggo can't really kill you if you keep using Drain, Break, Bomb Toss etc.