Another Eden - Astral Archives Book of Travelers Curse Challenge Mode (Shion Alter DPS)

00:00 - The Fight
03:08 - Team Setup/Grasta Setup

This challenge can be done in many ways and is quite simple to get the 187,266,000 points required to get all of the rewards. It's also one of the easier books to get the 1k bonus act points by bringing a team consisting of staff, bow, and/or fist users (30 pts) or Traveler personality (60 pts), basically meaning anyone from the new Octopath collab (Cyrus Albright, Partitio, or Tithi), or a mix of them. Doing damage isn't all that difficult here as the boss is weak to fire, water and thunder, but you can't use Another Force until you break any of its weakness stacks - similar to Octopath Traveller. But you really don't need AF in this one at all as long as your DPS does enough damage.

Anyway, I decided to try out a 3/4 fire team including Shion Alter as the DPS because one, I don't get to use him as DPS since the only other reason I mainly use him is for Paper Tiger to flip resists into weaknesses. He's actually a pretty strong fire mage with good modifiers in general. I also included Parisa AS who also contributes a little DPS as well due to her song buffs, her passive and her end of turn damage. Dewey Alter is mainly for the first turn Canon D'nfer to awaken fire zone, then he's swapped out for Mariel AS. Honestly, I think I could've replaced Mariel AS with someone like Iphi, Flammelapis AS or maybe even Pom AS as they can contribute buffs to Shion Alter and Parisa AS, as well. Myunfa Alter is there for more buffs, then she's swapped out for Cyrus for more act points, since he is both traveller personality and a staff user.

Speaking of Iphi, I might try to do this one again with her because then I could not worry about the boss potentially killing off someone on turn 1 and using Lord Ukelele, and can probably use another sidekick like Kumos instead. But eh, again, this can be done in many ways; can also use comps like thunder team, water team, Yakumo + either Tsukiha Alter or Necoco AS, and etc.