Gentlemen Prefer Swords
Gentlemen Prefer Swords
- Number
- 04
- Level
- 50
- Standard Time
- 3:30
- Ideal Time
- 2:35
- Act 1 Enemies
- Arena Bat, Arena Wolf
- Act 2 Enemies
- Kreios
- Gil Reward
3,000- Seals Reward
50- Tomestones
40 - Next stage
- The Threepenny Turtles
- Prev. stage
- Waiting for Golem
- Patch
- 4.5
Gentlemen Prefer Swords is a stage in The Masked Carnivale for Blue Mage, introduced in patch 4.5 with Stormblood.
Act 1
Enemies
Arena Bat
- Endurance: Average
- Strengths: --
- Weaknesses: Thunder
- Vulnerabilities: All status effects, except Interrupt
Arena Wolf
- Endurance: Average
- Strengths: --
- Weaknesses: Fire
- Vulnerabilities: All status effects, except Interrupt
Strategy
Every status ailment works on these three. You can freeze them, petrify them, paralyze them, sleep them, or alternatively just murder them because they're also not that durable.
Act 2
Enemies
Kreios
- Endurance: Above Average
- Strengths: --
- Weaknesses: Thunder
- Vulnerabilities: Slow, Petrification, Paralyze, Interrupt, Blind, Deep Freeze
Strategy
Avoid Grand Strike, interrupt Magitek Field and avoid or interrupt Magitek Ray. Spawns 6 Arena Beetles below half health, which apply 
Poison and are vulnerable to earth damage. The Ram's Voice will freeze everything, including Kreios, to make the add phase very easy.