So, I just finished fighting the reaper and for some reason the reaper would not attack Sharty. I had her equipped with a Demon Necklace and Sunora. Her resistance to the dark element was listed as an x. She was able to solo the boss due to the boss just standing there taking no action.

Not certain if this is the reason but ......
Elemental modifiers:
× = 0% Damage
◎ = Absorb 100% damage inflicted as HP
It may be like the case where units immune to ranged can not get attacked by ranged weapons.

Will try it when I get there on this run or if I can find a save.

Monsters were codded in a way so that they won't attack you with anti unit moves that you got high resistance for.
As an example.
If a monster has a light and a dark attack.
And you char has circle at light. You will be attacked by the dark attacks, but won't use the light attacks that target 1 single char.
However, you will also be attacked by AoE Light attacks.

I guess this applies to the "x" and "circle" resistance type.


Though, Reaper has instant death. Kind of strange to solo him with Sharty (assuming low lv chars).

Well, I didn't start soloing him, I sent Yuela (wearing her Dark Knight Armor and a Demon Necklace), Sharty (wearing Demon Necklace and the Sunora found earlier in the dungeon) and Serawi (normal items, stayed out of range and healed). It was 3-5 turns before Yuela got hit with the instant death attack and died. The boss then chased down Serawi who died soon after. The boss then stood on the deployment gate while Sharty hit him until he died.

Yuelas dark resistance was ◎ while Sharty's was x. Sharty is now without a doubt my strongest character since she got 3 levels from fighting the reaper (everyone else is about 15-16, she's 18.

Not bug as such, I dont think.

The game AI do seem to calculate damage and attack where it most hurts. As Sharty absorbs and heal with Dark damage, attack her is futile. And instant death status seem to result from taking damage: damage-->status, not damage(or avoid)--->no status.

The status scared me too much, as fighting her in that case doesnt bring benefit. I sent Melodiana in. One Meteorite Spear and that's all she wrote.

I'm playing on hard and I didn't get Melodiana unlocked until the start of chapter 4. Even then I don't think she'd be able to 1 shot the boss.