Final Fantasy VI Enemy

Doom Gaze デスゲイズ (Desugeizu) Statistics Level HP MP 68 55,555 38,000 Battle Power Magic Power 35 8 Defense M. Defense MBlock 150 170 30 Speed Hit Rate Evade 95 150 30 EXP Gil 0 0 Elemental Affinities Fire Ice Lightning Poison Weak Absorb - Absorb Pearl Earth Wind Water Weak Miss - - Location World of Ruin, randomly encountered while riding the Falcon Common Steal None Rare Steal None Item Dropped None Morph Antidote, Green Cherry, Eye Drop, Soft Morph Miss Rate 100% Battle Dragon Claw Abilities Bane Claw Rage None Sketch Battle, Bane Claw Control None Status Immunity Darkness, Zombie, Poison, Imp, Petrify, Instant Death, Condemn, Near Fatal, Mute, Berserk, Muddle, Seizure, Sleep, Slow, Stop Other Information Flying opponent; Can't Meteor Strike; Can't Control; Dies when it runs out of MP; Auto-Protect; Auto-Shell. DethGaze デスゲイズ (Desugeizu) Statistics Level HP MP 68 55,555 38,000 Battle Power Magic Power 35 8 Defense M. Defense MBlock 150 170 30 Speed Hit Rate Evade 95 150 30 EXP Gil 0 0 Elemental Affinities Fire Ice Lightning Poison Weak Absorb - Absorb Pearl Earth Wind Water Weak Miss - - Location World of Ruin, randomly encountered while riding the Falcon Common Steal None Rare Steal None Item Dropped None Morph Antidote, Green Cherry, Eye Drop, Soft Morph Miss Rate 100% Battle Dragon Claw Abilities Bane Claw Rage None Sketch Battle, Bane Claw Control None Status Immunity Darkness, Zombie, Poison, Imp, Petrify, Instant Death, Condemn, Near Fatal, Mute, Berserk, Muddle, Seizure, Sleep, Slow, Stop Other Information Flying opponent; Can't Meteor Strike; Can't Control; Dies when it runs out of MP; Auto-Protect; Auto-Shell. Deathgaze デスゲイズ (Desugeizu) #330 ← #331 → #332 Statistics Level HP MP 68 55,555 38,000 Attack Magic 35 8 Defense Magic Defense Magic Evasion 150 170 30 Speed Hit Rate Evasion 95 150 30 EXP Gil 0 0 Elemental Affinities Fire Ice Lightning Poison Weak Absorb - Absorb Holy Earth Wind Water Weak Miss - - Location World of Ruin, randomly encountered on the Falcon Common Steal None Rare Steal None Item Dropped None Morph Antidote, Green Cherry, Eyedrops, Gold Needle Morph Miss Rate 100% Attack Dragon Claws Abilities Venom Claw Rage None Sketch Battle, Venom Claw Control None Status Immunity Blind, Zombie, Poison, Imp, Petrify, Death, Doom, Critical, Silence, Berserk, Confuse, Sap, Sleep, Slow, Stop Other Information Flying opponent; Can't Meteor Strike; Can't Control; Dies when it runs out of MP; Auto-Protect; Auto-Shell.

"You'll meet this foe while flying in the airship. Uses Doom and Aero, then escapes. However, damage dealt remains, so you will eventually kill it."

—Final Fantasy VI Playstation One Bestiary entry

See also: Deathgaze.

Deathgaze, also known as Doom Gaze, is a boss in Final Fantasy VI. It is difficult to find, as it hides in a random location on the world map of the World of Ruin and can only be fought by directly flying into it with the Falcon. Although the player can find it by randomly flying about, the most effective method is to land the airship and board it again so that the airship faces north. The player must then incline it a bit to the west or east and accelerate. This will take the player across every tile of the map, and while it may take some time eventually Deathgaze will appear. The party will receive the Bahamut magicite when defeated.

BattleEdit

Deathgaze has high HP, and depending on when the player fights him, the level of difficulty varies. Deathgaze has Auto-Shell. Deathgaze opens every battle by casting Lv.5 Death, killing any party members with a level a multiple of five. Deathgaze then uses Death, Blizzaga or a normal attack, and on its second turn Aero or Death. On the third turn of the battle Deathgaze always flees. The trick to defeating it is that Deathgaze does not recover its lost health when it flees, so the party can defeat it by chasing it around and weakening it over time. Until the player defeats Deathgaze it is recommended they save before flying the Falcon anywhere in case they encounter Deathgaze.

StrategyEdit

Casting Fira, Firaga, and Holy spells work well against it; so does Gau's Io Rage, which has Flare Star and will always deal 9,999 HP damage to Deathgaze. Another useful strategy is to throw Flame Rods or Holy Rods on Deathgaze since these will ignore its high defenses and Auto-Shell.

In the SNES version, Deathgaze is easily defeated with the Vanish-Doom tactic, but using X-Zone on it with Vanish would lose the player the Bahamut magicite.

AI ScriptEdit

At beginning of battle: Lv. 5 Death (100%)

Attack Turns:
1st Turn: Attack (33%) or Death (33%) or Blizzaga (33%)
2nd Turn: Death (33%) or Aero (66%)
3rd Turn: Target: Self

Flee (66%)

If attacked by anything: Attack (33%)

GalleryEdit

Artwork by Yoshitaka Amano.

Alternate artwork by Yoshitaka Amano.

Aero.

Level 5 Death.

TriviaEdit

• Deathgaze appears in the U.S. commercial for the Super Nintendo version of Final Fantasy VI, along with other monsters that resemble the Magna Roader.
• Deathgaze was originally planned to have changes in his attacks depending on his status, but the changes were removed before the release of the game, with texts in the game data being the only thing left. When Silence, Deathgaze would be unable to use Blizzaga; when Blind, he would be unable to use Death; and an unknown situation would cut his claws, making him unable to use Venom Claw.