XJJ: Challenge mode

Required skills: plenty of crowd control and projectile blocking.

CM uses a gauge for enrage instead of a timer. (The boss enrages when the gauge fills. Reaching the next phase before it fills resets the gauge.)

Overlapping the ground attacks shown applies a debuff in CM. Remaining overlapped for two seconds or longer kills you instantly.

Being pulled into the area beneath the boss shown here kills you instantly. Turn and run away instead of backpedaling.

The quaggan explosions are larger. Focus on avoiding them, even if you have to stop attacking.

Defeat the three elite enemies by breaking their defiance bars before the timer above the boss runs out.

Failing gives the boss an empowerment buff. (Its damage and defense increase by 25%, and its attacks apply a 50% healing reduction.)

A buff gained in phase two resets on entering phase three. A buff gained in phase three remains.

In phase three, you gain a stack of the debuff shown every second. It deals damage each second, increasing as stacks build up.

Phase three has four safe areas. They remove the damaging debuff and give you a protective buff for ten seconds.

An enemy appears that destroys safe areas. Break its defiance bar quickly, then kill it with damage.

(It appears alongside the timed defiance-bar mechanic with three split enemies. Kill this enemy first, then handle the three defiance bars.)