The teas are fairly well hidden yeah, but they are absolutely amazing. I guess that's the reason they are hidden, they would trivialize a lot of fights.Geez. I completely forgot the formation option. It never came to me to pick up Death fog either. I like how all bosses can be exploited with status effects / environment.
No real difference then. I will try to fight with the death fog barrels again, just to experience it. The ending was really disappointing to me too.
:O I didn't know about the tea!!
I didn't set up a lot of Source skills either. I thought Source was a pain to obtain, I couldn't be bothered.
Source is actually very easy to obtain actually after you've got the second Source skill. As far as I remember, the game doesn't really explicitly tell you this, but you can leech Source off every dead body in the game, so you can very easily fill your source up again after using it up.
Not that it matters in the final fight, since you have unlimited Source in that battle.
Also, be wary of the Deathfog method. I tried it at first, too, just to see the effects, but Braccus and Dallis are both invulnerable to Deathfog considering they are both undead. So unless you perfectly time and measure the Deathfog fallout (or have a full Undead party), you may end up having to fight both Braccus and Dallis on your own because everybody else died from Deathfog.
Also, be wary of the Deathfog method. I tried it at first, too, just to see the effects, but Braccus and Dallis are both invulnerable to Deathfog considering they are both undead. So unless you perfectly time and measure the Deathfog fallout (or have a full Undead party), you may end up having to fight both Braccus and Dallis on your own because everybody else died from Deathfog.