Update #4 (?)
As usual, Gilgamesh wasn't too much trouble aside from him statusing my party a couple times.
On the other hand, Exdeath was a huge problem... until I farmed 50 Dragon Fangs to mix with Holy Waters for a Holy attack that did ~2000 a hit and gave everyone in my party !Mix. This was when I started to see the value in Chemists.
Antlion was another "mash the A button" boss. Nothing to see here.
This will be the only group of Gargoyles that I'm going to include because all of the fights went the same way: Berserk via mixing on of them and then Break Spellblade them both, starting with the non-berserked. If they weren't susceptible to Berserk, I don't know how I'd manage to win any of the fights without ripping my hair out.
I'll admit, I got lucky that Melusine decided to switch to a form nonresistant to physical damage. Basically, I Sleep Spellbladed her and berserk/haste/image'd Faris using my now favorite !Mix combination of Holy Water and Maiden's Kiss. I think I might have Samson Power'd Faris once or twice too.
Next up was Wendigo. This boss is really annoying, but I managed to win with my cheapo tactics of Ice Shield, Samson Power, Drain Spellblade, Kiss of Blessing (that one mix), and patience.
I didn't come into the first of the two tower fights with a strategy other than mash the A button and Kiss of Blessing Bartz. As it turned out, that's all I needed. As for the second fight, I Silence Spellbladed the boss and proceeded to normal attack him for what felt like an hour. As pictured, I was dealing ~360 a turn and he was healing ~175 every other turn.
I missed the killshot on Gogo because I was busy reading this thread. Whoops. Super hard fight, but I managed to win unscathed.
This fight was similar to the Gargoyle fights in that it would have been extremely difficult for me without a weakness to exploit. Lucky for me, the triplets were weak to Odin which I summoned courtesy of the ever useful Magic Lamp.
Last on the side bosses that I'm going to fight was Leviathan. With Kiss of Blessing, Samson Power, and Thundaga Spellblade, he was a pushover. Also, I learned that you can get the tablet without fighting him. Not that I would do that though. After all, I was there to fight him, not get the useless tablet.
And after all of that tablet collecting, I ransacked the remaining 9 weapons (all of the ones not pictured).
Tomorrow: THE VOID