- "That thing doesn't even look like me! The hair color is all wrong! (Among other things...)"
- ―Anna, Epic Battle Fantasy 4
Dark Anna is an optional boss in Epic Battle Fantasy 4. She appears on the final areas of the Battle Mountain along with the other Dark Players — as such, she is exclusive to the Steam release of the game and the post-Battle Mountain update version of the Premium Pack.
Appearance
Dark Anna resembles Anna with an evil, undead appearance. She has reddish-brown skin and blood-red hair, as well as the black eyes and red pupils shared by all of the Dark Players. She has a pair of bloody scars on her collar and left cheek, seemingly stitched shut. She wears the Pirate Hat and Pirate Dress, and wields the Black Widow bow.
Overview
Dark Anna uses a wide variety of elemental attacks, which have not only high power, but also very high chances of inflicting devastating status problems, including Poison, Stun and Freeze. She begins the battle with an Evil Worm and an Undead Bear for offensive support, and can summon more if they happen to die.
A feature shared with other Dark Players is the ability to charge up the Limit Break bar by taking damage. Dark Anna may use Mother Earth to Poison the players and apply Regen on her team, or use Power Blast to deal devastating physical damage.
Defeating Dark Anna on Epic difficulty will reward the player with the Shadow Huntress medal.
Statistics
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Dark Anna | EBF4 |
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| Uses many elements and status effects, including poison, earth, wind, thunder and ice. Summons Undead Bears and Evil Worms. | ||
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| 4200 | 6 | 3.5 | 6 | 3.5 | 7 | 5 | 800 | 80 | 200 | 800 | 10 | |
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| -100% | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | -50% | 100% | |||
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| - | 100% | 100% | 50% | - | 70% | - | 100% | - | 50% | 50% | 100% | |
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| 50% | 50% | 50% | 50% | 50% | 50% | |||||||
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| Name | Elixir of Life | Bottled Darkness | - | - | - | - | - |
| Chance | 100% | 100% | - | - | - | - | - |
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| Damage taken from status effects, in % of maximum health (per turn), including elemental resistances: | |||
| Burn
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Poison
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 Doom(if Death fails) |
 Regen
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| 2.8% | 0.6% per stack, up to 5.4% |
Immune | -6.(6)% |
| Final damage is randomized by ±5% (except for Doom) and rounded down. | |||
In the Kongregate version of the game, has 5.5 Accuracy instead.
Attacks and Abilities
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| Attack | Target | Power | Type | Element | Status Effect | Acc | Crit | RdF | ||
| Normal Attack | Single | 100 |
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30%
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100% | 3x |
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100% | 10% | 10% |
| Piercing Shot | Single | 120 |
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30%
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100% | 5x |
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100% | 10% | 10% |
| Combo Shot | Single | 80/1 |
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30%
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100% | 5x |
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100% | 10% | 10% |
| Notes: Although the animation shows Dark Anna firing 3 arrows, 2 will vanish before reaching the party, which is most likely an oversight. | ||||||||||
| Arrow Rain | All | 100/3 |
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30%
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50% | 3x |
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100% | 20% | 10% |
| Spark Arrow | Single | 130 |
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80%
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100% | 3x |
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100% | 10% | 10% |
| Frost Arrow | Single | 130 |
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80%
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100% | 6x |
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100% | 10% | 10% |
| Hurricane | All | 80 |
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100%
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100% | 15% |
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100% | 0% | 10% |
| Gaia Blossom | All | 60 |
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100%
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100% | 9x |
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100% | 10% | 10% |
| Eat Bat (Heal & Buff) |
Self | MaxHP/10 | -- | ---- | -- | 50% 50% -- 5x |
 
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| Power Blast | All | 320 |
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100% | -- |
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150% | 10% | 10% |
| Notes: Limit Break! | ||||||||||
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180 -- |
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100% ---- |
100% -- |
9x 2x |
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200% -- |
10% -- |
10% -- |
| Notes: Limit Break! | ||||||||||
Battle Logic
The following describes general logic of the enemy and attack patterns, with chances of each attack to be used. Conditions are listed from highest to lowest priority unless specified otherwise.
- Limit Break → Power Blast (1/2), Mother Earth (1/2). Also summons either Undead Bears or Evil Worms to replace defeated allies, if any;
- ≥65% HP → Normal Attack (1/7), Piercing Shot (1/7), Spark Arrow (1/7), Frost Arrow (1/7), Hurricane (1/7), Gaia Blossom (1/7), Eat Bat (1/7);
- <65% to ≥32% HP → Normal Attack (1/9), Piercing Shot (1/9), Combo Shot (1/9), Arrow Rain (1/9), Spark Arrow (1/9), Frost Arrow (1/9), Hurricane (1/9), Gaia Blossom (1/9), Eat Bat (1/9);
- <32% HP → Combo Shot (1/4), Arrow Rain (1/4), Spark Arrow (1/4), Frost Arrow (1/4).
Additionally,
- Eat Bat may not be used until the 4th turn, and then no more often than once in four turns; meanwhile, any attempts to initiate it will result in Combo Shot instead.
- In the Dark Players Marathon, can't have more than one ally at a time, thus won't summon anything until the accompanying Dark Player dies.
Strategy
- Notice: On higher difficulties, enemy damage spikes when they reach level 33, up to twice the expected damage (see here for more info). As Battle Mountain's battles scale to party's average level, keep your party under level 33 to make Battle Mountain-related medals easier during the first playthrough.
Equipment
It's advised to have a lot of resistance of Poison element, slightly reducing the strength of a half of her attacks, including Power Blast, while possibly nullifying Mother Earth and the Poison status effect. Stun and Freeze resistances are optional, as these are less common, and the latter can be covered with Regen (via Slime Bunny summon). Dispel resistance is also advisable should she cast Power Blast. Bless-generating equipment (Oak Staff as a staff, Pink Flower as a female hat, and Clover Pin as a flair) can occasionally nullify all statuses at the same time, but cannot be relied on much.
Poisoning (preferably via Vines and Toxic) Dark Anna herself, especially when combined with Burn (via Fire Spin) or Stagger (via Log), works well, as with the rest of Dark Players. Along with the armor-piercing Giga Drill, they are great measures against the boss' tendency to buff own defences, as status damage ignores buffs. However, Poison-casting gears (such as Gas Mask) are a debatable choice this time, as Dark Anna's summons benefit from Poison. For more active offense, Fire and Holy skills work against both the boss and the helpers.
Battle
After setting up your initial buffs, start stacking Weaken and especially Tired on Dark Anna — her Evade is the highest of the bunch and Accuracy is the second highest (or tied with Dark Lance), and she cannot cancel out any of these debuffs. If you are desperate, direct Attack and Accuracy debuffs could also work.
Dark Anna and her minions will inflict many status effects. Be sure to use Purify when necessary (especially when players are Stunned or heavily Poisoned). Cleanse, Medipack and Refresh will also work, but only for one player at a time, though Refresh will also shield the target from the boss' status effects by applying Bless. You can also use the Mother Earth Limit Break yourself to grant Bless to all players and heavily Poison the enemies, temporarily ruining Dark Anna's main gimmick, but healing her minions.
Dark Anna's limit breaks are troublesome. If one pops up, prioritize Defence over Magic Defence, because while she does have both a physical and a magical limit break, the physical one, Power Blast, is more powerful by far, and your elemental resistance should heavily reduce/nullify Mother Earth anyway.
- To survive Power Blast on higher difficulties, you'll want either Auto-Revive (preferably via Genesis Limit Break) for instant revival, Morale (via Kitten Fort summon) to overbear it without dying (but watch out for any bears that could finish you off), or at least Defend (possibly via Ancient Monolith summon) for plain 50% damage reduction. If going with Auto-Revive or Morale, make sure the attack's Dispel is resisted, otherwise they won't have any effect.
- If she uses Mother Earth instead, of course cure the severe poison as soon as you can (unless your resistances nullify/absorb it), but probably don't bother with enemies getting Regen — it's only for two turns (healing for 2/15 or 13.(3)% of max HP in total) and there's no reliable means to Dispel it, thus it might be more effective to continue damaging the boss rather than waste turns failing to Dispel her.
In short, Dark Anna's specialty is status effects and poison damage, but doesn't have much else going for her, and shouldn't be a huge issue if you are prepared. If her Combo Shot would've worked properly, it'd stand out from her other attacks by far, but wouldn't reach the danger levels of Dark Matt's Legend or Dark Lance's Unload anyway; as of now, it weakens her arsenal as her health goes down.
In the Dark Player Rush, she appears the first wave, together with Dark Lance. It's suggested to start the battle with Mother Earth for temporary immunity against Dark Anna's numerous status effects and Dark Lance's frequent Instant Death, and try to kill Dark Lance as fast as possible — his offensive buffs and Unload are more troublesome than any basic skills Dark Anna can use, and his summoned minions are also more potent in damage than Dark Anna's.
Trivia
- Like other Dark Players, Dark Anna reincarnated in Epic Battle Fantasy 5 as Annabelle.