I did notice that in one of the double attacks he hit Cecil first for 17, then missed Rydia, and still gained 17. So it's not necessarily just the second of the attacks. (Also, if he hits the same character twice, he will drain all the damage.)
Well, the monster has to actually deal the damage to get the healing... I should've been specific that it assumes that both attacks connect.
A side note to that is if you grind a lot with the Red Dragons late game. Occasionally, you will see both successful hits to the same character results in 1 damage. It is possible by design since the requirement for damage is one successful hit, even if the damage dealt is "effectively 0".
Antlion was a LOT easier after grinding. Mombomb only took me two tries as well.
I always spent time grinding for Edward's sake... because he's actually more useful a fighter than most give him credit for.
I'm currently grinding before the Fabul fights... that first set of enemies does so much damage ;_; (I assume they have weapon elemental that Cecil's armor is weak to? Cecil was taking about 180 while Yang was still in the 70s)
Yes, that's pretty much it. I wanted to grind home the fact that being a DK sucks. There really shouldn't be too much grinding needed for the Fabul fights.. it just requires you previously grinding and getting nice free item drops... or if you are willing to bite the bullet, BUY items... quite a novel concept!
The fights themselves are not as hard if you use Edward correctly... it is just time consuming though.