Ok, i was in Tavnazia an hour early for my LS's Gration event, so i decided to camp Megalobugard, after about 30 mins of camping i was running to the north and in the sky i saw a huge bird in the sky, not targetable, like it was made into the sky, it was grayish purple and looked as if it was flying towards 'Blublade Fell' any idea wth this is? It didn't look like Bahamut and my first thought was that it was a cameo of Phoenis or something. Anyone else seen this?

I had a sudden craving to get to this area, and I did. I worked my ass of for 2 days, surviving crappy promy-parties and various idiots, until I managed to finish them all, and it was definitely worth it. This place is awesome. I didn't get far because I was on my BLM28 and got roffled after about 10 minutes of exploring, but what I saw I liked.
(Just for reference my promy setups were
Holla: SMN BLM MNK RNG PLD WHM
Mea: SMN RNG BLM BLM WHM PLD
Dem: RNG RNG PLD BLM SMN WHM
we beat them all easily.)

sorry accidental double post >.<

Edited, Mon Aug 22 18:10:05 2005

Anyone know where to camp here from around level 72+?

A friend of mine found a spot with a ??? in this zone, and when he examined it it said to bring the ancient shield and the pact will be yours. He thinks it might be a quest for a new avatar, though I'm told because of the story line of Windurst missions and the rise of Zilart there can't be new avatars. Does anyone have any info on this spot?

How do you get there, is there a tunnel linking (I tried finding for an hr until I finally gave up)

How do you get here? Do we need to do all of the CoP expansion pack to get here?

I'll submit this tonite when i am not at work.
There is a Sheep NM in here called Padfoot:

Appearance - Look like any bloody oirdinairy sheep.

level - No idea, I was 61rdm/10rng and it hardly hit me. I guess around 40-45.

Attacks - Usual sheep attacks. Sheep Charge and Sheep Song I noticed

Spawn - In the three main area's with Bugard, Orc Gigas and Sheep. Wide scan is a must, hard to find/claim otherwise

Time - not sure on this. I heard it was a 3-24 spawn rate.

Special - There is a slight chance more then one spawn in the same frame. I have seen two of them on WideScan while logging/NM hunting
Second one was claimed as i came near. Killed first.

Drops - Hehe the good stuff for last, Sheep Skin, Lanolin Cube, Earth Crystal, Astral Earring (level 45, converts 25 hp to mp, all jobs). I got one on the second sheep last nite, sells for about 3 million on bismarck

if you look on the map, its the little cave that you see on E-8

i was aimlessly looking around this area and i went to look near blueblade fell. i went a lvl 62PLD/NIN everything in the zone was too weak or EP. i walked down this tunnle and found a type of greater bird. -not a NM!!- what was weird was it was IT++ and slighty bigger then any normal greaterbird... i didant go farther then that. it kinda spooked me a bit.

( make not im a PLD lol evn somtimes checks ++ )

This has got to be one of prettiest zones, scenery and music wise, in the game.

is there anyway to enter the city at the cliff from the movie?

At (I-8) near the lake there is a "???" that spawns 2 NMs, after beating them and clicking it again, you get some bracelet key item. Does anyone know who starts this quest? (i am assuming it is a quest)

Something I found very interesting...

IF you go to the edge in the North East corner (J-6) Where you can see "Blueblade Fell" you actually see the town above the arched rock that was defended in the first CG animated cinematic at the beginning of FFXI. To bring the story around like this really plays a big role in why I adventure. I loved this site.

Here's a Pic: From The KoolAid LS website: Blueblade Fell

Edited, Sun Nov 21 12:20:46 2004

I just finished prom.. last night and was walking around Lufaise Meadows and Misareaux Coast im just woundering where i can see the the view of the old city

Where are the vortices positions?

I explored this area a fair bit after completeing the mission. I was dumped into there as a 50 RNG (with level 30 gear) and explored later as a 61 THF.

There were a few EP at 61, but not much of it seemed agro, with the possible exception of some Dark Spriggan like creatures (dark, evil versions of Tarus, Humes, etc etc).

Still, be very careful in the NE area. The monsters there conned IT High Def to my 61 THF (making them possibly good exp?) and were giant bird types.

The rest of the area is full of medium tier (Footsoldiers, Bowshooters) orcs and gigas (EP to 50, twtbw to 60). There are also some Buggards there that apparently eat the sheep found in the area.

Do you need to complete all Promiyvions or just 1 to go to the meadows?

Well I dont like to say somthing when information is still hard to find about thigs, it whould appear you must complete Promanthia Holla, Mea, or Dem, or course I dont know if you have to complete just one of them or all of them to enter this area, I tried to do Promanthia Holla tonight (Level 30 cap, get your items and level 30 gear ready.), things were going well we decided to follow a japanese party of 2 groups but our party got to much agress in the third level, without much info about this we were very poor in our plans, my party died and disbanded but I had reraise and followed my way up watching the Japanese going up and following after them. Promanthia Holla has 4 levels, in order to go up you have to kill a Big White Ball at the end of each floor thats spawns Strays to protect itself. The ball it self has some really nasty area attack that can knock you back about 10 times more then a Goblin rush, lol. Best to have rangers here and if strays agress your party pull the monsters back to a clear loction to have your tank hold them off while rangers and black mage hit the ball. Each floor gets harder up, thats why people form 3 partys to help each other up, each level up gets harder, best to from a big full 3 partys before going in, on the fourth floor you will not have to kill a ball but find the entrance to the room before the BCNM, in this room you can buff up also you wont have the level cap in this room of 30 like before but once you start BCNM you will go back to 30 cap, also only one party can do this at a time so the 2 or 3 partys you got can split up here. I got to this room and seen japanese groups go to fight, cant see how the fight is of course, but it must be hard since one group came out all dead. Anyway after some time I did searches of the names of people who went in to fight the BCNM and did not come back out since they won and found that they were in Lufaise Meadows. This looks like the way to make it.
Before going in the groups tested the items they were to use, seems like Yudago drinks and Selbina Milk will be helpfull, also one party had 2 people using ninja as main or sub using there copy images before going in, all I can say is I hope I can form good people this week to get this done myself, lol.

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