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The Final Seal  

Realm:Windurst
Start Area: Ru'Lude Gardens
Start NPC:Windurst Mission NPC
Type:Mission
Max Party:6
Related Areas:Fei'Yin
Related Mobs:Ancient Sorcerer
Ancient Warrior
Archlich Taber'quoan
Mission:5 - 1
Min Level:1
Max Level:99
Reward:Rank 5-2
Rating
*****
(Average from 49 ratings)
Title Obtained:Archmage Assassin
This Mission is Not Skippable
Previous Mission: Magicite (Windurst)
Next Mission: Full Moon Fountain
Last Updated: Tue Feb 15 07:29:47 2011

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Mission Orders

On the Star Sibyl's command, you are to head north to the ruins of Fei'Yin, somewhere on the Beaucedine Glacier. There, you are to confirm whether the final seal is doing its job.

Walkthrough

Speak to a gate guard to begin this mission. You are needed at Heavens Tower. Head upstairs to the Star Sibyl's Chambers for a cutscene. You will receive the key item: New Fei'Yin Seal. If you cannot receive the seal, make sure your rank points are full and try zoning out of the tower then go back to the chamber again. This quest cannot be completed without the seal!

When ready, head to Fei'Yin either by going through Ranguemont Pass, or by getting a Teleport-Vazhl if everyone in your party has the crystal. It is recommended you have a map or a printed map as Beaucedine Glacier can be a very confusing maze to navigate.

When you zone into Fei'Yin, you will get a cutscene. After the cutscene, head to (K-8), where you will find two dolls and a Cermet Gate on the east wall. Head to the gate to find Qu'bia Arena. Some mobs aggro to magic and many others aggro to sound, so it's recommended every party member bring their own Sneak Oil.

You have 15 minutes to defeat Archlich Taber'quoan and his minions, the Ancient Sorcerers and Ancient Warriors. Everyone must be on this mission or higher or they will not be able to enter the battlefield. Once you defeat the Archlich, the battle will end and you will receive a cutscene and a key item: Burnt Seal.

Return to the Star Sibyl to finish this mission.

Update Notes

As of February 14th, 2011, there is no longer a level cap restriction on the mission battlefield.

Battle Notes

Buffs cast outside the battle will wear off upon entering, so do it inside. The Ancient Warriors keep spawning, so focus on the Archlich. You only need to defeat him to win. The minions are easily slept.


To read the transcripts for this quest, see The Final Seal Spoilers page.


Mission Series

This mission is part of the Windurst rank series. The complete mission series includes:

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Just completed it!
# Feb 10 2006 at 4:42 PM Rating: Decent
Well I have to admit after reading some of the horror stories in here I was a bit scared to do this soo I put it off until I was lvl65 and wanted to do ZM's to get sky access. We had a pt of mnk, mnk, brd, blm, smn, rdm. however about 30 seconds before we were leaving jueno the rdm said he had to leave. So we decided to try it anyways since some of the members had done it before. So we went with blm (me), smn, mnk, mnk, brd. BC'd in, buffed up, mnks went in and immediately did one hundred fists on the leader, and brd slept its cronies. Eventually his henchmen kept running in so the brd kept sleeping them all. I cured a few times as well as the smn on the brds who started to get a few beatings. Then I started casting tier II spells which were doing a decent amount of dmg. The smn used astral flow at the very end to finish him off. No one died, one of the mnks was in red at one point, took us about 5 mins since we spent about 2 buffing up and eating food before hand. Quite easy with 2 mnks! I highly recommend you try to get 2 mnks!
ARGH
# Feb 10 2006 at 8:22 AM Rating: Decent
dont EVER let anyone tell you

"Oh its ok, theres only 4 skeles!!"

we all were nearly dead then i threw benediction, omg soo amusing i had a train of about 20 skeles on me...then i died heh

teh fun
ninja
# Jan 28 2006 at 4:09 PM Rating: Default
for the record Ninja CAN tank this
lvl
# Jan 24 2006 at 4:36 PM Rating: Decent
grr
do i have to be lvl45 for this mission...god i need rank6 already...GRRR
RE: lvl
# Jan 27 2006 at 9:54 AM Rating: Decent
>.<
yeah...ill just wait till im 55+
RE: lvl
# Jan 27 2006 at 9:54 AM Rating: Decent
>.<
yeah...ill just wait till im 55+
RE: lvl
# Jan 26 2006 at 5:22 PM Rating: Decent
why would you need rank 6 @ under lvl 45 not like you can handle anthing in rank 6 or the ZMs
RE: lvl
# Jan 30 2006 at 7:57 PM Rating: Good
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163 posts
This battle is capped at 50 so not like it really matters here. It's after this battle the missions become uncapped.
interesting
# Jan 21 2006 at 8:54 PM Rating: Excellent
Just thought I would post our experience with this mission.

Party Setup Mnk/Mnk/Thf(me)/Whm/Blm/Brd

The beginning was simple. Each mnk took turns tanking while I moved hate as needed. We didn't use any chain or fancy footwork it was a straight brawl. The Brd was doing great sleeping the minions until he got overwhelmed and thus killed. This of course exposing us to the rest of the pain that was now coming our way.
We start to get abused by minions and the blm starts casting -ga spells which in turn gives her death.

At this point the mob is 3/4 down and we are doing great on the melee side with our wonderful whm to keep us alive. Until!! A hefty curaga from the whm gets her a spot in the proverbial coffin. We were dead, we knew it.. It was just a matter of time till we had bones shoved up our asses.

At this point the main mob is 7/8ths down and here come 8-10 minions after us. We start to take a beating.

The only thing I could think of doing was to go kite the skellies long enough for the mnk's to kill the main. So 100% TP I hit the Cyclone key pulling all the skellies in my direction. Which is good if one enjoys having 500 toes thrust up your *** at the same time. For me, this wasn't a good sign. Thankfully being a Thief I slam my Perfect dodge / flee macro and bust *** out of there pulling all skellies my way and hiding in a back room. I put up utsusemi (yes no chance of helping here) I'm geared up for a good death. Skellies turn the corner.. Dodge goes down. A skellie takes a swing and disappears!!

The monks finished off the main guy with the best timing I could ask for. The hard part was getting a raise in that area since there were no other parties or ppl wiling to come help us raise our mages. :(

Fun fight over all.
RE: interesting
# Jun 08 2006 at 2:26 AM Rating: Default
44 posts
Please elaborate about retired from game. Did you delete? I'm trying to retrieve a character
cake
# Jan 17 2006 at 12:53 PM Rating: Decent
this was pretty easy we had a PLD tank the NM, WHM heal (no duh), RDM heal and refresh, BRD for more hp and mp regen, WAR/NIN(me) MNK and BLM do some DD. it was a piece of cake
if you do have any trouble i'm sorry about your luck

Edited, Tue Jan 17 12:00:21 2006
wrong info (final seal for windurst)
# Jan 14 2006 at 5:21 PM Rating: Good
For the windurstians, you do not go to Halver in the Chateau, you go and speak to the head taru in town, and go in Heavens Tower to the top! Talk to her and she gives you a cute scene, never got a seal from Halver, and still owned these Skellys :), so dont worry about Halver if you are a windurstian!
Sleepga?
# Jan 02 2006 at 11:04 AM Rating: Decent
Can 1 BLM cast Sleepga and while they are asleep the rest of thepty kill the main mob?
RE: Sleepga?
# Jan 14 2006 at 10:28 PM Rating: Default
impossible to sleep bones, only brd can lullaby
>><
# Jan 01 2006 at 3:16 PM Rating: Decent
>.< i cant get this ques iv'e been trying to for a week halver is worthless i have hero fame in windy and max rank crystal things and 7 or 8 fame every where else n im lvl 65 n cant get it
RE: >><
# Jan 14 2006 at 6:00 PM Rating: Good
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722 posts
This mission is the same for each nation other than who you talk to to flag it, so whoever submitted the mission to Allakhazam probably just copied and pasted what they wrote for Sandy into the Windy and Bastok walkthroughs. You actually talk to Kupipi and then the Star Sybil in Heavens Tower for Windurst.
RE: >><
# Jan 01 2006 at 10:08 PM Rating: Good
25 posts
have you tried going to star sibyl in heavens tower?

if you havent try that
Improve skills and equipemnt
# Dec 31 2005 at 4:38 PM Rating: Default
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1,877 posts
If you are getting the improve skills and equipment over and over go back to your mission NPC and get the mission. When he tells you to go to the castle the 1st time you talk to him he does not give you the mission. You have to go back and get it before Halver will give you the key item.
Curious
# Dec 20 2005 at 5:02 PM Rating: Decent
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291 posts
I have a question.
Can a whm/smn cast carby, sneak and safe pull the main NM to a safe distance? If they can, this fight is uber easy. If they can't...well...guess we're no better off...but no worse either :)

I appreciate any responses.
Petite~Remora
quick question...
# Dec 15 2005 at 8:46 PM Rating: Decent
Can I as a 44war/22mnk tank the skelly at all or should i just suck it up and lvl nin sub (btw i dont like nin lol)
Easy as Pop-Tarts!
# Dec 13 2005 at 10:28 PM Rating: Decent
Wow, that was easier than I thought it would be! This set up was great!

PLD/WAR (me)
MNK/WAR
WHM/BLM
RDM/NIN
BRD/WHM
DRK/WAR

Not much kiting, just alot of hurt on the main guy while the rdm ran around pissing off the little skeletons and then when he got in a bind he used Chainspell and used Utsusemi:Ichi like a ****. It lasted about 5 min total and we woulda broken the record, but the drk DCed at the start and didn't come back til the end.
Hmm..
# Dec 07 2005 at 2:18 AM Rating: Decent
40 posts
Did this with DRG/WAR (me) 1 RDM/WHM 1 RDM/BLM a BST/WHM, a MNK/WAR, and a WAR/NIN, didn't have too much trouble, bst and one of the rdms kited all his lil' buddies around while me, the war, and the mnk just kept pounding on the NM skele, all in all pretty fun fight ^.^
not too bad
# Nov 26 2005 at 12:49 PM Rating: Default
This wasn't as bad as I thought it would be considering what I had read on other comments. And I was even in a messy pty situation, the pty consisted of a pld, rdm (me), thf, mnk, drk, and whm. It was all I could get together at the time. And everyone was not even on their top game, the thf said he didn't really know how to kite >.< the pld accidentally disbanded the entire pty (TG we were still in Jeuno!), and we find out one of the chars didn't have gate crystal, and right after he says that an SE message pops up saying they would be performing emergency maintenence in less than two hours.. geesh!

We sent the one char on his way through Ranguemont Pass, then the rest of us teled to Xarcabard. We get to Fei'yin finally after a few aggroes because some ppl kept forgetting to sneak..

To make a long story short we buff up quick go in, all go after the main guy - of all chars the WHM kites the minions because nobody else was doing it, curing when he could; i cured, refreshed, silenced and enfeebed mob while whacking at it, keeping the brave whm alive w cures as he ran around the room in circles(whith whom without we would have all died, ty Shory! what a funny sight that was BTW!) and we killed it with no pty deaths, half of us in the yellow but with the situation way under control...

I was suprised how smoothly it went, considering all the pty difficulties we experienced... And even more unbelievable, as disoorganized and unplanned as it was we came pretty close to beating the time record...

I guess my point is don't get TOO worked up over it, it's not so bad and I actually had a lot of fun. Oh, and make sure the mob kiter knows how to kite! lol!

Edited, Sat Nov 26 12:52:12 2005
LVL to activate
# Nov 24 2005 at 10:50 PM Rating: Decent
yes i do believe your lvl does matter to activate this quest, i had gotten the "Improve your skills and equiptment" response too when i was lower, i got the magicite mission done late 30's. So if he is not giving you the mission , just wait till your closer to 50 to do it, since the area is a 50 cap you wanna be at your highest when attempting it so youll have a better shot at winning.

Edited, Thu Nov 24 23:04:06 2005
RE: LVL to activate
# Nov 28 2005 at 1:15 AM Rating: Decent
I remember recieving this mission when my highest job was 30 I am sure of it.
(No subject)
# Nov 21 2005 at 8:30 PM Rating: Decent
I wanna declare Shanangins. Minimum level as 45 is crap. I'm level 47 and I cannot get the quest. My Rank is capped, my Fame is hero status. Someone help me.


/tell Nickademus on Carbie Server!!! HELP ME
RE: (No subject)
# Mar 18 2006 at 7:46 PM Rating: Default
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503 posts
First, have you traded crystals? I know I had to trade a lot (I think 2 stacks) in order to get the mission. I know you have to talk to a mission giving guard first, and eventually talk to Halver.
Help
# Nov 21 2005 at 2:00 AM Rating: Default
Anyone wanna help me with this mission please /tell thadrizzle or email me ay:jpritchett2004@comcast.net......fairy server!|
4 person run
# Nov 20 2005 at 1:26 AM Rating: Decent
RDM/BLM < me
BRD/RDM
MNK/WHM
WHM/SMN

well - my job was to off the skel mages and then assist brd and mnk on the main. couldn't off the mages fast enough so i had to -ga a fair load of them. whm (one of the best i know) kept me alive and offed some os the melee skels.

while i DID die - the mission was still completed ^^
5-1
# Nov 19 2005 at 4:05 PM Rating: Good
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1,202 posts
Ok I had to do this again to help my girlfriend. She needed this done and 5-2 so I could start her on sky. We went with a

MNK/WAR
WHM/BLM
WHM/BLM
SMN/WHM
THF/MNK
RDM/WHM

MNK can't enter because he changed nations -.-;; The plan was for him to tank + 2 hour. So we had to change it up. We buffed up before we entered the BC, since 5-1 allows you to buff outside. SMN Summoned Ifrit and use 2 Hour on the Arlich. THF/MNK Kited the minions with the other WHM keeping him alive.

SMN, Me(WHM), RDM went to town on Arlich. Worked like a charm. RDM had to 2 hour to help us finish it off. It was golden.
On My Way to Shadowlord
# Nov 08 2005 at 12:18 AM Rating: Decent
Finally finished this mission this morning. Do you know how hard it is to find a 5-1 party on fairy now? Good thing I won't have thsi trouble finding a 5-2 party. Anyways, as long as you have your buffs and a determined dedicated party that knows what they are doing the sky is the limit.
Our party was not the prettiest most balanced party:
Drg/War
Thf/Nin
Rng/Nin
Whm/Blm
Blm/Whm x2
We had two deaths but that was because Drg sacrificed himself to save me. The aggro dominating Thf. So sweet.
Owned
# Nov 07 2005 at 3:31 PM Rating: Decent
My LS did this last night.
Set up:
Mnk 47/war Me
Mnk 66/war Virmythrax
Whm 45/blm Ura
Blm ??/whm Monstrous
Pld 52/war Tiny
Thf 51/nin Aeri

Outcome > New Record lol we beat Mike Tysons Record. 2:34 seconds
Virmythrax Impossible to Gauge.
200 Fists (Fun) (Excitement)
o.O
# Nov 07 2005 at 8:31 AM Rating: Decent
just did it few hours ago, pt setup was:
PLD/WAR MNK/WHM(for sneak I guess) RDM/BLM WHM/BLM RNG/NIN(me) can't say it was cake, but we did finish the fight without any death in 5 man pt.
Easy
# Oct 23 2005 at 6:46 PM Rating: Decent
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238 posts
It was really easy with this setup;

MNK
DRG
SAM
PLD
BLM
MNK

Everyone blasted two hours on the main one, and forgot about the other ones.
Broke Remora's record to 1 min and 57 seconds.
woot
# Oct 22 2005 at 9:09 AM Rating: Decent
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134 posts
Did it last night PT was

MNK
MNK
BLM
BLM
DRK
BST <me>

I had jug pet keep minions busy and we all whailed on Boss, broke record 3 mins 17
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