As Thick as Thieves - THF AF2  

i asked LS for some help with this this thinking it was gonna still be a challenge as THF60/NIN30,
LS friends said yes who where BLM/RDM MNK/NIN DRK/???,

so we go to do Climbpix Highrise and he dies pretty quick id say a tad shorter than an xp mob,

got my Grapnel in treasure meant to cast lot but am so used to passing i hmm........ passed >< WTF,

i was like im such a nub,
we all laughed but inside it hurt lmao,

then along comes a whm 75 and pops him on the same ??? wins it in a nice time for solo ^^ enough for us to heal bear in mind we didnt get hit all that much,

so we go to find the ??? again while building TP on the way it was my idea as i just wasted enough time for every1 /sigh i pop Climbpix Highrise a second time,

pretty much have full TP as a PTY, and im sorry Climbpix Highrise you didnt even use Pefect Dodge this time did you?
like the first battle,
/cry takes me back when you gobbies did the same to me^^
so get the CS on the tower, back to jeuno for Gobbie mithra dice game

head to BASTY ah HOME to where LS meet me at Wadi

1/3 on the 3 Gobbies dice games, and yes it is always by 1 it would seem on the last Gobbie

LS leader comes on BLM/RDM too says can he come over to join the fun?
said sure^^
we wait for him at the cliff where the water takes you up,
he arives we go through the zone get to ??? take Gambilox Wanderling on,
i notice that she has MANHOOD lmfao
oh and im sure you know she dies pretty damn quick too,

and the rest you know ^^





Edited, Nov 23rd 2008 3:27am by finaaal

him: 181
Me: 630.....

Yay.

BTW beat them both as 75RDM/37NIN

that job rocks... everythings easy with it... just a lot of finger work >.<

just solod as 68 nin and got my funky hat :D

Since most of us were kinda bored last night we decided to make this a mini ls event haha. For the drachen falls NM we had a 61 drg, 59nin(mysel) 2 75rdm, 65mnk and a 50thf(whose quest it was). I kid you not NM went down in 30 seconds flat it was hilarious, we were all like 'wtf?'. However the notes about being a TP whore are correct, even in those 30 seconds he bombed us twice and rushed once.

Now for the sauramague(sp) NM, We went with 50thf(his quest), 65mnk, 75 rdm, 70+whm and 59nin(myself) we had the unfortunate luck of getting the tower that was through garlaige. One amusing note is passing through the 3rd gate the thf agrod a bunch of stuff (3 fallen officer, 3 jellies and 2 bats haha) So after killing nearly every mob past the third gate we got outside to the tower and spawned the NM. This guy was interesting, he definately has a lot of evasion but nothing totally agravatting. Some nukers are nice for this fight with a solid tank as well as you will miss a lot regardless of lvl(myself and the rdm were tanks). Not much to worry about here, the only thing going for this NM is its evasion, he did hit a little harder than the other one but not by much and doesnt have much tp gain (much longer fight, like a couple min and only used bomb once and rush once

I dont no abnout that...after doing it several times over, i finally out gambled the last one by one...I almost laughed my head off because i was almost crimanlly insane from doing this over and over again...

you cant get a decent grip on the wall with grapnel...wtf? tried taking armour off, tried putting back on, got as close as i could, got farther away? wtf?

edit: oh yeah...he only shows up at the one tower -_- disregard

Edited, Thu Jun 8 17:46:31 2006

err idk if i can spawn this guy as my drk, help plz

I just solo'd Gambilox as a 65 THF. Yes, I know, why the hell do I not have the hat alread? I've been lazy and the hat doesn't really do much for me, I've been concentrating on XPing and NM hunting. So I finally decided to do it.

Sleep bolts don't work, so that hurt.

My first try I had a hard time of it, equipped my Signal Earring to summon my NPC during the fight. She immediately cast Cure III on me, and two more before she died to the bomb AOEs. I should have TA+DE onto her before she died. Oh well. NM took me down to 22 HP as I has hitting Flee to zone. I took away 75% of the NM's life before I had to ditch.

I ran back, cast utsusemi and waited out the time for recast to come back up and hit the ??? to try again, this time with the one strategy: spam Bloody Bolts and use and Acid Bolt before every DE.

Gambilox came out, I hit her with an Acid then used DE for 418 damage (the rest of the fight I did no less than 395 and a max of 587), then started in with the Bloddy bolts (I later forgot about the Acid and concenctrated on Bloody bolts to keep me alive). Each bomb only did 41 damage to me each time, so it was really only an issue of avoiding the regular hits and the Goblin Rush. The Rush is the killer because it'll take all of the Shadows away each time.

When the NM used Mighty Strikes I was gonna use Perfect Dodge to cancel it out, but decided not to. I'm glad I didn't, because not once ... not once did she ever hit me during her 2hr. I did use one or two Blind bolts on her during that time. Later, I had just cast Utsusemi when she did a Rush, cancelling it, then did 2 more for 180 damage total. I used Perfect Dodge to wait out my time for the next blink and spammed more bloody bolts and DE.

When I had a little less than half my life left, I'd say 450 HP, Gambilox was living her last moments. Then she started spamming Goblin Rush again. I ended the battle with 127 life left.

My LS was telling me I was nuts to try, but I felt safe since I had a Warp Cudgel and Perfect Dodge, as well as the option to Flee to the nearby zone.

I'm glad I did!

BTW, I had lots of evasion gear on, totalling +29 evasion. I hit probably 90% of my bolts.

Just my luck, my tower is on the zone to garlaige citadel... I have to go in and out just for a crappy hat ><

Just my luck, my tower is on the zone to garlaige citadel... I have to go in and out just for a crappy hat ><

Actually, rolling against the gobs isn't too bad, but running between them takes forever ugh.

Grassvix rolled a 0 the first time I went against him.

I won the final roll by one as well 761 to 762 or something.

Just FYI, my LS did this the other night. All level 55: THF, WAR, WHM, SMN, DRG, MNK. The gob in Dangruf Wadi was very easy. For the Sauromunge gob, we lost the MNK, but still beat him without much trouble. He DOES have a crapload of evasion, running the parser I had the best accuracy with 40% (Life belt, RNG sub, Battle gloves, lots of DEX). The WAR and DRG were around 20%.

You don't need high level help to do this, just a competent party.

I'm a 58DRK/anything can i solo them? if so what should i sub and can i do w/ drk to get thf af or do i have to do it w/ thf to get the thing?

Edit: Nevermind i cant solo it ^^;

Edited, Sun Apr 3 15:44:50 2005

My friends and I were attempting this tonight and found out that the only tower left to check was behind banishing gate 3; however, stuff came up and we had to postpone. What I want to know, though, is will his random spawning before different when we try it again another day or will it still be at the tower behind banishing gate 3 when we re-organize and attempt it again?

well, edit to this; did the whole quest tonight; had the followin pt:
54thf/27rng
56thf/28nin
60pld/30War
65RDM/32Blm
60Whm/30Blm
55Rdm/27blm

We owned those gobbies like it was nothing, lowest any one got in hp was into the Yellow
I had fun with that one too.

Edited, Fri Feb 4 23:32:02 2005

i wasnt too excited about this hat cuz i have had hairpin forever, so i never bothered to get it. tonight i was bored and was just siting around with seek up, so i headed out into sauromungue, found him at the 4th tower i tried, and killed him after fewminuts. 64 thf/nin with scorp, hairpin, and dodge earings. i used life belt over survival cuz i needed the acc more. he it me once for 79 dmg, and the the rest i avoided with about 6 or 7 utsusemi recasts. kept him paralyzed, blinded, and slowed, and didnt use any food. hit me with 2 gobbie bombs for about 70 the first time and 120 the second. i couldnt hit him with any rng, so i pulled a bettle and drained it for hp/tp. wasnt too hard, but im wonderig if the other gobs for the quest ar the same lvl, could i solo them too?

Edited, Tue Dec 21 04:53:25 2004

When you initiate this quest Mihgo asks what letter was on your envelop from the Tenshodo Invite quest.

The correct answer is V

I dont know why everyone left this part of teh quest out (it's the first thing you have to answer when you start talking to Nanaa)

I got incredibly lucky with this quest. I farmed my own materials in Dangruf Wadi, and beat all 3 of the Dangruf brothers on the first try. I got Climbpix to spawn on the first tower ??? I went to, and a SMN69 solo'd the battles for me. Remember, individual results may vary, and mine represent this quest at its easiest.

Really. This quest description is poorly done. It leaves out a lot of details on how this works. Details that can leave you looking like an idiot to a buncha friends trying to help you get this done. So I'm going to go over how this quest description should read:


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Starting the quest: (Not very hard, not much else to say.)

First start the quest as usual through Nanaa Mihgo who asks you to deliver two envolopes and get them signed again by 2 thieves from Atalbartles Rogue Gang. Her lackies tell you there are in Sauromugue and the Goblin Shop in Lower Jeuno.

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Part 1: (Getting the first letter signed)

- Where?
Your goal is to be able to climb a tower at I-7/J-7 in Sauromugue Champaign where the thief you need to sign the letter is hiding. To do this you need a Grapnel. This grapnel is aquired by fighting a NM Goblin Climbpix Highrise (Go fig).

- Getting the Grapnel
Climbpix Highrise is spawned by "using" one of the "???" that can be found at the base of all 6 of the towers in Sauromugue Champaign. (They are marked on the map as small black squares) However, which tower spawns this NM is completely random. One of these towers can only be reached by going through Garlaige Citadel and the banishing gates. You will need 4 people to get through these, preferably, who can sneak and invis themselves, as the monsters are fairly nasty. If you're lucky, the NM will spawn at one of the easier towers.

- The battle with Climbpix Highrise
The battle with Climbpix Highrise is fairly hard. You will want a party geared toward magic damage. He is a thief type goblin and will use Perfect Dodge at about 1/2 health. His evasion is crazy and he hits pretty hard. 1 PLD 1 WHM 3 BLM and yourself are my personal recomendation at level 53. However, most smart people will bring a lvl 60+ friend or 2 to ensure victory and there's no shame in bringing an alliance if you can gather the people.

- Climb to success
When you destroy Climbpix Highrise, he will drop the Grapnel. Lot on it and head to the tower at I-7/J-7. You will need to un-equip all your stuff (yes, git nekkid!), and trade the Grapnel to the ???. You will get a nice lil cutscene which results in your first letter being signed.


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Part 2a: (This can be done alone, as it may take awhile if you have crap for luck)

- Starting off:
Assuming you just got done with Part 1, head up to Lower Jeuno and go to Muckvix's Junk Shop. There's a Goblin in the middle hallway named Sniggnix. He will want to play a game of dice. You must beat him, and then he will tell you to go Dangruf Wadi to play dice against the Dangruf Trio for the Regal Die.

- The Dangruf Trio
Now this is the fun part. You must beat these guys in a dice game with 50/50 odds, all in row. What I mean by that is, if you lose to any of them, you have to start all over and talk to the first guy. Also, everytime you play one them you must give up an item. So if you lose, not only are you out an item, you are out all the other items you used to get that far. You must win all 3 without losing, in this order, with the listed items:

1) Saltnix
Item: Rock Salt (Wadi Crab)
Directions: Trade the Rock Salt to the ??? at the eastern part of F-7
2) Grasslix
Item: Gaussbit Grass (Wadi Hare)
Directions: Trade the Gaussbit Grass to the ??? at F-4, near the entrance to the tunnel.
3) Eggvix
Item: Lizzard Egg (Steam Lizzard)
Directions: You will first need to go thru a false wall at F-11/G-11. There is a hole right before a Cermet door in this hall way. Drop down the hole and head South. In the corner right before you will be a ???. Trade your Lizzard Egg to it and hope you win.

You will note I put mob names next to these items. All the items you need to trade can be farmed from these mobs that reside in Dangruf Wadi. They're easy drops, especially for a Thief with TH2 ;) Or you can buy the items, whatever you want. This part can take as little as 15 minutes, to who knows how long, depending on your luck in the dice game. I failed Grasslix twice. When I finally made it past Grasslix, I was happy I defeated Eggvix the first time.

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Part 2b: (The battle with Gamblivix Wanderling, gather your party)

- Finding her
After you defeat the Dangruf Trio in thier little dice games, its time to get serious with thier sister, Gamblivix Wanderling. Gather your balanced party of at least 6 people @ level 53 and head to the Drachen Falls Ravine from the North Gustaberg exit of Dangruf Wadi at J-3. Stay on the South side of the river (ie, don't go over any bridges) and head towards the waterfall. Near the base of the waterfall is another, you guessed it, "???". Prep your party, because this one comes out swinging.

- The battle
Gamblivix Wanderling doesn't have the evasion that Climbpix had, but she makes up for that by pretty much spamming bomb toss and goblin rush and hitting hard. Of course, if you have a BLM with half a brain, he'll just stun the goblin in the middle of these fits, making this battle a fun, but easy one.

After you defeat Gamblivix Wanderling, click on the same "???" and you get your "Regal Die" and a happy little cutscene.

Say your thank yous to your helpful friends and let them go on thier marry way. You don't need them any more. Nothing but a few NPCs to talk to now.

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Wrap up: (Look at my cool hat >.<)

Trade your newly aquired "Regal Die" to Sniggnix in Jeuno and you'll get an interesting cutscene (no spoilers here :P) that ultimately results in your 2nd letter geting signed.

SUCCESS!

Now head back to Nanaa Mihgo. She'll toss you your hat of uber farming goodness, and send you on your way.

this confused the bleeeeep out of me... you must start this quest before you can get gulsam to talk to you.

THIS is af THREE... but must be started BEFORE guslam will give you your Af2.

Much trial and error discovered this ;p

Guslam would NOT talk to me til i talked to niina mihngo. and when i did she gave me the two copies of the letters and the hideout location

At first i thought maybe THIS was my af2. but the item has a lvl 54 limit...

The gloves have lvl 52....

I again went to guslam and bingo cutscene and af2 started.

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Does anyone else find that to be messed up? lol

just shareing my information so other thieves hopefully wont be as confused as me!

I have the thick as thieves quest, im level 55 now and because of this i havnt got my af2 yet, anyway, when i touch the ???'s in Sauromugue they say "cannot climb with your bare hands" or something to that extent, im told thats not even remotly close to what it should say even IF its not the right tower.
Now i understand it might be that tower i cant get to through Garlige (and if so what does it take to get to that tower..)
Thanks in advance for help and tips

Edited, Sun May 9 17:12:07 2004

This description is pretty awfull .. let me try and give it a better try:

1- Talk to naana mihgo to get the quest
2- I went to the 1st twr in Champaign, clicked the ??? while NOT HAVING anything in my hand slots. It spawned.
3- Our pt consisted of a SMN, PAL, RDM, THF, THF (me) and i believe a BLM. We killed it pretty quick but some where definitly highelr lvl. I didn't hit it that much (50 thf)
4- Get crapnel
5- Go to twr thats pretty North exactly on line I and J. Trade crapnel to ??? while being all undressed, else it will say ur too heavy
6- After Cutscene go back to jeuno, talk to Sniggix (between rooms in gobbie shop) and win the dice roll. Now he will send u to get regal die
7- Go to wadi (that part is ok in description). Bring rocksalt, Gausbit grass and lizz eggs. I'd say around 6 of each.
8- Now you have to roll dice with 3 gobs located at F7 ???, F4 ??? and F11 ??? (the hidden wall is at the West end of the F11 room, drop in the hole, go left and find the ???) If you loose 1 bet u have to go back and start at the 1st gob again at F7..
9- Kill the wandering (Havent done that part yet)
but that should be self explanatory..

I will update it if new things are discovered..

GL!

does anyone know where the ??? to fight Gamblivix Wanderling? been searchin for it for a while and cant seem to locate it

went thru some weird insible wall in wadi there is a targetable thind called strange apparatus what is this room for