A Craftsman's Work - DRG AF1  

Solo'd with ease as a 61SMN/WHM Hume.

After duo leveling as my DRG with my roomie I set my HP in Rabao, switched to WHM and teleported to Holla. Hoofed it over to San d'Oria, switched back to DRG to flag the quest then used Warp to head back to Rabao. Gathered my gear and then switched to SMN, went outside, grabbed Refresh from the Field Manual out there and headed for the spawn point. When I arrived put up Sneak and summoned Carbuncle but not before killing a mob that was too close in case of link.

Anyway, I popped him, sent Carby after the oversized bug and went to work. Let Carby chip away a little, ran back, released then summoned Fenrir. Let Fenrir chew on the bug for awhile until ran low on MP. Released Fenrir, then switched to Carbuncle. Around 39% it threw up Invincible and started using Cure III. After its 2HR wore Carbuncle resumed chipping away at its life. Around 20% I resummoned Fenrir again and let him finish the bug off. Ran back, grabbed my stone and now on my way to get my lance. Overall it took about 30-45 minutes between the running around and the fight. Took maybe 10-15 minutes or less to take down the ant.

do i need any fame to do this quest?

So basically, on my main character, strifer on Bismarck server, I got my DRG to lvl 41 and decided that I wanted to get my DRG AF1 out of the way. So, I changed to my 75WAR/NIN and headed out to Eastern Altepa Desert. I killed some things to get my tp to 100%, casted Utsusemi, and popped it. It immediately casted flash, which was absorbed, of course. He almost rarely took one of my shadows away with Berserk and Aggressor up. Long story short... 3 rampages, killed him dead... not that hard of a fight. Yay i soloed it ^_^ lol.

Well I just soloed this as 75PLD/37RDM, 4 minute fight. 4 savage blades, dispels and w00t done. This guy is a wimp. He doesn't attack that hard at all. I hardly lost any HP at all. GL to who all wants this done if you don't have a 70+ job.

My real life daughter's dragoon hit 40, so I agreed to help her out with her AF weapon.

We went out as Rdm51/Whm25 (Nightjinxer, my daughters character), instead of her dragoon, and Pld62/War31 (Tyreewere, me) We both brought along our NPC's for fun. Night decided to skill up her staff instead of using her sword, which I had no problem with. Did the usual buffs, ate a taco, refresh to both of us, then popped the ???

This thing is a joke. Being a sorry excuse of a paladin, his physical damage was barely hitting me for 8-10 points. He did seem to cast Banish II a lot, but even that did little to me. He has some sort of spell, (Sand Storm ?) that provides him a cocoon-type shell. Night easily took that off with Dispel. With my Gluttony sword, (and some attack armor I keep on me for coffer key mob fights), I was beating the daylights out of this guy. Pulled off 2 Vorpal Blades and one Spirits Within during the fight. He does do a move that casts silence, but as any good paladin does, I keep a stack of echo drops on me at all times, and took it right back off. Fight took maybe 4 minutes, and when all was said and done, I was never down more than 200 hp's from full health. I've soloed Cactaurs tougher than this guy. Night went over, got her key item from the ???, and she was off to complete her quest. She is now the proud owner of the Peregrine, and I have another NM notched on my belt.

Tyreewere
Galka Paladin62/Warrior31
Ifrit Server

This fight was kinda tough with 2 ppl. Myself (drg41/war20) and my friend (Mnk58/Nin19) she uses nin only for shadows. we both used 2hr right way because we thought it would be really hurt. but we were wrong. I never got touched because my friend kept all hate. she had 1400ish hp and at the end she had 300ish hp. in the end we succeded. pretty easy after 30% health

Extremely easy did it as 72 thief/ninja and didn't get hit once, took about 10-20 minutes since his defense is immense and he spammed his damn defense boost ability... my off hand hit for 10-20 crit 30 and my on hand for 40-50 crit 80 weapon skill about 300, got annoying tword end when he started spaming cure III for 180 each, two of them totally negates my weapon skill so it got rather annoying, either way he's easy as hell and anyone w/ decent evasion can solo him no prob also this mob has very low agi as proven by my 90% crit rate vs him

P.S. For those who like to pick at games when you click the ??? it says "You feel a hostile gaze upon you!" but Antican are blind, infact they have no eyes at all, they detect by sound, just thought that was funny

P.S.S. be careful where you rest, a Sabotendar aggro'd me while I was resting and at the end of the battle hit me w/ 1000 needles left me w/ 5hp, barrly survived thanks to perfect dodge

I just tried Soloing this with BLM68/WHM34 and my Dragoon Charactor I idled my Dragoon I got it down to 50% and it 2hred Invincible yes this NM is a PLD Very High DEF. Aspir Rate is @ 30 or below with Elemental Seal it did max 70 MP Drain is pretty good but I came completed unperpared I got silenced 3 times almost died Spams Flash & Banish II @ 45% it starts to Cure III himself by that time I started Searching for help finally I got a WHM and BLM to help the WHM Cure IV and my Dragoon and got Hate I did Drain got hate back the BLM started Burst did Damage Brought it down to about 10% from 30% I do not recommend trying to solo this under BLM maybe BLM75 but I am Taru the Hit Range was from 40-80 Critial Hit did 100+ Stoneskin and Blink will be down in about 30 second the time to recast. You will need help. Will resist Sleep cast spells Flash Cure III Banish II


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just did this today as 55 thf/nin, 57 whm/something and 42 drg/thf.

drg spawned mob, I SA + viper bite to get hate, and managed to tank the whole fight with crow body, legs and feet. Only time I lost hate was when drg SA+ws but I had hate back as soon as I hit him again, and therefore wasted a SA.
Only time I looked in trouble was when I got silenced and couldn't cast shadows. Bloody bolts were doing about 20-30 drain on him, but luckily, he hardly ever hit. Was quiet a fun fight all in all.

To the guy who said this couldn't be solo'd by a 56 thf/nin, I disagree, as long as you take echo drops so you can re-cast shadows, I think I could have taken this mob solo, we took him down to about 40% before he used invinsable, then to about 30% before he even got 1 hit on me. Saying that, when he was hitting it was for around 80-90 each hit

Can you repeat the AF quests if you throw the item away?

Yeh your stuff about the trident is perfectly valid but your completely omitting things such as WS damage (massivly based around weapon DMG) and just the fact that there are other factors that effect it, e.g mob defense.

But anyway in answer to a earlier question:

No this cannot be soloed by a 56 thief, it is a dark based mob and as a results bloody bolts do very little drain wise.

I took it as a 57 Thf/War with a 61 Blm/Whm helping out.

Took it with relative ease but it was a long fight and the blm nuked away the last 40% and cured me aswell as me using bloody bolts.

Sorry for the Triple post....gave me an error message 3 times >.<

Edited, Tue Sep 27 10:18:35 2005

What are the requirements for this quest?

I have a 49 bst but all Miaux says is:

<Sigh?
Why Must all craftsman be so uptight?

What other requirement is there?

LMK,

Yuy

Went as PLD60 and solo'd it with a little help healing from a 33BLM who died from a Sabotender, lol. Anyway wasn't too bad, just pulled it into the desert to keep it away from possible Ant's linking.

I just hit 40 the other night and figured i'd get this weapon before 42. So i was walking along and ended up in altepa and decided "I'm 40 drg/rdm, i can solo it maybe..." 3 hits for 130+ damage from him later i was eating sand.
So i get my level 60 DRK friend to help me today...Heres how it went:
Aldren uses Jump, Decurio takes 0 damage.
Aldren uses High jump, 0 damage...
Friend hits Decurio for 80somethin' damage.(his normal i'd guess is around 150ish on east altepa mobs.)
Thankfully my friend was good with his absorb spells. -_-
Then we got silenced, my friend almost warped but we decided to just run it around the zone till silence wore.
I dunno how but we won it about 10 minutes (and about 30 healing breaths)later. Shoulda brought a can of raid. Now i got a new toothpick, yay!

What lvl do you have to be for this quest?

F*** Dragoons are awsome, we sereverly outdamage Dark Knights, our accuracy is just as good as em and were 2 party members in 1 (and our pet doesnt take away exp or mp)Us Dragoons are highly unapreciated (excuse my spelling) so all those DRG haters can take their Big weak asses and burn in hell (excuse my language)

Did this quest like two hours ago, two LS friends and a level 75 THF helped me. ^^ Nobody died, but the WHM almost did. Took a couple of minutes though, the damn Antican sure had a lof of DEF. Got two links, but nothing serious. Also got to see Rabao for the first time! ^^

Peregrine: O
Dragoon: Happy :D

I tried this with a 61 pld and myself a 61 drk and we almost got owned cause of all the links lol antica from halfway across the desert came it was like he was shouting for help, luckily my ls Synergy had members in the area level 75 whm, pld, and drk, needless to say they saved our asses and ripped him a new one... I would suggest u bring a whm, pld, and 2 DD one 60+ the other can be the drg who needs the AF cause if u get links u will die without a good team to back u up

just did this today, got help from a 60 rdm, 60 mnk, and 60 whm. battle was really easy for the rdm and mnk, done in about 3 minutes, and I got my Polishing stone (and Altepa gate crystal). I'm only level 40, so I have a couple levels to go before I can use it, but I can't wait. Good luck to future drg's doing this quest.

I just solo'd AF1 as BST56 using 2 CourierCarrie. It's a relatively easy fight as long as the area's clear.. about 3 anticans joined in the fight so I had to use a 2nd jug. Southernbelle (THF51/NIN25) was nearby and decided to help me out near the end, so it was really fun~!

Anyone on Quetzalcoatl want to help a fellow DRG out? O:-)

I just got finished doing the quest for this weapon tonight with the help of a 42redmage, 61pld, and 61sam - though it was relatively easy for me because these players are longtime friends of mine and were willing to come at the drop of a dime (and i thank them immensly for it), AND the quest was done pretty quickly, I don't think that the reward is quite worthwhile for those drg's who are not in as fortunate of a position.

compare the stats of the Peregine against those of the Trident, or the mytheril lance....

Per. 61 dmg, 492 delay, +1 dex, +1 vit
Tri. 51 dmg, 396 delay, added effect lightening
Myt. 69 dmg, 492 delay

now, granted, at lvl 42, a weapon that can do 61 dmg looks nice, and indeed IS nice, but the delay brings with it a short lifespan. I propose the following equation...

Let X stand for a randomly chosen increment of time (use 1000 if you'd like)
Let Y stand for the amount of time for the delay
Let Z stand for the dmg that is being done

X divided by Y = N, or the number of hits that will be delivered by the weapon within the given time frame (provided the accuracy is perfect - which it NEVER is)

N multiplied by Z = D, or the total damage that will be done by that weapon within the given time frame (again assuming that accuracy is perfect)

1000/492=2.032520325
2.032520325*61=123.9537398 (AF cumulative dmg)

1000/396=2.525252525
2.525252525*51=128.7878788 (Tri cumulative dmg)

Admittedly, this creates a fraction that falls somewhere in-between the damage that would result from 2 to 3 hits, however, one can imagine how much larger the differential gap would become over a longer period of time.

Therefore, you not only find that the lower delay of the trident allows it more cummulative dmg, but it also allows more hits within a given time frame which means you don't pay as severe a price per miss.

The mythril lance does enough dmg to justify it's delay in this equation when compared to the trident, however the Peregine does not.

This means that if it weren't for the +1 to dexterity and vitality that the peregine offers, it would be undebatably outdated within 3 lvls - a VERY short lifespan in my opinion for the amount of work that some people seem to be putting into this quest. As it is though, it remains up to the player to decide if the +1's are really all that worth it for them to get/keep a weapon whose pre-eminence in dmg becomes outdated after 3 lvls.

And please, do not take this as a knock against anyone using this weapon after lvl 45, i still think it's a great weapon. It's just that after reading how much trouble some of the people who have posted on here have had finding the help needed in order to do this quick quest, i figured i'd save future drgs the trouble by letting them know it's not a "by all means necessary, you MUST obtain this weapon" type deal.

My sincere apologies to everyone for the waste of space i've created here - Previously i had only posted on the job forums, and as a result, didn't realize my message was being placed (albeit repeatedly) at the top of the page instead of at the end. Hopefully, this apology, as well as all of the blank posts (originally they all had the same message, but i edited them so that they were empty to take up less space since i can't figure out how to delete them entirely) will be rated down, filtered out, etc.

Again, I apologize to everyone for this mistake, this is the first online forum community i've belonged to, and i'm still getting used to it.

If anyone knows how i can go about deleting a message so that my karma doesn't have to suffer from this extremely noob-ish mistake please let me know and i'll have these things cleared off ASAP

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