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Blade of Evil - DRK AF3  

Submitted by:Rafride/Phoenix
Realm:Other
Start Area: Beadeaux
Start NPC:Zeid
Type:Artifact
Prerequisites:Dark Puppet - DRK AF2
Related Areas:Middle Delkfutt's Tower
Related Mobs:Gerwitz's Scythe
Scythe Victim
Mission:6 - 0
Min Level:50
Max Level:75
Reward:
Rating
*****
(Average from 11 ratings)
Items Required:Quadav Mage Blood
Title Obtained:Paragon of Dark Knight Excellenc
Items Granted:Chaos Burgeonet
Last Updated: Fri Sep 25 20:32:14 2009

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Summary

One of Gerwitz's weapons is running amok. You must go to the place where the Crystal Lines converge, use the blood of a powerful Quadav to lure it out, and then defeat the evil weapon that appears.

Walkthrough

You must have completed Dark Legacy - DRK AF1 and Dark Puppet - DRK AF2, and activated Borghertz's Shadowy Hands to obtain this quest.

First, set your job to Dark Knight and head to Beadeaux. A cutscene should occur where Zeid will tell you that the Power of Darkness is starting to get out of control.

You need to collect one piece of Quadav Mage Blood. These are dropped off of Topaz Quadavs in the same zone. Note: If more than one Dark Knight is doing this quest, you only need one piece of blood and everyone will receieve their AF after the upcoming notorious monsters have been defeated.

Once the blood has been aqcuired, head to Middle Delkfutt's Tower. On the seventh floor, use the teleporter at J-6.

You should end up in a small circle room on the sixth floor (J-6 again). Buff up and be prepared for a tough fight. When ready, trade the Quadav Blood to the ???. Gerwitz's Scythe, a weapon-type NM, and two Scythe Victim skeletons will spawn.

Recommended strategy:

  • Have 3 designated tanks, two pulling away one each skeleton as far away as possible. It is important that you do not engage these in the beginning since their AoE of HP drain would most likely be a disaster. Head for the Weapon first and try to kill it as soon as possible. Once the Weapon is defeated start picking on one of the skeletons at a time.

It is also very risky to trade in the blood. Your HP can go down very fast. Make sure that the healers are alert and cure this person before the tank can get the hate.

Once all three NMs are defeated, use the same teleport you used when you came in and after this you will get a cutscene and your Chaos Burgeonet.

Quest Series

This quest is part of the Dark Knight artifact gear quest series. The entire quest series includes:

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Freaken Sucks!
# Mar 18 2010 at 9:14 PM Rating: Decent
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I really want all my awesome Dark Knight armor......well except for boots. I'd rather keep my lvl 30 RSE boots tyvm. Too bad boots was a prereq. And think im gonna stick with cuirass cuz it looks cooler then a haubergeon. Anyways, got totally messed up on this last one. Went with a lvl 75 theif to Beadeaux. got CS. Killed like 50 Topaz Quads and a bunch of others. got like 10 reraise scrolls and a bunch of auspice scroll drops but NO FREAKEN MAGE BLOOD!!!!!!! spent like an hour or two freaken insane. couldnt even get the first part done. spilled alot of blood but no blood :(

shocky-alexander
Duo'd
# Jun 01 2008 at 3:12 PM Rating: Decent
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Me and my friend managed to duo this.

We went as: RDM75/NIN37 and SAM75/NIN37.

We didn't have any problems, I (RDM) tanked the weapon and cast bind on the WAR as the SAM took out the BLM. When he killed the BLM and attacked the WAR and killed it as well. When he was done with that he charged right in to the weapon and WS'd his ass off with Meditate & 2hr.

Hope it helped...

Good luck!
Not as hard as it seems
# Apr 14 2008 at 5:39 PM Rating: Decent
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Just an FYI, you do not actually have to defeat all 3 mobs, just the main Scythe.

We wiped after defeating main mob, got drk raised after they depopped, and he still recieved the CS and the helm
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DONE!!!
# Mar 24 2008 at 9:08 PM Rating: Decent
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Just finished AF2-5 in about a day and a half mostly solo....
75PLD/THF and then hunting coffers with DRK/DNC DNC is awesome for AF Coffers ^^ oh and setup on this fight was overkill 75PLD (me)
75RDM 75NIN 75BST 75BLM and 75BRD ^^ all LS members thanks to Areus Teller Analika Deadrick and Demandred ^^
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"Life sucks...so get a Helmut"
# Mar 05 2008 at 1:49 PM Rating: Decent
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Titan Server:


I haven't had any luck finding people to help me out with this yet.
If you are on Titan Server and reading this looking for the same kind of help
please send me a /tell.

Any LVL 58+ wether you are DRK or not; please send me /tell when you see me online.


Thank you,


Panthor

(life is sucking without my helmut)

60 DRK
31 WAR
30 WHM
19 BLM

Cheers!!
i bit overboard
# Feb 14 2008 at 12:12 AM Rating: Decent
well this was too easy only because of the set up:
75NINx2
69RDM (me)
59DRK
67NIN
75MNK

didn't even plan out any stradegy pretty much ran in there spawned and killed. first time we had a bit of a different set up with me being on my 58drk instead but after farming the second blood and getting a party like that going it was np. all of em dead within 2 min at the most.
guess what happened...
# Dec 20 2007 at 9:48 PM Rating: Decent
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Severely underestimated this one. It was Me(DRK64), a PUP60, and a PLD72. Guess what happened. we got one victim down to about 80% before we wiped. Now I have to go farm the blood again.
blood drop
# Nov 24 2007 at 12:50 AM Rating: Decent
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Can the blood be farmed as THF? Or will it only drop if you're main is set to DRK?
easy as shit
# Jun 25 2007 at 10:28 AM Rating: Decent
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d00ds, this fight is easy as sh*t, my setup was

RNG75/NIN37 (me)
SMN75/WHM37
SAM74/NIN37 with Soboro Sukehiro

I bounded 1 skelly, smn took other skelly, sam and me pwned the weapon then the skelly that smn almost killed and then the last one, really easy stuff
Af3
# Apr 02 2007 at 5:14 AM Rating: Decent
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I did this a few days ago and our setup was...
75Pld/War
75Smn/Whm
75Blm/Whm
58Drk/Thf

I poped the Nm the pld voked the Weapon and i died then they killed the weapon and they all died and the smn had rr on and waited for skele's to depop and raise us aljl
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Fun fight!
# Apr 01 2007 at 3:34 AM Rating: Decent
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Just did this fight for a friend of mine.

75 WHM/NIN
75 MNK/NIN
52 DRK

Owned it. Had no problem at all. Had the DRK pop the mnk took the two skeles then I pulled a self light on the Weapon bringing him down to 70% then the mnk 2 hour and me and him light again. killed the weapon and then proceded to take the bones 1 at a time.
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Solo attempt RDM75/BLU37
# Mar 16 2007 at 2:37 PM Rating: Decent
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I decided to try and solo this as RDM75/BLU37. I managed to kill off the BLM skeleton, but I lost because my MP got aspired to zero right before my second Convert. I managed to use a warp cudgel and survive. Now I will have to farm the mage's blood again. :(

Gerwitz's Scythe is a RDM weapon
One Scythe Victim is a BLM skeleton
The other Scythe Victim is a WAR skeleton

I had Cocoon and a tavnazian taco up, giving me 660 defense, which helped tremendously with making Stoneskin last. The BLM skeleton loves to spam ancient magic, but he can be silenced. The RDM weapon cannot be silenced. I made the mistake of trying to kill the BLM skeleton first. The RDM weapon's attacks seem to have a random chance to Drain or Aspir you. So, when I was readying my second Convert, the RDM weapon's hit Aspired my remaining MP to zero. I had no yagudo drinks or hi-ethers, so I knew it was over. I donned my warp cudgel and got the hell out.

For you other RDMs out there, I recommend bringing two emergency hi-ethers in case your last slice of MP gets Aspired before Convert, kill the RDM weapon first and make sure to keep that BLM skeleton silenced.

Edited, Mar 16th 2007 6:38pm by sevendreams
Tanks
# Jan 19 2007 at 8:09 AM Rating: Decent
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I'm a DRK59/WAR29 but for some reason, all the tanks on my server fear this mission. Is it because of the skeletons or the scythe? I'm not sure, but whatever the case may be, If you're on the Caitsith Server and have anything close to balls in the tanking department, a little help would be appreciated! send a /tell when you get this!
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# Nov 03 2006 at 10:59 AM Rating: Decent
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Dont mind my last 2 post i got my AF helm in the weirdest way lol i went to the pos for the fight i said screw it so i zoned to try to skillup club outside of the teleport i said not no i thought my wireless crashed cause iw asnt moveing then i started the cs so i got my helm w/o a fight lol btw cause i fought the weapon and the weapon died but i hped so i thought i wouldnt get the helm lol so im a 59 drk only 1 lvl away from wearing my fresh new-helm







59 DRK elvaan dragongirl aka DG lol
Help plz !!!!!!!
# Oct 28 2006 at 8:40 AM Rating: Decent
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I just need help withthe fight im on remora server /t dragongirl im on weds-sun central time 7pm- 11pm sometimes 7pm-1am plz help i only need the fight got blood already
Help please !!!!
# Oct 28 2006 at 8:33 AM Rating: Decent
36 posts
Can anybody help me fight the NM please help me out! im on remora server and im broke >.< can anybody help me out please for free? i already got the blood just need help to fight the 3 NMs
Title???
# Oct 10 2006 at 8:08 PM Rating: Decent
So, did this and theres enough posts here i feel the play-by-play is unnecesssary, however, i did this quest at lv60, and soon thereafter lv'd to 61, where i decided to do G4 just to get it out of the way. The result, i got my Cloud Breaker title, but i would like to keep the Paragon, although i have no idea where the brd is to get it. I have checked low jeuno and bastokmines, but to no success, so if anyone knows, your assistance would be much appreciated. Doesn't help when Zeid, the giver of the quest, in essence, doesnt exist -.-;
Sneak Pop
# Sep 21 2006 at 11:48 PM Rating: Decent
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Popped with sneak and the DRK got aggro from all 3 immediately.

Still won (75 NIN, 74 RDM, 60 DRK, 2x healer NPC).
Help plz
# Sep 11 2006 at 9:26 PM Rating: Decent
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This quest has been pissing me off for days. i have the blood i just need the fght. Anyway if you can and wanna help me out with this /tell Katseu, im on Asura the server of many self concious idiot, my normal game hours are between 4PM EST and 11PM EST. Any help would be much appreciated
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soloable?
# Sep 02 2006 at 8:01 AM Rating: Decent
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I was wondering if a 75 thf could solo this and if by starting the quest with drk i can then get my af with thf.
I have capped marksmanship and 272 eva.
Will i be able to tank and kill all these with my equip?
SH; Empress Hairpin; War gloves; Corse Cape; Scouter's Rope; Dancing shoes.
Thank you in advice for reply.




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Wewt
# Aug 28 2006 at 1:40 PM Rating: Decent
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The party looked like this.

Drk60/30War (x2)
Drk68/34War
Drk58/War29
War72/Nin36
Blm55/Whm27
Rdm62/Blm31

Okay so we go into the NM room and the plan is supposedly to pop the NM, the War vokes the Weapon, and wait till the skellys Depop. Well, the DRK with the blood pops the NM and the skellys automatically start raping him and everyone runs around like chickens with their heads cut off. The War vokes the Weapon and everyone gets thier bearings and start whacking the Weapon as well. Party members started dropping like flys, but the Weapon slowly but surely started to die. Finally, the Weapon bites it and we start to take on the skellys. Its not lookin good for our party and the Skells start pulling out Blood Sword and that AoE drain attack crap. When the War went down i knew we were dead. The party wipes and the War HPs and comes to raise us all. We zone out of the room and we all get our helms (the Drks).

So, long story short, as long as you get a high lvl who isnt afraid to die and a few 60s you can take on the NM and get your helm. Everyone will most likely die but I believe its worth it for the helm. As long as you kill the Weapon you WILL get the helm. Note: Do not HP or tele out of the NM room before you zone out and get the helm.
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Quest
# Aug 15 2006 at 6:10 PM Rating: Decent
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Well I did mine last night, and here was my party set up. 60drk, 75nin, and 65rdm. Well we went to get my mage blood, and it took about 3 hours so i sugjest taking T2 to help with drop. So we went to the tower and got in the room, we had built our TP up to 300% before I traded the blood to the ??? But when mobs spawned i dropped into red in about 5 sec. Rdm kept me somehow alive but got hella hate, and he soon died. But by that time the ninja had some hate for all 3 mobs. So we managed to kill the weapon, but I soon died after weapon dropped, and soon the ninja had to 2-hour because the victims had drained him. So I was bummed out. But when I got raise and exited the teleport, I got a CS and got my helm! So moral of the story, if u dont mind dieing to get the helm lol then do what i did and die for it. But remember that you must be raised and then exit the teleport to get CS. ~Winsor Carbuncle server.

P.S. Special thanks to Jambon and Dacybabypimp for helping me. You guys are the roxorz.
Help!!!
# Jul 27 2006 at 3:10 PM Rating: Decent
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can u start another Af quest if u have 1 started i did scythe and feet quest i started the hands quest so i was j/w can u start helm quest if u didnt finish the glove quest? please help me out .

One more thing anybody on remora server that can help me do the glove quest i need a coffer key and find the coffer im a 51 drk called dragongirl please help me out if u can?


Thanks for listening

Remore server
F elvaan
Drk51/25thf or Drk51/war25


Edited, Jul 27th 2006 at 4:12pm EDT by solodragon
Help!!!
# Aug 22 2006 at 6:52 AM Rating: Decent
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As long as you have done the Dark Knight AF1 (Raven Scythe) and opened the AF Gloves quest (Borghertz's Shadowy Hands), by talking to Guslam and no more, you can do all the rest of the Dark Knight AF quests.
Help!!!
# Aug 22 2006 at 6:50 AM Rating: Decent
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As long as you have the AF Gloves quest (Borghertz's Shadowy Hands) started, just by talking to Guslam, you can start this. Doing the AF1 (Raven Scythe) and starting the gloves quest means that you can do any of the others.
My story...
# Jul 04 2006 at 9:47 AM Rating: Decent
Went into this fight as a lvl 75 smn.... brought along a lvl 75 whm, 75sam and 75 drk...

After buffing, i spawned the NMs. They aggroed me, but carbuncle took some hate off. One of the skele's latched onto me, so I ran to the opposite side of the room. The SAM provoked one of the skeles onto him and moved to another corner of the room. The DRK and PLD fought the NM Weapon.

I had carbuncle tank the Skele that was on me... while keeping it busy, the pld and drk made short work of the weapon. Then the SAM finished off his skeleton. The entire fight lasted... about 4 mins. ;p Easy as pie. No sneak oil needed, no sneak spell... ^^ just separate the mobs and have a lvl 75 melee tank it... w/ a designated healer. ^^

Good luck to all doing their DRK AF Helm Quest. I got my Paragon of Dark Knight Excellence title, and i'm a lvl 50 DRK ;p

At least it's done early. LaterZ!
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Easy Prey
# Jun 14 2006 at 9:33 AM Rating: Decent
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This AF was some easy stuff, did this with
DRK/WAR 60 <me>
SMN/WHM 75
NIN/WAR 75
RDM/BLM 75

Sneaked and buffed up, but for some reason the skeletons didnt depop but we had np killing them all 3. Got my helm & all. Fun quest =)
AF helm fight
# Jun 08 2006 at 10:34 PM Rating: Decent
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Setup

DRK 67 (me)
BLM 75
MNK 74
BRD 73
PLD 70
PLD 63
WHM 75

When i traded the blood, my hp went to 500hp in a matter of seconds, ( i had stoneskin and blink + protect IV ) but quickly recovered from that. Monk died in middle for reason i dont know probably underestimated the mob and put on Counterstance. rest of the fight was all smooth, 2 skeles didnt depop after killing the weapon. After that i zoned got CS and my AF helm.
ownage
# Jun 01 2006 at 11:45 PM Rating: Decent
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went in with this pt set up easy fight
blm 75
whm 75
brd 75
drk 70
drk 61(me)
pld 60

drk 61 and blm took one skelly, pld and brd took other while 70 drk worked on on weapon and whm healed easy fight all in all just keep spaming stun on the weapon till skellys are dead.
Tried to solo....
# May 29 2006 at 3:56 AM Rating: Good
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You DO have to be DRK to get cutscene in Beaudeaux. I went there with NIN to farm the blood, didn't get CS, went back with DRK, got CS

I was able to pop the mobs as NIN though.

Even with sneak, as soon as I traded, all 3 agro'd. I tried to solo, got the main mob down, but couldn't take the skeles out. I just Mijin'd with 100 HP left.

*EDIT*

Got a new blood, came back the next day with a couple friends, traded and.....nothing happened. Got on the tele to try to zone back in, and got CS for helm.

So I guess you just have to kill the Weapon mob to complete the quest



Edited, Mon May 29 17:19:38 2006
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Tried to solo....
# Jan 22 2007 at 2:17 PM Rating: Decent
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Agreed, when i did this i went 60 drk a 75 blm and a 75 nin. We killed the Weapon off quickly but ended up killed by the skeles. Needless to say we warped out after reraising. Stupidly, I thought I needed another mage blood and next time went with a full pt...turns out all i needed to do was zone out on the teleporter since we had dropped the weapon :P
AF Helm
# May 21 2006 at 6:08 PM Rating: Decent
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did this today with 5 ppl

73 DRG/RDM (me) solo'd a skele
75 RDM/BLM
75 DRK/THF
57 DRK/WAR (he died at the begining and didnt get raise till after the fight was over)
57 DRK/WAR
55 DRK/WAR

was a pretty easy fight with a few 70+'s
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Zone as DRK?
# May 13 2006 at 12:11 AM Rating: Decent
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Do you have to zone into Beadeaux as DRK to get the CS? Everytime I've zoned into that place, I was WHM, never got the CS for DRK AF3. Already did DRK AF2, so that meets the pre-requisite requirements.
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over kill
# May 08 2006 at 4:45 PM Rating: Default
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Haha you guys keep saying easy fight, but every one that said it has like 7 or 8 lvl 70+, i think most if not all AF fights are easy if u got 3+ lvl 70+...... just mah 2cents, but me lvl 70 ninja /rdm 75 and our buddy 50 drk smoked this, but 2 best jobs, cant loose.... PLD/NIN haha <no thanks>
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Titles granted...
# Apr 28 2006 at 12:20 PM Rating: Decent
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Does this quest not also give the title "Paragon of Dark Knight Excellence", any information on this would be most helpful. I just noticed that they don't give a title obtained on the main page for Dark Knight Artifact armor quests. Look forward to hearing from someone.

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Easy
# Apr 12 2006 at 7:43 AM Rating: Default
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DRG70+ BLM69 DRK70+ DRK60 DRK61 RDM52 PLD?? and some other 65+ which I forgot.. Easy as Coffee.. Gerwitz's scythe went down in like 1min or less, then we killed one of the skels for fun.

Edited, Wed Apr 12 07:39:23 2006
Ouch
# Mar 25 2006 at 12:38 PM Rating: Default
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So after taking two hours to get my Quadav Mage Blood a month or two ago, I finally went and did this with some LS members. The set up was as follows:

60DRK/THF <- Me
55DRK/THF
75PLD/WAR
73PLD/WAR
74BLM/something
74WHM/something
60+ WHM(unsure of level)
(Not sure if there were any others, I can't remember)

So I pull, not realizing one of the WHMs is low on MP. But no biggie, we have the one PLD kiting the two skeles around a bit. We all go nuts on the weapon and it eventually drops. So as we start fighting the Skeletons, the one PLD dies. Then the second, which means quick instant death for me soon after. Then the entire PT wipes. The 55DRK HP'd, got his WHM and R3d us all. I felt bad, but all in all me and the other DRK got our helmets, so we were happy. We would've won if we had a RDM to keep Refresh up.
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Easy drop? my ass
# Mar 10 2006 at 2:07 PM Rating: Good
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I dont get it, everyone and everything seems to say the Blood drops easy as pie, i just killed over 20 Topaz Quadav and didn't walk away with anything except a death due to 4 pops...
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Easy fight, odd party.
# Feb 19 2006 at 5:11 AM Rating: Decent
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I joined up with a guy that was shouting in Jeuno. I was a lvl 53 drk at the time, I figured do it now and get it out of the way. Anyway, we had to climb the tower twice because the person that had the blood had already done the quest and was just along to help out. The blood is Ex so we had to go get more. We managed to lose a few people over that one.

Luckily we managed to find someone that had the blood and needed quest so after some recruiting, back up the tower we went.

Our Alliance was somewhat odd so the fight was basically a brawl. We had 6 Drk ranging from 53-61, and a 75 Nin and a 64 Sam, a couple people had Whm subbed but other than that we didn't have any healers along.

The person with the blood used a silent oil, spawned and came back over to us then pulled. Great trick that one. I can't say if the skeletons would have despawned or not since when the weapon was at about 15% they decided to come over and visit. No real problems though, once the fight was over 4 of us were in the yellow, but nothing to worry about.

I don't recall the weapons behavior during the fight since it pretty had to keep track of what's happening with 8 people hammering away at it, not that it survived long. So for anyone out there that needs to do this consider taking along a party of DD's and sub Whm it works out pretty well.


Edited, Sun Feb 19 04:12:09 2006
solo as pld
# Jan 30 2006 at 3:15 PM Rating: Decent
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solod as 75 pld/nin... I went to level NPC and get the mage blood, I got one quickly and a 2nd dropped before NPC left so I said @#%^ it, guess I'll solo it now, if I lose grab a friend to duo later.

I cheaped it up and it still wasnt that bad... just drank melon juice and ate mithkabob. No one has mentioned this but after its blood weapon ended it sometimes drained mp or tp from me with normal attacks. Didnt happen much but I didnt expect him to drain the last of my mp ^^; This would probably have been even easier using staff and spirit, I was using joy-toy and tatami shield which intimidated a few times.

Basically the fight was just a slow grind with it not hurting me more than shadows and 2mp a tick recovred, once it got low it started using smite and whirl of rage very frequently...I wouldnt say spam, but it was annoying. 2hrd for safetey when it was around 10%. it cast Cure IV once or twice... thats it.. Zeid is just about my fav. character in this game ^^;; the af quests are worth it for his one liners.

As posted below sneak pull... and yes the skeletons DO despawn. It took me so long to kill the weapon I didnt even notice when they did lol. but sometime midfight. Battle took probably 8 mins or so based on juices wearing off...check my post on BRD AF2, same affect of that lightning fast PLD soloing w.
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Easy
# Jan 02 2006 at 6:31 AM Rating: Decent
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One of the easiest fights I've done in the last few days. Pt set up was 75 nin 73 nin 75 mnk 72 whm (me 65 drk) 59 drk and 60 sam. Just pulled one at a time and had no problem.
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Evangel-85 prot/holy Paladin
Evalba- 85 shadow Priest
Evangelium- 85 frost/blood Death Knight
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got it!
# Dec 29 2005 at 4:44 AM Rating: Good
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this would have been insanely easy...like everyone says...but stay the hell away from the bones, those things are bad news. the scythe was almost toast and these things come and take big nasty hunks out of the pt. it was close. might be good to bring some monks along for them.
lineup was:
drk73 garik
rdm72 calamitty
brd73 chele
sam65 noata
bst63 sasser
drk60 kitS
drk60 deoman
drk55 mallister (me)!

thanks everyone for showing up on absolutely NO NOTICE geeknirvana is definitely the place to be on carby!!!
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# Dec 29 2005 at 4:33 AM Rating: Good
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(sorry plz see above)


Edited, Thu Dec 29 04:50:37 2005
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# Dec 21 2005 at 3:27 AM Rating: Excellent
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I will say this upfront... we wiped, but I have my helm.

My experience with this was one I won't soon forget. The sneak/spawn/pull trick works very well. The group I went with was 58PLD, 57WHM, 60SMN, 57DRK (me), 66DRK and 75DRK. It should go without saying that bones aggro to low HP, so get as far away from the spawn point as possible before pulling the weapon. Also the healer should keep everyone out of the yellow. This would have been an insanely easy battle had we not caught low-HP aggro from the bones (we were still standing too close).

The important thing to note here is that only the weapon needs to be killed. We came very close to taking down both skeletons, but our 66DRK wanted to get some HP back and cast Drain on one of the giants (-.-) just as our WHM was using Benediction, thus making this battle even more difficult than it needed to be.

All 6 of us dead, everyone homepointed except myself and the PLD, and the WHM came back (reraise had worn mid-battle) and cast Raise II upon us. I clicked the ??? and was disappointed to see "Nothing happens." so went to the teleporter to walk back to Jeuno in shame and was surprised to see the cutscene. It took the WHM over 30 minutes to get back to us for the raise.

I am also very confident that a party of high-50's or 60's could take the weapon down easily without the bones aggroing.

Hope this helps someone. Good luck to all the Dark Knights. May your blades shine with darkness. ^.^
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My experiences with DRK AF3
# Nov 30 2005 at 4:23 AM Rating: Excellent
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Skele DONT despawn (at least not for me) but u get credit for quest with only killing wpn, probably if sum1 is engaged on skele they wont disappear PLZ take note of this b4 doing DRK AF3
Easier then everyone said
# Sep 06 2005 at 10:40 PM Rating: Decent
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I was told that this quest and fight was soooo hard, but we pwned this thing. We had 10 people, one was afk for the whole fight.

Our Setup was: 59DRK (me), 59DRK, 59DRK, 60DRK, 71DRK, 71WHM, 75PLD, 75NIN, 75RDM, and 67RDM.

The 71 DRK said he was going afk for a minute but some of the other people got restless and started the fight...no one died and we finished it before the 71DRK got back from afk...he was shocked that we finished it before he got back...lol

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RE: Easier then everyone said
# Dec 13 2005 at 2:28 PM Rating: Decent
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NEWS FLASH
every af3 is easy with 3 75's... 75 nin and 75 rdm can duo most, if not solo
RE: Easier then everyone said
# Nov 12 2005 at 2:15 AM Rating: Decent
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Duoed as DRK58 and SMN75. Sneaked myself when popped, then watched Garuda kick the crap outa it =)
RE: Easier then everyone said
# Nov 12 2005 at 2:15 AM Rating: Decent
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Also, don't need to kill the skeles, just the weapon. Skeles will despawn.

Edited, Sat Nov 12 02:26:00 2005
w00t
# Jul 10 2005 at 11:22 PM Rating: Decent
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XD killed this stuff not 5 mins ago, easiest sh*t ever, but that is prolly cuz we had 2 full pts of 57+ I think all but drks were 60+. Drk just sneaked up and spawnd them, had a smn who carby pulled main NM first (dead in 20s) then we beat the sh*t outta the other two hehe. anyways, this fight is easy if you get the help like I did (I joined a pt going, and got a couple LS friends to tag along too). anyways, got all my AF w00t.
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RE: w00t
# Aug 24 2005 at 8:23 PM Rating: Decent
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Just DESTROYED this NM with a 75 NIN, 73 WHM (wasn't really needed besides sneak, but nice to have just in case.) 65 DRK and 2 60 DRKs (both of us needed helm).

Went in buffed/ate/sneaked and traded the blood and ran away. NIN pulled Scythe and quite literally we all just pounded the Notorious out of the Monster. NIN was bored and pulled both skelies and we nailed them to their respective crosses and crucified them too.

Got my Helm so I am heppy. Hardest part was farming blood... -_- took 2 hours...
Need to do fight as DRK?
# Jul 09 2005 at 8:55 PM Rating: Decent
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I noticed I was unable to trigger the cutscene with my L75 monk (I was able to get the blood). Do you need to be DRK to trigger the NMs with the blood or to qualify as "doing the quest" if you just show up to the fight with a different job with the quest triggered?
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Today
# Jun 28 2005 at 5:08 PM Rating: Decent
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Ok, I did it today about 1 hour ago.

A 75RDM and a 71MNK helped me.
I spawned em and ran like the wind with Sneak on so the skeletons didn't agro, and the weapon came. We had all built up like 20% tp lol so not much of an advantage. I Arcane Circled us all and the thing barely attacked us, now and again used it's AoE. After about 2minutes of pummeling, it died but we noticed one skeleton agro'd. The MNK used Asuran Fists and it was badly damaged so we finished the skeleton and by the time it died, the other depopped.
(Too Weak)
# Jun 24 2005 at 9:09 PM Rating: Decent
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Yeah I just did this with 10 people. Easy; no trouble at all. We had a 75 RDM/NIN,71 WHM/BLM, 70 DRG/WAR, 70 RNG/NIN, 64 DRK/THF, 61 SAM/THF, 60 DRK/THF, 60 WHM/BLM, 56 DRK/THF, and a 54 DRK/THF <<(me). I had the blood so I sneaked up went to the ??? and traded it. The mobs poped I ran back to the group and then we had the WHM Dia pull Gerwitz Scythe to the group. We got the Scythe to about 1/4 health and somebody got aggroed by the Skellys. We killed the main weapon and within 3 minutes had the others dead too. Total deaths 0, total remaining 10, total mobs alive 0. Zoned got the CS and that was it. Obtained: Chaos Burgeonet
(Too Weak)
# Jun 24 2005 at 9:01 PM Rating: Decent
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THIS CAN BE SOLO'D
# Jun 20 2005 at 9:18 PM Rating: Default
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1. hire a 75THF for 50k to go to beadeaux to get blood while you sit at enterance or camp Ooze.
2. Return to jeuno and ask any DRKs who havent got helm if they need help.
3. buy oils for everyone and split cost.
4. pay a 75BST to go in, usualy 100k and they will accept.
5. head into delkfutt's 7th floor J-6 teleporter.
6. get 1 DRK to put sneak up early and when he is about to spawn it have every DRK sneak up.
7. spawn NM.
8. DONT ENGAGE SKELETONS OR NM
9. wait for skeletons to de-spawn (around 3 minutes)
10. have the BST call panzerGalahad and just let him beat the NM down to around 50% life
11. ENJOY fight the nm with little effort.

12. RECIEVE CHAOS BURGEONET!! + TITLE: PARAGON OF DARK KNIGHT EXCELLENCE!!
13. pay the BST the 100k and enjoy the moment.
14. wish everyone good luck with DRK and thank the BST
15. warp back to jeuno with scroll or cudgel.


I DID THIS ONLY MINUTES AGO. I SPENT 3 DAYS SHOUTING IN JEUNO FOR HELP BUT 0 OFFERS.
SO I DECIDED TO TAKE A CHANCE AND I HIRED A BST AND JUST ME AND HIM WENT IN TOGETHER. SLAUGHTERED THE STUPID NM.
PERSONALLY I THOUGHT THE GREWITS'S SWORD, AXE, SOUL WERE MORE OF A CHALLENGE.

GOOD LOOK TO ALL DRKs!
This can only be done with sneak spell or oils. forget em and you will die in less than a minute.

Darunia - DRK60 - Paragon of Dark Knight Excellence, as of 21/6/05.

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RE: THIS CAN BE SOLO'D
# Aug 10 2005 at 2:51 AM Rating: Default
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Thank you for the tips but... I just did this and if you wait for the skelly to despawn before you engage the weapon with your jug pet... they will all despawn. Had to go back and get another pop item :(
So it should be more like:
7. Sneak up and spawn NM
8. Have BST sick pet onto weapon
9. Sit back and wait for skelly to depop then engage the weapon. By the time the skelly depop BST pet has enough hate that you can just go crazy on the weapon. Hope this saves people some time.
owned XD
# Jun 12 2005 at 11:43 PM Rating: Decent
I was too lazy to shout for help in Jeuno, so I just picked 3 LS members to help out. Pt was 50 DRK(me), 55 SAM, 63 DRK and 58 WHM. We get TP to 100% with the mobs around, buff up with protect, shell, and aerial armor (whm was /smn). Spawn first NM, DRK vokes, a few WS's gets it to do Mighty Strikes, DRK's hp droped to yellow a few times, but WHM's great healing kept him in one piece and didnt get hate. First one dead. We buff up the same way before the second. But he didnt do anything, so in less than 20 seconds, after a nice SC, he's dead. Same buff process for third, only this time WHM stood further away to avoid Sleepga. We spawn it, and after 1 or 2 minutes we killed it. Has alot of HP, but doesnt hit too hard, nothn to worry about. Not sure the ghost is 50-ish, since I got 7 exp.

In the end, all it took was 4 people.

Hope this helps ^^

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