Scattered into Shadow - BST AF2  

seeing as how no one answered your postabout duoing, if 2 bst's have flagged the quest andduo this npc, you havebothgotta find him, thast 1 each i know it sucks i tried this today and had to come back and look forhim, 10 min respawn tho so not too bad, you can findhim on widescan so might as well track him.

soloed ghost NM as 75thf...used bloody bolts on a bat in the hallway nearby to keep up HP...it's a long-ish fight

picked chest as thf and still got collar

gl to all on this

where are the treasure chests!?!!?!?!??!?










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BST at heart
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Edited, Jul 19th 2007 2:18am by powalord

You can solo the NM but have to be prepared a bit. I went as 75SAM and was never really worried about dieing the entire fight. I meditate up let timer charge back up then pop NM. Pop it WS, meditate, WS @ 100%, wait for TP build up (was quick) WS again, hit my 2hr (just becuase I wanted to be done fast) did Light skill chain and think I WS one more time. I ended up at about 1/3rd life and was cursed. No worries killed it and moved on... now hunting damn castle... will go as SAM/THF and hope for quick find on key and chest... just thought I would let those know you can solo NM..

Edited, Apr 16th 2007 12:26pm by Yukora

Fei'yin:
1st time I did this as 75 WHM solo got him down to 50%, then realized I used up too much mp and had to warp out. 2nd time I asked 2 PLD friends lvls 75 and 73 to help me out (they were bored) and they open up a can whoop-azz on the NM Dabotz. He has a lot of HP and I think that was my mistake of not remembering AF NMs have a lot of HP.

Castle O:
73 PLD logged (had to go to work) and 75 RDM came to help me get the chest key. I switched to WHM/BST for widescan and use of charmed pets to fetch us mobs. We killed so many Yagudos, I was thinking that this key is just as bad as the coffer key 2 floors up. Bad thing was were farming in the wrong area because when the chest spawned, key took 2 hours to drop, open the chest to get the collar but I could not located Tebhi at the pond like stated. IMO the write-ups are unclear about which pond because I went to outside ponds where the NMs spawn. The pond you seek is the indoor pond that is near the brass door to the magicite for city missions 4-x. Tebhi is roaming that area and will gladly accept the collar and disappear. Also, the key dropping yagudos are over the place here which made me a bit more frustrated because we should have been killing this area versus hunting down the key droppers in other areas.

I wanted to verify again that this is absolutely soloable as 52bst/whm.

Pop the nm, set a bat at it, and head back towards the big staircase. At the stairs you have a 100% safe spot to heal/buff yourself.

As someone said, cast blink between every pet swap and make sure you are ALWAYS outside of hate range before casting or sicing. You want as little hate as possible.

The biggest challenge of the fight is not getting blood or magic aggro from the small rooms off the hallways. DO NOT CAST in the hallways and DO NOT RUN through hallways with yellow health.

Keep throwing bats and jugpets at it and after about 1.5hours the ghost will finally die.

Try to keep the bats alive so they will respawn faster. You can always run back past the magic pots to get more bats OR if you are low on health run up the stairs and throw some too weak bats at it to buy some time to heal/buff. You should be aggro-free up here so you'll be much safer if only briefly.

I should admit that on my 2nd try, when NM was at 10% I aggroed a doll from one of the small rooms in the hallways and a 75bst from my ls who just happened to be running by finished it off for me. But that last 10% shouldnt have been any different from the other 90%. It's long, hard and unforgiving (lots of room for mistakes and very little you can do if you make one),
but if you're looking for a bst challenge, this is a fun one and it's definitely challanging.

Where the hell is the treasure chest here? Been looking for hours..

i was solo the NM with 75brd/37nin. <easy prey>
but without utsusemi <hmmm> it was cast evel spells like stonegaII, freez, etc. and the blace spikes was paralysed me. that was the only intressting part @ this fight for me XD

nvm =P

Edited, Sat Jan 28 18:47:07 2006

Two LS buddies (Riki - SAM70, Tasti - RDM68) were kind enough to come with me for the ghost. I sneakpulled him, so no need to clear the room, and then they killed him for me. Holy Water was helpful - he likes to spam Curse.

Once we got done with that part of the quest, I went to Castle Oz and soloed the rest, getting a key to drop and finding a chest took about 90 minutes. Traded the collar to Tebhi, and that was that. Invis was very helpful in the castle, and I also used juices to keep MP up without having to rest.

[EDIT - This part of the quest is definitely soloable as BST51, you just have to be very careful with links. I used Funguarfamiliar, which was very effective against the keydropping yags.]

Incidentally, Riki and Tasti stuck around in Fei'Yin after I left, and ended up taking down a couple of the Shadow NMs in there. Nice drops. :)

Edited, Sat Nov 19 08:45:50 2005

We just took the NM out as a duo 65 WHM/SMN and 65 WAR/NIN. We weren't sure of the difficulty so we brought some hi-potions and hi-ethers but we didn't end up needing them. The NM couldn't be silenced or enfeebled by me but it was a fairly easy fight. I think finding that dang chest in Oztroja is more difficult than this. :(

I also think it is worth mentioning that you only have to fight the NM once for your entire party. We weren't sure and were worried that after we fought it the first time, I would end up summoning it again if I clicked the pool, but I also got the cutscene when I clicked it even though I wasn't the one that summoned the NM.

I started the quest as BST but did the rest of the quest as WHM so you don't need to be BST for any part of the quest other than flagging it.

Yay, boots!

For all you adventurous beastmasters out there, the key part in Oztroja is not soloable. The mobs for pets are too few and too weak. The yagudos themselves are easy prey but they are way too hard for soloing, especially when your pets are being brought to near death within 3 hits.

can i solo the ghost NM as 71 PLD?

about the nm in fei yin, i found him on the northwestern pool :o killed him with ease as drg 61/whm with a 70drg/whm friend. slow and steady. saved TP for leg sweep and used a few pineapple juices ^^ gah its a galka in bst af.. i want ; ;

My friend who said he would help and me went to take this guy out. First we almost died from poor hate control on a VT pot trying to clear the room ^^;;. Turns out as I was waiting for my jug pet timmer to go down the pots started respawning which ruined the whole point of clearing them out in the first place. This NM took care of my first jug with no problem and once again with my second.
My friend died soon from aggro and that left me alone to solo the rest of the fight. I finished with only one problem, where I got aggro from a golem >.> but made it out alive from loseing aggro after running around enough ^^;.

Here are some tips on how to solo this match from my experience:
Jug pets are completly useless stick with bats because 1. they last longer and 2. drain only takes about 6hp from your bats not 175hp from your jug pet -.-;;.
All the single bat monsters were T to me and would uncharm before they died from the NM so unless your far enough away for your bat to not follow you after it uncharms I would suggest sticking to underworld bats, which were dc-em.
Bring yag drinks so you can keep blink up at all times. I used all 4 of my drinks and they were well worth the money.

The fight took me a max of 20-30mins after my friend died and I tossed about 20 bats at him before he died, each lasting about 1-2min(s).

As for toughness... this guy wasn't all as hard as I thought he was going to be. At lvl50 two lvls before 52 I soloed my brd af1 NM in rang. pass that was a whole lot harder and took 20mins and 4 jug pets, but I think it was because he would kill the mobs in the area in about 4-6hits which gave me no time to heal (I had no yag drinks ^^;) and made things dangerous.

As for the chest and getting the key don't try to drag down a leech from way on the top floor it was a waste of time because after my leech died from a double team I found that the slimes did just as good a job as the leech did. The key drop was fast but it took me over an hour to find the chest because of thfs ; ;. The opo-opo ghost is on the same floor as the slimes are and is trackable with widescan, just lock onto him and you'll always know where he is.

Edited, Mon Apr 4 00:15:48 2005

BST57/WHM28
Soloed Dabotz last night. Hardest solo I've ever done.
Killed dromas first, then fought Nm for 40 minutes using CCarrie (4), and every bat I could find.
He slept me twice (heart pounds).
I brought 2 drinks but should have brought 6.
Kept blink up and regen.
I never took a swing at him.
As for castle Oztroja:
Fought Priors, conquistidors, and lutenst(sp) on 2nd floor balcony overlooking courtyard.
Recieved chest key drop after 15 kills using jug crab. Found chest in same area within 2hrs.
To get to monkey using maps from http://maps.all-manga.net/ go to the following points: A - F -I -H8.
Stupid monkey kept moving around so it was hard to trade collar to it.
Pablog
Hades server

Edited, Thu Mar 24 11:47:37 2005

just tried opening chest as DRK, did not get the item. got the hairpin instead. Yes, i did all the quest requirements.

We killed the NM ghost w/ 2 53 BST... it took a while... I suggest a bigger party of BST... dont bother bringing along other jobs besides a blm to warp 2 you when you're done lol. the map i printed out @ lonely vana diel helped. you can find it @ http://www58.tok2.com/home/lonelyff/d_images/feiyin.jpg
or just your game map will work fine if you have one. the pools are all in the basement and all on the map. one @ I8, one @ H5. one @E5. the stairs to the basement can be found @ g9. And dont try XPing on the Hellish Weapons ><

Just a note:

You do NOT have to be on your beastmaster when you do the fei yin NM. I changed to my 61 RDM instead. I actually subbed bst so that I could help out the two other bsts I went with (my charm success was 100% - 10 charms at least).

It uses ancient magic so be careful. My party consisted of 61 RDM/BST, 56 BST/WHM, 50 BST/WHM, 60 MNK/WAR, and 61 WHM/BLM. It would have been an easier fight if the mnk and whm weren't there. The WHM ended up taking nasty aggro and had ancient magic cast on him - dead. Make sure to clear the dromas first. They were not there when we started the fight, but popped in the middle (bad news), but we handled it.

Get a map of Fei'yin. You need to complete the "Early bird gets the worm" and "Chasing tails" quests (zone) before you can receive the quest. The map really helps.

I solo'd Dabotz's Ghost on my first try at level 52. It was a very long, very hard, intense fight. I didn't bring any juice, but that would have been really handy. The fight lasted at least 45 minutes and I used around 3 Fish Broths (CrabFamiliar) and literally dozens and dozens of bats.

Basic strategy was keep blink up at all costs, save every bit of MP for blink and cure III when needed. I never used release, I would grab some bats (underworld or kamotzs) and throw them at him then go find my next pet and/or rest mp w/ dark staff (don't try and charm anything with this eq'd!!!!). I used a couple T kamotz and the ghost chewed them up so fast there was no worry of them uncharming. I just kept kiting him along throwing bat after bat at him and a jug as needed until he was dead. He managed to hit me with Tornado twice, but both times blink absorbed it thankfully. He also hit me melee a couple times for around 150+ and landed a crit for 280+.

This guy will take you into the yellow FAST if you get near him so take care not to be near any Utukku's or run by any of their rooms when sending next pet at him.

Note that Tebhi is on the map with the torch door that you go through for the Rank 5 mission; in the middle of that map is a square room with ~4 chest key yagudo (Lutenists also drop keys) and a pool in the middle with two Oozes. The Oozes can be charmed, and can take the Yagudo one-on-one, but the Yagudo wander around a lot and link. I tried to solo a key twice and had to warp out.

A better strategy for soloing might be to drag a Yagudo Parasite (leech, 45-48) all the way here from the pool in the coffer area, behind the combination door. Broth pets might also do OK; the Yagudo are 42-49. A duo would probably do fine.

I ended up getting my key by convincing a rank 5 party to help me for a few minutes.