Girl in the Looking Glass  

Let me start by saying that my Charm gear was nothing really special. Loyalty Ring, Hope Ring, Flower Necklace, Entrancing Ribbon, Corsette, and Barbaroi Axe (which I also used for fighting.)

Entered Eldieme, Gazer was right at the bottom of the steps. Mischarmed on my first try, but it responded to Tame, and I successfully Charmed it on the second try. Hit Familiar to ensure it would stay with me, then hauled it down to the ???.

The NM was a joke. Namorodo's ice spikes were the only damage I took. The Gazer hit for between 110-140, and I was hitting between 30-40, no food. I didn't notice my companion's damage output.

Long story short, for you Beastmasters out there, Charm the Gazer. It will be your friend.

2 hits + a skewer and he died 60drg/30sam

Hello!

Thought I'd give the Rangers out there some hope. I only had Ranger at level 32 and no gear for 30 war and was thinking "I'll never beat it. Undead take 1/4 dmg from piercing...". Feeling suicidal I grabbed some holy bolts and ate a Goblin Mushpot (MND +10). I was amazed that I actually beat the guy, and still had 50% HP. So have at him fellow Rangers!

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The main problem in this fight isn't the NM itself, it's the Gazer that spawns close to it. The ones that spawned varied from Decent Challenge to Even Match when I checked them at level 42, so if you're around that level you won't want to get aggro from it during the fight.

The guide above should really mention the Gazer but doesn't, and from what people have been saying, and what I ended up doing, this is the best way to get this quest complete:

1) Get to Eldieme on a Chocobo (or walk from Upper Jeuno if you're thinking of saving gil)

2) Once inside, run down the stairs. You should see a Gazer near a torch stand. Get it's attention in whatever way you think best, and swiftly turn and run back up the stairs. You won't die, all the thing does is cast a spell and after that it won't be near enough to get you again.

3) As soon as it's zoned turn back and race down the stairs to the ??? sign. Click it, watch the cut-scene, and as soon as Namorodo appears kill him. (As a RDM I just used Chainspell and hit him with everything I had, he went down in under 30 seconds).

The Gazer usually pops as soon as the cut-scene has ended, but it should appear just too far away for it to aggro you during the fight. Don't try moving Namorodo anywhere, one way and you'll run into the Gazer you just zoned, and the other way leads to a room full of Gazers waiting to destroy... If you kill Namorodo quickly enough, talk to your NPC and then return to Jeuno to complete the quest :-)

Well I was just killing time in upper Jeuno and got chatting to a delightful Mithra gal who goes by the name of Luto. She kept on yapping away and i was doing that nodding thing when you don't really listen cos you're not really interested, you just pretend to be. Anyway, when it came to selecting options i just chose any (taru male, random). I chose the name Balu-Falu cos i thought i had seen him (turns out i must have recoginised him from somebody else's NPC). So i go to MH and sub RNG, and look for him in all parts of Jeuno on Wide Scan. When i couldn't find him i got angry, and then i was like, i must have just missed him, im just having one of those retarded days. Again, he's not there. So after 10 minutes of 'Why god whys', stamping my feet and enough tears to fill a bathtub, i thought the best thing to do was to check Alla.

So i calmed down a bit and checked Alla and realised i had stumbled across something quite fantastical, my very own lil buddy who would come to my aid and not be all 'AFK gotta pee'.

Then i read up on what i have to do, and one website i checked said it was easily soloed by level 40. I'm PLD35/WAR17 so thats 5 short. It came down to whether i wanted to get guild points to get my chef hat, level in exp pt (early afternoon mostly JP and they prefer NIN tank when i want to be the one defending my bitches, so this was out), join a friend in Promy-Holla or farm meat cos hell i aint paying the prices on Shiva for that meat you use for mithkabobs, i forget what it is called. Anyhoo, I thought i would just have a go at this quest cos all the other sound boring, and this one more rewarding.

I headed out to Eldieme and saw the ??? so i buffed up, with a Protect 2, Shell, boiled crab, and pamamas au lait, cos you never know what might happen. Turns out its really easy, and being undead i have the edge. little balu-falu got paralyzed cos of spikes, so he was pretty much out of it, but hes a ballsy lil fella cos he kept voking, but being a PLD i knew how to keep hate so he didnt get any (i always get a lump in my throat when i see a taru die, so i wasn't about to let that happen).

in the end we defeated him together. beware of the ice spikes, cos of paralyze, but that weirdly didn't get me. also stone 2 got me down to orange, but i had cure 3 regen and auto-refresh on my side.

good luck to all those that managed to get through my story and are going on to get their lil chap to fight beside them.

Ok, everyone is right about the Gazer. 45 RDM / NIN. First time in I decide to give the little devil a fight. Had it down to a hairline of HP when my 2nd Ichi and stoneskin wore off. Not a problem except Lightninga smoked me for 280 HP and the next hit dropped me.

Back again and listened to everyone's post. Zoned the Gazer, examined the ??? and killed the Skeleton in less than a minute with nukes. (did heal my NPC with Cure II just to get off on the right foot with her)

The Gazer pops quickly. As soon as the skeleton fight started the bug eyed beast was back. Gazer didn't argo during the fight. Lower levels will not have any problem with this fight. Just heed the postings and maybe bring a friend to deal with Gazer.

Keeping it fun ^.^__/

I went in as a 43 drg/rdm thinking I'd have a bit of trouble with the NM, seeing how polearms are the worst thing to use against bones. So I brought along a holy sword (sword skill was at like 80/100+). Sneaked myself past the gazer and popped the NM. My NPC provoked it at the beginning and had hate for all of about 2 seconds. After that I took hate with a jump, then I high jumped and my wyvern took the hate and kept it for the rest of the battle. Was way too easy, and my wyvern took all of about 50 damage through the battle. I used all of my MP cause I was messing around and decided to Cure 2 it once. Had just my regular melee exp pt gear on.

Soloed this as a level 40 Summoner with absolutely no complications. For any other summoners out there, this is what you can do:
Zone in, cast Carbuncle, use Silent Oil, run to Gazer, Assault. Run back to entrance and if Carby isn't dead, retreat. When Gazer appears, zone. The Gazer will depop. Zone back in run to ???, cast buffs, summon carbuncle and use yag drink. Click the ??? and watch cutscene. After cutscene carby will automatically attack. Use Astral Flow and then Searing Light. Afterwards use Hi-Ether to be safe and run in and melee. I wasn't able to get off my second Searing Light because it died too quickly. Hope this helps!

ive heard the skelly is lvl 25 >.> meaning me a 30whm could solo it with banish 2 and banish hehe
take a few items and ya can im sure (btw have a high lvl like in my case a higher SMN freind come with ya =P) i havnt done it yet but i plan on hgetting rank 4 once i get fire elemenet on my carby ruby lol
ill post the story later

Soloed as 37 Redmage/ 18 Blackmage
was fairly easy,
lost a total of 120 hp and my NPC was below half hp cause i didn't heal her

Does anybody remember the name of the little girl NPC in the quest?

Thankfully someone had gone through and grabbed the gazer. Popped the NM right after the highlvl killed the damned thing.

Fight was a pushover with a 42drk/war. Hit it once for about 120 damage and all its attention is on me. NPC couldn't even voke it off me. Threw up souleater+last resort+berserk just for fun when it was at half. Took me all of a minute and a half to kill it.

me and my husband were in party and did npc quest together just finished it i dont know where that person got off saying you cant team up when i just did know what ur talking about b4 u post u confuse ppl!!

well I am a level 20 MNK, I just finished 3-3, so I figured I would start this. I got a friend to help me (of course) and she soloed the skeleton and dragon easily (Lv 50). you also have to talk to the NPC before it disappears.

Soloed the skellie as a 32 RDM/Whm, wearing XP gear, and with standard buffs/no food or drinks. This guy should be no problem at all to a 33 rdm (Phalanx..) or higher. 33 Mnk probably would have had an even easier time, just bring silent oils.. In short, you could do this at 30 with a competent party of 2-4.

Solo'd this thing as a 30pld/15whm (tarutaru). Gazers aren't a problem if you train 'em to the zone line and let them de-pop. Gives you a couple of minutes to get the fight over with.

Actually had a harder time with this guy than I did with the dragon for pt. 3... the problem was that my ????in NPC kept getting two-shotted by Namorodo >.<

So: if you can keep your NPC from getting nail'd with consecutive Stone IIs (...on earthday in Earth weather... that might have been part of my problem come to think of it...) then this guy should be no problem for ya.

Is it approximately level 40, or a lot lower than 40? I assume it must be level 30, because that's the only way level 40ish WHMs can solo it.

Thanks for any input,

Also, what is the name of the NM?

Just wanted to add in my 2gil. Did this last night as 50PLD and forgot to change my sub to WAR. Instead I went in as 50PLD/11WHM. LOL! Got aggroed by a Gazer before I started. Killed it, but it put up a good fight. The NM was a joke. I got "Namorodo is intimidated by Degamorths presence" many times. Being I was logging after I finished quest I threw up 2hr, Flash, Sentinal, Sheild Bash, Holy Circle and a few Cure II's and he dropped like a fly. Was beyond easy even with a gimped sub. The NPC got hit maybe once before I took aggro. If you are WHM...you could just Flash him and Cure III him a few times and done. Easy Quest!

Edited, Fri Sep 23 11:53:42 2005

This was the easiest part of the quest, killed him in 2 hits with a 50RDM/25BLM.

Namorodo didnt even touch me haha XD

Since nobody has mentioned this, the Gazer mobs in Eldieme will aggro your NPC and kill them if there is one there when you fight the NM, they con as EP to me (53drk) but i can solo them no problem, just a pain in the ass cuz i have to wait to respawn the NM now :/

that NM killed 35 HP of mine,totally.Too weak.

Lol, on ifrit, ppl were waiting in like a 3 hour line to kill this thing. Not ONCE did i see 2 up at one time. I just walk up to the ??? and poped it cuz noone relized u can pop up to 3 at a time. Just advice although by now there are no lines i bet.

Fought 2 of them simultaneously as 46SAM/23WAR. I was helping a friend of mine get his as well as getting my own. Him being only lvl 40 war/nin, he was doing well until he realized he didnt have shihei. I voked his and finished mine off, then killed his. In the end, both skeletons dead, and I`m not even in the orange. I was hitting for 120~ per hit and Tachi:enpi did about 500damage. 2 dead in less than 1:00, not bad. :D Then we went to Sandy and fought the Dragon, owned it. Meiko Shisui brought it down to less than half hp, but the cutscene brought it back up so our NPCs could fight too xD Killed it and missed the record by 9 seconds. Vinja-Kanja is sooo cool ^^