i have seaccesd far and long i wiil find soon and i go to say the fact that you have tookeep looking is what make this game fun. People complain of 2 things first they say that this game is hard and second it is boring. In my opinion the hard part makes it fun
If you get to level 25 in the dunes before getting your sub-job (I've seen it) I'd say good for you, just skip Qufim altogether and head straight to Kazham. Prolly a little off-topic, but Qufim really is a horrid place >_< And as far as Gusgen goes, it seems to be just a matter of luck....a friend of mine spent weeks hunting his skull there with no results, I even helped him at one point (I was a lvl 20 THF) and still nothing after hours of killing Ghouls. On the day that he finally got his skull, he was in a party that got four, two of which were from a high-level WHM who was going around murdering Ghouls by himself (but in their party, of course). Hell, maybe the drop rate increases with the full-moon or something (prolly not) but it always seems that with these rare drops you'll get nothing at all for the longest time, and then suddenly you'll get 'em one right after another.
I wouldn't put it down to patience. It's the fact that you have to spend a while starting a party, who will probably all need the skull. Meaning it can easily take six times as long, and there is no garuntee you'll get one. Admittedly this is much easier than limit cap 1. With this quest you can always level past level 18, to a stage when you can easily solo all the monsters. I have seen level 30s without subjobs in Diabolos. But with limit cap 1 you are capped at 50 before you finish the quest meaning you need a full party to get the items.
I wouldn't mind these quests at all if you could solo them without too much trouble.
He does have a point. Although I wouldn't have been so crude.... O_o
This item is pretty easy to get in the grand scheme of things. Quite honestly, if you lack the patience to get this item now, seriously it's just going to get worse later on.
I thought I'd have a hard time finding this item in the dunes. So I immediately headed towards Gusgen Mines and started shouting there to find someone that will help me out. Immediately a Higl lvl WHM invited me (she was above 65). I waited for her near entrance for 5 minutes and she got me the Magicked Skull! I was so happy I didn't know how to thank her. I also thank you guys for helping me out finding this easily instead of trying to get it at the Dunes.
I thought I'd have a hard time finding this item in the dunes. So I immediately headed towards Gusgen Mines and started shouting there to find someone that will help me out. Immediately a Higl lvl WHM invited me (she was above 65). I waited for her near entrance for 5 minutes and she got me the Magicked Skull! I was so happy I didn't know how to thank her. I also thank you guys for helping me out finding this easily instead of trying to get it at the Dunes.
I was in a party with two of us looking for worm/skull and we finally found a worm when this jerk lotted for it (who already had subjob) and took it. This pissed off a guy who had a 36 dragoon...so we waited around for him to come back...
He went around rampaging killing every fly in sight...then took us to gusgen and spent half an hour smashing till he got us both skulls. (Great guys...his name is Anshin on Gilgamesh).
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Posted:Jan 08 2004 at 2:42 AM, Rating: Sub-Default, (Expand Post) Can this be traded p to p or sent via the moghouse? someone please give me a credible answer. thanks! :)
For the last freaking time, NO. You can't buy this item, you can't get it from anyone. YOU CAN'T EAT IT, DRINK IT, FISH IT UP, KILL YOURSELF AND TAKE YOUR OWN SKULL, Etc.
just thought i'd add to the Magicked Skull topic by saying, there is alot of helpful players out there i've been reading how people have had problems finding the skull or waiting a long time for a drop. as soon as i reached level 18 i headed over to gusgen i messaged a high level player named Turkie he was a lvl 75 DRG/WHM. The guy told me he was busy but would kill as many ghouls as possible 15 mins later after having a short chat with him he invited me to the party and i cashed it, thanks to Turkie of the Titan server for that.
For what you get out of this, this is absolutely not a hard item to get. If you can't deal with camping an item like this, then you shouldn't be playing this game quite frankly.
There was never a subjob PROMISED to anyone, it's just another thing to do in the game. You are not crippled beyond repair if you have to wait a little amount of time before you get the skull (by little, it could even be a week or so, BIG DEAL).
Before you get upset about this, go and take a look at some other MMORPGS then come back and see how much better this STILL is.
I was there lastnight with a 18 wr and 6 others (mks and wrs) and a 75 white mage and for 2 hours recieved 1 skull, we ended up giving iit to a player who had been there 4 hours and still did not recieve one. This i a hard item to get
Er, w/the Treasure Hunter static ability, the THF has a chance to increase the number of items a mob drops; thereby increasing the chance to get one of the rare drops off any given kill.
I was in a party tonight (levels 15-17) in the dunes, had just hit level 15 with my thief, and we were hitting every ghoul we could find (total of about 8 I think) and we took them all, and managed to pull 3 skulls out. Thief of 15 or higher is all you need. We also managed plenty of crab aprons and damselfly worms. Took place in a span of about 3 hours, in which time I also hit level 16, and nearly 17. ;p
On a side note, my level 25 friend beat a ghoul and picked one up too, though he didn't need it. Too bad too, because I'm still missing mine.
I went to the tower at f4 in West Saruta Baruta as was mentioned below (easy skulls) and i found 5 ghouls sitting there waiting for me
within 10min i had my skull ... do not waste time anywhere else people, go straight there with a good PT (if level 18-22) otherwise politely ask one of the high level people there if they can help (lots of level 65-70 people camping there when i went)
this item is insanely hard to get. last night i got a couple level 30+ chars (a paladin and a whm) to help me in gusgen. we tried for more than 3 hours.. and killed probably 50 ghouls. none dropped. at all. tonight i just tried in dunes and we had trouble just FINDING a ghoul.. again this is with 6 people spread across the entire area scouting. we managed to find 2.. had our lvl 30 whm cureIII the thing to death.. but of course no drops.
i think Square-enix should change either the drop rate on these magicked skulls, or the monster that actually drops them. I mean im only level 19 but ive been hunting these ghouls for days, its insane. I know a level 25 warrior who still needs his skull. its pathetic that some people will have a hard time finding parties that want them because they dont have a sub-job for when they start levelling in qufim and such. Who would choose a Level 25 WAR when a Level 25/12 WAR/MNK is available ? Its dumb :/
I'm not sure if you noticed but this isn't just some little quest to get up your fame or for some gil. This is for one of the most important features in the game so no they shouldn't make it easier, infact if anything they should make it harder. I easily got two of the items just leveling in Dunes at lvl 15 not meaning to go for these items.
i find it hard to believe that anyone would be able to get past 20 without their subjob... they are not up to par... i dont even pt with people that dont have their sub maxed
i think Square-enix should change either the drop rate on these magicked skulls, or the monster that actually drops them. I mean im only level 19 but ive been hunting these ghouls for days, its insane. I know a level 25 warrior who still needs his skull. its pathetic that some people will have a hard time finding parties that want them because they dont have a sub-job for when they start levelling in qufim and such. Who would choose a Level 25 WAR when a Level 25/12 WAR/MNK is available ? Its dumb :/
!!!! MAGICKED SKULLS ARE EASY TO GET- GOTO WEST SARUBARTA, F4, there is a tower. Go down it. Find the cracked wall and go past all the gobs....there's about 6-8 there at a time. NJoy.
I just went there after trying for days in the dune's and there are Ghouls galore there ... this is definately the place to get it!!!
the only thing in that area are gobs (butchers and tinkerers), bats and ghouls .... there were 5 at a time
I got mine within 10 min of getting there (around g7 is where they're hiding behind the hidden wall to the left) ... i did have the help of a very nice high level player (a lot of them camp'd there BTW)
I was in the tower you referred to in W. Sarubaruta and with a party of four, we got, I kid you not, THREE skulls in less than 20 minutes. Thank you Alhania, if it weren't for you, I would have been camping for hours on end for a ghoul that might drop a skull in the Dunes.
man, I hate you people :p Sat there in the tower with a high-level group including two treasure-hunter thieves for three hours before I got a thing. I felt bad for bringing them down there to help me and promising it would only take a few minutes...
the majicked skull is hard to get, those ghouls rock you. im lvl 20 war and with a full party they are impossible to handle. you need to use higher lvls for sure to help you out to get the item. the dunes is where ive been trying to get it
I have to disagree with this. A full group of 19-21 that I took part in was able to clear the hallway with the ghouls when you go straight from the entrance, past the first two rooms with skeltal warriors. If we allowed full regen we could kill the 2 ghouls that spawn on the wooden platform at the end of the hallway.
Maybe it was an above average group, I couldn't say for sure, but I think any full group 19-21 should be able to handle the hallway reasonably well if everyone plays smart.
If you need this item, or any other for that matter, make sure you have a level 10 Thief or higher. The drop percentage increases dramatically, to the point where every ghoul dropped the skull. I'm sure it isn't 100%, but having the 'Treasure Finder' latent ability is the key to easily farming mission items like the skull.
I managed to get a bilingual japanese player (60 WHM) to help me get my skull in the Gusgen mines, since it was early morning and few were on. I asked him how many spawned on the level, and he said there were 8. I watched him run through the entire lower level (via map markers) and drag 5 or 6 of them to the area where he had me wait. I was under the impression that only one spawned in there, with the number of people that always camped in the one large room in the back. Maybe its because that's the safest area to camp them? Or maybe they spawn more quickly there? For those curious, I think the skull dropped after around 10 or so. They also dropped a demi scroll.
mines in highlands (gusgen i believe) aren't hard enough that you need a level 30 i don't think, but i and 5 others fought ghouls and bandersnatches in there for 3 hours and didn't find any skulls.
I must agree that the mines have terrible drop rates. I partied with a 41 WHM and found nothing for over an hour. After giving up and heading home he just happened to message me. I guess he had partied with another friend and they found one. Luckily I was able to make it back to the mines in time and cast my lot, they both passed and viola! After 2 days of bad luck and everyone in my party but me getting one in Valkyrum, it was the break I needed. That being said maybe it's a strategy people may wish to try join a high lvl party and hang out outside the entrance and wait until they just happen to find one. Otherwise you may be waiting a very long time with no xp...