Blast From the Past  

Completing this quest grants you the title: Fossilized Sea Farer.

Like Boomerulez, I too was running around to get the chest. I had the keys for several months and was going to get RSE to sell on AH but decided to forget about it since I am high enough to kill the key droppers and find the chest rather quickly. I found the chest where Ire spawns and recieved my gil :). Decided hey what the fossil rock say, clicked on it and Ire spawns and begins to attack me. The update automatically makes him aggro me! Never fear as 65 WHM he was toasted only thing I had like ~225 from teleporting people around before I stopped at Mea before I clicked on Fossil Rock spot. You can spawn Ire without having this quest activated and receive the Burnite Shell, because I did, not I have to go talk to Koru and trade him the shell for another club to my collection of semi-useful items. Also I decide to attack a wight (to use of TP) and the Rusty Key drops :). Another quest I have to activate in Windy :(.

I think I am running out of quests in the cities. I have fame level 9 in all but Norg(grrr) and done most of the quests; but oh well the expansions add more.

Sidenote: I have been carrying my 4-leaf Mandagora Leaf and seems to help increase standard drops but that is for another forum to discuss.

Edited, Thu Oct 20 11:06:05 2005

Just to let other BST know, this mob can be defeated as a BST44/WHM22 (I'm sure of this, cause I did it yesterday... :-).

I went taking the route as described above. Nothing ever aggroed me except some of the wights in the main room just before the tunnel to the Icharus Ire. They conned EP and were easily killed (fought about three to four of them on my way in and one on my way out). I suppose I got lucky, cause as a bonus one of the Wights dropped my Rusty Key.

In the cave where the fossil rock is situated, there were two Scorpions (TW) and a Jelly (EP). Once in the cave I called a jug pet (CrabFamiliar) and waited for the Call Beast timer to reset. Meanwhile I used an applie pie and rested to full HP and MP. Then I selected the fossil rock and positioned myself to the left of the rock (up on the skeleton bones) as far back in the cave as possible and away from the Jelly and the Scorpions. Only then did I examine the rock.

The Icharus Ire spawned in front of the rock (and in front of me) but was not claimed, nor did it attack me. So I send in my crab and left the fighting to it. I didn't use SIC to prevent the crab from using Bubble Shower and thus dragging the Scorps and Jelly into the fight as I had other plans with them.

Once the crab was nearly dead, I positioned myself in the cave behind one of the Scorpions (keeping the Scorp in between me and the Ire). The moment the crab died, I charmed the Scorpion and sent it after the Ire, then positioned myself behind the second Scorp for a repeat. The Scorps die pretty quick, but absorb the nasty special attacks of the Ire. In switching pets, I managed not to get hit the first time and only once the second time (for about 90 HP). At the time the second Scorpion died, the Icharus had a little less then 50% HP left.

My plan was to charm the Jelly as well and send it after the Ire, but I mischarmed, had to use tame and decided to leave it at that and not risk a second mischarm. Instead I pulled a second crab out of the jar and put that on the Ire. Unfortunately by that time I had been on the receiving end of two, three blows from the Icharus Ire (amongst which a Fluid Toss) and my HP went into the yellow. With the close presence of the Wights in the room next to the cave (I still very well remember the incredible range Wights aggro to low HP from my time in Qufim Island), I preferred to heal first (Divine Seal and Cure III followed by a Regen) and melee with my pet next. I took another blow, maybe two before my pet regained hate. This time I did SIC my pet (and of course it used Bubble Curtain, but fortunately missed the remaining Jelly).

By the time my second pet died, the Icharus was down to about 5% health and my TP was up to 175%. Avalanche Axe finished him off, leaving me with over 50% of my HP and about 75% of my MP.

Even with the mischarm on the Jelly, it was quite an easy fight. If you manage to charm the Jelly, the fight will be even easier and you probably won't need the second jug pet.

Just for the record: I'm a Male Hume BST and for the fight I used my AF1 Axe, Noble's Ribbon, two Hope Rings, Corsette+1 and Beast Whistle (for +CHR) and regular equipment for armor (nothing uber special).

The club you gain from this quest (after turning in the Burnite Shell the Icharus Ire drops) seems to be an interesting club as well for BST wanting to skill up their Club Skills for their WHM sub. I'll try to use it next time I'm farming in Giddeus, Pashow Marshlands or Rolanberry Fields.

Triggering this quest locks you out of at least 2 quests. Something fishy (unless you have already triggered it) and the new quest for attowa chasm map (unfortunately, I got this stupid quest before the update even came out...)... Needless to say, I am a slow lvler... and well, I am now stuck at lvl 40 and I am unable to get the attowa map... Will just get some ls ppls to run into shakrami when I get a chance I suppose just to get this stupid thing over with.

i got he quest like at lvl 10... (and i still have it ; ;)

Lol yesterday i was exploring shakrami, and i noticed the rock so i clicked on it. Then ichrorous Ire spawns m like WTF A NM! I killed it (not too easily) and got 12 xp and the stone.

And i didn't have the quest when i spawned it so...

I'm a level 50paladin/15 thief, smoked him without curing myself once.

I did NOT have a Torn Epistle in my inventory, and I had fame level 4.

I did the Star Struck quest (which I did need the Torn Epistle for), then the next time I talked to him, he says something about you're coming here was a result of some chain of events in the past.

I'm only lvl 30, so I won't be doing the quest anytime soon though.

I just finished the quest, and the reward is a Great Club. Stats on Great Club is : dmg 19, delay 267, lvl 39, war/pld/drk/bst/sam

killed it with me(lvl45DRK),lvl53BLM and lvl43WHM
though it hit me only 20-25damage per hit and I dealt about 80damage per hit on it.
I think we could have handled it without the blm too^^.

This is not a LVL restriction quest

I just received it with my LVL 6 war/rng

I do have Fame at level 6 (60 quests) but you can probably get it with a bit less

you must have held the torn epistle to get the burnite shell quest...after you turn in a torn epistle to the lost mail quest guy...talk to Koru-Moru again and he says..."you smell like my sweetie pen pal" or something to that effect. Its because of holding the perfumed torn epistle that he gives you the quest. got to smell like his girl friend to get the quest!!!

http://ffxi.allakhazam.com/db/bestiary.html?fmob=120

This is the monster you must fight for the burnite shell. The bestiary listing is accurate. you could kill this monster with a good pair of 35's or a group of 30's. if you want to solo this you should be 55+. It's a bit on the high side but not as bad as some are making it out to be. happy hunting!

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