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ASA4 - Sugar-coated Directive  

Submitted by:Alobont
Realm:A Shantotto Ascension
Start Area: Qufim Island
Type:Mission
Prerequisites:ASA3 - That Which Curdles Blood
Related Mobs:Garuda Prime
Ifrit Prime
Leviathan Prime
Ramuh Prime
Shiva Prime
Titan Prime
Mission:4 - 1
Min Level:1
Max Level:75
Reward:
Rating
*****
Title Obtained:
This Quest requires A Shantotto Ascention
This Mission is Not Skippable
Previous Mission: ASA3 - That Which Curdles Blood
Next Mission: ASA5 - Enemy of the Empire (I)
Last Updated: Tue Mar 2 21:05:35 2010

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Mission Orders

Your inaugural mission as special operative of the Shantotto Empire requires you to attach enchanted seals to the protocrystals scattered across Vana'diel. Your new empress has stressed that she takes failure poorly.

Walkthrough

Shannotto has given you the task of fighting the 6 avatars but only requires 3. Her reward is gil. Killing 3 nets you 3k, Killing all 6 nets you 50k. You do not need to have the amount of fame to fight the Prime versions in order to trigger this mission. However, if you have the ability to use the Mini-forks, getting around to all the fights become a lot easier.

Once at the crystal you will click it, and get a very short cutscene. After that, click again and select "Sugar-coated Directive" to enter into the fight. The avatars are insanely weak. They spam their 2 hour which is also weak, but does get a tad stronger as the fight goes on.

Most jobs with /NIN could easily solo this. THF/NIN and COR/NIN had zero problem and killed in under 2 min, SMN in 2:13~ish. If you want overkill Shell 5 and bar elements reduce their 2 hour damage to nothing.

NOTE: The Avatars kind of get stuck on 1%. Don't know if its a glitch or what but they will die just keep hacking away, and they will soon die.

Once three or more have been killed, return to the ice pond in Qufim for your reward (3k-50k) and another cutscene and automatically start the next mission.


To read the transcripts for this quest, see the Suger-coated Directive Spoilers page.


Mission Series

This mission is part of the A Shantotto Ascension mission series.

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use earth crystal
# Nov 27 2009 at 4:29 PM Rating: Decent
earth crystal then 2 parchments and 2 enchanted inks and padded box with the silencing potion or whichever ur kit was.
crafting skill
# Nov 13 2009 at 8:10 AM Rating: Decent
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Edited, Nov 13th 2009 2:19pm by rigothic
crafting skill
# Nov 16 2009 at 7:49 AM Rating: Decent
What did you guys do for your enfeeblement kits? How did you get those crafted?
Not a bug
# Nov 11 2009 at 6:00 AM Rating: Decent
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190 posts
I don't think the 1% hp thing is a bug, I noticed it on all the fights myself. It seems to be more that they have to use 2hr 5 times before the battle will end, and my guess is they use it at every 20% health knocked off.

What gave me this idea is the wait before they'd use first and second 2hr, but then I use a WS for a nice chunk of their health and they 2hr 2 or 3 times in a row, with the battle ending right after the 5th 2hr each time.
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If it's tourist season, why can't we shoot them?
Touch crystal
# Nov 11 2009 at 12:51 AM Rating: Good
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Don't forget to check the crystal upon exiting!!
Touch crystal
# Nov 11 2009 at 5:54 AM Rating: Decent
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I wish that had been on the walkthrough T.T

It makes sense, but it never occurred to me to do it, and I just did all 6 >.<
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Garuda Server;
Mithra; 75war,thf,bst,rdm(retired), 70drg, 66rng,nin, 62mnk, 51pld, 42drk, 40cor, 37smn,sam,blm,whm,dnc,brd,sch,blu,pup
Taru; 32dnc, 30war, 26nin, 19mnk, 16thf, 16drk, 10whm, 10rng, 8bst, 8blm

If it's tourist season, why can't we shoot them?
Touch crystal
# Jul 14 2011 at 10:02 PM Rating: Decent
i did the same damn thing! ; ;
Touch crystal
# Nov 11 2009 at 1:42 PM Rating: Decent
.... I wish too. OP should be shot.
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