The Crimson Trial - RDM AF1  

When I beat Brukdok I thought i was past the hard part, but man was i wrong. It took me 4 hours just to find the stupid Storage Hole. It turns out the place where I found it was just on the other side of the fence where my party had beaten Brukdok earlier. man, that was a fruitless day, but at least i got my degen and didn't die once ^^ BTW, I was wondering if Rangers could spot Storage Holes with their Wide Scan because if they could...

Edited, Sun Mar 27 18:56:53 2005

Killed this today as a 65 White Mage , was helping my son who is 41 RDM , he was pretty easy to beat , kept using Thundaga and some other spells that would knock me down to 500 HP , my son kept refreshing the both of us and we had plenty of MP to keep curing ourselves whenever he casted these spells .

Ok, just got done fighting this NM twice (first time the rdm accidentally passed on the key) and it was a rather long fight.

Fought it as a 57blm/whm with a 49rdm/blm. Don't bother nuking, you'll go through your mp to quickly. I just used my scythe the whole battle and slowly but surely knocked him down. I think I casted two blm spells the whole fight. The RDM kept the debuffs up the whole time, this was pretty essential. Blind is such the great spell.

Battle started out like this: Blink/Stoneskin/Refresh then start laying into him melee style with my scythe. RDM debuffed. When Stoneskin wore off, I'd recast. RDM melee'd and we gradually tapped it down. (This thing has a lot of hp.)

Drain and Aspir were working wonders for me. I was draining for 160+ hp and aspiring for close to 100 each time.

We just kept tapping it down until it finally died. Most of the spells he was casting weren't doing to much damage. Waterga II maybe did 100 damage to me and the rdm.



Another thing to note is: The ??? you examine, the boss wasn't spawning the second that i pressed it. It was probably a good 30-45 seconds before it actually spawned. I went looking around for it and when I came back it was there.

finally completed the quest after a few hours of searching.
i had help killing the NM from 2 LS members, so that went easy, then for the search.... took about 3-4 hrs, but when i found the hole it was close to this plant/flower look alike thing, that might be a clue to the spawn points so look for em, idk if thats really it but it could be (btw i found it on L-7)

F-6 was another storage hole spawn point

Hope that helps.

i did this last night with no problem. I asked a lvl 61 drk who was looking for pt in davoi if she'd help me (thanks Twins!!!) and she ran over to the nm, slapped him around in under a minute, and i got the key. Then i just kept my sneak/invis on, made 1 lap of the major wide open areas on the map and found the hole, yay!

So if you can find a friendly high lvl person that doesn't mind whippin **** on purpleflesh, then you should be good to go.

Thanks for the info on this, back to lvling for me!!

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Tacticalchunder
Elvann/Sandy
43RDM/21BLM
Cerberus

Just did this today with the help of my LS. Got a few screen caps too. But the only storage hole i found happened to have the food. ht hole was located at the L-7/k-7 boundary line underneath a tree. I'm luck that it was surround by nothing more then cursemakers, fighter and serjeants which i've dealt with since i was lvl 25.

When you get the key don't forget to try this storage hole spawn point!

I just killed this guy with a friend of mine, hes a lvl 51 monk. The monk had to two-hour but we made it through ok. It was funny how we found him though....

I wasnt sure where he was. I was sittin' where I thought he was supposed to be but didnt see him. We were both recovering from a fight we had just finished, and my high lvl Blm friend was on his way to meet us....

Blm: So where is this NM?
Me: I'm not sure, but I think its supposed to be right here
Purpleflash Brukdok begins casting poison
Mnk: OH ****

lol, I was scared but we managed to kill him after a few minutes without plenty of HP to spare, before the Blm even found us ^_^

now i just gotta find a storage hole......

After about 10 minutes of shouting in jeuno i got a level 65 drk, after getting to davoi, purpleflash was just sitting there waiting for us, i cast refresh kept the drk cured while not getting any hate from purpleflash or the other orcs in the area, now i have to go find a storage hole, shouldn't be hard, i expected to die so i have a nice buffer so i won't delevel when i drop invis to get the meat!

That fight, I must say, was a struggle being lvl 43 RDM. I had a Lv 55 PLD and a Lv 55 RDM with me and we all almost died. I kept refresh on the PLD while the RDM tanked as a RDM/NIN. I kept Phalanx and Stoneskin on myself at all times since he would turn around and try to hit me sometimes. After the fight that lasted about 5-10 minutes they had to log. So I was stranded in Davoi. I knew my way back though so that wasnt a problem.

Next, I was like... hmm Imma need help getting the Storage Hole without aggro.. lucky me.. it spawns right infront of me lol. So I uninvis and trade the key. I was like Yes! I got it!... then I get aggro'd. So I cast sleep quickly and then I get linked.. I slept both mobs and Instant warp'd out of Davoi as fast as I could lol.

To bad my hp was set in Jeuno lol. So Im on airship headin back now to get my sword.

I helped my friend do this quest. As a level 56 PLD/WAR, I had no trouble taking this guy down. My RDM friend backed me up with heals and refresh, but the only thing threatening about this mob is he nukes like crazy, and he has alot of HP, prolly more then the Robber Crabs my parties have been fighting for xp. Dispite the high HP count, he's pretty weak attack and defense wise, Fast blade did damage around 250 and being a PLD, I hardly noticed his physical attacks. The big danger from him are his spells, one AOE spell was enough to put my RDM friend into yellow, so lower levels will prolly have some problems. He's defininently not in his 50's though, else I'd prolly barely scratch him, hehe. More like 45 with the HP of a mob in the high 50's.

I just submitted a correction. I have helped many with this quest and the guide above is wrong.

The NM for this Quest is actually in the connecting area right at where E-9 and F-9 meet (sorta widens out by a tree. the area heading to that ramp going over the fence). He is not spawned by a ???, but will automaticaly spawn on his own. Spawn rate is about 10 minutes. Also, he is silencable, but I'm 59 RDM with Elem seal and it rarely sticks but hey, try it anyway ^^ Happy hunting all you red mages ^^ If youre on carby send me a tell. I love tanking this thing :)