In Defiant Challenge (Limit Break 1)
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SummaryApparently, your innate limits can be breached by acquiring the necessary items. WalkthroughTalk to Maat in Ru'Lude Gardens and he will ask you to collect three items:
As these drops tend to be rare, it is recommended you start collecting these as early as possible. As a reward for completing the quest, your level cap will increase from 50 to 55. Quest SeriesThis quest is part of the Limit Break quest series. The complete series includes:
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Anonymous
Will this quest have to be done for each job, or will it cover them all?
Anonymous
It's Ancient Papyrus, not ancient parchment.
Anonymous
It's Ancient Papyrus, not ancient parchment.
Anonymous
50 level thief here and I've finished this level unlock quest and everything was fairly easy except for the lich part. When I say 'easy', i'm refering to drop rates. For every item we had to get, several people died. Face it, you're most likely gonna die so get some XP buffer so you won't delevel back to 49. Its not because the mobs are tough, but the agro from others things will get you most likely.
Drop rates from most common to rare are as follows (based on my experience again I have Treasure HunterII so this increases drop rates):
1) Bomb coal. Per Kill, we got anywhere from 2 to 4 bomb coal drops in our 10 PT/allied group of all 50levels. Lots of agro to the place so you need sneak and deo (for the bats). Bombs can hit up to 1k dmg so its risky but you'll get the bomb coal easily. Its an simple kill for a single party of 50's but if it explodes most likely someone will die.
2) Exoray Mold: Took my party (lv 50-61)about 12- 15 kills for it to drop. Got mine in about an hour. Any 50 lvl knows the difficulty (or lack there of) of exorays since you've most likely have lived in Crawler's Nest from 34/35 level. Tough mob by very doable.
3) Lich: This is by far the most rare drop. In my 2nd night of trying, I got mine in about 2hours and we were killing other things. lv60 whm needed a coffer key so we mixed Liches with other mobs. This party was mainly of lvl 60's, one 55 and me a lv50), so we had an easy time killing them.
Lich cons at Very Tough to lv50 person, but like all undead, they check higher than they truly are. THe HP drain and AE attacks, plus high defense make it a tough mob to kill. Paladins are your best friend here.
I also just came back from a 14 person alliance, helping them out with my THII. Not a single Papyrus drop in the 3 hours we hunted liches. We liked around 20 liches atleast maybe more. Expect to wait a long while for this one. Lv70 JP thief said he waited 5 hours for this to drop. Ironically the first time I went to hunt liches in a 10 person PT (the same PT that got the bomb coal), we got 2 papyrus drops in about 2 - 3hours. Its all just a matter of luck. Yes having a Thief helps but don't expect miracles.
Drop rates from most common to rare are as follows (based on my experience again I have Treasure HunterII so this increases drop rates):
1) Bomb coal. Per Kill, we got anywhere from 2 to 4 bomb coal drops in our 10 PT/allied group of all 50levels. Lots of agro to the place so you need sneak and deo (for the bats). Bombs can hit up to 1k dmg so its risky but you'll get the bomb coal easily. Its an simple kill for a single party of 50's but if it explodes most likely someone will die.
2) Exoray Mold: Took my party (lv 50-61)about 12- 15 kills for it to drop. Got mine in about an hour. Any 50 lvl knows the difficulty (or lack there of) of exorays since you've most likely have lived in Crawler's Nest from 34/35 level. Tough mob by very doable.
3) Lich: This is by far the most rare drop. In my 2nd night of trying, I got mine in about 2hours and we were killing other things. lv60 whm needed a coffer key so we mixed Liches with other mobs. This party was mainly of lvl 60's, one 55 and me a lv50), so we had an easy time killing them.
Lich cons at Very Tough to lv50 person, but like all undead, they check higher than they truly are. THe HP drain and AE attacks, plus high defense make it a tough mob to kill. Paladins are your best friend here.
I also just came back from a 14 person alliance, helping them out with my THII. Not a single Papyrus drop in the 3 hours we hunted liches. We liked around 20 liches atleast maybe more. Expect to wait a long while for this one. Lv70 JP thief said he waited 5 hours for this to drop. Ironically the first time I went to hunt liches in a 10 person PT (the same PT that got the bomb coal), we got 2 papyrus drops in about 2 - 3hours. Its all just a matter of luck. Yes having a Thief helps but don't expect miracles.
Anonymous
Well lets say this you can't solo any of these mobs (at lvl 60 you can), even though the lich item for me was pretty easy for me i've know people killing 50 lichs b4 even getting one papyrus. You need atleast 4 people to do garlaige citadel's bomb coal to...to open the door...which i still need help on so if anyone on sylph server who wants to help Daimien PLZ send me tell!!!
Any suggested level on the mobs? Any chance of hunting the mobs a little early or do we pretty much have to already be at 50? I've heard getting the drop off the Lich is pretty rare. It's the skull all over again ><
Getting the items can EASILY be done by a group of 47-48, assuming that you have a well balanced group. I'll go over strategies for each mob.
Explosure - Make sure you have at least one Dark Knight and one Blm in your party here. Each needs to have the spell Stun. As soon as you see the Explosure ready it's self destruct attack, use that spell and it till disrupt the attack. We killed 6-7 of them without one ever self destructing.
Exoray - I was lucky enough to get one of these through leveling. As far as a strategy. Keep the mages away, as a 45-50 Taru mage can EASILY be taken out by the directional attack that they use. Make sure your tank faces the enemy AWAY from the Exoray. Make sure your Blm doesn't overnuke, as Blizz II and Thunder II do major damage and pull a lot of hate. Same goes for Whm and cure spells. Make sure you can always have someone pull the mob off the mages, as there is an AE silence attack too. I've almost lost people to this quite a few times.
Liches - Definitely not a mob I EVER want to see from again. You can expect a drop every hour or so if you have a very good group. Make sure you have a pally to take some lumps and keep the mages away from the Liches. The AE attacks can do anywhere from 100-250 dmg, forcing your Whm to throw a Curaga at the group. I'd say for the best possible group. You'll want a Blm, Whm, Rdm, Thf, Pal and a damage dealer of your choice. Having a Sam is very nice for TP build up and Skill Chains. You can have the Sam use a WS to pull hate temporarily then sneak / trick onto the Pal while the Blm MB's off of it. I forgot the SC we were using but it was Enpi to a Dagger attack where the Blm could magic burst Blizz or Waterga II off of it. They go down very quickly with that. As far as pulling woes, just have your Blm sub Smn and Carbuncle pull. Sneak the Blm and have him run around, sick Carbuncle on a Lich and run like hell back to the group. Occasionally you'll have a Lich start casting ancient magic. Freeze and Tornado are common, but with the 15+ sec casting time you have plenty of time to throw a Stun spell at them and interrupt their casting. Nicest part is if you get it early on you have about 10 seconds to pound on them without them attacking you.
All in all it was a pain in the ***, I just need 4k more exp until I can finally turn in my items.
Explosure - Make sure you have at least one Dark Knight and one Blm in your party here. Each needs to have the spell Stun. As soon as you see the Explosure ready it's self destruct attack, use that spell and it till disrupt the attack. We killed 6-7 of them without one ever self destructing.
Exoray - I was lucky enough to get one of these through leveling. As far as a strategy. Keep the mages away, as a 45-50 Taru mage can EASILY be taken out by the directional attack that they use. Make sure your tank faces the enemy AWAY from the Exoray. Make sure your Blm doesn't overnuke, as Blizz II and Thunder II do major damage and pull a lot of hate. Same goes for Whm and cure spells. Make sure you can always have someone pull the mob off the mages, as there is an AE silence attack too. I've almost lost people to this quite a few times.
Liches - Definitely not a mob I EVER want to see from again. You can expect a drop every hour or so if you have a very good group. Make sure you have a pally to take some lumps and keep the mages away from the Liches. The AE attacks can do anywhere from 100-250 dmg, forcing your Whm to throw a Curaga at the group. I'd say for the best possible group. You'll want a Blm, Whm, Rdm, Thf, Pal and a damage dealer of your choice. Having a Sam is very nice for TP build up and Skill Chains. You can have the Sam use a WS to pull hate temporarily then sneak / trick onto the Pal while the Blm MB's off of it. I forgot the SC we were using but it was Enpi to a Dagger attack where the Blm could magic burst Blizz or Waterga II off of it. They go down very quickly with that. As far as pulling woes, just have your Blm sub Smn and Carbuncle pull. Sneak the Blm and have him run around, sick Carbuncle on a Lich and run like hell back to the group. Occasionally you'll have a Lich start casting ancient magic. Freeze and Tornado are common, but with the 15+ sec casting time you have plenty of time to throw a Stun spell at them and interrupt their casting. Nicest part is if you get it early on you have about 10 seconds to pound on them without them attacking you.
All in all it was a pain in the ***, I just need 4k more exp until I can finally turn in my items.
#REDACTED,
Posted: Dec 30 2003 at 10:16 PM, Rating: Sub-Default, (Expand Post) nevermind.. this can be deleted
#Anonymous,
Posted: Dec 30 2003 at 10:03 PM, Rating: Sub-Default, (Expand Post) Isn't this quest called "Challenge to the Limits"?
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