Atop the Highest Mountains (Limit Break 2)  

I loved this. We had 18 54-55 and just destroyed anything that moved. The mobs are easy with a full alliance, probably can be done with a very good party of 55's. I am looking forward to helping some friends with these just to do it again.

Did this the other day, was much easiar than the first Genkei.

Originally we had 13 people, all L55 (except for me, I was 54) but one of the people didn't have the gate crystal, so we had to go without him. We formed 2 groups, we had only 2 mages (a WHM and myself, BLM) so we stuck our PLD, NIN, WAR and BRD in that group. The other group was DRK, RNG, RNG, RNG, MNK and I think another WAR.. not sure.

When went and killed the mobs, one by one. Nobody died, and everybody got the key items. After that I just Warp II'd everybody out, and that was it.

All in all took about 30-35 mins start to finish.


Some suggestions:

Require EVERYBODY has the gate crystal. Finding enough people to do Genkei 2 isn't hard, so you can afford to be picky. If anybody hasn't gotten the crystal by the time you're ready for Genkei 2, that says something about them...

Since you are teleporting, form up infront of Maat himself. You'll likely be standing infront of the quest giver, organizing things for at least 10-15 minutes, possibly more. Plenty of time for everybody to start the quest.

Once you are at the crystal, do not attempt to sneak/invis your way there. The mobs should check as EP, so they might aggro you... if you don't aggro first! Slaughter them all for TP, make sure nobody uses their WS. Honestly, if you're alliance cannot mow through the cannon fodder on the way there, then don't even bother fighting the NM.

Fighting the NM are pretty simple.

ALL mages are healers. No exceptions. Be ready to cure paralyze and curse.

Don't bother setting up SC, just have people go whenever.

Most debuffs aren't going to land, but debuffing WS probably will. If you've got TP build up on any G-Axe WAR, have them lead with Shield and Armro breaks.

Dispel would have been useful, if we had a RDM. Ice spikes suck with that many people. Make sure the RDM is very liberal with applying dispel.

After the fight, as already stated (but make sure everybody is clear on this before engaging the first NM) you have roughly 30-60 seconds before the mob respawns, so get in their, and get out fast!

All in all it was pretty fun. I did it with just 12 people, all of whom were 55 or less.

Long but annoying story.

Logged on yesterday to get an invite from one of my buddies to do this quest. They had a 75 JP PLD and a 75 JP WHM to help us. But being the retards that was this group, they took their sweetass time and we lost the high level help. Three members also didn't have their gate crystals, so we had to wait on them. We had 1 WHM and only 2 other classes with voke. There was this 51PLD/25WHM there. Terps I think was the name. The guy had to have been 13. Wouldn't shut up talking when we were being told what to do. Kept flashing monsters and slowing us down. He even had <call5> in his TP macro. I was polite though and sent him /tells telling him nicely to stfu. He said he was just too excited. He was filling the chat window.

So we do the coeurl first. No problems, we kill it, run back and everyone gets the item safely.

We do the tiger next. Beginning of the fight we agro a dark elemental. The other BST and I sic our pets on it and continue to fight the tiger. Some smart RDM decides to nuke it and all hell breaks loose. The other PLD is screaming at Terps to Voke it, but he can't because, well he didn't sub war! So FINALLY the tiger goes down. Those who have done the quest continue to fight the elemental while the rest of us run down to get the item. We then run back and kill off the elemental. Our escorts life got down to 35 at one point. It was a close call around. We get ready to leave to fight the third and here comes Terps.

"Wait I didn't get the ???".

...

At that point people lost it. Some are like "We can fight it again." Others including myself were saying "***** the ******, let the rest of us finish the quest."

So after debating for about 10 minutes we start to head to the 3rd one. The WHOLE time we are heading to AND fighting the 3rd, he keeps spamming. "Are you going to help me? Are you going to help me?" We killed the Hound, about half of us told him to F off and left him there to rot.

The morale of this long story. CLICK ON THE DAMN ???!

With proper planning this quest isnt all that hard - and the reward for doing it well is a feeling of accomplishment at coordinating such a large venture.

I did it in a 18 person alliance (half of it from my linkshell) with all levels 56 and below and we stomped the mobs pretty easily and with no deaths and only one semi-close call versus the hound (and it wasnt very close really). Main party: 56PLD 55BRD 55RDM 55BLM 56WHM 55WHM. Second party: 56DRG ?MNK 52PLD ?BLM 55BLM ?WHM. Third party: 55MNK 55RDM 55RDM 53BLM 52BLM 50?WHM. Or something really close to that. Thanks to everybody who posted advice on this thread how to do it - that was the basis of my plan and very very helpful. All in all we spent 1.5 hours getting assembled and into position, and about 1 additional hour killing all three mobs (i did it with one steamed crab which ran out just a bit after the hound fight).

The key considerations:
* not a bad idea for one person (whoever is going to lead it probably) to scout in advance by doign one with a pickup group, or just being somebody over lvl 55 who has just already done it. Seeing the repop time for the mobs is invaluable cause it seems unbelievable just reading about it.
* make sure all the parties are balanced (though you really probably only need one tank). Curaga in each party is very important, especially versus the tiger
* go over the plan before you start. Personally im an over-planner, but i went over the basic battle plan for all three mobs, how to touch the "???"'s (about 4 times), and how we were going to move about between mobs before hand when we first got to Xarc and then a quick blurb on the relevant skills and weaknesses of each boreal mob right before we fought each.
* you absolutely need to fight with a front and a back line. Its very important the mages stand out of AE range, esp versus the tiger (spam AE melee damage) and the hound (spam AE paralyze and other status effects).
* you gotta get people to hold back on weapon skills especially at the start if you want PLD to hold the hate. on the tiger we had a few opens with 300% TP and even my 300% 450 dmaage spirits within (i was the tank) didnt grab hate back and by the time the second raging fists went off from the MNK it was really quite hard to get hate back - tiger used might strikes, and so i used invici and i still didnt get hate back till half my invici was wasted (MNK had disengaged mob at that point i think). Though we still did okay so holdign 100% hate is neither possible nor needed.
* Pull to the back. Thats already mentioned but i cant stress the importance enough - then when the ??? pops you are already standing near it. remind people that the mob pops in middle (not back) so after you get your frigicite you gotta run all the way to the front of the cave to really be safe from repop.
* when traveling through xarc you can forget about trying to sneak that many (since you need sneak/invisi both for big chunks) - but that doesnt mean you need to fight every step of the way its still pretty easy to go wide around a lot of mobs or behind the sight only mobs (gigas and demon). If everybody knows to follow exactly in the leader's footsteps, and the leader is good at moving through areas without drawing aggro and without snk.invisi up, and you dont spread out youd be amazed at the number of aggros you can get past no aggro. Theres still plenty enough mobs that you have to fight you can always get 300% TP anyways.
* I followed this route: meet/go over plan at xarc/bcd zone. then head conter-clockwise and hit the coerl, then the tiger, then the tele crystal for those who needed it, then hound. Also thats the rough order of difficulty though some parties would have more trouble with the tiger than the hound maybe - as the only big difficulty of the hound is if you end up with paralyze hitting your back line whereas the tricky part of the tiger is more damage and more AE damage.

Edited, Wed Jul 14 15:45:57 2004

This quest sucks beyond anything I've done in-game. The only worse experience I've had is when our alliance got wiped out by two Tomb Mages in the Necropolis.

The Hound is definately the most difficult. We had to fight him twice and had four deaths (three were the same person) in the first fight. The other two went down pretty easy.

Walking around Xarcabard kinda sucked cuz it's impossible to sneak/invis an alliance.
Gathering the alliance took more time than the actual battles.

Did it last night.. My view.
It was very difficult to get 18 ppl who all want to do this at the same time. I started this mess and after 4 hours I had enough ppl to form a group to do this. Talk about a mess!!!!! I wrote everyones name down who was interested and send the a /tell when we were ready to start, its very had to talk to 16 ppl at once LOL.
Anyway, expect the following
1) ppl dident activate the quest, make sure the talk to maat and are at least lvl 51
2) no Telaport-vaz…. This really stunk, 3 of the members dident have it, so I ended up walking this them :( oh well, I started this mess anyway

we had a 62 pld and a 62 drk that agreed to help, this made it cake, the pld kept all the hate and the drk did some major damage. Still these thing are hard to take down, with 16 ppl hitting it with all they got still took over 3 min to take it down, but no one ever got in the red.

Please make sure your ppl understand the quest, our whm decided to heal right after the 2nd fight, you have about 15-25 seconds for all your ppl to get to the end of the tunnel and click the ??? we had to fight one 2 times because of this.

Make sure you have a healer in each of your groups, it is VERY hard to target a member that is not in your group.

Anyway im glad this is done !!!!! it was lots of fun^^ good luck

Did this last night with a full alliance..

Here's my thoughts/experience :

For those who are running/leading in the front , please please, do not run in and engage the NM immediately! Your mages need mp after all the cure, sneak, invisible etc. that was casted on you on the way to the caves. Make sure the mages are full, and all members are at the cave entrance before running in to engage the NM.

It's best for the 2 individual party leaders to report the mp status to the overall leader of the alliance (as you are unable to tell the mp level out of your immediate party - as mentioned by cesium)

Leader of the alliance, please know the essences of this quest, DO tell all the members (before the start of the fight!) that they need to click the ??? and run out of the cave as fast as they could after the NM is defeated. There's bound to have some members who do not read up and do not know about the speedy resprawn!

If unfortunately, one or few members were too slow to run out of sight from the resprawned NM, ask them to keep running and not turn back to engage the NM even though they were being hit! The NM will give up once they run out of sight.

Mages, try your very best to stay out of AOE, especially the paralyze AOE ^^; And remember to always cure paralyna to your PLD, WHM, BLM, BRD, RDM! It's very important! Throughout that fight, I was always curing paralyna to the others and the other mages were in-charged of curing. There's really no end to the paralyze AOE ><;

Hmmm. That's what I can remember now. It was tiring to coordinate the full alliance ^^; but all of us finished the quest ^^

1. Make sure everyone haS the quest!!!!!
- Two people didn't get the quest whiling doing it.

2. Even your PT's out like a reg EXP PT.

3. TRY!!!! to get a high Level PLD to help in your 18 member alliance.
- We had a 66 PLD help us, and without him we probably wouldn't have made it.

4. Meet at Rangamont Pass, and to get the Glacier through the Rangamont Pass, it's RT,LT,RT,RT in the tunnels if you don't have a map.

5. Everyone stop by and get the Tele Craig 1st at Xarcabard.

6. Engaging the NM's:

- If you have a high lvl in your alliance, let him/her engage the fight 1st. If you have extra mages place them in the high level's Party.(example) 66PLD, 52WHM, 53BLM, 52RDM, 54 WHM, 53BLM

- Mages!! stand behind the NM, there's one NM that breathes out fire, damaging all infront of it.

- BLACKMAGES!!!! Don't cast ANY ancient spells and show off, you will die with 2-3 blows when u get the hate.

7. You CANNOT, get the key item until the NM is DEAD.

8. When NM is almost dead, mages position yourself near the ???, so you get first dibs =)
- Use F8 to target the ???
- After getting the Key Item, RUN like hell out of the spawn area!!!

9. After all 3 key items have been obtained, TAKE A GROUP PICTURE!!! /hurray =)
- BLM's be expected to be the last to leave =\ cuz you will be Warp 2'ing a lot of people out.

10. And have fun!!! This was a great experience for everyone from beginning (all 18 of us riding Chocobo's) to the end (all of us completing the Quest)




Edited, Wed Apr 28 08:19:33 2004

Well, a bunch of us got together to do this. Everyone was level 51-55, and we had the full 18 people. We had each party leader send a tell to everyone in their group to make sure everyone had the quest. Then, we all met up at the entrance to Ragamont Pass. The pass was easy to get through as nothing aggroed. The Glacier was also pretty easy. Very low aggro, and anything that did died quickly. We got a few nice quest drops along the way too.

Next was Xarcabard. We tried to avoid aggro, but still ended up killing a lot of stuff. It's best if you make sure everyone is together through this zone.

First stop, the teleport crystal. Chances are a few people are going to need the crystal, so might as well get it.

Next, we went to the hound. When we got close, the leaders were telling everyone to stop and rest up and dismiss their dragons. Well, one person didn't listen and kept on running. Needless to say, they died. After raising that guy, and waiting for weakness to wear off, we all ran in. We were doing ok, and the hound's HP was at 75%. Then one of the BLM casts freeze... BIG mistake! The BLM goes down in one hit. The hound then does his AOE paralyze on the mages, followed by AOE disease, and AOE poison. Melee finally pull the hound back. All the mages are trying desperatly to get rid of the paralyze so we can cast spells. A tank dies as all the mages are still paralyzed and can't get spells off. Then a DRK/THF does some 900 WS. He dies, as the mages still have paralyze on. One mage finally gets a paralyna off. A DRG then does a 800 WS, he dies as well. Finally, all the mages don't have paralyze anymore. Curing goes well, and when it's almost dead, we start raising the people who died. Everyone's alive when we kill the thing. We tell everyone to rush in and click on the ???.

Well, some how two people didn't get the key item, so we had to try again. This time we put together a little better plan. First, all BLM need to act like WHM. They can throw a nuke here or there, but no freeze, and healing is their top priority. Next, no one do their super damage job abilities + WS. The idea here is that we want to keep the hate on a tank (just like any other group). So, we changed the main party around to be a PLD, WHM with a light staff (me), and a RDM. At the start of the fight, only the PLD got haste. When the AOE paralyze went off, only the PLD got paralyna. These two things really helped the tank keep hate. I just kept the PLD alive, and all the other WHM, RDM, and BLM kept everyone else alive. With this setup, only the PLD ever got into the orange. And with me chaining Cure IIIs and IVs, he didn't stay there long. Once the hound died, the other two got their key items.

Then, we went to the tiger. We used the same stratagy we used the first time, except the DRKs cast stun when the tiger started casting flare. No deaths, and everyone got their item on the first try.

Finally, we went for the Coeurl. Used the same stratagy. And again, it went down easily and everyone got their item.

After that, it was just giving teleports and warp IIs to everyone.

Here's the times it took to do everything:
1. Get members, make sure they have the quest, and meet up at Ragamount pass: 1 hour 30 minutes
2. Travel to the crystal: 20 minutes
3. Kill all three creatures: 45 minutes


For the allience setup, this is what I'd suggest:

Main party (the one with the main tank):
1. PLD, preferably level 55 (or as close as you can get). He's the main tank, and should be the only one provoking unless it's going after the mages. He's also the only melee to get haste and paralyna cast on him.
2. WHM with a light staff or healing staff (the staff isn't needed, but Cure IV recovering 400 HP helps you stay on top). Some juices help a lot. This person's job is to cast haste on the PLD at the start of the fight. Cure the PLD through the fight, and cast paralyna if the PLD gets paralyzed.
3. RDM, cast refresh on PLD and WHM. Secondary tank healer, and primary other party members healer.
4. Fill the other slots with low damage classes. A BRD would be nice for more MP regen, but we didn't have one.

Other parties:
1. 2 WHM, RDM, or BLM to act as the main party healers.
2. High damage dealers. But, make sure they control how much damage they do.

Some tips:
1. The more people with you, the better. But, if you have a really good group, you might be able to pull this off with just 12 people. It's just going to be harder and take longer. A few eithers on hand would be a good idea if you're going with just two parties.
2. Control the damage. If you want everyone to stay alive, make sure the tank keeps hate. So, just like a regular party, the damage dealers need to hold back on doing the most damage they can. Slow and steady will win this fight.
3. No dragons. It's too hard to target the ??? if they're out.

Well, I hope this helps others out. At least save some people the pain of the first run we had... I also want to say that this quest was so much better then the LB1 quest. It was actually fun to get that many people together to fight. And once we had a plan, it really isn't that hard or that long of a quest. I also think it was a great introduction to playing in an allience. Something that doesn't happen much when just leveling.

title obtained is:

Summit Breaker


^^

Getting enough people for something like this is probably a bit more difficult on the weekdays, so we tried on a weekend night. Fortunately, we found a lot of people who wanted to join. We had an 18-player alliance (3 parties, 6 people each) and two of these players were level 65 and level 73 tanks (a warrior and a pally). Like all alliances, one of the first hurdles to cross is organization. We had to shuffle people around because some did not have the Vazhl crystal and some did. So after initially splitting up into two groups (ones that teleported and ones that walked to Xarcabard), we finally started making our way to the First NM. What's important to note is that the NMs are very strong, so even with our group of level 52-55s, it would have been much more difficult if we didn't have our level 73 pally and our level 65 warrior - both of whom kept the hate on themselves very well. Anyways once an NM is dead it is highly important for everyone to immediately run in and click on the <???> before the NM respawns. We ended up fighting more two of the NMs twice because people didnt get out of range in time before the NM spawned again. The whole quest was done in about 2 hours - could have been much faster though if everyone had the Vazhl crystal and if we didnt have to fight each NM more than once. As for the random mobs in Xarcabard, there were Demons and Floating Eyes, but they were very easy to kill - most conned as easy - and I was level 53.

level 60, need to do genkai #3. please have somthing on the site. thank you

I remember getting round and square frigicites (just like the site says) but i'm sure, as in just did the quest, that the last one is triangle, not Hexagon...i hope i didn't do something wrong