The Root of the Problem - BLM AF3  

After completing the quest if you talk to Kupipi you'll get an earthen charm to open the earth gate in central Horutoto. I still did not do that part thoguh so I don't know what it involve nor what is the reward for it.


Regards

as with all other AF3 quests, title given for this quest is

Paragon of Black Mage Excellence

and yea, non-windurstians cant do the rolanberry thing...way to ***** us bastokan blms over...

anyway while you're in toraimarai make sure you have sneak on at all times...once the links start they dont stop...and i mean it >.<;;

for the manafont ??? make sure to talk to it first before you activate manafont. when you get there, talk to the ??? and it'll say something about not being able to absorb all the energy (cut-scene). then examine it again and theres no cutscene. then you use manafont and hit the ??? again, then a cut-scene will occur, and it'll say that manafont started to absorb all the stagnation or whatever. when the toy tells you what direction he senses a very strong magic stagnation signal from, thats when you know you're clear to go kill the NM. similar to PLD AF1, the NM is an elemental that has very high magic resist (lv 70 blm did 1/2 dmg just about all the time, rest of us 60+ were doing 1/2 to 1/4 dmg with the occasional full dmg >_<), but a 60ish pld can tank fine, and it really cant kill you since it doesnt have any ancient magic or strong magic. just a ton of bio III spam...good luck!

A full PT of 55+ won't cut it for this. If you want to be 100% not to die bring 12 people.

Quick clarification/amendment to my own post.

The girl you talk to first about the Rolanberry inside the Star Tree is "Tayaya" in the chamber room. Then you trade the Rolanberry to Kupipi. HOWEVER, you can only do this if you are a native of Windurst it seems. As a rank 5 San'dOrian, (with 49 unique quests completed in Windurst) I cannot get Tayaya to tell me the secret to the door (the key item).

The "door" in question is the Locked Gate (guarded by the Cardian) in Northern Windurst walls below the House of the Summoner. That gate is normally a one-way exit from Toraimirai Canal, but if you do as directed above (buy the Rolanberry at the Jeuno Duty-free shop in Port Jeuno... its WAY cheaper than the AH) you will get a key item that lets you enter the Canal alone (as though you passed through the Airship gates, you get a cinematic "walking" sequence of you entering).

- "Aeravon", Phoenix Server

Wow.. This entire info-set was either ripped, or donated from another site. (Bad translation and all). Either way, let me clear a few things up that I had to puzzle through on my own.

In the paragraph that starts "Until this process", disregard most of this. The entrance to the Toraimarai Canal that is spoken of, is past the 3-mage door (Whm, Rdm, Blm required to open). Most people from windurst will be familiar with this. If you trade a rolanberry to the girl, you get a pass that allows you to open the door without any mages. You already have to be beyond mission 8 (from your respective nation) to be able to do this.

Stuff here is nasty. Sneak is REQUIRED unless you feel seriously lucky. You can get a map of the Toraimarai Canal from Rycharde (mhaura) by doing his quests up through the 4th one (with the pizza key-item for his father in Selbina).

The last part the guide talks about is slightly misleading. You CAN back off from the elemental to avoid it immediately attacking, but you MUST kill it in order to complete the quest. Basically it's saying that if several BLM's are on this at once, and someone activates the thing before everyone is ready, you can back off and wait until the whole group is prepared.

I recommend a full party of 55+ people (well balanced, planned skillchains worked out in advance). A single high-level person in the mid to upper 60's helps immensely. Chaos Elementals HATE hexastrike, so a high level White Mage is a huge asset to this quest.

I hope this helps.

- "Aeravon", Phoenix Server