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Pieuje's Decision - WHM AF3  

Realm:San d'Oria
Start Area: Chateau d'Oraguille
Start NPC:Pieuje
Type:Artifact
Prerequisites:Messenger from Beyond - WHM AF1
Related Areas:Fei'Yin
The Eldieme Necropolis
Related Mobs:Altedour I Tavnazia (G - 8)
Dark Stalker (BLM)
Dark Stalker (RNG)
Dark Stalker (THF)
Dark Stalker (WAR)
Narcheral (M - 6)
Mission:5 - 0
Min Level:50
Max Level:75
Rating
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(Average from 6 ratings)
Items Required:Tavnazia Bell
Tavnazian Mask
Title Obtained:Paragon of White Mage Excellence
Items Granted:Healer's Briault
Last Updated: Tue Feb 15 21:28:19 2005

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Summary

Once you've found a Tavnazia bell in the Eldieme Necropolis, journey to Fei'Yin and commence the battle against the undead.

Walkthrough

Note:You must have completed Messenger from Beyond - WHM AF1 and Prelude of White & Black - WHM AF2 in order to activate this quest.

In Chateau d'Oraguille, head to Prince Regent's chamber at H-8 and examine the door. A cutscene will begin, and you will be asked to obtain a Tavnazia Bell.

To get a bell, head to Eldieme Necropolis and kill Dark Stalkers, which come in the form of Dark Stalker black mages, Dark Stalker rangers, Dark Stalker thieves and Dark Stalker warriors.

When you have a bell, head to Fei'Yin, which is accessed from the northeast corner of Beaucedine Glacier. You will get another cutscene when you enter Fei'Yin. Head to J-10 on the top floor and trade the Tavnazia Bell to the ??? to spawn the notorious monster Altedour I Tavnazia. Kill the NM shadow to receive a Tavnazian Mask.

Return to Northern San d'Oria and head upstairs in the cathedral. Trade the Tavnazian Mask to Narcheral to receive your Healer's Briault.

Quest Series

This quest is part of the white mage artifact gear quest series. The complete series includes:


To read the transcripts for this quest, see the Pieuje's Decision Spoilers page.

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Easy?
# Jun 10 2005 at 5:12 PM Rating: Decent
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Edited, Fri Jun 10 18:15:10 2005
Easy ^_^
# Jun 10 2005 at 4:54 PM Rating: Decent
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I was so scared of this fight, the NM sounded really hard. Spent a full hour shouting in Jeuno for help, then all of a sudden gota 75nin/war, 70smn/whm and another 70nin/war. Along with me <60whm/blm> and my ls friends <60blm/whm> <64bst/whm> and <62rdm/blm> (thanks again guys^^) we owned this guy. Easy peasy. Ninja hit yellow once I think. He did use Dimensional Death a lot, but I never noticed to many -ga spells. He did sleep me when I spawned him tho lol. After that fight we went and whooped Miser Murphy for the RDM ^^ (Also very easy lol)
Too weak
# Jun 09 2005 at 4:36 PM Rating: Good
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Okay I just did it with this setup:

PLD/WAR 72
RNG/NIN 75
DRG/THF 72
BST/??? 67
BLM/WHM 68
WHM/SMN 67 (me)

I first paniced cause of no refresher and too less healing power... so I gave a Yag Drink to PLD... had 1 for myselfe and a Vile elexir and a Sup. Ether.

That fight was easy... he started with Aspit at me, but due to his full MP he didn't suck anything off ^^ RNG catched some DDs but no problem with utsusemi. PLD used 2 HR to get hate back ^^ I used Elixir and Ether just incase ^^...

No one died, RNG was in Red short, but Cure V did well and I came out with 350 MP left. Damn I was so scared of this fight... and it went so well ^^

One time he did Waterga III and 3 PPL were in Yellow HP... but no big problem. Ah and I used a Pois. Pot against the sleepga and Sleepga II

Thank you Toschiro, Raiven, Yikers, Jakylla & Legaia of Hades. you did a great job
Won in glory
# Jun 04 2005 at 11:21 PM Rating: Decent
The only real hard part was to find people that are willing to do this quest with you.

NM battle won by one party of 4 players detailed by the following:
blm70/rdm35
thf60/nin30
rdm72/nin36 <--me (whm af3 seeker)
whm74/nin37

Full buff, full TP, Red Mage stoneskin/phanlax/utsusemi, trade pop NM. Pull to near BCNM zone.
Recast at zone. Blm slept all Shadows links. Whm tanked. multiple Silences casted by blm, rdm, whm. All resisted. Rdm - paralyze, slow, dia, however forgot to Dispel.
Throughout battle, rdm keeps refresh cycle, thf DD w/ dancing edge. whm tank and hexastrike. Attempts were made by blm nuking, everything was resisted. All mages MP depleted. Rdm converts, whm 2H benediction. blm gives up nuke, switches to healing. When whm shadow down, rdm cure4->whm.

Dimension Death takes out stoneskin and a little bit of HP (around ~250 on me). AE magic took shadows. Immediately recast and cure. No problems whatsoever

Battle won in approx 10min. Zero dead.

Easy.

Edited, Sun Jun 5 03:08:47 2005
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# Jun 02 2005 at 4:03 PM Rating: Decent
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went after the Nm last night (btw thanks toall that helped). party setup looked like this.... 59whm 57 whm 57 rdm 59 rdm 63 rdm 67ish rdm 69pld and random dd i cant rember (god, i have killed my brain cells.) Fight stars good but slow killing.. About 1/3 of the way through most RDMs convert, and i use a high elixer. agian slow killing but Nm is otw to death.... then at a little under 1/2 life left the highest lvl rd takes a dim death, and you guessed it dies.. all gose to hell at that point. We started dropping one by one last one standing was a whm that fortunatly warped out in time. with his heath at les than 1/8th were all laying there dead.
I had RR up so i was just waiting for the right time, when random party comes along and finishes him off.. so i RR then S/I and proced to rest so i can start raiseing.. well the moral of the story is apparenly the shaddow aggro healing.. :(
(btw a big Ty to the lil tarutaru whm that took the time to RIII our entire party)
Strategy
# May 27 2005 at 6:16 PM Rating: Decent
Ok, after duo'ing the RNG AF3 nm tiger, my roomie (RDM74/NIN37)and I (WHM63/BLM31) decided to try duo'ing the WHM AF3 nm. Instead of having him tank it this time, we used a kiting/DoT strategy. We first cleared the room where the nm pops. We buffed and I popped it. He gravitied it and we hit it with Bio II, Poison II, Dia II, Burn, and Shock. We pulled it to the big room near the zone. All we did was kite it around the room with Gravity and Bind, and DoT it until it had a sliver of HP then we nuked it to finish. The fight took an hour and 40 minutes total.

Be sure to keep stoneskin up at all times. Gravity and Bind were landing very easily as were all the DoT's. The mob used Manafont at about 60% hp and slept me. I had on poison potions throughout the battle as the mob likes to use sleep, sleep II, sleepga, and sleepga II. The mob also likes to use level III nukes and lvl II and lvl III -ga nukes which we easily ran out of range.

We did not have to use much mp. By the time my roomie would need to convert it was back up. He would convert and by that time I would be at about 250/801 mp so I would rest in a hallway while he continued to kite it around the room. Our mp was used almost exclusively on DoT spells but I also casted Protectra IV and Shellra III and regen II on him after he converted. Be sure to keep stoneskin up! He will drain you and 20 minutes of work will be down the toilet.

The fight was fairly easy except for a couple times my roomie got hit with a WS(?) that took about 150mp from him. He never once hit us with Dimensional Death as we were never in range. The key is to make sure that at the bare minimum you have one mage that can cast heal who ALWAYS has a poison potion active.

Edited, Fri May 27 19:22:59 2005
AF3 Complete!
# May 26 2005 at 6:09 PM Rating: Excellent
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I thought I should say this so that no one else gets confused as I did. If you have Mission 5-1 and the WHM AF3 quest and you zone into Fei'yin, you'll get the mission cutscene first. Make sure you zone out and zone in again to get the cutscene for the WHM AF3 quest or when you trade the bell to the ??? you will "find nothing." Yes, that's exactly what happened to me, but thankfully Jimbob figured it out before I did any unessecary warping.

I haven't read any posts w/ this party set up for the final part of this quest, so here it is:

SMN/WHM 75 Jimbobsonofgod
SMN/WHM 73?Lunais
RDM/WHM ?? Alacarde
RDM/WHM 60 Caligula
WHM/BLM 60 Thoris <-- Me!
SAM/WAR 60 Kataki
BST/NIN 60 Lorin

We all buffed up and then I traded the bell after Luny and Jimbob summoned Fenrir. The RDMs casted Refresh on the summoners as they sic'd the Fennys on Altedour. He did cast AoE sleep but it didn't cause too much of a problem, fortunately. SAM attacks Alty and acts as a tank if necessary. Kataki has Tachi:Yukikaze and that did some pretty crazy damage on Alty... of course this made him mad and he took Kataki down to 74HP! WHM /panic!

RDM casted dispel and debuffs, etc, WHM healed as necessary. Honestly can't remember, but I think BST used a pet... O.o Alty was dead in about five minutes... go Eclipse Fang!

If you're using the pet strategy, make sure everyone else stays out of range of his AoE as much as possible, obviously.

Having Luny and Jimbob made it seem really easy... and I'm pretty sure just the two of them could have taken Alty easy. We were able to get Miserx2 for the RDMs and then finish the RDM AF3 and also the BST AF3 all in the same night. Now all that is left for our static pt is SAM AF3. -_-;

Anyhow, I would like to extend a big "thank you!" to everyone for helping out! Especially Jimbob and Luny! /hurray


Edited, Thu May 26 19:12:52 2005
not so hard
# May 21 2005 at 1:15 AM Rating: Decent
Just did this AF.
Got the bell off of first Stalker and killed the NM in the same night. Luckly no other whms had to do it also. Fight was easy. Party of 8, 3 whms, couple of BLMS, HL pld, and DDs. No problem.
the truth lol
# May 03 2005 at 5:19 AM Rating: Decent
Please don't post if you're going to claim that the bell drops in a half hour (or something else presposterous like that). They key is easily a 2-3 hour drop to say the least. I'm sorry to say this, but it's the truth, and it's most definitely the worst part of obtaining the white mage artifact armor. The Dark Stalkers are not at all hard to take down, especially with at least one of the party members a decently high level. When I obtained mine, we went through at least 50 to 60 Dark Stalkers before the first one dropped.

For the AF3 fight, high level help is always a plus, and with a good group of guys the boss is not a problem. Just make sure the tank (try to make it a PLD) is kept cured because of the constant spamming of Dimensional Death - a lot like the Dark Stalkers except quite a bit more powerful. Make sure the group you take you can trust to kick the boss's *** - the last thing you want is to wait out for another bell drop, which has one of the game's worst drop rates.

I wish everyone the best in obtaining their Healer's Briault. I like mine. It looks pretty badass.
RE: the truth lol
# Jun 15 2005 at 12:45 PM Rating: Decent
just because it took you a long time to get it, it doesnt mean that its not possible to get it on the first or second kill. i had the same bad luck with my eldiem coffer key, but then my friend got it on his third kill. sry you had a bad time... or w/e
RE: the truth lol
# May 08 2005 at 11:25 AM Rating: Decent
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Well... my Bell dropped on the second Stalker we killed by the Hume bones. Just two DRK's and myself (59WHM/29SMN). But we had to stay for another hour and a half to get the two DRK's their Coffer Keys for their AF.

Sorry you had a bad time. I haven't fought the NM yet so maybe that is where this quest breaks down for me.
got crushed
# May 02 2005 at 2:43 AM Rating: Decent
Admittedly, we weren't at all prepared for this fight, but we had just gotten a round of Zvahl coffer keys and figured it'd be a nice way to thank the whm for helping. After a few people left, our depleted alliance was this for Altedour I Tavnazia battle:

70rdm
60+?rdm
60+?whm
58war
58pld
58thf <-(me)
52pld

We built up 100+tp. Whm traded bell, 58pld voked, I sata+VB off 52 pld and he gets hate.... Dimensional death for 700+ plus another attack... dead. Sleepaga.... War vokes as 58pld dies, war dies soon after, then whm, then 60+?rdm. Sleepaga.... So it's the lv70rdm and me left. Rdm does well keeping his hp up but it ate through his stoneskin very quickly. He tried using his warp scroll but was dead soon after. I was still asleep from a 2nd sleepaga; it casts drain, I wake up use perfect dodge + flee and make it to zone with 90 hp....

Battle lasted a little over 2 minutes and we only took about 20% of its hp.

Well, live and learn, I guess....
Where to find Darkstalker
# Apr 21 2005 at 12:55 PM Rating: Decent
I am cant locate darstalker in Eldieme Necropolis? Where do they spawn? 1st map or 2 map?

I dropped in a hole that leads me to a 2nd map, i only see lot of skeleton and KA... none of that are dark stalker..

Pls help me

RE: Where to find Darkstalker
# Sep 07 2005 at 1:43 PM Rating: Decent
http://ffxi-atlas.com/maps/?act=show&id=eldieme_necropolis

4 dark stalkers are on the lower floor map, around the room with the Hume Bones.
WHM AF3
# Apr 11 2005 at 3:52 PM Rating: Decent
Wow I had little problem with this quest. Party set up was as followed:
59 WHM (me)
75 PLD with an earth staff
73 BLM
68 WHM
The fight took alittle bit of time but no one died. the only problem I ran into was finding the people and getting attacked by other monsters.
Collamair Cerberus server
Easy
# Apr 11 2005 at 3:48 PM Rating: Decent
Chainspell o.O
# Apr 10 2005 at 3:56 PM Rating: Good
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Tried this today, my party was handling it fine until he was down to about 1/8 of his HP, then to our surprise he used chainspell >_>

Just a heads up, he can use it and its not pretty :, (

-Theo
...
# Apr 02 2005 at 3:27 PM Rating: Decent
This AF is the only one I haven't done and seriously, I think I'll just never get the chance to try it. ;_;

I mean, how the hell am I supposed to gather so many high leveled people when I don't even know any ? I never found any really good LS so ~> no LS buddies to help me out with it.

If anyone on Fairy plan on doing it, please please tell me.
RE: ...
# Aug 19 2005 at 3:41 PM Rating: Decent
I did tthe quest with a Alience of 14 lvl 60-75 and we pulled it off with little effort
what do i do now?
# Mar 27 2005 at 11:16 PM Rating: Decent
I was in a party of 6 people
57Whm(me)
58Whm
75Pld
71Drk
74Thf
60Blm
the Pld and Drk died close to the end of the fight and me and the other Whm ran out of MP so the Blm used 2 hour and we killed it .But theres a problem another party poped the monster and when it poped it started to attack me so my party started fighting it. After we won i tryed to pop the monster for them but it wouldnt work. After this i went to sandy to give the item to the guy in the catherdral and for some reason he wont take it i got the quest for the gloves and for my body,i got my AF weapon and i got the cutscene when i entered Fei'Yin but i cant get my AF body ='(
i am rank 5 but i have not done mission 5/1 do i have to do that before i can get the armor

i REALLY hope that i dont have to do this fight again because i didnt pop it. If i have to i think i'm just going to give up on Whm

PLEASE someone help me!!!!!!!!!!

Edited, Wed Mar 30 17:28:15 2005
whm af3
# Mar 22 2005 at 5:51 PM Rating: Decent
well I am still shaking I just did this battle in a party of 3 me 56whm/blm and a 75nin/war and a 70 rdm/blm the battle took 5 min but the nin solo'd the fight while the rdm mage and myself healed enfeebled. who said it can't be done I owe a great deal of thx to Aola <<nin/war and Kausai <<<rdm/blm I am on the Siren server Deathscorps LS
???
# Feb 18 2005 at 5:54 PM Rating: Decent
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Can anyone tell me the position of the ??? and how to get to it? Thanks a bunch!
RE: ???
# Feb 20 2005 at 12:45 AM Rating: Decent
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Spawns at J-10 of Fei'yin.
Altedour down!!!
# Feb 17 2005 at 7:46 AM Rating: Decent
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Just fought this tonight 3x, it seemed to be fairly easy. Setup was 13 people...

71PLD
68MNK
63MNK
62DRK
61RDM
62RDM
60RDM
60WHM
57WHM
57WHM
57MNK
55DRK

It opened with Water III each time (89dmg to me with stoneskin), spammed Dimensional Death but rarely got anyone's HP into orange and never red.

It only Sleepga'd in one fight - Thunderga II quite a bit but it did little damage.

With all the WHM and RDM spamming cures, everyone was fine and it went down quick each time ^_^

3 very excited White Mages at the end of the fights.... :D A big thanks to all who helped on Shiva ^^

Edited, Thu Feb 17 07:46:51 2005
My story
# Feb 16 2005 at 10:18 AM Rating: Good
Getting this was very easy. I joined a Eldieme coffer key party and got my bell within half an hour. The me(52whm at the time) and 2 other whms friends needed to fo this quest so we got our 75war friend Morracoo to kill the NM. It was to easy. Morracoo killed it 3 times for us. The end.
Not to be underestimated
# Feb 13 2005 at 7:00 PM Rating: Decent
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Quote:
did this today as 57 whm, had a JP friend who used a 75 PLD to solo it and that murphy ghost thing for one of the rdm AF's, he had me and the rdm along to backup heal, but he didnt need it much cause he's {Incredibly Tough}.
go Kurei.


I find it hard to believe a 75 PLD could solo this mob, but perhaps we just had an unusually difficult time with him. From what I've heard the mob has an added effect aspir on his weapon, our PLD had 0 MP by the end of the fight.

We had 7 people, all 70+ (save for me), and we still had one death and most two hours blown. Perhaps it was because we didn't take the fight seriously enough at first. Set up was:

57 WHM (me)
74 RDM
73 PLD
73 DRG
71 BLM
70+ RDM
70+ MNK

DRG kept getting hate and went down halfway through the fight. As well I had to keep spamming Cures on the MNK, who got dangerously close to dying from time to time. Ended up blowing benediction near the end, the 74 RDM had used chainspell, the 73 PLD used invincible.

We killed it, but at the cost of one death and several two hours used. Fight took probably 2-3 min total.
In Need Of Help
# Feb 12 2005 at 12:42 PM Rating: Decent
Ive been looking for help on the Fei'Yin NM for about 1 month maybe a lil more can anyone on the Cerberus server help me out please ive been looking for help for a while now ><

Edited, Sat Feb 12 12:51:18 2005
need help
# Jan 31 2005 at 9:30 AM Rating: Decent
im on diablos server about to do this quest and need to get an alliance togeter if you wanna help send me a "/tell thela" im on 3pm-1am est weekdays some help would be nice.
AF3?
# Jan 25 2005 at 1:55 PM Rating: Good
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Just curious why this is AF3. Apparently alla doesn't list them in any meaningful order since this appears to be the second to last one you can do with a requirement of level 58. Can you start the quest earlier than 58?

Edited, Tue Jan 25 14:01:14 2005
RE: AF3?
# Jan 27 2005 at 8:44 PM Rating: Default
This is AF3 because it is the 3rd mission. Each AF set has 3 quests (of which one is the AF weapon), 2 coffers, and 1 dark spark fight (which also includes a coffer). Since this is the 3rd and final quest for WHM, it's AF3.
RE: AF3?
# Jan 27 2005 at 8:39 PM Rating: Decent
This is AF3 because it is the 3rd mission. Each AF set has 3 quests (of which one is the AF weapon), 2 coffers, and 1 dark spark fight (which also includes a coffer). Since this is the 3rd and final quest for WHM, it's AF3.
RE: AF3?
# Jan 27 2005 at 8:38 PM Rating: Decent
Oh, sorry for the double post :/

Edited, Thu Jan 27 20:44:47 2005
my af3
# Jan 23 2005 at 8:18 AM Rating: Decent
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i've been trying to get people together for awhile now. im on Garuda server and need some peeps. /tell Kottonmouth or Galatea during hours of 10am-6pm EST or (almost) anytime wed thur fri saturdays, as those r my days off... 60whm :\ and i need garlaige / crawlers nest / beadeaux coffer keys as well. suckie
/logout
Kotton
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