Solod as 75 rdm/37 nin
nothing special, i used my af, hornetneedle (for the low delay and energy drain WS) 2 verve rings, warrior's belt +1, spike necklace, buckler / parrying earring and happy egg (most of it is my pld stuff)
first i spawned the NMs, then zoned them to the monastic cavern entrance, then waited a while, went outside, followed them as they made their way back, pulled the pld away from the rng and started pwning
he hits for abou 50-70 dmg with phalanx, not too bad
highly resistant to silence and sleep as far as I could tell
fight took awhile 'cause 1) i got a link at midfight (wasnt that bad) and 2) he keeps spamming cure IV at about 25% HP, which was bothersome as i didnt have the MP to spare to nuke and i was hitting for about 5-15 dmg, + 14 dmg from enthunder
all in all, fight took me a bit over 45 mins >_<
but it CAN be solod, just pull it away from other mobs and you're fine
Under Oath - PLD AF3
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SummaryWalkthroughNote: You must have completed Sharpening the Sword - PLD AF1 and A Boy's Dream - PLD AF2 to begin this quest. Start out by heading to Chateau d'Oraguille and go to Prince Trion's chambers. After the cutscene, you need to head to M-7 in Southern San d'Oria and talk to Vemalpeau, who lives in a small house. Then, head to the Lion Spring's Tavern and talk to Najjar. Next, head to Count Caffaule's Manor at C-6 and talk to Ullassa. Ullassa will tell you about an item called Mique's Paintbrush. Go to Castle Zvahl Baileys and obtain a Zvahl Coffer Key. The following monsters drop coffer keys: Ahriman, Doom Demon, Arch Demon, Blood Demon and Abyssal Demon. Next, find a coffer. All eight spawn points where coffers can appear are located on the third map. The spawn points are at J-10, F-10, F-6, J-6, G-8 and H-8. Trade your key to the coffer to receive the the Mique's Paintbrush. Next, head back to Southern San d'Oria and talk to Vemalpeau again. He will tell you that all of his son's belongings are still in his room upstairs. Head upstairs and investigate the painting on the wall. You will get an option to look at a strange letter, so do so. Once you have the letter, head to the weapon shop at K-7 and talk to Exoroche. He will tell you that you need to dip the letter on a well in Davoi to have the ink appear. At this point you are now ready to head to Davoi. Once in Davoi, make your way to the village well at G-9. Clear all of the orcs from around the well, saving TP. Click on the well to spawn two NM orcs, One-Eyed Gwajboj and Three-Eyed Prozpuz. When you kill them, an item called a Well Weight will drop. Trade the item to the well for a cutscene. Return to Northern San d'Oria and speak with Ailbeche. He talks about a lake in Jugner Forest. Now go to Jugner Forest and head to the Maiden's Spring which is located in E-6 of the map. Once you approach the well, you will get a really cool cutscene in which most of the storyline from the quests will wrap up. After the cutscene, head back to San d'Oria and go to Prince Trion's Chamber in Chateau d'Oraguille to get your Gallant Surcoat. Quest SeriesThis quest is part of the paladin artifact gear quest series. The full quest series includes:
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We just got to the well with me PLD55/WHM27, a BLU66/NIN33, MNK75/NIN37 and a RDM75/PLD37.
Easy as hell. Dont get all over sensational about this fight, its 2 relatively easy NM's. Just grab some high levels to help you out.
Easy as hell. Dont get all over sensational about this fight, its 2 relatively easy NM's. Just grab some high levels to help you out.
3 posts
Just Solo'd as a 75 NIN.. Easy if you pop the NM's and train them to the zone, depop adds and kill the paladin solo :)
23 posts
Did this last night and had a pretty simple time. Party members were:
75 WHM/NIN
75 SAM/THF
75 BLM/WHM
67 RNG/NIN
57 BLM/WHM
59 PLD/WAR (me)
WHM tanked the PLD until the rest of us had dispatched the RNG which took about 1 minute. Then we all joined in and helped the WHM (even though he really didn't need help ha ha). Took down the PLD in about 4-5 minutes after defeating the RNG. Just a note, I did absolutely no tanking during this fight.
(Edited a typo)
Edited, Dec 15th 2006 6:22pm by GuyMontag
75 WHM/NIN
75 SAM/THF
75 BLM/WHM
67 RNG/NIN
57 BLM/WHM
59 PLD/WAR (me)
WHM tanked the PLD until the rest of us had dispatched the RNG which took about 1 minute. Then we all joined in and helped the WHM (even though he really didn't need help ha ha). Took down the PLD in about 4-5 minutes after defeating the RNG. Just a note, I did absolutely no tanking during this fight.
(Edited a typo)
Edited, Dec 15th 2006 6:22pm by GuyMontag
3 posts
Just defeated the two NM for this quest. Our setup wasn't ideal, but we made it. We were:
- 75whm
- 71bst
- 64mnk
- 59pld
- 54blm
After clearing the area we let the beastmaster's pet tank the paladin while we killed the ranger. It was a tough fight and we cheered loudly when we'd made it. Good luck to all who need to do this!
- 75whm
- 71bst
- 64mnk
- 59pld
- 54blm
After clearing the area we let the beastmaster's pet tank the paladin while we killed the ranger. It was a tough fight and we cheered loudly when we'd made it. Good luck to all who need to do this!
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Yep. No back up, just 22 Hi potions, an Icerus wing, and good old fashioned Ustu casting.
So yes, it is possible to solo this quest. :D
Yep. No back up, just 22 Hi potions, an Icerus wing, and good old fashioned Ustu casting.
So yes, it is possible to solo this quest. :D
What a relief. It is a load off your shoulders once you get this done. Let me give you the rundown on how I went about doing this.
Ok make sure you have all of the prerequisites finished. And get all the stuff done in sandy, thats really important, people often forget to talk to the second guy about the paintbrush, and have to go back to sandy before they can open coffer.
Now the fun part...
F.Y.I the coffer part is the hard part of this quest, not the N/M fight. Castle Zhavl Baileys is a maze of deamons eyes yagudos quadovs etc. Make sure before you go you have plenty of oils/powders, or you have some other form of sneak/invis.
Ok, to get people to help me i tried talking to my LS, but it seems everyone hates that zone, so no one helped me. I jumped on with a group going to do the dark spark, and i convinced a few of them to stay with me and help me find a key. Luckily i found a really nice red mage who actually stayed with me through the whole thing. A level 65 bst also helped me with the key part.
We did the camp one room method, and it took about an hour and a half to get the key. No one else was there, so the rdm ran around and looked for the coffer, since he didnt agro anything, and when he found it, he came and led me to it. I got lucky finding a nice high level. Most of the coffers have high level mobs standing around them, and unless you have a party with you you wont be able to kill lots of them, so what i did was take invis off, open the coffer, then use invincible, and use my warp scroll. 2 eyes cast spells that hit me for 800 total so i was still close to dying, but i made it.
Ok now dont forget to head back to sandy and take care of business there. after that the fun part. Getting a group together to do this is the hardest part, the N/m's are actually quite easy. I shouted for several days for help, the RDM who helped me earlier came with, since he needed the surcoat for his pld as well (convenient huh?) We ended up getting 2 more RDM and a monk, so we headed to davoi.
Heres how we did the n/m fight. We killed all the wandering mobs, each got 300 tp from doing so. I popped the n/m, and I provoked the paladin while everyone else worked on the ranger. I was a 59 pld and he hit me for about 70, so i was in no danger. They dropped the ranger in about a minute, and the paladin took about 5 minutes. The ranger did hit hard, so make sure you have a higher level tank the ranger. But be sure pop the n/m as soon as you kill all the other mobs so they dont spawn while fighting.
Now the fun part, tellaport-holla, and head back to sandy, talk to the kid, then use warp scroll, telleport-holla, head to junger, watch the COOLEST cutscene ever, and choco back to sandoria. you dont have to get of chocobo for cs, it looks like you do get off, but its just for the movie. Talk to the prince, get another cool cs, and congrats, yer done :)
so good luck, and best wishes to my fellow paladins.
edit: the whole process, from start to finish, probably 8-9 hours, but thats waiting around and everything like that. but its worth it :)
Edited, Nov 12th 2006 at 9:24am PST by rotisseriechocobo
Ok make sure you have all of the prerequisites finished. And get all the stuff done in sandy, thats really important, people often forget to talk to the second guy about the paintbrush, and have to go back to sandy before they can open coffer.
Now the fun part...
F.Y.I the coffer part is the hard part of this quest, not the N/M fight. Castle Zhavl Baileys is a maze of deamons eyes yagudos quadovs etc. Make sure before you go you have plenty of oils/powders, or you have some other form of sneak/invis.
Ok, to get people to help me i tried talking to my LS, but it seems everyone hates that zone, so no one helped me. I jumped on with a group going to do the dark spark, and i convinced a few of them to stay with me and help me find a key. Luckily i found a really nice red mage who actually stayed with me through the whole thing. A level 65 bst also helped me with the key part.
We did the camp one room method, and it took about an hour and a half to get the key. No one else was there, so the rdm ran around and looked for the coffer, since he didnt agro anything, and when he found it, he came and led me to it. I got lucky finding a nice high level. Most of the coffers have high level mobs standing around them, and unless you have a party with you you wont be able to kill lots of them, so what i did was take invis off, open the coffer, then use invincible, and use my warp scroll. 2 eyes cast spells that hit me for 800 total so i was still close to dying, but i made it.
Ok now dont forget to head back to sandy and take care of business there. after that the fun part. Getting a group together to do this is the hardest part, the N/m's are actually quite easy. I shouted for several days for help, the RDM who helped me earlier came with, since he needed the surcoat for his pld as well (convenient huh?) We ended up getting 2 more RDM and a monk, so we headed to davoi.
Heres how we did the n/m fight. We killed all the wandering mobs, each got 300 tp from doing so. I popped the n/m, and I provoked the paladin while everyone else worked on the ranger. I was a 59 pld and he hit me for about 70, so i was in no danger. They dropped the ranger in about a minute, and the paladin took about 5 minutes. The ranger did hit hard, so make sure you have a higher level tank the ranger. But be sure pop the n/m as soon as you kill all the other mobs so they dont spawn while fighting.
Now the fun part, tellaport-holla, and head back to sandy, talk to the kid, then use warp scroll, telleport-holla, head to junger, watch the COOLEST cutscene ever, and choco back to sandoria. you dont have to get of chocobo for cs, it looks like you do get off, but its just for the movie. Talk to the prince, get another cool cs, and congrats, yer done :)
so good luck, and best wishes to my fellow paladins.
edit: the whole process, from start to finish, probably 8-9 hours, but thats waiting around and everything like that. but its worth it :)
Edited, Nov 12th 2006 at 9:24am PST by rotisseriechocobo
day 1: set up skill up party, 1st key i got, drops about 20mins of killing(not counting the run around time), fought nother 1hour or more, 2nd key dropped for other guy, finaly was gonna look for coffer... but we wipped, gave up for day 1..
Day 2: this time was gonna solo... so i get reraiser, reraise scroll expecting to die... so i get in began to run up, aggro eye, thinking they didnt aggro sound >< so... ls lied, but anyway continuing, btw no map so i was lost, get to gob place finaly then dove down 1st key/skill up spot, no coffer so run around and drop on gob oppisiote side to check central 4 points, no good so i go back, and hed to next thing. Soon after checking 6/8 of the points, got party and left
Day 3: walked in lotsa ppl here didnt expect it, check 1st gob spot, then do as day b4 and check central area, there it is... on other side of hole, so i rush around, dive hole on guess, didnt really check i hoped, and tada, im by it... same as the eye... so i equip tele staff, and get ready... drop invis, it aggros... try to open to far.. again, then stand right next to it, by thus time its attacking me physicaly, and im like.. ********** HURRY!" Open coffer, get paintbrush, use tele staff... get to aht urgan whiegate @ like 100hp... anyway guy who teled me to vhalz was standin there asked 'im if he would tele me, payed him again, meh o well was happy, begin to run to sandy, c a blm ive seen may time and asked if she spoke english, 75mith blm btw, and she says yes, whatcha need, asked about 2orc NM's she replied @ how many, i said 2 for sure, 1 ls mate nother joined lil later, so she said ok gimme lil, and well... got to sandy did CS's then i got D2 to whitegate to gather together, and get holla from there from ls person, and well.. now we have 11 higher lvl ppl there, im on /follow on rdm, who was checking NM's i guess... but anyway, aggro one mob myself, get to spot 3 mobs beging raped, get 3 more, kill em pop nm's me and other pld take pld, and whm helps us, so they down the rng in like 2mins pld goes down like 30seconds later, super easy.. but anyway get item, boose, whm in my ls, hollas me and follows to sandy, do CS's, tele holla again, run to lake, after CS 3rd holla, this is #4 outta him so far ty if u read this~, run to sandy, get to trions, watch the, as the guide says, CS, which i must agree everything theres right except maps dont load btw, and well get my surcoat and tada..
~~~~~~~~~~~~~Paragon to Paladin Excilence~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
^
!
11/1/06
so all in all soloable in parts, and some can b pains x.x
all in all: simple but lotsa running ><;
good map 4 castle thing: http://www.ffxi-atlas.com/maps/castle_zvahl_baileys/general/
good map for davio: http://www.ffxi-atlas.com/maps/davoi/general/
Day 2: this time was gonna solo... so i get reraiser, reraise scroll expecting to die... so i get in began to run up, aggro eye, thinking they didnt aggro sound >< so... ls lied, but anyway continuing, btw no map so i was lost, get to gob place finaly then dove down 1st key/skill up spot, no coffer so run around and drop on gob oppisiote side to check central 4 points, no good so i go back, and hed to next thing. Soon after checking 6/8 of the points, got party and left
Day 3: walked in lotsa ppl here didnt expect it, check 1st gob spot, then do as day b4 and check central area, there it is... on other side of hole, so i rush around, dive hole on guess, didnt really check i hoped, and tada, im by it... same as the eye... so i equip tele staff, and get ready... drop invis, it aggros... try to open to far.. again, then stand right next to it, by thus time its attacking me physicaly, and im like.. ********** HURRY!" Open coffer, get paintbrush, use tele staff... get to aht urgan whiegate @ like 100hp... anyway guy who teled me to vhalz was standin there asked 'im if he would tele me, payed him again, meh o well was happy, begin to run to sandy, c a blm ive seen may time and asked if she spoke english, 75mith blm btw, and she says yes, whatcha need, asked about 2orc NM's she replied @ how many, i said 2 for sure, 1 ls mate nother joined lil later, so she said ok gimme lil, and well... got to sandy did CS's then i got D2 to whitegate to gather together, and get holla from there from ls person, and well.. now we have 11 higher lvl ppl there, im on /follow on rdm, who was checking NM's i guess... but anyway, aggro one mob myself, get to spot 3 mobs beging raped, get 3 more, kill em pop nm's me and other pld take pld, and whm helps us, so they down the rng in like 2mins pld goes down like 30seconds later, super easy.. but anyway get item, boose, whm in my ls, hollas me and follows to sandy, do CS's, tele holla again, run to lake, after CS 3rd holla, this is #4 outta him so far ty if u read this~, run to sandy, get to trions, watch the, as the guide says, CS, which i must agree everything theres right except maps dont load btw, and well get my surcoat and tada..
~~~~~~~~~~~~~Paragon to Paladin Excilence~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
^
!
11/1/06
so all in all soloable in parts, and some can b pains x.x
all in all: simple but lotsa running ><;
good map 4 castle thing: http://www.ffxi-atlas.com/maps/castle_zvahl_baileys/general/
good map for davio: http://www.ffxi-atlas.com/maps/davoi/general/
17 posts
i did this fight a while back with
75Nin/War
75War/Nin
70ish Blm
70ish Drg
and 60War/Thf
easy
75Nin/War
75War/Nin
70ish Blm
70ish Drg
and 60War/Thf
easy
11 posts
I just took this yesterday with 4 people and one of the 4 people didn't really do anything. Super easy basically it was a joke and nobody was near death and I had PLENTY of MP ^^;
We were:
75NIN/WAR
75WHM/BLM <- me
68NIN/WAR
60COR/WHM
Basically we killed a couple of the mobs around the well. They conned EP at 75, only took like 3 orcs and then I popped the NMs.
When the NMs popped the 75 NIN voked the RNG and the 68 NIN voked the PLD.
The 75 NIN soloed the RNG while tanking basically both the RNG and the PLD, kinda sharing hate with the other NIN though. The Cor.. didn't really do anything except back-up heal which wasn't too necessary seeing as I barely even had to cure... and gave NIN roll to the NINs and it basically stuck until the NMs were dead, never needed to be re-rolled. A couple of those EP Orcs did respawn and link but the 68 NIN soloed the links at the 75 NIN basically soloed without any real problem, the RNG.
Nobody's HP ever fell below yellow, the fight was fast and easy and could have easily been trioed by 2 75 NINs and a 75 WHM. I even see it possible for a 75 NIN and WHM to duo it. Debuffs stick on the NMs and all links at 75 can easilly be slept for a good long while, making pops not so much of a threat.
I went there expecting that I was going to need this alliance seeing as I read the post where someone went with 12 people and 2 level 75 tanks and they failed like 7 times or whatever. So I was prepared and all with RR3 and ready to take off to Monastic Cavern if anything went wrong. But it was seriously a joke. Just wanna let you all know that this fight does not require an alliance if anything sometimes alliances are hard to control and can sometimes end up in a mess.
We were:
75NIN/WAR
75WHM/BLM <- me
68NIN/WAR
60COR/WHM
Basically we killed a couple of the mobs around the well. They conned EP at 75, only took like 3 orcs and then I popped the NMs.
When the NMs popped the 75 NIN voked the RNG and the 68 NIN voked the PLD.
The 75 NIN soloed the RNG while tanking basically both the RNG and the PLD, kinda sharing hate with the other NIN though. The Cor.. didn't really do anything except back-up heal which wasn't too necessary seeing as I barely even had to cure... and gave NIN roll to the NINs and it basically stuck until the NMs were dead, never needed to be re-rolled. A couple of those EP Orcs did respawn and link but the 68 NIN soloed the links at the 75 NIN basically soloed without any real problem, the RNG.
Nobody's HP ever fell below yellow, the fight was fast and easy and could have easily been trioed by 2 75 NINs and a 75 WHM. I even see it possible for a 75 NIN and WHM to duo it. Debuffs stick on the NMs and all links at 75 can easilly be slept for a good long while, making pops not so much of a threat.
I went there expecting that I was going to need this alliance seeing as I read the post where someone went with 12 people and 2 level 75 tanks and they failed like 7 times or whatever. So I was prepared and all with RR3 and ready to take off to Monastic Cavern if anything went wrong. But it was seriously a joke. Just wanna let you all know that this fight does not require an alliance if anything sometimes alliances are hard to control and can sometimes end up in a mess.
just so you know...
did it yesterday.
we were 5:
pld 60(me)
thf 60
mnk(???)
smn 75
brd 75
fight lasted 20 mins.
Mnk died after a few mins cause he took hate from both nm and rng nm two houred him,prolly after those astral flows from ifrit that took the rng in a bad condition.
smn astral flow with ifrit.
it was a very long fight,we all used our 2h.i tanked the pld mob for the last 5 mins.
We got 3 others aggro.Brd kept sleeping the links and double balladed us.
His 2h allowed us to retain an unlimited amount of mp while it lasted.
so,no,it's not that hard and no,you dont need plenty of 75,maybe 2 smn :D
did it yesterday.
we were 5:
pld 60(me)
thf 60
mnk(???)
smn 75
brd 75
fight lasted 20 mins.
Mnk died after a few mins cause he took hate from both nm and rng nm two houred him,prolly after those astral flows from ifrit that took the rng in a bad condition.
smn astral flow with ifrit.
it was a very long fight,we all used our 2h.i tanked the pld mob for the last 5 mins.
We got 3 others aggro.Brd kept sleeping the links and double balladed us.
His 2h allowed us to retain an unlimited amount of mp while it lasted.
so,no,it's not that hard and no,you dont need plenty of 75,maybe 2 smn :D
17 posts
just did this with a lvl 75 thf/nin lvl 75 war/nin and a 75 smn/whm and me 60pld/war killed the NM really easy no problems
32 posts
This AF for pld i find it fun and not that bad when it comes to finly AF qusets it is long and some what bruing tell you get up 2 the fighting and then it gets fun and fast trust me i am pld 62 i know what i am speaking about+ it is a lot hrad then it shounds or looks i had 2 75 frands with me a monk or a nin i cant remaber and a pld and then i had a rdm 60-75 i cant remaber and me and a pld lvl 59 and the fight gave ma few sword skills up as wall so you know it is some what fun trust me it is fun you can to try it to see but over all out of all the AF finly qusets i find this one of the easyer ones out of them all. on a 1-20 i give it a
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Just duo'd the Orc NMs as 75 WAR/NIN (i needed AF) and friend, 75 RDM/NIN. Took about an hour and a half in the end after several instances of having to give up and zone to monastic when we got adds etc.
Our strategy was to pop NMs, train them to monastic then voke the PLD one as it was walking back.
i popped NMs with full sky tanking gear for WAR, phalanx 2, Fish mithkabob, defender, earth staff. NMs appeared and i made to monastic zone with the RNG in pursuit without taking a single hit. we then killed RNG NM on way back to well . unfortunately the PLD had de-popped by the time we got back to well so we had to start over.
It was still a lil confusing what we should be doing to each mob to get the RNG to ignore us, and PLD to follow. 2nd time we tried RDM sleep RNG while i provoke PLD. We made it to monastic zone ok but faced with problem that both NMs were walking back together (at this point, a well known bismark RMT who camps davoi 24/7 was murdered by the 2 NMs). eventually we succeeded in pulling the PLD to a relatively link-free part of the corridor. It wasnt long before we got pop-links and had to zone however.
This wasnt actually a seperate NM pop. We grabbed the PLD again after resting to full (he walks very slowly back to the well from monastic zone). This time things were going much better, RDMs merit enfeebles and my def seetup basically destroyed any chance it had of damaging me, we did get 2 links (almost unavoidable) but a passing THF kindly dealt with those. that 1 try from when PLD started swinging at me to when it died was about 15mins, it does have LOTS of HPs. even with WARs crappy eva, throw a 75 RDMs enfeebles at it and WAR/NIN should have no troubles tanking it. only time shadows dropped was for using my 2hr.
Got Well weight :D so yeah, its not terribly difficult to duo/solo provided you get a wide variety of debuffs on it early. good luck all.
Our strategy was to pop NMs, train them to monastic then voke the PLD one as it was walking back.
- try 1
i popped NMs with full sky tanking gear for WAR, phalanx 2, Fish mithkabob, defender, earth staff. NMs appeared and i made to monastic zone with the RNG in pursuit without taking a single hit. we then killed RNG NM on way back to well . unfortunately the PLD had de-popped by the time we got back to well so we had to start over.
- try 2
It was still a lil confusing what we should be doing to each mob to get the RNG to ignore us, and PLD to follow. 2nd time we tried RDM sleep RNG while i provoke PLD. We made it to monastic zone ok but faced with problem that both NMs were walking back together (at this point, a well known bismark RMT who camps davoi 24/7 was murdered by the 2 NMs). eventually we succeeded in pulling the PLD to a relatively link-free part of the corridor. It wasnt long before we got pop-links and had to zone however.
- try 3
This wasnt actually a seperate NM pop. We grabbed the PLD again after resting to full (he walks very slowly back to the well from monastic zone). This time things were going much better, RDMs merit enfeebles and my def seetup basically destroyed any chance it had of damaging me, we did get 2 links (almost unavoidable) but a passing THF kindly dealt with those. that 1 try from when PLD started swinging at me to when it died was about 15mins, it does have LOTS of HPs. even with WARs crappy eva, throw a 75 RDMs enfeebles at it and WAR/NIN should have no troubles tanking it. only time shadows dropped was for using my 2hr.
Got Well weight :D so yeah, its not terribly difficult to duo/solo provided you get a wide variety of debuffs on it early. good luck all.
sorry, double post >_<
Edited, Sep 7th 2006 at 7:17pm EDT by SourDo
Edited, Sep 7th 2006 at 7:17pm EDT by SourDo
6 posts
Just killed the 2 NMs in Davoi as BST75(me), NIN65 and RDM66. I killed the RNG while NIN and RDM worked on the PLD. Was quite easy. :)
Could I get the paint brush from the coffer if I went as my RDM?? or do I have to be PLD main
The general rule of thumb is that only the two pieces of AF that you get directly out of a Treasure Coffer require you to be the correct job. The other three pieces, including intermediate Key Items, can be obtained as any job or level as long as the quest has been fully flagged up to the point of the Coffer.
Yesterday morning after completing PLD AF2, I spoke to Prince Trion as PLD50, and Under Oath appeared in my quest log. Then I changed jobs to NIN75 and finished speaking to Vemalpeau, Najjar, and Ulassa as NIN75, just as described in the walkthrough to fully flag this quest up to the point where I would need Mique's Paintbrush out of Castle Zvahl Coffer.
Last night, I stopped by Jeuno and tried talking to Guslam in Upper Jeuno for AF Gauntlets, but he wouldn't give me the quest as NIN75 (of course). So I changed back to PLD50 real quick and got Borghertz's Stalwart Hands flagged.
I already had an Eldieme Necropolis Coffer Key from a skill-up party in the past, so this morning I went to look for the Coffer as WHM47 (for Teleport-Vahzl) in the zone that is only accessible via Beaucedine Glacier. I was in luck and lo and behold, the Coffer was there. Prepared to aggro and die, I opened the Eldieme Coffer as WHM47 and got my Old Gauntlets key item. Luckily, no mobs were close enough to aggro when Sneak was removed upon opening the Coffer, so I walked back to Jeuno and talked to Guslam again (still WHM47), at which point he says only Borghertz had the skill to repair the Old Gauntlets. This being my 5th AF Hands quest, I knew to go down to Port Jeuno and talk to the box on the crates in the AH area. While still WHM47, Borghertz's ghost appeared and told me to get him Shadow Flames.
So I changed jobs to NIN75/WHM37 (my job/subjob combo for soloing), and shouted for Teleport-Vahzl. After arriving in Castle Zvahl Baileys, I popped Dark Spark and proceeded to make quick work of him and got my Shadow Flames key item. I then went to the corner rooms with Demons in them that can drop Coffer Key. Eventually got Castle Zvahl Coffer Key to drop after killing several Ahrimans and Demons in the corner rooms. Finally found the Coffer and opened it as NIN75/WHM37. Got Mique's Paintbrush key item and Mijin Gakure'd for a quick trip back to Home Point.
I returned to Port Jeuno and received my Gallant Gauntlets from Borghertz, then went to San d'Oria to talk to Vemalpeau, get the Strange Letter key item, and talk to Exoroche, all while still NIN75. Now I'm ready to get a partner to duo the Orc NMs in Davoi.
Sorry for all the details, and sorry for any confusion regarding how I did AF3 and AF Hands simultaneously. I included all the details just as evidence of my opening statement: Except for the two pieces of AF that you get directly out of Coffers without any specific quest in your quest log, you can be any job or level to get Key Items out of Coffers, as long as you've fully flagged the quest up to the point of the Coffer. Only the two AF pieces that you get directly out of a Coffer require you to be the correct job.
Yesterday morning after completing PLD AF2, I spoke to Prince Trion as PLD50, and Under Oath appeared in my quest log. Then I changed jobs to NIN75 and finished speaking to Vemalpeau, Najjar, and Ulassa as NIN75, just as described in the walkthrough to fully flag this quest up to the point where I would need Mique's Paintbrush out of Castle Zvahl Coffer.
Last night, I stopped by Jeuno and tried talking to Guslam in Upper Jeuno for AF Gauntlets, but he wouldn't give me the quest as NIN75 (of course). So I changed back to PLD50 real quick and got Borghertz's Stalwart Hands flagged.
I already had an Eldieme Necropolis Coffer Key from a skill-up party in the past, so this morning I went to look for the Coffer as WHM47 (for Teleport-Vahzl) in the zone that is only accessible via Beaucedine Glacier. I was in luck and lo and behold, the Coffer was there. Prepared to aggro and die, I opened the Eldieme Coffer as WHM47 and got my Old Gauntlets key item. Luckily, no mobs were close enough to aggro when Sneak was removed upon opening the Coffer, so I walked back to Jeuno and talked to Guslam again (still WHM47), at which point he says only Borghertz had the skill to repair the Old Gauntlets. This being my 5th AF Hands quest, I knew to go down to Port Jeuno and talk to the box on the crates in the AH area. While still WHM47, Borghertz's ghost appeared and told me to get him Shadow Flames.
So I changed jobs to NIN75/WHM37 (my job/subjob combo for soloing), and shouted for Teleport-Vahzl. After arriving in Castle Zvahl Baileys, I popped Dark Spark and proceeded to make quick work of him and got my Shadow Flames key item. I then went to the corner rooms with Demons in them that can drop Coffer Key. Eventually got Castle Zvahl Coffer Key to drop after killing several Ahrimans and Demons in the corner rooms. Finally found the Coffer and opened it as NIN75/WHM37. Got Mique's Paintbrush key item and Mijin Gakure'd for a quick trip back to Home Point.
I returned to Port Jeuno and received my Gallant Gauntlets from Borghertz, then went to San d'Oria to talk to Vemalpeau, get the Strange Letter key item, and talk to Exoroche, all while still NIN75. Now I'm ready to get a partner to duo the Orc NMs in Davoi.
Sorry for all the details, and sorry for any confusion regarding how I did AF3 and AF Hands simultaneously. I included all the details just as evidence of my opening statement: Except for the two pieces of AF that you get directly out of Coffers without any specific quest in your quest log, you can be any job or level to get Key Items out of Coffers, as long as you've fully flagged the quest up to the point of the Coffer. Only the two AF pieces that you get directly out of a Coffer require you to be the correct job.
Finally got my surcoat today
Been shouting in jeuno and Whitegate for days but the selfish bastards wouldnt help (I did a search and saw 300 ppl in Whitegate 70-75) even though they were obviously not busy as they were sitting around doing **** all.
Anyway I finally get a tell from a 75 Mnk/nin (Seefinn), he says he'll help me no problem. Need more ppl so I shout for a while longer even offering money...
Get a tell from a 69 blm (Teppy) saying she'll help. Then another from someone I did G1 with 58 rdm (Wayan).
Well the mnk says we should just go and get it done, Im of course a bit nervous lol. We get there and I use a tav taco a reraise potion and a yag drink and we spawn the Nm's. I tank the pld while Seefinn goes to work tanking and ripping the **** out of the rng. We get a link and eventually the blm and I die as well as the rdm. By this time Seefinn was done with the rng and started on the pld all the while being attacked by the links. pld actually went down pretty fast considering... anyway near the end the ******* started to spam cure Iv which was a *****. Eventually he goes down and i re raise myself so I can lot on the item!
Woot surcoat at last! pld hit me for 90 dmg a swing btw
58 pld <<< me
Been shouting in jeuno and Whitegate for days but the selfish bastards wouldnt help (I did a search and saw 300 ppl in Whitegate 70-75) even though they were obviously not busy as they were sitting around doing **** all.
Anyway I finally get a tell from a 75 Mnk/nin (Seefinn), he says he'll help me no problem. Need more ppl so I shout for a while longer even offering money...
Get a tell from a 69 blm (Teppy) saying she'll help. Then another from someone I did G1 with 58 rdm (Wayan).
Well the mnk says we should just go and get it done, Im of course a bit nervous lol. We get there and I use a tav taco a reraise potion and a yag drink and we spawn the Nm's. I tank the pld while Seefinn goes to work tanking and ripping the **** out of the rng. We get a link and eventually the blm and I die as well as the rdm. By this time Seefinn was done with the rng and started on the pld all the while being attacked by the links. pld actually went down pretty fast considering... anyway near the end the ******* started to spam cure Iv which was a *****. Eventually he goes down and i re raise myself so I can lot on the item!
Woot surcoat at last! pld hit me for 90 dmg a swing btw
58 pld <<< me
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getting the coffer is fing ridiculous.
8 posts
I just did the fight in Davoi for this and we just spawned and fought them. My party was:
Me= 60PLD/30war
75WHM/37BLM
75NIN/37WAR
74PLD/37WAR
We cleared everything out of the area the WHM rested and i spawned them. The PLD tanked the Paladin one. The NIN tanked the Ranger one while myself and the WHM attacked the Ranger. Once the Ranger fell we all attacked the Paladin and finished it with no problems.
Me= 60PLD/30war
75WHM/37BLM
75NIN/37WAR
74PLD/37WAR
We cleared everything out of the area the WHM rested and i spawned them. The PLD tanked the Paladin one. The NIN tanked the Ranger one while myself and the WHM attacked the Ranger. Once the Ranger fell we all attacked the Paladin and finished it with no problems.
I just did this quest tonight but had trouble with the zoning method described below. I went with 4 other people:
74THF/37NIN
66WHM/33BLM
68MNK/34WAR
60MNK/30THF
I popped the 2 NMs and we all zoned to Monastic Cavern at H-11, but the RNG would not depop. We did this twice, and both times, all the linked orcs depopped, but the PLD and RNG walked back slowly. Since the PLD immediately starts casting buffs when you pop them, he was close to the end of the train, and so was the first to return to the well. Because of that, we couldn't then pull him after zoning without aggroing the RNG.
On the third and final try, I zoned the train and the THF pulled the PLD at the intersection just north of the Monastic Cavern zone. Everyone else except the THF zoned as well. The RNG NM walked back to the well as usual, but since the THF pulled the PLD far enough away, he didn't link and we were able to kill the PLD easily.
Many thanks to my fellow pirates: Amaru, Buuyuu, Fuji, and Xberserker. :D
74THF/37NIN
66WHM/33BLM
68MNK/34WAR
60MNK/30THF
I popped the 2 NMs and we all zoned to Monastic Cavern at H-11, but the RNG would not depop. We did this twice, and both times, all the linked orcs depopped, but the PLD and RNG walked back slowly. Since the PLD immediately starts casting buffs when you pop them, he was close to the end of the train, and so was the first to return to the well. Because of that, we couldn't then pull him after zoning without aggroing the RNG.
On the third and final try, I zoned the train and the THF pulled the PLD at the intersection just north of the Monastic Cavern zone. Everyone else except the THF zoned as well. The RNG NM walked back to the well as usual, but since the THF pulled the PLD far enough away, he didn't link and we were able to kill the PLD easily.
Many thanks to my fellow pirates: Amaru, Buuyuu, Fuji, and Xberserker. :D
10 posts
Just did this with only 2 ppl me WHM/NIN and a NIN/WAR...i atnked the pld while the nin took on the rng and once the rng died he came ans helped me kill the pld.
6 posts
Heres a link to my video of this fight and what happend when me and my ls fought them:
http://files.filefront.com/Pld_Af3_Fightwmv/;5188955;;/fileinfo.html
http://files.filefront.com/Pld_Af3_Fightwmv/;5188955;;/fileinfo.html
15 posts
Just finished my Castle Zvahl Baileys coffer, now im trying to get a party together to go annihilate these 2 orcs ^^
will i be ok tanking as a 60 PLD?
will i be ok tanking as a 60 PLD?
#REDACTED,
Posted: Jun 15 2006 at 5:22 PM, Rating: Sub-Default, (Expand Post) NO, do not try this. the ranger one hits very hard and the paladin one spams body slam. i finished two of these fights today for me and another PLD. we had a 75 nin tank the PLD solo while a 75 MNK/WAR, 75 DRK/NIN, 75 BLM/WHM, 60 PLD/WAR(me) and a 58 PLD/WAR all attacked teh ranger one. The monk didnt want to tank it but once he used asuren fists(sp?) it the first seconds of battle he was tank. lol. the nin help his own but took about 200dmg while soloing it the MNK too around 700 DMG but BLM and PLD's cured him. so please if you value your life to not try to tank these.
I'm fully aware of the time difference between the above post and my reply, but just in case anyone happens to be reading through, I just have to say "OMG puh-leeeze!"
By all rights, a level 60ish PLD is what is supposed to be tanking this fight, in a level-appropriate party/alliance (having done this myself as a 75, I'm nt sure which it requires). This fight is the final battle in the quest for a PLD to receive a level 60 piece of armor for themselves, the intention being that the PLD tank this fight in order to earn their reward.
Sure, the easy way to do it is to get one or two lvl 75's to help. As I said, I did that myself, except I was the 75. But the intent is that a level-appropriate group does this fight. So don't go telling people they shouldn't tank this the way it was intended.
By all rights, a level 60ish PLD is what is supposed to be tanking this fight, in a level-appropriate party/alliance (having done this myself as a 75, I'm nt sure which it requires). This fight is the final battle in the quest for a PLD to receive a level 60 piece of armor for themselves, the intention being that the PLD tank this fight in order to earn their reward.
Sure, the easy way to do it is to get one or two lvl 75's to help. As I said, I did that myself, except I was the 75. But the intent is that a level-appropriate group does this fight. So don't go telling people they shouldn't tank this the way it was intended.
FFXI
Garuda Server;
Mithra; 75war,thf,bst,rdm(retired), 70drg, 66rng,nin, 62mnk, 51pld, 42drk, 40cor, 37smn,sam,blm,whm,dnc,brd,sch,blu,pup
Taru; 32dnc, 30war, 26nin, 19mnk, 16thf, 16drk, 10whm, 10rng, 8bst, 8blm
If it's tourist season, why can't we shoot them?
Garuda Server;
Mithra; 75war,thf,bst,rdm(retired), 70drg, 66rng,nin, 62mnk, 51pld, 42drk, 40cor, 37smn,sam,blm,whm,dnc,brd,sch,blu,pup
Taru; 32dnc, 30war, 26nin, 19mnk, 16thf, 16drk, 10whm, 10rng, 8bst, 8blm
If it's tourist season, why can't we shoot them?
12 posts
I was able to solo this as 75thf. This is what I did:
I popped the 2 orcs, zoned them with about 20 other orcs.
Zoned back in and all that was left was the pld one which was walking back to the well.
I pulled him to a safe spot with no links and took him down. fun times.
I popped the 2 orcs, zoned them with about 20 other orcs.
Zoned back in and all that was left was the pld one which was walking back to the well.
I pulled him to a safe spot with no links and took him down. fun times.
Scholar
19 posts
I just did this as RDM75/NIN37, popped the mobs, trained to Monastic Cavern, and came back out after a bit to find the PLD all alone ^^ he doesn't hit that hard so is easy to solo, just takes a while to kill cause of his HP, def and cures.
12 posts
Thanks for the advice, I did the same thing today to get my well weight. The setup was 60 PLD/WAR (me), 60 WHM/BLM and 60 SAM/THF.
I pulled the 2 nms orcs and all the orcs around them back to the zone and then when I came back in I provoked the PLD orc. The fight took a long time but we had help from a 75 drg that was running by when the orc was at about 45% hp.
I was able to tank it just fine - I just used tacos for food.
I pulled the 2 nms orcs and all the orcs around them back to the zone and then when I came back in I provoked the PLD orc. The fight took a long time but we had help from a 75 drg that was running by when the orc was at about 45% hp.
I was able to tank it just fine - I just used tacos for food.
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