Blade of Death  

Ok... just so everyone is on the same page and there is no more confusion...

1. You cannot kill the monsters with Magic, DOT spells, Weapon Skills, or suicide (as mentioned before... many, many times)
2. You can zone, log out, die, and do any other possible thing that your little imgination can come up with, and still complete this quest.
3. You could, theoretically, buy this sword from the AH... but this is also a one-time-only quest that is worth the fame at least.

Now before anyone decides to try and prove me wrong... I have completed both the DRK flag quest and this quest. My main job is WHM, so I could care less about DRK... so when doing these quests, I zoned several times... changed jobs to go level... farmed... went back to the quest... logged... came back to kill more... zoned... changed jobs again.... leveled again... and came back to kill more... etc.... etc...

So, in conclusion... yes, you can play the game normally and as long as you EVENTUALLY kill the appropriate number of monsters with the respective sword, you finish the quest.

I hope that there is no more confusion about what you can or can't do now.

i know this question has probably been asked 1000 times before but, if u die, can u be raised and have the kills still count? or, are u back to square one if u get killed?

I finished this quest last night with just slightly over 100 kills with the Chaosbringer. I only used the Chaosbringer (no other weapons or ranged weapons). I did this over the course of a couple weeks off and on. I got all the kills leveling my Dark Knight from level 1 to 6. I used Stone as a spell several times, but never killed an enemy with it. I had used Hard Slash and in some instances killed a mob, but didn't count those kills. I learned Stone and Poison during the course of the kills. When I traded the sword to the ??? I was a level 57 Samurai / 28 Warrior. hope this clarifies things a little. I know i was rather confused.

I got this quest as a lvl 17war/8rng and i got Zeids letter after talking to goombah, i still had my chaosB saved in my safe ever since i completed the drk flag quest. I did not throw it awya,, i kill 90 monsters, then got d/c and killed 30 more to be safe, i was at 120 kills with intermittingly using a WS here and there. i went to the ??? in gusgen mines, and it said "nothing seems to be happening" my LS told me that it can only be done once every so often, (meaning someone else already traded to the ??? b4 me). im not sure, but that could explain why alot of people killing off 100+ arent getting it. the ones killing 200+ can be coincidentally trading it to the ??? long after no one else has traded to ??? (just a theory (im gonna log out and try trading it again later, and post my results)

I took very good tallies, when I counted up exactly 100 tallies the first time I went and got my DRK job, then the second time I counted up exactly 100 tallies went to Gusgen and got the Deathbringer, One thing you have to remember is if you kill a mob with a weaponskill it doesn't count so i didn't add it to my tally, also if your in gustaberg which alot of people seem to be, when you're fighting bees, if they use final sting and kill themselves that doesn't count and wasn't added to my tallies, if you're fighting gobs and they fail at a bomb toss and blow themselves up that doesn't count and was not added to my tallies.
I also know you can switch weapons as i switched between great axe, scyth, and the chaosbringer.
And you don't have to do it all at the same time. I actually did mine over the course of 3 days.

[edit] whoops, didn't notice that there was a second page, I was wondering why I couldn't see my post. looks like the information I stated was already said.

Edited, Sun Aug 29 17:47:02 2004

Here's a few rules when it comes to using the Chaosbringer.

1) No Magic kills, by nukes or any other means.

2) No suicides, if a goblin tosses a bomb and kills himself that way, it won't count. If a bee uses "Final Sting" that won't count either.

3) If a DOT (Damage Over Time) spell ends up killing the mob it won't count either. Normally the message will be "Bee has fallen to the ground."

4) You must deal the final blow with the sword, it must say "Hit Bee for X damage. Bee has been slain by Me."

5) You can zone and you can even log out without completing the 100 kills in one session. As long as the total amount of kills with the sword is 100 you are fine.

Edited, Fri Aug 20 15:20:52 2004

Its not true that weapon skill kills dont count. i kept a carefull tally of my kills and when i got 100 i was able to trde for deathbringer, even though many of my kills were with weapon skills.

OK, so I'll switch to my DRK 12 job and pound another 100+ miserable creatures with Chaosbringer. At that point, do I need to visit Gusgen as a DRK, or can I switch to a more survivable job and take the sword to the pool in the mines that way?

I do live in bastok... i went to gusgen mines 4 times yesterday expecting a cutscene as i walked right in(thanks alot LS). i am tired of wasting my time.. there is no deathbringer in my AH though. please send me and email.. i will by one off u for double the price..please, HOOK IT UP^.

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Technically the min level is not correct. When doing the DRK flag quest my WAR deleveled down to 29. I completed the flag quest and immediately went to get this quest as a 29 level WAR. So, I don't think you need to be 30, you just have to have completed the DRK flag quest.

I just got the sword, you can use your warrior, just as long as you kill it with the chaosbringer. Don't need to use drk job. 100 kill for drk, 100 more kills for deathbringer. I do believe if you drop the sword after you become drk, you have to get a new sword and kill 200 with it, but not 100% sure.

When i did this quest to get the sword i took meticulous tallies of the number of monsters that i fought while i slowly leveled up my Dark Knight and farmed a bit, stopping at 112 kills. I was very disappointed when i ran all the way out to gusgen and the pool wouldn't except my sword, then i ran to the other side and that one naturally wouldn't take it either. So in the end i ghetto warped back to bastok.

The moral of the story is it takes less time to kill an extra 10 monsters than to have to run back out to gusgen. And while gusgen is relatively safe for a level 30 character you never know when the bogey type monster is going to spawn above the pool while you are in the cut scene and start wailing on you. Fortunately, i still got the sword and was only 100 exp shy of 30 after dying again.

Quests raise your faction in the city they are completed in. Faction determines price of items purchased and sold so that the price is lower the higher the faction and the price when you sell is higher the higher the faction. Faction also gives you access to certain higher level quests that have greater rewards. I do easy quests whenever I can.

Which pond in Gusgen Mines do you trade the sword to?

The pond is at J7 on the first map level of gusgen (entrance level).

This sword is a perfect example of the role as game designer as saddist. The sword simply sucks. You would think that after completing the quest to become a dark knight they would give you a decent sword.

If this was a single player role playing game, the game designer would have given you a decent sword. But since this is massively multiplayer, the game designer sees their role as a player torturer. The more pain they put you through, the more time you will spend playing the game and therefore the more money they will make.

As if the profits from these games were not high enough. Typical massively mutiplayer games take in millions of USD per month.

Why do the game designers put in "features" that simply waste your time. In a single player game many features are added that save you time. On the whole FFXI is better than most other massively multiplayer games in that the designers have put in some nice time saving featues. The boat back from Palabrough Mines is one of those time saving features resembling the ones use in single player games. I love those features. This sword is unfortunately NOT one of those times.

It is a simple equation greed plus a certain level of meanness plus an addictive game and therefore a captured audience equals sadism. This is not unlike the way a drug dealer treats their customers. Interesting parallel?




Edited, Mon Apr 5 05:06:18 2004

Okay, i'm utterly confused.

I just got this quest after doing a few levels on my dark knight.

Gumbah tells me to take this letter to him in parlborough mines, but when i go back there, no Zeid!

Am i missing something?

That is the sword you get in the link above.

lvl 5 Damage: 20 Delay: 466 +8 ATTK

Now that is not a bad great sword for lvl 5....

However as someone said... if AH really sells it for 500 gil... and you are already at bastok... how about do bubbling bernie 2 times to get the gil to buy it? that is 2 kills instead of 100 kills... and you can use any weapon or job you want heh.

Also... people that play DRK use Scythe because they have the highest skill cap in that weapon... so if you use Great sword to lvl 10 or 15 that is alot of Scythe skill you will have to gain later. I would guess that having to go back and kill easy mobs to raise skill solo and then convincing a group to allow you to cap Scythe back off would not be worth using a great sword for... which is probably why this thing sells for so cheap in the AH.

And for the guy who was so happy with the name of the weapon... well they don't know the name of the weapon unless they check your gear... however they can see great sword or scythe from a distance... most people prefer the cool scythe look than a weapon with a cool name. I don't know which group of people you fall in... but I would suggest scythe due to looks and skill level caps.

BTW yes I am not a DRK... so I have not done this quest... but I will be doing the DRK flag this week (raised my Great sword skill to 50 to prepare for flag) and I read up on alot of info in this game... so please don't write off this info as useless just because I don't have DRK in my sig file.... it will be there soon and I have done my research.

man i died twice now tryin to go to the pong....... man what should i do/??? i guess just get help from a higher level???

don't bother killing another 100, just buy the sword from AH. It sells for 500 in bastok, cerebrus server. Way better than spend another hour running around killing bees and worms.