Class Reunion - SMN AF2  

Never mind i fixed it you cant have your item from AF1 quest but were could i farm Astralagos if the AH is cleared of them?

Soloable as a 75 war/nin (Maneater/Joyeuse) using only +22 in evasion gears (O-Hat + Askar Korazin) using the most basic of WAR tatics (kill them before they kill you!).

I used opo and slept to 100TP. Ate coeural sub, use berserk, warcry, retaliation and mighty strikes. 1st Rampage took down 1 Dryad. Ate a icarus wing and 2nd rampage took down another Dryad. Melee to 100TP and by then, 3rd Dryad is almost dead. Melee the 3rd to death. Rampage took the 4th Dryad to about 20% HP and it dies soon after. The rest are easy. From the time I start engage to the time I won took < 3 mins as my berserk is still up when I won.

Their accuracies are terrible. I took 22 hits out of a total of 104 dispite a WAR's brick-like evasion. Each hit is about 45 damage. Didn't even bother to recast shadows once the 1st 3 are taken away. Have about 500Hp left when I won as I used a couple of hi-pots just to be safe. I guess I could have easily gone as WAR/SAM and saved the cash I spent on sleeping pots and icarus wing.

Overall not a difficult fight.

Edited, Aug 31st 2008 8:44am by yipkwokonn

i just did this solo as 70 smn (accidently threw away pants -.-)
Anyway i was gonna ask some ppl to help but i wanted to see if i could solo first
i go Smn70/Blm33 (so i can be cheap and warp myself)
i cast stoneskine and blink with the avatars and go in
I use ifrit and out of curiosity i do Flameing Crush and 1 shot one of the saplings. then i use 2h and i was able to make them all go to like 20% they kill ifrit so i recast ifrit and do another inferno kill the remaing right there
ALOT easier than it was when i had my bro BST 75 solo it lol

Beat them as 75WHM/35BLM
Decided to use underleveled sub for the sleepga, and the elemental seal, which proved useful.

Got caught out twice in this fight, and didn't go in fully prepared.

First time caught out was casting stoneskin and a sprout smack landed and the push back effect stopped my casting of stoneskin.
Second time I got caught out was when I ran out of MP, with 3 mobs left to fight (1 almost dead). Was fighting using hexa strike and Black halo towards the end, but had been using the AoE on staff attacks and sleepga in combos (building TP, whacking WS out and sleepga again)

Using stoneskin because my MND is astacked so high... 66 base MND +43 MND with Mushroow Stew.

Was swapping between MND gear and evasion gear... evasion gear totalling 31 when I needed to evade for longer periods of time. Very handy for evading when stoneskin needed to be recast.

Forgot to take MP drinks with me, and was too lazy to warp back and get them. Would have made things a lot less risky.



Mobs don't sleep for long, some always managed to resist.... The elemental seal + sleepga held them all for about 1 minute, perfect to run away and rest for MP, they all brok free of the spell at the same time afterwards.


Fight took 19 minutes, would have been faster if i took MP drinks. came close to death twice, so watch out, you might have to benediction in the early stages if the mobs interupt spells too much. Probably better to stick to clubs for the higher damage with the WS rather than the AoE of staves.
Was a purely melee based fight with sleepga and the occasional bind (last part), didn't use MP on -ga spells.

Would suggest that you stack as much evasion as possible, make use of stoneskin and stick to using club for the higher individual damage on a mob (assuming the others are asleep)

Anyone on Bismarck can help me with this quest for AF 2?

i tried using the method described here to pull one dryad at a time (sneak yourself, assault one of the dryads, and release the avatar before it dies for aggro from only one dryad) and i can confirm that it does not work. as soon as we started doing damage to the one i pulled, all of the others started moving in from the top of the level (we were at the lower part of the bend)

the only thing i can think of that might make a differance is MAYBE if the person who did the pulling did not attack the dryad that they pulled, it might not cause the other five to attack.

but i doubt it :D

Just wanna know if a 75 thf/nin with capped marksmanship and sleep bolts could solo this fight

Just did this fight as a 66 RDM/BLU (me) and a 50 SMN.

I was a bit worried about this fight, since LillenOfHades claims a 67 RDM can't solo it, and I see everyone taking these big parties with at least one 70+. Besides, tanking six mobs sounded difficult. I figured I'd get interrupted a lot. (I know someone else said a 64 RDM or so could do it easily, but I didn't read most of the second page until after the fight.) It wasn't nearly as bad as I thought it would be.

I ate tacos and geared for defense, although my defense gearset wasn't great. I think I had 400-something defense; Cocoon helped a lot with that. ;D Hearing that SMN two-hour was great against these, I asked the SMN to two-hour. The response: "I can 2hr once but no drinks x.x" I found that funny. "No drinks? No problem!" I said. "You're talking to a RDM with 60 cooking." I just so happen to carry Yagudo drink ingredients everywhere. XD

As soon as we got in, I cast Protect, Shell, Blink and Stoneskin, then rested to full. I ran up to the "crack" and cast all my other buffs, then just ran in. Now that I think about it, I should've enfeebled them, but for some reason I didn't think of it at the time. The first thing I noticed was that their accuracy was terrible. First thing I saw was every one of them missing me.

Then I remembered my plan had been to cast Blastbomb, as Sabaron said it would work great even as RDM/BLU. (I was forgetting everything >_< Avatar battlefields always make me nervous...) So I cast it and ran. It didn't work as well as he'd said, but it wasn't bad. Turned out I didn't really need it. That's when the SMN two-houred. 807 damage to all of them. >:D We won shortly after the second Inferno went off.

The point of all this is yes, Aleko! (and any other RDMs wondering this in the future ^^) You can solo it. It was actually pretty easy; I don't think I needed the taco.

Confirming I slept them all with Lullaby and Soul Voice at BRD75.

Should i just throw them out or do i need them later? Inv space is a constant battle for me

OK i just finished my AF1 about 7 hours ago, and i try to enter the house of the hero and "The doors are firmly shut". i am a lvl 51smn/25whm, so im pretty sure im high enough to at least log the quest. so i was wondering if any1 knows whats wrong, do i need to give that one taru enough time to remember that person?

despite the bad stories on here tried to solo this whm/nin, first time didnt go great but second I used my mp a bit more wisely and worked out, I have pretty pimped out melee gear (o hat, rev. mail, purgatory mace, dmg-cape etc) went in Diaga'd them, ran halfway down the ramp and proceeded to take them off one by one, hitting them and getting tp from them hitting me, hexa striking, and repeating. putting up Ni when the timer was down, would cure IV myself whenever I got half - 1/4 hp, they miss alot. ended up 2hring near the end, but made it out with half hp and enough for a cure II.