Peace for the Spirit - RDM AF3  

In the final cutscene where you get the Warlock's Chapeau, the NPC who gives the order "The enemy is here! Knights, to arms!" and who warns Prince Trion about Curilla is Ferdechiond. Ferdechiond does not appear as an NPC entry in current day Vana'diel, but is the quest NPC for "Bad Communications" in Abyssea - Vunkerl. Nice to see he survived Abyssea to become a leader of the guard.

duo'd with ease twice in a row we both needed it lvl 75PLD/RDM and 60RDM/WHM

Attempted to solo Miser Murphy as 73 nin/rdm accompanied by a 75 rdm/whm. Murphy didn't cast any aga spells when I fought him, however his attack rate is probably 1.5 times greater than an average ghost, which I really didn't expect it when preparing for him. He is incredibly resistant magic, particularly dispel which is dark-based, which pretty much leaves his ice spikes up the entire fight. Nuking was **** poor compared to melee atks, so rdm did nothing but paralyna me from ice spikes or throw out a cure. Slow II landed no problem, which helped me big time keeping up shadows with haste on. His accuracy is pretty decent as well, so any attempt to solo this dude will have to be exclusively pushed to thf or nin with capped evasion (to prevent the 500 hp drain per hit) or maybe smn. His hp drain doesn't proc all the time, probably one in three hits is my best guess when I was vulnerable for his multi-attack streak. Not an incredibly difficult fight, but his massive hp drain requires a blink tank or a massive healing support for non-blinkers.

As for the Guardian Statue, his attack rate is probably the same as Murphy's, except he double attacks about 1 out of 2-3 hits. He never used Meltdown in this fight. He has a vast array of TP moves, which the most annoying one is the sleep move that passed through the shadows. He hits like a truck when shadows are stripped, probably 160 damage, however since I was on evasion setup, I didn't get hit much. I had a much easier time killing him when his berserk was up. Alot of damage dealers is a plus to this fight on any setup, otherwise haste is needed for blink tankers that doesn't max out their evasion.

Soloed both NMs on my SMN for my RDM mule lol. due to HP drain on murphy did a full zerg with what little eva gear i had for avatars....... took about 6 Predator claws (Astral Flow). My mule didnt really help considering he got AoE killed early lol.

2nd NM i kited it for 10 mins while reading for history lol....lolDoll

EASY EASY EASY any1 on Uni want this done hit me up lol

easily duo'd the statue with a 74thf/nin(capped evasion) and 60rdm/whm.. easy =D

After only intending to get the Garlaige Coffer done during the day, I'd ended up getting both that and this quest completed ^^

Story, as with most Garlaige Coffer hunts, starts at the first banishing gate. After a couple of hours messing around waiting at the third gate with only 3 people, I eventually met up with 2 people who would help, and we managed to get a 4th through shouts (and would you believe it, it was not one person, but an alliance of /anon's looking for their Genkai 1 drop who eventually kind of helped - Gilsellers anyone??) We stumbled through the third banishing gate, and that was it, at last I'd gotten through that gate!

Two of us needed the coffer (Darkrein and me), and we decided to roll for it if we found one. Sure enough, we found a coffer behind the gate, I won the roll (with 992 ^^), and took the coffer whilst the 3rd person with us (a 75 WHM named Turtleman) zoned any aggro. I'd already said I'd help with the last coffer and I stuck to my word, waiting for the repop behind the banishing gate. 35 mins and no pop, so the 3 of us ran to the second gate, and found someone else there who needed it open. Quickly through, and we got the coffer no trouble. Warlock's Tights obtained!

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On to this actual mission now, and Darkrein had already mentioned they were doing the last AF quest later, and invited me along. First up was Fei'Yin, and the party was 55RDM (me), 75NIN, and 75MNK (called Saube, thanks for the help). On the long run there I managed to get the help of a 72SMN and another MNK who were there for the Shiva fight (thanks to Yunon and the other guy whos name I cant remember)

Miser was a doddle with the setup we had, killed him twice and got the cutscene for us both, then left to get the scenes in Sandy.

Back in Jeuno again, and more help had been recruited for the Garlaige fight. Eventual setup was something along the lines of 75WHM 75NIN 75NIN 75MNK 55RDM and 75RDM. Easy fight no troubles, Silence actually stuck (even from me, the lowest level in the party), and we killed him 3 times for everyone who needed it. Got the cs, and after everyone'd done it was back to Sandy again for the last CS (which is quite funky actually), and the Warlock's Chapeau!

Thanks to Yunin, Turtleman, Potter, especially Darkrein, and to everyone else who helped at all :-)

I cant get this quest to start.
I have the fencing Degen, and the boots.
I have talked with curilla, and Sharzalion, and the npc behind the bar counter. I just get the "you went to the chapel and talked to a ghost how impetious of you" line. I also have talked to guslam in juneo, and have gotten the coffer key for garliage (dont have the tights yet). What am I doing wrong?
Do i need to get the tights bc I have the key? Do I have to have the sword and boots equiped to start the quest?
Any help appreciated.
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The quest, again begins with Curilla in Chateau d'Oraguille.
She will ask you to continue your investigation on what had happened
to Raimenard, her father.

LIES!

Starts at Sharzalion. Curilla just tells me to sod off.

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Edited, Nov 18th 2006 at 3:20pm PST by Shtick

Just thought I would share my experience to this quest as a 75SMN to give another perspective.

~Fei'Yin with Miser Murphy. I was able to find MM waiting at the fountain <G-8>/<H-8>. Doing this solo, I was able to bring it down to 20-30% before I ran out of MP using Predator Claws. Also, it's Drain did 300-400 on my avatars so kiting with Carbuncle wasn't worth it. Luckily, I ran into a friend of mine and his party and myself took it down. It's also possible to duo this with someone that can stick Gravity well and then BP & Release to conserve MP + Refresh if your with a RDM. I tried using Leviathan's Tail Whip, but it missed or didn't stick Gravity well at all. It's moves consisted of Drain, some black magic spells including AM, and added effect Drain. Trade the coin to the dry well before leaving.

~Garlaige Citadel with Guardian Statue. I found the Oaken Box at <G-8>, the first room to the left after passing the first Banishing Gate. I put up Reraise, Stoneskin, etc and summoned Carbuncle. As soon as I clicked the box, Guardian Statue popped and Carbuncle auto-attacked. With Carbuncle Mitts and other equipment to make Carby free, I soloed this NM for about 15-20 mins, going to the corners and waiting for a resummon, basically staying in the area with the multiple rooms and Banishing Gate #1. Finished off with Meteorite at 1% and got the Nail Puller. It basically used a single target move, an AoE attack, and Gravity Field, which I assume is a Gravity effect that's AoE. Try to stay away from the statue if kiting. Trade to the Oaken Box before leaving.

And that's it. I hope this will help and open up other possible strategies.

Miser Murphy was a joke. 75THF solo'd in about 2min. Didn't get a chance to go to the Guardian Statue. If anybody on Phoenix is interested in helping me out with this, send me a /tell in game. thanks.

The resistance on NMs really hit hard, i used to be able to solo the statue...
but now gravity seems to last shorter with every cast ; ; i need 2 blms to kill this **** instead