A Craftsman's Work - DRG AF1  

I Soloed this Quest as 50DRG/25WAR and it was easy, had 3 Basic TRUST war/wmh/pld and i had no problem. I even had 2 extra Mobs as Decurio I-III was hitting the trust. Of course i had to pop my 1 hour "aka 2 hour" but still its was not that bad. I would not try this fight without Trust magic.

Well I tried by myself as 54rdmg/27blmg twice because it seemed that I could kite him to raise my mp back up enough the sec time since I almost killed him with 30% hp he had left, before I died.. because he uses some bash attack or something and "wow" that hurt. However the sec time I got links so I said to myself the third is a charm! Pulled out my trustie smoothing healer 50 npc.. buffed up as normal I kept refresh up at all times. it was a piece of cake. so good luck and watch out for that "wow" attack whatever it's called, and you'll be fine. :)

Just did this quest with myself as BLU67 and a friend, BLM52. There was never any doubt about the outcome. Even though I have some good evasion set up for my BLU I was surprised at how often he missed me. Invincible came about the same time as with others, but didn't last very long. He silenced me once; easily remedied by echo drops. All in all, a very easy fight.

I am fairly sure I could have soloed this, but I thought I would play it safe and bring the BLM along.

Though I hit 42 a long time ago, I find the AF weapons to be something not needed, cuz they're not.

Anyways, went and did this the other night with a friend. It was me 52 Drg/Whm, and my friend 67 Sam/Thf. And we pwned the mob with hardly any difficulty at all. He didn't even barely touch my friend, but when I used Penta Thrust I kept the hate, and my Sam friend couldn't get the hate off of me. The mob hit his Invincible at about 35% health, and my friend did his own skillchain at the same time. So instead of finishing him off his Skillchain hit for 0, LOL >.>

But anyways after his Invincible wore he was dead in about 10 secs. Easy.

Double

Edited, Feb 24th 2007 7:07am by Nuhnisgodly

I fought this guy just last night as Dragoon 40 / 20 White Mage. I had just hit 40 and decided to go after the AF Peregrine, so I asked my ls if they wanted to come pwn a mob =p lol. Our party consisted of 70 Blu, 75 Whm, 75 Dark Knight, and me as 40 Drg. It was a breeze. I didn't really catch the defense difficulty that everyone's mentioning, As A Dragoon with the Behound lance I was hitting about 38-46, and my wyvern was hitting him for around 12 or so. Decurio I-III did use his two hour about 1/4 way through the fight, invincible, which was the only set back. We were hitting 0's for about 30 seconds =/ lol Either way, once that fell he became easy pickin's. He used that Aoe Silence attack, but the mages just throw out a flask of echo drops and we moved in for the kill.

The Mob is lvl 55 and the job is Paladin. A team of 60's can duo him pretty easily, but, if you attempt this at a low lvl I suggest you bring a Red Mage or Bard for Dispel. Anticans can get their defense up pretty high.

The ??? marker is located near the antican structure in H-8. It was on a fallen pillar on the upper level. (If memory serves it was on the eastern side, but I could be wrong.)


1) The mob is a pld with a very high defence. The 50 drg I was helping with this was hitting for roughly 10 and his wyvern's damage was miniscule. Whether that's because the drg was gimped or the mob was just that tough, I don't know. I didn't check the drg's equipment.

2) Decurio I-III has approximately 5030 hp according to parser.

Good luck!

did this with a lvl 66 whm and lvl 66 blm at drg lvl 40 one thing is that i couldnt hit it worth crap, i did like 10 dmg at most, blm took all the hate i tried voke jump high jump weaponskill couldnt do a damn thing, blm still had over half life at end of battle though and it lasted all of 3 mins = 3

Just finished this quest, and it was pretty easy. Did it with a 54 pld/ 27 war , 54 whm/27 blm and me a 42 drg/ 21 thf.

It took forever that was for sure, but the thing did barely any damage to the Paladin. Averaging around 30 a hit, if it even managed to hit him.

The thing has a lot of hp and def, but its really not that hard.

Thanks to Roldabolt and Rebeccastarr for helping me out :)

Edited, Mon May 8 01:05:04 2006

My friend Khimono (40 DRG) was in the mood for some adventure tonight, and he'd gotten his DRG AF1 flagged. Our LS was empty and very few of our friends were online, so I (59 SAM) suggested that we attempt to duo Decurio I-III, knowing full well that we'd probably die, but have a lot of fun in the process and know what to do next time.

I brought along 6 Hi-Pots, the area surrounding the ??? was completely devoid of Anticans when we got there. It was nice and empty, I built up 300% TP, ate a mithkabob, used berserk and hit it with Tachi: Jinpu when he popped it. 500 damage... barely dented its HP bar. I was worried at this point, my 300% Jinpu's on too weak to easy prey mobs usually do 1-1.5k.

We both keep at it, niggling away its HP, each of us WSing whenever we have TP. It has HORRIBLE accuracy - it missed me very often, and I had Haubergeon on (Eva-20). But when it did hit, it hit pretty hard. Just over 100 damage per hit with berserk on. Eventually around 50% it pops Invincible, so I turn off berserk and put up defender and wait it out. When it wears off, I turned off defender and started using my Hi-Potions (it had me down to around 700/1148 HP)
I Enpi, Meikyo Shisui, Jinpu, Enpi, Jinpu.

Things get a little tougher towards the end, it's wearing me down a bit and I'm out of Hi-Potions. Eventually it gets me into the red, Khim vokes and manages to get hate (I only used voke once at the start of the fight, and glad I did). I let him take a few hits, the second he hit red HP I voked back. At this point it's all or nothing. Decurio's at around 1-2% HP, but I have 105hp and Khim has 110. I swing, my TP reaches 100%, Khim hits it with Double Thrust at the same time as I hit it with Jinpu and it drops dead.
It was a long fight - It lasted around 5 minutes or so, he has a lot of HP and very high defense.
No way I'd've been able to do it solo - Khim saved my life with that very well timed provoke. I'd also never have been able to do enough damage to it alone to win.

A combination of good luck, good timing, and perhaps a little skill, too, and Khimono has his Peregrine. :)

Sorry for the wall of text, I just had a lot of fun with this fight. It was a fantastic challenge.

Edited, Tue Mar 21 15:33:59 2006

Just did this quest.
Took myself (50 DRG), 53 PLD, 68 RDM and 66 SAM
Mob was dead in less than a minute.
I reccomend bringing a stack of echo drops and maybe a yag drink for the PLD.
SAM & DRG sub THF and then SA or SATA and the mob will be dead in under a minute for sure.

hi guys
Did this quest a long time ago but I'll give ya my experience on this mob. He's a Paladin. Plain and simple so he uses Invincible in the middle of the fight. I was 70RDM/BLM when i went so it wasnt much of a problem. My suggestion is no matter who you bring with you to help, clear the area of Ants. They do link and can be a pain for a 40ish player looking for their AF.
Once its clear and you can battle it no problem and fight it like any other Paladin mob. Once it uses Invincible...nuke it :P
hope this helps and good luck folks^^

Edited, Tue Sep 27 10:25:18 2005