Xarcabard, Land of Truths  

Finally, rank 6.

Was rather easy with a 75thf, 60pld, 74blm, 60brd.

So I successfully soloed this fight just now as MNK75/NIN37.

Walked in, throw up RR, and threw on Ichi. Started punching, he led with Blind (which is good as the 2 times I tried before this he led with Ice Spikes and it just paralyzed EVERYTHING), and I got very lucky with spells, he threw out an Aeroga II for <100 dmg. He became immune to magic damage and I weapon skilled whenever I could, he became immune to physical and I hit Formless Strikes, got him down to ~20% hp and hit Hundred Fists. After that he became immune to magic and somehow got another -ga off even though I had Hundred Fists and I beat the first form. I ended the first form with just over 1.4k HP and 300 tp.

Second form started, I led with Asuran Fists for 1200 dmg. Punched some more, Asuran Fists again for another 1200 dmg and the win. Second part is VERY easy. Finished the fight with 1175 HP.

Anyway cares what the gear was:

Wagh Baghnakhs
Optical Hat (Swapped in Turban for that little bit of haste on Utsusemi)
Scorpion Harness
Temple Gloves
Pahlawun Legs
Melee Gaiters
Ulthalam's Ring (Sp?)
Rajas Ring
Amemet +1
Brown Belt
Chivalrous Chain
Bushinomimi
Coral Earring

Merits: 8 H2H, 1 Formless Strikes, 1 Invigorate, 4 Crit, 3 HP.

If you plan to do this directly after 5-1 then you have to go to sybil first, to finish 5-1, back to gate guard, then back to sybil. Just thought you should know.

Finding a party for Windurst Mission 5.2 --- 2 hours

Paying the WHM for Teleport Vahzl --- 2k

Getting to Throne room door only to realize that the player that needs the win forgot to talk to the Star Sybil before heading out --- Priceless xD

i have a question about the name of the mission. i got the mission, and its called "the Shadow Lord" has anyone else had this prob? is it the same?

going to try this today but not sure if you can do this with an alliance or not. Can anyone tell me if there is a 6 person cap or if you can take an alliance with you? Thanks so much!!!

When you enter this battlefield, do not move. Eat your food, buff up, then fully heal before engaging the Dark Lord.
This battle is done in two seperate battles. During both these battles he is immune to magic AND physical damage during certain points.

The dark lord's first form is physical. He will only use physical attacks and two-hour, no magic during this first battle. The one with the most hate should be hasted. Everyone should save their two-hours for the next battle. At some point melee will hit 0, when this happens he becomes immune to physical attacks. With a few magic hits from a mage, he will become immune to magic. Finish his first form off with physical attacks. Your mages should rest as much as possible.

When his first form dies, you will recieve a semi-cutscene and the second form appears.

The dark lord's second from is magic. This is the toughest because your party is weak from the first battle. If there is a Rdm in your party, do not use convert. He/she will die instantly. This time, he will repeatedly use nothing but AoE magic that delivers a rippling effect throughout the entire arena, attacking everyone. During this form, he doesnt seem to be immune to magic nor physical attacks because both inflict damage. If everyone uses their two-hour's he should go down pretty fast.

My husband (WAR75) and myself (Rdm69) helped a PLD59 with this mission (5-2). The first time we failed because we thought it was one boss fight with two forms - Wrong. When the second form presented itself, we were screwed because I had converted during the first battle and had very little MP. The second time, we had a WHM75 help us out. We did well during the first form. At the beginning of the second form, I converted shortly before the Dark Lord casted his AoE (bad move). I died instantly. The WAR75, and PLD59 fought while the Whm75 healed. They defeated the boss. Everyones HP was in the yellow, & 16 MP.

Alright, here's what I did.

I went in with just me, two White Mages, Halfbreedindian and Leonley, both lower-level than me. I'm a BLM66/WHM33 and we went all the way in. Remember to cast Invis and Sneak the whole way or you could accidentally die. And please, for the HL sake, don't keep losing Sneak and Invis in front/very close to tough mobs. It pisses us off.

Anyways, this particular RDM, Toulon, went as RDM75/BLU37. I was puzzled about his sub, but he used Coccoon and Protect III. It was amazing, the Shadow Lord was hitting the RDM for 0 damage!! When he was halfway dead, we started nuking him hard and killed him quickly. After you kill him once, you have to kill him again, but anyone weak or low on HP needs to move all the way up to the coffin where the Shadow Lord came from, and the strong HL need to stay down where the Shadow Lord is and take him on. He uses this ability called 'Implosion,' where it basically does 50-150 damage to anyone within range, and the range is pretty far away, so move away as much as possible if you're close to death or weak. Once he died, yeah, we were done.

I'd like to take this moment to give a shout-out to my linkshell. Assassin's Linkshell is the best in Gilgamesh Server, and Liquid is the coolest! Yeah! Alright, I'm done.

GL to anyone who wants to take this on, it's easier than it looks.

Did this the other night as a group of 3.

At 65 nothing in the castle aggro'd (though I wasn't stupid enough to try casting around the elementals, so I'm not sure about them), and I don't believe anything would have in the lower parts of the keep either. Most checked low easy prey.

Actual fight wasn't too bad; it took a while once SL put up that melee-stoneskin because we didn't have a blm or rdm, but when he eventually returned back to his original state we killed him fast. Our only problem was at the last stage, his AoE really isn't avoidable so I'd recommend mages try to put up stoneskin before you finish his first form. Otherwise just stand beside melee (might as well, you're gonna get hit anyway) and go Curaga-happy.

I just did this as a 51 drk and let me tell you... If you are under 60 you are going to get aggro... even if you do sneak and invis the whole way its just rediculous to keep it up for more than one person... so my suggestion is A. be lvl 60+ or B. be lvl 60+ lol they ended up tractoring me to the top -_-" talk about degrading eh? Well i got through the CS and helped kill the Shadow Lord (btw the CS's are pimp ^_^) and well i did about 300 dmg tops lol because thats how fast it was over... had 4 70+ so he didn't have a chance... rdm nuked and converted.. after the SL did an AoE she died so lesson is.. don't convert unless you can survive the AoE lol but managed to kill him in 3 mins 35 secs which isnt the record but it is pretty fast lol took us about a half hour to get there >_< I did net 6 xp after the fight even with a lvl 75 in the PT but i lost 600+ from two deaths >_<

There's no cap to this mission, so take advantage of that and get some high levels in the group. It's also helpful outside the fight, so not everyone has to be sneaked/invised the whole way through Zvahl Castle Keep...that's a pain ;; and expect some aggro. It's a very long walk through, and it helps to have someone along who knows the way.

It was...60 WHM (me), 71 WAR (tanked it), 70 THF, 59 BLM, 75 BLM, and 63 MNK. The first two fights were easy, but the third one...ouch! Implosion hurts. The 63 and 59 both died, and I only lived because I kept Stoneskin up. Ran out of MP toward the end, casted Bene right before its death. At least you still complete the mission if you're dead. If you're the healer just spam cure spells and don't have mages spread out all across the room....if you're close enough to cast spells you're going to get AoE anyways, so might as well be right next to it.