grunion meets guivre and other adventures

[grunion]

part I here http://ffxi.cogn.net/forums/showthre...threadid=35368

so the last few days i thought i should try to level some more. i got invited by all JP party at about 3 am and we agreed to head thru kuftal tunnel to cape terrigan for lizards + gobs.

i've never run into guivre before but i had heard of him.
"if you see him, you'll be dead"
"he sees through sneak + invis"
"he runs super fast"
"he kill me in 1 hit doing 29378 damage"
" he likes his coffee like he likes his women - cream and 2 sugars"
ok the last one is me, not guivre. anyway, we were sneaking through the tunnel (BONUS: ALL TARU PARTY!) and the guy in the lead, off my screen ahead of me, went yellow then dead. i immediately did a /sh Guivre <pos> [danger] [Invisible(spell)] and cast invis on myself and ran back. i didn't see it but i got back to zone safely. 3 teammates were down but whm survived with invis i guess.

i ventured back in and saw a dead teammate. I sent /tells to the 3 high level WHMs asking for Raise III, but understandably they didn't want to tango with guivre so they said no. i was standing by the wall in the first big room with sneak only, thinking he doesnt come that close to zone when he was on me! i didn't even see him, i just heard a WHACK and "Your shadow has absorbed the damage and disappeared" followed by 3 more and i was dead:



i chilled for a while and our spunky lil whm managed to get around and raise 2 all of us! i was pretty impressed. i helped him once i was up by scouting around with sneak+ invis and he never saw through it


i'm invisible right under it there, so i can debunk that myth.

at one point he headed back near the entrance (where about 20 people were waiting to cross safely) and i spammed /say [danger] [run away!] as fast as i could LOL you should have seen people run out of there. he turned and 1 pt and i got cut off from the entrance and had to run down a random tunnel, and it went from the frying pan into the fire for the pt as they ran into a cactuar and tigers i've never seen before in the cave:




anyway, he managed to wipe out about 4 full parties and i saw him go downstairs so with some coordinated /shouting, we got a high level PLD to train all the agro crabs out




and all the whm's commenced to raisin'.



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another night, i followed my good friend jazy (coolest whm on midgard? quite possibly) with her nascent HNM LS. first on the enemies list: Capricious Cassie, dropper of Cassie earrings and several 6-figure drops. we got 18 people 60-63 (me being the exception at 58) and gathered in fei'yin. while waiting the first party went in to scout around the joint and make sure she was out. we were in the cassie room and saw her and escaped out, and during escape my sneak wore >.<

why does my sneak/invis wear during teleport/escape so often? i can't run to a safe spot to recast because then i'll be stuck in there, so i wait it out. anyway, cassie came over during the cast and whacked me good a couple times! we zoned out and ppl congratulated me on tanking cassie but it didn't seem like a big deal to me. i mean it was just a high level malboro right? no big deal ... boy was i wrong ...

we got all 18 people down there and built TP on some pulls. let me mention, lower leve in feiyin = GREAT farming. with only 1 thf (i think) we got 1 reraise II off about 4 hellish weapons (65k) and 3 wandering bulbs off about 8 utukku (60k each).

so we got everyone ready in the narrow hallway, thinking it was safer in there with just a couple bat pops than in the big room where there were numerous other monsters do link and worry about. someone provided poison to everyone in bazaar for a sleepga, the mages were set up with a special macro to paralyna, silena and blindna 1 specific melee player. we buffed drank poison and PLD ran out to pull. what follows is an approximate timeline:

0 secs: PLD pulls with flash
3 secs: PLD is running back and get's "drawn in" so that cassie is right outside the hallway but to the left so mages can't cast on it. we are all forced to move close to it to see around the corner
15 secs: we are doing pretty solid damage, already getting it to about 80%
20 secs: cassie uses "sweet breath." everyone is silenced, gravityed, bound, paralyzed, blinded, and takes 200 damage.
22 secs: PLD goes down a few hits later and cassie starts taking everyone else out in 1-3 hits each, also repeating sweet breath for a 200 AOE that gets everyone orange.
25 secs: most of the alliance is dead. bind wears off and jazy and i are running. i get about 200 feet away, almost to stairs to upper level, sleeping the bats that agro me on the way, and i get pulled in.
26 secs: all are dead but jazy who manages to zone. cassie wanders off.



as you can see, a pot has popped there, making raises a bit more complicated. i don't remember how she did it but she managed to get everyone up with raise2. a few people had to leave and as we waited for reinforcements for attempt #2 we learned some lessons:

1. everyone gets some echo drops to cure silena, since that's what got us all killed.
2. we would clear the big room and fight there so we could stand far, far away and avoid that horrible breath attack.
3. cassie is hard.

it took forever for the other ppl to show up, something like 2 hours. we got all buffed up, cleared some junk out, and got ready for attempt #2. approximate chain of events:

0 secs: PLD pulls and everyone starts meleeing her. mages are in the back curing nicely.
5 secs: stink breath. we are all asleep (also, silenced, bound, gravityed, in yellow from 200+ damage aoe, blinded and paralyzed)
15 secs: cassie has killed most of the alliance and bind wears off. 2-4 mages run away (behind me, to exit), i run TOWARD her to try to sleep it (laff) because i knew running away was hopeless. and of course sleep doesn't land but she is more agro on the mages so she runs OVER me and back toward them. now i am deep in feiyin, about 300 HP, with paralyze and a bunch of other junk. i panicked and ran (gravity was on so i was walking slowly) from cassie, deeper in (to the tunnel to the west). i got to a small clearing and tried to sneak myself and tried to divine seal + cure3 but paralyze blocked them >.< i did a paralyna and some bats agroed me. i slept them and WALKED (gravity) as fast as i could into the tunnel. grav wore off and i sneaked myself and the bats showed up and hit me and sneak was off. i managed to cure, sneak, invis, and deodorize myself and i tried to head back to zone. i dont remember the exact chain of events but basically i circled back into the main room, colossus stripped my sneak+ invis and agroed me and hit me, utukku agroed my yellow HP and bats agroed my unsneaked self. this was all right next to my dead party so they were using party chat to comfort me on my impending demise. however, this bard still had a few tricks up his sleeve! namely lullaby and horde lullaby :D i slept some of the junk that was chasing me, reapplied sneak, and ran ran ran. i actually somehow made it to zone with about 20 things behind me and 40 or so HP. it was miraculous

of course we gave up at that point, having learned a lot about ourselves, each other, and about cassie.



but we did get about 240k drops out of the trip. still, not the best outcome.

more screenshots, see next post!

[grunion]

PART II

finally got a leviathan party together. i had heard it was the hardest cloister to get to because you have to fight the guardian (VT doll at 58), and you couldn't cast invis/sneak because of dolls around and because you need a special item to get in, the paintbrush. colossus had the brush and knew the route so we went in with PLD, BLMx2, WHMx2, and BRD (me), which had worked without a failure in about 20 other summon fights.

when i was invited to join, the PLD hadn't joined. i asked who it was and rollchan said Benitora ... i told her i had less than great dealings with him in the past (by the end of a 2-hour XP party, 3 of 5 ppl had blisted him, and he told me he "can't be pld without ballad" when i had to go and was replaced with a DRK ... which begs the question what the other 500 PLD's do but never mind). but i left it at that, hoping maybe that was just a bad day.

we got to the temple and in without much difficulty and actually all the way to the cloister in just a few mins. it was rather easy actually and probably safer than garuda or ifrit because most of the stuff, though numerous in quantity, was EP to me and even too weak to other ppl in pt. however beni was being pretty rude and demanding, even prompting a couple pt members to send me /tells saying i was right about him.

basically the route is: you only need invis for tonberrys, tomora (coerl), and wespe. stay right (east then south) and zone back out, then follow passage and zone back in. go through gate (uninvis), and there's a T intersection (where you can use a stack of cabbage to pop a crawler that drops an item used to craft the wedding dress, so it's usually camped). take a left and kill Guardian doll (prob about level 60, easy unless it blows up, in which case everyone dies). when the doll dies you have about 10 seconds to go into the next room. there is an NM doll named manipulator circling around, and he never agroed so i dont know if he agroes to magic or not. go left (north) into another room with many tonberry's. this is the room you come to for zilart M4 by the way. go through the room (north?) and you start going into a cave and zone into den of rancor. basically run through the first room, drop into a hole in the floor, and go left and zone into cloister. no problem.

here's what's in the hole:


so we got to cloister and another pt was there also. they told us levi had beaten them due to helaing itself constantly. however they were a bit crippled (in my opinion) in that they had a DRG, and altho im no expert i think our pt setup was the best for summons. we made some rudimentary plans and entered



the first thing that was bad was that i showed beni where he should pull to, and he said "no, i will fight in the arena." the prob with that is that the AOE attacks would hit the mages. i tried to explain that but he was off and running. i started to do my buffs, carol + ballad, and he just ran to leviathan. i said WAIT, REBUFF, and he apparently felt it wasn't necessary. we were a good 10 seconds from leviathan and buffing when he went into the arena (out of sight because it's a lowered pit) and before we could even react, much less run over and help, he was dead. rollchan actually managed to catch up and get 1 cure on him but it was too little, too late.

we ran down to the crystal and zoned out. levi smacked roll and she died. she reraised and zoned out with us. beni said that in order for him to try again (easy enough since we just had to wait for his body to pop, raise 3 him, and re-enter), we would all have to pay him. after some expressions of shock and outrage (and me silently thinking, i told you so), we naturally all left. rollchan stayed to give him his raise and then he told her it was her fault he died, that she sucked, etc. in short he was an ass. on the way in he said he wouldn't charge us like ceciliantes (a universally hated midgardsormr pld) and i said something derogatory about cecil, and beni said "i like him, he's a cool guy" so that should probably have been enough evidence that things wouldn't go well. anyway it was a failure, due to bad choice of PLD, and now we have to wait for someone with the paintbrush to want to go again.

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a couple other random pics:

moogle in jeuno, don't ask me how it got there. no one else could see it, and i could get the nomad moogle menu but none of the options worked except delivery box. for a lark i had ppl send me random deliveries and without zoning to mog house i was able to give them back what they sent me :D



also in altepa an amusing scene, 4 charmed beetles attacking a scorp :D

[Bagel]

What stuff did you kill in fei'yin for all the good stuff? And what do they con? If they're like VT/IT maybe ill suggest to my LS party that we go down there and xp/make good money. We're level 58-59 btw.

[Entwain]

nice!

Nice Grun its good to see what some people are up to

Entwain
Dark Knight 52

[grunion]

utukku and hellish weapons, both VT to 58/59. there's enough down there that you could prob pull then continuously without waiting for respawn (2 weapons by zone, at least 2 utukku by big room). however it's a very dangerous area so i think you'd have to be on your toes or youd all die.

the good news is that if you escape you could walk right back down there in under 2 minutes.

make sure you take a thief.

[LunarGaze]

Wow rollchan is nicer then me. If i was the whm i would leave him dead down there for being so stupid and clearly rushing in too early and killing himself. Then he had to nerve to demand pay for helping again after it was solely his fault he messed it up the first time. I would slap his dead body then like i said leave him there. Rollchan you are a better man/women whatever you may be in real life then me.

[Issaac]

Hehe, i love your Journals. Nice done with a good mixture to screenshots. And always a lot of dead tarus to see...oh wait dead Grunions



Guivre does not see invisible. He is very fast on his patrol way (i was kind of impressed by the speed hes moving without beeing agroed). He hitted me for 580dmg.

I saw Guivre




He saw me

[ssj2liger0]

damn that thing's stronger than Sea Horror . nice journal btw .

[voodoo]

you've got a knack for telling stories XD

that moogle thing happened to me once too, in the exact same position it's in on your screenshot. I did a /poke <t> on it and it did come up with "Apocalypse pokes Moogle.".
I too could use all the commands. very weird

[Somajan]

I think the moogle appears every time you change your job, the only reason why you didn't see it is probably because that area of jeuno is lagged like crazy.

I remember seeing a moogle in the middle of SSan d'Oria after I had changed jobs, it used to spawn right in front of the steps that lead to NSan d'Oria. Nobody else saw it though, and I Was able to do the normal stuff, except change jobs. This happened after changing my job.