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  • BLM AF3 Guide

    Done

    Alliance of 14 people.

    5 Blm's lvl 55-64
    2 Pld's lvl 56-60
    2 drk's lvl 58-60
    1 rdm lvl 60
    1 whm lvl 60
    1 drg lvl 62
    1 thf lvl 58
    1 sam lvl 60

    Piece of CAKE. Getting through the Tor Canal takes a bit of time, as you're not going to keep 14 people sneaked/invised. The NM was laughable with this party setup.

    I had just run out of mp as it was about to die. So figure having 4-5 blm's is good to kill it before you run out of mp.

    You get the quest in windurst, same place as Af1 and Af2. Heavens tower, Chumimi. Talk to her, Cutscene follows. You'll be asked to bring Doctor Koru-moru a square of silk thread (these sell at the AH for about 2.5k-3k each or you can synthesize one by using 3 spools of silk thread + 1 earth crystal).

    Btw, before you go, make sure ALL the blm's have traded a square of silk thread to doctor Koru-moru so he can repair the doll for you. One of our blm's forgot....

    Now you want to go to the outer horutoto ruins in east Sarutabaruta. On your map, it looks like an oval rectangular figure located middle/east of you the map. There's also one completely SE on the map, and there are more in west saru. You want the one in east Saru, middle-east of the map.

    Now, in the Tor canal EVERYTHING aggroes you. And the pugil type monsters seem to aggro from miles away. Cut a path through them as you move, nothing here is TOO tough.

    It's pretty easy in there. First ??? is at H-7, theres a slime type monster near so just make sure your sneak is ok. Short cut scene follows. (One more thing, the entire party doesn't have to go to where the first two ??? are. Just have the blm's sneak there way to those locations. You can have the rest of the party/alliance wait at the 3rd ??? really)

    2nd ??? is at I-9. There's another slime type monster there, so same thing, sneak up. Click it, cut scene. Now USE Manafont and click on the ??? again, cut scene.

    And the last ??? is at J-8. If more then 1 blm are doing the AF3, first clear the room of all monsters (1 scorpion and 2 undead). 1st Blm goes to the ???, clicks it...cutscene, and runs back. Don't attack the NM. Wait about 3-5minutes, it will vanish. 2nd blm goes, clicks the ???. You will have to click it a good number of times as there seems to be a delay for when the NM vanishes (took about 2 minutes before i got my cut scene). When it spawns, same thing, run back. Repeat for as many blm's as you have.

    When the last blm spawns the NM, obliterated it. Escape out, warp everyone home and run to windurst. Go to Chumimi, cut scene follows.

    And you get the ever popular....wizards petasos!!!!

    Now i need 5 more lvl's so i can equip it......

    *Stores his non-gay harry potter hat in his mog house*

    Sooooon my preecccciiiiiouuuussssss.......
    AF Gear - DONE
    Rank: 6
    Ice Staff?: "Oh Yes"!

  • #2
    Forgot to mention, in order to get into the Tor canal you WILL need a minimum of 1 blm, 1 whm and 1 rdm. The magic door that leads to the Tor Canal opens only when those 3 jobs stand on each of the glyphs on the floor in front of the door. It looks very cool so i suggest snapping a few screenshots.
    AF Gear - DONE
    Rank: 6
    Ice Staff?: "Oh Yes"!

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    • #3
      Forgot yet another thing....

      "When the last blm spawns the NM, obliterated it. Escape out, warp everyone home and run to windurst. Go to Chumimi, cut scene follows."

      Don't escape out after you obliterate it...not before all the blm's click on the ??? again. You'll get a message saying "Investigation of Tor Canal is concluded." And the doll will tell you to return to Chimimi. Now you can escape out.

      Sue me for forgeting to put this in...it's 6am....i'm going to bed.
      AF Gear - DONE
      Rank: 6
      Ice Staff?: "Oh Yes"!

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      • #4
        One FINAL THING.....if you want a map of the Tor Canal, you get it by doing quests in Mhaura. The quest giver is: Rycharde (he's located in I - 8 in Mhaura.) I believe you have to do 3-4 quests for him before you get the one for the map.
        AF Gear - DONE
        Rank: 6
        Ice Staff?: "Oh Yes"!

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        • #5
          I did this last night. Got hat, i'm full AF now ^^

          Party Was :

          4 BLM
          3 WHM
          1 RDM
          2 PLD

          Aside from the 2 PLD, everyone else could sneak themselves. So getting to all the ??? spots was fast.

          The NM died in under 30 seconds, was super easy. The PLD wasn't taking alot of dmg, so all the mages including WHM opened up on it.

          I know the guides say bring alot of BLM, but to tell the truth, even with top quality gear, pies, elemental seal, ancient magic was still only doing like 200-300 dmg. I had my filters on, but I bet the WHM's where doing more dmg with Holy than the BLM because its a light nuke on a dark elemental.

          So If you can't find 6-7 BLM like all the guides suggest, get some extra WHM's instead ^^

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          • #6
            This is why i'm going to say no to "bring along extra whm's if you don't have more blm's":

            Holy: Cooldown = 40seconds
            Banish 2: Cooldown = 30-40seconds

            Whm's aren't nukers for a reason. The nukes they have have a cooldown perdio that's longer then the cooldown period for our Ancient Magic, even.

            I don't know how you beat it in 30 seconds with that party setup, spork. If the fight lasted 30 seconds, that means each of your whm's got off a Holy (for 100-250dmg) and maybe a Banish 2 (For 100-200damage).

            We have 5 blm's chain casting Fire III, Aero III, Water III, Stone III, one after the other none stop (for 250-400damage) and it still took a good minute to take it down.

            Whm's are not nukers, there offensive spells have an extremely long cooldown period and it would take roughly 10 whm's to equal the nuking power of 1 blm.
            AF Gear - DONE
            Rank: 6
            Ice Staff?: "Oh Yes"!

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            • #7
              Well it's not like I whipped out a stopwatch or something and timed it. 30sec.. 40sec.. who knows.. I only got off 2 normal nukes and 1 ancient before it was dead, so I'm just guessing on the time.

              Sorta sucked too, I spent cash on a few Yag drinks and didn't even get to use them, was at half mana when the NM died. lol

              As for WHM dmg. whatever, like I said, I had my filters on, had no idea what kind of dmg they where doing, all I know is it died fast so they must of been helping some.

              It's not like I was saying do this fight with 1 BLM and 6 WHM, i'm just saying WHM are not TOTALLY useless in the fight since they have light nukes and it's a dark elemental.

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              • #8
                My alliance got through without a RDM. That's because I had done the Windurst Mission "Written in the Stars" (Rank 3 I think) and given Kupipi her Rolanberry to get the charm that opens that door.

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                • #9
                  but wouldn't everyone have to have done it?
                  For The Horde!!
                  Current Gil total spent on gear:
                  3,235,000
                  Current Gil Value of gear:
                  1,151,000
                  Laughing when new players complain about prices:
                  Priceless

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                  • #10
                    No. When I examined the door the three "pads" behind me lit up as if the usual three mages were standing on them, then the door opened as usual. It's not one of those doors like the airship arrival and departure gates, everyone can pass through. I'd already been through there on my own to check things out beforehand.

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