Dark Knight AF Guide

[Ednoon]

about AF chest and Leg

i heard you can also do the chest and leg after you recieve Borghertz's Shadowy Hands quest? and you dont actaully have to finsh the AF glvoes to do Chest Coffer and Legging Coffer?

[Sorath]

yep that's true

[Wisnu]

To Doku: u trade the darksteel ingot to the ??? at H-12 on the 3rd floor of the map. this is the area where u fall into from one of the 4 holes on the 1st floor.

[Vittra]

For the Eldieme coffer key are you sure a party of 53-55's can handle this? I ask because a lot of alliances lately have been coming back fully wiped out numerous times on our server :\

And is the entrance from beaucidine Glacier an area to find Tomb mages/warriors?

[Xephoid]

eldieme

don't even think about going with just a party of 53-55, you won't be able to land hardly any hits at all, and you'll get wiped out.

I did it at 57, with a Lv 65 DRK helping me, along with 2 of my friends Lv 56 PLD and RDM. Me and the PLD died once, and the DRK had to use the scroll of instant warp to escape with his life. The DRK had to call in his friend a Lv 65 RDM, and we were finally able to get the key.

I recommend a party of Lv 60. At 53-55, you won't be hitting for squat even with your weapons capped.

Oh, and stay the hell away from the tomb mage, go for the tomb warrior. :dead:

[Vittra]

hehe thanks. I hear from friends all of the trouble it is so I'm not looking forward to AF gloves :\

Do you recommend the same party setup for Castle Otroza key?

[Xephoid]

just to give you an idea

of what kind of lv those monster is in Eldieme: my PLD friend who got the Key earlier, had the help of some HLs, including a Lv 72 or 73 PLD. And he (Lv53-54 at the time), was STILL getting experience points off of each kill. heh

[Ednoon]

Castle Oztroja Coffer Key

a good group of 58 can do it, camp them in the locked room to high priest. clear to south east torch to open the gate or have thf do it, once you get in its very safe in the room to set up camp there. you'll get about 100-150xp for lv58-60 pt. i also heard thf's TH2 doesn't work with exe/rare items such as keys. took me about 10hours to get one key to drop 3 nights of camping (with 56 thf in PT). its very ramdom, it can be 30min or 10hours.

good luck.

[Kodimus]

Re: eldieme

Originally posted by Xephoid
don't even think about going with just a party of 53-55, you won't be able to land hardly any hits at all, and you'll get wiped out.

I did it at 57, with a Lv 65 DRK helping me, along with 2 of my friends Lv 56 PLD and RDM. Me and the PLD died once, and the DRK had to use the scroll of instant warp to escape with his life. The DRK had to call in his friend a Lv 65 RDM, and we were finally able to get the key.

I recommend a party of Lv 60. At 53-55, you won't be hitting for squat even with your weapons capped.

Oh, and stay the hell away from the tomb mage, go for the tomb warrior. :dead:

I don't know what to say...

I did it easily with my permagroup at 54. I did oztroja with a 4 person group, blm being the main healer, at 58. The only person above 58 was our bard, which was 60.

[tfung]

I went when I was 53 and 54 with PT's that was around the same lvl... and we were doing alright against the tomb warriors and killed them without too much trouble... only problem I find with eldieme is that it's tough to get a whole party downstairs.. with people losing sneak and getting agroed along the way, PT having to split up to open that gates, etc... Also, the lvl below is pretty hard to find a camp spot.... once you have to escape or warp out.. you gotta go through the whole damn maze again... I've yet to find a spot that we can safely camp from to farm the tomb mages and warriors... even when we do find one that looks okay, anytime a member of the PT goes into the red... a haunt or spriggan will agro us from a mile away.... any recommendations for a spot to camp?


still haven't gotten my key yet.. >_< I think I'll give it another go when I get to 60... probably will be easier then to get all the AF pieces in one go

[DaRKeVa93]

hi all
this is my first post at ffxionline

i'm currently a level 50drk/25war

i'm about to go do AF2

i was just wondering if you need only 1 darksteel ingot for multiple drks

or do you need 1 darksteel ingot per drk

thanks in advance

[Vittra]

So I got my chaos cuirass last night. We had 4 Drk's wanting a key...

so 4 55-57 Drks, 2 whm, 2 rangers, 1 thief, Blm, paladin

Got our first key within like 2 hours.... then we all almost died so the 2 rangers & blm left (all of our damage). We went to try it again and it was hard yet we could still kill them. At like 5:30am i got my key and then searched the coffer for the next hour, found it and gladly took my beating to homepoint, hehe. All together from 10pm-5:30am it dropped 2 keys. HORRIBLE!


For AF2 - You only need 1 darksteel ingot as you both get a cutscene when you exit the caves.

[DaRKeVa93]

Originally posted by Vittra
For AF2 - You only need 1 darksteel ingot as you both get a cutscene when you exit the caves.

ahh sweeet thanks

[DaRKeVa93]

ahhh thank you

i just did my AF2 today

went really smoothly

75 pld, 61 whm, 60 drk, 53 drk, 51, drg, 50 drk

me (50 drk) and 53 drk needed the af boots
so we split the cost of the ingot

we totally pwned those nms

^^

[Sorath]

Thanks go to AKosygin for making this post Sticky ^^b