Dark Knight AF Guide

[Hisdon]

went smoothly, got both our boots...today was a good day for me, I got the following

-AF boots
-broke 50 cap
-my first Sniper's Ring
-GS up to 94.5
-max scyth, 153

[Izual]

Originally posted by truong
ok I have a few questions about the AF in Monastic Cavern. First, are the mobs there tough? What level would I need to be to farm for the key there? Can a team of 54-55 kill those Orcs?

God no. A 56-57 party will still have a lot of trouble with most of them. Their level seems to vary pretty much, but some of them still con VT-IT at 60:sweat: And since there aren't many good places to camp, you don't really get to choose which ones you fight.

By the way, I'm referring to the dreadnought/farkiller/dragoon/champion class orcs. As far as I know, they are the only ones that drop keys. The zerkers are a few levels lower, but I don't think they drop coffer keys.

You can buy a map of Davoi from an npc in san, monastic carvern is included.

[Hisdon]

this sounds like one of those where we call on the LS for high lvl help...

[Sorath]

To the guy who said completed and/or received Borghertz's shadowy hands as being the proper one, yes that's right. Unfortunately I accidently left that part out while adjusting the Guide for VNboards since they screwed up my <bold> text. (only members can use code).

to Truong: I found my Davoi/Monastic Cavern coffer key the hardest to obtain, since it took so damn long for it to drop. 12 hours total spent farming the key with different PTs I pulled together slowly.

And to confirm, Orcish Zerkers will not drop the coffer key.

p.s. The AF Guide is available on quite a few websites now, so feel free to browse around for the .txt version i made.

[MAK]

Ha i beet all of you i spent a total of 17 hours in there..then drako decides to come help me, killed just 1 and it drops the key..

[truong]

lol consider me lucky then, cuz I just finished the AF in Monastic Cavern in a little under an hour :p Found the key with the help of a level 75 PLD and 75 Summoner in about 30 minutes, then they left and I immediately solo searched for the coffer. Found it right away where it's supposed to spawn (saw from an online map).

I hope the AF Cuirass in Oztroja goes as well as this one =D

[Herc]

For AF3 , about the blood how is hard is it to get it ?
can you solo the mob @ 56 or not ? ^^

[Sorath]

the mob is around "tough" to a level 54+ so i doubt you can solo it. A couple of friends would help.

[Herc]

damn blood we hunted for an hour and a half and no drop ; ;
hehe we'll try tomorrow with a thf again hope we have better luck

[Kodimus]

there are actually like 8 coffer spawn points in monastic, not 5

[Ednoon]

about AF2

AF2 question

i went with LS to do Pal AF1 today, i saw like 4 holes there i need to know which one i should jump down if anyone can answer this please.

[Sorath]

Since your post says Pal AF1, I wouldn't have any idea since this is the DRK AF guide.

But if you're referring to DRK AF2 and ordelle's caves, the south-east hole is fine.

[Ednoon]

thanks for helping Sorath, just to make sure i found a map if this will make things clear.

http://www.speakeasy.org/~sticks/ffx...9;s_Caves.html

Map-1 (H-12)?

[Sorath]

Aye.

You see, the level below that hole has a dropoff that you cant climb, so the only way to get onto that higher platform is by dropping thru the hole from above onto the higher platform. The path upwards is earlier on as you can see from the maps. After dropping thru the hole, check out the area for the first ??? if i remember correctly.

Also, after killing all 3 NMs, you can exit from the zone out near the Napalm's spawn, to get the cutscene and AF Boots. And also progress the quest to AF3 automatically.

[Doku]

http://www.speakeasy.org/~sticks/ffxi/named/Mp_Ordelle's_Caves_02.html

From the above map, I see a ??? at H-8 and another ??? at H-10.

These are the only 2 I have found in the entire area, I thought there were 3 '???' ?

So do I trade a dark ignot at H-8 then trade the item at H-10 then what about the last "???" ?

Am I talking about the right "???" 's ?