WOTG Nation Quests Discussion (4/09)

[Zane]

Alright, just did both San d'Oria quests, and I thought I might add a little input:

The first NM is a Black Mage that can insta-cast spells later on in the fight, has access to Dispelga and Blindga as well as -ga III's and Single target IV nukes. As previously mentioned, his Curse is especially dangerous, bringing you to 1/2 HP and MP. Highly, HIGHLY do not recommend /war tanking this on Pld. I did, not knowing what I was going into and got pwned around the 15% mark when he was insta-casting single target nukes.

The Young Behemoth is particularly dangerous. My party was ill-prepared having 2 pick up DD's. We were unable to deal sufficient Damage in a short period of time, and one of the Damage dealers died fairly early.

- Shockwave is dangerous. Unsure if it's conal or AoE, but you might want to face the Behemoth away for an added precaution.

- After engaging, dispel immediately. The Behemoth's en-thunder effect can do up to 105 points of damage with Barthundra on.

- The Behemoth is also capable of dropping a fairly geared Paladin from white to double digits instantly, your healers will have to be on the ball.

- As previously stated, he can get spammy, sometimes attacking four or five times back to back, other times taking 4 - 5 seconds in between his attacks, also, around 20%, he seemed to continuously spam TP attacks.

- There may be a hate reset move, a low hate cap, or an innate resistance to magic damage. I have only done the battle once, but Young Behemoth never took more than 400 from an Atonement.

- Finally, if you wipe: DO NOT GET UP IF YOU ARE CLOSE TO THE BEHEMOTH. Everyone in the zone will instantly wipe upon aggro. No damage, nothing in the log, just death.

Obviously, I have not beaten Young Behemoth, it's late and I'll try again tomorrow. Good luck to those of you about to fight him!

[6souls]

updated post up to the BC

[Fryte]

Is there a fix to the Windurst quest NMs spawning and then disappearing immediately?

[Bockage]

The final item for the last windy (s) mission is a complete mystery. There's a ''Writhing Flame'' at D7 on the first floor of castle oztroja (s). Checking it gives you a cutscene with Kaa Toru the Just, but all he says is to bring him proof of your worth. There's no hint to what it is, we're stuck atm. Just tried Judgement Key with no success.

[Indalecia]

Im seriously gonna laugh if its an Ashura necklace or whatever

[Ratatapa]

i doubt it but you think the last bastok BC can be soloed?

[Tanish]

I hope they can be solo, its always so hard to get people to do these things. I dont even mind duo/trio but after that its hard to get time/interest of other players ; ;

[Fryte]

They completely removed the door that is needed for The Long March North. Maybe a zone maintenance later?

[tymora]

Young Behemoth has some special characteristics.
1. Takes 50% from Thunder Spells.
2. It retaliates against magic attack spells (e.g. Blizzard IV). Every such spell you cast on it will make it use "Thunderbolt" like a Colibri, so do not spam spells. After a certain HP% it appears to retaliate against drain as well (not confirmed).
3. Cannot be slept/bound/grav-ed.
4. High evasion - Need sushi or BRD.

-> Magic is still effective but don't cast continuously and make sure everyone is ready to take the thunderbolt.

[grantlogan]

What's the reward for Honor Under Fire?

[Gwynplaine]

So no one knows the reward for completing the second Bastok and Windy quests yet?

[calinz]

I dont think anyone can complete the 2nd windy quest... I've been at it for over 20 hours now and am going completely insane. Can't figure out what the darn yagudo wants!

[Indalecia]

The final item for the last windy (s) mission is a complete mystery. There's a ''Writhing Flame'' at D7 on the first floor of castle oztroja (s). Checking it gives you a cutscene with Kaa Toru the Just, but all he says is to bring him proof of your worth. There's no hint to what it is, we're stuck atm. Just tried Judgement Key with no success.

G7*

Also, for the pixie one, has to be passed 18:00 game time before you can trade bottled pixie to fay blossoms.

[Bockage]

Also, for the pixie one, has to be passed 18:00 game time before you can trade bottled pixie to fay blossoms.

Good catch I forgot to mention that you can only trade the pixie at nighttime.

Anyhow, still stuck on finding out what Kaa Toru the Just wants.

[Indalecia]

Yeah no shit

this is retarded

[Yubar]

Well spending pretty much all day running around on Midgar. Finally got that bird part done from The Forbidden Path. I had to trade a testimony to the Writhing Flame, but I believe the testimony has to be the job that you're on.

[Indalecia]

Oh god finally, looking for tests now.

[Kalessa]

Just a little more update on the San d'Oria Young Behemoth Fight.

Defeated with just the both of us, as shown in the pic below. We were pretty driven by the stories and wanted to try to win this on our own hehe. It took us our third try to win (First try wiped at 2%~, second died too early due to messing up shadows, and won on third). I wont recommended it as it is much easier if you got more people to help, but if you don't have the options and want the challenge, go for it (bring meds and food)

Setup was SAM/NIN + RDM/SCH

Just a few additional notes, Zane put a few nice tidbit already on the battle.

- Shock wave increases in damage as Young Behemoth's HP decreases. It starts roughly doing 230~ and as it goes down to 20%, it will do up to 900 damage. I wouldn't stick around long to see how much it would do any lower. This is where zerging it down is recommended (used 2hr). Shock wave is Conal + knockback like any behemoth.

- Does Triple attack from the looks of it.

- Sometimes it does spam TP multiple times, like multiple Howls... (that kinda saved me putting shadows up sometimes). I haven't seen a back-to-back Shock wave though.

- Dispel is necessary for the fight to get rid of the en-thunder effect. I think using Howl adds the latent en-thunder effect, but I am not 100% certain of this...

- Debuffs seems to work fine. Slow II landed, blind landed, Paralyze II landed also (but wears somewhat quick, fighting on iceday helped it seemed)

- Both times when Young Behemoth was under 20%, it did use Thunderbolt regardless. I'm not sure because Hecatae did accumulate a good amount of hate curing me in the first round, but in the 3rd attempt I was doing well holding hate throughout.

[Bockage]

Well spending pretty much all day running around on Midgar. Finally got that bird part done from The Forbidden Path. I had to trade a testimony to the Writhing Flame, but I believe the testimony has to be the job that you're on.

Just confirmed that this works. I <3 <3 <3 you.

[Indalecia]

Just need testimony of any job your on, no matter level. Roomie just got CS with level 8 monk...then went splat afterwards.