Shantotto Ascension

[Cesaria]

Toramai Canal map needed?

Hey Sho!

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Just ho checkin.

I'm like 22 cloth, 20 smithing, 10 wood, 2 leather.

I liked farming, made my gil farming before everything was flooded/nerfed, and didn't enjoy crafting enough to really push farther.

It isn't much different for people with higher crafting skills though, from reading the "fuck, I've got 100+3 alch and crit broke the whole thing".

I'll try again if they did break crafting and fixed it with this maint, but this shit is retarded nonetheless.

Pre-maint:
1/3 on my own char (has 73 alchemy)
0/5 on my fella's char (has naff all alchemy)

Post-maint:
1/3 on fella's char.

Seriously this is fucking ridiculous - taken 11 hours of refarming items to get through that bullshit - if it's going to require craft skill SE, make it non-ex... if it's truly craftable by a newbie crafter (as it should be for an EX crafted item) - then it needs to be reasonably do-able at that synth level - and failing 7 times with the ensuing re-farming which has taken fucking hours is NOT reasonable - even by the standards of an SE fetch quest.

I've been tolerant of SE up till now but they seem to have gone out of their way even more than usual with the sadism and punishing players for wanting to finish content on this one. I'm fucking pissed off with this one - it's like they actively hate their playerbase for not taking 10 weeks to clear a questline.

[nyglypz]

Until wiki is up-to-date so I can post there, I decided to write down the positions of the hexes that you need to collect in Temple of Uggalepih/Den of Rancor. There's a total of sixteen(stat boosting key items for the final batlle)... g'luck!

Temple of Uggalepih
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Map1
Tablet of Hexes: Deceit ( F-8 )
Tablet of Hexes: Malice (F-10)

Map2 (Heading towards Rancor Den)
Tablet of Hexes: Envy ( F-8 )
Tablet of Hexes: Greed (G-10)
Tablet of Hexes: Pride (J-11)
Tablet of Hexes: Bale ( I-8 )

Den of Rancor
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Map1
Tablet of Hexes: Despair (J-13)
Tablet of Hexes: Regret (E-5)
Tablet of Hexes: Rage (K-11)
Tablet of Hexes: Agony (E-10)
Tablet of Hexes: Dolor? (J-9)
Tablet of Hexes: Rancor (F-11)
Tablet of Hexes: Strife (H-6)

Map3 (Hakutaku Map)
Tablet of Hexes: Penury (F-9)

Map2 (Sacrificial Chamber Entrance)
Tablet of Hexes: Blight (H-9)
Tablet of Hexes: Death (L-13)

Good Luck!

[finalwolf]

::tablets' position::

these tablets are temp key items?
wondering if I can collect them all and save them for a later date for the battle

[nyglypz]

these tablets are temp key items?
wondering if I can collect them all and save them for a later date for the battle

Yes, they are in the temporary key items menu. That's in fact what I'm doing, collected them all and sitting my mule behind the door to the BC. Had 5/6 last night, but didn't have a 6th and thought it would be necessary considering the previous two final battles.

[Deimos]

Has anyone redeemed the key(s) from this expansion at the Tenshodo coffer yet? Haven't seen anyone mention the rewards, curious if there's any cool augmented items this time around (not that I've gotten a good one from either of the other expansions).

[Corrderio]

Has anyone redeemed the key(s) from this expansion at the Tenshodo coffer yet? Haven't seen anyone mention the rewards, curious if there's any cool augmented items this time around (not that I've gotten a good one from either of the other expansions).

I traded in my cactuar key and got this:

http://www.bluegartr.com/forum/attac...1&d=1257885683

[Corrderio]

God that looks awful. Spike necklace is what 2 and 2 ? or 3 and 3? (to str and dex)


So no one with cool pants yet? or a strategy?

NQ is 2/2 and HQ is 3/3, it's like a gimped Heca Necklace

Anyway, did SE adjust the locations of the ???s in the canal? One of the people I'm doing the BC with is currently getting his key items and claims their location now moves depending on the day.

[WyldFyre]

Anyway, did SE adjust the locations of the ???s in the canal? One of the people I'm doing the BC with is currently getting his key items and claims their location now moves depending on the day.

Seems to be the case. I marked my map when I found them, and my fiancee's items were in a different spot. They definitely move.

[Onorgul]

I can't remember what I got from my Cactuar Key because it was that terrible (I think it was a log or something), but my Chocobo Key gave me a Varius Torque... with 1 Accuracy and 2 Attack. Seriously, SE?

And I spent something like 4 hours last night guiding people to the key items in the canal. Unless they changed it with today's patch, they don't budge an inch.

[WyldFyre]

And I spent something like 4 hours last night guiding people to the key items in the canal. Unless they changed it with today's patch, they don't budge an inch.

Yeah, last night. My guess is that they move at the change of (real life) day.

Lupus fits.

[jimbobsonofgod]

Be neat if they would just let us choose our augments like the final item.

And not force people to do the same shitty missions over and over again getting crappy augments for that 1% chance they'll actually land something they will use. Not on square's watch !

[Miari]

Tablet of Hexes: Dolor? (J-9)

Dolor is spanish for Pain... and it is...

[Lahan]

I got the CS leaving windy but I dont remember it assigning me a "kit"

and I can not find a goblin footprint in west saru to re watch it

[nyglypz]

Has anyone redeemed the key(s) from this expansion at the Tenshodo coffer yet? Haven't seen anyone mention the rewards, curious if there's any cool augmented items this time around (not that I've gotten a good one from either of the other expansions).

Cactuar Key LV50 (Awarded from the Gustav fight) I got a Hi-Elixer.

Chocobo Key LV70 (Awarded from Full Moon Fountain fight) I got a Pheonix Feather.

QQ

Dolor is spanish for Pain... and it is...

ty, I had no idea^^~ That's the only one in the list that eluded me.

[narusegwa]

o.o Game black out at Gustav CS -.-.. and i cant even use the nromal game without crashing my laptop Video Card Drivers-.- Anyone have any idea?

[gaimear]

o.o Game black out at Gustav CS -.-.. and i cant even use the nromal game without crashing my laptop Video Card Drivers-.- Anyone have any idea?

the way around that is to activate SE windowed mode, I got around that problem like that.

[Lahan]

It re gave me the CS at the footprint in E saru so that's solved.

[narusegwa]

i have that activated .. and if i just use se windower, my computer say no 3d found on laptop. but if i take se windower off.. it crashes my computer ..

[Corrderio]

Turned in my chocobo key, got an earring with +3 Conserve MP.

[Narol]

If so, thank god.

No. This isn't "CoP style difficulty." CoP fetishists salivate over brutally hard challenges, which is at least understandable. ASA however tells you to play dice against the random-number generator far more than fair, and can invalidate any amount of time spent along the way if synths decide to fail (to say nothing of artificial group-forcing like "only /ra damages these mobs"). It's not a fair challenge. It's not "difficulty" in any reasonable sense. It's just assholish random chance for the sake of artificially lengthening gameplay.

It's like they saw people clearing ACP and MKE in like a day or two each, then decided to make ASA say "fuck you" as loudly as it could. JP midnight waits were too good for us, apparently.