Grand Greedalox attempts Mission 5-1

Gobbiebag IX complete! 360k total cost, so not too bad.



Part X will have to wait until the ingot prices drop considerably, so I'm not quite the Grand Greedalox.

As previously mentioned, the next part of ACP I needed to do was in Fei'Yin, and without any Northlands outposts I needed more than one reason to slog all the way there on foot, so I decided to do mission 5-1 at the same time.


I embarked on the long journey through Ronfaure, Ranguemont Pass, Beaucedine and finally Fei'Yin because I don't like shouting for teleports, even if they would save me time (Banana chocobo has nothing to do with this actual journey, I just wanted an opportunity to post the screenshot).

Anyway, I get some cutscenes, zone into the arena place enter the BC for the imaginatively named 'Rank 5 mission', check my gear and spells (can use Composure!), zone out and re-enter for the actual attempt.



I went as /BLU because I wanted to pile on defence + phalanx to get as many hits down to 0 as possible so I could focus on damage. This worked, the only things to cause trouble were the TP moves of the boss skelly, and spells.

This first attempt went well, I nuked down the two BLM adds ASAP (they had more HP than expected, so I could only get the 2nd to 50% before running out of MP, so I meleed it down). The point of CS nuking these two down is not because they are overly dangerous (you can still melee them both down) but because they need to die fast so you can start killing the boss, as this is only a 15 minute BC and he has alot of HP to take off. Once those two are dead, the warrior skellies are stupid weak and will kill themselves on your spikes so can be ignored. Also, killing entire waves of them with Battle Dance was fun.

So all was going well until this happened:


My keyboard/mouse both broke themselves and I was stuck unable to target anything, use macros or even type commands in manualy. All I could do was run around. I had to force d/c after that, and logged back in dead.

I got a raise from some nice ACP mission folks, and went off to do the quest for that - which is running around Fei'Yin to find some swirly crystal light power stuff. You can choose the key item to enter the BC after completing this, or a key for the reward box in the Tenshodo HQ. I chose the key because I am greedy and selfish (and it's easy enough to repeat).

A second attempt at 5-1 without Chainspell available (I meleed the BLM adds down) taught me that the time limit is a serious problem, but I still think it's a possible RDM solo. INT potion, vile elixirs to make sure I can kill both BLMs in the first minute may be essential, as well as keeping poison on the boss throughout and maybe subbing WAR for double attack and defender (for CS nuke phase).