Rank 10

Well worth the struggle for the final mission. Glad I tried it solo, because it's not at all easy to find people to do these missions (even by doing "/sea all rank 9 san" and asking everyone I saw was no use, they were all on 9-1).


I made two more attempts at 9-2, the first ending like this:


I unintentionally MPK'd Trion when trying to kite the DRK during his 2-hour.

The difficulty in this fight lies in
a) Keeping both yourself and Trion alive, which requires you to;
b) Keep hate of Trion because he eats up damage and has low HP, and;
c) Not run out of MP, and try not to die during Convert (which will be needed for the final part of the fight).

I guess I would have had a little less trouble (and probably won a little while back) if I took a vile elixir or two.

Although the failed attempts weren't entirely wasted time:


It's been a long time since I got any increase in shield skill, it should be very close to the cap (189?) now. (not pictured) I got another parrying level too~


Feeling a little dismayed after another failed attempt, wasted food and 2-hour, I went back in again to see if he would ever deviate from his usual pattern of BLM > DRK > PLD.

I didn't have chainspell ready, so fully expecting to lose, I just went in without food. He did change his order, much to my relief, to BLM > PLD > DRK, which works out well because I can keep the DRK slept while we kill the pld, and the BLM dies fast so it gets him out of the way.

I had to kite the DRK again during his 2-hour, because his hits happily smash through stoneskin and it doesn't help when he's draining you for 100~200 HP every attack.



I never considered the time limit to be a potential problem, but if it had lived for 30 more seconds I would have been feeling very depressed.

I did screw up a couple of times on this run (interrupted initial cast on the 2nd part of the fight, then got slept and suddenly had the DRK and PLD hitting me, and Trion getting beaten up by the BLM) but I recovered just about, and not having food probably slowed me down on the first part of the fight (having to recast stoneskin more often) so I don't think the time limit is a major issue as long as you don't waste any time or screw up too much.

So, that's the whole of San d'Oria's storyline soloed (except 5-1 D:), and 9-2 was the only challenging one of the bunch. The others were fun though, I like easy wins.

In addition to my 100k and San d'Orian flag, I farmed up an Azure key while I was down in Fei'Yin, which traded in for this;


1.6k in NPCable junk!

And I couldn't have completed these missions at a better time, because Bastok now have Saruta AND are 3rd in conquest so it'll be cheap swapping nations!



Now to see how much I can solo of the Bastok storyline. I know enough Bastokans that will help me do missions if I get stuck anyway, so this shouldn't be as tough.