Swift Belt Guide by Ilean

Swift Belt

 * All Jobs, All Races
 * Accuracy +3
 * Attack -5
 * Haste +4%
 * Haste +4%


 * The Swift Belt is a nice piece of equipment which can't be bought, you will have to work and fight for it.

Fomor Codex



 * “This aged book is said to contain the tragic history of the Fomors. However, you cannot read the cryptic characters that fill the pages.”

Fomor Codex are used to spawn the NMs which drop the Swift Belt, you can usually buy these from bazaars but can also be farmed quick and easily from Tarus in Phomiuna Aqueducts.

Tarus
Taurus are demon type monsters, they have true sight aggro but not sound, they link, their only special attack you should worry about is 'Mortal Ray', a line-of-effect ability that inflicts 'Doom' (10 seconds countdown before death). However, 'Mortal Ray' only works if the victim is facing the Taurus, and it takes 2-3 seconds to go off, it can be easily stunned or the target can simply turn his back to it, fighting Taurus unlocked is the safest way to do it so you can turn your back quick.

If 'Mortal Ray' lands just keep using 'Holy Water' one after another until 'Doom' goes away, on average it takes 3 'Holy Water' to remove 'Doom', 'Cursna' works too but it isn't 100% either.



Phomiuna Aqueducts (Level cap 40)
Between the zone to the Tavnazian Safehold and Taurus camp A there are a few Pugils, Fomors and Slimes. Slimes aggro to sound and Fomors to sound and low HP. In the first camp there are 3 'Easy Prey' or 'Decent Challenge' Taurus and 3 Bats, the Bats don't aggro at all.

Nothing in the way between Taurus camp A and B aggros but the Taurus in camp B are 'Very Tough' or 'Incredibly Tough', still if you have the numbers for it you can kill Taurus non stop moving from one camp to another.

“The grip of evil is tightening on the very essence of what makes you who you are. Be forewarned, as it will not be long before you are confronted with a battle for more than just your life.” - Maximum hate, aggro.

Rumor has it that if you kill too many Fomors they will even aggro thru sneak, this never happened even having the ammount of hate required to spawn the NMs.

Getting max Fomor hate is simple, you can do it easily in Lufaise Meadows, or a bit harder in Sacrarium but farming the JSE 50 subligars at the same time.



Fomors at these spots only spawn from 20:00 to 4:00 game time, meaning you have 20 real minutes to kill as many as possible, they respawn after 5 minutes so it isn't too difficult, if you kill them all 3 times each you should be very close to having maximum Fomor hate, they are partied though, bring your full Swift Belt group here and move together so you kill as fast as possible, then you can move to the other camps while they respawn.

You can clear Fomor hate by killing Orcs and Gigas in Lufaise Meadows and Misareaux Coast, killing Taurus might also reduce Fomor hate.

Sacrarium: Maze (Level cap 50)
Sacrarium is a rather small area and it is much less dangerous than it seems, near the entrance you will find a couple of Taurus, some Gazers (eye slimes), and Bats. Bats don't aggro at all, Gazers aggro to sound and Taurus to true sight as usual. It's better if you kill the Taurus before starting so you don't have to deal with sneaking past behind them.

There are two entrances to the maze, one north and one south, and also there are some light-blue marked walls all over the maze, these walls change randomly each game day but it doesn't matter much. The only walls that matter are the ones right after the entrance points, only one entrance is open at a given time but there is always a way to reach exits A and B.



Knowing that walls shift every game day it's better not to go into the maze when the day is about to change, so people don't get separated by wall shifts. Once you enter the maze just keep going east, from exit A you can only reach the Hume room, from exit B you can access all the rest of Sacrarium, Hume room included. The maze is full of undead, everyone needs to be able to sneak themselves, there is always a good place to recast sneak or use a silent oil, just be careful if the route you are following takes you by the small rooms with Taurus in them, hughing the oposite wall will be enough to avoid aggro, their sight range is actually pretty short.

Sacrarium: Rooms (Level cap 50)
In the second part of Sacrarium there are 6 rooms, 5 of them belonging each to one race, inside of these rooms there is a 'Stale Draft' spot, this is where you trade the Fomor Codex. If you examine the 'Stale Draft' you will get a message according to your Fomor hate:
 * “You start to get goosebumps” – Minimal Fomor hate.
 * “Your heart is racing” – Moderate Fomor hate.
 * “Your common sense tells you to leave as quickly as possible” – Maximum Fomor hate, can spawn NM.

You can check your Fomor hate in any room regardless of your race, but you can only spawn the Swift Belt NM in the one corresponding to your race.

In the map each room is marked with the initial of its corresponding race, there are two spots where a Taurus just sits there and walks around changing the direction it is facing, be patient, there are partied Fomors around so it would be very dangerous to get Taurus aggro. If you get aggro around the Taurus you can go to the 'Emergency Camps' marked in the map, fight in the corridor where 6 bones are standing, these bones don't aggro at all, they won't touch you if you don't attack them first.

If you need to build Fomor hate inside Sacrarium you should do it in the safe camps marked as blue spots, if you fight in the middle of the hallway on the stairs you will be safe from low HP aggro, both from the Fomors in the room and the ones in the corridor. The best place to build Fomor hate inside Sacrarium is the camp outside the Tarutaru room, Fomor Black Mages and Summoners are very easy to kill once silenced.



The Notorious Monsters
Once you have maximum Fomor hate you can spawn the NMs which may drop the Swift Belt, drop rate is around 1/3.
 * Hume
 * Balor – RNG/MNK

Balor is the easiest of the five NMs, he will use 'Eagle Eye Shot' when you get him down to around 2/3 HP, as long as your tank survives it or you have a spare tank the fight will be a breeze. Ninja will do better here, as 'Eagle Eye Shot' can almost one-shoot a well equiped Paladin.


 * Mithra
 * Caithleann – RDM/NIN

She will use both Ninja spells and Red Mage spells, along with 'Chainspell'.


 * Elvaan
 * Luaith – THF/WAR

Luaith is hard for Ninja tanks, he hits hard and has both 'Double Attack' and 'Triple Attack', bring a Paladin for him.


 * Tarutaru
 * Lobais – SMN/BLM

He is bad news, he uses both summoning magic and black magic, and worse, he uses 'Astral Flow'. Besides he wields a staff so he will do a quite powerful 'Grim Halo'.


 * Galka
 * Indich – BRD/PLD

Uses Bard songs and Paladin spells, watch for 'Lullaby', his special is 'Soul Voice'.

Once someone with maximum Fomor hate trades a Fomor Codex to the 'Stale Draft' spot inside the room for his race, the corresponding NM will spawn and his Fomor hate will be reduced to the minimum. 'Sneak' effect will be removed when the NM spawns so it is necessary to clear the Fomors that are in the way back to the camp. The 'Stale Draft' will appear again 15 minutes after the NM dies.

Balor is really easy, if you have enough Humes in your group you might want to stick to him, spawning Balor for people of the other races. Balor can be done with a balanced 5 people group but since 'Eagle Eye Shot' may kill a tank easily it's better to go with at least 6 and bring more than one tank.