Talk:A Fate Decided

Our party set up = Nin/War, War/Nin, Whm/Blm, Brd/Whm, Blu/Nin & Mnk/War and one Drg/War that came allong to help us navigate having done the mission previously.

This by far can be one of the most time extensive single missions of COP, it's designed to slow your progress in my opinion but that does not mean that you cannot plan ahead to cut the time in half. Again since this is not a closed BC mission try to bring any help you can, use that to your advantage and save yourself allot of time (since this mission is really about just consuming time).

The Quasilumin NPC escort is pretty straight forward and if you have ever done any other NPC escort quest then you are well familiar with the mechanics of how it works. SE also put more then enough time for each Quasilumin section, so unless you are literally wasting time you should have no problem getting it to its next destination within the prescribed time limit.

Aerns will not aggro Quasilumin's but just about anything else will, you have 2 choices with Ghrah's: You can either wait for them to turn into ball form and start up the Quasilumin to proceed safely past or you can simply kill the Ghrah's and pots on the way. If you have the firepower I advise to just fight your way through, nothing you will encounter on the way with a full pty will pose any real challenge to you. And killing is much faster and yeilds you decent amount of xp and drops by the end of the quest!

The NM for this mission Ix'ghrah is really nothing too get overly excited about. Do not underestimate him but do not invest any significant amount of time or energy into a strategy to beat him either since it really wont be necessary. We fought him on lightnings day and he opened with Thunderga IV which we were ready for (hence knowing he will cast whatever element the day is) had already the correct Bar spell up and it did very minimal damage. After about 1 skill chain he was dead, he changed forms fairly quickly but never lived beyond the 3rd change. Again this mission is to slow you down and eat up time. Just kill as quickly as possible if your goal is to move onto the next mission as quickly as possible. --Justis 22:07, 19 February 2007 (EST)