With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility

*This entry talks about Monk’s Job Quests line in general, and then talks a little bit about the fight in final quest. It could be a mild spoiler. Screenshot and text contain a part of NPC dialogue from MNK quets lv 50, Five Easy Pieces.*

After a long time of slowpoking and dawdling around, today I got off my lazy bum and finally ran these legs to finish all Monk’s Job Quests. I must say, I never liked Professor Erik, at all, until the last cutscene. He is so full of himself and he looks down on those whom he deems unintelligent. He often talks down to me and disregards other people’s opinion, as you could expect from a typical extremist brainy-type NPC.

I don’t know if it’s just me and my imagination, or is his speech is even more offensive than in 1.0! Sometimes I really had an urge to drive my Monk’s punch against his scholarly face.

However, in the last cutscene of the whole quest line, he spoke one statement, that I consider a gem of wisdom.

Erik: With great power comes great responsibility. To seize the former and deny the latter is to beget despair.

 

So much true in it.

Anyway, having learned my tough lesson from praying at a destination in a WHM Job Quest, I didn’t forget to bring all of my Monk’s Artifact armor along when I started this quest and the one at level 45. So I safely finished AF quest for Monk without getting any duplicate piece to torment me and my inventory!

By the way, “Five Easy Pieces” my arse! ><;; It was tough, although not as tough as in 1.0 where you would require a help from some friends as a party. I had to run around a lot to let my Second Wind cool down while I picked them off one at a time. Couldn’t straight tank against them until only main boss was left. And boy, you have to be quick and dodge clear from the crisis zone, not looking back to punch him or stopping too close to the zone, or his WS still hits you anyway! And it hurts!