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Ishgard at night

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I’ve been browsing my screenshot folders recently and found this one, which I would call “my masterpiece of the year 2014” without hesitation. It was taken on 8 December 2014 when I made a stop at the Mark of the Lover on the top of a cliff in Coerthas Central Highlands.

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Below: me in front of the backdrop. I can’t remember why I was there. Probably was because I saw nice sky and decided to go there for a pic. You know, Coerthas hardly ever has a break from the snow storm. Rare photo occasion anyone would snatch if they have chance!

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Update: 2 more Ishgard screenshots from later (5 MAR 2015), now with “glare” setting on low (I usually keep it off, so the first pic had glare: off).

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It snowed on me while I was messing around with my glare setting.

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Where to farm Fleece in FFXIV

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I saw that quite a lot of search engine keywords that lead people here lately were about fleece farming. So I marked the map (from memory, because I am now fishing in Mor Dhona and didn’t want to go to Coerthas to check these farming spots) for estimated locations of where you can find these Ornery Karakuls.

ffxiv_karakul A. is immediately south of Camp Dragonhead. There are some ledges you have to run around to climb up, so it’s not very good for those who cannot range attack (ability/arrow/spell).

B. is east, across the road from A. Requires a bit of legwork because the spawns are a little far apart.

C. is northeast from top right gate of Dragonhead. There is one sheep that would pop on a high ledge. You have to go up there or use range attack. All other sheeps pop on the ground but a bit dispersed. You’ll need to run around a lot.

D. is northwest, but you have to go around from northeast gate. It is the same spot where Ogre’s FATE named Simply Red pops. Has ledges and the rocks/mountain in the area make it a bit of a hassle in reaching all the pops.

E. is on the right side of the road when you head to Gate of Judgment from Dragonhead. I am not so sure of the location, it’s somewhere near Gate of Judgment.

F. I saw some Ornery Karakuls outside of west gate from Observatorium with epic long name. It might be a small group, and wide apart. I never stopped to count how many. I passed this area again and couldn’t see any Karakul. Seems like I remembered the wrong side of the gate. I thought I saw some Karakuls here while doing Botanist levequests, but it might actually be the east side, not here.

G. I saw some more of the Karakuls outside east gate of the Observatorium while doing Pudding Levequest here.

Moreover, some of the levequests in the area will spawn Karakuls for you (the Pudding one named Necrologos: Cinerary Rite, too. You can kill 5 Karakuls in this LQ, then the Pudding will pop, if you run away from the pudding, you can kill the last 3 Karakuls as well, which will total to 8 Karakuls per LQ.) LQ’s Karakuls can also drop Fleece.

 

 

 

My Weekly Progress: November

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*possibly spoilers of level 37 – 39 main quests and sidequests in Coerthas* 

Ah, so I didn’t wake up early enough to sneak on and play a bit before server closed. Time to tidy my screenshots, then. And now I realized I could use some of them to update about my game progress.

Last week I’ve been busy trying to get my Arcanist to 44 (and now still 42) in order to try to max out for level cap in Garuda fight that will come up soon. The Stone Vigil quest requires level 41 and I was guessing it is capped at 44. Garuda is after Stone Vigil, so I should at least be 44 to be max level allowed.

Apart from joining FATEs, I did all the sidequests available for my level, in order to catch up to the level required for main scenario quests. These main and side quests brought me through a lot of painful acknowledgement of various situations and events in Coerthas. It is so far the second worst part of the main scenario quests’ story. (Of course, if you have gotten this far, you KNOW what’s the worst part.) Before, I got upset by the story before Coerthas and took a few days break to level up ALC, ARM, BSM, and WVR to 50 and to do the class quests (or pick up the class quests) for them, but that’s another long story so I’ll put it aside for now LOL.

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Anyway, the people in Coerthas are, in short, in a pinch. And I met young lord Francel who is righteous and just, yet was faced with a brutal accusation and trial that puts the name of his House to further shame.

Then, I met this NPC, a patient in an infirmary, who said thank to me for my concern, but his injury was caused by slipping and falling, not from a battle. I first laughed at how funny it was and thought SE has great humour even in trivial things like this, but then it turned out to be a key event in the story!

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One of the sidequests here has an NPC who creeps the hell out of me. This prisoner is a total nuts! Talk to him and you will hear nothing but extreme madness.

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In the cell opposite to the mad prisoner, I saw this Roegadyn exercising. Then after taking another sidequest, this new NPC popped in the same cell. His was a tale that made me feel deeply sorry for him. But of course, justice prevails. Also, his quick wit was what saved her in the first place, the Chirurgeon upstairs told me so with her deduction.

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Sometimes the quest made me dig for corpses.

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Or pick up a piece of dragon’s bone as a token (and proof) of dragon slaying for a knight (or sentry, I’m not sure).

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Again, digging for a corpse. I tried to cheat my way in this quest by using WHM50 to walk the errand instead, but the Croc still tried to eat me anyway. Duh! This digging quest at the ice wall (Snowcloak) was difficult just because it’s hard to climb if you don’t know the way. Well, I didn’t know the way but I am good at climbing. See that other person down there? He was probably there before I arrived, because while I was killing a Croc down at the bottom, he was one ledge above me. And when I got to the quest spot, he was still down there, trying to jump up via an impossible spot.

I walked around and repeated my climb just to show him where to climb, and he took a long while to pick up my message and finally started following my track. He never talked, and what I said in /say, he never replied. So, meh! I felt that I should have just hurried out and leave him to his fruitless attempts. Too late to regret though, because by the time I left, he already found his way to the last jump to the spot.

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Before leaving the Snowcloak, I stopped and fished at this icy hole. Got a Lamp Marimo to fill in a spot in my fishing log, yay. ^^

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Fleece Farming, Again

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Suppose there are 8 Karakuls at a farm, and you get there when it had no one else. You start killing them one by one. Suppose you can kill as many as 4 Karakuls before they start to repop. You may find any of these situations when someone else arrives:

– They kill the other 4 Karakuls in each round of respawn cycle without even trying to snatch your half of the mobs.

– They leave after killing a few Karakuls, for whatever reason.

– They obviously intentionally leave because they don’t want to seem like asshole.

– They try to compete by trying to claim Karakuls as fast as they can, as  many as they can, even the one that pops right on your character.

– They try to compete by claiming as many Karakuls as they can, plus trying exceptionally hard to not letting you get ANY of the Karakuls.

I have experienced all of these, either when I farmed Karakuls as WHM50 and as ACN/SMN 38 to 41. People are indeed interesting. ^_^