Talk:Headstone Pilgrimage

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Contents 1 Testimonals 1.1 Lightning Fragment 1.2 Wind Fragment 2 opo-opo NMs 3 Tipha and Carthi 4 Reason why people are failing to sneak/deodorize pop these NMs

Testimonals

Lightning Fragment

• Can be easily soloed by a level 67 NIN by Sneak pulling. Be sure to keep it enfeebled, and you should have no trouble with it.

• • If you pull the Legendary Weapon it can be done with a 73bst/whm with CC and 2x Reward
  • Duo SAM/NIN 75 RDM/WHM 75. Start fight with 300 tp. Sneak SAM and click on the Headstone to spawn the weapons, then use a Range to pull the ancient weapon around the corner. Use Sekkanoki and do Tachi: Gekko -> Tachi: Kasha for Fusion SC. Then 2 hour and use Tachi: Yukikaze -> Tachi: Gekko for fragmentation and follow that with Tachi: Kasha for a nice Light SC. At this point he should be 3/4, finish him off with meditate tachi: Kasha. Once defeated the other weapon should have depopped, go click on the headstone again to get your fragment.
  • Soloed both as 75PLD/DNC with difficulty. Buffed up and got 300tp before fight. No notable gear besides Joyeuse, used tank build, Tavnazian Taco, and one Yagudo Drink. Kill RDM first for Aspir Samba and he will also cure the WAR if low on health. Had to use Chivalry and Invincible, would of went a lot smoother if I ran from Smite of Rage (easy 200+ dmg) from the beginning and kited Manafont. Use Shield Bash when RDM tries to cure himself, once first one dies, rest of the fight is easy.
  • Duo by 75DRG/WHM and 75RDM/NIN sneak popping and pulling Ancient Weapon and letting Legendary Weapon depop. RDM tanks while keeing enfeebs on the Weapon.

Wind Fragment

• • Very easy fight as 75PLD/DNC. No food/meds, had joyeuese, and ended fight with full hp/mp and 200tp. No JAs used.

In Fire Fragment, it said that the Ash Dragon in Ifrit's Cauldron has True Hearing which in fact, he doesn't have. It is fixed.

The whole of ZM5 can be duoed by a THF/NIN and a SCH/RDM at 75 with easy/moderate difficulty. -- Minikowalski of Bahamut

opo-opo NMs

opo-NMs resisted lullaby on a run i did tonight, so i amended the note. if anyone finds different, please update. --vm0d 02:32, 17 June 2007 (CDT)

I thought something was wrong on here and changed it but I was mistaken. Changed it back. Resheph 03:35, 20 February 2008 (UTC)

Tipha and Carthi

I move the strategy & testimonials here from the article. Lets keep the article about the mission; strategy can be argued here. Grouf 23:04, 13 August 2008 (UTC)

Note: You can Sneak/Deodorize pull Tipha, Carthi will stay behind the headstone while you kill Tipha.

Note: If you kill Tipha too fast and Carthi does not depop you will have to kill Carthi.

Note: We just verifed this now 1 June, 2008; Shaawn & Nastirh on Asura Server.

Note: Yes verifed ! Used this Methode today 17 July 2008 , Dickerchen on Remora

Note: This didn't work for me. Even with sneak and deoderize, both opo's attacked immediatly. Maximusdecimus, Phoenix.

Note: No this definatly did not work for me, we pulled back i used a silent oil and a red mage deodorized me and i went in to pop the two nm's. But they just both came at the same time and we got owned big time. maybe there was something else that alowed them to pull one at a time, maybe a certain day or something but it definatly did not work for me. so do not try this if your going in weak or duo. Achillies & Seoman | Pandemonium

Note: Upon touching the headstone, my Sneak and Deodorize force wore, so we had to melee them both. Extremely easy trio with 75 Paladin/Warrior tanking one and 75 Red Mage/Ninja tanking the other, with a 73 Black Mage supporting with heals and occasional nuking. --Verinor 6/21/2008

• same with me. Both opo's came out swinging Maximusdecimus 10:34, 27 July 2008 (UTC)

Sneak/Deodorize worked for my group. --Aneu 15:28, 18 August 2008 (UTC)

Easy duo with 75 NIN/WAR and 70 RDM/WHM. Buffed up, put haste on the ninja, he popped the NMs. Ninja attacked Tipha, RDM(me) kited Carthi (reverse would take longer due to Carthi's use of Magic Fruit.) With Gravity, Bind, Stoneskin and Blink was an incredibly easy kite, took Carthi to the end of the tunnel and bound him, then ran back to reapply regen on the Ninja and throw a few enfeebles on Tipha. Took about 5 minutes for the Ninja to finish Tipha, then we killed Carthi easily. Don't forget to bring a garnet :) --QuetzElohim 06:01, 11 August 2009 (UTC)

Wind Fragment fight the comment of easy to solo as PLD/DNC i don't know about that i just tried it with a Merc Greatsword started off the fight with 300 tp and a NPC healer .. I had to warp out at about 200 hp--Luckydeville 01:16, 21 November 2008 (UTC)

Reason why people are failing to sneak/deodorize pop these NMs

When you Sneak/Deo pop at the Headstone. One of the monkeys (Tipha) is truesound and will detect you and start attacking you, once Tipha hits you once, Sneak will break. Thus aggroing Carthi.

Carthi on the other hand will not immediately start attacking the Headstone player/popper immediately, as mentioned above because he is not truesound.

To make this easier, Its suggested a Thief, or someone with Powder boots/+Movement speed pop the Headstone. Then IMMEDIATELY run back to the entrance of the tunnel before getting hit by Tipha to avoid aggroing Carthi. This is how we did the fight tonight, making it much easier for two people to duo.

Anyways goodluck, and hopefully that clears up the mess on why its working for some people, and not for others.

--Pikarya 06:49, 19 May 2009 (UTC).