Thief AF4 / Castle Oztroja Coffer

[veet]

Can anyone provide some info on the location of the coffers? I printed a coffer map showing the location of the coffers, but I cannot get to the two areas. I ran around Castle Oztrojoa for several hours just now with no luck :( . There was a bronze door I couldnt get thru however.

[tagg]

The first dot is where you come up from after opening the first door with the switches. Follow the red line and you'll come to the second dot where a another door with 3 switches is located. You gotta crank them up and down some before the door opens. Then just follow the rest of the line, both maps with coffer spawns are up ahead, and there's only one way to go so you can't get lost. Good luck :o

[veet]

Thank You So Much! I'm gonna run there now!

[veet]

Got my legs! Thanks so Much!

[N1K3]

hey, im lookin to get this coffer too, could you tell me if invisible from tonko:ichi is enough to sneak past these yagudo?

also what do you use to open the coffer? i have a few living keys, are they good enough or are skeleton better? thanks ;-)

[Zynk]

Living keys will do just fine but skeleton keys are the best tho.

[veet]

Tonko: Ichi and skelly keys are all you need. Good luck with the legs and pray you dont get a mimic!

[tagg]

Not quite true, on one of the maps there's a small "pool" in the middle with leeches, you need sneak for those.

[miffycat]

Pls remember:
- when you open a coffer you have to remove invisibility before you can do it. Make sure the coast is clear or else get ready to run after you open the coffer or hide. Same applies to when you try to enter the lever pattern to get into the coffer area. Tonko:ichi can be recasted on yourself without having to remove the old coat of invisibility.
- When you open a coffer with sneak, your sneak goes off automatically regardlessly if you succeed or not. If you see a coffer in the yagudo parasite pond and your lvl is not high enuff, i seriously suggest tat you DO NOT open it not unless you are ready.
- All thf who hunts for coffer should always be ready for the worse case scenario. You should always have your 2hr ready and a means of escaping. Either by changing CP for warp scroll, sub whm for teleport(which is wat i am doing) or logout. 2hr+any of the above 3 should be able to get you safely out of any messy situation. Best is to use a warp scroll, its casting time is rather fast and its casting does not get interuppted by hits. If you wanna save on it and use 2hr+logout then good luck to you. A successful single magic hit will break the logout and you may actually log back in with a horde of yagudo facing at you with no invisibility.
- If you are not experience in hunting for coffer in oztroja, just camped in the brass statue room and wait for the coffer to pop there eventually. In a span of 24 hrs, at least 2 coffers will pop at tat spot.

Even at my lvl, using living key at oztroja coffers has a rather bad failure rate. I seriously suggest you do not use living keys unless you are so sure you are very lucky tat day.

[Fuuko]

I thought Yagudo agroes only by sight?
And what's the succesful rate of the living/bone keys around lvl 50-60 for the AF quests?

[miffycat]

yagudo parasites <> yagudos

They are actives leeches which aggros to sound and in the small area which they pop, there is around 4 of them. Open a coffer right in the center of them with a level low enuff to aggro them andyou will die very very fast unless you quickly 2hr and warp out. Its even worse whne your first attempt to pick fail and they start swarming to you.

Living keys have low success rate, around 30% success while skeleton keys around 75% for me now. The success rates for living is not accurate for my case as i have stopped using living keys for a long time except for coffers found while leveling. Opening a coffer for items or AF has no differences. The chances of opening a coffer for item and AF are the same. As such, when u fail to pick a coffer for AF, there is always a chance that it will be a mimic instead.

[Fuuko]

Originally posted by miffycat
yagudo parasites <> yagudos

They are actives leeches which aggros to sound and in the small area which they pop, there is around 4 of them. Open a coffer right in the center of them with a level low enuff to aggro them andyou will die very very fast unless you quickly 2hr and warp out. Its even worse whne your first attempt to pick fail and they start swarming to you.

Living keys have low success rate, around 30% success while skeleton keys around 75% for me now. The success rates for living is not accurate for my case as i have stopped using living keys for a long time except for coffers found while leveling. Opening a coffer for items or AF has no differences. The chances of opening a coffer for item and AF are the same. As such, when u fail to pick a coffer for AF, there is always a chance that it will be a mimic instead.

Ohh thanks, good info!
And what are mimics, monsters that you gotta fight? are they easy?

[Jei]

just activate your 2hr ability if you need to open coffer in the pond. there's 4-5 of them and they are strong enough to aggro up to level 59. open coffer, and while your ability still last, use warp scroll to get out of there.

[N1K3]

I found the coffer in upper room with the Very tough yagudo, managed to open the coffer while they had their backs turned.

it was very exciting, i used two skeleton keys to open it, and thankfully no mimic ^^;

thanks for the tipps~

[Deodorant]

Originally posted by Fuuko
And what are mimics, monsters that you gotta fight? are they easy?
From my limited experience with mimics, it seems that mimic = death, I can't even flee from them cos ... I dunno why, I just couldn't ... and died horribly :D ... even when I was partying in Eldieme with a 70+ monk helping a bard do AF2 and we came across a coffer the mnk told our blm to get ready to cast escape in case it was mimic if I failed to pick (I suceeded first try using thief tools lol) ...

[Fuuko]

Kore's first encounter with a mimic:
http://www.seikan.net/upload/FFXI/mimic.jpg

I was using Living keys at lvl 51 in Monastic Cavern (AF4).

1st try: Mimic.
2nd try: Failure, failure, mimic.
3rd try: Succesfull.

; ;

I'd like to know how do the high lvl THFs go to hunt Coffers/Chests. They are always ready with 2h+scroll of warp? or they risk their lives always (chances of getting mimic), I'd like to know because I plan on hunt Coffers/Chests 24/7 once I get my WHM to 25.

[Kyria]

Why is it ppl seem to use WHM sub to tele out? Just for added healing ability? Couldn't THF/BLM (as long as BLM 17+ and has Warp) work? I'm interested as I plan on lvling BLM for the Warp reason only after I lvl THF and NIN up a tad more.

[Deodorant]

Because with blm sub you don't get sneak and invis which are pretty much essential for the higher-level coffers :)

[BRZRK]

Does anyone know how to open a door with the thing you need to crank up and down..~ ;;

[DarkSynbois]

Just keep messing with them... It will open eventually.

[veet]

@ I-10 on the map (from the 2nd reply), there is a hidden room. Inside that room is a four switch thingy also. That 4 switch thingy tells you the pattern needed for the other one next to the door.

[Painkiller]

Originally posted by Fuuko
Kore's first encounter with a mimic:
I was using Living keys at lvl 51 in Monastic Cavern (AF4).

1st try: Mimic.
2nd try: Failure, failure, mimic.
3rd try: Succesfull.

; ;

I'd like to know how do the high lvl THFs go to hunt Coffers/Chests. They are always ready with 2h+scroll of warp? or they risk their lives always (chances of getting mimic), I'd like to know because I plan on hunt Coffers/Chests 24/7 once I get my WHM to 25.
Use Skeleton Keys instead.
I still never face Mimic, maybe I'm lucky.
Total Coffer I've opened around 15.
1 Coffer at Oztroja (AF)
1 Coffer at Zvalh (AF)
1 Coffer at Beadauxe (open it while help someone hunt key but it didn't drop)
12 Coffer at MonastiCav^^
It failed 4 times so, 15/19 success rate = 78%

If you hunt Chest, please use Living Key.
I get trapped a lot when use Thief's Tools...
(If you get trapped, you'll weaken for 1 hour)
100% success rate if use Living Key with Treasure Chest for me^^

[ACslater]

is there an NPC that you need to start this or do you just go for the coffer? so far ive got the bonnet and the gloves.


EDIT: To answer my own question ;) you just go and find the coffer, no NPC involved. got my cullottes(sp?) the other day, it was rediculously easy with tonko:ichi