Arliman's Rise of the Zilart Photo Journal (ZM-13)***Massive 56K Warning***

[Epical]

So awesome. This makes me want to get sky access pronto. How long did all the missions take? What level do you recommend I attain before I attempt them?

[Xyphere]

Can I get an encore?

[Johnnybigone]

Go kick that little kids ass... He pisses me off

[CRtwenty]

Arli: Not a problem, though I do ask you to save them and host them if they are going to be used on any other site than this one. This is a ton of bandwidth to be moving around as it is.

Don't worry, I'm only interested in the text. :spin:

[Arli]

Sorry about the small mistakes, due to the sheer size of this gallery of images, I haven't even had a chance to read through all of it yet, but all corrections should be made by tomorrow morning (at work atm).

We were able to do all of the missions over 3 days (roughly 8-10 hours) at level 70 with very little difficulty. The fight against Kam'lanaut was overrated, though when we did him a second time for an LS mate we had two fatalities due to him using Light Blade 2 times immediately after Great Wheel (resets hate) which dropped me and the RDM in a matter of seconds.

The majority of the Zilart storyline is traveling and storyline cinemas. The cermet headstone portion of the missions takes a good long while, especially the jog through Ifrit's Cauldron.

Personally I wouldn't recommend anything below level 68, though a good balanced team of 65s could probably make it through all the battles with some difficulty. My only advice is to take your time and make the appropriate provisions for each mission. Rushing through these at anything less than level 70 will meet with failure. The fights aren't too bad, but if you're unprepared and uninformed about the enemy, you're toast.

[Yukimura]

these are great screens. I enjoyed viewing them

[Tetsura]

Wow that's strange, my static pt of lvl 70 just did these also. I totally agree with the ZM8 battle hype, our whm is also a lvl 75 smn, and he had told us this was the hardest battle, along with some ls mates that said we might not be able to beat it at our level. But we beat him quickly with no problems and no deaths

ZM missions were amazing, and this gallery certainly does them justice. Keep up the good work

[Aeolus]

Amazing, I really wanna play ffxi again, do you think in a years time there would be any point in starting again? Nice scrrrreeenshots, what graphics card are you using?^^

[Arli]

256 MB Radeon 9800XT with the 4.10 Catalyst Drivers

[Cbot]

Nice work.I wish I could also reach tu'lia.

[Kyrial Arthian]

Very nice. I can't wait to do these myself...

P.S. You look awesome in the Thick set.

[mdn]

Originally posted by Epical
So awesome. This makes me want to get sky access pronto. How long did all the missions take? What level do you recommend I attain before I attempt them?

i can't speak for Arliman, but when i did them, i did 5-13 in 1 night from 8:30 until 7 AM (had fun in class the next morning)

i did zm4 a day or two before that. as far as when you can do them, we did it as 70 drk, 70 whm, 66 rng, 66 blm (me), 62 drg, 67 pld.

fighting zm8 sucked horribly and we almost lost, but the ranger went nuts and took like 1/3 of it's HP down at the end. the 62 drg was more-or-less worthless for it besides trying to provoke it off the mages after it reset hate. as a red mage, you could probably get by being like 62-65 or so. having said that, there's really nothing in sky for you to do until 70+ so it's not a big rush

[Eropiro]

Completly AWESOME ^_^

I luv your scenes and your complete details ^_^

This, compared to all of your Avatar battle journals, cannt be compared ^_~

Good Job, and please finish your story, you have me hooked