AF3 Bomb Question

[guyincorporated]

Heya, I hit 60 last night, decided its time to set my sights on getting the shoes. So I did all the prep stuff, I just need to kill the bomb. I've read a bunch of accounts that say things like it spawns mid-explosion, do a /targetnpc /steal macro immediately, don't cast or use any abilities - just pull out a weapon and hit it.

Anyhow, I'd just like to hear any advice you may have, as well as wacky firsthand war stories.

Also, how many ppl did you have with you when you killed him?

[John Doe III]

We killed it four times 2 days ago, pretty easy actually. As soon as it says somethings coming or after the cutscene run away at least till the next hallway. Make sure your party is far back as well. Someone said do this becuase if it aggros it may explode. So, we stood back and when the Thief came back waited a few seconds and it popped then /targetnpc range. Highly suggested for range in case of aggro.

Anyways, he wasn't hard AT ALL. 2/4 fights a 61 Thief was main tank due to accidental fui onto him and 1/4 fights a drk/thf was tank. 71 Pal was the other one. He was close to exploding a few times but didn't. We had 59Rdm, 62Thief, 62Thief, 61Thief, 56Thief, 71 Pld, 71 Blm, 71 Sam, and some 70ish Dark.

[Nilinia]

I got this about a week ago. We were 2 thiefs in the pt, unfortunatly the other thief didn't know she couldn't zone out after examining the ???s, so I got mine first. I popped it, and it spawned infront of me with it's back turned, so I quickly hit the wrong macro and used a silent oil (woops), but the bomb hadn't moved so after I used the oil, I hit my steal macro and the fight was on. On my way back to the group it hit me with a double attack for 900 dmg total (OUCH). I had about 50 hp left.

Our pld voked (lvl 71 or 72), it owned him in about 5-10 hits. Then our smn (73) used garudas lvl 70 ability, and garuda got the hate. AFter Garuda was down it moved on to waste the rng (70). It this point it was low on HP, and we were finally able to get it killed. The other members were a 58 thf, 66 whm and 72 sam.

AFter this the other thf wanted to try again, so she examined all the ???s and we were ready again. Bomb pops, and self destructs. So we try again, same thing. We try again... Bomb explodes. Dunno how many times we tried, but finally we gave up...

[guyincorporated]

Originally posted by Nilinia
Unfortunatly the other thief didn't know she couldn't zone out after examining the ???s

Oh. Good to know, I'm glad I made this thread.

Originally posted by Nilinia
Bomb pops, and self destructs. So we try again, same thing. We try again... Bomb explodes. Dunno how many times we tried, but finally we gave up...

Well...I have to say that's less encouraging. From what it sounds like, you get a few moments after you check the ??? before the bomb appaears? If so, that would give you enough time to use Hide...it would spawn unclaimed and unchallenged, then you could rob it at your leisure. What do you think?

Also, your account seems drasically different than Doe's. His party didn't even have a healer. I'm assuming the blm pitched in or something. Seems wierd.

Btw, exactly how big were the explosions?

[Kite322]

I've done this twice now, once for myself, and once for a friend.

When we did it for my friend, he popped the bomb and we were all standing right next to the ???. It popped and blew up right away, took me (as lvl 70 WHM) from 1k HP down to 20something. So we repopped it, we all stood far back and he popped it and ran. After you get the event at the ???, it takes a little while to actually pop so you'll have plenty of time to run back to your group. After it pops and is sitting there, we shot it with an arrow and fought normally.

When I did it for myself, we basically knew the drill and used the above strategy of popping it and running away, then pulling with a bow and arrow. Make sure you clear out all the bones in the area first, as they aggro to yellow/red HP.

[Rodin]

Hey Ikari, I was looking at your journal. You know Izembo? I've met him in RL, lol. He works at the EB games in York Pa. Tell him Rodin said Hi, I should be on this weekend to talk to him.


Oh, and Isn't fighting Dark Spark the same for all Jobs? My DRG friend said when he fought Dark Spark he fought it in an Alliance and it went down in like two mins. I would say get an alliance and rape it.

[Omena]

Originally posted by Rodin
Hey Ikari, I was looking at your journal. You know Izembo? I've met him in RL, lol. He works at the EB games in York Pa. Tell him Rodin said Hi, I should be on this weekend to talk to him.


Oh, and Isn't fighting Dark Spark the same for all Jobs? My DRG friend said when he fought Dark Spark he fought it in an Alliance and it went down in like two mins. I would say get an alliance and rape it.

Dark Spark is for the gloves, this is for the shoes.

[Rodin]

Oh, lol, nvm then.

[John Doe III]

Originally posted by guyincorporated

Also, your account seems drasically different than Doe's. His party didn't even have a healer. I'm assuming the blm pitched in or something. Seems wierd.

Btw, exactly how big were the explosions?

Funny you say that, but think about it. I guessed on the Dark level but saw he was Level 68 Drk/Thf last night. So, 5 people doing Fui....he'd kind of die fast eh? That's why we didn't have a problem. Good luck if your going to do it.

[Night Stalker]

if you still need help the best way to do it i found out was spwan that SOB set a flee and hide macro up as soon as you click the ??? flee and hide and run your butt back lol and then look at the dumb bomb and then just spimle shoot him lol

[guyincorporated]

Yeah, seems like the consensus is:
1. Smoke him out of the 6 holes.
2. Have everyone hide around the corner of where he spawns.
3. Hit the ???.
4. Use Hide ASAP.
5. Run back to the camp.
6. Wang him with a boomerang once he spawns without blowing up.

...Now I just need 11 other volounteers...

[John Doe III]

Originally posted by guyincorporated
Yeah, seems like the consensus is:
1. Smoke him out of the 6 holes.
2. Have everyone hide around the corner of where he spawns.
3. Hit the ???.
4. Use Hide ASAP.
5. Run back to the camp.
6. Wang him with a boomerang once he spawns without blowing up.

...Now I just need 11 other volounteers...

2. Have everyone hide around the corner of where he spawns.

You can camp where the hallway meets the dead end hallway...you dont need to hide around the corner...>.>

4. Use Hide ASAP.

Out of the four thieves that did it (including me) every time you hit the ??? you get about 5-15 sec before pop, gives you plenty of time to run back to pt and not have to waste hide. All 4 did it perfectly fine and ran back to camp easily without the use of any form of invis. They even had about 2-3 seconds to spare. Just chill lol....