Necrohol of Narbudis

[Noize]

Phew. that place is a bitch to get through!

Let me start by explaining. I got the hunt for Deathscythe and Goliath. For memory back when i first played this game (3 years ago), it was pretty good in terms of XP and enemy difficulty at my level. (party average is lv50.)

Anyways, i made my way through from the Salikawood side, got through 4-5 rooms, everything was going ok, the Babil's were starting to show up more regularly.

I got to the middle and all of a sudden a Helvinek shows up! i read up on the creature and found

Spoiler

after i kill 8 oversouls (undead spirit fiend) that they have a 20% chance of showing up.

Anyway i started hammering away at him (and doing a good job of doing it, too.), then Lo' an behold, the bloody Deathscythe shows up! that's all i needed! a rare game fiend and my mark pounding into my party, so i started fleeing into the next area to recover from the damage, but no. The Helvinek decided to area jump, as i like to call it and teleported into the next area where i was!

Well, that was the end of my venture into the Necrohol, i tried running to the lower level but the deathscythe got me not even 2 steps from the area change (the blue dotted lines.)

After that i decided to go in through the Nabreus Deadlands side and Shock-Horror! Goliath was right there around the first corner waiting for me.

So now all i have left is Deathscythe...

Well, i guess this is more of arant than anything but i just felt like i had to share my insane encounter.

For those who don't know..

Spoiler

The HP of Helvinek is 99999. his darkga spells do roughly 1800dmg and he teleports ALOT. (like the other horse type fiends you find). times that by 2, plus Deathscythes meelee dmg and you have my experience.

 

[GalaxyFlare]

Thanks for sharing that M>II reminds me of my first time through the NecroHole

One of the few things right about FFXII.
Powerful enemies and hard Boss Fights........see S-E can still get it done!
Mostly.

 

[Noize]

Thanks for sharing that M>II reminds me of my first time through the NecroHole

One of the few things right about FFXII.
Powerful enemies and hard Boss Fights........see S-E can still get it done!
Mostly.

Still spewin at the amount of LP i lost when i died

whats worse is that i forgot to save after i spent all my characters LP points before i went in... all 3k LP for each character.... damn that was tedious.

 

[GalaxyFlare]

I wouldnt know I cheat when I play this game...................COZ I DONT LIKE IT!!!
(then dont play it............fair point)

I give the entire crew 999,999 LP.............If I could giver them too I would

Do you have the Tournesol Yet?

 

[Noize]

Nah, i only got what i seen in the shops in Balfonheim, I plan on re-exploring all the dungeons ect after i do most of the hunts though...

I don't even have the Zodiac Spear or any of the good shields X.X

 

[GalaxyFlare]

Wait theres good shields in this game?

The shields in this game are shite, above the ones you can buy in the stores they dont match,
and its hard to find a decent looking combination............you ever had the ensanguined shield?

It inflicts upon you Poison Something and something
the point is it puts status ailments on the user.

Not good.........gives 95% chance to block though>

 

[Noize]

where was it when i was up against the Tyrant inside Giruvegan!? i could've used that 95% block rate

I've never had it, i read that it only appears once outside Giruvegan in the snow somewhere but i spend 3 hours killing fiends and still didn't find it.

i got Aegis shields and they do a good job of absorbing elemental attacks.

and you can just Esuna the status ailments off you can't you?

 

[GalaxyFlare]

No they Stick>--------PERMANENTLY!!!
(until you un-equip th shield)

You get it from Giruvegan huh?
I thougfht it was from a barrel in the Undergroung train area............time to pull out my FFXII walk through...........it still smells brand new(probably coz I dontl ike FFXII).

Yeah I got mine from the Special charter Shaft where you defeat and acquire Zodiark?
Its in a Barrel

 

[Valvalis]

Thanks for sharing that M>II reminds me of my first time through the NecroHole

Necrohole XD That about sums it up. I hated that place, the common enemies alone were fierce. I actually had a similar experience with Deathscythe showing up at a bad time, I was in a cramped stairwell and had just been fighting some enemies, and hadn't bothered to heal for a while. I can't remember whether I got away or not that time (I think I died and had to start over), but at a different point, the Helvinek showed up in the very same stairwell, and when you've got barely enough room to maneuver, it's a bitch trying to fight the harder enemies in XII. I eventually defeated both of them, but it was only when I was at full health and after a bit of leveling up.

 

[glow]

hahah yeah, after I passed the game I decided to go check it out.

musta walked about 10 steps in and was like "eff this" hahaha and I got out of there as fast as I could.

ill go back after I level up......maybe

 

[Noize]

Lol i'll admit, i love it there. the fiends are strong and they wield decent EXP, it's just damned annoying when im just killing fiends so when i find the mark im not also swarmed with other fiends aswell, only to later find out that killing a certain fiend a certain amount of times turns ugly!

I'm not looking forward to going through Pharos again... i remember going through there a few years back... damned Behemoths....