Level 5 Petrify Acquistion

I thought to share my little experience with the acquiring of this Blue Mage spell.

I had set up a learning party for Level 5 Petrify, and it was pretty slow at first. The first time we killed the Manor Sentry before it used the spell. The 2nd through 4th times we let it use it once, then killed Lady Amandine when we failed, but then on the 5th run, one of the BLUs had an idea. Since we needed to learn the spell from the Sentry Manor and not the boss itself, should we kill the Sentry and not learn the spell, we would Self-Destruct and try again. It turned out that it worked, we had to Self-Destruct twice before learning it on the third try.

Self-Destruct was more useful than I thought it would be, I'll be sure to try to think outside of the box when considering these spells. They kept Blue Mage true to its nature of having its spells situational. Well done.

yeah thats one of the more hilarious things you can do with blue, just wish i could do more with the class than i can atm

Confirmed - Just did this with a group, attack the boss till she spawns her adds (you may need to deal with these to slow damage) wait till the Eye casts lvl 5 Petrify, kill and see if you learn it, if not Final Sting/Self-Destruct rinse and repeat - You actually have to see him cast "Lvl 5 Petrify" though I believe he has 2 frontal cones, doesn't use that one as often :)

Note that the Sentey needs to be below 20% to cast Level 5 Petrify. So kill the other addds and then widdle him down to >20%, and wait. If learn, yay. If no learn, suicide and try again.

The Manor Sentry, at (10.5, 11.5), worked for me. No need to mess with the boss. I was level 53, before I tried to get this, so I unequipped armor, but not jewelry, lowering Magic Defence to 3, but the log in Battle chat showed that I dodged every Petrify, yet I learned Petrify all the same, which surprised me. Right-clicking on the Manor Sentry once to start auto-attack, it took a few minutes; nothing else to do really, but watch. Best of luck to you.