AURUM HELL

[Reiterpallasch]

For the players saying to promote yourself in your GC to get the quest, your mistaken. SE changed the promotion quest to Lt. AV instead of AK.

This is only half the argument though. Some people are saying you need to do AV to unlock AK, which isn't true.

The only thing SE changed is what was quoted above: The promotion quest to 2nd Lt.

You can still unlock AK perfectly fine without ever going through AV. You can either finish the main story quests, OR you can do your grand company questline (which runs you through AV first).

[Gradlein]

This is only half the argument though. Some people are saying you need to do AV to unlock AK, which isn't true.

The only thing SE changed is what was quoted above: The promotion quest to 2nd Lt.

You can still unlock AK perfectly fine without ever going through AV. You can either finish the main story quests, OR you can do your grand company questline (which runs you through AV first).

May I ask how? I had a character in Tonberry pre-patch who was able to unlock AK without doing AV but was unable to do so on my character in Balmung. When I reached that part of the Relic Reborn quest, there was no option to unlock AK by talking to an NPC or something.

[FAVisceglia]

I ran it initially with 2 SMN (both RL friends) and a DF healer. Interestingly, we struggled more with Coincounter. We had to use 3 total "battle rezes" and finished it only by kiting the boss around (he stops frequently to cast his abilities, fortunately).

The last boss, well, I can understand how it's hectic, but we just didn't have a problem with it. I'm thinking the skill of our healer probably covered up for mistakes, but really it's just about everyone managing their stacks and not getting breathed on.

Overall, I enjoyed the instance. Malboro is such an iconic enemy in FF lore. I fondly remember the FFVIII encounters, where as soon as the Malboro loads, you could pretty much put down your controller and watch as your players slowly kill themselves over the next 5 minutes.

[Reiterpallasch]

May I ask how? I had a character in Tonberry pre-patch who was able to unlock AK without doing AV but was unable to do so on my character in Balmung. When I reached that part of the Relic Reborn quest, there was no option to unlock AK by talking to an NPC or something.

It should come from the dungeon guy in Vesper Bay. While the link isn't completely up to date, they didn't remove the dungeon from him when they made the GC change:

http://www.bluegartr.com/faqs/ffxiv/...t-dungeon-here

[Gradlein]

It should come from the dungeon guy in Vesper Bay. While the link isn't completely up to date, they didn't remove the dungeon from him when they made the GC change:

Unfortunately, that guy won't give you the quest unless you already completed Aurum Vale. You'll get the red quest icon and when you try to get the quest, it will have the message "Requires Aurum Vale" or something along that line. That's what I did on my second character.