My Body is a Temple

I had the day off work today, so amongst other things outside of the game (shock-horror!), I headed over to the Temple of Uggalepih with Teila to level our NPCs and farm.

On the way there, near the Spring outside the entrance to the Den of Rancor, we encountered an NM I’d never seen before called Woodland Sage. It was a Treant which towards the end of its life, used Benediction to heal itself almost 5000hp. It took ages to kill, but only dropped Rosewood Lumber, not the staff as hoped.



After that, we went to the secret part of the Temple, through the Den of Rancor, to the high level Tonberries. Yawawa was high enough to hit them, although if it wasn’t for the fact that she was a Stalwart Shield (PLD), she would have gone down quite quickly. Teila’s NPC, Beatrice, didn’t quite make L65, but she was close.

As luck would have it, the ??? was in the first room we entered, so whilst Teila pulled the Tonberry Pursuer to the camp on the stairs by the zone (away from the magic-aggro Iron Maidens), I touched it for the Carbuncle Mitts spawn item, the Offering to Uggalepih, woohoo! Shortly after a Coffer Key dropped (Teila and I both needed it for the SMN body AF), so Teila took it, to be followed closely after by a Prelate Key (needed to get into the High-Priests’ area of the Temple (where Crimson-Toothed Pawberry spawns for the Carbuncle Mitts)), and then by another Coffer Key (which I took), and then by an Unlit Lantern, needed to enter the BCNM for Zilart Mission 4. Not bad for a THF sub!

Next, we hot-footed it off to Xarcabard and then into Castle Zvahl-Baileys so that Teila could get her Dark Flame needed to make her AF gloves for SMN. I’ve lost count of how many times I’ve fought this guy now, but luckily he didn’t once do his Self-Destruct move.