Phantastic

We were going to camp Ixtab for BBK’s Miraculous Dale quest earlier in the week but due to constant DCing on the night we were supposed to go, we postponed until tonight. Ixtab is a L71 NM Ghost in Upper Delkfutt’s Tower who drops the Cheviot Cloth used to make the Cheviot Cape, a mage piece with Damage Reduction -5% on it.

Before that, however, I went off to the Beaucedine Glacier to farm Black Tiger Fangs. The Tundra Tigers were Too Weak and dropped Fangs like hotcakes, which can be exchanged in San d’Oria for 2.1k Gil per three Fangs.

Whilst there I also decided to camp Gargantua, an NM Golem for the Miraculous Dale quest, but in the three hours I was farming I was unable to spawn him.

In the end, I returned to Windurst and took the OP Warp to Qufim where BBK was milling around. We teamed up and he suggested we try to pop Trickster Kinetix whilst we waited. We ran up the spine just outside Lower Delkfutt’s Tower and killed all the Dancing Weapons, but we did not have any joy.

When Teila, Aka and Voltor arrived, we went inside and made our way to the top of the tower using the Delkfutt’s Key. At the top was Mimas, a large NM Gigas, so we took him down but he didn’t drop his Heavy Moth Axe.

We got a little lost trying to find the way up from the tenth floor, but eventually we found the eleventh floor and Ixtab wasn’t there. I suggested we split up (as Ixtab can pop over two floors) but no one listened. In the end I went up to the top with Teila to check on the second pop point, but Ixtab was there already!

We pulled him and he must have gone down in under a minute easily. We didn’t get the Cheviot Cloth but we were able to record the death in our Data Analyser Log.

Whilst resting up and deciding what to do next, I pulled a Jotunn Hallwatcher for fun, and lo and behold, it dropped a Hoary Battle Horn, a Rare/Ex item with a description that read it was used to summon Pallas to battle.

I ended up with the Horn, and we agreed to pop him for fun. Aka located the pop point, so we dropped through a hole in the floor and started to clear the centre of the room. When we were ready, I traded the Hoary Battle Horn to the ??? and along came Pallas, a black Gigas with tattoos. He was even easier than Ixtab and no one even broke a sweat bringing him down. Unfortunately, the Pallas Bracelets didn’t drop, which, in turn could be used to pop Alkyloneus (sp), an even “harder NM” that might drop the Alkyloneus (sp) Bracelets, a very rare and expensive hand piece with awesome boosts.

After that we went back outside and returned to camping Trickster Kinetix. We must have been there for around an hour and a half killing the Dancing Weapons at the spine, so eventually we gave up and I logged out.