Mission Name	31 - Shades of Vengence
Locations	Dvucca Isle Staging point
Estimated Time	A half hour
Special Items:	none
Difficulty:	Medium. The poison on those lamia can be deadly.
Medicines Needed:	It may be a good itea to bring some antidotes
Recomended Jobs:	Melees with /NIN shadows. All mages /WHM for poisona
Brief synopsis:	Kill a random number of lamias before their poison murders you.

This is the fourth major challenge in ToAU and it’s easily the quirkiest little mission in the entire campaign. Thankfully it’s a few short cutscenes after mission 29 so you will probably be able to convince a party to do both 29 and 31 in the same go.

The mission takes place at Periquia at the Dvucca Isle staging point. This mission is sort of an assault, sort of a mission. It’s like a mission in the sense that you don’t lose exp when you die (and you have to complete it to progress in the missions…). It’s like an assault because all assault gear works here, even though it’s not a real assault since you don’t get any assault points or anything.

That’s not why it’s quirky though. It’s quirky because you have to fight a random number of K23H1-LAMIA mobs. The catch? They have doomsday poison: every attack and some of their TP moves inflicts a poison that does 80 damage/tic in addition to normal damage. So even the most battle-hardened warriors will be dead within a few seconds.

All ten lamias are located at (H-9) on the assault map - the rest is empty. They are all grouped very close together and are rangers, making pulling a difficult task. Be happy if you only link six or so of the ten. You can try mucking with carby pulls and sac pulls, but since they are rangers that attack at a distance it is very difficult to separate them before an avatar / sacrificial victim is torn apart from their attacks and powerful poison.

They can be slept and are decently easy to take down, so that’s sort of nice.

As said, the amount you have to kill is essentially random, but be prepared to kill about four of the ten so make every effort to keep people alive that long.

When you kill the requisite number, a cutscene will start immediately even if you were in battle with other lamias. The poison from the lamias will also be removed so you don’t have to worry about popping out and dying immediately upon the cutscene ending.

If you lose this fight, talk to the immortal at the staging point for another key item. He will give you one every game day - the first new one is a freebie. People helping with this fight don’t need the key item.

K23H1-LAMIA Move List:

Move	Effect
(every ranged attack)	Inflicts 80/tic poison status

Strategy tips:

• It cannot be overstated how nasty this poison is. Make every available preparation to fight against it being on your characters very long.
• A sac pull or a carby pull can separate some of the swarm, but be aware that they are all rangers that won’t easily separate.
• No matter how you pull the lamias, don’t fight them where they spawn. They still aggro sight and may attack you if you need to reraise.
• Elemental seal sleepga II (even sleepga I is pretty good) can buy you major time to kill a lamia or two.
• The lamia’s ranged attacks will always eat a shadow, but every shadow absorbed is one where you aren’t getting inflicted by that nasty poison.
• Poisona is a more useful spell than Cure V here. Get that poison off, THEN worry about healing.
• It may be wise to bring a few antidotes. If multiple people get poisoned the healers can quickly get overwhelmed with duties they don’t have to respond to.
• A crafty use of Benediction to restore all HP AND remove the poison can be a major turning point in this battle.

Low-manning Shades of Vengeance

I completed this with four people, the same two NINs, WHM, and BRD I did mission 29 with. I wasn’t expecting it but this was the harder of the two battles by far for our group. We still won using the strategy tips above, but it was close. Benediction for the win!


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