How to get to Animated Longsword
Meara on Alla wrote:The green dot is where you should be after beating the final time extension.
The yellow line is the route to follow.
The purple dot is where you should hug the wall and avoid the statues to the north. There are too many statues to get through quickly and they all link.
The light blue dot is where you need to send someone ahead to pop the Animated Horn. You must have only one person do this, and they must die within sight of the horn's spawn point so they can see when it warps out.
Continue to follow the yellow line. You can kill the two statues in the northern part of I-6 if you wish to but you can also bypass them.
Avoid the statues in the middle of the area - they will take too long to kill and should simply be farmed after taking out the longsword.
When you move up the tunnel you will hit three statues. These will pop six demons - 2 mnks, 2 thfs, and 2 whm. I would recommend killing a thf (saving TP), killing a mnk, killing a thf (saving TP), then killing the two whm. Have your melee save up 300% TP on the whm.
You must all hit the longsword at the same time. Don't try to pull it. Move up slowly together in range then charge together. Your melee need icarus wings and all that jazz. Everyone with big power 2 hours should use them, including your paladins who should be set up on a 8-10 second Invincible cycle. Don't bother with chainspell stun since I believe the longsword resists all stuns. Have your rdms nuking instead. Ignore all satellite swords. You have about 60 seconds to kill the longsword before it warps out and you lose your chance til your next run.
XShadowRunnerX on alla wrote:i wouldn't follow the path given unless you want to farm 'along' the way. if you want to just get it done/overwith, head back through the NM camps until yo get to the Orc time extension (where you rejoin the yellow line that crosses over the timer), you can sneak by there, or even go the other way around if you're sneaky enough.
You can easily avoid the horn agro, I've gone exploring in spare time and found a good chunk of paths that can get you to before the longsword.
There -are- 2 eyes in front of it though, keep track of time accordingly.
to which meara replied wrote:After you kill the last time extension you should have almost if not more than 2 hours left. Killing the five statues along the route I use is not really going to put a big notch in that, and will give you possible relic drops. If you really want to save 5 minutes, however, you can go around.
Other than that, I really do not recommend trying to sneak past the horn or on the opposite side of the clearing. There are too many statues and eyeballs. If you have a sizable team (and you should have a fairly decently sized team for a fragment run) you're going to have someone who runs into aggro and wipes your group out.
One or two people can make it past easily enough. A team of 30 cannot. Don't tell me that your team is great and wonderful and can sneak by anything. My team has been doing Dynamis for over two years and I wouldn't trust them to go that route either.
Take the safest route, even if it is slower.
