Good Morning.

I ran around like a fool for several hours last night and just wanted to give some additional information.

First, you talk to the moogle in town. They will give you a wooden katana. Then, in some zones (I happened to be in W. Ron), there's a nomad moogle who will cap you to level one. This cap will only happen if you have the wooden katana equiped. The level cap will stay until you zone. (There may be other ways like temp loggin, but I didn't try it.) As it happened, my first time out was bst/whm as I was going to level. This worked out well as wide scan becomes invaluable. In wide scan, the armors will be listed and you can track them. If you don't have wide scan, run around like an idiot looking for a wave of people, and head towards the point.

Not only do they run fast, they run a LOT until eventually stopping. I'm not sure if someone can attack them head on to get them to stop, but as everyone is running behind them, you'd need spotters up ahead.

Tip: If you have wide scan on, look at the map and try to guess where they'll head, based on obstacles. I found it better to never run directly at them, but try to cut them off at the pass.

After my first round of beatings, I believe I was present, but didn't have the killing blow, for two taru deaths and another beating. I'm unsure if this effects anything, but my TP was 6%. I then returned to the moogle in town and when I traded my katana, I received the Hardened Katana.

I switched to rng/thf (hoping for more accuracy and boosted wide scan) and then started running again. After several beat downs, I traded it again for the stacks of mochi. They are based on the armors you clobbered.

Note: The hardened katana cannot be used to beat on armors. Or, at least, you can't get level cap with it equiped. I did notice that I could change my weapon, but still keep the level cap. I didn't try hitting an armor with a different weapon, however. So if there's a weapon that gives you a speed boost or some other fun effect, you might be able to use it, then switch to wooden katana for the beat down.

I hope this helps someone.

Well after running around south Gustaberg with my linkshell yelling " DROP THE T.V !" and " LAPD FREEZE! GET DOWN ON THE GROUND!" at the damn thing. I decided to have fun.

I was mnk/rng so we found one with nobody on it yet, hundred fists with the wooden katana and I got my hardwood first trade. I haven't done a second trade yet for any mochi so I don't know if it'll earn me any.

Back to armor beating, I'm going to hunt for taru this time!

I had no idea about the event when I first saw it and followed the armor around thinking someone had pulled the ultimate noob-*****-- pulling a claimed empty NM through RONFAURE? It was sitting there claimed and acting like it was pathfinding so I thought some invisible player was leading it around. I laughed pretty hard when I figured it out.

Not sure what the exact requirements are to get the HW Katana. I was out killing in West Ron. for about 40 minutes with a full alliance of totally random people (it was great, bunch of us having fun and getting to know each other as we all auto-followed the RNGs). After I died I turned in my Katana, got 12ea of the Mochi for Elvaan, Hume, Galka, and 5ea Taru Mochi. We figured out that the amount of damage we did to the armors got us Mochi.

Went back out, killed for 30min more, same thing, got a ton of Mochi.

Concerned that our mog houses would start to overflow with useless junk, we figured we needed to do lots more...then someone in our alliance who turned in her katana with 34/35 items in her inventory suddenly just got the HW Katana.

I did the same thing, went back to town, had 34/35 inventory, and viola, I got it <laugh>.

I've had some fun playing with it...Lv 1 Dmg 5 Delay 450 *All Jobs*

Think about that - All Jobs. You could have your WHM running around with an enthunder-effect (who knows, maybe it does more damage vs. things that are weak to lightning?) Great Katana...I think that'd be great to see in Valkrum, etc :-)

Happy Hunting out there!


Valkyrian
aka Tahar
aka Mike
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Man, this event is so friggin hilarious. You find a nice RNG or BST, someone with Wide Scan, and you follow them around. Then when somebody actually sees the armor you chase it as fast as you can with about 30 other people, wait for it to stop leaving you in the dust, and then you go up and beat the snot out of it ^^. Then it runs off again and you take up the chase once more ^^.

I was giggling the whole time I was doing this event, you hear these shouts like

/sh Hachiryu Armor at (G-7) heading Northeast!

and everyone makes a mad dash for g-7, but by the time they get there it's already at h-9... and heading Southwest ^^. Man, this is good fun.

I got a hardwood katana for my troubles too, but no mochi yet ; ;

i think if u get a killing hit youll get the Hardwood Katana, first trade i got it^^ some ppl said u can get rare/ex event sam gear (probably useless tho), i havent seen anyone with, if anyone can confirm this that would be nice

Edited, Thu Apr 28 02:40:21 2005

To get the Hardwood Katana you have to get the killing hit on one of the armors you fight. Well, thats how i think it works because i fought my first Armor, the Elvaan in S.Gusta and after it died i went straight to the moogle at Bastok Markets and traded the regular Wooden Katana you start quest with. Instead of those foods which some of you received, i obtained the Katana itself.

The stats of the Hardwood Katana is:
dmg:5 delay 450 and all jobs can use
On a side note, i went to Sauromugue Champaign the sword seems to have Enthunder property.


Edited, Thu Apr 28 01:11:25 2005

i can only seem to get the mochi and i really want the kanta.

can be fun :)
step 1.) get 5 friends into a party
step 2.) all of you go mnk/sam
step 3.) surround one of them
step 4.) Hundred Fists
step 5.) THERE IS NO STEP FIVE

thank you

extra clarification - you leave the wooden katana equipped while using the monk 2 hour, not attempting to strike the armor with your fists, that would be extremely pointless and I'm not sure how somebody would actually get the idea that I meant anything other than the monk 2 hour, unless of course they had never played FFXI before, or were extremely new... to which I will give said individual the benefit of the doubt. -_-

Edited, Thu Apr 28 00:37:54 2005

I followed one around konashat Highlands for about 3 hrs, only killing one, but i got the hardwood katana. This weapon seems useless, if anyone finds a use for it plz post it up

The moshi you get are related to which armor you beat on. Hit the elvaan alot and the taru a few times you'll get like 7-8 elvaan and 2-3 taru.

Here is a tip, use Bst as main and you can use "Charm" to get them to chase you instead....and get them killed by your alliance members ^^

Here is a tip, use Bst as main and you can use "Charm" to get them to chase you instead....and get them killed by your alliance members ^^

wat lvl do u need to be in order to participate?

wonder if there is a nomad moogle in Ifrit's Couldrum. spelling misstake well well, got the Hard Wooden Katana after going insane in Sauromagen Champane