Old Wounds

Old Wounds
Starting NPC	Curilla, Chateau d'Oraguille (I-9)
Required Fame	None
Additional Requirements	Warrior, Red Mage, Paladin, Dark Knight, Blue Mage, Corsair, or Rune Fencer level 71+ Sword Skill 240+ No other Annals of Truth quest active
Title	None
Repeatable	No
Rewards
The weapon skill Savage Blade

Quicksand Caves

Walkthrough

• Talk to Curilla in Chateau d'Oraguille to obtain a Sapara of Trials and a Weapon Training Guide.
  • The General's Secret quest also prioritizes over this weapon skill quest and must start it first to get the weapon skill quest dialogue.
    • You might have to finish the quest prior to starting this one.
• Use the Sapara of Trials until the latent effect disappears. (This does not always disappear. Check with Quest Giver NPC periodically by trading her the sword to see your status.)

• How to remove the latent effect:

• You must perform Weapon Skills and Skillchains on monsters that con Easy Prey or higher.
• Weapon Skills performed while under Level Sync will count.
• You must accumulate 300 total Weapon Skill Points.
• You receive 1 point for opening/soloing a weaponskill, 2 points for closing a Lv.1 Skillchain, 3 points for closing a Lv.2 Skillchain and 5 points for closing a level 3 Skillchain.
• Unless you are using the sapara with Paladin (and therefore can use Swift Blade), you will not be able to close any Lv.3 chains at this point using a sword.
• To check to see if the latent effect has disappeared, look at your equipment screen for the elemental resistance. Though it is easy to see the HP drop, it should be even easier to see you lose a good 10 resistance in both schools below.

• At any time, you can talk to Curilla to end the quest. If you do end it, all work on the latent effect will be lost as you will need to start the quest again.

• Once you no longer receive the latent effect bonus, head back to Chateau d'Oraguille and TRADE the Sapara of Trials back to Curilla to exchange the weapon for a Map to the Annals of Truth and instructions to head to Quicksand Caves.
• Head to Western Altepa Desert. Here you must open the Altepa Gate.
• Once in Quicksand Caves go to I-6 on the map to the right and click the ??? to spawn the NM named Girtablulu. On the way there, you may encounter an Antican Praetor that hears through sneak at the 4-way intersection. Wait for that antica to move to the far southwest corner of that room before heading north.
• Once you enter the room, be sure to clear it out first as you might be unlucky like me and aggro all the nearby Antica, rendering you dead and having to open the Gate again if you haven't cast Reraise in advance.
• Girtablulu causes high damage when it connects. Uses Wild Rage and Earth Pounder like other scorpions, which can cause high damage. Wild Rage can do about 400-600 damage.
• Girtablulu's use of Death Scissors can do upwards of 1000 damage on a well-equipped level 75 Paladin. It may be best to bring a blink tank.
• Once the NM is dead, reexamine the ??? to obtain the Annals of Truth.
  • Only one character from a party will need to spawn Girtablulu for the whole party that defeated it to get the Key Item.
• Bring this back to Curilla for your reward.
• If more than one individual in your party needs the item, they may check the ??? as well. You do not need to fight the NM for each of them.
• NOTE: You cannot unlock this quest if you already have another Weapon Skill quest opened.

• Talking to Curilla may trigger a cut-scene for the quest The General's Secret. Simply talk to her again after accepting the The General's Secret quest to obtain the correct cutscene for Old Wounds.