Evoliths and my retarded time-and-inventory-space-wasting 2hr reduction idea.

[Rosalie]

So I got really bored during ls off time, and I had always been somewhat intrigued by the intricacies of the evolith system. I've been toying with the idea of making a 2-hr ability timer reduction set for my smn and possibly my cor ever since they announced that they were reducing the timers from a 2 hour cooldown to 1 hour (and mainly because for some idiot reason I had gotten confused and thought it was going to be a 30 minute cooldown. Damn you FFXIV, your 15 minute timers had spoiled me.)

Unfortunately for me, since really NO ONE CARES about this shit, there is a complete lack of reliable information on exactly evoliths come from what hunts. Granted, what type of evolith is mostly available from the old wikis, but as for the sizes available, ppl made shit up (which annoys me to no small end) and a lot of it is just plain WRONG not only on the evolith pages, but even the armor pages were screwed up and had to be corrected! I've been trying to fix it as I go along, but then at this point I'm really only interested in a very small set of evoliths. (I have also provided the fruits of my labor on BG's hunt registry pages which, while sparse, I have found to be much more reliable when it comes to this information than the 'I made this up lol' pages on other wiki sites.)

At this time, I have only managed to complete two of the five pieces I intend to augment with 'Astral Flow: Ability delay -1' courtesy of Naa Zeku the Unwaiting (who totally lies and makes me wait forever for his stupid ass to pop.) However, when I had both pieces equipped (hands and feet,) my Astral Flow timer was only reduced by only ONE MINUTE rather than the two minutes I had expected.

My current theory is that when the two-hour recast timers were reduced, the effect of these augmented armors were proportionately reduced as well, which upsets me greatly since I poured so much time into this retardation. I was wondering if anyone else had experimented with this stuff ever since the December update, or what kind of results anyone might have had with it even before the update so I can compare my results.

[NynJa]

it was tested on the test server when they originally dropped 2hr's down to 1.

[Jeryhn]

This was already figured out back when SPs were reduced in recast on the test server.

EDIT: Damn, beaten.

[NynJa]

and as far as why theres a "lack of information about evoliths", its because its a fucking shitty system that deserves to have a lack of information, if it were wiped from the servers, all of 0 people would give a fuck.

[Rosalie]

Where did they get the armor to test with? Did the testers have it before applying for the test server? (Please link if you can, I'm interested in reading the post.)

[Jeryhn]

I imagine its somewhere in the Test Server thread. Happy hunting.

[Kohan]

I did not want to close this thread immediately, as it's good to hear that you're contributing the information you find to the BG Wiki, and the question was unusual enough to potentially stimulate some discussion (even if no one really cares about the Evolith system, myself included). However, the questions posed in the OP have been answered, and as Jeryhn stated, the Test Server thread is most likely where further information waits. I found several related discussions simply by Googling "site:bluegartr.com test server evolith," and if you know superior keywords to use, you'll likely have more success. Good luck.