Wings of the Goddess Missions - December 2010 Update

[Dracaunt]

Final cs in Grauberg WoE entrance after Saur (S) one. Will update soon, augmented rewards it seems.
Choice of two augments on earring:

First Augment Choice of Att/Acc/R.Att/R.Acc/M.Acc/MAB+4 HP/MP+25
Second Augment Choice of: Latent Effect Regain/Latent Effect Refresh/Occ. grants dmg bonus based on TP +5%/TP Bonus+25/Occ. Maximizes Mag Acc+3%/Occ. Quickens Spellcasting+3%/Counter+3/Occ. inc. resistance to all status ailments +5.

*Edit again* Beat final fight with DRG MNK RDM WHM, just in case anyone is wondering. Didn't get any Trance or Comet in first form. 2nd form uses some lightning attack that resets all JA timers (including 2 hours), also some move that causes weakness (used on MNK, not me). -ga enfeebs as said before.

[Argdar]

Here's a bit more info about the first fight:

Fourth Spitewarden: Pretty low HP. He'll hit for decent damage no matter what weapon you give him, and have access to all of the WSes for that weapon. He has a unique WS "Cataclysm" which does middling AoE damage and ignore shadows, nothing to worry about.

The one thing to watch for is Essence Jack, which he uses at low HP; this will terror you and inflict all the stat downs, while giving him a pretty hefty damage boost. He keeps his low HP, though, so if you press at that point he'll die quickly. I might add he used it on me because he was my clone; I don't know what happens if you keep whoever he's a clone of away from him.

Larzos: He has his own WS, Forlorn Strike, which didn't seem to be anything special. Only real note is that he'll pop Hundred Fists as you take him down so have some way to deal with that.

Ragelise: Basic pld although he can cast banishga as well, we noticed. Portia will occasionally drop a healing waltz on him as you fight if she's still alive.

Portia: Low defense, low attack, has the doom move but goes down so fast you might not even see it; it certainly wouldn't have time to go off if you leave her to last. If you're kiting her note that you can't outrun her WSes.

All of them can be gravved and bound with ease.

[tsola]

Final cs in Grauberg WoE entrance after Saur (S) one. Will update soon, augmented rewards it seems.
Choice of two augments on earring:

First Augment Choice of Att/Acc/R.Att/R.Acc/M.Acc/MAB+4 HP/MP+25
Second Augment Choice of: Latent Effect Regain/Latent Effect Refresh/Occ. grants dmg bonus based on TP +5%/TP Bonus+25/Occ. Maximizes Mag Acc+3%/Occ. Quickens Spellcasting+3%/Counter+3/Occ. inc. resistance to all status ailments +5.

Text seems to imply we can't get another earring if we drop (for now at least). Wish we could know what the latent effects are before we chose.

[GreenKnux]

Nevermind

[Nameless]

TP bonus +25 seems to be king for WS if you got something like fudo. Wonder what occ grant bonus damage based on tp +5%, could be pretty nifty.

[Gwynplaine]

First Augment Choice of Att/Acc/R.Att/R.Acc/M.Acc/MAB+4 HP/MP+25
Second Augment Choice of: Latent Effect Regain/Latent Effect Refresh/Occ. grants dmg bonus based on TP +5%/TP Bonus+25/Occ. Maximizes Mag Acc+3%/Occ. Quickens Spellcasting+3%/Counter+3/Occ. inc. resistance to all status ailments +5.

what are the amounts on the att/acc/ratt/racc etc? Thats a lot of weird shit.

[Argdar]

Here's some more information about the second, and final, battlefield:

Spoiler: show

First a warning: you lose the key item you had to run around the past putting together on entry. You will probably have to do the whole run again if you lose so go in prepared with as many people as you can manage.

Form One:

Like mentioned before her attacks are magic based and knockback. My group had a pld tank up against a wall, although her attacks would hit for a decent amount. She casts mostly enfeebles, although breakga can be troublesome if it hits too many people.

Her WSes aren't really much bother although I believe one of them will dispel buffs. The charm is definitely gaze based and not hard at all to avoid.

The one trick is she casts Meteor, 1200-1800 damage, so try to keep everyone out of range. If you're tanking against a wall, you might not be able to outrun it. She may only cast this at low hp levels and despite meteor killing a few people we were able to finish her off.

Form Two:

You spawn in far away from her and she doesn't aggro so you have all the time you need to rebuff and get people out of weakness.

Gets a bit trickier now; we didn't really try to full tank this bit, our damage came from 2 smns and avatars held the hate for most of the fight, with the pld only stepping in when smns had to recast or when things went pear-shaped.

Her WSes in this form are Dark (element) named after the AMs; Dark Flare, Dark Quake, etc. They do hefty elemental damage (400-800), at least to avatars, in what looked like a frontal cone, and occasionally she will use two back-to-back. In addition to these, we saw Dark Moon, which inflicted weakness for a short amount of time.

Her '2hr' such as it is, is Dark Sun; she gives a line in /say before using it but there's not a lot of warning beyond that. Dark Sun is AoE death, like Zantetsuken, at about 15' (but that's not definite) so keep everyone scattered and out of range when you're bringing her below 50% or so.

We didn't see any nasty moves at 25% or below, just more of the same.

One thing that's common to both forms is that she will summon adds called Elemental Gyres; despite what the wiki says these will show up at any hp level. I have no idea what they do; they are completely stationary and take no action. We assumed that they might do something if we got too close to them so we gave them a wide berth and they did nothing the entire fight.

Our winning group was Pld, Smn, Smn, Rdm, Cor, in 26 minutes.

[Tomino]

So now that everything has been said and done...
Could anyone spoiler me what the impending comet was for? It has been there since WotG trailer and I always wondered about it

[Crysten]

So now that everything has been said and done...
Could anyone spoiler me what the impending comet was for? It has been there since WotG trailer and I always wondered about it

Spoiler: show

It was Atomos. There's our Vana'diel, and the Vana'diel where the beastmen won the war. Turns out that our Vana'diel is the future that was never meant to be, and the comet was Atomos on his way to nom on it.

[Dracaunt]

what are the amounts on the att/acc/ratt/racc etc? Thats a lot of weird shit.

They're +4 each.

[tsola]

JPs are reported that the latents on refresh and regain are as follows:

latent regain: 1 TP/tick, consuming 1MP/tick.
latent refresh: 1 MP/tick, consuming 1 TP/tick.

Can't confirm myself though.

[Alkimi]

Punch Bug also drop from Lou Carcolh (The slugs) in Pashhow(S).

[Lyramion]

This reward other than TP bonus +25 is so underwhelming at this point in time and for the 3 years it took...

[Nauq]

This reward other than TP bonus +25 is so underwhelming at this point in time and for the 3 years it took...

This is exactly how I feel, we waited 3 years for this?!! However, I'm curious to hear what the LE trigger is for regain.

[Ophannus]

latent regain: 1 TP/tick, consuming 1MP/tick.

1 MP Merit+ Sanction/Sigil/Signet refresh= Win?


Yo RDM refresh me, I want TPZ

[Maguile]

JPs are reported that the latents on refresh and regain are as follows:

latent regain: 1 TP/tick, consuming 1MP/tick.
latent refresh: 1 MP/tick, consuming 1 TP/tick.

Can't confirm myself though.

If thats true, thats sooooooooooooooo fucking lame

[Rocl]

. He has a unique WS "Cataclysm" which does middling AoE damage and ignore shadows, nothing to worry about.

Sure it wasn't the normal dark elemental AoE Staff WS? (y'know the one you get at 290 skill)

[Riposte]

How were the fights in terms of difficulty? Based on 75? or 80? or 90?

[Argdar]

How were the fights in terms of difficulty? Based on 75? or 80? or 90?

The first one is that classic WotG style fight of only being remotely challenging if you're forced to lowman. There are a bunch of JPs working their way through right now so if you can pick up some people it won't be hard at all. If you're forced to do it with 2-3 people it might be a bit tricky; movement speed for a kiter would help quite a bit.

The last fight is actually reasonably challenging and it'd certainly be hard if you tried to straight-up tank the second form; she can throw a lot of damage around pretty quickly and blink tanking is entirely unworkable. It's much, much easier if you kite to outrun all the damaging stuff she can do; my group did almost all damage with smns and avatars can tank her for a good deal of time, as well. Good way to waste her AoE death 2hr, too. Basically think of it like fighting Promathia's second form.

My group was entirely 86 when we did this, 1/2 on the first fight and 1/1 on the second, so you don't have to get 90 for it (although the reward earring IS lv90). I'd bet you could do it at 80 but 75 might be pushing it.

Sure it wasn't the normal dark elemental AoE Staff WS? (y'know the one you get at 290 skill)

Blah. That's probably it. Cool looking, though!

[GeneJackit]

The earring does look uninspiring, cept looks like a good Leaden Salute / Wildfire piece with TP bonus+25 and Matk+4

It may be a stretch with those states, but thats the best comboi can see

Maybe the matk+4 and decreased spell cast for nuking?