General Update Changes (May-09-11)

[Therin]

The only job that really could have made good use of the belt is PLD and it's basically unwearable for them now.

I'm getting one for soloing on DRK!

[Seshat]

[21:02:05]yYou find a coin of vision
on Turul.

[21:02:05]yYou find a jewel of vision
on Turul.

Fun stuff.

[Fievel]

Wow, lol

[urat]

So from my experience so far it seems GoV's returns increase a bit with every completion, I've yet to hit any kind of cap getting upwards to above 4K exp a page. I'm going to try making an exp alliance for this in a bit, see if maybe we can get exp dom ops style except at level 20. Might be the new abyssea for low levels.

[Karbuncle]

So from my experience so far it seems GoV's returns increase a bit with every completion, I've yet to hit any kind of cap getting upwards to above 4K exp a page. I'm going to try making an exp alliance for this in a bit, see if maybe we can get exp dom ops style except at level 20. Might be the new abyssea for low levels.

Page 7 in Outer Horutoto Ruins caps at 3080. I know that, Spent Forever there.

[urat]

Page 7 in Outer Horutoto Ruins caps at 3080. I know that, Spent Forever there.

Ah ok, well even then if these things have high caps like that 2~3K exp every 10 mins is pretty sick exp outside of abyssea afaik, thats like 25K an hour, more if you use exp ring.

[Yeyoking]

So from my experience so far it seems GoV's returns increase a bit with every completion, I've yet to hit any kind of cap getting upwards to above 4K exp a page. I'm going to try making an exp alliance for this in a bit, see if maybe we can get exp dom ops style except at level 20. Might be the new abyssea for low levels.

EXP not getting capped might be the reason they are "fixing" grounds of valor in the new additional update notes? Or something else that I'm not aware of??

[Karbuncle]

EXP not getting capped might be the reason they are "fixing" grounds of valor in the new additional update notes? Or something else that I'm not aware of??

I think all they're doing is adding more Tomes and increasing the base Exp per page.

[Dr_Crusis]

Updated my shell page of abyssea info with drops , trigg etc
Thanks to all who submitted info
If you like all info gathered on one place, check it out
I think all info is correct, however if you see some error please let me know

http://welcomeback.guildwork.com/p/info

Your wind grellow trigger removed the wrong spell, unless I missed a maint note said they removed ML instead of HW. (Not that everyone here didn't already know the triggers by now, but whatever). Looks good otherwise, but you get the joy of adding even more stuff to it as we find all the other nms that drop random stuff!

[Apelila]

So I didn't see if its been mentioned, but they messed with how long / how many mobs your NPC can be out for. I'm no where near the "Bond cap" and my NPC has been out for 42 mobs, 2 levels and 1.5 hours.

Edit: 60 Mobs, 2 hours.

[Byrthnoth]

They were fairly explicit about that stuff:

• Fellows will fight alongside you for longer periods of time.
  
  

  • Initial duration of stay will be extended from 45 to 90 minutes.
  • Initial enemy quotas will be increased from 15 to 50 foes.
  • Strengthening bonds with your fellow will provide additional bonuses to these values.
    
    

    • Duration of stay: 9 steps of 10 minutes each, up to a maximum of 180 minutes.
    • Enemy quota: 5 steps of 10 foes each, up to a maximum of 100 foes.
    *The maximum bonus will be applied to players whose fellow bonds have already been strengthened to their limits.

I don't think they changed the Bond cap. My NPC stayed for 100 enemies my first call post-update. The patterns before were 9 and 3 steps, so they probably just replaced the former numbers with new (higher) numbers and split up the number grouping.

[Gynin]

Onvi also just drops Stone of Voyage, just got one.

[NynJa]

Maahes drops nothing new, killed it twice...first no grellow no drop, second grellow with plat ingot. I cant even get to fucking Yaanei cause of the miasma. IC is known (Jewel Card Wieldance, reconfirmed personally). I dont have job setup for smok's KI so someone else can try that.

Pretty sure Drekavac drops nothing +2 either, killed with grellow and got a chicken bone. I'd still check out Smok and Yaanei though.

[Deader2818]

We yellowed Yaanei yesterday with TH and no +2 items dropped.

[Jeryhn]

Regarding the new +2 drops in Visions zones, it seems there's a new pattern of sorts.

http://medjai.guildwork.com/p/abyssea_resources
^ My own resources page.

According to what I've gleaned from LS members and Wiki lurking, five monsters are supposed to drop +2s in each Visions zone. The pattern shows that in each zone, both Empyrean weapon upgrade monsters, the Tier 3 VNM, the highest tiered pop, and some random free spawning NM drop +2s.

What I have so far:

Voyage Card: Carabosse, Ovni, Ruminator
Voyage Coin: Carabosse, Hadhayosh
Voyage Jewel: Briareus, Hadhayosh
Voyage Stone: Briareus, Ovni, Ruminator

Vision Card: Eccentric Eve, Fistule
Vision Coin: Kukulcan, Turul
Vision Jewel: Kukulcan, Turul, Hadal Satiator
Vision Stone: Eccentric Eve, Fistule, Hadal Satiator

Balance Card: Chloris, Glavoid
Balance Coin: Chloris, Usurper
Balance Jewel: Lacovie, Usurper
Balance Stone: Glavoid, Lacovie

What I'm missing is the free-spawn NM in Tahrongi. According to the pattern, it seems to be a free-spawn that's not associated with any Empyrean Accessory drops, so I believe Cuelebre, Minhocao, Chukwa, Adze, Manananggal and Mictlantecuhtli can be ruled out. That leaves Myrmecoleon and Quetzalli as possible targets. Considering Fistule is a +2 dropper that requires another NM to be pulled on top of it to claim and because Quetzalli has weird pop/depop mechanics, my guess is Myrmecoleon is the one we're looking for.

[Deader2818]

Stone of Vision - Konschtat - Eccentric Eve, Hadal Satiator
Card of Vision - Konschtat - Eccentric Eve , Bloodeye Vileberry
Jewel of Vision - Konschtat - Kukulkan, Hadal Satiator
Coin of Vision - Konschtat - Kukulkan, Bloodeye Vileberry

Stone of Voyage - La Theine: Ruminator, Briareus
Card of Voyage - La Theine: Carabosse, Ruminator
Jewel of Voyage - La Theine: Briareus, Hadhayosh
Coin of Voyage - La Theine: Carabosse, Hadhayosh

Stone of Balance - Tahrongi - Glavoid, Lacovie
Card of Balance - Tahrongi - Glavoid, Chloris
Jewel of Balance - Tahrongi - Lacovie, Usurper
Coin of Balance - Tahrongi - Chloris, Usurper

Is what we had before the update, Since then, Ovni, Turul, Fistule and Karkinos have confrimed to drop items.

[Jeryhn]

Well that just fucks things up doesn't it.

If Bloodeye Vileberry is true, then its possible every zone has six mobs for +2 items now since the latest update.
It could also mean that both Myrm and Quetzalli are the targets we're looking for.

I'm guessing Karkinos drops Coins and Jewels (Voyage)?

[Xera]

[23:33:20]You find an aquiline belt on the Iratham.
[23:33:20]You find a meridian ring on the Iratham.
[23:33:20]You find a timarli jawshan on the Iratham.
[23:33:20]You find a card of balance on the Iratham.

[Siatdiat]

What about Iratham?

Edit: le sigh

[Jeryhn]

Looks like Xera beat us both to it. Wasn't really expecting anything from Iratham.

I'd still expect we're missing an NM in Tahrongi. My bet is still on Myrm.