Dungeon Treasure Casket Findings

**Corvi** · 2011-05-28 02:24

On a side note, for those that are still hunting for a Prouesse Ring, it seems pretty crappy.....

On THF90, I was fighting 10 DC-EM mandies at the same time in Altep. I got parry from 311 to 316 in 4hr with capped evasion. That is far from an acceptable skillup rate even with the ring.....

Is it faster than before? Yes. Is it good enough? Definitely NO.

**Langly** · 2011-05-28 17:50

Are you restricted to using capped evasion? You're working against yourself.

**Gokulo** · 2011-05-28 18:09

Originally Posted by Corvi

On a side note, for those that are still hunting for a Prouesse Ring, it seems pretty crappy.....

On THF90, I was fighting 10 DC-EM mandies at the same time in Altep. I got parry from 311 to 316 in 4hr with capped evasion. That is far from an acceptable skillup rate even with the ring.....

Is it faster than before? Yes. Is it good enough? Definitely NO.

Anyone who expected it would suddenly make some of those high level combat skills easy to cap will of course be disappointed.

Btw. I'd consider it a pretty nice gain you got there.

**Rez** · 2011-05-28 18:44

That's a good point to raise. Has anyone who needs to skill up Parrying 310+ noticed an improvement in gains while using the Prouesse ring? Obviously skill/hour isn't really representative, and it'll mostly be anecdotal evidence, but I can't say I've noticed any difference whatsoever. Not that I expected any differently, I'm just curious if anyone else noticed the same.

It would be slightly amusing if the ring had some level restriction on it akin to the Kupower, in a masochistic way.

**Myrrh_Quetz** · 2011-05-28 18:50

Well, I gave up in Tor Canal. 8 days down there, countless GoV pages completed, Level 5 in damn near every Prowess(cept the chest one which I never got once), a total of 11 Brown Caskets, and no fucking item at all.

Fuck that shit, never doing it again.

**Indalecia** · 2011-05-28 20:20

To quote a certain Limepussy:

QUITTER

**Myrrh_Quetz** · 2011-05-28 20:58

I see what you did thar

**Pandorrra** · 2011-05-29 05:17

I have been trying to cap parry now that I got ring. I've been getting decent skill ups, but I'm guessing that's partially due to the fact that I am actually trying to skill it up for once instead of a random parry skill on my chat log every 5 days.

I don't think this ring is worth the headache most people are going through to get it, but that's just my personal opinion.

(also note: 230 parry, leveling on RDM on mandies in Abyssea - Miserable Coast)

**Pandorrra** · 2011-05-29 07:37

Just did mandies again in Miserable, two to begin with while I was semi-afk then three. In 90 minutes I got 6.0 skill ups on parry going from 230 > 236. I was on RDM/WAR using phalanx/prot5/aggressor/defender and GH/Plaguebringer/Mounted champion atma's.

I would say 6.0 skill ups is not bad at all, but most likely just SE shining some light my way

Edit: Switched to sword to kill the mandies off, got up to help a guest at work and within two minutes I got another .7 in skill ups. Super lucky...or the ring works?

**Byrthnoth** · 2011-05-29 08:19

It's difficult to compare because your skill level relative to your target and your skill rank (which maybe matters) are so low.

For instance, I've been capping Parrying in Abyssea - Altepa without the ring. I went from 290 to 315ish in about two hours, then from 315 to 323 in about four hours. All the .4s and .3s I'd been getting disappeared.

**zagex** · 2011-05-29 16:25

Throwing skillups were not noticeably different with the ring on. In about 1 hr 40 minutes (no TEs, since I only killed ~5 mobs in that time) I got ~40 levels of throwing and 3 levels of parry vs EP or DC mandies in Tahrongi. Pulled 5 mandies at a time and AFK'd a lot.

**neovivi** · 2011-06-01 05:16

KRT Dungeon Finding no prowess whatsoever was farming a Kindred Seal for mule got Chocobo Torque - 4 Chocobo Riding time +4 Level 81

**scaevola** · 2011-06-02 15:22

Yeah, expectations were not particularly high to begin with but I'm not really seeing much of a difference with Prouesse Ring on, even when working on actual weapon skills where it would presumably be easier to notice. It's still probably the most generally useful of the new rare/ex Treasure Casket utility rewards (more field gear? for a level 90? really?) but in practice all it means is that Zeruhn may be generally preferable to alternative camps as a place to level your NPC, which it would have been regardless with its lack of aggro/linking mobs and threatening AoE.

**Cantih** · 2011-06-02 19:26

Ok, I've gotten both my Field Torque and Rope.
This was just a quick test, not anything serious, but still.

I grabbed a single stack of picks, threw the entire set on, and headed to Zeruhn.
Break rate and point run-dry rates felt the same, however I never got a single "you were unable to mine anything", and I came out with 2 chunks of darksteel.

I need to focus my time on leveling PLD atm, but when I finish, gonna brave the new Gusgen (hate the new aggro mobs there QQ) and see how much gold, darksteel, and rocks I can come out with.

**Pandorrra** · 2011-06-03 11:38

I've been continuing to level my parry when I've had free time and I'm currently at 333. Dancer actually is pretty beastly in Abyssea to level parry haha

Anyway, using ring I generally got anything from 2-6 levels of parry every 2 hours in abyssea with 8-10 mandies on me. Not sure, but I think the ring helps a bit, but that's just me.

Tried leveling it on NIN, but can only handle about 3-4 mandies in Miserable without dying. Guess I'll just save the rest for random parry skill ups.

**Byrthnoth** · 2011-06-03 11:40

I finished the last 20 levels of Parrying on Dancer in about 30-40 minutes with a crowd of all the mandies in Altepa, 2x Parrying Knives, Torque, 4x Merits, and my mule casting Phalanx II on me. It was a crowd of high DC to low T mandies, which was apparently the ideal target set. I had tried VTs (shit proc rate, and actually kind of a shitty skillup rate), and EP/DCs (higher proc rate, shitty skill up rate) prior to that.

My last skill to blue out is Throwing. 210 and climbing!

**urat** · 2011-06-14 17:57

OP is now fully updated

**Draylo** · 2011-09-19 19:59

Vile elixir and Voiddust off a Snaggletooth Peapuk in The Boyada Tree.

**Gokku** · 2011-09-19 20:01

im heading out to ifrits now ill post what i get.

**Gokku** · 2011-09-19 20:01

Volcano Wasp
Gold box
x1 Cobalt cell

Volcanic Gas
Gold Box
x1 Hi-potion +3

Volcano Wasp
Blue box
x1 Super Ether +1

Volcano Wasp
Gold box
x1 Adaman ore

Volcano Wasp
Gold box
x1 Hi Ether +3

Volcano Wasp
Blue box
x1 Lethe wather

Volcanic Gas
Gold Box
x1 Pro Ether +3

Volcanic Gas
Blue Box
x1 Super Ether +1

Volcano Wasp
Gold box
x1 Jade cell
x1 Rubi Cell

Volcanic Gas
Gold Box
x1 Xanth Cell

Volcano Wasp
Blue box
x1 Melon Juice

Volcanic Gas
Gold Box
x1 Ritter Shield *wtf
x1 Orch ore

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