Dungeon Treasure Casket Findings

[Uselessaccount2]

I got my Prouesse Ring two nights ago. Here's a short walkthrough:

Get a Level 1 Job. I did it on SCH. Bring a level 1 weapon, and something around level 5-10ish. Do page 1 until you're level 10. Do page 2 until you're level 13. At this point I had level 3 Treasure Casket Discovery. I then got my dualbox account to farm some of the page 4's on level 90 job, and tagged along for the 3k xp per page (seriously, 3k xp at level 13 is pretty awesome for just autofollow). By the time I hit level 30 I managed to pick up level 4 Treasure Casket Discovery. Then I camped the level 1-4 bats and crabs, killing all 13-14 of them every 5 minutes. I would not get any xp, but the casket bonus would still apply, and I'd usually manage to get 1 brown locked casket every 5 minutes. Just rest between spawns, go get a drink, watch a movie, then kill them all as soon as they repop.

It *still* took me 11-12 hours this way, but grinding out the low level, one-shottable mobs with a high level of Treasure Casket Discovery is the way to go.

Going for the Fisher's Rope (still didn't get it...), this is pretty much the same strategy I used. I had Treasure Casket Discovery up to 3, and from there I just started to take out the Too Weak mobs. I'd gather about 20-30 of em and just AoE it. This would normally produce at least one brown chest. I got up to 3 at once, with two brown and one blue. Items inside were ether's more than half of the time...

When I got the Torque, it was from one of the decent prey mobs... So I'm not sure if the level of the mobs have any difference in the quality of the items in the box... Probably coincidence and some extreme luck.

[Uselessaccount2]

Yeah I've been killing in Wadi with at times like 3 people there, usually none. Person in my ls spent lots of time alone in Sharkarmi and had shit drop rates also. It's not just the amount of people keeping boxes from spawning. The rate really is terrible.

Yeah... When I was in the Maze there were only about 10 people in the zone, which included an experience party, so I concluded that the rate is just extremely bad...

[urat]

Updated OP, I'm predicting that gusgen will hold the field rope, KR's tomb the chobo torque, and either rang. pass or O. caves will hold chocobo rope.

[Fereydoon]

Rang. Pass is the Grapevine cape.

[Masamune]

Just left Fei'Yin after spamming Page6(weapons) for 3 days. Entered with 0 merit, got 21merits as THF90 when had to leave for an event.
Did also 3hrs worth of training 1st room of bats/dolls/ghosts > AeolianEdge spam.

My prowess were : lvl6 everything except TH lvl3 and attack speed lvl1.
I were absolutely alone in zone during those 3 days (once a NIN59 and his rdm came in, probably for MiserMurphy, but that's it)

lvl6 casket discovery didnot improve "THAT" much the rate... no data, just eyeballing.

Got 1 Errant Hat, 1 Cobalt Cell, and 1 Orichalcum Ore off the weapons. Feyweald LogX2 from one of the lowbie mobs train. Got those drops AFTER got TH lvl2. Probably TH is linked to 'level' of chest content like someone mentioned in some previous post.

Tried again a VT Balang with my lvl6 prowesses and full temp meds (im /dnc): mob still had like 50%-60% accu on my eva set, potions and WaltzesIII kept me alive till like 10% when it simply double critted me for 700+... from there, no more potions and tp, bye bye and pissed+1.
Confirming also bats don't aggro or link.

Fuck this shield...

[urat]

Rang. Pass is the Grapevine cape.

I was expecting rang. pass to be the different one because it doesnt quite follow the pattern as being the zone that leads nowhere, so chances are KR tomb = chocobo torque, ordelle's = chocobo rope, and gusgen = field rope.

[urat]

Confirming Fisher's Torque from Outer Horototo, took me like 6 hours to get but I got it @_@;

Next up, Fisher's Rope, then probably Ordelle's Caves farming to figure out what drops there...

[Pandorrra]

I most definitely gave up after my room mate was killing low level mobs for the 6 hours I was a sleep and then the extra 90 minutes when I woke up myself. I needed to get out of that zone or I was going to rage quit.

[Bling]

Skimmed through but didn't see, sorry if it's here. Do the new regimes give exp and tabs like FoV? And if so, how much are the higher level ones giving? Thanks~

[Byrthnoth]

They do give xp and tabs. It actually scales with how many times you've repeated Ops in the zone. Generally the ones I've done start at ~2k and max out around 3.5k (so far). You get 10% as many tabs as xp and gil, and you only get gil and tabs once per day like FoV.

[Pumaite]

Getting a casket is much more dependent on this [people not opening caskets] right now than anything else. The casket rate, even without any prowess, should be high at the moment because of the Moogle Powers. The reason why you don't see many is because of the zone being full. That's why killing a lot of low-level mobs quickly is going to provide you with many more opportunities than killing the EXP mobs- even if they're overcamped. Think of it only in terms of how many kills you can get per unit of time, then go for it.

From my experiences this simply isn't true. I had Inner Horutoto Ruins to myself (literally nobody in the zone) for over 5 hours and chest drop rate was still horrific (eyeball around 1 per 15-20 mobs with multiple chest casket drop rate enhancements). When I was fed up with the zone I exited to east ron. and killed 20 mobs (small sample size yada yada) and ended up with 8 chests. Others have mentioned this but I tend to think that the kupopowers aren't working on the casket drop rate.

[Odin'sLaw]

which area's are left to find? two of the main items a few people are looking for are Ryuga-sune ate's and the Deluxe Animator so if there are two zone's left these could fill in the gap (personally hoping and a few people i know) or dem puppetmasters are gonna have to farm up some Voidwalkers /sigh

[Ophannus]

After 42 Prowesses, I FINALLY got Level 1 Casket finding. Drop rate doubled and by doubled I mean it went from 2% to 5%. Seriously I was like 1/30 on chests dropping and like 1/80+ on being brown chest. Now it's more like 1/15ish on chest drop. Kupo Power doesnt work in dungeons for some stupid ass reason, I wish it did...

[Pandorrra]

Going for fisher's torque in outer hor ruins,

Haven't leveled casket skill up yet at all but I keep just grabbing 15-20 low level mobs every 5 mins and doing Aeolin Edge, without prowess get maybe 1 chest per each time, usually 1-2 other people in zone.

Kupo powers, in no way in my opinion, work with these zones.

[Fereydoon]

LSmate reporting Chocobo Torque from Ranperre's Tomb.

Edit:

Spoiler: show

[Byrthnoth]

Awesome, another 20 merits in CN and no sign of the item yet.

[Cantih]

which area's are left to find?

Gusgen, Crawlers Nest, Ordelle's, Eldieme, and Toraimarai are the last unknown areas.

[Byrthnoth]

Chocobo Rope is missing. Are there any other items that are obviously from Brown Caskets?

[StateofMind]

I stand corrected on the chest rate then. I guess I just assumed that they would be like normal chests (which should have been dropping a lot given moogle powers and casket +) and that it must have been the fact that Zeruhn was so full that was keeping them back. My b.

Still interested in testing out what my Prouesse Ring is doing though. As I mentioned, it really seems like it affects the "strength" of the skill ups (i.e. .3 vs .1) more than their occurences. Likely that it does both, just saying.

I wish I had a way to determine this. Not exactly fair to alternate the ring on and off because skill level is always changing. Plus, i don't feel like taking it off :X

[Clash Perez]

which area's are left to find? two of the main items a few people are looking for are Ryuga-sune ate's and the Deluxe Animator so if there are two zone's left these could fill in the gap (personally hoping and a few people i know) or dem puppetmasters are gonna have to farm up some Voidwalkers /sigh

Sune-Ate were reported as a Dyna-Beauc NM drop.

Edit: Animator was reported to drop from Akupara, a Voidwatch NM.