
Originally Posted by
Stanislaw
If you dig through the official forums a bit I think you'll find it. At least, for Aurum. I haven't done enough of Aurum to give you a quick answer, but for Cutter's chests OniDrake got most of it right. The correct conditions are:
1 Kill Chimera
2 Kill all (or a certain) Kyactus after Princess
3 Reach Princess room without failing once
4 Speed run kill Chimera with 35 min left
5 Open all chest on the way and kill Marshall Myrmidon (spawn Marshall, kill Princess first, opens new route /w chest)
In a nutshell:
- Gather all mobs in first room in center, have WHMs use a PoM Holy or two. Will kill everything.
- Split up party. Kill all mobs but leave one ant alive and coordinate last kill. Don't fail or you'll miss a chest.
- Once rejoined, again gather all mobs in center and AoE everything. The Sentinel has the highest HP out of all mobs in there so it should be the last one standing. Kill it last.
- The next room, do the same thing as the last but make SURE to kill the Peiste with several strong single-target attacks as the it (probably) has higher HP than the Sentinel.
- Don't forget to open chests before charging into Princess room, else they despawn.
- Quickly reduce Princess' HP by about 20% to spawn the Marshall. Kill Guards as soon as they spawn (will spawn another exactly 1 minute after it first spawns). Will need to kill Princess before the Marshall so if the Sentinel's HP gets low (about 30%) before killing the Princess I recommend pulling it away from the rest of the group lest it doesn't get caught in AoEs. Killing Marshall last will spawn a new route at the Northwest corner.
- Kill all cactus in the newly spawned route. Ignore the Peiste (sleep them if they agro). It's not clear yet if it's one particular cactus or all cactus you need to kill in order to trigger the chest spawn condition. Don't forget to grab the chest in here as well.
- Move through the Peiste/Coblyn room by killing them asap. Pulling everything and killing everything at once is not really recommended as they hit really hard.
- After room is cleared, have two people with speed boost grab the top and bottom chests real quickly. Ignore the Pieste/Coblyns in the last corridor, but I recommend sleeping them via DS + Sleepga lest someone gets killed trying to force your way through.
- Kill Chimera before the 25 minutes are up for TA. It's recommended to bring melees to this fight as they do way more DPS to Chimera compared to ranged attackers. MNK is great as it can damage Chimera's tail to prevent it from using the back AoE Poison move, allowing melees to attack from behind without having to worry about it.