Meeble Burrows Findings

**Jem** · 2012-10-09 09:53

So 99 Ragna + 90 Ukon + SCH + SMN would have no issue killing it then Warden? Was a little bit concerned about how we were going to take it down.

Or better yet, could you get away with no PD as 4 man if the SMN came THF instead?

**Jem** · 2012-10-09 11:59

Also don't know if anybody has said it but I can now purchase a new Grimoire (Gallantry). Not sure what has triggered it but I have Avidity/Diligence already and 3 boss clears (Goldwing, Silagilith and Dreyruk).

Not that it's actually any use but hey ho! Bought it anywa (QQ invent -1) purely to see if another shows up at some point. None in stock again now.

**Slycer** · 2012-10-09 12:57

I'm sure it's just the third boss clear that triggered it. There are two other grimoires also (sanctity and militance else idr), probably from the fourth and fifth clears. They restock when you lose them for whatever reason, if you tossed Gallantry he should be selling it again. I suppose there's an extremely small possibility that it does something different when recording clears, see if you catch anything. Same cost, I assume (2000 gil/200 RM)?

**Jem** · 2012-10-09 13:17

Yep the cost is the same and I gave it to the guy to see if there was anything different but it seemingly (and probably is) identical to the others.

Seems bizarre they would add these 5 books which unlock as you go along that serve no real purpose.

**Slycer** · 2012-10-09 13:37

Originally Posted by Jem

Seems bizarre they would add these 5 books which unlock as you go along that serve no real purpose.

I guess in theory if you were doing the event with multiple different groups of people you could potentially make use of one for each of the groups. Obviously that falls apart in practice, given the 20 hour retry timer and the maximum 5 accumulation. Maybe there's something progression-related that we're missing here, but I don't see it.

**Wardeniii** · 2012-10-09 14:04

Originally Posted by Jem

So 99 Ragna + 90 Ukon + SCH + SMN would have no issue killing it then Warden? Was a little bit concerned about how we were going to take it down.

Or better yet, could you get away with no PD as 4 man if the SMN came THF instead?

Yeah, a 99 rag + ukon would demolish it if both wars 2 hour'd.

I think healing would become overwhelming for one SCH with three DD's on the mob, so realistically I think that could be pretty risky. Although, since the SCH would have 3 minutes of unlimited charges (which you'd certainly kill it before the 3 minutes were up), some accession/penury/rapture spam might legit be able to pull it off, lol.

**Kenrusai** · 2012-10-09 14:37

Did the triple punch attack one shot your MNK?

**Kincard** · 2012-10-09 15:21

Originally Posted by Slycer

I guess in theory if you were doing the event with multiple different groups of people you could potentially make use of one for each of the groups. Obviously that falls apart in practice, given the 20 hour retry timer and the maximum 5 accumulation. Maybe there's something progression-related that we're missing here, but I don't see it.

It makes sense from a casual's perspective in some ways, especially how JPs shout for damn near everything. You log in one night, see the same tier shout? No problem, just pull out a different book.

I wouldn't mind it so much if they just kept it as data handled through a KI or something, but no, of course not, has to waste a bunch of inventory spaces. Christ.

**Wardeniii** · 2012-10-09 15:37

Originally Posted by Kenrusai

Did the triple punch attack one shot your MNK?

Triple punch did ~1250 dmg, might strikes down; counterstance obviously not being used either. I am not certain if that triple punch went off while I was in my PDT set or not though, since I was TP'ing full time in PDT and just WS'ing in proper gear. I'm pretty sure the triple punch occurred while I was WS'ing though, and thus had my PDT gear off.

It was the -ja nuke spam during chainspell that killed us -- debated kiting during chainspell but I was hoping for some love from engulfer's/shadow ring, and also kind of wanted to see how eihwaz/shadow ring did against deathga. He never ended up casting deathga though.

There was no love.

**Kenrusai** · 2012-10-09 16:01

ah I see, and no deathga? hmm..wonder if he really casts it..

**Slycer** · 2012-10-09 16:03

Originally Posted by Kenrusai

ah I see, and no deathga? hmm..wonder if he really casts it..

They might have taken it out since the test server, or could be uncommon, or only occur under certain circumstances (maybe if you leave him for too long without doing damage, or whatever). That's a ridiculous behavior that no monster should ever have access to, especially when it's a low man thing. But that's never stopped them before, so who knows?

**Tachi** · 2012-10-09 18:55

Death is uncommon and if Samursk isn't under Chainspell it's not instant cast but still fast (casting time similar to Akvan or Kalasutrax). I think he does Oblivion's Mantle only under 25%.

**Wardeniii** · 2012-10-10 07:50

Out of a couple hundred DL's/ADL's, I can honestly say I've only seen a combined total of Death being cast maybe 5 times, tops.

I wouldn't be shocked at all if, like you say, deathga is still in its arsenal, but it just doesn't get used terribly often. Based upon SE's more recent track record though, I wouldn't put it past them at all to put in a "full wipe you lose" spell.

**Slycer** · 2012-10-10 10:26

Sounds like a Chainspell Stun for the last 25%-50% of Samursk would be pretty useful unless he becomes resistant very quickly.

**pchan** · 2012-10-10 10:53

Did surtr with embrava and PD today but it's overkill, 3 MNks and it was dead before PD wear off. It only cast paralyga the whole fight.

**Taint** · 2012-10-10 12:52

Originally Posted by Slycer

Also, we basically knew already, but Gusterion was confirmed as a Dreyruk drop on the JP Wiki. Sadly, there's no information yet about how the additional effect works, but I'll keep an eye out.

http://beast40.com/FFXI/gusterion.jpg

Gusterion dropped for us on Monday.

Its blink (whm), 1 shadow, melee attacks only. Very high proc rate. Works in the off hand. It wears after 5 seconds whether the shadow was used or now.

**Slycer** · 2012-10-10 13:07

Originally Posted by Taint

Its blink (whm), 1 shadow, melee attacks only. Very high proc rate. Works in the off hand. It wears after 5 seconds whether the shadow was used or now.

Has a place for making soloing even easier, I guess. Not terrible, not amazing.

**pchan** · 2012-10-10 16:37

I suppose that the goal of the new grimoires is to stock more pheromons, anyone can check if you can store them on 3 different grim ? This way you could store a total of 8 pheromons ?

**Jem** · 2012-10-10 16:44

Originally Posted by pchan

I suppose that the goal of the new grimoires is to stock more pheromons, anyone can check if you can store them on 3 different grim ? This way you could store a total of 8 pheromons ?

Doesn't work unfortunately. When you take your grimoire back off him to try trade him a different one, he also takes the page back too.

The only possible thing I can think of for multiple grimoires is that it lets you work towards multiple bosses at a time whereas if it was on 1 grimoire you couldn't get any progress on other tiers once you reached a boss as doing the boss would wipe it.

Unless SE has made each book correspond to a wing and there's some sort of hidden perk/bonus/whatever if you use the correct book. Seems unlikely though.

**Yugl** · 2012-10-10 17:17

Stagella seem resistant to break. I casted Breakga on a mix of Stafdella and Hirudinid and they only landed on the Hirudinid.

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