Meeble Burrows Findings

[Garka]

Just got Paalaka gloves off Silagilith tonight, confirmed.

[Chimerawizard]

attempted dreyruk wither THF SAM & SCH. did fine until it got the DDs shell off and while sch was removing some of the debuffs it wiped us with -ja. We could have won if SCH had shell as biggest priority.
It has a huge regain and 3/4th the time uses Blazing Shriek. I also it use dispelling wind and wind wall.
Before we started to wipe, we got it down to ~30% (got the 10 minute warning about the time we wiped)
zombied it to 24% after.
also, believe it is TH+1 for associate researcher #4 boon lv1. around start he reported seeing first proc take it to 9. after we started zombie we saw TH10. i thought TH went away w/ death.

[cdgreg]

also, believe it is TH+1 for associate researcher #4 boon lv1. around start he reported seeing first proc take it to 9. after we started zombie we saw TH10. i thought TH went away w/ death.

I do not believe TH wears off unless the mob resets. Doesn't matter if your THF dies, warps, HPs, whatever. It was an old wives tail that TH wears if the THF dies

[Slycer]

So... did they fix it or not? Another area maintenance on Meeble Burrows this morning and "taken on new measures in order to investigate" doesn't exactly sound like they fixed it....

At the following time, a version update was performed on FINAL FANTASY XI.

[Date & Time]
Oct. 5, 2012 at 4:30(PDT)

[Affected Service]
- FINAL FANTASY XI

[Update Details]
Regarding a solution to the bug in Meeble Burrows where a player may be ejected from the underground cave immediately after the start of a research expedition, we have now taken on new measures in order to investigate this issue further.

*Please note there will be no change to the game content with this update.

[Byrthnoth]

It also doesn't matter if the mob goes idle (at least as long as it still has some DoT on it). If I proc TH7 on LAC, let him charm my mule and I, and re-engage after charm I can proc TH8.

[Chimerawizard]

Okay thanks. It went idle many times during zombie but always had DoT on it.
conclusion: Asst. Researcher 4: TH boon lv1=TH+1 (would wager each level gives +1 past that)
EDIT: THF has knife, +2 hands, +2 feet.

[Slycer]

Note there are two different expeditions that give treasure hunter (Associate Researcher 4 and Assistant 4). I'm guessing they both give the same amounts, and I'm also guessing they don't stack.

[Slycer]

Can anyone verify the number of marks they are getting from boss (#5) expeditions? Make sure you say which boss you did and how many people you had. Thanks!

[mdkuser]

golden wing 1666 6 man.

[NynJa]

Goldwing, 3333 marks, trio like a boss. 6 man zergs are for turds! byaah!

[Smaegol]

We did Goldwing last night with 3 people...got 2333 each, THF, WHM, SCH. Was cake and got the PLD gloves to drop.

[Slycer]

3333 for one, 2333 for another... same amount of people, same expedition? wtfux? The 1666 and 3333 match up as 10,000 total. The 2333 would only be 7000 total. I don't really know what else would cause that to happen.... maybe the "bonus to spoils" thing adds research marks (my gut feeling says no but... idk)? @Smaegol did you have "bonus to spoils" active? Nyn/mdk?

[NynJa]

No Bonus to Spoils, and it was definately 3333

[01:17:19]SPECIALCODEx1F>’You have successfully completed Adjunct research expedition #5! You have been awarded 3333 research marks.

[Slycer]

Important: Dat mine missed stuff. I don't know what they did, but I think we missed stuff in the dat mine.

Summoners take note, this item has been found from Surtr (JP Wiki)

Punga Slops (may not be actual name, just translating the katakana)
DEF:37 MP+30
Avatar: Increases attack, Increases accuracy, Adds "Regen" effect
Lv.99 SMN


This also makes me wonder if those mysterious "Briscard Cuisses" and "Abatteur Subligar" that we saw on the test server really do exist. It's possible there's a small (or large?) handful of items that we don't know about yet. These are not in the JP dat mine either, so they must be hiding in a new place that we aren't usually looking.

[Smaegol]

3333 for one, 2333 for another... same amount of people, same expedition? wtfux? The 1666 and 3333 match up as 10,000 total. The 2333 would only be 7000 total. I don't really know what else would cause that to happen.... maybe the "bonus to spoils" thing adds research marks (my gut feeling says no but... idk)? @Smaegol did you have "bonus to spoils" active? Nyn/mdk?

Nah we didnt have anything special active... I could have sworn I saw 2333 but maybe it was just my imagination. I will reconfirm with my groupmates tonight and let you know if I misspoke.

[Radec]

Important: Dat mine missed stuff. I don't know what they did, but I think we missed stuff in the dat mine.

Summoners take note, this item has been found from Surtr (JP Wiki)

Punga Slops (may not be actual name, just translating the katakana)
DEF:37 MP+30
Avatar: Increases attack, Increases accuracy, Adds "Regen" effect
Lv.99 SMN


This also makes me wonder if those mysterious "Briscard Cuisses" and "Abatteur Subligar" that we saw on the test server really do exist. It's possible there's a small (or large?) handful of items that we don't know about yet. These are not in the JP dat mine either, so they must be hiding in a new place that we aren't usually looking.

Looking for punga/etc now, do you have a list of everything that was on test but not on real?

[mdkuser]

Silagilith, 6 member, 1666 points, drped mnd+10 garbage rod. No danger from that NM.

[Septimus]

Important: Dat mine missed stuff. I don't know what they did, but I think we missed stuff in the dat mine.

Summoners take note, this item has been found from Surtr (JP Wiki)

Punga Slops (may not be actual name, just translating the katakana)
DEF:37 MP+30
Avatar: Increases attack, Increases accuracy, Adds "Regen" effect
Lv.99 SMN


This also makes me wonder if those mysterious "Briscard Cuisses" and "Abatteur Subligar" that we saw on the test server really do exist. It's possible there's a small (or large?) handful of items that we don't know about yet. These are not in the JP dat mine either, so they must be hiding in a new place that we aren't usually looking.

I cannot find these in POLUtils, searching in English, Japanese, French, or German I cannot turn up any level 99 SMN legs. (Filtering to SMN only, then sorting on Level then Slot.) Searching for all level 99 armor in the Japanese table, I cannot find legs that SMN can wear that have the description like "DEF:37 MP+30" followed by squiggles.

If they added these in, there would have to be a new armor table. I wouldn't even know where to start searching. Well, I know where, any new dat added in the last update; but that would be painfully boring and hope that someone would have a more automatic way to find them. lol

[Radec]

Looking for a new armor table myself, if it's a new file in rom1 it's got a new encoding I'm not picking up on yet. Doing a full search but it's going to take a while.

[Septimus]

I hate myself and my OCD for doing this... Yes, going through each and every new item added.

ROM/287 80.DAT - 84.DAT: Status Icons.

ROM286/72.DAT - 75.DAT: Says it is an Armor file, but the data is screwy. (Missing Names, Descriptions, and other stuff.) Found level 99 legs with SMN as the only job and two other leg armors. Those sneaky buttholes.

The order is probably Japanese, English, French, then German, but going to need Radec or someone to look at them to see how the data is different from the other armor file to get names, descriptions, and so forth. (Looks like another POLUtils update.)

Going to keep looking through the files to see if there are any other hidden item tables floating around.