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[In Flames]

Can BST solo the phuabo VNM in abyssea-misareaux, Tristitia?

[dasva]

I don't understand why you put Feral Howl and Beast Healer as if it's one or the other. Why not both?
Beast Affinity is kinda useless if you use level capped pets, and Killer Instinct is... well, it can situationally be a nice tool I suppose. Depends what you use your BST for. If it's used for Dyna for instance you won't get anything out of Killer Instinct, while Feral Howl will grant you a cool additional proc every 5 mins, and a tool to get out of nasty situations.

I didn't mean to make them sound like either so much as howl is extremely situational at 5 min recast. I mean really how many times are you going to be situations where you'd go dang I'd like an extra stun but wait only once ever 5 min... so it's more kinda and after thought merit if you absolutely aren't using KI or beast affinity since beast healer is a given. Which basically means if you ever want sleepga or use bst for anything outside of dynamis. So if your bst is solely dynamis howl away otherwise...

[bruice]

Heard you can run to Morimar Basalt Fields while avoiding Reives. This true and anyone care to explain to me how? Can't figure it out ;( lol

[fantasticdan]

Can BST solo the phuabo VNM in abyssea-misareaux, Tristitia?

I havn't tried on bst, but with gooey + DG + FF it should be pretty easy. It's a joke on pup with mana jammers, even without FF.

[Squah]

Heard you can run to Morimar Basalt Fields while avoiding Reives. This true and anyone care to explain to me how? Can't figure it out ;( lol

You can. Enter Yahse from Ceizak and go NE each time you encounter a reive. It's way out of the way, but possible. You end up almost in the extreme NE of the map before it lets you trail over west to get into Gates.

[dasva]

Yeah not much bst can't solo in abyssea. Just make sure to get your pet on it fast and stay out of aoe dmg. Which since it's spikes are nasty enough to discourage melee isn't too much of a loss anyeays. Also given it's thunder nuke spam maybe not gooey lol

[fantasticdan]

Gooey works fine against all elements including thunder in my experience, he has a large amount of plain MDB. It's not like this is pokemon where he's going to take 2x supereffective damage from something, he just might not have the same level of resist vs it as he does water/earth.

[bruice]

You can. Enter Yahse from Ceizak and go NE each time you encounter a reive. It's way out of the way, but possible. You end up almost in the extreme NE of the map before it lets you trail over west to get into Gates.

I didn't take this route. I took a MUCH LONGER route randomly running around lol. Finally got there but thank you

[In Flames]

Yeah not much bst can't solo in abyssea. Just make sure to get your pet on it fast and stay out of aoe dmg. Which since it's spikes are nasty enough to discourage melee isn't too much of a loss anyeays. Also given it's thunder nuke spam maybe not gooey lol

Well i went ahead and tried it before seeing any responses. Unless you're using a good MDB atma like future fabulous or have a pretty damn good reward set it seems quite difficult. I was riding my reward timer pretty hard, and even when ducal guard was in effect gooey was still taking 700 from thunder spells. Had to call a new gooey at 80% and by just under 70% it'd already killed the new gooey. At that point it stunned me and killed me. I wasn't meleeing with gooey. I only have -20%dt from axes. If anyone has any advice that'd be great as i need the cards from it.

Atmas were DG/RR/Vicissitude btw.

[Jem]

Well i went ahead and tried it before seeing any responses. Unless you're using a good MDB atma like future fabulous or have a pretty damn good reward set it seems quite difficult. I was riding my reward timer pretty hard, and even when ducal guard was in effect gooey was still taking 700 from thunder spells. Had to call a new gooey at 80% and by just under 70% it'd already killed the new gooey. At that point it stunned me and killed me. I wasn't meleeing with gooey. I only have -20%dt from axes. If anyone has any advice that'd be great as i need the cards from it.

Atmas were DG/RR/Vicissitude btw.

If you can catch me when I'm at home I can probably semi-afk kill it on pld for you

(I'm online atm because I never log out/turn off my computer but I'm at work)

[dasva]

Gooey works fine against all elements including thunder in my experience, he has a large amount of plain MDB. It's not like this is pokemon where he's going to take 2x supereffective damage from something, he just might not have the same level of resist vs it as he does water/earth.

Hey resists matter. Given the lvl of resistance they tend to display vs most elements they aren't weak to sometimes it makes pokemons weakness look well weak in comparison. Really thunder is the only element I wouldn't use gooey against since there general resistance isn't bad even to null elements it's really just to the ones they are weak against... this does remind me I need to quantify jugs mdb... think I've found a way without needing ballista

[fantasticdan]

Idk, even for thunder against stuff like turul, he has a much higher resist rate than players in my experience, how would you quantify jug resists other than the obvious super high ones?

Otherwiki says slugs are actually weak to ice/fire not thunder thou, is that just random BS? He still seems to have superior resist to ice than a barspelled player does, at least against isgebind.

[dasva]

Idk, even for thunder against stuff like turul, he has a much higher resist rate than players in my experience, how would you quantify jug resists other than the obvious super high ones?

Otherwiki says slugs are actually weak to ice/fire not thunder thou, is that just random BS? He still seems to have superior resist to ice than a barspelled player does, at least against isgebind.

Idk haven't tested them too much on resist mostly cause there resist rate is so damn rediculous. Even on weak elements it tends to be better then a player unless they getting full bar and using resist sets. Could actually try to test and math out meva to various element nukes... though I'd imagine you'd have to use ballista for that given on anything weak enough to run tests well they are probably capping. Plus it's hard testing stats on pets to begin with. Mdt took me a bit and mdb is annoying enough I haven't bothered...

As far as other wiki not sure... it is possible that it can be weak to ice but strong to para... but seems odd of a water mob. I just assumed water weak to thunder

[Tarage]

A. Do I need to have done anything to have access to Delve/Phasm farming parties?
B. Do the little outpost things ever go away once they are built?

[dasva]

A. Do I need to have done anything to have access to Delve/Phasm farming parties?
B. Do the little outpost things ever go away once they are built?

Just need to be lvl 95+ to enter fractute. Leading has requirements but not important and yes bivouacs go away. Though you can be anywhere in zone to do facture fights only leader needs to be at right place

[blue]

Does Wind Shot work on frightful roar?

[Obsidian]

A. Do I need to have done anything to have access to Delve/Phasm farming parties?
B. Do the little outpost things ever go away once they are built?

No.
Yes.

[Tarage]

What are the deciding factors for a Bivouac going away?

Should I even bother bringing supplies to ones that aren't built?

[Eldelphia]

What are the deciding factors for a Bivouac going away?

Should I even bother bringing supplies to ones that aren't built?

Yes, because running supplies can net decent Bayld and once you rank up in a coalition is fast and less hassle than reives when you don't have much time. Oh and when a biv disappears, peeps can't warp to it.

[Hitou]

I'd do supplies till contributor just because it's easy. But after that it's not worth wasting imps on because they just disappear a week later. If you have no desire to rank up the other coalitions then by all means spam them, get 6k exp/bayld for x3 imps to morimar and foret.