Colonization Thread

[Cambion]

Just received the Cutscene from Brenton and got the Dinner Invitation.

I spoke with him and got the usual text.
Reported a successful mission (of 3 tags for clear the way) at the Pioneers Coalition
Then immediately spoke to him again and got the CS. (On a level 27 job)
No zoning and nothing done between.
41/42 for quite a while if that matters. (Which it seems to)

LS mate is 2/42, can't get the CS and has probably used just as many if not more tags than me, since I have 2 sitting, and he has 0, both went to Adoulin on opening day and started building tags, neither of us used that cheat/glitch.
I suppose he can either turn in a few more and see, or maybe slowly start ranking up, and see at what level fame, the CS is activated.

[Althorn]

I honestly can't believe that people are acting like Bayld is hard to accrue. Ok it's not like you can go out and get 100k Bayld in 30 mins but you could do it in like 5 hours. Probably less if you made a concentrated LS effort to do so.

You can get like 15-20k just by following the crowd and clearing out the Yahse or Ceizak loop once. That takes like 30-45 mins depending on how big the crowd is.

Depends.

As I mentioned several pages back, my SMN currently gets zero Bayld from Reives. I'm just not hitting the minimum damage cap even with Blood Pacts. I haven't had a chance to try my WHM yet, so it's possible that will work a little better. But Reive damage seems to swing between either the extreme of "horribly out of control" (which is good for a healer - until the healer pulls hate or runs out of mp) or "the paladin is healing what little damage he's taking" (which gives me nothing to work with).

[mdkuser]

you get ok points for curing on whm, but bard gets jack shit. I tri-box root reives MNK WHM BRD, MNK and WHM get decent points and BRD gets jack unless it throws some cures.

[Jem]

What the shit am I doing wrong >_> I follow the crowd and get 2-3k per fight, 4 per loop. 8-12k an hour or so

I generally do Yahse's 5 Colonization Reives plus a Lair Reive if the crowd heads there. I don't do anything out of the norm. I just go out there on DRK/SAM and wail away at the roots keeping everything on cooldown. Stupid question but are you keeping Absorb-TP on cooldown too? You apparently get a lot more points for doing AoE and cleaving stuff. I've not tried it personally but may be worth switching jobs and trying that if you're still getting crappy rewards.

Depends.

As I mentioned several pages back, my SMN currently gets zero Bayld from Reives. I'm just not hitting the minimum damage cap even with Blood Pacts. I haven't had a chance to try my WHM yet, so it's possible that will work a little better. But Reive damage seems to swing between either the extreme of "horribly out of control" (which is good for a healer - until the healer pulls hate or runs out of mp) or "the paladin is healing what little damage he's taking" (which gives me nothing to work with).

It's a shitty answer but the simple solution is to not go on jobs which have bad evaluation returns. It sucks and I wholeheartedly agree you should be able to use whichever job you want to get Bayld but that's just the way it is at the moment.

[Gwynplaine]

Hence why I don't do reives, aside from them being not fun to begin with.

[Squah]

Maybe the fact that I'm doing Ceizak is hurting me? But yes, I generally go DRK/RDM to keep myself buffed and for emergency cures when Catastrophe misses (and sneak/invis), put up endark LR haste etc and keep absorb-TP on cooldown. I forget where else you could absorb-TP spam and get away with tons of TP for eternity. Fortifications maybe? Can't remember where it was, but I know I did it before.

DID NOT KNOW that trees and nests are aspirable, though. Neat.

[Slycer]

Super important addendum: after the Foret and Morimar frontier stations on Fenrir were established, Sifa Alani started selling maps for Foret, Morimar, AND Cirdas. 1000, 1000, and 2000 bayld. Go get em (if you can)! Should give credit where it's due - Mumei in my LS figured this out (or at least told me to go check).

[Sechs]

Wow, thanks Slycer

[Tachi]

I don't have much problems with SMN, I do about 2000~3500 Byalds per Reive in Ceizak. I melee with my Avatar, Wind Blade / Whispering Wind whenever it's possible, Cataclysm sometimes when it's not too risky.
I also did some tests in solo, my BPs are definitly counted, even Ifrit's Enfire is taken into account but it's not a good way to solo farm Byalds.

[Prothescar]

now to wait 6 weeks for Valefor to start joining me in colonizing those zones swear ive not seen anyone else running supplies or anything out there

[dasva]

now to wait 6 weeks for Valefor to start joining me in colonizing those zones swear ive not seen anyone else running supplies or anything out there

Build it and they will come

[Prothescar]

yeah they'll wait for me to build it all alone then reap the benefits prolly. wonder if that's even possible

[Obsidian]

Finished Preserve: Foret de Hennetiel with three tags and got 3000 EXP/Bayld. That one and the Morimar one are pretty simple to solo. There are only three or four mobs per lair; anyone able to land sleep reliably should be able to handle them alone.

[Rocl]

Are there any maps of where Reives are for each zone? I saw some prelims back when the expansion started but has it been fleshed out in its entirety?

Verby's Ceizak and my Yashe Reive maps are 100% accurate. I've got one for Moh and Sih too, but as far as I can see there are only two accessible Colonization Reives in those zones.

yeah they'll wait for me to build it all alone then reap the benefits prolly. wonder if that's even possible

pls hurry bro, i need the maps. I'm going to try to actually work on Colo/Lair Reives in Foret myself now that I got the mission done, but I really don't wanna use tags to rank up Scout or Courier or w/e it is to build biouvacs.

listen, my character believes in the Peacekeeper Coalition. the only way to sway Gratzigg to favour the colonization effort is to show him how good we adventurers are!!!!!!!!!!!

Finished Preserve: Foret de Hennetiel with three tags and got 3000 EXP/Bayld. That one and the Morimar one are pretty simple to solo. There are only three or four mobs per lair; anyone able to land sleep reliably should be able to handle them alone.

Yeah, I was surprised how easy it was to solo a Lair in Foret, I mean I did it in Yahse/Ceizak too, but 3 crabs 1 craklaw are pretty easy to handle on SCH compared to 3 wasps 3 mantids or 3 wasps 3 chapuli etc. As an interesting side note, Craklaws don't have MP like babby crabs do.

[dasva]

Super important addendum: after the Foret and Morimar frontier stations on Fenrir were established, Sifa Alani started selling maps for Foret, Morimar, AND Cirdas. 1000, 1000, and 2000 bayld. Go get em (if you can)! Should give credit where it's due - Mumei in my LS figured this out (or at least told me to go check).

You can get foret and morimar marked too at scouts. But think it was only the frontier station lol. Also unlocked survey sih gates

[Spira]

Random: Do you guys think there's like a "Climbing" KI that isn't in the game yet? There are several areas in Moh Gates and Sih Gates that are huge one-way drop cliffs with a random root hanging down all the way to the floor. There's even an area in Moh Gates to the southeast that it looks like there's no way to get to, because of the cliff. I can't figure out how to get up there, unless I'm missing a hidden tunnel entrance or something.

i'd bet on it.
there are vines to climb in Morimar, Sih Gates, Moh Gates and Cirdas. Currently, a lot of the cliffs are one-way paths, but some are totally cut off.. so eventually they're gonna be unlockable by a new survival skill, which would make it more convenient to get around some of the existing zones. I like this survival skills touch because it really gives you a reason to come back to older areas once you acquire new skills (a concept similar to FF13-2's fragment skills and a bunch of other games as well)

[dasva]

survey sih gates is 1800xp/baldy for 3 tags. I'd recommend the water craft one since the other 2 are behind reives. Plus it's pretty close to the foret zone line which is really close to the frontier station

[Slycer]

You can get foret and morimar marked too at scouts. But think it was only the frontier station lol. Also unlocked survey sih gates

Survey: Sih is just probationer level for Scouts, I don't think it's related to having map or not. From what I've heard, you can also do Survey: Sih in Moh Gates (there isn't a separate one for Moh).

[dasva]

Survey: Sih is just probationer level for Scouts, I don't think it's related to having map or not. From what I've heard, you can also do Survey: Sih in Moh Gates (there isn't a separate one for Moh).

Hmmm well I didn't get the option when I first made probationer... maybe I had to zone or something. Idk I just know I got probationer on the 2nd to last set of runs I did last time and it wasn't there and now it was. And yes it says you can do Moh but it's behind an annoying reive

[Vaantalus]

Preserve the peace: Foret de Hennetiel (Peacekeepers) yielded 1250 exp/bayld for killing a nest, 1 tag.