Colonization Thread

[Gwynplaine]

So found a Lost Article in Sih Gates. It's at the spot where you zone in from the southern island of Foret and the Article is *beyond* the zone line so far there's no way to reach it lol. Is there a place to report bugs and shit like this?

[macross]

I'm sure this is common knowledge to some people, but I found that the Morimar reives have safe spots where you can solo the Bedrock Crags with ranged or magic damage without the risk of attracting aggro. The middle crag can be hit 25 yalms out.

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I'm out on BLU atm for no good reason, but I soloed this one in the images a couple nights ago on BLM. It took almost 3 hours, but it was worth it for exploration purposes. Also, it takes 10k magic damage before you get an evaluation.

Why didn't you just run in, whirl of rage, dream flower, melee the rock and repeat till dead?

[Prothescar]

pain in the ass to do that solo with those turtles involved

[Tachi]

Did you actually witness it popping or was it up when you entered the battlefield?

I had a mule with Widescan placed in front of the entrance and checked a few times.

[Slycer]

Check out findings thread. Confirmation this morning that Bayld cost of Wildskeeper KIs will be reduced based on your personal ranks in each coalition, in a stepwise manner dependent on your rankings. Happening in this month's update. No more detail than that, but more detail should be coming at a later date.

[ronin sparthos]

Has anyone nailed down what you need to get this CS from Brenton to start Wildskeepers? I've done well over 50 imps in quests, Probationer in two coalitions and still can't flag this garbage.

[macross]

I can't flag on any of my 3 chars either. I assume I've done 50 ops, but did them all at peacekeepers. Only fame2 still though, will do more OPs tomorrow and if that dont work ill finish some quests and see.

I wonder if next update will make those crystal things you find in the forest and morimar usable. Could be where you pop a real bee boss that drops loot, after getting a the key item from fighting the zergable fake one?

[ronin sparthos]

The idea that Wildskeepers are sorta like TOAU Kings that lead to a real reward is just confusing considering the difficulty of the content and the need to amass many people to take down those mobs.

We must be missing something because it just doesn't add up.

[macross]

You don't need to amass people to kill em. I'm sure a strong legion 18 man setup can do it. I mean they said the pld never even died and just held it. that = easy. It's like a lvl 75 PW fight but no 2 hour timer. Why make you spend 100k bayld to kill a mob, that didn't even drop anything cept a KI. It's why I'm guessing there's another fight after it, kinda like how you had bahamut and bahamut 2.0. It even says next version you get to fight some new fights if you alreayd completed the current shit.

[TummieGaruda]

The idea that Wildskeepers are sorta like TOAU Kings that lead to a real reward is just confusing considering the difficulty of the content and the need to amass many people to take down those mobs.

We must be missing something because it just doesn't add up.

Well they will be reducing the amount of Bayld needed to enter the fight based on personal coalition rank, but it still doesn't seem right. If these fights just drop crystals/logs/random geo spells then what incentive is there for people to do it multiple times to help other people clear to get their KI? It just seems that these things will be fought once by people and then they will just remain up and untouched after getting the KI.

[macross]

Maybe after you fight some real Bee boss you can do the nq for free? Who knows lol. Till more kill the bee we don't even know if the shit drops there. But seriously fuck that shit if those weapons randomly drop from the existing bee with how it's set up.

I'd be more worried about the pissed off support and healers who will get shit for bayld for doing the fight. At least I'll be on sam or war raking in the points to help buffer that 100k expenditure.

[Dew]

Going by the randomness of other reives wouldn't be surprised if they are actually random drops as one of your 1-2 items you get when reive ends. They probably set the drop rate low like vw. Unless more people kill it be hard to tell if it does drop anything at the end of the reive.

[Moozie]

does anyone know how or where to get that Xux gear from?

[Seha]

Xux is most likely from Colkhab. If it's the fight you access with the 100k bayld though..we don't know.

[Gwynplaine]

I wanted to post maps for Lost Articles to the wiki but before I do that I wanted to see if anyone knows of any locations that I don't have listed so far.

[Mosquiton]

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

[Date & Time]
Apr. 12, 2013 at 11:30 (PDT)

[Affected Service]
- FINAL FANTASY XI

[Update Details]
- Increased the drop rate of certain items in Wildskeeper Reive.


Sounds like the infamous AV kill years ago when they didn't have a loot pool because they figured nobody could kill it

[Slycer]

I found an article yesterday right in the middle of the colonization reive in Ceizak at the intersection of G/H-7/8. Was on the north side of the reive.

[Buffy]

I hope Spira is making a map that incorporates all the Reive locations, the Bivouacs, and the Lost Articles. We need like 4 different maps for each zone at this rate.

[Tymon]

if Wildskeeper Reives 100k Bayld pricetag is reduced by personal coalition rank, would that not mean you have to rank up a lot in Pioneers?

Sorry if I'm wrong I haven't reached that point to know

[Gwynplaine]

All 6 coalitions have their own independent rank depending on how many times you personally did their assignments.