Monstrosity: Abilities and General Mechanics

[fantasticdan]

Toraimorai Canal was excellent for 4-5 levels, just keep warping/dying tll you reach a spot with the GoV book right at you. Kill skeletons, bats, pugils. Can do Zeruhn Mines around 66-67.

Thanks, found this spot and it's working pretty well. Gave up on this zone initially the other day after only being able to find ep and it+++ stuff.

[Blackelement]

There won't be. There are DATs for 32 instincts before sentiences. 22 jobs + (5races*2 tiers) = 32

After he mentioned a special unlock for getting all instincts, i was secretly hoping for maybe a buyable species or skin.. looong shot that makes little to no sence but who knows~

[Vanderleest]

Opo-Opo:

Level 70 Vacant Gaze. Removes 3 benfifical magic effects of enemies with-in fan shaped area from caster. (tp 150)

High level exp can be a huge pain with out haste/protect/dia.

[NynJa]

High level exp can be a huge pain with out haste/protect/dia.

Thats why I'm sticking to whm rabbit over brown/black one, other than the obvious WHITE POWER (sarcasm). Between ginseng's haste and regen and dia2, I'm pretty sure it trumps WAR/WAR's HP/attribute gains

[Karbuncle]

Any hint of Pygmy Adamantoise in the .dats or what not btw? Curious if that'll show up.

[Khiinroye]

I wouldn't be surprised by a genbu skin for 5 seals either.

[Blackelement]

I think we need to find out how to get the actual adamantoise before worrying about a mini version/god for ease of leveling.. same with Cerberus.. or have i missed something recently about how to unlock these??

[Karbuncle]

Most of the LIzard family is unlocked, I'm assuming HNM unlocks come after you get so many pre-req monsters to level 60 or higher... Lizards have a small scope I'm hoping Ada is discovered soon, and It dawned on me there's Pygmy Adamantois' so it might not be too hard to level Ada past 60 like it would be with Behe/Cerb.

Plus, I'll worry bout all the everythings.

[Hashmalum]

Dinged 60 on morbol. Learned Putrid Breath (250 TP) and Morbol Instinct II. No forms unlocked. Putrid Breath is pure breath damage, no status effects, in an area around the target. Damage is inferior to Miasmic Breath which is in turn damage-wise inferior to Bad Breath, so it seems very underwhelming so far (unless I have just been getting lots of resists on Easy Prey mobs, which is itself unimpressive). Morbol Instinct II gives HP +5% STR +5 Status ailment resistance +20 for 8 points.

BTW, morbol seems to be very resistant to dark-based sleeps (although lullaby gets it every time). This is without any instincts granting +dark resist or +Resist Sleep so I'm pretty sure it is innate to the species.

[fantasticdan]

Assuming they work like peiste, adamantoise it will require lizard + bugard + wivre at 50/75/whatever.

That said, adamantoise will surely suck lol. NQ is surely pld/pld with a huge movepseed penalty and nothing going for it. Genbu is what, mnk/blm? lol..

[fantasticdan]

Most of the LIzard family is unlocked, I'm assuming HNM unlocks come after you get so many pre-req monsters to level 60 or higher... Lizards have a small scope I'm hoping Ada is discovered soon, and It dawned on me there's Pygmy Adamantois' so it might not be too hard to level Ada past 60 like it would be with Behe/Cerb.

Is there? The only thing I saw in the dats posted was Ferromantoise, which should be spiked head version from aby/vw/delve.

[Fival]

Testudo Tremor would be fun for some PvP monster stuff, so long as its not being used on me for once, assuming the Ferromantoise would get that.

[Karbuncle]

Is there? The only thing I saw in the dats posted was Ferromantoise, which should be spiked head version from aby/vw/delve.

There are in Abyssea, Pygmy Fafnir's too... This is what I'm basing it off of, that there might be Pygmy Versions of these HNMs that will make it easier for us to level, but fall into the same Family/Type (Like Malboro/Pygmy, Mandragora/Pygmy, etc)

Edit: Anyone else feel they mixed up the TP Cost of Cross Thrash and Claw Cyclone?

[dasva]

So not sure lamb chop seems blunt. Fighting skeles and regular hits do about as much as the surrounding mobs but lamb chop does did 700 to a skele then 400 to a gigas

[Fireon]

Are there any good places to level large monsters (bugard, wivre) above Xarcabard?

[Karbuncle]

Not right now, no. Xarcabards the current highest available. Hopefully they add Cape Terrigan at the end of August.

[Prothescar]

Based on my damage vs. Skeletons, attacks with the Peiste's mouth seem to be piercing while claw swipes are either slashing or H2H

[Sehrahin]

Disappointed by the strength of plantoids compared to the others.. :/

[Karbuncle]

Cactaur is still one of the most broke mobs available right now, But yah, not many good Plantoids period, its a pretty awful species.

IDK how good Treant/Mandy is though... Isn't Goobbue pretty decent?

[Prothescar]

don't feel too bad, lizards aren't too amazing either. I haven't got any impression of being omgwtf powerful yet, though I havent played with wivre