Monstrosity: Abilities and General Mechanics

[NynJa]

if you're relying on drain to kill things or survive, you're doing it wrong. For what its worth, its not like mobs who have the ability to cast drain can drain back 10% of their hp either (except tahrongi corse I guess)

[Squah]

Getting Antlion to 30 was such a breath of fresh air. Mandibular bite is 450+ damage and its awesome not sitting on 300tp like I did for tge last 29 levels

[dasva]

Getting Antlion to 30 was such a breath of fresh air. Mandibular bite is 450+ damage and its awesome not sitting on 300tp like I did for tge last 29 levels

Hey you had 3 other tp moves!!! Side note the blind on it seems fairly decent. Was almost always worth it to at least use that. Poison and bind were kinda meh thouhg

[Karbuncle]

Beetle gets strong once you start stacking att stuff and using dia. T2s were doing more than my melee dmg but were a little slower and didn't give me tp.

Have more than enough Attack Instincts lol, But Beetle was still hitting the Crawlers/Scorpions I was fighting between the 95-130 Range (its been a while so i could be off), Where as my Tier II Nukes were doing a consistant 220, and I was able to fire them off about as fast. It didn't get this way until the 40's I'd say... But it slowed down through melee and spells were showing a nice improvement.

it got to the point I was stacking DEF/Mage Instincts, and it went by much faster. Did you try stacking Mage Instincts? Cause that makes a hell of a difference. Occult Acumen, etc.

Once you hit 50 its a moot point cause the Horned beetle is beast.

Edit: Diremite, a DRK, while i was leveling had no trouble landing Drain full damage (or full enough) on Mobs even into the IT Range. but yah, DRK lol

[dasva]

There is never enough att!!!

I didn't try mage instincts but while the magic dmg was more per hit the dps was a bit lower. At least comparing the melee dps of pld/pld to nuking of pld/blm when you account for the extra resting for mp and tp moves. Power attack is still pretty good. Especially blunt weak mobs. Sorta depends on how much haste/att you got and such. Plus the only mage instincts I really have are the job ones while I have quite a few melee DD species instincts.

[Vanderleest]

Personally, I found that BLM/RDM Lynx was the best option just for buffs and pulling with a high dmg spell until around level 80. I forget the level or the mobs I was on, but I was able to use just a few minor mage instincts (RDM and BLM and coeurl I/II) and get chain 5s by doing 80% magic dmg with a few random melee rounds. There were some instances in the maze, dangruf wadi (gobs and crabs), and the bombs in citadel in which I did not engage at all. With enough fast cast you can get a tier IV or V spell off between attacks and do substantially more dps. I was still interrupted if they ever touched me, but not hard to start casting as they are about to swing.

Every bomb kill to get 90 was using the following fire spells: pull with V, IV, III, II, II, III, II, IV. Those recasts were perfect to always be ready as the previous cast ended. Then either toss in a V or use a III depending on amount of HP left. From 87 to 90 I had maybe 7 bomb self-destruct.

[Yeager]

Ok, I've got a bit of a problem and I'm hoping someone can help me.

I hit 50 Tiger, and I've been trying to get the quest to obtain the Byakko Tiger skin activated, but Suibhne won't give it to me.

Am I missing something? Please advise.

[Karbuncle]

Make sure to talk to him on Tiger, not Smilodon, Second, He wont outright give you a quest, his text will just mention the Byakko Scraps, thats about it.

[Damane]

if you're relying on drain to kill things or survive, you're doing it wrong. For what its worth, its not like mobs who have the ability to cast drain can drain back 10% of their hp either (except tahrongi corse I guess)

i never said i rely on drains infact i never cast it, since its so useless, hence why i said makeing it usefull would help on those blm mobs.

[Yeager]

Make sure to talk to him on Tiger, not Smilodon, Second, He wont outright give you a quest, his text will just mention the Byakko Scraps, thats about it.

That did the trick. I looked up ffxiclopedia for info, and it didn't say anything about having to be on the original Tiger skin to get Suibhne to mention the Byakko Scraps. It does say you have access to it @ 50 Smilodon.

Hopefully someone can make a correction there to say you have to be on the Tiger skin (not Smilodon) in order to get the quest.

[Idkmybffjill]

Gnole seems to run so slow. It actually is 100% but the way it looks makes it seem like freaking 50% :/

[NynJa]

i never said i rely on drains infact i never cast it, since its so useless, hence why i said makeing it usefull would help on those blm mobs.

My secondary point stands though, when any mob that can cast spells casts Drain, its not like it pulls 20% of his HP back.

[Damane]

My secondary point stands though, when any mob that can cast spells casts Drain, its not like it pulls 20% of his HP back.

of course they dont, but this is US players playing as mobs. shit should be usefull not asstastic. haveing a drain that would go up gradually to 1k atlvl 80+ would make blm mobs mote useful.

[Karbuncle]

Would be nice if they buffed its Potency a tad for monsters but what'll ya do. Theres Drain/Aspir Instincts but its only +10% So its not adding much.

[Damane]

where is exp bonus weekends/weeks when you need em!

[Byrthnoth]

I reparsed DA/TA rates on my Byakko Tiger. I was using WAR and Chigoe I instincts (+5% DA, +1% TA):

15458 Attack rounds
882 TAs - 6% TA rate
736 DAs - 5% DA rate
13840 Single attacks

This parse was from level 78 to 84, but it comes out exactly as expected for no-Tier 1 merits.

[Asymptotic]

Antlion has a native 33% attack bonus. (+50 gives +66 )

[Hitou]

I reparsed DA/TA rates on my Byakko Tiger. I was using WAR and Chigoe I instincts (+5% DA, +1% TA):

15458 Attack rounds
882 TAs - 6% TA rate
736 DAs - 5% DA rate
13840 Single attacks

This parse was from level 78 to 84, but it comes out exactly as expected for no-Tier 1 merits.

Does that mean you don't have 75+ thf with TA merits or you do and it didn't apply?

[Kyte]

He definitely has THF.

[dasva]

Ladybug gets spiral burst at 40. 150 tp fan shaped fire dmg removes all debuffs. Almost seems like dmg is based on debuffs removed not sure. Dmg isn't that hot though at 1-2. Like 80-150