Monstrosity: Abilities and General Mechanics

[jimbobsonofgod]

I'm impressed by that. What level did you start off at ?

[Seol]

started at lvl 62 doing Nival Raptors and Polar hares, but can probably start at 54 vs the mobs at the entrance and work your way up, at 65sh I moved up 2 ramps and I'm just killing everything on my way lol.

[jimbobsonofgod]

oh good ! maybe i'll start at 60 then !

[Helldemon]

So do you lose NM/HNM status if you drop below 10/20k infamy?

[jimbobsonofgod]

Only way this system makes sense is if you lose status. Else people would just get HNM status clear out their infamy and sell drops to people.

[Helldemon]

Ya, I guess so. Just wish they would have added more areas in between.

[Seol]

You do lose your ranks if you go below the 20k/10k threshold, I just bought the Elasmoth skin and went back to MON

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No cursed armor TP move , although I'm only 90, not sure we'd get that by 99... It is also a DRK/THF. Went out to Xarc to get lvl60 caped and had Meteor (300TP) and Amnesic Blast unlocked, no Ecliptic Meteor, so that's later on. Used Meteor and even though it's a TP move it takes casting-like time to ready it (like 20 seconds) but there's no text message indicating it's casting/using the TP move.

[Merrith]

Yeah 25k infamy isn't actually that hard to get. Went to Uleguerand on 54 Cerb, by the time I hit 67 I had @23k infamy (started at the 10k previous cap). Went and changed to 54 Bugard, when I dinged 57 I had 25,460 infamy. Left and picked up Orthrus skin, its WAR/BLM, and at 67 already had access to Acheron Flame (same description as Gates of Hades, 300tp)

[jimbobsonofgod]

Wamoura gets reprisal

That doesn't proc.

Also PVP isn't even fun given how powerful monsters are vs players.

[Prothescar]

figured it'd be the other way around. kinda funny how that turned out

[Hitou]

That's because we all thought it was gonna be 99 mobs VS ilvl 119 players lol. I'd imagine any gear that's not actually 90 or below has pretty crappy stats a la exping with lvl sync on back in the day. Break out your AF3 I guess.

Side note, has anyone tested the adjusted TP moves yet? And gnoles delay in 4 leg mode? I haven't tried monstrosity since the update yet.

[dasva]

Not to mention they limited gear swapping

Also this is a thing <.<

[scaevola]

Confirming that you can indeed force quit FFXI to escape an attacker, and when you log back in you won't have lost any infamy and you'll be back in gestation.

Probably not worth worrying about unless you're being harassed by an Ochain/Aegis PLD you can't actually do any damage to.

[Alistrianna]

I just fought a lv60 PLD/RDM beetle as SMN and avatar could not even do damage to the monster. Had 525 def, 12% PDT form instincts and phalanx. Not sure how the hell you would kill something like that solo.

[dasva]

Can't the players party up for it while the monipulators can't?

[Karbuncle]

This is hurting me cause i Kinda wanna come back to play more monstrosity

[dasva]

So it seems that not only do you only get drops as a player fighting a monster but you can only buy items/augment with prestige. So basically being a monster still basically gets you nothing except something to farm prestige off of I guess since it's alot faster to farm on monster than transfer it to a player than farming yourself even with the loss unless you make some kind of lvl 90 prestige pt that can't gear change much lol

Right now so far you can get Alloy tonic- 5k, +1-10k, +2-15k, fiend torque-10k, animosity, laceration, goetic torques for 25k each

Also side note to go with my pic above it seems only ull range doesn't strip you of excess faculties if capping you makes you exceed how many points you have available

[dasva]

So some of the tp changes...

Hi freq field: 80 ->100
Rhino gaurd: 70 -> 80
Spoil: 70-> 80
Stick thread: 80 ->100
Numbing breath: 100->150
cold breath: 100-> 120
Filament hold: 80-> 100
Sickle slash: 100->120
spider web: 80->100
Rhinowrecker: 200->220
Heat Barrier: 100->120
Mand bite: same on scorpion but on antlion 130 -> 120 (but they also weakened it)
Earth Pounder: 130 ->120
Sharp Strike: 100->80
Cocoon:100 ->80
Incinerate: 150 -> 120
Thermal pulse: 100 -> 100 notes said it would be lowered
Sudden Lunge: 130 ->100
Nepenthean Hum: 200->150
Spiral burst: 150-> 120
Booming Bomb.: 200->180

[Prothescar]

Peiste changes:
Calcifying Mist 200->180 (lol this wasn't necessary)
Delta Thrust 150->120

Regurgitation and Aqua Fortis are still shit. 148dmg @ 75.

I can buy Sibilus, but I don't have enough points at the moment.

[dasva]

Yeah they upped the tp costs of alot of moves that are shit for some reason then lowered some rather decent ones. Or in sharp strikes case awesome one. And lowered some that even if they gave you tp wouldn't be worth using lol. Just tried out mand bite. Definitely weaker than it used to be by a decent amount but still the only dmg move antlion has so meh. Yay for it costing 10 less tp <.<.

Also just noticed gestation wears off fast like it used to when you have beligerance on.

And side side note but can get geodes now too with beligerance up. Not that they really matter much anymore