Monstrosity: Acquiring Species

[Myriads]

You can kill NQ very easy on pretty much anything solo. HQ a single DD may have a hard time overcoming the regen

It was quite simple. Just had to wear it down. Adds couldn't hit me with capped evasion. No drop of course. So do we know if the BG Wiki is right or wrong on that the thing can drop an egg?

Annoying that getting all mobs involves getting the egg :/

[dasva]

I did a bunch up awhile ago. Like 20-30 NQs and only the HQ dropped egg but all the HQs did. Also the BCNM has a chance to drop.

[NynJa]

SE removed NQ drop when they adjusted kings. HQ also isnt 100% anymore.

[Prothescar]

It took me around 600 Kindred Seals and several million gil worth of Blue+Red pondweeds to get an egg (went 1/1 for my BB years ago, though... karma, I guess). Can't really say it's worth the gamble unless you really want to go to non-large monster zones, especially since Genbu turtle destroys normal one due to gaining Haste, Enspell II, and Dia.

[Myriads]

It took me around 600 Kindred Seals and several million gil worth of Blue+Red pondweeds to get an egg (went 1/1 for my BB years ago, though... karma, I guess). Can't really say it's worth the gamble unless you really want to go to non-large monster zones, especially since Genbu turtle destroys normal one due to gaining Haste, Enspell II, and Dia.

I'm just anal-retentive about getting them all. Darn me! The KS a solo possibility. or is it HQ level?

[dasva]

Without ilvl/dt gear it still usually did a fair amount of dmg and nuked fairly hard but now you could probably survive while still in good enough dd gear to overcome regen

[Myriads]

Did they sneak a new species activation (Amorphs or Aquans) into the update?

[dasva]

Nope. Don't even see new subspecies. Looks like just the support thing and colibri instinct

[dasva]

Also the supports seems decent. Protect took my 59 marid from 286 to 376. Looks like pro 3. Unfortunately it and the regen I bought wore off when I went to a zone <.<

[Prothescar]

the 2,000 in the 100% XP boost is meant to be 20,000 right?

[Byrthnoth]

Nope, it's meant to be 2,000. Hence the 400 cost.

[Prothescar]

how absolutely worthless

[dasva]

Well xp/cost it's better than the 50% one... however going back to reapply it would suck... on the other hand it's 100% vs 50% so it would be faster xp as well. on the other otherhand RoE makes up so much the xp now anyways bleh

[Malithar]

Know the other buffs wear when zoning (even from the Feretory Dasva? lol) but what about the exp one? Prolly use the 100% one while grinding a new mob up to 13ish for Bubu spam, run the 50% during that. Then again, Infamy is so plentiful and useless that wasting some of that 50% one's duration during that 1-13 phase prolly isn't a big deal at all if it wears when changing zones to Bubu.

[Prothescar]

THe time it takes to go back and forth from the feretory probably outweighs the extra 2k XP you get, so yeah it'd only be useful for your initial entry into a zone, and at that point I'd just take the 10k.

[Trumpy]

Mentioned in the known issues those buffs (not dedication) wear off when you zone into a beliigerancy zone. probably due to level cap i guess. If the haste lasts for 30 minutes that is nice. i remember tryin the haste from gov books just to be disappointed it only lasted as long as the spell would. I cant imagine goin back to the book every 3 minutes just for haste at a tab cost. Unless they made it last 30 minutes there too and i didnt know?

[Annalise]

Mentioned in the known issues those buffs (not dedication) wear off when you zone into a beliigerancy zone. probably due to level cap i guess. If the haste lasts for 30 minutes that is nice. i remember tryin the haste from gov books just to be disappointed it only lasted as long as the spell would. I cant imagine goin back to the book every 3 minutes just for haste at a tab cost. Unless they made it last 30 minutes there too and i didnt know?

It says the haste is thirty minutes. GoV haste is ten minutes. Not entirely useless but yes, 30 minutes would have been better.

And the level cap likely is the issue for belligerency. I imagine you are correct.

[Trumpy]

Looks like we get aquans in february. I love fishes cause they soooo delicious!

[Karbuncle]

Trying to think of any HNM Aquans and i got nothing... unless you count the crabcano or the latern fish whos names completely escape me. (Edit: Orobon)

Edit: Unless they give us Bismark or Tchakka anyway...

[fantasticdan]

Sedna walrus? Thou I'm not sure if that's even a different skin.