Vagary Findings

[JeanPaul]

Posted these on FFXIAH, I suppose I should share 'em here. This is what the Tartarus Mail looks like:
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y13...tarusmail1.png
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y13...tarusmail2.png
To be clear, my brother swapped the .dats just to check em out in game, we haven't acquired the actual armor. Pretty neat, though like other glowy gear, you won't see the wings in AltanaViewer.

[Lyramion]

2nd attempt it warped out after it killed our SAM with 2200 dmg. However on step 3 it instantly popped after our SAM skillchain molested 1 earth elemental. Encumbrance aura seems to happen when you heal it.

[Magitek]

My dreams of becoming a butterfly w/o using fireworks has become reality!

[Wardeniii]

Ejin - did you try using any other skillchain to kill mobs, or did only mobs dying to double light work?

Seems kinda random to be able to MB any element for the second message, but then the SC has to be a double light kill.

[EjinCaitsith]

Skillchain doesn't have to kill the mob. It pops instantly after performing the double skillchain a set amount of times, even if the mob you're using to skillchain is still alive.

We've only tried light SC, but wouldn't be surprised if dark worked too.

[Lyramion]

Skillchain doesn't have to kill the mob. It pops instantly after performing the double skillchain a set amount of times, even if the mob you're using to skillchain is still alive.

We've only tried light SC, but wouldn't be surprised if dark worked too.

Try a SAM multistep SC on elementals. Popped instantly at first elemental for us this way. Maybe a SCH immanence chain could also do it fodder to not instantly kill it.

[EjinCaitsith]

That's exactly what we've been doing. Fudo>Kasha>Shoha>Fudo. Like I said, we had it pop 1/1 too, but doing double light 5-6 times always ended up making it pop eventually.

[Univarsity]

I havnt been on yet to test it out. But sounds surprisgly too easy. I take it you don't even have to kill the zone boss? Just enter, take a couple minutes to do skillchains and it pops. A big let down. Hopefully the final Boss makes it a challenge to get to and not just any pickup party can pop.

[Lyramion]

132 pops first message seems to have apeared after 10 magic kills. No clue yet on 2nd mechanic. 10x magic bursts didnt do anything.

[The Assman]

Maybe it'll be pet kills!!!

[Univarsity]

Or Blood pact rage MB a few times.. Like seriously I don't know why they even upgrade the ilvl on KI to 130 if all you need to do is hold a couple mobs to WS and pop the Boss. But eh, thanks for the info and I'm glad someone found it.

[Fwahm]

To get better drop rates on the original three bosses, maybe?

[Lyramion]

Random note:




The original stats get replaced by the latent stats and not added - making the staff less awesome than one could imagine.

[dasva]

Hasn't that always been the case? Otherwise eminent gear would be totally busted. Still pretty good though and goes great with those new enchantment poison armor!

[fantasticdan]

Doesn't that make it worse than augmented skirmish staff even with latent active?

[Lyramion]

4th try - did Fudo>Kasha>Shoha>Fudo on an earth elemental. It only worked after the double light DIDNT kill the mob. Then the boss instantly killed the SAM and warped. Tried a 5 step SC with immanence but that didn't work.


Next run: 1/1 on Step 3 - the elemental survived the 4 step this time also. I healed boss for 7.7K with a thunder V which gave us more than full 2 minutes of encumberance penalty and gave it a level up.



Edit: Run after we spend 40 minutes trying to pop it. No clue what went wrong....

[dasva]

Doesn't that make it worse than augmented skirmish staff even with latent active?

Depends on how well you augment it but yes. Base alluvion weapon has same macc skill and mdmg and only 15 less macc/mab and 8 less int. You can get 20 mab/macc on the staff 20 int on staff. Then whatever random leaf augment you want on it

[Wardeniii]

Tried a bunch of random crap like elemental WS's, pet kills/etc. to try and get the body NM messages to spawn. No luck thus far. Got the first message with elemental nukes as stated earlier, but cannot get the second of third message.

Successfully got the leg NM to pop/die 2x though.

[Yeager]

Ok so apparently we're having difficulty with the legs NM. We got it to pop thanks to the information provided by Eijin, but that "7 minutes" time limit doesn't seem to be accurate at all. It seems much more like 3 minutes for us.

Is there a way to possibly extend that time limit somehow? Or is this going to have to be a zerg fight with multiple SAMs, which we don't have as we're a pet job LS and have been doing this with BSTs, SMNs, GEOs and BLMs

[dasva]

Ok so apparently we're having difficulty with the legs NM. We got it to pop thanks to the information provided by Eijin, but that "7 minutes" time limit doesn't seem to be accurate at all. It seems much more like 3 minutes for us.

Is there a way to possibly extend that time limit somehow? Or is this going to have to be a zerg fight with multiple SAMs, which we don't have as we're a pet job LS and have been doing this with BSTs, SMNs, GEOs and BLMs

Astral conduit and Unleash zerg goooooo!