Escha - Zitah Data

[stamos]

We did them Geo + rdm + whm + pld the tier 3s. Haven't tried the Mantis or Pixies yet. But, we timed out on Pazuzu just nuking. Behemoth, Monkey, and Bismarck were really easy with just four(plus sibyl and moogle)

Had to nuke on whm though, or else we would have timed out. So, rode dark arts the whole time since they mostly don't do much damage

[BerenTebogo]

Magic really seems to be the way to go for monkey. His EVA is just so high.

Pazuzu has ridiculous MEVA, I'm not surprised that you timed out. The few times we brought a RDM on Pazuzu they were just annoyed the entire fight because they could barely do anything.

[Hoshiku]

We only barely cleared Pazuzu going the magic route and that was because both geos bolstered. Do we have any idea on the droprate of those sphere bodies? Anyone seen one aside from jp wiki?

[BerenTebogo]

We only barely cleared Pazuzu going the magic route and that was because both geos bolstered. Do we have any idea on the droprate of those sphere bodies? Anyone seen one aside from jp wiki?

The answer seems to be VW droprate. If anyone here has seen one they aren't reporting it.

We're 1/30+ on lance and 0/10ish combined from behemoth+ monkey.

[Harukasakura]

not sure if this was posted yet, but yesterday we got the new H2H ( the flaming Icon ones) from Behemoth ( as far as i know its rumoured to be from Monkey)

[stamos]

Rawhide Gloves rank 15

D) +15 macc, +7 int, +7 mnd

Naga Somen rank 1

D) acc +1, racc +11

Naga Kyahan rank 1

D) pet: hp+30, acc +11, attack +11

[Tachi]

Killed Wrathare with NIN tank and SMN dd. At first we tried eva tank with double Mambo, Ninja Roll, Ecliptic Howl, Voidance and Slip. Of course it didn't work but it wasn't hard to keep shadows up with capped haste and elegy. Not a single TP move went off with Cait Sith.

[BerenTebogo]

Killed Wrathare with NIN tank and SMN dd. At first we tried eva tank with double Mambo, Ninja Roll, Ecliptic Howl, Voidance and Slip. Of course it didn't work but it wasn't hard to keep shadows up with capped haste and elegy. Not a single TP move went off with Cait Sith.

This include wild carrot?

[Tachi]

Yes, otherwise it would have been unlikely to win with these 40k heals.

[BerenTebogo]

Nice!

Observations/Questions re: whale.

Going on close to 40 kills now I've noticed some strange behavior. He seems to have phases (I call them moods because I don't really always notice them). Some fights as BST BST COR will pop and go 100% to 0% with no hiccups, no problems, no surprises, nothing. Can go to sleep and wake up to him dead. Other fights we pop him and he starts hitting tiger for anywhere between 1k and 2500. Ridiculous numbers. Sometimes he tears through pets faster than I can keep up with reward, other times I use 2 reward for the entire fight. Same with magic damage, in first phase it's completely laughable, by the end it isn't a joke sometimes.

I've thought about it being tied to the number/level of protect/shell buffs he has up, because he chain casts buffs on himself, but always like pro 4 -> pro 4 -> pro 4 -> etc. And the level of protect/shell go up as his HP goes down, and once he enters shell phase he seems to not cast protect anymore.

Has anyone noticed random weird behavior with the whale? It's never really enough to actually give us trouble, I think we've lost 2 fights in close to 40, but it is somewhat frustrating when we go to squeeze in one more pop half alseep because it's been easy all day and then he pops on steroids.

[Tile]

as pld i've seen him hit me from 2 digit mubers then up to 500+, but it never lasted for long, would only get in maybe 5 or 6 hits like that in then they would drop down low again.

[BerenTebogo]

Yeah, it's really random. Just had one where he went shithouse and I finally said fuckit and just switched to Snapweed. Lot smoother.

Would still like to know what triggers it though, seemingly is random.

[Hoshiku]

So when we started Shockmaw was taking nice thunder damage. I'm not sure of the percentage, maybe around 60% thunder started healing it (water always healed it). Is that 2nd element that heals it caused by a tp move or is that part of its second phase thing?

[BerenTebogo]

So when we started Shockmaw was taking nice thunder damage. I'm not sure of the percentage, maybe around 60% thunder started healing it (water always healed it). Is that 2nd element that heals it caused by a tp move or is that part of its second phase thing?

I think it's phase. 60% is about when he starts casting shell.

[Montag]

I was definitely healing it with thunder damage when it was 80% or so, but it could just be he was in the shell phase already as I wasn't paying much attention to what it was casting.

[Hoshiku]

We do most of our escha kills with just mages and a pld - so the mob went from about 90% to 60% in one volley. It's possible that whatever starts the second stage didn't have time to go off til after the magic burst.

[BerenTebogo]

Keep your eye out if you can. There's a lot of weird stuff with the whale. The only definitive phase changes are between protect/shell and water/thunder.

[Fwahm]

So are beads useless as a currency, just like fragments? I got like 30 from a T3 NM, so you need to kill like 65 of them to get a single +2 from the npc.

[Tile]

So are beads useless as a currency, just like fragments? I got like 30 from a T3 NM, so you need to kill like 65 of them to get a single +2 from the npc.

you dont need to save up for a +2, iirc a +1 is worth 50, so they all cost as much as they give

[Lyramion]

you dont need to save up for a +2, iirc a +1 is worth 50, so they all cost as much as they give

yeah +2 only are useful if you want to sell them since people are lazy and rather buy a +2 for 1 mil more than combined cost of +1s