Blurple Behemoth Bashing 101 - Is it even winnable?

[sluggo]

does it have to be dead to collect rewards? ive had heroic status for quite some time now, but i cant collect


yes you do

[Tidis]

I wonder if you have to receive the Vanaclock before you can get the Cipher, in which case you would need to help kill it at least once.

[sahearniitth]

It doesn't have to be dead to get all the rewards since I have gotten the cipher while it was still alive but you might have need to been present for a kill to get rewards.

To clarify I have gotten rewards under the following conditions:
Character 1:
Attained Heroic before it died -> got BOTH rewards on death.

Character 2:
Attained Level 9 Heroism before Behemoth Died -> Obtained Vanaclock when I talked to the moogle after it died.
Fought a second Behemoth (couple hrs later) and obtained Heroic -> went and talked to the Moogle and got Cipher immediately even though the current Behemoth was alive.

[Tile]

as soon as I got heroic I went to moogle and got Cipher even though behemoth was at 90%

[fantasticdan]

I was present for a kill before heroic, got heroic later; no rewards.

[NynJa]

Kill behe: clock
Get heroic: kupofried
Its pretty simple lol

[Kanriel]

There are few times I've wanted to kill another human being than when trying to do this event. We're getting to like 50/100 weapon skills used. But of the few people using weapon skills, they're doing random Gust Slashes amongst the high level weapon skills so we have no chance at any of the skillchain objectives. Christ.

[Vil]

I always like "make 5 fragmentation" and I'm there patiently trying to do Yukki to open for someone, but someone is spamming the living hell out of Shijin Spiral. smh. In my experience, SC objectives were never worth bothering except soon after a behe kill.

That got the afk/spammers out of the picture usually.

[Seekerstar]

To keep event status through Thunderbolt, be at 100% HP when Bolt goes off. It will miss 100% of the time, allowing you to stab the crap out of Behemoth until the next objective comes up.

The easiest win strategy I credit to my friend and LSmate Verda. Find a Behemoth without a million afkers near it. Have one member of your party enter the fight radius, while all others stay by the moogle. When the "WS x times" objective comes up, its target number is based on the number of PCs in battle range. The other members of your pt, not being in range, aren't counted and so the number is low enough that it's extremely easy to get your X WS.

If you can manage to sc some on other objectives you'll speed it up, but the X WS comes up often enough that you can obtain both the clock and the trust in half an hour.

Good luck.

[FNH]

Emergency Maintenance is to address this event, right?

[Tile]

Emergency Maintenance is to address this event, right?

I looked and a few of the accepted bugs on the Forum are stuff like Nyzul Isle lamps not activating, people losing Mog safe 2 and all items.

[FNH]

I looked and a few of the accepted bugs on the Forum are stuff like Nyzul Isle lamps not activating, people losing Mog safe 2 and all items.

They didn't have any details up and they said something about addressing the event sometime this week.

[Tile]

They didn't have any details up and they said something about addressing the event sometime this week.

how can they make people less stupid? it takes 1 person to do event if everyone stops spamming WSs like crazy.

[Imoq]

Emergency Maintenance is to address this event, right?

Yes.

[Vil]

To keep event status through Thunderbolt, be at 100% HP when Bolt goes off. It will miss 100% of the time, allowing you to stab the crap out of Behemoth until the next objective comes up.

...and that's why I never got hit by it until I was mostly done. The first half of the time I spent on this, I actually bothered to heal myself. Then I stopped caring after a bit.

[Kyreth]

I logged on for my daily on Ragnarok outside Windy and shockingly there's a group of people here who know how to do the event and aren't fucking it up. It's shocking that there's a competent group here and we just keep killing it. Go figure.

If it's InternationalGlobe, I'm not surprised. Nori's a little overexcitable when it comes to events, but he tends to get shit together doing them.

[Maurauc]

I don't know if it's the update or lack of people, but I managed to complete the event in about 5 minutes since. The NPCs were completing most of the specific SC objectives themselves, so I could just stand there and get the clears. It was nice!
Objectives for two people were 1 of x SC, 2 of any SC, or 20 weaponskills.

[Kaisha]

Really easy to do Behemoth if you're alone, more-so if you're on a job that can solo a bunch of the SCs off the same weapon. Solo is 1xSC, 15WS.

Better than a group trying to spam WS willynilly which means SCs will never occur.

[orinthia]

Think I broke the game while being horrible.

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Those 2 points pushed me to 99 actual total. It was just a display error, my total went above 100 on next run.

[dasva]

Think I broke the game while being horrible.

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Those 2 points pushed me to 99 actual total. It was just a display error, my total went above 100 on next run.

This game really likes to rub it in when you lose...

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