King Vinegarroon

[Weeks]

So yea.. rdm/nin or a nin and some kind of supporting mage.

Actually, much much easier for a NIN to kite solo with some Antidotes, at least usually. Having a support mage makes it a lot harder to keep King V interested in you while you concentrate on staying out of his range. I always got out there solo and if something went wrong and I needed a mage's help I'd have a WHM out of party fix me up then Teleport-Altep and hurry back. Last time I did it, he was constantly drawing in when I went to get him stuck on the landscape though. Not sure if he was patched or if I just got really unlucky, but it complicated things as soon as night ended.

[Taint]

The reason I always say he's 21-24 then 24+ is because he can pop mid earth (30min window like Fluffy) during 21-24. After 24 he will pop at the beginning of a random earth weather.

[suji]

So yea.. rdm/nin or a nin and some kind of supporting mage.

Actually, much much easier for a NIN to kite solo with some Antidotes, at least usually. Having a support mage makes it a lot harder to keep King V interested in you while you concentrate on staying out of his range. I always got out there solo and if something went wrong and I needed a mage's help I'd have a WHM out of party fix me up then Teleport-Altep and hurry back. Last time I did it, he was constantly drawing in when I went to get him stuck on the landscape though. Not sure if he was patched or if I just got really unlucky, but it complicated things as soon as night ended.

BST/NIN does okay too as he's susceptible to Charm-bind. Toss in some Skadi feet for even more excitement.

[Khrno]

DRK/NIN with Crimson Cuisses, Stun + Abs-TP will do the trick, and of course a Beetle to Aspir, 330 MP use to run out quite fast even with a Parade Gorget.

[Zeratu]

DRK/NIN is very strong for kiting, last time my LS did KV, like a month or 2 ago, I kited KV as DRK/NIN(Had RDM and WHM support, No Red Legs ;_. Stun, Last Resort, Souleater and Absorb-TP means you'll pretty much hold hate off everyone. Just need Haste and Refresh all the time, to keep rock solid hate even a PLD would be proud of.

The other thing I noticed about KV, it seems to have a TP regen, it's Draw-in is also TP based, whenever it gets 100%, it'll immediately draw-in + WSx2(Usually AoE WS followed by Single Target WS). Which is why Absorb-TP is really strong on it, last time I kited it, I stopped it from Drawing-in for well over an hour. Not sure how big of a TP regen it has, but Absorb-TP timer usually beats it, so no need to worry, unless you get resisted, but KV doesn't seem to resist magic all that often, well Dark Magic, have been a few fun times when Gravity gets resisted.

[Meat]

DRK/NIN with Crimson Cuisses, Stun + Abs-TP will do the trick, and of course a Beetle to Aspir, 330 MP use to run out quite fast even with a Parade Gorget.

equip your kc, turn around and moonlight, that's what i do

[Dexster]

Someone actually uses the search function and people are still complaining.

[Rawnie]

Window is open 21hours after it either died or depopped. Once the window is open it will pop immedietly if the weather is double earth or as soon as the weather turns to double earth, and it can also possibly pop anytime in single earth.

[Palom]

Window is open 21hours after it either died or depopped. Once the window is open it will pop immedietly if the weather is double earth or as soon as the weather turns to double earth, and it can also possibly pop anytime in single earth.

It was said earlier, and I have seen it myself, but there have been times when it does not pop during double earth weather after the 21-hour mark. It's most likely a high possibility, but not guaranteed.

[Snarg]

I think he was saying that if double earth weather is up at exactly the 21hr point, it is a guaranteed pop. Otherwise randomness ensues.
I'm not sure if this is true, but I can say that it was the case for me.

[Velecic]

Just wanted to say a big thank you to the informative posts in reply to my questions, hopefully sometime in the future I can start camping this thing with a mule (since I have too many events going on in this game) and can muster the people to kill it and get my helm. Stuff like this is hard without a HNM shell full of pimped out players

[kareface]

I'd been told he worked like... 21-24 hrs, any earth weather has a chance to pop him. 24+ hes 100% on double and 10% (or something low) on single. Has anyone seen him not pop on double earth POST-24 hour marker?

[savageboy]

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[Alistaire]

Just wanted to say a big thank you to the informative posts in reply to my questions, hopefully sometime in the future I can start camping this thing with a mule (since I have too many events going on in this game) and can muster the people to kill it and get my helm. Stuff like this is hard without a HNM shell full of pimped out players

You're going to do a pick-up KV party?

[Alibeemac]

I'd been told he worked like... 21-24 hrs, any earth weather has a chance to pop him. 24+ hes 100% on double and 10% (or something low) on single. Has anyone seen him not pop on double earth POST-24 hour marker?

Yes, several times. Coming from someone who sat in Altepa for 80+hrs in one week, trust me it is never a guarenteed pop on double earth weather.

[Taint]

I'd been told he worked like... 21-24 hrs, any earth weather has a chance to pop him. 24+ hes 100% on double and 10% (or something low) on single. Has anyone seen him not pop on double earth POST-24 hour marker?

Yes, several times. Coming from someone who sat in Altepa for 80+hrs in one week, trust me it is never a guarenteed pop on double earth weather.

Yep plenty of times.

[Velecic]

Just wanted to say a big thank you to the informative posts in reply to my questions, hopefully sometime in the future I can start camping this thing with a mule (since I have too many events going on in this game) and can muster the people to kill it and get my helm. Stuff like this is hard without a HNM shell full of pimped out players

You're going to do a pick-up KV party?

Lol no. Unless you refer to the people in my social LS (friends - all/most are lvl 75 multiple jobs with solid gear - we just do our endgame stuff in other shells (dynamis etc)) as well as on my friendslist as "pick-up". It would be a matter of me getting any / all of my friends that are online at the time it pops / I claim & hold it to come help kill it. It just wouldn't be a group full of Ebody Ridill WARs / Kraken DRKs / Relic people etc, cuz the whole HNM scene doesn't agree with me

[CoronA1979]

http://i169.photobucket.com/albums/u.../kv12drops.png

Yesterday, and then today, one crystal... Putting us now @ 3/13 on Helm and 1/13 on shell. Not to mention our RNG shot the shell the other day in Sea. Used his one chance to get it back ~____~

Double earth was up when window opened today and it popped right as it opened, but like said before we have seen it not pop for double earth also >.>

[Taint]

http://beast40.com/FFXI/acehelm.png


Bam! Months and months of camping and he finally dropped the helm.

Popped single earth about an hour into 21-24 window. NPC stated sunny day.

[Kattice]

http://beast40.com/FFXI/acehelm.png


Bam! Months and months of camping and he finally dropped the helm.

Popped single earth about an hour into 21-24 window. NPC stated sunny day.

Fuck you necro bumpers x-x