Thanks for killing Bhaflau Thickets camp spot

[Flarega]

If only Wamoura had some mp to aspir they would be the best manaburn mob in the game

[Tymon]

Where's the camp(s) in Arrapago? I haven't found any

theres a few apkallu camps(hello superpowered penguins lol) and you can mnk burn the bones at the entrance from talacca (very northeast 1st map)

Very northeast first map is an exit to Caedarva with VT rams

ok thats my fault then. there are mnk burnable VT bones at the NE corner of the 1st map though, near that exit.

[Tymon]

If only Wamoura had some mp to aspir they would be the best manaburn mob in the game

SE needs to put in some VT-IT crabs.

[divisortheory]

Where's the camp(s) in Arrapago? I haven't found any

theres a few apkallu camps(hello superpowered penguins lol) and you can mnk burn the bones at the entrance from talacca (very northeast 1st map)

Very northeast first map is an exit to Caedarva with VT rams

ok thats my fault then. there are mnk burnable VT bones at the NE corner of the 1st map though, near that exit.

ahh. Speaking of Talacc Cove though, FFxi-atlas.com now shows it as being accessible through an Iron Gate that's opened with a fang key. Can you confirm this? I'm almost positive I tried picking that lock once with a Skeleton Key and it didn't work. I know when I entered Talacca Cove from the wrong direction I saw some Jnuns up there in the inaccessible area. I wonder if you could burn inside Talacca Cove, on those undead.

Also, has anyone figure out how to get past the other one way walls in Arrapago? There's a few areas that look like long penninsulas on the map that end in little circular areas but you can't get up there because of one way drops. Anyone figure out how to get there? One area in particular is past the Nix Songstresses.

[Flarega]

If only Wamoura had some mp to aspir they would be the best manaburn mob in the game

SE needs to put in some VT-IT crabs.

Crabs don't run at near-gravity top speeds though

I think crabs have more hp too. Wamoura go down in like 3-4 nukes. Once you get them out of their elongated form,(magic def. form) they have zero magic def.

[Xavier]

Oh btw, rangers DESTROY trolls. People who think rangers are nerfed, lawl.

With nin sub, or with /war "I pull hate and die now" sub?

[Lordwafik]

Oh btw, rangers DESTROY trolls. People who think rangers are nerfed, lawl.

With nin sub, or with /war "I pull hate and die now" sub?

my friend was rng/nin. He still did some measly sidewinders, but alot of the time when he WS'd, the troll was chasing him around over the 2 ridill wars.

RNG who are true RNG never got nerfed.

[Wizerd]

It's even worse when people bring non ws-spam parties out here. This place was build for 4 melee, healer, bard. Everyone else GTFO.

That being said, there are still times when you are the only party there.

3 melee, healer, 2 BRD is much more powerful and can actually infinite chain on the IT mamools near Jade spec zone. ^^

[Tymon]

Where's the camp(s) in Arrapago? I haven't found any

theres a few apkallu camps(hello superpowered penguins lol) and you can mnk burn the bones at the entrance from talacca (very northeast 1st map)

Very northeast first map is an exit to Caedarva with VT rams

ok thats my fault then. there are mnk burnable VT bones at the NE corner of the 1st map though, near that exit.

ahh. Speaking of Talacc Cove though, FFxi-atlas.com now shows it as being accessible through an Iron Gate that's opened with a fang key. Can you confirm this? I'm almost positive I tried picking that lock once with a Skeleton Key and it didn't work. I know when I entered Talacca Cove from the wrong direction I saw some Jnuns up there in the inaccessible area. I wonder if you could burn inside Talacca Cove, on those undead.

Also, has anyone figure out how to get past the other one way walls in Arrapago? There's a few areas that look like long penninsulas on the map that end in little circular areas but you can't get up there because of one way drops. Anyone figure out how to get there? One area in particular is past the Nix Songstresses.

that gate doesn't lead to talacca cove to my knowledge.

anyone know how to get to that point in talacca cove with mobs?

[Sonomaa]

Oh btw, rangers DESTROY trolls. People who think rangers are nerfed, lawl.

With nin sub, or with /war "I pull hate and die now" sub?

my friend was rng/nin. He still did some measly sidewinders, but alot of the time when he WS'd, the troll was chasing him around over the 2 ridill wars.

RNG who are true RNG never got nerfed.

I made xavier say rng fcking owns the other day coming as rng/war
forgot to screenshot it though

[Khamsin]

If only Wamoura had some mp to aspir they would be the best manaburn mob in the game

SE needs to put in some VT-IT crabs.

It made my day seeing Nippers on the opening day of the expansion. Just when you thought the Snipper/Clipper family was complete, they add the Nipper.

[Lordwafik]

^

what he said. Today it was 2x war 1x rng 1x me(rdm/BLM because i forgot to change it) 2x brd/nin and we were going fineeeeeee. The only time my MP dipped was when the wars started thinking they were paladins and didnt use utsesimi. Even then, my MP never dipped below 400.

[krys]

It's even worse when people bring non ws-spam parties out here. This place was build for 4 melee, healer, bard. Everyone else GTFO.

That being said, there are still times when you are the only party there.

even if job-specific pts are kinda fun...must say:
this place was made for everyone to enjoy it: it a game...

GTFO janice... you fail!

[Lordwafik]

It's even worse when people bring non ws-spam parties out here. This place was build for 4 melee, healer, bard. Everyone else GTFO.

That being said, there are still times when you are the only party there.

even if job-specific pts are kinda fun...must say:
this place was made for everyone to enjoy it: it a game...

GTFO janice... you fail!

no.

Normal parties slow the exp down for everyone there, because they are just breaking down the pace for people around them. At the pace everyone else is going, it's almost as if the normal parties are holding mobs.

The new zones aren't there as a charity/volunteer race, where everyone can go at their own pace and feel proud, it's a fast paced marathon to see how far you can get.

[Faranim]

no.

Normal parties slow the exp down for everyone there, because they are just breaking down the pace for people around them. At the pace everyone else is going, it's almost as if the normal parties are holding mobs.

Can you really blame them? Our LS has been using expansion areas to level up alternate jobs. Common parties consist of 2-3 75's (on their mains for merits) plus 2-3 on newer jobs in the 70-74 range ("gimp" jobs like DRK, SMN, etc). The new areas are still the best places to go for those kind of parties. Just because you have a job-elitist party doesn't mean you can tell others to GTFO.

Honestly the only problem is the idiots who somehow think it's OK to start camping when the place is already at capacity. Or that having a job-elitist "faster" party gives them the trump card to force out slower parties. If you arrive at a camp and there isn't enough room/mobs for you, just go somewhere else instead of being an ass.

[Maxxthepenguin]

It's even worse when people bring non ws-spam parties out here. This place was build for 4 melee, healer, bard. Everyone else GTFO.

That being said, there are still times when you are the only party there.

even if job-specific pts are kinda fun...must say:
this place was made for everyone to enjoy it: it a game...

GTFO janice... you fail!

no.

Normal parties slow the exp down for everyone there, because they are just breaking down the pace for people around them. At the pace everyone else is going, it's almost as if the normal parties are holding mobs.

The new zones aren't there as a charity/volunteer race, where everyone can go at their own pace and feel proud, it's a fast paced marathon to see how far you can get.

Thats how YOU choose to see it. Other people can see it how they want as well, and they can choose to exp there.

EDIT: Faranim ftw

[amlaruil]

Can you really blame them? Our LS has been using expansion areas to level up alternate jobs. Common parties consist of 2-3 75's (on their mains for merits) plus 2-3 on newer jobs in the 70-74 range ("gimp" jobs like DRK, SMN, etc). The new areas are still the best places to go for those kind of parties. Just because you have a job-elitist party doesn't mean you can tell others to GTFO.

I've been doing the same :D I had a mnk/nin, 73 war/nin, nin/war, nin/war, 72 brd, 70 rdm party still get 16k/hr in Bhaflau Thickets.

Besides that however, I can think of places for at least 23 parties in the new zones without too much trouble. Add that onto 6 in Uleguerand Range, 6 in RuAvitau, 2-3 in Lufaise Meadows, many in RuHmet and HuXzoi, and there are a lot more options for xp than there used to be.

[Elcura]

Except you can still have 72-74 jobs and STILL chain high and do it in a burn style PT. A normal PT consists of 2 melees, a dedicated tank, dedicated healer, supporter(s) and maybe a BLM or SMN. Tank keeps hate the whole fight, one of the melees or brd pulls, and they do a SC+MB as the main source of damage (while picking away slowly at the mobs HP).

Hell, some people have even leeched 60+ chars there while still doing burn PTs, face it, that camp is MADE for burn PTs, normal PTs can go someplace else (like sky)

[Lordwafik]

Thats how YOU choose to see it. Other people can see it how they want as well, and they can choose to exp there.

Seriously what did you contribute to this post aside from post count +1?

DUH that's the way I chose to see it. Duh other people can see it and exp there, im not shooing anyone out, im explaining janices point of view to the other person.


The parties im talking about are the ones that drag the place to a halt, like the other day when I was camping, 2 parties came, one to the side of mine, and one behind me. They were exp'ing off sea puks and other things they could pull, we killed 2-4 mobs in the time they killed 1.
I dont care if they do that, but squashing yourselves next to eachother is lame.

The other day I took my standard party (PLD/WAR, WAR SAM BLM RDM WHM) , we were getting chain 11-21's consistently, untill omg , once again, another party camps behind/infront of us and slowly chip away at monsters. At the end I just sleepga'd entire groups of mobs so we can have mobs to kill and repop by the time the other pt's are finishing fighting the first.

face it, that camp is MADE for burn PTs, normal PTs can go someplace else

Agreed. Mobs that have extremely short repop timers, including T mobs that have even shorter timers, and monsters that spawn pets that are a minimum of T (so far everything keeps the chain going), I dont see how it all was some coincedance. SE saw and knew that people love burn parties, and now we are catered. Now the burn party people can stop whoring other peoples camps in ulegard (or maybe they'll move back once they get their turbans kekeke).

[deakka]

Non burn parties can always go next to the Dvucca Isle staging point and kill Lamia Idolaters, high hp (although they take double damage), a 72-73 party with a solid skill chain should be able to do easy chain 5's (possible chain 8 if they bring imps and toads into the mix)