New Notorious Monsters and Battlefields!(07/19/2006)

[Spungy]

Back to the Summoning Torque thing. Go to ffxiah.com and watch the trends for most servers. Some servers have a few guys really stocking up on these for good prices. You can only stock up so much though with it being rare. I myself can only buy 6 but I think it is too late to buy any more. 6 hours from now I don't think you will be able to buy one at all on any server.

[Faranim]

The concept of resistance building over time isn't new. Any RDM who solos hard stuff knows that Gravity resistance builds up, and sometimes it's necessary to Melee the mob for a short amount of time and let the Gravity resistance reduce.

[Don Katsu]

I doesn't state anything about the same spell it just says elemental magic repeadetly. Which probably means if two BLMs nuke and do full damage the mob will build resistance to their next nuke or Chi Blast/Mijin/Spirits etc.

[Jeryhn]

Back to the Summoning Torque thing. Go to ffxiah.com and watch the trends for most servers. Some servers have a few guys really stocking up on these for good prices. You can only stock up so much though with it being rare. I myself can only buy 6 but I think it is too late to buy any more. 6 hours from now I don't think you will be able to buy one at all on any server.

I remember buying mine for 10k way back when I used to think summoning skill does something useful (lolnubyears).

Still in my Mog Safe too.

[Not Kuno]

I can see it now:

BLM eseal nukes for 72 dmg.
BLM: Stop Flashing the mob assholes!
PLD: >(

[Delekii]

I was totally thinking about 4 hours ago.... "I wonder if I should buy up some summoning torques incase they change summoning skill this patch".

God damn procrastination - when I first thought it, I could have got 8. By the time I saw these patch notes, I could only get 3 -_-

[Russta]

Last July it was Rangers.

This July it's predominantly Black Mages.

Anyone care to take a guess what next July's nerf will be?

It's really odd that they're taking the nerf bat to all types of magic. If they pretty much say that you're unlikely to notice it with only two Black Mages in the party why go to the lengths of including stuff like Chi Blast? It's not like linkshells are rotating in full squadrons of Monks at every HNM.

I dread to think how long Kirin is going to take now and Jailer of Prudence surely just cemented his place as "gayest NM in FFXI".

Sure glad they nerfed that overpowered Red Lotus spam though lolz.

[Spungy]

I was totally thinking about 4 hours ago.... "I wonder if I should buy up some summoning torques incase they change summoning skill this patch".

God damn procrastination - when I first thought it, I could have got 8. By the time I saw these patch notes, I could only get 3 -_-

And an Austere Robe too I see! Bwahaha, I love ffxiah!

[JoOeetheplatypuS]

I really hope this nerf is pretty light, and just intended to stop the super fast kill manaburns.

I don't even want to know what the following fights would be like if magic starts resisting early...

King Behemoth: lol @ 45min+ KBs.
Aspidochelone: How would you even kill this, honestly? In his shell he's pretty much immune to all physical damage, and out of his shell he's pretty damn defensive as well.
Dynamis Lord: Depends if stuns start resisting, if they do, this fight will become a big fat "LOL"
Jailer of Love: This fight was already incredibly long. Now it's going to take like 6 hours.
Ouryu Cometh: PLD mob that takes minimal damage from most melee attacks. I guess you get to SAM zerg him
Bahamut 2: "LOL"
KS99 Fafnir/Aspi: Good luck clearing this in the time limit
King Vinegaroon: I guess you can zerg this with MNK/DRK and such
Carbuncle Limbus: Hah.
Proto-Ultima: Thought killing it in 20min and dealing with 4-5 Armor Busters and 5-6 Citadel Buster was bad? Double it.

Wheres Max? Im sure he'd say this just revitalizes old content or some shite.

Well, Carbuncle Limbus is still easily killed w/o BLM zerg... Stuns wont be resisted on DL (don't do damage, dont increase resistance, capiche?).
There are still ways to kill all of those except maybe Bahamut, but since people wont stop farming ouryu I'm sure that a new solution will arise. He won't be easy, but he'll be doable I bet.

and LOL at thinking KB and Aspid are going to be hard.

Guys, learn to adapt, it was necessary, and its probably not going to be that bad.
and to those who say 50% melee 50% magic... sorry but BLM vs everybody else is a stupid mentality

[Gilanth]

In addition, the monster's resistance will decrease with time if it is not hit by any repeated magic attacks.

Looks as if you just won't be able to zergrush stuff don't know if there is anything to worry about.


I.e 6 BLMs Thunder IV , next blast it resists wait a bit rest whatever then go again , Probably won't have to worry about -enm on HNM now just S.ring, Ugg pendant big damage then rest a while.

[Jakune]

Last July it was Rangers.

This July it's predominantly Black Mages.

Anyone care to take a guess what next July's nerf will be?

It's really odd that they're taking the nerf bat to all types of magic. If they pretty much say that you're unlikely to notice it with only two Black Mages in the party why go to the lengths of including stuff like Chi Blast? It's not like linkshells are rotating in full squadrons of Monks at every HNM.

I dread to think how long Kirin is going to take now and Jailer of Prudence surely just cemented his place as "gayest NM in FFXI".

Sure glad they nerfed that overpowered Red Lotus spam though lolz.

smn

done lol,

And i know exactly why they are doin it now, if they nerf smn next july, then they can release ffxi-2 for christmas and since ffxi-1 will suck and be royally screwed they are banking on the idea that everyone will move to the "new better designed game"

[MisterBob]

and LOL at thinking KB and Aspid are going to be hard.

Please give me a working strategy for killing Aspidochelone without Spirits Within and Blizzard IV. In case you forgot, when Aspi goes in his shell, he regens massively unless you nuke him out of it quickly.
And by strategy, I don't mean "8 DRK/NIN with Kraken Clubs"

No LS wants to recruit a bunch of emo fags just to kill Aspi.

[Illverin]

Last July it was Rangers.

This July it's predominantly Black Mages.

Anyone care to take a guess what next July's nerf will be?

It's really odd that they're taking the nerf bat to all types of magic. If they pretty much say that you're unlikely to notice it with only two Black Mages in the party why go to the lengths of including stuff like Chi Blast? It's not like linkshells are rotating in full squadrons of Monks at every HNM.

I dread to think how long Kirin is going to take now and Jailer of Prudence surely just cemented his place as "gayest NM in FFXI".

Sure glad they nerfed that overpowered Red Lotus spam though lolz.

Next July SE will find some way to nerf physical-type blood pacts from avatars and will dub all HNMs "the gayest HNM on FFXI"

[layoneil]

It's really odd that they're taking the nerf bat to all types of magic. If they pretty much say that you're unlikely to notice it with only two Black Mages in the party why go to the lengths of including stuff like Chi Blast?

probably because they are only adjusting one variable to make this change and that one variable will affect everything else.

and they decided that affecting all the other stuff is not really a big deal, and the alternative would be a lot more work and a lot more testing than they have the resources for.

this is why i think the effect will be similar to what happens on CoP Wyrms as opposed to what some other people are speculating.

[Spungy]

Maybe this is SE's way to unnerf Leathercraft 100? Out with Panther Mask +1, in with Penance Robe!

[Miji]

On a sidenote, I really doubt they would put something as massive as Hydra in a normal accessible zone. I am leaning more towards the idea that Hydra will be the new IS/orb battle.

Otherwise, look at the implications of that thing roaming around among exp spots.

Because every spot in every zone is a burn party area, right? There are quite a few open spots in each zone if you take a look around. It's not large enough to fit that hydra, but the empty dead end circle at H-6 in the reef looks like an interesting spot to put something... There are plenty of places to put these things.

[Jeryhn]

Maybe this is SE's way to unnerf Leathercraft 100? Out with Panther Mask +1, in with Penance Robe!

Some JP wanted to sell a Penance Robe for 30 million on Cerberus last night.
NQ is like 80k-100k.

Only idiots will buy it, aside from HQ collectors. Avatars aren't summoned long enough to justify the approximate 3-4 MP you save using it.

[JoOeetheplatypuS]

and LOL at thinking KB and Aspid are going to be hard.

Please give me a working strategy for killing Aspidochelone without Spirits Within and Blizzard IV. In case you forgot, when Aspi goes in his shell, he regens massively unless you nuke him out of it quickly.
And by strategy, I don't mean "8 DRK/NIN with Kraken Clubs"

No LS wants to recruit a bunch of DRK just to kill Aspi.

A bunch of DRK would work though.

Don't be freaking retarded, theres a bunch of TP mobs around. TP on them (hell the melee can stay in the alliance, aspid isn't exactly a killer) and go in for SC/MB with 3-4 BLM and it should be fine from the sound of it.

[Ryko]

Ridills: Perfectly unscathed since late 2003 and still trucking ^-^v *knocks on wood*

It really just sounds like a "lol fuck bahamut v2" patch more than anything.

[Dustybrown]

Last July it was Rangers.

This July it's predominantly Black Mages.

Anyone care to take a guess what next July's nerf will be?

It's really odd that they're taking the nerf bat to all types of magic. If they pretty much say that you're unlikely to notice it with only two Black Mages in the party why go to the lengths of including stuff like Chi Blast? It's not like linkshells are rotating in full squadrons of Monks at every HNM.

I dread to think how long Kirin is going to take now and Jailer of Prudence surely just cemented his place as "gayest NM in FFXI".

Sure glad they nerfed that overpowered Red Lotus spam though lolz.

smn

done lol

I'm going to see your SMN and raise you a BLU.