Ashu Talif assault things

[zoobernut]

i finally got to try the first battle last night and it was really fun. i am even more pissed that SE changed it to once a day.

anyway we lost but we got pretty far. our setup was smn smn rng rng nin whm. i think next time i will go as thf instead of rng because the delay on the axes on rng and xbow are too big to handle that many mobs though rng does oneshot them. maybe a rng with machine bow or next time i will bring my loxley bow that might work better.

my main question is how many of you have actually killed the NM imp? is there a good strat to taking him down? i heard CS Stun prevents him from warping out but has anyone killed it without doing that?

[Tythera]

Isnt the effect a ??? effect? Doesnt that mean completely random, as in today could be shell and tomorrow could be STR+10?

From what Tythera already said it sounds like this thing just gives lame effects like the bands of wandering (monkeys birds etc) at new years.

So far the times I've used it:
1) Shell
2) Shell
3) Blink
4) Refresh
5) Blaze Spikes
6) Blink

First three times I zoned before I could test anything, the fourth got tortoise song'd by Aspid about 3 seconds after using it :/, and currently testing with the blaze spikes right now. Enchantment stays after taking the crown off which is good. Going to see how long the enchantments actually last now that I'm just standing in town.

Edit: Blaze spikes wore off after 17 minutes, which is pretty damn random. I'll have to see if the duration is random too.

Edit2: Got blink again, testing the duration of this one. Blink only lasted 10 minutes, so seems either random duration or based on each buff.

[yrpaine]

my main question is how many of you have actually killed the NM imp? is there a good strat to taking him down? i heard CS Stun prevents him from warping out but has anyone killed it without doing that?

CS stun is tricky, has to be done right cuz stun effect can last quite a while, and when stun wears off it moves really fast, it'll warp once it reaches the middle of the top deck. we got it to about 50% b4 it got out of range to stun and depopped on us, we took it down the rest of the way with stun order between blm and rdm/drk stunning it when it randomly repopped, and had rng go all out and blms get some nukes in. could probably be done from 100% that way too.

[Amastacia]

my main question is how many of you have actually killed the NM imp? is there a good strat to taking him down? i heard CS Stun prevents him from warping out but has anyone killed it without doing that?

The NM is really easy to kill. He's distinctly not fond of getting smacked full in the face by about 4 weaponskills after you stun him to hold him still (just have to know when he's coming). Do it a few times and he goes down like a hooker on prom night.

CS + Stun is definitely not needed, lol.

[zoobernut]

cool thanks for the info. one more question about the NM i noticed he would sit there and not move till you aggrod him and then he would always depop when he got to the upper deck. does he only depop when he reaches the upper deck? would it be better instead of pulling him to the upper deck to fight him down lower? not sure if that will make a difference but it might give more time as he is traveling to hit him with stun and WS.

[doofy]

Save tp/use D wings and time/unload when it pops downstairs (its predictable), and yes it always depops after it reaches the top so don't fight it there. Some stunning can help if it opens with bind-ga and castlocks people, but yeah CS-Stun definitely isnt needed.

Ty, did you do anything differently to get 3 chests to spawn after #2 or was it just random?

-Vyzrael (Asura)

[zoobernut]

cool i am going to try this again tonight hopefully if i can get the people together. i was thinking of going thf/nin for cyclone but then i thought maybe rng with loxley bow would be good too.

[Stromgarde]

He spawns between waves, for the most part. The first time is roughly 3 seconds after the first item drop, so you can Wing to get TP if you don't have it, or WS and -maybe- Wing/WS again if you're extremely lucky on stun duration. If you have a War or two with a good sense of timing (once it appears you can't immediately engage, so that would be your cue to use Mighty Strikes), it's very possible to knock off around 40% per appearance.

[Falaras]

anyway we lost but we got pretty far. our setup was smn smn rng rng nin whm. i think next time i will go as thf instead of rng because the delay on the axes on rng and xbow are too big to handle that many mobs though rng does oneshot them. maybe a rng with machine bow or next time i will bring my loxley bow that might work better.

I used loxley, worked wonders for pulling hate off the blm and killing shit quick, really recomend it

[Tythera]

Ty, did you do anything differently to get 3 chests to spawn after #2 or was it just random?

-Vyzrael (Asura)

May have been random but I don't think Faluuya or whatever ever got hit by anything that time. Maybe that's what did the third chest but I can't be sure. Popped it during an Ouryu to see what would happen and I got a defense boost that lasted around 15 minutes. Pretty crap defense boost of about 30 with 275 base.

[Khamsin]

Do buffs stay on between zones? Why does it matter if you zone before testing anything?

[Tythera]

Do buffs stay on between zones? Why does it matter if you zone before testing anything?

Nah, the enchantment wears (or more specifically, its just not there when you zone in). No message or anything.

[Kuropiko]

Ty, did you do anything differently to get 3 chests to spawn after #2 or was it just random?

-Vyzrael (Asura)

May have been random but I don't think Faluuya or whatever ever got hit by anything that time. Maybe that's what did the third chest but I can't be sure. Popped it during an Ouryu to see what would happen and I got a defense boost that lasted around 15 minutes. Pretty crap defense boost of about 30 with 275 base.

She's there to paint that room where the boss is. Maybe she had time to draw it before you killed it ? Or did she still camp the rear of the boat ?

Just a stupid thought coming from the fact she runs back there when you clear the way, but that could still be it.

[Karik]

CS + Stun is definitely not needed, lol.

what was ur setup? 4x rng?lol

[Demonlord]

what was ur setup? 4x rng?lol

War, Thf, Thf, Nin, Rdm, Whm

[Tomino]

bumping
no one got the Barbarossa's Crimson Hands-1 yet?


I'm starting to think they dont drop @ Ashu Talif at all

[TsingTao]

There's quite a few items no one's seen yet from the last patch. Normally info on things things pops sooner than this.

[Khamsin]

Any NMs yet to be discovered, and anything that looks like an undiscovered pop item added in the same patch?

[Purplenv]

4 man'd Targeting the Captain last night.

WHM
BRD
WAR
THF

Pulled Buddy to the main deck, killed it seperate from the Captain, then ran back to the captains room, to proceed to kill him.

Everyone died atleast once, except me as THF.

War died first, cause the WHM tried to rest at a bad time (sat down just as TP move hit hard, and stripped shadows on the WAR)

With the WAR down, I had no way to SA-WS, and WS onry was deffinately not getting enough damage done to hold hate of the cure spells I was needing.

Captain died with about 3 min left, I flee'd to the chests (2) and opened for, all crap drops.

One question. Was it always possible to pull Buddy sperately? I was sure that people were talking about kiting the captain as others killed Buddy. That was not what we experienced last night...

[Slott]

uh yeah. The bc is piss easy. I trio it with thf + blm + either rdm or whm... with no deaths.