Salvage: Bhaflau Remnants

[Faranim]

3rd Floor:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v8...haf/Floor3.jpg

This info compiled from a JP site... but I'm pretty sure it's accurate.

[Tomino]

Killed S, E, N, W flans and Rampart popped in west room, if it helps at all.

did you enter West or East in first floor?
we took west path, on 2nd floor killed East Flan last and no pop

[Melchiah]

Ok. I just got out of Bhaflau Remnants, W path. I have never been so totally boned in an FFXI event. By the 5th bomb we killed, we were out of temp items and purchased meds, and we still had no weapons. The bombs kept dropping Max MP and SJ cells. Never saw the first incus cell. How how the fuck are we supposed to deal with these mobs that get progressively harder as you get geared up with no weapons and no magic? Anyone else have this happen to them? This is way outside of normal for us, we are used to seeing multiple incus cells drop from each bomb.

[Judai]

Never had it happen in Bhaflau. I've had it happen a couple times in Silver Seas. Basically just screwed if the cells don't drop. Usually first couple Bifrons drop Weapons for us tho. We clear Bifrons and then kill Wamoura at the end for Magic and then go back and clear everything.

[huckster]

Ok. I just got out of Bhaflau Remnants, W path. I have never been so totally boned in an FFXI event. By the 5th bomb we killed, we were out of temp items and purchased meds, and we still had no weapons. The bombs kept dropping Max MP and SJ cells. Never saw the first incus cell. How how the fuck are we supposed to deal with these mobs that get progressively harder as you get geared up with no weapons and no magic? Anyone else have this happen to them? This is way outside of normal for us, we are used to seeing multiple incus cells drop from each bomb.

We had the same "accident" some time ago - killed 4 bombs, no weapon cells drops, 2 DDs died, time ended....

[Pacha]

Ok. I just got out of Bhaflau Remnants, W path. I have never been so totally boned in an FFXI event. By the 5th bomb we killed, we were out of temp items and purchased meds, and we still had no weapons. The bombs kept dropping Max MP and SJ cells. Never saw the first incus cell. How how the fuck are we supposed to deal with these mobs that get progressively harder as you get geared up with no weapons and no magic? Anyone else have this happen to them? This is way outside of normal for us, we are used to seeing multiple incus cells drop from each bomb.

We had the same "accident" some time ago - killed 4 bombs, no weapon cells drops, 2 DDs died, time ended....

Same thing happened to us recently. We got 1 weapon cell drop off 5 bifron kills...it's simply not possible to progress in the zone if the drop rates are that bad. Strangely, we got a weapon almost every bomb the first few times we went. Salvage is weird -.-.

[Tomino]

We got 1 weapon cell drop off 5 bifron kills...it's simply not possible to progress in the zone if the drop rates are that bad.

gogo CarbuncleBurn party!

[divisortheory]

In that case could it be said that East is the best route? East has about 9 Bifrons, compared to 5 from West. You don't get equip like you do from the Wamouracampa, but you do get stat bonuses instead.

[Uzor]

In that case could it be said that East is the best route? East has about 9 Bifrons, compared to 5 from West. You don't get equip like you do from the Wamouracampa, but you do get stat bonuses instead.

Iunno... Wamouracampa you can get ranged attack cells from, thus giving pretty much every job some kind of damage dealing weapon. Hell, even RDM could play DD with a bow and arrows in Limbus with ranged weapon unlocked.

Besides, the PLD trolls just sucks if you get unlucky on weapon drops, and the trolls on west can drop weapon cells too. Dunno about east route, but I assume those do too. But yeah, PLD trolls suck.

[Tomino]

today's run:

wind day, day. took West Path > No Mad Bomber (1/5 now, wootz)
2nd floor, killed S > E > N > W and went West, No Rampart (0/5)

not much more, just a hell of a lot of MP Cells...

[Sci]

I've seen the rampart spawn twice, but never in the areas the salvage map on the wiki has listed. The times I've seen it pop, it was in the same room as the flan, and it was near the inner wall of the circle of flan rooms. We actually got it to pop on our last run, and Skirmish Pephredo was summoned once out of the 100 summons and dropped nothing. : (

[Tomino]

i was hoping for a way to spawn the first NMs in Bhaflau, but i'm about to give up. if it all comes down to a matter of plain luck, well i'm not that interested.

[nsx]

We just killed the Bomb NM. Took the Rampart, killed chigoes until Gate Widow popped (a spider) we killed it and lvl 35 whm/brd/smn pants (Enlil's Brayettes) dropped, we started killing the Rampart then to leave and another gate widow popped right as we kill the rampart and warped us.

[Almalexia]

Gate Widow popped (a spider) we killed it and lvl 35 whm/brd/smn pants (Enlil's Brayettes) dropped

Hmm, this makes three different kinds of gear Gate Widow drops:

Enlil's Kolluks, Macha's Cuffs, and Enlil's Brayettes

Is it safe to assume a third piece drops from Skirmish Pephredo as well?

[aurik]

http://img96.imageshack.us/img96/3118/lbclj5.png

[Isildur]

In that case could it be said that East is the best route? East has about 9 Bifrons, compared to 5 from West. You don't get equip like you do from the Wamouracampa, but you do get stat bonuses instead.

Tonight was the first time my LS went East (onry done LS Salvage 3x) and personally i thought it was a little slower than the times we went West, i think the problem was more like the bombs didnt drop too many cells we wanted and we would kill more Erucas than anything, unfortunately we capped everyone out on Stat cells fairly quickly and still didnt have enough damage unlocked to take Mad Bomber down; 3 MNKs, 2 other melees, 1 BLM nuking was all the damage we had on him during the fight. I think it depends more on your group, getting equipment cells might be more beneficial than stat cells and vice versa.


A side note, we finished off on the 3rd floor on the Archaic Gears in the square room...we cleared out most of the room from the single Gears except for 4, i went up to voke pull it and all 4 singles came after me along with the trio one. My question is if this trio thing will link with any singles still alive, or do the gears also aggro JAs too? I'm a little too sleepy to read through pages to figure it out =/

[Sifer]

Ok. I just got out of Bhaflau Remnants, W path. I have never been so totally boned in an FFXI event. By the 5th bomb we killed, we were out of temp items and purchased meds, and we still had no weapons. The bombs kept dropping Max MP and SJ cells. Never saw the first incus cell. How how the fuck are we supposed to deal with these mobs that get progressively harder as you get geared up with no weapons and no magic? Anyone else have this happen to them? This is way outside of normal for us, we are used to seeing multiple incus cells drop from each bomb.

happened to me, best way to make sure this doesnt happen is to take some rangers and take the west route, ranged weapons are plentyful and its hard to get screwed on both lol

[Ayn]

So..has anyone managed to kill all the gears on Floor 3 and 4, and noticed any change in LBC? My LS mate said it *seemed* to make a difference (noting that his Chi Blast did 300ish both times -- though the second time, he had chi nuking gear, AF gloves, full boosted..and did crap damage when we ignored 'em).

There's a strategy I have for our next 12ish person run which I *think* will work better than last time..

[Julian]

I did 500 chi blasts without killing any gears at all. 650 with a bard etuding me. (I didn't get to remove my mnd limiter either)

And my chi blast gear is lolable (i've never chiblasted before lmao, lost count of boosts so many times)

[aurik]

He takes reduced spirit damage. With some chi gear and about 110 overall mnd I was doing 300-700 (should be more like 600-1100)