Salvage: Bhaflau Remnants

[Sykes]

Has anyone mentioned in this thread that angle of attack makes a significant difference in damage on LBC? I'm sure we're not the first people that have noticed this, but I can't seem to find any other references to this (it's 3 AM, so give me a break if I missed something). From one angle, our RNGs were doing 60-70 damage per hit, then from another they were doing 90-100. This probably accounts for the wildly varied damage numbers that people are reporting that people are trying to attribute to the other chariots/gears/etc.

On a side note, we got screwed today (or rather screwed ourselves). We killed LBC, but it died to bio while it had no aggro so it didn't drop anything. -_-

[Archeons]

We killed LBC again with 13 people and time to kill was only 23 minute from start to finish.

pld/nin, pld/nin, brd, whm, whm, rdm
blm, blm, blm, cor, mnk, mnk, mnk

I don't see why ppl can't beat this in 20-25 minute if you have 3 blms.
Anyway we parsed it:
We had 1 taru blm(26%), 1 hume blm(22.6%), elvaan blm(16%), mnks(11.5%, 8.5%, 5.9%), the rest came from pld and dot.
We didn't let the mnks to hit LBC at the same time only 1 at time while the pld bounce back hate.
I came blm and died twice because i wasn't playing smart and didn't reset my hate by getting hit by homing missile(gimp 16% dmg because i am elvaan and died 2x). Anyway, only i died(x2) along with 1 mnk(x1) because he ran in when it was doing AoE.

This is the whole run process:
1st floor >> West Path, Cleared everything including Mad Bomber.
After 25 chigoes we decided to kill the RR, because we heard someone popped 100 chigoes and no NM.
2nd floor >> We did S W N E and we still didn't pop DR. We cleared SE path.
3rd floor >> Killed 3 puddings for magic, and then popped Slot NM, got the Marduk body Lv.15.
4th floor >> Skipped this floor and trained everything with gaiters but they were too blind(some stay while ppl with movement speed rushed to the portal)
5th floor >> 28 minute left, 3 minute buffing and re-explaining strategy on vent then enganged. Killed the boss and got 2 Morrigan Bodies, i rushed to the portal with 3 minute time left.

Archeons,
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[Serif]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1...evr/missle.jpg

After reading your LF aurik, "The tank should stand on the side of the boss rather than the front. The boss will periodically turn to face the tank; when he does this, have the tank circle around so that once again he is on the side. This will prevent the boss from using Homing Missiles. It is crucial to erase bind immediately for this reason."

Is the placement of the PLD in the wrong spot on this occasion?

[aurik]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1...evr/missle.jpg

After reading your LF aurik, "The tank should stand on the side of the boss rather than the front. The boss will periodically turn to face the tank; when he does this, have the tank circle around so that once again he is on the side. This will prevent the boss from using Homing Missiles. It is crucial to erase bind immediately for this reason."

Is the placement of the PLD in the wrong spot on this occasion?

Special looks to be in the right location; could stand to be another few steps to the left. Kirschy is liable to trigger homing missile if she takes hate.

[Stellar]

On a side note, we got screwed today (or rather screwed ourselves). We killed LBC, but it died to bio while it had no aggro so it didn't drop anything. -_-

Wow, that really bites. Had the same thing happen to us on Lamie no. 9. I was pissed about that and it's not nearly as bad as LBC D:

[NynJa]

going on my trend of reverse problem solving the missing drops from certain areas, Bhaflau is pretty complete. Just need to find out how to pop the 3rd and 4th floor (though there is some speculation on this one) Ramparts, and hope the NM's from each one spawn and put out.


For the 3rd floor rampart, has anyone tried zerging the shit out of all the accessible mobs ?? Either all the puddings/trolls or all the gears ??

[Sykes]

We've killed all the puddings on one run and killed all the trolls on another but no luck. We tried killing the 1 set of triple gears on each side of the middle rooms. We wanted to clear all of the gears in both rooms, but we were only able to clear 1 room before we ran out of time.

[divisortheory]

Anyone know what the AoE distance range is on Homing Missile, Diffusion Ray, and Inertia Strea?

[aurik]

Anyone know what the AoE distance range is on Homing Missile, Diffusion Ray, and Inertia Strea?

<10 for the latter 2, I was easily able to chi blast from out range.

[Sykes]

Seems like 20' from the target for Homing Missile, and 10' for everything else.

[divisortheory]

http://kalia.ultimals.com/HoshikazuTekko.jpg

[aurik]

Just confirming that chariot drops the same armor as every other nq mob in the zone?

[divisortheory]

AFAIK nobody had ever gotten a drop off it before. Is that item confirmed to drop from normal mobs as well?

[aurik]

Yes, and other people have reported it dropping like any other mob in the zone. That is the first screenshot I've seen of it dropping though.

[NynJa]

AFAIK nobody had ever gotten a drop off it before. Is that item confirmed to drop from normal mobs as well?

ares feet, skadi legs, usukane hands, marduk head, morrigan feet all drop off the mobs in bhaflau.

[divisortheory]

Well, perhaps the chariot is just there to give you a slightly higher drop rate then. It's fucking hard, btw.

[Wulfgang]

Wish other zones were like Bhaflau in that manner, Ive yet to get a single upgrade drop off of any normal mob in Arrapago and Silver Seas in countless runs.

[Sci]

Yeah my group has gotten like 3 lvl15 Usukane hands off just regular mobs. And we've also killed that Chariot and it dropped nothing. We just avoid it now because it's a real pain in the ass.

[divisortheory]

The only reason we killed it is because we were doing a boss run and we were still short 3 magic cells by the time we got to the 4th floor. We had no real choice except to try to get them off gears

[divisortheory]

Also not sure if this was mentioned, but Thunder magic heals the gears.