Archaic rampart

[Kaylia]

Anyone has any idea what they do? More points? Pop NM on next floor?

[Aerin]

Were just mobs as far as I could tell, my group just got done for the night and we killed a lot of them. Didn't seem to do anything special. Have some nasty AoE though that gives you para along with like 400 dmg

[Leashedragon]

No idea if this has any base to it but, I just did Nyzul Isle for the first time tonight and we skipped the Rampart on the first floor and did the objective. When we moved onto the next floor we had a restriction put on us immediately, "Casting time slowed down." (Or something close to that.)

Utsusemi Ichi and Ni both didn't go off till 100% on the casting bar, boy did that suck.

After that we killed them and didn't have any restrictions apon moving up a level. Might of just been something else, but a linkshell member(our party leader) who had done a few before said he never remembered getting a restriction when moving up, but they always killed the Ramparts.

Archaic Ramparts are the big wall thingies right? I'm so tired I can't remember, I just wanna make sure I'm thining the right thing after all. XD

[Rysa]

My group also hit a floor once with a pathos immediatly affecting us, luckily it was only CHR down lol. The previoius floor was a "kill enmey leader" floor and the enemy leader, one of those yellow flans, was in a room right next to the rune of transport.

Also, once we received a Refresh effect upon entering a new floor. I have no idea what might have triggered this.

[layoneil]

we randomly got a STR+ boost, the buffs are likely just random and not triggered.

[shalarim]

Are the (de)buffs totally random? I.e. can appear at any time. Or are they for an entire floor? I.e. could it be dependant on, what happened on last floor, (which way you choose to go at end / what you klilled / what u agroed/ special rules)

[layoneil]

the STR boost appeared as we entered the floor and disappeared when we moved to the next floor.

[Alastaire]

We also got a CHR down pathos when starting a new floor once, and thinking about it now we definitely didn't kill the rampart on the previous floor, so that COULD be it, I have no idea.

[tyraravenlocke]

Did you guys notice if you got the pathos and the buff immediately after choosing a branch.

You know when you can choose to go right or left a floor I mean?

[divisortheory]

Did you guys notice if you got the pathos and the buff immediately after choosing a branch.

You know when you can choose to go right or left a floor I mean?

I noticed, and yes that is what happened to me. We got MND+30

[Faranim]

Maybe you only get the option to go left or right if you kill the Rampart?

I know a lot of the times the menu just said "Advance to the Next Floor" for me...

But when you can choose left or right, you usually get some sort of random buff or debuff (STR Up, VIT Down, etc)

[Alastaire]

We always kill the Rampart, except maybe once or twice, and we've never gotten the option to go one of 2 ways, just one.

[Odd]

i killed one of those archaic rampart (maybe not rampart but one of those salvage mobs, not gears) with a single chi blast in first 5 floors

don't know if it was a glitch or maybe some enemies have secret weaknesses.

i was surprised, went to pull with chi blast and got 48 xp lol.

[Kaylia]

Did you guys notice if you got the pathos and the buff immediately after choosing a branch.

You know when you can choose to go right or left a floor I mean?

I noticed, and yes that is what happened to me. We got MND+30

One is a pathos, other is a bonus, but one has no NM? ...maybe?

[threevo]

we got a +10mp/tick refresh added on to us on the 2nd floor of one run. Stacks with RDM refresh and others, you have 2 of the MP icons its kinda cool

[tylerz]

i think you get randomly buff + or - when you change floor sometime o_O

We got some MND- just takin right road.

On 4th floor we aggroed some archaic mirror each mirror give us a buff - like unable to use ja or cast magic

[Sagacious Sundi]

Maybe ramparts are in Nyzul Isle just to explain why the non-imp/soulflayer/Poroggo/flan/Qiqirn/archaic machine enemies are there?

Also, didn't I say, back in January or something, that Nyzul Isle would have a weird, weaker form of the Pathos of Alzadaal that varies? I'm so awesome. >_>

[Iresire]

My group got a "concentration" bonus on floor 2 once. I'm not sure entirely what triggered it. Concentration lowered recast and spell casting time. It reduced my Drain recast down to about 44-45 seconds. I was also wearing Walahra Turban at the time.