Salvage - Bhaflau Remnants - thread2

[Wizerd]

It's a % of HP, so your health wasn't topped up.

Anyway bout fucking time we got some of these kinds of drops in salvage.

http://img220.imageshack.us/img220/9...hax2vy9.th.jpg

Haven't seen those gloves drop EVER -_-

Sounds just like the run we had tonight...

Went in with 9 people Mad Bomber on up the West side, killed went in...

Voke pulled Rampart, 3 Gate Widow pops, 2/3 Macha's Cuffs drops, killed the rampart because were were getting overwhelmed with Chigoes, Bhlafau card drops... a happy taru/galka and nin. :D

Can also confirm first Gate widow was around 80% hp, thinking subsequent 15-20% between each pops?

lolBees were still gay tho, killed wasps til about 40% and just said eff it, woulda spawned alot earlier if it was ever going to pop we figured

How do you get overwhelmed with mobs that hit for 5-20?

Anyway, today on our run, Mad Bomber was up. First reinforcement was a Gate Widow, and so was the reinforcement following Gate Widow's death. None after that from 96%->0%, and none on 2F Rampart. Oh well. No drops.

[LordBane]

It's a % of HP, so your health wasn't topped up.

Anyway bout fucking time we got some of these kinds of drops in salvage.

http://img220.imageshack.us/img220/9...hax2vy9.th.jpg

Haven't seen those gloves drop EVER -_-

Sounds just like the run we had tonight...

Went in with 9 people Mad Bomber on up the West side, killed went in...

Voke pulled Rampart, 3 Gate Widow pops, 2/3 Macha's Cuffs drops, killed the rampart because were were getting overwhelmed with Chigoes, Bhlafau card drops... a happy taru/galka and nin. :D

Can also confirm first Gate widow was around 80% hp, thinking subsequent 15-20% between each pops?

lolBees were still gay tho, killed wasps til about 40% and just said eff it, woulda spawned alot earlier if it was ever going to pop we figured

How do you get overwhelmed with mobs that hit for 5-20?

Anyway, today on our run, Mad Bomber was up. First reinforcement was a Gate Widow, and so was the reinforcement following Gate Widow's death. None after that from 96%->0%, and none on 2F Rampart. Oh well. No drops.

Yea we really shouldn't have been. But went with a random group than my usual one, the setup wasn't horrible, but certainly not the most balanced with pretty much 1 mage healing. Just went in to farm mostly. So i'd say the unbalanced party/lack of knowledge and coordination contributed.

[Acturus]

Voke pulled Rampart, 3 Gate Widow pops, 2/3 Macha's Cuffs drops, killed the rampart because were were getting overwhelmed with Chigoes, Bhlafau card drops... a happy taru/galka and nin. :D

I never knew the ramparts themselves could drop cards. I mean, I guess I assumed it, since they are archaic machinery and all, but this is the first I've heard/seen it.

Time to file it in my bank of useless information.

[LordBane]

Voke pulled Rampart, 3 Gate Widow pops, 2/3 Macha's Cuffs drops, killed the rampart because were were getting overwhelmed with Chigoes, Bhlafau card drops... a happy taru/galka and nin. :D

I never knew the ramparts themselves could drop cards. I mean, I guess I assumed it, since they are archaic machinery and all, but this is the first I've heard/seen it.

Time to file it in my bank of useless information.

Yea it suprised me as well seeing it drop. As a rule of thumb for me, I'm just gonna kill the Rampart before it DoTs down to 0% for a possible card drop, because I doubt it'll drop if you let it die on its own. Just an observation.

[safer]

i believe in the ancient bhaflau thread, one of the very first discoveries was that the rampart can drop a card, and it can drop it even if it kills itself

[Wizerd]

i believe in the ancient bhaflau thread, one of the very first discoveries was that the rampart can drop a card, and it can drop it even if it kills itself

You just have to make sure it's claimed red. Simple solution, cast Flash or Stun or Elegy on it in its last 1-2%.

[solsovly]

Overwhelmed by chigoes? lol. Just have your bard sing double paeon then your bard and mages can go afk. The only time I died to those types of rampart pops was when I started singing virelai on the colibri pops for fun and it charmed Aurik who then chased me down and beat me up while the rest of my group laughed.

[LordBane]

Overwhelmed by chigoes? lol. Just have your bard sing double paeon then your bard and mages can go afk. The only time I died to those types of rampart pops was when I started singing virelai on the colibri pops for fun and it charmed Aurik who then chased me down and beat me up while the rest of my group laughed.

Unbalanced jobs, random/inexperienced group, 1 healer, no brd... couldnt have happened?

Delving into the specifc job setup is irrelevant so i refrained to elaborate as was just farming, main point was about said NM/card

[Amastacia]

People do Salvage without BRDs?

[LordBane]

i "normally" dont >_>

[aurik]

People do anything without BRDs?

[Jordache]

My salvage shell doesn't have a BRD and we're doing good for what we got to work with. (Chariots and Madames still rape us tho, but everything else is A-ok!)

[Xerlic]

Woo, got 4 Skirmish Bees to pop tonight. Got 1 Skadi Mask and 1 Usukane Feet. We're really happy cuz the Feet went to a NIN who pretty much has been doing Salvage for the past 3 months for this 1 piece.

We're still utter retards when it comes to pulling the 4f gears. Our best attempt was going 9/10 and that was with the puller not realizing that the gears linked on our very first attempt. <,<

Tried LBC for shits and giggles, but no BRD pretty much stopped that attempt cold. We had to firefly out before it was even 80%.

[blowfin]

Just a quick question to those of you who have attempted to clear the 4F single gears a few times.

I'm just wondering about aggro conditions for the middle room full of triple gears and the rampart. Wiki seems to have them listed as aggroing magic only however from experience and what people have read they seem to aggro sight too. What I'm really wondering is if they are they also true sight as we're going to need to skip that middle room. I seem to remember trying to run through that room with sneak and invisible up only to get smashed on the way through, I think one of our THF's had the same experience a couple of weeks ago. Just wanting someone to confirm this or otherwise.

With any luck we should be able to take down our first LBC next week. Proposed setup will hopefully be
PLD/NIN, NIN/WAR, DRK, SAM, BRD, RDM, WHM, BLM, BLM, RNG, RNG

There's the possibility that we might have an extra THF and RNG. From what I've been reading we shouldn't have too many problems, has anyone got any thoughts on the setup? If neccesary we can swap a RDM in place of the DRK or a BLM, my only concern then is that it's going to take us a fair while to get to the 5th floor without the DRK killing on the way up.

[aurik]

I thought it was pretty well known: gears are true-sight.

[blowfin]

Cool thanks, as I said, it's been suspected.

It's just that Wiki doesn't acknowledge it and in 14 pages of this thread it's not really mentioned.

[blowfin]

Regarding the 2nd Floor Flans, this is something that might save a few minutes. I can verify that you can damage them with both magic and melee and keep the spikes up. I was using Tier I nukes on the flan weak to magic in our run yesterday for ~300 damage as a BLM with gimped INT and only really missing my body piece in regards to equip slots, next time I'll try on all of the flans but I'm not quite brave enough to try any higher tier nukes. I'd say it's more of an upper damage limit which causes the spikes to go down rather than a certain type of damage.

[Aemora]

In my experience, if anyone casts Magic on the flan before it dies, I tell everyone to get off the flan and let that one person die from their shire stupidity.

Spikes come back then about 10 seconds after their death.

[blowfin]

In my experience, if anyone casts Magic on the flan before it dies, I tell everyone to get off the flan and let that one person die from their shire stupidity.

Spikes come back then about 10 seconds after their death.

Gee, sounds like fun :D

[Rocl]

In my experience, if anyone casts Magic on the flan before it dies, I tell everyone to get off the flan and let that one person die from their shire stupidity.

Spikes come back then about 10 seconds after their death.

Shire? The place from Lord of the Rings?

It's sheer