Salvage - Arrapago Remnants - thread 2

[Suiram]

We toyed around with the 2 repopped ramparts a bit today on 6th floor. It seems they just continue to call in Mandys and Sapplings without a limit. Guessed it might be for Status Cell farm. Next run ima try to convince ppl to let the room fill up with mandys till we all die!

There's 3 of each in the .dats meaning 3 max up at a given time. Maybe the missing QQTH are lottery spawn ala Bhaflau? lol

[Julian]

We toyed around with the 2 repopped ramparts a bit today on 6th floor. It seems they just continue to call in Mandys and Sapplings without a limit. Guessed it might be for Status Cell farm. Next run ima try to convince ppl to let the room fill up with mandys till we all die!

Wednesday we cleared the zone with MNK MNK THF BRD RDM WHM. I subbed /DRK on whm to stun and we killed the Flayer getting crown.

Adding on to this, we tried the other ying/yang idea.

Killed the first 2 ramparts+their 1 treant reinforcements all at the same time, nothing.

The other 2 ramparts that popped kept popping mandys and sapplings nonstop. After like 5 mandys one of them dropped a chest with some potions in it (might mean something <.<) It popped another mandy after the chest one.

[Francisco II]

Do the Ramparts on Floor 4 also drop Radiatus cells?

And do the other gears and crabs in the room link to them if pulled?

(Looking to get TH4 for the 4th floor QQTH and Psycheflayer)...

[Wizerd]

Do the Ramparts on Floor 4 also drop Radiatus cells?

And do the other gears and crabs in the room link to them if pulled?

(Looking to get TH4 for the 4th floor QQTH and Psycheflayer)...

Just pull 1-2 gears until there's a safe pull. Also, pull the one on the right if you do North path.. I don't think it can spawn the Morbol (?). I've had the Morbol mob from the left one and I noticed today that the Reinforcement funguar spawned from the right hand one.

South is the same idea without the Morbol. In short, I think the gears do link to Ramparts but the reinfrocements don't.

[Francisco II]

Do the southern ramparts actually call reinforcements?

[Wizerd]

Do the southern ramparts actually call reinforcements?

Probably do if you kill the already spawned ones in the room.

[Francisco II]

I didn't know those already spawned crabs were considered reinforcements... >.>;

[Wizerd]

I didn't know those already spawned crabs were considered reinforcements... >.>;

They're not already spawned when you port up, the Rampart uses Reinforcements every minute or so until its maxed out (in this case just the two).

[Not Kuno]

Would be interesting to know just for the sake of knowing, but the boss is weak enough that it probably isn't necessary lol. TBH, I wouldn't be surprised if this boss gets soloed or duoed one day. As long as you keep shadows up and have +movement speed, even his TP moves don't do shit.

Well it might be easy for you but I would like to have him weakened if possible. :3

[Not Kuno]

1f rampart did nothing noticable to the boss. Did not kill cactaur so no idea if that has any importance to nerfing the boss. Next attempt with lots of time we will do the 3 ramparts on 5f.

[Odog]

finally our first 35 piece... killed all 4 chariots and many 35 piece runs before we got anything...


http://i70.photobucket.com/albums/i8...2-28-02-70.jpg

I hope the flood gates will open for us now

[Francisco II]

Two Chariot kills, 0 drops.... hoping we'll see something soon...

Does anyone have a chronicle of their level 35 drops, and lack thereof? I'd like to see some long term results.

[Lordwafik]

Two Chariot kills, 0 drops.... hoping we'll see something soon...

Does anyone have a chronicle of their level 35 drops, and lack thereof? I'd like to see some long term results.

http://aurik-ffxi.livejournal.com/39684.html#cutid1

[Francisco II]

Two Chariot kills, 0 drops.... hoping we'll see something soon...

Does anyone have a chronicle of their level 35 drops, and lack thereof? I'd like to see some long term results.

http://aurik-ffxi.livejournal.com/39684.html#cutid1

Thanks - those actually have me a little more optimistic.

The way I worked out lotting, everyone one gets to pick one piece per path (path meaning LBC's 25s = Arrapago's 35s = Silver Seas 15s) - once we finish off a path, we move on to the next one. Of course, things will be mixed up a little too, if we finish off Arrapago's Archaic Chariot, we'd have that much more time to go after the boss, etc... We need four Morrigan Bodies, and only one Morrigan Crown - which I guess is a good thing. QQTH takes nothing to kill, and both Psycheflayer and Citadel Chelonian are pains in the ass... (not looking forward to chasing Hikazu Hara-ate).

[Francisco II]

I learned something very important tonight.

Never, ever, ever... EVER... attempt Arrapago without TH3.

Fucking bullshit...

[Wizerd]

I learned something very important tonight.

Never, ever, ever... EVER... attempt Arrapago without TH3.

Fucking bullshit...

TH2 is just fine if you can't get a weapon for your THF but I would never go without a THF at least. I only do so on one occasion which is when I trio the chariot with MNK BRD RDM, in which case we get about 80min to farm cells if we need it before going to the chariot. Plenty of time to kill enough mobs to offset the drop rate.

[divisortheory]

I learned something very important tonight.

Never, ever, ever... EVER... attempt Arrapago without TH3.

Fucking bullshit...

Unlearn it real quick, or you'll be disappointed as fuck when the same thing happens and you've got TH4.

[Francisco II]

I learned something very important tonight.

Never, ever, ever... EVER... attempt Arrapago without TH3.

Fucking bullshit...

Unlearn it real quick, or you'll be disappointed as fuck when the same thing happens and you've got TH4.

I'm talking cell drop rates, not 15/25/35equipment - that's gonna suck regardless.

Our THF has TH4 (but we usually don't get any Hand Cells); and cell drop rates are still usually very low.

But last night, they were kind of non-existent.

All of floor one, we got 0 weapons, 2 HP, 1 magic, 1 ability. Ported up, killed two Lamia - got nothing. We killed the QQA for cells, dropped nothing (and I had thought it was a guarentee).

Got nothing on floor 3. One SJ from six gears on Floor 4. Nearly wiped to the Psycheflayer NM, killed the QQTH and just got the hell out.

[Arthars]

that prob is the worst luck ever i guess

well but u can be happy because the next few 10 or so runs wont be like this unless u really have no THF ^^

[Kaylia]

[quote=Francisco II]

I learned something very important tonight.
Never, ever, ever... EVER... attempt Arrapago without TH3.
Fucking bullshit...

Unlearn it real quick, or you'll be disappointed as fuck when the same thing happens and you've got TH4.

I'm talking cell drop rates, not 15/25/35equipment - that's gonna suck regardless.[/quote:72610]
I'm almost certain he was also talking about cell drop rate. I had those shitty night with thief as well (posted it 2 pages ago, was almost identical to you). That said, thieves probably help to reduce the chance it happens, I just don't think it offer a magical solution ..this zone is just bogus.

Anyone noticed a pattern between magic cell and Ja cell? One is usually raining for us, while the other is extremly rare, while they are both 50% other day. It's probably just the zone making me paranoid after 3 billions shitty zone tho.

In other news, tanking bhoot and 5th floor chariot with 2war and a single hp cells is not fun (1/20 fucking bone, none in first chest). Chariot went down fast, but it's kinda scary.