Almighty Apkallu

[Silenus]

this cross-server relay thing is kinda cracking me up. here's the response to my questions:

Did you have any apkallu hate beforehand?
I didn't. I don't know for sure whether or not Daimen did, but I doubt it since it was very shortly after the expansion had come out. Like, hadn't even been a week yet.

Did it pop right at the start of the voyage?
Nope, it hopped over the edge of the ship [as soon as he walked out on deck].

Did you have any ToAU quests active?
None that I'm aware of.

Do you think it resulted from the corsair quest?
We had already finished the flag quest, we were just buying dice in Nashmau.

[Khamsin]

Maybe it pops once every 100 rl days and since there are so many server maintenances thats why its never up.

Maybe it's invisible, too.

It's Fazasher Death Apkallu.

[Pergo]

Might sound retarded, but maybe there needs to be a certain amount of people on the boat to spawn it? That report says on the way back from the corsair quest, back then an asston of people were riding the boat(s) at the same time, as no one had IS or runic portals. Could be nothing though.

i actually like this idea... also, i'm not sure if the entire "besieged/while AC is lost" theory comes from the lying dude, but it would make sense due to people riding boats since candescence is missing.

[Silenus]

Might sound retarded, but maybe there needs to be a certain amount of people on the boat to spawn it? That report says on the way back from the corsair quest, back then an asston of people were riding the boat(s) at the same time, as no one had IS or runic portals. Could be nothing though.

i actually like this idea... also, i'm not sure if the entire "besieged/while AC is lost" theory comes from the lying dude, but it would make sense due to people riding boats since candescence is missing.

interesting

[Sagacious Sundi]

Might sound retarded, but maybe there needs to be a certain amount of people on the boat to spawn it? That report says on the way back from the corsair quest, back then an asston of people were riding the boat(s) at the same time, as no one had IS or runic portals. Could be nothing though.

That's also way back when there was no Almighty Apkallu.

EDIT: I like the idea that he's Proteus's counterpart, since they're both monks (I would imagine) and they both have 2 drops (assuming AA drops Birdman + Skanda). He could have a simple pop condition. Don't say "but we wudda seen it by now" since how much people besides like Pergo are even riding the Nash>Zahbi route? >_>

[Silenus]

Might sound retarded, but maybe there needs to be a certain amount of people on the boat to spawn it? That report says on the way back from the corsair quest, back then an asston of people were riding the boat(s) at the same time, as no one had IS or runic portals. Could be nothing though.

That's also way back when there was no Almighty Apkallu.

interestinger

[Hitoru]

I'm fairly confident this NM really is just the opposite of Proteus. No one really ever rides the boat from Nashmau back to Whitegate since there are Nomad moogles and most of us use warp. Not seeing it a lot could really just be a result of the above.

I've been riding the boat for a bit now just watching pops and etc; haven't seen him at all, but then again I have Proteus ToD from getting my sword and it's nowhere near the current time. I'd check tomorrow, but I have work so I'm kinda SOL. I'll check back if something interesting happens

[Pergo]

whats the respawn of proteus?

as much as i'd like to believe this, its been 16 months, i've taken the boat more than before this week. I'm sure over this time period, alot of people randomly tried popping it, including the japanese. I sometimes see jp taking the boat back.

I mean if theres some random chance that i've missed the window every single time i've been on the boat(along with everyone else), then wow.

[Hitoru]

He's 21-24, and I see him every so often. That boat's a much more traveled route, so it's normal for him to be seen more often. Obviously, none of us KNOW how AA pops(or doesn't), but I'm going to try the easy method and see what happens.

[fantasticdan]

He's 21-24, and I see him every so often. That boat's a much more traveled route, so it's normal for him to be seen more often. Obviously, none of us KNOW how AA pops(or doesn't), but I'm going to try the easy method and see what happens.

I've seen him up many times in the same couple hours, unless he can keep spawning until somebody kills him?

[barber2006]

If he is the 'opposite' of Proteus, is it possible they have a pop condition similar to leech king/argus? I don't know exactly what that would entail, but its not unthinkable. Following this theme, maybe AA only spawns on the N-->A boat when Proteus is being fought/killed on the A--->N boat. Just brainstorming.

[Seigfried Of Pandy]

Maybe it pops once every 100 rl days and since there are so many server maintenances thats why its never up.

Maybe it's invisible, too.

It's Fazasher Death Apkallu.

what was the name of that mythical NM that supposdly popped like once a year and dropped some shield in romeave i think

[Daimen-G]

I'm the friend Kaku is referring to and I can safely say that shit never happened. \:D/

Edit: and his BST gear sucks

Editedit: And he hasn't even leveled COR nor did we ever go buy dice, my COR is still level 1.

ATTENTION WHORE!

[Khamsin]

Maybe it pops once every 100 rl days and since there are so many server maintenances thats why its never up.

Maybe it's invisible, too.

It's Fazasher Death Apkallu.

what was the name of that mythical NM that supposdly popped like once a year and dropped some shield in romeave i think

Fazasher Death Weapon.

Was supposed to be some invisible weapon NM in Ro'Maeve, and people actually believed it for a while. lol

[Mokou]

I used ArtMoney (http://www.artmoney.ru/) to check memory and see if it had popped at least once since maintenance. Apparently it's popped at least once in the last week on Bismarck, but not on Unicorn (these are the only servers I can check). This pretty much rules out the possibility that it's a timed spawn. My guess is that it's fished up somehow, or it works like Taisaijin/Rose Garden.

[KimimaroKun]

All this speculation over 1 stupid little bird. It really is exciting in my opinion, not knowing something and trying to figure it out. Like this NM. In my opinion, square enix should make more NM's like this, more mystery to the game. It's fun. Infact, they should make like, 1 king of all mysterious NM's, make it really super hard to kill, to where no one knows to how kill it and everyone think's it's really tough, when infact it's stupidly easy to kill, but people aren't sure how to unlock it. Then one day people could figure it out and find out it's easier to farm than Kirin, that there was just a trick too it. But knowing the FFXI player base, all people would do is whine and ask for it to be nerfed. They wouldn't try far out idea's because everyone in this game is a fucking conformist anymore. Well, at least nothing like that is in the game, it could cause some serious problems.

Anyways... Has anyone thought this might be a NPC for a quest not yet added? Or a quest we haven't figured out? This could very possibly be a NPC and not a monster at all. But if it is a Monster the more i think about it, I agree with the post above. It must be like Taisaijin or Rose Garden.

[Maxxthepenguin]

All this speculation over 1 stupid little bird. It really is exciting in my opinion, not knowing something and trying to figure it out. Like this NM. In my opinion, square enix should make more NM's like this, more mystery to the game. It's fun. Infact, they should make like, 1 king of all mysterious NM's, make it really super hard to kill, to where no one knows to how kill it and everyone think's it's really tough, when infact it's stupidly easy to kill, but people aren't sure how to unlock it. Then one day people could figure it out and find out it's easier to farm than Kirin, that there was just a trick too it. But knowing the FFXI player base, all people would do is whine and ask for it to be nerfed. They wouldn't try far out idea's because everyone in this game is a fucking conformist anymore. Well, at least nothing like that is in the game, it could cause some serious problems.

=D>

[Pergo]

All this speculation over 1 stupid little bird. It really is exciting in my opinion, not knowing something and trying to figure it out. Like this NM. In my opinion, square enix should make more NM's like this, more mystery to the game. It's fun. Infact, they should make like, 1 king of all mysterious NM's, make it really super hard to kill, to where no one knows to how kill it and everyone think's it's really tough, when infact it's stupidly easy to kill, but people aren't sure how to unlock it. Then one day people could figure it out and find out it's easier to farm than Kirin, that there was just a trick too it. But knowing the FFXI player base, all people would do is whine and ask for it to be nerfed. They wouldn't try far out idea's because everyone in this game is a fucking conformist anymore. Well, at least nothing like that is in the game, it could cause some serious problems.

Anyways... Has anyone thought this might be a NPC for a quest not yet added? Or a quest we haven't figured out? This could very possibly be a NPC and not a monster at all. But if it is a Monster the more i think about it, I agree with the post above. It must be like Taisaijin or Rose Garden.

npc would be plausible, but would not explain the drops that seem to fit all too well. I double and triple checked all quests and npcs in nashmau and aht'urhgan. and I really doubt its an npc like rose garden.... i really do believe that they left that concept back with cop.

ps: mokou i sent you a pm.

[Pendas]

All this speculation over 1 stupid little bird. It really is exciting in my opinion, not knowing something and trying to figure it out. Like this NM. In my opinion, square enix should make more NM's like this, more mystery to the game. It's fun. Infact, they should make like, 1 king of all mysterious NM's, make it really super hard to kill, to where no one knows to how kill it and everyone think's it's really tough, when infact it's stupidly easy to kill, but people aren't sure how to unlock it. Then one day people could figure it out and find out it's easier to farm than Kirin, that there was just a trick too it. But knowing the FFXI player base, all people would do is whine and ask for it to be nerfed. They wouldn't try far out idea's because everyone in this game is a fucking conformist anymore. Well, at least nothing like that is in the game, it could cause some serious problems.

Sounds like you're referring to Abso.... Holy shit is that Cait Sith!?

[Priran]

All this speculation over 1 stupid little bird. It really is exciting in my opinion, not knowing something and trying to figure it out. Like this NM. In my opinion, square enix should make more NM's like this, more mystery to the game. It's fun. Infact, they should make like, 1 king of all mysterious NM's, make it really super hard to kill, to where no one knows to how kill it and everyone think's it's really tough, when infact it's stupidly easy to kill, but people aren't sure how to unlock it. Then one day people could figure it out and find out it's easier to farm than Kirin, that there was just a trick too it. But knowing the FFXI player base, all people would do is whine and ask for it to be nerfed. They wouldn't try far out idea's because everyone in this game is a fucking conformist anymore. Well, at least nothing like that is in the game, it could cause some serious problems.

sounds like someone woke up on the wrong side of the ebon panel.

you sound like an idiot saying that people refuse to test different theories on AV. It's been tested to hell and back, and every time someone found something that worked, SE patched it and made it not work. everyone is a conformist? if your idea of nonconforming means you regurgitate the same fucking stupid theories that have been tried over and over and get sore in the ass when someone calls you fucking retarded, then we'd all be better off if people conformed.