3rd Floor Dormant Rampart for Zebra Zachary. How?

[Wizerd]

How do 6 people die to Zebra Zachary? <_<

[Lordwafik]

How do 6 people die to Zebra Zachary? <_<

Probably people not paying attention, or taking it half assed, thinking that the colibris hit as hard as the chigoes/bees, and instead getting overwhelmed by 5 birdies and an angry Cockatrice.

[Wizerd]

How do 6 people die to Zebra Zachary? <_<

Probably people not paying attention, or taking it half assed, thinking that the colibris hit as hard as the chigoes/bees, and instead getting overwhelmed by 5 birdies and an angry Cockatrice.

But I only see 3 Colibri on the screenshot, and not a lot of room behind the cockatrice for more to be.

[Naver]

How do 6 people die to Zebra Zachary? <_<

Probably people not paying attention, or taking it half assed, thinking that the colibris hit as hard as the chigoes/bees, and instead getting overwhelmed by 5 birdies and an angry Cockatrice.

This ^

Plus half of us didnt have HP cells and that was our first time even popping the rampart. Killed ZZ afterwards and no drop. One thing I noticed though is that they don't aggro after you wipe.

[Lordwafik]

Nice to know, even though I can't imagine ever wiping, lol. Their behaviour is "Link" rather than "Aggro" i guess.

[Naver]

Since I'm relatively new to the Bhaflau ramparts, Do they have random hate on the PT that engages it? If the answer is yes, couldn't you have one person disband and enfeeble, voke, w/e the rampart then have them join the party again so that person will attract sole attention of the mobs that spawn from the rampart? Sort of like how you take 1 PLD 5 BLMs to Diabolos Prime, once inside the BC have the PLD disband and get drawn-in and hold hate, then reinvite the PLD to the party so the BLMs can nuke from the ledge up top.

Wipes happen, it's part of the learning process, I can guarantee it won't happen again!

[Naver]

How do 6 people die to Zebra Zachary? <_<

Probably people not paying attention, or taking it half assed, thinking that the colibris hit as hard as the chigoes/bees, and instead getting overwhelmed by 5 birdies and an angry Cockatrice.

But I only see 3 Colibri on the screenshot, and not a lot of room behind the cockatrice for more to be.

We were doing alright until our BLM died, couldn't kill the birds fast enough before sleepga effect wore off. All 5 were up, we underestimated their power level (was obviously over 9000) then we got suprise buttsex from ZZ.

[Kerberoz]

How do 6 people die to Zebra Zachary? <_<

Probably people not paying attention, or taking it half assed, thinking that the colibris hit as hard as the chigoes/bees, and instead getting overwhelmed by 5 birdies and an angry Cockatrice.

But I only see 3 Colibri on the screenshot, and not a lot of room behind the cockatrice for more to be.

We were doing alright until our BLM died, couldn't kill the birds fast enough before sleepga effect wore off. All 5 were up, we underestimated their power level (was obviously over 9000) then we got suprise buttsex from ZZ.

The BLM didn't have sub/mnd unlocked or what?

Unrelated tip for popping 3f and 4f: make sure your *best* puller gets ranged, regardless of their current job. If they're on a mage job, have them buy a lamiabane or pebbles or something. I've seen people asked to pull simply because they were on THF etc and screw up way too many times.

[Naver]

If I'm remembering right, it was a run where we wanted to try and pop all the Ramparts just to see if we could do it. 1st floor went smooth as to be expected, 2nd floor the same. Only difference was we ignored getting stat cells because we fully expended the ramparts from 100-15% so we lost a lot of time. We weren't really aiming for boss so I made the foolish mistake of skipping stats. By the time we hit 3rd floor I believe a couple people didn't have HP cells, also not to mention the BLM died to a bad Rail Cannon right as we were getting the gears on third floor to a low percentage, so he was already weakend entering the rampart. Just a few mistakes here and there that we didn't know about due to lack of experience with the 3rd floor rampart. We ended up killing ZZ anyways after we raised up and waiting for weakness to wear off. Of course no drop and run ended there rather promptly.

On a side note though, 4th floor rampart is a pain to pop due to waiting for links to seperate, yet it definitely makes the boss easier. Wish I could've seen the Peryton though, it's the only NM I haven't seen yet in Bhaflau.

[Scion]

Since this is a specific post for the 3F rampart and ZZ, I will post here instead of the Bhaf Rem pt2 thread. My group has not seen ONE, yes you've read the right not even one ZZ pop ever. That is just ridiculous, I would understand if we haven't gotten drops from it but we've never even seen the damn NM. Does anyone have any suggestions or theories to go behind what pops ZZ from the 3F rampart?

On a side note, I do have a small theory. I've noticed that of all the pics I've seen with ZZ in it from the Bhaf thread, there are almost always 4+ colibris out besides ZZ... I am wondering if having a full amount of colibri spawn is needed for ZZ to pop. Could someone test this theory out? Does the day or time getting to the 3F ramp have anything to do with it's spawn conditions?

Thanks for your time.

[Rafike]

How many times have you popped the Rampart? Not seeing any NMs really sucks, but isn't that rare of an occurrence at least in my experience.

[Drex]

We've had ZZ pop as first mob from rampart (and I've heard of other groups getting it first mob, too), so no, there's no minimum number of colibri required to be out. It's just random, as far as I know.

Some groups don't get gate widow, some groups don't get lolbee, some groups don't get ZZ, some groups don't get peryton. Some just get fucked on them all =P

[Scion]

probably popped the rampart like more than 15 times... and no NM to show for it....

[Xanthe]

My group has not seen ONE, yes you've read the right not even one ZZ pop ever.

Welcome to my personal hell. 14/15 for life!

[Darkmoon]

Just like our kirins with no w.legs every, but spammed with n & d body. We get tons of Gate Widows, and ZZs, but no bees.

personaly I just /sh at the Rampart and call it names, works well on 1st floor. We also finaly got some Bees to pop when we had some members tell perverse jokes, every time they started a new one, we got a bee pop... (4 in a row).

So just find your voodoo!

[Bakthi]

Our last Bhaflau run popped 5x ZZ with no drop. Personally, I think that's worse than not popping them at all >.> And no, we try to leave out as few colibri as possible, because they're annoying.

Our latest LS meme is Tachi: Koki to enhance Treasure Hunter, but since you can't WS ramparts, we're reduced to dancing at them.

[Ianpier]

We haven't seen a ZZ pop either, and Widow is so annoying, we get at least 1 pop almost every time we go for that RR, but yet to drop anything.