New ToAU NMs (Now with 100% more Pandemonium!) pg77

[Cream Soda]

hi sorry for a kinda dumb question, when taking pictures,
does the mob your taking a picture of have to be in a toau area?
right now is ice elementals,
Xarcabard lv48 - 50
or
Arrapago Reef lv80 xarc would just be more conveinient, thanks.

Nope, they can be from anywhere, but you'll never find the NPC ask for a mob that CAN'T be found in ToAU areas.

While you can get them from the ones in Xarc, I've found the higher lv ones to always give more points.

[ringthree]

I'd use Fire / Vulcan's over that; unlike a job like WAR where extra TP for RR or Rampage is largely a waste of DoT, on a number of tougher mobs, firing off Sidewinder at 100 TP is potluck rendering X-hit builds less useful. If you live at the Nyzul Isle bird camp, go for it.

huh

Sidewinder/Slugshot has a negative accuracy modifier on it, and more TP increases it's accuracy. A lot of RNG like to save to 150 TP before using that WS.

Wearing this staff doesnt mean you have to WS at 100%............ and shit, you'd get 150 TP faster with the Store TP, btw I have RNG 75

If you have RNG at 75, then why make a stupid "huh" comment when the original comment was quite obvious in their response to the notion of a 4-hit build. Store TP isn't going to make or break any accuracy difference if you are going above 100 TP anyway. In fact, Store TP becomes much less of a factor if you are going to take additional shots after 100 TP.

[Seeko]

I went to trade in a friends chigre item that they gave me to unlock the t2's after chigre again so I could solo the marid for my feet (damn you not dropping what i actually want ~.~), however, the old dude wouldnt accept my Chigre drop to unlock the t2s of that path again. Anyone else had something similar happening? Seems a bit of a fucker you cant unlock higher tiers using a specific trigger more than once. Also, I had already used my marid seal to kill a t3.

Realize this is from a couple pages back, but it hadn't been addressed.

The reason why turning in a Chigre didn't allow you to access the Marid fight is that they are in 2 seperate "paths." There have been a plethora of visios made for this already, but it comes down to the color of the seal on your key item. A Chigre will give you a "Pine Green Seal," While the Marid fight requires a "Maroon Seal." If he wouldn't accept it at all, I would assume it was because you already had a "Pine Green Seal" in your possession.

[Jodwahh]

Realised what I was doing wrong lol, one of my friends had given me a lil apkallu drop and I'd traded that in before hand.
Also, ty to the dude at the top of the page for dispelling my fears about passing trigs around, should be popping a couple of T4s this weekend now

[hexagram23]

Ancient Torque = Peacock Charm +1

I wouldn't mind it.

Nor would I; however, I would rather it dropped from a T3 or T4 mob leaving more spots open in the pool for awesomeness. Not that ridiculous of an idea considering Aurum Sabatons drop from two T3 mobs and are pretty damn nasty. Perhaps it's a random drop from Sandworm dreamland. The shield from KA makes it seem possible due to its randomness.

This update is killing my productivity at work, I can't wait to get out of here and take pictures of elementals.

They do? I know about the Gears, where else do they drop?

[Flippant]

Ancient Torque = Peacock Charm +1

I wouldn't mind it.

Nor would I; however, I would rather it dropped from a T3 or T4 mob leaving more spots open in the pool for awesomeness. Not that ridiculous of an idea considering Aurum Sabatons drop from two T3 mobs and are pretty damn nasty. Perhaps it's a random drop from Sandworm dreamland. The shield from KA makes it seem possible due to its randomness.

This update is killing my productivity at work, I can't wait to get out of here and take pictures of elementals.

They do? I know about the Gears, where else do they drop?

Achamoth.

[Gwynplaine]

I'm extremely curious to find out where the heck Pandemonium Warden is spawned.

[Indalecia]

I'd almost think Halzam testing grounds...didnt look for a ??? there last time. Maybe trade it too the door?

[Wulfgang]

May be hidden in the DAT mining thread, is there an image of Pand. Warden floating around here somewhere? Insert obligatory "you fail at searching" comment.

[Sagacious Sundi]

I believe Gwynplaine and someone else posted earlier that it spawns in Aydeewa, but he was wondering where in Aydeewa it spawns.

@Wulfgang: It is believed that the Pandy Warden is a red dvergr. It's on page 4 of the .dat mining thread IIRC.

[Pirian]

mahjlaef the paintorn pops at H-7 on Khimera island

http://i254.photobucket.com/albums/h...613_170127.png

10 people: PLD/NIN, RDM/WHMx3, THF/NIN, WAR/NIN, BLMx2, COR/NIN, SMN

30 min fight or so. Really, if you have the stuns he's easier to handle with shields up because it doesn't use TP attacks. Overall it was a fun fight ^^. Toughest part was pulling w/o linking everything in zone

[Spira]

Its supposedly in Aydeewa Subterrane.. but I took a small tour of that place months back when I was bored and if mobs havent moved around there really arent many suitable places where one can pop a super NM to kill there.. cos theres so little space and all the bigger rooms are filled with mobs..

however, I do remember doing a quest (i think its the aydeewa map quest) that involves going deep into the zone and checking a ???. The ??? was like on short flight of steps leading to one of those small towers in there. Back when I did the quest I thought that the spot seemed more like an NM pop position than a map quest...

I'll go do a check of the area tomorrow and see if i find anything. Someone should also check out the dats for the stuff Sanraku says cos im sure he will mention something about it..
when you buy salt for islets, he jokes about something being faster than you can say 'Pandemonium Warden'...

btw, this is minor details but

Sicklemoon Salt is used for Tinnin (Hydra) islet..
Silver Sea Salt for the Cerb NM
Cyan Deep Salt for khim...
all temp key items.. 500 zeni and good for 1 use only.
Sanraku mentions that there are times when you wont be able to access the islets.. so im assuming that the islets are like Shijin islands.. when the NM is up, no more people can enter

[Jodwahh]

Anyone know if more than 18 people can be on the island at one time for when you pop it?

[Radec]

Anyone know if more than 18 people can be on the island at one time for when you pop it?

Yes, took 20-some into Tyger last night. (Aurum body, no r/e)

[Sagacious Sundi]

By the way, I had a theory about grips: Maybe not all grips can drop from every T3 NM? Maybe it's like this:
-Only light and dark drop from every T3 ZNM.
-The other 6 grips each appear on 3 different NMs. (6 X 3 = 18)
-Each T3 ZNM drops 2 non-light/dark grips. (18/9 = 2)

I haven't noticed anything that contradicts the idea, so I decided to post it after seeing Mahjlaef drop yet another fire and thunder grip.

[Tarnak]

So is it confirmed Tier 4 (khimaira, cerberus, hydra) pops are broken yet?

[Max™]

Pops, no.

Pande pops? Yeah, borked.

Unless they intended us to have 100% drop pop items until the ZHNM's and have to kill them numerous times to get a pande pop.

[Flippant]

Bah okay...so I posted about popping Experimental Lamia and it summoning three Lamia (I'm told two Merrow Kabukidancers and one Merrow Shadowdancer). I was dead at the time, so I thought maybe alliance was mistaken and accidentally got the lamia that the THF sac'd for me to pop NM, but they're 100% sure it was summoned. Can the people who've popped Experimental Lamia tell me anything more about this or the fight itself? I don't want to pop it and kill everyone again.

[Tarnak]

oh i know the pops to get hnms are working just wondering if anyone confirmed if the hnm ra/ex drops are confirmed being broken or not a gm refused to answer.

[Toksyuryel]

oh i know the pops to get hnms are working just wondering if anyone confirmed if the hnm ra/ex drops are confirmed being broken or not a gm refused to answer.

Someone earlier in the thread claimed a GM said they were bugged, but there were no pics so take that as you will.