September Version Update Preview: Part Two (09/03/2008)

[Toth]

How many days beforehand do they usually release the maintenance info? I had a hunch we'd get the info today but don't see any news @ POL..

Maintenance is usually announced Friday or Sat afternoon if it's on a Monday.

[Loziel]

Fanatics drinks are for pussies. My group is Nin Drg Thf Brd Whm Blm. We chew through 100 bosses and usually get about 7 floors per run, they dont seem any more buffed apart from having the extra move and i think Hydras regen seems a little higher
If your saving points for Mythic like myself, Body boost and monarchs are all you need to buy. You can get a few other nice things from chests on the way but are not needed. I used to get champions drink incase of Hydra but quickly realised that was a waste of points. The difference between 100 bosses and the lower counterparts is minimal as long as your stunner knows what to look out for.

[wintersquall]

body boosts are for pussies. fanatics ftw. we're starting runs for points soon, and that's the only drink i'll be getting for bosses period.

pointing out that's it's a matter of preference =P

you're right about the stunner, but my group doesn't even have one and we have no problems. (usually sam sam thf drg whm brd, or something similar)

[Kaylia]

Fanatics drinks are for pussies. My group is Nin Drg Thf Brd Whm Blm. We chew through 100 bosses and usually get about 7 floors per run, they dont seem any more buffed apart from having the extra move and i think Hydras regen seems a little higher
If your saving points for Mythic like myself, Body boost and monarchs are all you need to buy. You can get a few other nice things from chests on the way but are not needed. I used to get champions drink incase of Hydra but quickly realised that was a waste of points. The difference between 100 bosses and the lower counterparts is minimal as long as your stunner knows what to look out for.

Or people who like to be efficient. We often complete 10 floors (30-40% of the times), and when there is a boss, you want it to die asap. We only bring 1 healer in there, and aoe/ws can be pretty deadly if you're not careful. I'm also saving for Nyzul relic, and I don't think think a 200 points every 2-3 runs is going to hurt me.

And wtf@ your logic. 2x200points item is better than a single fanatics (which also happen to be 200 points)? 60sec is all you need to kill those NM with 2h, and an additional 30-45sec without.

[Siralin]

Question for people who have allowed their discs to wipe, is it just "a" head piece will be guaranteed or the head piece equippable by the job of the person who warped to 96? For example, a white mage warps up and does not warp out before boss is killed, is goliard hat going to drop? Or just any of the 3?

Cause if it can be controlled like that then I know a few people who are going to be wiping their discs in a real hurry.

The job of the person wiping their disc has no effect on the hat that drops. One of our disc recently wiped on accident. (the disc that could have got me Askar) He was DRG and we got a denali bonnet. Since I was the only other disc @96 I was going to have to wait till we climbed back up again to get a hat...Yay for this update.

[Kenai]

I love this update ... too bad the lazy people in my static just decided to stop gathering together. >< If I had any sort of pull at all I'd cattle prod all of them to get my shit!

Wish we would have taken up my disc, at least that way if the group doesn't go I can still organize frigging pick up runs, getting sick of sitting on 4 tags every weekend wondering if we're fucking going.

I welcome this update, but I'm frustrated as hell at people.

QFT. I went through HELL setting it up, with weeks of asking on drops, getting lists and synching schedules to work... and we only made it to Floor 25 before it broke. Only myself and two other people of the 6 showed up consistently and one of those 3 has quit since then. This was also during the summer when I was out of classes and had more free time to *attempt* to organize this stuff too...ugh.

I really hope I can find a decent group after the update. If I could even make it to Floor 100 once I'd be set on almost everything, could always assist other people for extra tokens and such, or find a quick group to run up to Floor 100 sometime. I'm currently trying to finish Captain and also in a Salvage group though...I wonder if I'll have time for it all...

LFG on Unicorn, PST.

[Loziel]

Or people who like to be efficient. We often complete 10 floors (30-40% of the times), and when there is a boss, you want it to die asap. We only bring 1 healer in there, and aoe/ws can be pretty deadly if you're not careful. I'm also saving for Nyzul relic, and I don't think think a 200 points every 2-3 runs is going to hurt me.

And wtf@ your logic. 2x200points item is better than a single fanatics (which also happen to be 200 points)? 60sec is all you need to kill those NM with 2h, and an additional 30-45sec without.

Nin Drg Thf Brd Blm Whm

Because these 2hrs apart from SV are so awesome >_> not everyone has the luxury of sam war drk mnk combinations, especially over 4 runs

[Shinryusan]

The job of the person wiping their disc has no effect on the hat that drops. One of our disc recently wiped on accident. (the disc that could have got me Askar) He was DRG and we got a denali bonnet. Since I was the only other disc @96 I was going to have to wait till we climbed back up again to get a hat...Yay for this update.

I had to make an account just for this.

Q_ MUTHAFUCKIN _Q, SIRA.

That is all.

[Massimo]

Good thing you signed up to contribute with something so important as that.

[Seraph]

I had to make an account just for this.

Q_ MUTHAFUCKIN _Q, SIRA.

That is all.

Wow. That is one big muthafuckin nose for that smiley face.

[Conker]

Nin Drg Thf Brd Blm Whm

Because these 2hrs apart from SV are so awesome >_> not everyone has the luxury of sam war drk mnk combinations, especially over 4 runs

Blm is pretty useless in nyzul why dont you kick him or make him level somthing diffrent

[Tempyst]

Yeah how dare he play with his friends

[Guitarman]

Blm is pretty useless in nyzul why dont you kick him or make him level somthing diffrent

Actually it's pretty useful. We go with NIN DRK DRG WAR WHM BLM and wreck the place. BLM is great to have around, seeing how often you get "kill all puddings" floors and random slimes.

[Keyln]

The one thing I've learned in Nyzule Isle is that the lack of magic damage can spell an end to the run as quickly as a lack of melee damage.

[Tempyst]

Though the lack of haste can suck we've been bringing a SCH as our main healer, when puddings roll around it really rocks

Enspellga can be pretty sweet too

[Nattack]

Blm is pretty useless in nyzul why dont you kick him or make him level somthing diffrent

My problem with salvage, I have nothing useful and i dont like any of the 'prime jobs' people like to bring. Nazis.

that and i never play at a time anyone i know does salvage...

[Kaylia]

Nin Drg Thf Brd Blm Whm

Because these 2hrs apart from SV are so awesome >_> not everyone has the luxury of sam war drk mnk combinations, especially over 4 runs

Not quite sure why those jobs make "fanatic drink" less good, or something for pussy like you said. Melee should still pull hate, and they take damage from AoE.

And make those people level better 2nd job. Blm is an horrible jobs in Nyzul, same with nin (unless he is extremely well geared)

[Kaylia]

The one thing I've learned in Nyzule Isle is that the lack of magic damage can spell an end to the run as quickly as a lack of melee damage.

Beside energetic euruca with an "all slash" party (many way around it tho), I cant think of any run we werent able to clear because of the lack of magic cell (or blunt weapon for the matter).

5 pudding floors is the only thing that hurt you with all melee, but you can easily do 5 floor with 2x5 puddings in 30min.

[Judai]

The simple fact that people actually think BLM "wrecks" Nyzul shows they don't know what real DD can do. Being useful for ONE possible Floor combonation is not "wreckage". We clear puddings just fine with a combo or WARs, DRKs, DRGs and THF, having Tomahawk helps alot(enables you to kill Energetic Eruca and destroy mobs with melee resistences).

[Nattack]

drk: Crude Sword