9/8/08 Other Equipment/Weapons

[Drunkenmonk]

did 3 blood bathed crowns sunday, 3/3 helms but 0 earrings, seems to share the same spot in pool if i had to guess.

[Virtuous Saint]

Got stone mufflers the other day, just thought people might want to know, they do stack with stone gorget, and they are the same +30 increase. (410SS with both)

[Tachi]

Rare / Ex items drops works with the same method as The Wyrmking Descends.
1 group of 2 items and 1 group of 3 items. 1 item only of each group can drop.

The Buried God :
Zha'Go's Barbut or Paramount Earring
and
Headsman's Ring or Seismic Axe or Stone Mufflers

A Malicious Manifest :
Ree's Headgear or Brilliant Earring
and
Diverter's Ring or Prester or Koschei Crackows

The Blood-bathed Crown :
Gnadbhod's Helm or Supremacy Earring
and
Fenian Ring or Ruler or Nimue's Tights

The question is if the % of drops are identical or if it's like Bahamut staff / Dragon staff, with differents rates.

[Flight_93]

did 3 blood bathed crowns sunday, 3/3 helms but 0 earrings, seems to share the same spot in pool if i had to guess.

gah, help us out, 6 earrings, 0 helm -.-

edit, other drops for data:

Tights x2
Fenian x2
Ruler x2

[TT]

3 helms, 1 earring
2 swords, 2 rings

Im pretty surprised by D ingot in that SS. very nice.

Doubt leaving the helpers changes anything. Aoe does 6XX damage to me with shell V when they are all dead, its not that bad.

[Ragnarzero]

I know we killed this BCNM with time to spare.

we Killed all 4 Adds
his Aoe was Random, I saw people hit for 200-800
But he only did his Nasty AOE when he had his aura up
And he would lose his Aura anytime he'd 2hr and then it would come back after sometime.
Sadly i never timed it or watched HP %
I know it was there till about 70%
Gone for a while
Came back around 25%
Then Went away after some time
His hp was down to like 12% then went back up to 16% due to AOE kills and self Cure 4's

Ohh We got Some cheap Craftables
Ruler
and Head

[wunjo_on_ramuh]

On FFXIclopedia it's listed that if you leave the 4 minions up the Megaboss is weaker. We tried this on our run. We killed the 2 Wars but left the 2 RNG & the big AoE Amnesia move was doing around 500-600. Aura off at 70% & didn't come back. Anyone else want to try & confirm?

Tachi found that the Aura appears to wear off due to a certain amount of magical attacks. My own comparison with "damage taken from NM" from our own runs to your figure of "500-600" shows no significant difference. (While there may be something to it, I haven't seen anything to confirm it.)

If I had to guess, I would say that leaving some of the helpers up had no effect.

"Stronghold Invasion - Orc SHNM BC - The Blood-bathed Crown"
http://wunjo-on-ramuh.livejournal.com/66030.html

** Figures posted below are with all four helpers dead.

4. Damage from NM
Melee vs Hosshiy: 263, 197, 134, 200, 195, 161
Melee vs mages: 358, 413, 330, 335, 396, 438
Veil of Chaos: 500-800 (everyone) with resists down to 250
Berserker Dance gives NM Haste
Tornado Edge (aoe cone?) vs Hosshiy: 302
Tornado Edge (aoe cone?) vs DD: 777
Shoulder Charge vs Hosshiy: 581
Shoulder Charge vs Mage: 1117

"Stronghold Invasion - Orc SHNM BC - Aura Broken but Returned"
http://wunjo-on-ramuh.livejournal.com/67151.html

09:08:41, NOTE, AURA OFF (NM @ 76%)
09:12:40, NOTE, AURA ON (NM @ 10%)

"Theory about the NM's Aura in the SHNM BCs"
http://wunjo-on-ramuh.livejournal.com/66564.html
** Look for "Exhibit #4 - Orc SHNM BC Fight - September 23"
** Aura came off and never returned

[wunjo_on_ramuh]

From the various reports, it sounds a lot like the aura comes off around 70% each time and then is on a timer to come back. This would explain why some never see it come back (they truly do drop fast without the aura, if you're ready to unload) while some see it come back at various HP percents. If anyone goes in, maybe check what HP% the aura leaves at, and how much time passes before it comes back or the mob dies?

Stronghold Invasion - Orc SHNM BC - Aura Broken but Returned

09:08:41, NOTE, AURA OFF (NM @ 76%)
09:12:40, NOTE, AURA ON (NM @ 10%)

From my personal observation, the NM's Aura returned after almost exactly four minutes. In our two Quadav SHNM BCs, we killed it in under four minutes and the Aura never returned.