'Splitting Heirs' Op Available on Odin

[Lyramion]

Sucessfully did the BC 8 times so far this week. The loot pool has 4 Slots:

1st Slot: Brave Grip or Wise Strap
2nd Slot: Orcish Gauntlets, Witch Sash or Cuchulains Mantle
3rd Slot: Random Gem or Ingot
4th Slot: Random Gem or Ingot


The Orcish Gauntlet slot is the most interesting one. Not only for Sash and Mantle but because I do not imagine those dropping in the corresponding BCs in Oztroja or Badeaux. Which other items haven´t been found yet? The Cuchulains Belt should drop from another BC I guess? Would be scary if something like Roundell Earring would pop up in the Oztroja BC.






So far the noteable loot:

- 2x Witch Sash
- 2x Cuchulains Mantle

[Byrthnoth]

As far as I know, these are the items not yet located from the patch that added Witch Sash&Co. --
Weapons: ^Balestarius, Dorje, Shenlong's Baghnakhs, Nanatsusaya*
Shield: ^Airy Buckler
Earrings: Crapaud Earring, ^Roundel Earring
Body: Hachiryu Haramaki
Belts: ^Cuchulain's Belt
Feet: ^Karasutengu*
*ed is everything that looks awesome
^ed is everything that seems likely to drop in the past due to its stats/name.

I see 3 things (Orcish Gauntlets, Karasutengu, and Balestarius) that have Campaign: effects on them. I would guess that one drops in each beastman stronghold from this quest. If I had to hazard a guess, I'd say GA -> Beadeaux and Booties -> Castle O just because Quadavs use GAs and Windurst tends towards the magely jobs.

Furthermore, I'm betting the two grips drop from every one of these Campaign Ops.

So, if we're looking at one of those 3 items and 2 "other" items for the BCNMs, I'd bet that the 4 "other" items we haven't seen yet are:
Cuchulain's Belt, Roundel Earring, Airy Buckler, and Crapaud Earring.

Airy Buckler has STP, Haste, and CHR on it and is wearable by THF/PUP/DNC. That screams DNC. PUP isn't even going to wear a shield, and I'd think it'd be pretty situational for THF.
Roundel Earring has Waltz Potency on it. Again, screams DNC, which means the past.
Crapaud Earring looks shitty compared to Moldy or Novio, but it's better than Morion or Phantom by quite a bit. Could be designed to compensate for the influx of SCHs.
Cuchu's belt is pretty obvious; we've already found the other half of the set.
As for where they drop, I'd guess they're paired Melee item + Mage items again, though I can't guess where.

That would leave:
Weapons: Dorje, Shenlong's Baghnakhs, Nanatsusaya
Body: Hachiryu Haramaki
to be PW's loot pool, which doesn't really seem unreasonable. I mean, Dorje and Nanatsusaya both look like pieces of crap, but so it goes.

[Starr]

Maybe PW drops fully completed Salvage bodies Better have 100% drop on Hachiryu or some shit if that's really his loot pool

[Pergo]

I tried to manaburn this last night with 4 blms, here's what BLMs should know.

-299 Enfeebling skill was enough to land a full duration sleepga2 (without ES) on all 3 helpers after they popped. Once they awoke, they all resisted sleep unless it was ES'd.

-Similar to the Campaign Orcs, Boss takes half damage from Blizzard and Fire.

-ES Gravity lasted over 1min30sec a couple times. Gravity without ES was resisted.

-Bind was resisted everytime, not sure if you can land with ES, the fact they're resistant to ice may show that they're unable to be bound with Bind spell.

We wiped after getting the boss down to 36%. We used tons and tons of Bliz4 and Fire4, which all were half-damage. If we focused only on thunder,aero, and (water maybe?), I'm pretty sure we could've killed it.

[fishstix]

Went 4/6 on Mantle dropping... witch sash wruuuuuuuuu

Also, freak nuke.
http://i127.photobucket.com/albums/p...hst1x/2007.png
My previous burst2 did like 750 dmg

[Not Kuno]

I do random crazy nuke damage on the Clan Reaper orc sometimes too. O.o

[fishstix]

Hmm... maybe one of the TP moves reduces MDB considerably, opposite of the sea dolphins.

[Lordwafik]

Are you still on asura Xin ?

[Pergo]

Just won this tonight with 4blm. No sash/mantle ; ;

Our strat seems a little crazy, but i think it's the best we could do with 3 well-equipped humes and a mediocre-equipped elvaan. The 3 humes were blm/rdm. Elvaan was /whm. One /rdm pulls boss with ES Gravity. Another /rdm sleeps helpers with ES sleepga2. BLMs then sorta space out and nuke nuke nuke with some stuns thrown in.

After the helpers awake, the BLM/WHM drops out of the party and bio2s the Boss. Everyone dies, mobs go back, everyone gets up, blms in the party go back in the hall and rest. /WHM puts reraise back up and watches the nm closely awaiting bio to wear off. Repeat bio>reraise until the 3 other BLMs are unweaked and ready to go. The zombie-blm must be outside of the party. The orcs all party-link no matter how far away you are, so to avoid re-wiping, the dot-er must be outside the party. Once BLM are unweak and buffed, ES still might have a min or two to go, wait for it to be ready then go in, ES grav boss, ES sleepga helpers, finish the nm off. You really can't go wrong with this strategy.

(In our two previously failed attempts, we tried to resleep the helpers without ES and failed. Also, the helpers are PLD,BLM,MNK, so it was hard to get them all together for the sleepga. If you waste the 4th ES on sleepga, then when Gravity wears off of the boss, you have no reliable way to keep it gravitied. Around the same time that the helpers awoke, all BLMs were out of MP and about to use manafont, but adds made it hectic and impossible to finish the NM off.)

Hope this helps people trying to low-man/manaburn/2box it!

[bercus]

So where do I change nations?
Do the "beginning" quests like I once did for Bastok?

[fishstix]

Are you still on asura Xin ?

Although there were lots of pros and cons, I stayed on Phoenix ^^

So where do I change nations?
Do the "beginning" quests like I once did for Bastok?

You don't need to do the Recommendation letter, but have to do the quest after, involving clicking 3 ???s in ronfaure.

Also... incase anyone's wondering, campaign buffs wear off on entry D: Tried using a mana boost lol. Reraise from armor transfers over though, or might be a glitch related to increased food duration, because my RR hairpin seemed to stay forever.

[Yugl]

Stats from armor seem to carry into "Wipe your buffs" event related stuff now it seems. I noticed that my RR will stay when I enter Nyzul Isle if I get that RR from an item. However, someone else in the group casted the spell RR and it wore off as he entered.

[Lyramion]

Sucessfully did the BC 8 times so far this week. The loot pool has 4 Slots:

1st Slot: Brave Grip or Wise Strap
2nd Slot: Orcish Gauntlets, Witch Sash or Cuchulains Mantle
3rd Slot: Random Gem or Ingot
4th Slot: Random Gem or Ingot

- 2x Witch Sash
- 2x Cuchulains Mantle

Did 2 more runs. 1 more mantle. But the second run we got nothing in the 2nd slot at all for the first time. Didn´t know it was possible.

Also got a Peace Ring in the 4th Slot on the first run. Funny drops today.

[Weeks]

We've had nothing in the second slot three times in seven runs. Also got Peace Ring tonight.

[fishstix]

We're now:
5/9 mantle
3/9 gauntlets
0/9 sash
and 1/9 for having only items #1, 3, 4 drop.

who said sash was the more common drop D:


Also for the manaburn setup, I'm almost 100% positive that Beserker Dance increases your nuke damage. It'll be hard to try to plan for it, but when it does happen, go nuts

[Vail]

just got spectacles in the 3rd slot

currently 1/4 waist, 1/4 back

[Reznap]

my groups currently 2/5 mantle, 2/5 orc gloves. Have not seen 1 wise grip or witches sash. Im kinda superstitious about drops, I've entered the BC every time for my group and so far no mage drops

[ryanjh]

Also just confirming that you can get nothing in the "Mantle, Sash, Gauntlets" slot. 2/3 mantle, 1/3 nothing. Fun fight.

[finalwolf]

gotten spectacles in 3rd slot
peace ring in 4th slot

5 runs
3 sashes
1 mantle

[Sekkite]

The letter of the law is the last refuge of the modern scoundrel. Just because you are breaking no rules does not mean that you are not doing anything wrong.

The lack of conscience exhibited by the players of this game has gone so far as to be a sad joke.

Ringthree, the entire reason the community hates the act of RMT is that it largely supports the people who hack accounts, bot NMs, mess with the economy, and prevents many means of gil making and fun activities from being put into the game for fear of RMT exploitation.

A person who does not go through the mediums that support these RMT is not overstepping any meaningful ethical bounds.

Edit: Looks like Bahamut is gonna get access to Spliting Heirs this week!