'Splitting Heirs' Op Available on Odin

[Hanyoko]

From what i've read its simply. Flag the OP, kill mobs around the entrance till you get the key item. Possibly you cannot obtain the key item without having the OP flagged.

[Suiram]

My reading comprehension must fail, but what mob(s) actually "drops" the key item to get into the BC? I believe Kaeko wrote earlier that it can be just any mob near the entrance to La Vaule? It sounds like getting the cards to enter Limbus, I guess my question is which mob in La Vaule is the equivalent of the flower in sea?

You've probably never done the Astral Candescence rescue BCs, but they work like limbus except that any mob can drop it, and it's not 100% like the cards (well, actually with the ACBC there are 2 key items dropping from the two different "subclasses" of beastmen: green/red trolls, blue/red mamools, lamia/merrow, respectively).

[rath]

Is transferring a Wise Strap to sell it for 5M worth £60?

No nation on Alex has owned a stronghold and we have wise in bazaars for 1-2mil. Are people really server transfering to make so little gil?

[Starr]

Weird, maybe there is more to it.

[pchan]

The guy that had Witch sash, brave grip and wise grip on sunday put cuchulain chain for sell today in his bazar ... Nothing changed since sunday's tally of course.

[Suiram]

What do you mean by "chain," the mantle or the belt?

[Valkrish]

posted this in a different area.

http://www.bluegartr.com/forum/showthread.php?t=63862

ready for scrutinizing, etc.

[Kittyn]

Anyone know the drop rate for Witch's Sash & Cuchu's Mantle?

[LinktheDeme]

Anyone know the drop rate for Witch's Sash & Cuchu's Mantle?

Both pretty rare c mantle is definitly like 3x as rare though.

[Byrthnoth]

Alright, I'm interested in Brave Grip and most of the ones I'm seeing are on Odin. Though it hasn't really been mentioned, does it come from the La Vaule Campaign Op BCNM? I'd like to know where it drops and/or what the effects actually are. There are a lot of people wearing them on Odin.

[Lyramion]

Brave Gip pretty much confirmed to dorp there. From some quick tests it seemed like it was an X knife for 2handers

[Starr]

That doesn't work with Sneak Attack.

[Kicoe]

That doesn't work with Sneak Attack.

Is your info based on what some guy wrote on FFXIAH.com or do you have a Brave Grip and tested yourself?

Salvage soon, so no time to kill more poor bunnys..
anyway, Pole Grip Sneak Attack Coeurl Sub 76+45 STR TP Gear SAM/THF:
http://img379.imageshack.us/img379/1570/polebm9.th.jpghttp://img379.imageshack.us/images/thpix.gif

same as above with Brave Grip:
http://img291.imageshack.us/img291/5636/bravegr1.th.jpghttp://img291.imageshack.us/images/thpix.gif

[Starr]

Top is without Brave Grip, bottom is with it.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v6...raveGrip01.png

[Starr]

ok maybe it stacks but it's WEAK AS FUCK if it does

[Byrthnoth]

Speaking of which, has anyone confirmed the strength of it? People have posted everything from "15%" to "7% damage increase" to "it increases the rate of crit hits."

The lists of damages you guys put up are statistically different, which is saddening. I've got a spreadsheet made up to determine whether or not this shit is worth getting, but just looking at your numbers I'm thinking Pole Strap is going to be a heck of a lot better even with a 24% crit hit rate. I'm not sure if this is just a 10 damage or 3% boost or what. It seems more likely to me that this grip adds a small amount to pDIF for crits, but doesn't bypass the cap. Could someone get a larger sample size and see if their distribution is just shifted up?

[Starr]

Exactly what I said on KI, I don't think it surpasses pDIF cap, unlike X's, which doesn't mean it's a bad thing but I don't see it being better than Pole Strap at all and I think a lot of people on Odin have realised that and that's why they sell it on tons.

[Byrthnoth]

I'd like to see a sample size with 30 Crits in each condition (SA with just any non-brave grip, SA with Brave, normal Crit with Brave), a max damage determined and replicated, and a posted base damage value (ideally high with capped fSTR).

Then I'd like to see the same conditions on Lesser Colibri (no atk food or Berserk). It would be wise to pick a lower damage weapon (like Fortitude Axe) for the Colibri so that you can fight the same bird for longer and cap fSTR easier.

It might take 3 hours* to do these tests, but once they were done we'd know for sure if Brave was a piece of shit or not.

[Starr]

argh I can't find it now but someone on the DRG forums put up a small sample and it was giving +10% damage on crits

[mackerel]

Friends are saying there's a mass of 30+ people at the gate to get into this ops, only one group allowed inside at a time. Apparently all 30 people are spamming the gate and the crowd hasn't thinned for over an hour.