FFXI New NMs 11/9/09

[Rugazanami]

i tried a search for any previous posts but could find nothing...

anyone having seriously crappy luck with Goblintrap?

i went 1/40 ish with TH4, friend is currently 0/80 ish. i know the drop rates on most of the new NMs are shite but this seems.... off.

Nah. Sounds about right to me. The drop rates seem somewhere around 10% at best. It's all about luck.

[Viq]

1/13 TH1. Incoming goofy reverse TH speculation.

[Kiyara]

Well I've been camping a ton on these NMs and finally I can say I'm done. Been camping ever since the patch came out till now and it's proving to be a chore/headache. Here is my results list after multiple claims and kills totally over 160 kills and probably 20-30 missed claims....yes that bad.

1/2 Goaftrap
1/33 Goblintrap
1/1 Belladonna
1/9 Lamina
1/24 Hyakinthos
1/31 Boll Weevil
1/1 Dynast Beetle
1/24 Ignamoth
1/3 Chanaque
1/1 Eldritch Edge
1/7 Burlibix Brawnback
1/4 Blighting Brand
0/2 Coquecigrue
1/9 Marquis Sabnock
1/8 Myradrosh
0/1 Bayawak
1/1 Timeworn Warrior

Goblintrap and Boll Weevil by far gave me the biggest test of my patience. 15/161 which equals out to about a 9.3% drop rate overall with 90% of the kills being with TH4 or Th3.

[Rugazanami]

1/3 on Goaftrap (bumped into him while farming crab shells and got the drop, so I'm forcing myself to complete the set...)
1/10 on Goblintrap. I'm glad that's over.

TH4 always.

[Serra]

Well I've been camping a ton on these NMs and finally I can say I'm done. Been camping ever since the patch came out till now and it's proving to be a chore/headache. Here is my results list after multiple claims and kills totally over 160 kills and probably 20-30 missed claims....yes that bad.

1/2 Goaftrap
1/33 Goblintrap
1/1 Belladonna
1/9 Lamina
1/24 Hyakinthos
1/31 Boll Weevil
1/1 Dynast Beetle
1/24 Ignamoth
1/3 Chanaque
1/1 Eldritch Edge
1/7 Burlibix Brawnback
1/4 Blighting Brand
0/2 Coquecigrue
1/9 Marquis Sabnock
1/8 Myradrosh
0/1 Bayawak
1/1 Timeworn Warrior

Goblintrap and Boll Weevil by far gave me the biggest test of my patience. 15/161 which equals out to about a 9.3% drop rate overall with 90% of the kills being with TH4 or Th3.

Finished just in time for SE to announce the next update!
In all reality, probably not since it seems SE has slowed updates to every 4 months now...

[Erlayn]

After spending a week on the Fairy NM's. I can confirm none drop Ebur Pigment. I solo'd each one and killing each one over and over. All I ever got was Ebon and Furia Pigments. Ebon seems a more common drop and the Furia a more rare of a drop. Here's my stats of kills from the past week, averaging about 1-5 kills per day (if I was lucky). There was a some days I didn't camp due to Jp had a lock down on every camp.

Tiff - Ebon 2/20
Furia 1/20

Pease - Ebon 1/21
Furia 0/21

Mel - Ebon 3/14
Furia 2/14

Tiff and Pease were easy claims as no one really camped those. Mel on the other hand sucked to camp as I was always against someone to claim. I had heard a rumor that Mel dropped Ebur but I got both Furia and Ebon off her.

~Erl

[Fiendishone]

1/1 Eldritch Edge
1/4 Blighting Brand

DIAF . . .

1/15 EE
1/22 BB

All with TH4

[NeoForte]

1/3 on MM.....freaking Fungus, glad I never had to kill it again! I hope heh. Still awesome Pet TP hat :D

[Airenn]

Kotan Dat Pack, where?

I checked Page 16 and tried to DL it but it says the limit is reached and cannot DL it anymore times.

AIM: Anifirebird if anyone can help me out rq.

[Ruff]

FINALLY!!! after 8 kills, Picolaton dropped Thrk. brestplate.

1/8 wiki and there 28% reported drop rate cant DIAF!

[N3AND3RTHAL]

2/2 2 days ago on Goblintrap and Goaftrap. 2/5 overall (1/4 Goblin; 1/1 Goaf). I'm sure I'll be told to diaf, but my 45 hours in Fei'yin and 1/16 on Mind Hoarder says you can suck it.

[Midnightjade]

0/1 on Killer Jonny. Started out PLD straight tanking and quickly switched to RDM/NIN kiting with add support and the occasional Silena/Poisona, plus TH4 tag at the end.

Hate threshold on this NM seems odd, it's very easy to get hate and equally easy to lose it. He deaggros frequently and at one point during the fight I caught hate with just one Ballad and a Silena, with an idle set that includes more than -20enm.

Suggest RDM/NIN plus BST/WHM for crowd management, adding another RDM/NIN would probably make it straightforward.

[Deimos]

Hate threshold on this NM seems odd, it's very easy to get hate and equally easy to lose it. He deaggros frequently and at one point during the fight I caught hate with just one Ballad and a Silena, with an idle set that includes more than -20enm.

Not sure if I'm just misreading this, but having -Enmity in your idle set has absolutely no effect. Performing actions with -Enmity gear on will affect the amount of hate you gain from that action, but idling in that gear doesn't speed up your enmity decay at all.

[Cooleko]

FINALLY!!! after 8 kills, Picolaton dropped Thrk. brestplate.

1/8 wiki and there 28% reported drop rate cant DIAF!

i went 1/13 on Thakron for a DRG friend.
I also went 2/17 on Virtuoso belt, where I claimed every NM in a row and the two dropped back to back on 16 and 17 (on christmas morning)

EDIT: every kill had TH4...

[Valisk]

FINALLY!!! after 8 kills, Picolaton dropped Thrk. brestplate.

1/8 wiki and there 28% reported drop rate cant DIAF!

1/12 here. I never wanted to see another grain of sand for the rest of my life... but I live in Kuftal Tunnel... FML

<3 Toshi-Woshi!

[Ragnus]

1/8 on Kegpaunch. Last two kills were with TH3

[S N K]

1/3 on MM.....freaking Fungus, glad I never had to kill it again! I hope heh. Still awesome Pet TP hat :D

I went 1/1 on that thing and didn't realize how lucky I was when my friend went 1/21 on it.

[Midnightjade]

Not sure if I'm just misreading this, but having -Enmity in your idle set has absolutely no effect. Performing actions with -Enmity gear on will affect the amount of hate you gain from that action, but idling in that gear doesn't speed up your enmity decay at all.

Sorry, I should have clarified that. It's the set I switch back into after song start set during Ballad (ie from idle to -SST, then after a couple of seconds back into idle since Ballad has no skill tiers and the idle also has -33/38% PDT). Other songs that have tiers I go from -SST to skill set, then back into idle. Silena was also cast from the menu while in idle set.

Does that make sense? Actually, kind of poses an interesting question - is enmity generated at song start or when it goes off? I had always assumed the latter.

Thanks.

[Ezhno]

If you cast Paralyze on something and interrupt the cast, do you aggro the mob (assuming a target that doesn't aggro magic casting)? Enmity is generated from actions when they complete.

EDIT: I find it's more useful to end Ballad in haste gear for the recast.

[MaachaQ]

FINALLY!!! after 8 kills, Picolaton dropped Thrk. brestplate.

1/8 wiki and there 28% reported drop rate cant DIAF!

^^; I keep seeing stories like this. If more people reported their droprates it'd be much more accurate... I try to report all of mine to help others have a better idea of what to expect.

1/7 on Eldrich Edge, 0/7 on Blighting Brand atm >.> At least we went 1/3 on Marquis Sabnock.