Hunts and Evolith Discussion

[Shadida]

Anyone have suggestions on NMs to use for farming scylds quickly? It's becoming really tedious since Cookieduster's hunt won't give me better than Triple Atk +2.

[Robbinthehood]

Im unsure on how difficult the golem NM is due to my lack of a moonpass. Anyway, pick 2 NMs and rotate between them and you'll eventually get a drop - TH helps >.>.

I duo'd this yesterday as COR and BLM. It has very lose hate in that the BLM was only doting it while I QD'd for the bulk of the damage, but it would occasionally run to him. I brought it to the fountain which made for easy kiting, but the NM can lose aggro very quickly if you get outside 15-20 range. If you have a pass you can pull him from his pop zone past the gate, and even if it loses aggro, it will not be able to return to its pop area if the gate is closed, much like Zip. Only thing you need to watch out for is the en-stun on its attacks and thunder break which can stun for nearly 10 seconds. Other than that, it's solo-able using QD and rather easy because I didn't have to worry about magic aggro from the surrounding mobs.

[Shadida]

I duo'd this yesterday as COR and BLM. It has very lose hate in that the BLM was only doting it while I QD'd for the bulk of the damage, but it would occasionally run to him. I brought it to the fountain which made for easy kiting, but the NM can lose aggro very quickly if you get outside 15-20 range. If you have a pass you can pull him from his pop zone past the gate, and even if it loses aggro, it will not be able to return to its pop area if the gate is closed, much like Zip. Only thing you need to watch out for is the en-stun on its attacks and thunder break which can stun for nearly 10 seconds. Other than that, it's solo-able using QD and rather easy because I didn't have to worry about magic aggro from the surrounding mobs.

I've solo'd on COR/BLM, just range attacked the statue whenever it lost hate, took a while like 45 minutes

[ronin sparthos]

Anyone have suggestions on NMs to use for farming scylds quickly? It's becoming really tedious since Cookieduster's hunt won't give me better than Triple Atk +2.

Pyuu the Spatemaker
Melusine
Tiffonotte
Peaseblossum
Manipulator
Duke Forcalor

[Karbuncle]

Pyuu the Spatemaker
Melusine
Tiffonotte
Peaseblossum
Manipulator
Duke Forcalor

Goblin Wolfman, its Poppable by a like, 5k item, requires no camping either.

[Asmoranomar]

I've about given up trying to get our linkshell to do Scylla for evolith (and drops...) - We don't have the proper jobs required and the number of losses on a mob that shouldn't be difficult for us is really hurting morale.

So I tried seeing if I could get in on another groups efforts, but after camping it for a few days, it seems no NA's on Diabolos is interested in killing it. I've only caught two JP groups fighting it early AM and both times I couldn't get past the communication barrier (either that or they were just dicks about it...).

So....
Anyone on Diabolos do this? Any chance at helping a fellow BRD out with some evoliths(not interested in gear/loot)?
and...
Anyone know how to tell JP you only want evolith? Or can come up with any reason why you wouldn't invite someone?

[macross]

Theres a monkey you can pop by trading a bunch of pamamas too.

[Shamaya]

I put out a Synergy/Evolith/EbonArmor guide recently, but I didn't feel like making a new thread so I'm plugging it here for reference.

Winter '09 Update Content Guide:
Part I (SynergyEvolith/Ebon/PigmentNM's)
Part II (Fomor NM's)


There's a lot of information in this and the other thread, as well as in several wiki articles. But I felt it would be nice to compile the information into a single guide format.

If you've got friends like I do that are curious about these inter-related systems and the related gear, but are just baffled by it all, feel free to link 'em to it. Any criticism/corrections is also welcome.

[Karbuncle]

Theres a monkey you can pop by trading a bunch of pamamas too.

That monkey has like a 2% Pop rate on normal Pamamas, but the Wild Pamamas have like 50%, but are only farmable >.<;

[Byrthnoth]

In my experience, it's closer to 90% with Wild Pamamas. I've only had it not-spawn once with them, and I've killed it quite a bit.

[Shadida]

Goblin Wolfman, its Poppable by a like, 5k item, requires no camping either.

Fantastic idea, already got like 100 scylds today due to this tip. It's especially awesome because I'm Bastokan, very little travel time. Thanks!

[Shadida]

Aaand it paid off:

http://files1.guildlaunch.net/guild/...volith9754.png

Now just need to find a HF+1... :D

[Shadida]

Has anyone had trouble popping Cookieduster Lipiroon since the server maintenance? Some friends and I have spent literally hours trying since then, but we've had no pops. Did they change the placeholders or something?

Also, sorry about self-bumps, not my fault no one has posted <_<;

[Robbinthehood]

For that ws:ratk+ evolith, has anyone found a gun COR can use to hold it?

[Shamaya]

I don't think so, Sir Robin. But you can check by trading guns to the npc and seeing what they have to say about it. If one of them is etchable, he'll let you know. It appears the next update is going to have something synergy related, so we can hope they give us more options... cuz our selection right now is rather shite.

As for NM's not popping, I can't seem to get Skvader to pop ><

[Shadida]

For that ws:ratk+ evolith, has anyone found a gun COR can use to hold it?

Blunderbuss (+1) and Silver(Great) Cassandra both work.

[Robbinthehood]

Would the r.atk+12~ evolith beat out the 2 base dmg difference between blunderbuss+1 and coffinmaker or put it ahead of martial for detonator?

[Anomander]

I saw a comment posted on a screenshot on ffxiah that stated that main weapon evolith's are useless on ranged weapons. For example, getting polearm ws accuracy on a bow would not actually do anything for polearm ws accuracy. Anyone else heard this/have testing to verify or debunk?

[ronin sparthos]

I saw a comment posted on a screenshot on ffxiah that stated that main weapon evolith's are useless on ranged weapons. For example, getting polearm ws accuracy on a bow would not actually do anything for polearm ws accuracy. Anyone else heard this/have testing to verify or debunk?

I would like to see testing on this myself.

[Staleyx]

Please find out because the rapid bow gkacc+ is looking nice.