Final Form Magian Weapons

[Phoenyx]

what are some good area to make bird kills? I need 600 and colibri are boring lol.....

Assuming you don't need killshot, you could do bats in Abyssea.

[Niiro]

For solo Rancor is probably best, more bats than you can count, just make liberal use of spectral jig when moving around to avoid other mobs. The bats are usually semi-clustered in 2-3s.

[Shadida]

Regarding solo birds: I did most of my Tachi: Koki vs. birds in Bostaunieux Oubliette. The Werebats there can pop as Too Weak, but usually are EP. For the ones that were Too Weak I just busted out the Tomoe and showed them some Penta Thrusts so they would repop higher level.

[buddyslack]

I did my Tachi: Koki birds around the lake in caderva mire, just avoid the far north and far south of the lake to avoid chigoes, can do a full circuit and the first ones will pop before you get back to the start

[macross]

I did hippogryphs in graub_S. Usually alot of thief and dancers there to ally up with.

For wamouras, just make a skill up lvl 80 party and kill the ones in my zhay. sub sch to dispel I guess or have a battle rdm tag along.

[Plow]

And if you upgrade Mandau, Vajra, and Twashtar, you damn well deserve an extra arm so you can triple wield them.

we can call it the earm

[Dimmauk]

I did my Tachi: Koki birds around the lake in caderva mire, just avoid the far north and far south of the lake to avoid chigoes, can do a full circuit and the first ones will pop before you get back to the start

Regarding solo birds: I did most of my Tachi: Koki vs. birds in Bostaunieux Oubliette. The Werebats there can pop as Too Weak, but usually are EP. For the ones that were Too Weak I just busted out the Tomoe and showed them some Penta Thrusts so they would repop higher level.

I went to Meriphataud Mountains [S] south of the Teleport are mountain jubjubs and Axe Beaks

[Sin Harvest]

If you're going for this trial just a few spots I did, got it done in 5 days.

Lizards: Cape was the best, lots of people doing trials during firesday.

Puks: This may have been the 2nd most difficult one, on windsday thfs and dnc's will be your best friend, wajaom woodland G area camp is nice.

Vermin: Jugner forest from the east ron entrance, you'll get rngs and sams joining you every now and then.

Birds: .......

Gnoles: **** you full moon, you may get a bst out here randomly, but have fun with these assholes. batillia downs, near the jugner forest entrance, 2 pixies are around to cure bomb you.

Undead: The C drop in eld necro, This was by far the fastest trial, the skele's drop in a single ws.

Apkallu: *huddles in a corner* I would say join a pt, but thats just much worse, a solo trio or duo works best, if you have more people go to arrapago reef. If solo, go to mount zhay, once they start the PDT thing, formless strikes wrecks em, you'll see rng and bst here. Box step is your best friend, tp them down to 35% using box step, one shot em with TK.

From Easiest to hardest trial I would say: Undead > Lizard > Birds > Vermin > Puks > Apkallu > Gnoles.

Have fun, Its a beauty.

http://img827.imageshack.us/img827/4...0727203956.png

[Onorgul]

Gnoles are trivial, just put up Footwork and don't be retarded about fighting at Full Moon. Actually, you're best off using Footwork pretty much from the second you get Wargfangs. The damage is far better, Tornado Kick is going to do a great deal more damage than D+0 Asuran Fists, and TP gain on mobs is very limited. With Reverse Flourish, I could kill Gnoles before they'd get TP for an attack, could do similar against Puks. I definitely found Puks and Birds the most irritating, mostly because I couldn't do them with Sigil or Signet (well, I did some bats in Bostanieux Oubliette, but it was unpleasant and slow).

[Karbuncle]

A better spot for Vermin (well, Maybe better?) is Crawlers Nest around where Demonic Tiphia spawns.

6-7 Flies, 4 Bees, and a fuckton of Crawlers and Scorpions in the general area.

If you're solo by the time you get around back to Tiphia's room the mobs should be respawning.

Its where im doing my BST trial, works nicely. there's so many mobs so long as your solo the respawn time is not a big issue.

[Mazmaz]

About to start the Apkallu trial myself. Thanks for the tips. Does Formless Strikes work with Footwork up?

[Onorgul]

It does, Mazmaz.

[Malacite]

Yikes +140 Delay...

Is that even worth it? Maybe with footwork up I suppose but eww...

[cdgreg]

Based on my own data collection, given no other potency-increasing factors (e.g. elemental staff, weather, day, "enhances..." equipment), there does not seem to be an increase in the maximum Drain value above 300 dark magic skill. (I am not interesting in showing results here as I have no desire to convince anyone here) But since it is likely that skill will continue to increase accuracy beyond 300, and that the max skill level will increase with successive version updates, the "dmg" Yama's Staff would be better considering the accuracy bonus of the accuracy-oriented Yama's is most likely not going to be realized on old content that you might still do at 99.

Just noticed this reply like 7 days later, appreciate the info. Thanks!~

[Onorgul]

Yikes +140 Delay...

Is that even worth it? Maybe with footwork up I suppose but eww...

Footwork is the only time you use those weapons...

[miokomioko]

Yikes +140 Delay...

Is that even worth it? Maybe with footwork up I suppose but eww...

Yes, that is the entire point.

[Jeryhn]

Is there a consensus on whether or not to go for the OA3 sword for PLD? I'm a little worried that the damage might be a little low for anything worthwhile for generating TP. Certainly its good on RDM for Enspell1 spam, but that's fucking RDM isn't it?

Obviously the best answer is to get both Khanda OA3 and Antea OAT+DMG to totally obsolete Joyeuse, but I'm just trying to gauge whether or not its worth the time.

Also, if you go for the Ursine Claws OA3 and Poise Shoes... is there any reason to NOT use Footwork in general situations?

[Stromgarde]

Hand-to-Hand Multihit Trials

Vermin: Use Wargfangs without footwork on Marids, and then drop Asuran on fleas when they spawn. Works excellently in a Duo configuration.

Birds: Bats = Birds. Make an Abyssea alliance to do your work for you.

Apkallu: I'm down to about 140ish kills remaining, what exactly is the mechanic at work here that causes hate to rise faster? Party of 4 or more? I hate these guys so much. Worst trial by FAR.

[Onorgul]

Also, if you go for the Ursine Claws OA3 and Poise Shoes... is there any reason to NOT use Footwork in general situations?

In low buff situations or when solo, I often find Footwork a little irritating compared to standard H2H. There's really no point at which you'll want to use Ursine Claws OA3 without Footwork active, though, if that's what you're asking.

Dunno why anyone would go after Marids for a trial. It's like people are deliberately trying to find harder ways of doing things.

[miokomioko]

So, Poise Shoes and Magian Trials broke Usukane set?