Dont be a fucking pussy about lights. if WAH RUBY/AMBALAMPS are a problem, then you dont kill fast enough. ANYTHING can be cleaved, some are better than others, but it doesnt make them impossible. My personal preference:
aggressive, bonus points if by sound...if non aggro, better atleast link.
non casting (more prone to deaggroing I find since you'll get ahead of them)
movement speed non issue (if I'm on thf)
I've cleaved gnats (wasnt too bad, but TP reset can be a nuissance), I've cleaved sandworms (not recommended with all the agitating TP moves), scorps, leeches, I have NOT cleaved puks since Aeolian will merely heal them, I've cleaved raptors, tigers, wivres, spiders, marids, skeletons, mandies, gargoyles... I've even done small Sheriwile cleaves, but that shit sucked balls cuz i was constantly para. I've even seen Imps get Fell Cleaved (would recommend with multiple cleavers or blm backup though since amnesia will probably get you killed).
The reason you're being "hated on", and believe me, its not penisenvy over your "3 empyrians"...as Fievel said, its this:
http://www.gwcdn.com/albums/images/4...4dfa000ab1.jpg
Grats to Gabai...45 skins in 1 day. Also, fuck JPs
Big thank you to Aurara, Kaniko, Kiwikima, Odette, Conker, Bulletbeast, (and possibly someone else who escapes my mind since I'm now braindead) for helping at one point or another this weekend.
edit: Can't believe I forgot Alaris, she was the super-duper THer. ._.
Alaris =P
Going back really quick to the time farm thing, I have horrible luck on TE's Ill get 2h, temp items, and crour up the ass but no time.
But about a week ago someone said something I did not considered, too many people cleaving 48 chest cap per zone.
Every time I tried to cleave out of 20 mobs I'd end up with 3-5 chest + my luck = time out.
So scout the zones first before you head over and try to compete against 4-5 other groups, I haven't tried cleavng cause I've been camping lottery NM's but I'll try cleaving an empty zone as soon as I can
I think it depends on how fast people open their chests, if they have a chest person, that shouldn't happen, since most of them open all blue chests and thus not reaching the maximum amount of chests available. I have to confess I have not seen this before, TE chest being stingy yes, but not getting chests when I cap pearl light is something I haven't seen before.
Inb4 everyone who cleaves, should make chest key macro!
How do u make a chest key macro? XD
Last night as we were camping Tunga to finish off dagger we were cleaving fleas between pops. About 1-2 hours before maintenace the zone jumped form about 40 people to over 140. We had one pull of all the fleas that didnt drop a 2nd chest.
You'll see a lot of nothing dropping of you are ever in a zone during JP prime time.
/item "Forbidden Key" <t> and target blue chests?
Unless you were just making fun of me. I guess Gilgamesh really hasn't seen that packed, I mean we have cleaved during JP hours over the weekend before (like 200 ppl in zone in abyssea mis) , but I have really yet to see such bad rates, like 1/20 chests mentioned by others. Guess having a chest key macro is essential now especially after we merge.
On the other hand , people who had this happened, is this widely reported on twitter? It does seem like they do address our issues (a lot more than before) as I can see this being something that they ought to do something about with their proposed countermeasures.
In init.txt:
bind !` input /item "Forbidden Key" <stnpc>
hes not making fun of you
doesnt matter if u have cap white lights, as long theres about 3-4 groups cleaving at the same time, chances that 1 or maybe 2 groups not getting any/little chest is high
cleaving in tahrongi for example, people dont open chest immediately, because when they are cleaving they should be already capped yellow as well, and people dont just go around open all gold chest w/o checking the KI(if any)
besides tahrongi, cleaving elsewhere should be fine(at least on ifrit atm). I dont see many groups cleaving other zones a much as tahrongi YET...so chests arent an issue elsewhere. but chest in tahrongi has been a known issue server-wide im sure haha.
however, idk why theres a chest cap to begin with tbh
sounds about right O_O
I think when SE first created abyssea, they werent expecting cleaves to happen...I dont get why they didnt get with the times though.