Abyssea HNMs

[Fiendishone]

Thread derailment:

What plugins/version of windower is that Hex that gives the time zones at the very top & then below it the game time & moon phase?

Do want.

[thetruepandagod]

the ones on top are just the clock plugin, just have to edit it for what time zones u want shown

[Michelob]

30 distance from it's spawn point.

I don't think this is the case. That Yilbegan where we had the meteor spam took out our tanks a few times and it would walk over to our DDs. As long as whomever had hate wasn't farther than ~25' away from it, it wouldn't depop on us. At more than one point we had it well farther than 30' from its initial agro area and it didn't depop.

I think the key is just to keep everyone within range but moving it is ok.

Also, to whomever said that tanking from the front triggers meteor; we were tanking it from the back the entire fight and it was still casting meteor.

[Demosthenes11]

dark star doesnt do a status effect.
Honestly this is a very very easy mob apart from the random meteor temper tantrum yil's some people seem to be popping - probably one of the most boring fights in the game -.-

I'm actually kind of hoping we are missing something here

[Michelob]

I wouldn't be surprised if the Meteor spam was triggered somehow. We took it down to 45% pretty fast before it started, and after it finished and we recovered, it didn't do it again and we took it down with no issues afterwards.

[Kaeko]

Been soloing the T2 Leech Lamprey Lord in Pashhow Present for the past few days trying to get the color change. The solo takes about ~15 to ~20 minutes depending on 2HR usage and involves some weird terrain AI pathing. Full logs and screenshots @ blog.

Shameless plug
http://kanican.livejournal.com/44638.html

I also managed to pull off a Jyeshtha (T2 Scorpion) solo in Saruta present using a similar terrain glitch, but haven't had time to write that one up yet. That one's a lot tougher since fast cast break with no shadows is basically automatic death. Wild Rage > Break can really ruin things. That one took about 20 minutes with 2HR due to a bit more magic resist.

I think it would be interesting to see if all 10 VNM T2s are soloable. Would be a cool challenge regardless of how inefficient or unreasonable it is. Seems like 7 of the 10 have already been solo'd successfully (yacumama, capricornus, shogg, lamprey, erebus, freuk, jyeshtha)

[Yugl]

Been soloing the T2 Leech Lamprey Lord in Pashhow Present for the past few days trying to get the color change. The solo takes about ~15 to ~20 minutes depending on 2HR usage and involves some weird terrain AI pathing. Full logs and screenshots @ blog.

Shameless plug
http://kanican.livejournal.com/44638.html

I also managed to pull off a Jyeshtha (T2 Scorpion) solo in Saruta present using a similar terrain glitch, but haven't had time to write that one up yet. That one's a lot tougher since fast cast break with no shadows is basically automatic death. Wild Rage > Break can really ruin things. That one took about 20 minutes with 2HR due to a bit more magic resist.

I think it would be interesting to see if all 10 VNM T2s are soloable. Would be a cool challenge regardless of how inefficient or unreasonable it is. Seems like 7 of the 10 have already been solo'd successfully (yacumama, capricornus, shogg, lamprey, erebus, freuk, jyeshtha)

Are they doable without RDM (i.e. just need Bio II + SS)?

[Kaeko]

Are they doable without RDM (i.e. just need Bio II + SS)?

Leech I'm certain could be done with any number of jobs. Once you have established your position and terrain abuse, you can get up to Tier III nukes without getting hit with proper timing. So SCH/RDM, COR, etc. (anything with DoT and can make it to the location) should all work.

The Scorpion is tricky. You 100% are going to need Utsusemi to block constant Break casts. Anything beyond that you just need to get it to the proper location + have some form of damage. COR/NIN, RDM/NIN, SCH/NIN maybe.

[Darkmagi]

Great read on lamprey lord. Thanks Kaeko, will try this sometime.

[Windfoxster]

Dark star does have status down effects but it is not 100%, seems weird i know. I have experienced non-status down and status down effects from dark star from the same dragon.

[Indalecia]

Few false starts but once we figured out how it worked, got kinda silly.

tbh, the most annoying thing is the damn enpoison.

http://i118.photobucket.com/albums/o.../seriously.png

[Azuark]

Soloing Shaggoth ( looking for Lamprey Lord ) i noticed that the only time it tried to melee me was when i popped it, you dont want it ever in melee range after you run out of melee range all it tries to do is either Hex/petry Eye you or ~aga. You can easily outrun the Aga's and turn are already turned away from eyes when running. When it tries to use and Eye move that when you recast debuffs/buffs. Every 21% gets tricky, died with it at 59% cause i ran outta ranged and waited to target again >.>;; going for another solo go as RDM/NIN
oh and i dont have any Move + gear either :O

[Linsivi]

So has anyone NOT had Erebus upgrade crystal when he killed himself? The only shots I've seen of it had it upgrade, and just got it myself now. Would be useful to know since every and their mother wants the ring and neckpiece.

[ronin sparthos]

So has anyone NOT had Erebus upgrade crystal when he killed himself? The only shots I've seen of it had it upgrade, and just got it myself now. Would be useful to know since every and their mother wants the ring and neckpiece.

Pretty sure in this very thread someone posted not getting the drop when Erebus nuked himself down.

[Ahkow]

whats the best DD for Yilbegan ....

tried using 4 blus to cannonball it down ... but it seems really bad ... 200 plus per cannonball =(

[Kaeko]

LS told me about this one for Yilbegan:

http://kickcdf.blog5.fc2.com/

4 players, 7 characters.

PLD/WAR WHM BRD RDM || RNG RNG THF

Killed in about an hour. Could have 6 man'd but wanted TH. Takes good damage from RNG when wings up, but resists 90% on magic nukes then I think. WHM used for sacrifice on TP/MP/HP down effect.

EDIT: Dico is the leader of DaFunk right? Should be a couple NA members that frequent or troll this forum if people want to pick at them.

[Yugl]

http://kickcdf.blog5.fc2.com/

"Kick CDF" ha.

[Shadida]

Just solo'd Lamprey Lord at H-6 in Pashhow on COR/NIN using Kaeko's information. Took 35 minutes, QD was never resisted once. No upgrade though >_<

Thanks for the post, Kaeko!

[Demosthenes11]

LS told me about this one for Yilbegan:

http://kickcdf.blog5.fc2.com/

4 players, 7 characters.

PLD/WAR WHM BRD RDM || RNG RNG THF

Killed in about an hour. Could have 6 man'd but wanted TH. Takes good damage from RNG when wings up, but resists 90% on magic nukes then I think. WHM used for sacrifice on TP/MP/HP down effect.

EDIT: Dico is the leader of DaFunk right? Should be a couple NA members that frequent or troll this forum if people want to pick at them.

you could do this fight with next to nothing tbh. It's piss easy every kill (10+) we have done so far sooooooo zzzzzzzzzzz

[Kaeko]

Just did the Doomed NM is Xarc present using the same sort of terrain glitch. If anyone's interested, I don't have the screenshots and the write up (have to do 3 of these now), but if you go to present day Xarc (H-7) upper floors, look for 3 evergreen trees that are bunched in a triangle. Mobs get really, really confused there. Took ~32 minutes with Chainspell on RDM/NIN (probably didn't need to sub /NIN except for the pull). I would imagine this being a really easy COR solo as well.

Got the +10DEF earring but no abyssite

Pretty sure 15,000HP on the dot.