Abyssea Discussion

[Psion]

I've had similar issues, where getting melee killshots resulted in no light for several mobs in a row, which was a problem since we needed pearl for increased chests. But after a couple minutes we started getting pearl lights every melee kill for a while, then it stopped for a minute or two again, and so on.

I'm starting to beleive in the "if there's too many chests up in the zone, you don't get light on killshot till there's slots available" theory.

[Trekk]

I've had similar issues, where getting melee killshots resulted in no light for several mobs in a row, which was a problem since we needed pearl for increased chests. But after a couple minutes we started getting pearl lights every melee kill for a while, then it stopped for a minute or two again, and so on.

I'm starting to beleive in the "if there's too many chests up in the zone, you don't get light on killshot till there's slots available" theory.

I jus had a party in the frog camp tonight. It turned into a fail attempt. The frogs would not give pearl lights, we tried over and over and they just died. every once in a while we would get one. We went heavy on magic kills and they jsut didnt seem to want to drop any boxes. Everyone was loaded with keys...... We just kept getting red boxes with ruby lights inside... and blue with healing lights. Finally after like 85min we got one TE and that was it.

Few nights ago we had so many boxes dropping we couldnt open them fast enough... i dont get it.

[Foof]

I jus had a party in the frog camp tonight. It turned into a fail attempt. The frogs would not give pearl lights, we tried over and over and they just died. every once in a while we would get one. We went heavy on magic kills and they jsut didnt seem to want to drop any boxes. Everyone was loaded with keys...... We just kept getting red boxes with ruby lights inside... and blue with healing lights. Finally after like 85min we got one TE and that was it.

Few nights ago we had so many boxes dropping we couldnt open them fast enough... i dont get it.

Our PT ran across this same issue right now (tahrongi - couerl). Melee killshots were very rarely getting pearl light - talking 1/10 or less. Chests were rare and as a result we left after people started timing out (90min + 1 TE).

Previously today, different camp (tahrongi - mandy) we were getting pearl/azure just fine until a large amount of people had been rep'd (pt ran for 6+ hrs before we started losing TE's). And for the record, I've yet to see ruby light off any mobs.

[jimbobsonofgod]

Killshots produce lights, which light depends on which kind of killshot it was:

Azure (Blue Chests) - Magic killshot - Improve the quality and frequency of blue chests -
Perlescent Light (Chest rate?) - Melee hit killshot (BLU physical magic, Avatar BPs etc included) - Improve the frequency of chests? - And maybe permits the "bright light" blue boxes?

Pretty sure Blue physical magic actually belongs with azure not Pearlescent.

[miokomioko]

It's not zone-specific, as I already clarified. I have received ruby light from Thalassinons when I killed them with Stringing Pummel solo.

[NynJa]

I'd like to point out that Lights do seem to diminish over time >.>
I havent left the area, havent dc, havent changed mobs...I afked for 30 min to get food, maybe thats the culprit... but I'm down to feeble Azure light

[miokomioko]

Eh, I'm almost certain the message you get in the log doesn't determine the strength of your current aura.

Each message seems to be how much that mob or red chest just enhanced your aura of that color and there's no other real way to determine your current light strength other than the rewards you're getting and chest lock difficulty.

[Khiinroye]

Birds in La Theine were giving all 4 lights. At first, the lights didn't show up all the time, but after a short while, they were at every kill. We were just short on people willing to use magic weaponskills to make amber (I ended up doing rock crusher at 3% whenever I could after a restore chest). Our large chests gave a khroma ore, and some stuff like fanatic's powder and dusty wing *without* temp tags.

[miokomioko]

fanatic's powder and dusty wing *without* temp tags.

They receive TMP tags when they enter your inventory.

[Khiinroye]

Yeah, asked the person who got it and he said that it did. Kinda sucks, they should have it tagged as temp in the chest.

[NynJa]

Also found some spaghetti code shit, see if you can spot it, I made it pretty easy for you guys...
http://img341.imageshack.us/img341/280/hastebug.jpg

Whats worse? It wont show in the mage's log.

I'm surprised no one commented on the spaghetti code glitch >.>

[draco]

My LS just finished a 9hr Abyssea party on mandies. We got about 320k xp & 100k cruor. Chest drop rate & TE chest slowed down after getting a bunch of new people and people haven't to spend merit/switch jobs to continue on. All and all it was a great day for us

[Auburn]

I've been using Thorny's dats for about 2 hours now and I've yet to see a Pyxis over #16. I've also been through a couple camps.

[miokomioko]

I left with 88 minutes on the clock the other night.
Today, I entered to see something with my default 5 minutes and then left real quick.
Because I didn't get visitant status and set my clock back to 88 minutes, I ended up technically leaving with less then 5 minutes and lost all of my stored time.

Just a warning about such a bullshit technicality in case you weren't aware~

[Aquilo86]

Just spitballing here but perhaps there's an overall aura cap, hence all of the people capping azure > pearlescent > and then attempting ruby are already at an aura cap and therefore can't receive ruby?

I've had similar issues after doing waaaaaaaaaaay too many azure kills because the blms in my group didn't know how to follow directions, and then having trouble getting -any- other type of light

[Auburn]

I left with 88 minutes on the clock the other night.
Today, I entered to see something with my default 5 minutes and then left real quick.
Because I didn't get visitant status and set my clock back to 88 minutes, I ended up technically leaving with less then 5 minutes and lost all of my stored time.

Just a warning about such a bullshit technicality in case you weren't aware~

Yeah, I believe that was stated somewhere earlier in the thread. >< That really sucks though.

[miokomioko]

Sounded familiar as I realized what happened to me, but I'm going to report it as a bug though I doubt that will do much.

[Auburn]

Speaking of bugs; I got the message that my Max MP buff had worn off, but I still have it. >.>

[Malacite]

Pretty sure Blue physical magic actually belongs with azure not Pearlescent.

All blue magic is Azure. Last run dude was getting azure lights with Frenetic Rip and Hysteric Barrage.

[Darkdoom]

Speaking of bugs; I got the message that my Max MP buff had worn off, but I still have it. >.>

It restores itself within 10 seconds if you click it off, noticed this when I kept clicking it off instead of Composure.