Abyssea Discussion

[Onorgul]

I'm almost certain that I had not gotten any Time Extensions yet. However, that seems like the most likely explanation. I was at the tail end of having been up for, well, an absurdly long period of time and had spent most of that time in marathon Abyssea alliances, so my brain was somewhat mushy at the time.

[Sumiko]

So basically I can't hold onto this awesome revitalizer temporary item forever with Visitant Stones, unless I keep extending my time with chest Time Extensions? Sad.

Eventually I have to just be kicked out of the zone if I don't get time chests or I can't extend my time at all?

[Xanthe]

So basically I can't hold onto this awesome revitalizer temporary item forever with Visitant Stones, unless I keep extending my time with chest Time Extensions? Sad.

Eventually I have to just be kicked out of the zone if I don't get time chests or I can't extend my time at all?

Temp items remain on reentry as long as you exit with more than five minutes remaining. You can add more stones when you go back in.

[Sumiko]

Temp items remain on reentry as long as you exit with more than five minutes remaining. You can add more stones when you go back in.

So as long as I change zones, I'm able to still add more than +120 minutes with visitant stones?

[Atoreis]

So basically I can't hold onto this awesome revitalizer temporary item forever with Visitant Stones, unless I keep extending my time with chest Time Extensions? Sad.

Eventually I have to just be kicked out of the zone if I don't get time chests or I can't extend my time at all?

Ppl need to start reading the topic and not asking stupid questions.
Wa told many times if You leave with mroe then 5 min remaining you can go back in asap (or in next week) and you wont lose visitant status...

[Gwynplaine]

Read the entire Abyssea event information provided by Square in the update notes here before asking more stupid questions some people can't be bothered to read themselves first hand.

http://www.playonline.com/pcd/verup/...78/detail.html

[Xanthe]

So as long as I change zones, I'm able to still add more than +120 minutes with visitant stones?

No, you can refresh UP TO a combined total of 120 minutes.

Cliff's Notes:
- You can only receive up to a total of 120 minutes of Visitant Status from a Conflux surveyor upon entry. This is a combination of traverser stones and saved time.
- Time and temporary items are only saved if you exit the zone with more than five minutes remaining.
- Any excess time over 120 minutes is not saved upon exiting. You will only have 120 minutes banked upon reentry.
- If you enter and do not receive Visitant Status before exiting the zone you lose any saved time and temp items.

[miokomioko]

Simply stated:

1) You can only ENTER or EXIT with a maximum of 120 minutes.
2) All stored time WILL BE LOST if you ever exit with less than 5 minutes on the clock.

[Byrthnoth]

People have reported retaining Temp items when they exit with 3 minutes remaining. Maybe Temp items are only lost if you're booted?

[Benevolentone]

Some things have been odd lately, though. A group I was in yesterday got a 1000 cruor chest off literally the 2nd mob we killed, with no light of any sort built up. After that it was normal the rest of the way.

Are you sure that noone in the alliance hadn't been there already and just added once you zoned in? Because he may have had capped lights from a previous party.

Also I did a run last night and even though we got tons of ebon and a few amber lights we only saw a small handful of golden chests. Also chest drop rate seemed to drop way off at for like 15-25 minutes, even with only 50 in the zone including us, and then pick up for a minute then go away again. Has anyone else had this happen? We were cycling people before hand but at this point in the party we were maybe 4 hours in and everyone getting killshots, for the most part, had close to capped lights. Also still no ruby from mandies, so anyone thinking they may have changed that shall be disappoint.

People have reported retaining Temp items when they exit with 3 minutes remaining. Maybe Temp items are only lost if you're booted?

Pretty sure that has been reported to be confirmed. Temp items stay if you dont get booted.

[Sumiko]

Ppl need to start reading the topic and not asking stupid questions.
Wa told many times if You leave with mroe then 5 min remaining you can go back in asap (or in next week) and you wont lose visitant status...

I KNOW that, lol. You didn't read my last post that I extended my time when I did have visitant status with one stone and it only gave me 20 minutes instead of 30. XD

What happened was this:

I went to Dem with 118 minutes left over.

Spent at least 20 minutes on a NM

When I went to Mea, I used my leftover time, 98~ minutes. Did a couple of NMs for 30+ minutes. People wanted to do MORE NMs, so I decided to add more time to my time, but when I used a stone, it gave me LESS than 30 minutes. So I'm thinking: (Oh crap, can I just not keep using my leftover visitant status over and over?)

No, you can refresh UP TO a combined total of 120 minutes.

Cliff's Notes:
- You can only receive up to a total of 120 minutes of Visitant Status from a Conflux surveyor upon entry. This is a combination of traverser stones and saved time.
- Time and temporary items are only saved if you exit the zone with more than five minutes remaining.
- Any excess time over 120 minutes is not saved upon exiting. You will only have 120 minutes banked upon reentry.
- If you enter and do not receive Visitant Status before exiting the zone you lose any saved time and temp items.

Thanks, I get that now, ONE visit. I thought it was because I already spent time in Dem that I couldn't extend my time even more in Mea, since it added/took away approximately the same amount of time. Ugh Gotta keep track of time then.

[Laynton]

Also chest drop rate seemed to drop way off at for like 15-25 minutes, even with only 50 in the zone including us, and then pick up for a minute then go away again.

This happened to me the last pt I was in. But pt before that we were getting no chests till around the 50min mark. A couple here and there but no more than one on the ground at a time and far between drops. But after the 50min mark it started picking back up and about 140-150min in we almost always had 2-3 chest on the ground and ended up disbanding the party after 6hrs in.

[Shadida]

The other night I was in a long Abyssea group on my THF. Once I got capped lights, it seemed like most if not all of the giant gold chests spawned after I got the killshot (despite others with capped lights continuing to get killshots). Also, after I capped out on merits, I left the group but stayed in Absysea to use some of my spare time to kill some T1 VNMs solo for a colorful upgrade (great way to spend your 100+ extra minutes) and on 2 of the 5 kills I got my own personal giant chest (only crap inside though).

I only mention this because I have a Viridian Abyssite of Destiny which I got from pulling the Qutrub NM. Does anyone else have this abyssite and noticed the same thing?

[KigenAngelo]

So do we have any clue on what WS actually create amber? Do we still think certain mobs do not grant certain lights? Do we still think that amber light is magical WSs only and not some sort of do X for Mob Y type of thing?

From the pics on page 69

Red Lotus Blade on Blood Bats do not (they give amber)

Aeolian Edge on Shadow Funguar gives Amber.

[Belkin]

Amber Light is given from WS that say in the description

"Deals Fire elemental damage." Except fire can be interchanged with any other element.

What does NOT work, however, are WS's that show an element on the icon but only give a status effect correlated with the element. Take Guillotine and Flat Blade for example. Both have an elemental icon (Wind and Lightning) but will not trigger Amber Light.

[miokomioko]

So wait, you're saying elemental weaponskills give Amber light, and not physical weaponskills? You heard it here first, folks.

[Koyangi]

I've known that for awhile, otherwiki has lots of nice info in it, should sticky it's abyssea page in this thread somewhere.


copy/paste

*Amber Light:
*Gained from dealing finishing blows with an elemental weapon skill, or from opening low tier red chests.
*Increases the frequency of gold chests.
*Enhances the "tier" of gold chests/increases frequency of giant gold chests.
*Current tier of light may be determined by the range of numbers in the guessing game for unlocking golden chests; the higher the potencial number range (11-44 up to 11-77), the greater the chest tier and rewards within.
*Giant gold chests may not appear until a certain strength of Amber light has been aquired

also inb4 lolOtherwiki

[KigenAngelo]

So wait, you're saying elemental weaponskills give Amber light, and not physical weaponskills? You heard it here first, folks.

... I'm trying to discern which do for a fact....

From the pic Red Lotus Blade doesnt...
From an LS run Shadow of Death may not either...

[miokomioko]

It was sarcasm.

It was somewhat agreed upon that elemental weaponskill kills yield amber light. He is essentially saying that physical weaponskills do not yield amber light. This deserved a "no shit?"

Just because the icon next to the weaponskill's name is purple doesn't mean that Shoulder Tackle is elemental in any way, shape, or form. Elemental weaponskills are those which say they deal ELEMENTAL DAMAGE.

Did we time travel back to 2003?

[Koyangi]

On this topic, I've never seen Ruby Light come from mandies, is this known?