Abyssea Discussion

[darkhorror]

You CAN leave with less than 5 minutes left on your timer and get that time next time you enter.

The other day I went in, didn't use any stones and I had 5 minutes left. I got those 5 minutes talked to cruor guy to buy a map. Then I left, I came back a couple hours later to do abyssea event with LS, and it said I had 3 minutes left I could use. So I used 3 stones (I have the +3 minute Key item) and I had and ended with 102 minutes.

[Thalandor46]

Has anyone tested if the Merit abyssites stack? Or any other abyssites with the same effect for that matter?

[miokomioko]

You CAN leave with less than 5 minutes left on your timer and get that time next time you enter.

The other day I went in, didn't use any stones and I had 5 minutes left. I got those 5 minutes talked to cruor guy to buy a map. Then I left, I came back a couple hours later to do abyssea event with LS, and it said I had 3 minutes left I could use. So I used 3 stones (I have the +3 minute Key item) and I had and ended with 102 minutes.

That's not really the point that was being made.

Less than 5 minutes being stored when you leave is completely negligible. Having any significant amount of time stored up will be lost if you leave with less than 5 minutes on the clock. How can one ever have a bunch of time stored while simultaneously only having a few minutes left? Entering and leaving without Visitant status.

[Belkin]

Best spot I've found so far is by chasmic hornet for T1, the gorger types there are neverending right in the same spot.

We averaged killing one ever 2-3 minutes, was able to get a T2 abyssite with only one stone.

Whilst he is right about them popping nonstop, the bee's are annoying and Chasmic Hornet is true sight/sound. So if you are going to duo/trio, this spot is a hellhole.

And I am now 0/20+ on converting. Fuck VNM.

[Gwynplaine]

I just had some more visitant time math weirdness. I entered Abyssea for the first time on my newly level 30 mule. Told the NPC to use 2 stones for 60 minutes. And somehow the total time added up to 89 minutes. It must be some kind of bug. I don't see what else could be causing it. He has no special buffs or anything.

[Salmijr]

Seein as how you can only hold 1 stone until you enter abyssea, then go back and talk to joachim, gonna say that you used 2 stones plus had the leftover time from the 1st entry. Thats the only way you could have had 2 stones, he wont give you more than 1 until you enter once.

[Malacite]

Not sure if this has been mentioned yet but I made an interesting discovery today (against my own will >_>)


If you exit Abyssea with visitant status and lights built up, then re-enter the same zone and get visitant again, your lights will still be there. I was in a PT that did a tele-holla on me and I was quite pissed off because I still had 54 min left and was going to join a friend's group since mine was done.

Much to my surprise, after hopping a chocobo back up to the maw and finally joining them, someone got a melee kill and it said "Faint" perle light instead of Feeble like it would be by default.

[Plow]

Not sure if this has been mentioned yet but I made an interesting discovery today (against my own will >_>)


If you exit Abyssea with visitant status and lights built up, then re-enter the same zone and get visitant again, your lights will still be there. I was in a PT that did a tele-holla on me and I was quite pissed off because I still had 54 min left and was going to join a friend's group since mine was done.

Much to my surprise, after hopping a chocobo back up to the maw and finally joining them, someone got a melee kill and it said "Faint" perle light.

http://www.chicagonow.com/blogs/part...259-155318.jpg

[Gwynplaine]

Seein as how you can only hold 1 stone until you enter abyssea, then go back and talk to joachim, gonna say that you used 2 stones plus had the leftover time from the 1st entry. Thats the only way you could have had 2 stones, he wont give you more than 1 until you enter once.

I did enter once before to be able to hold multiple stones. But all I did was enter then leave without getting visitant status. So there shouldn't have been any leftover time to carry over.

[Kunoki]

Quick question, does Aoidos' Belt really drop off of mikey? I have yet to really see anyone with one. Never seen it drop at all from fighting him several times.

[Fereydoon]

Quick question, does Aoidos' Belt really drop off of mikey? I have yet to really see anyone with one. Never seen it drop at all from fighting him several times.

Yes, I helped a friend get one. Maybe he's just stingy?

[Belkin]

Quick question, does Aoidos' Belt really drop off of mikey? I have yet to really see anyone with one. Never seen it drop at all from fighting him several times.

All job specific gear in Abyssea has a pretty shitty drop rate.

[Thorny]

While a few people are talking about abyssea VNM, I figure it'd be a good time to post map update for Apradar2(or ffxiassist if it even still works). If there's been one made already, sorry, I looked around for a good 90 minutes and couldn't find it, so made myself.

http://rapidshare.com/files/408594245/maps.zip

Only tested konschtat, but no reason the others shouldn't work. If you have problems, let me know. Simply delete everything in your maps folder and unzip that to it.

[FailureMidgard]

While a few people are talking about abyssea VNM, I figure it'd be a good time to post map update for Apradar2(or ffxiassist if it even still works). If there's been one made already, sorry, I looked around for a good 90 minutes and couldn't find it, so made myself.

http://rapidshare.com/files/408594245/maps.zip

Only tested konschtat, but no reason the others shouldn't work. If you have problems, let me know. Simply delete everything in your maps folder and unzip that to it.

Sean's Map pack on the windower site has been updated and works, it has the maps with all the colored mob locations/etc.

[arus2001]

Sean's Map pack on the windower site has been updated and works, it has the maps with all the colored mob locations/etc.

Think I downloaded it, but it seems to be a bunch of gifs for another program. There things we can copy over to the ROM files themselves so the in-game maps are altered? I have old mobs with elementals and some NM spawns, but that's years old.

[Calessa]

okay. Two times on wednesday my alliance has gone out to do La-theine abyssea. And on both occassions the worm camp was full and we were foced to kill birds. On birds we built azure light np. However when we were trying to build pearl it was almost non-existant. I know it's a melee kill, however does anyone know why it was such a low rate? We were farming that second (I know most say start with this).. Any advise suggestions?

My last group did birds, and I was careful to keep track of what was going on. Pearlescent lights WOULD NOT APPEAR AT ALL when our WAR got a kill. We also observed a DRG, 2 Wyverns and a PUP that did not get Pearlescent lights all the time, but they also were able to get Pearlescent lights on other kills. The WAR never did. At one point I noticed that the kill was a double-attack proc but didn't go back to check the rest of the kills. The DRG wasn't /WAR so I'm not too convinced that was the cause (he has 1% DA on gear tho). No other melees had trouble generating pearl light, though the DRG and WAR did get the majority of the kills, so it might be that no one else got enough kills to trigger a kill without light.

[Icari]

Think I downloaded it, but it seems to be a bunch of gifs for another program. There things we can copy over to the ROM files themselves so the in-game maps are altered? I have old mobs with elementals and some NM spawns, but that's years old.

No one has updated the dat maps yet. those maps are for apradar and such programs.

[Malacite]

Also any final info on how Scarlet Abyssite of Kismet works?

I've had it for a while now but I haven't gotten the chance to open any chests with it so I have no idea just how it works. And why the facepalm? I thought it was pretty sweet that you can keep your lights provided you don't time-out, tractor, or switch Abyssea zones. Makes consecutive EXP runs potentially quite lucrative (not to mention saves you shit tonne of time assuming you have a static)

[Kilik]

Also any final info on how Scarlet Abyssite of Kismet works?

I've had it for a while now but I haven't gotten the chance to open any chests with it so I have no idea just how it works. And why the facepalm? I thought it was pretty sweet that you can keep your lights provided you don't time-out, tractor, or switch Abyssea zones. Makes consecutive EXP runs potentially quite lucrative (not to mention saves you shit tonne of time assuming you have a static)

So you're saying that if I enter Abys-Tahrongi when I get home from work today, I will have capped pearl/azure/amber lights since I had capped when I was d2'd from there last night?

I did not think it worked like this.

[LinktheDeme]

Not sure if this has been mentioned yet but I made an interesting discovery today (against my own will >_>)


If you exit Abyssea with visitant status and lights built up, then re-enter the same zone and get visitant again, your lights will still be there. I was in a PT that did a tele-holla on me and I was quite pissed off because I still had 54 min left and was going to join a friend's group since mine was done.

Much to my surprise, after hopping a chocobo back up to the maw and finally joining them, someone got a melee kill and it said "Faint" perle light instead of Feeble like it would be by default.

No your lights did reset it doesn't matter if you go back into the same zone. You always get faint Perle not feeble unless its from a chest. Not to mention the chests mob drop and etc depend on who gets the killshot.

edit: also plow stop being such a tryhard you only look like an idiot when your trying to be an ass about something you don't know about apparently.