Abyssea Discussion

[Prim]

As far as the chest abyssite goes- I think it starts your "color tier" one level higher when you enter Abyssea. I have done a lot of soloing recently while trying to get Celerity and other abyssites. With the Abyssite of Kismet, on multiple occasions my first kill after zoning in has rewarded me with "A small amount of curor" as opposed to the lowest tier which is "miniscule".
A friend of mine reported receiving a TE and a 600 exp chest after 5 kills with the same Abyssite and theorizes that it allows you to receive any tier reward without having to build up that specific light. I have not experienced either of those yet, but I'm still keeping an eye open and soloing a lot.

[Flic]

Got a couple questions, not sure if it belongs here or into random question though. Sorry if it's noobish.

I've never done abyssea as an event to farm/pop monsters (only did xp).
- Is it worth it when doing a farm session to farm time extensions first ? Is it advised ?
- How much time could be build in 30ish minutes ? Do you know a good pattern to farm time. I don't see NM sessions reasonably go over 3Hours, so farming time for more than 30~45 minutes does sucks.

- Can you keep farming lights while moving to a different kind of monsters (like start on clionids, then move to bats) ?
- Do lights have an impact on drops from NMs ?

We do turnabout, one week we will xp and build up amber light, this really is the fastest way to get key items for bosses, next week do bosses and random nms people would like drops off. Problem with xping for key items is it will take about 3 hours plus to start seeing the full benifit.

[Enygma55]

My observations of the Abyssite related to blue/gold/red is that it has a chance to also spike the chest into upper tiers.

I've been able to get large gold boxes with key item with maybe only 3-4 amber light but they were rare and far between. One contained a key item. I've also been able to get ebon having 0 ruby light.

[Aemora]

What's the quickest anyone has reached Exp cap against anything in Abyssea?

I was in a party last night, started out as a 12 man exp sessions, 8 Sch/Rdm/Blm and 4 DDs, against Imps. Exp was lol for the first 30 minutes, then after 1:30hr two people left, and for the last hour we were 10 manning Imps manaburnish style. Managed to hit 610 exp in 2:30hrs total with just 10-12 people.

I say this because this was my first damn excellent Exp session in Abyssea, and when you go with 18 man groups, generally it takes a lot longer to hit this number (from my own personal experience, others may have gotten it quicker, that being said the highest I've ever gotten in a 18man group was 400ish). The idea that lights build up quicker to smaller groups (i.e. are scaled to the #'s in the alliance) seems to be a nice one, because we managed to cap azure after 15 minutes and pearl after 20 against imps like this. Boxes weren't flying out of every mobs ass, nor were the TEs, but I left with no less time than I entered with.

So in short, what's the best/quickest place you've all exp'd at?

[Chen]

well remember with 2/3's of the alliance size you'd assume something along the lines of an extra 50% exp, so i'd say you're on a comparable 400~ for a standard alliance of 18, then you compare kill speed also.

to answer your question, it took me about 2 hrs with group of strong Dd's and good organization @ lizards to get 600

[Yugl]

So in short, what's the best/quickest place you've all exp'd at?

My quickest capped XP session was at the Bugard camp. We had 18 members and at capped XP within 1hr30-2hrs. I assume it would have been faster if our BRD didn't drop out early (RNG got mobs while waiting on replacement BRD).

[Arthars]

I managed to pop a top tier blue chest with said abyssite in 20 azure lights, whereas it normally takes 30-35, so it looks like, eyeballing it, you build up your light about 30% faster which is pretty decent.

idk how the fuck u determine this

i have already seen TE boxes etc at 18 lights way early in july when im certain almost everyone didnt get quest done before. so im not sure how u think u gained 30-35 lights effect

on the other hand, i have seen huge gold box pop in just 2 amber lights yesterday

so im sure the gold box abyssite seriously is potent on that particular random person that got the abyssite and killshot the mob

[Thorny]

What's the quickest anyone has reached Exp cap against anything in Abyssea?

I was in a party last night, started out as a 12 man exp sessions, 8 Sch/Rdm/Blm and 4 DDs, against Imps. Exp was lol for the first 30 minutes, then after 1:30hr two people left, and for the last hour we were 10 manning Imps manaburnish style. Managed to hit 610 exp in 2:30hrs total with just 10-12 people.

I say this because this was my first damn excellent Exp session in Abyssea, and when you go with 18 man groups, generally it takes a lot longer to hit this number (from my own personal experience, others may have gotten it quicker, that being said the highest I've ever gotten in a 18man group was 400ish). The idea that lights build up quicker to smaller groups (i.e. are scaled to the #'s in the alliance) seems to be a nice one, because we managed to cap azure after 15 minutes and pearl after 20 against imps like this. Boxes weren't flying out of every mobs ass, nor were the TEs, but I left with no less time than I entered with.

So in short, what's the best/quickest place you've all exp'd at?

With nobody leaving and ~8 people, hit 600 in 85 minutes on wivre once. It's not about your killspeed, it's about ruby.. the exp worth a shit comes from golden lights, period.

[benny]

Not sure if this has been mentioned by anyone yet, but cruor enhancement buffs with both merit abyssites and the furtherance abyssite total to +40%HP, +20%MP and +20 to all stats. Based on the reading of the abyssite descriptions I think each merit is +10% more HP and +5% more MP, with furtherance giving an extra +10stats (even though each one says "and other beneficial effects", that seems to not mean anything).

Sorry if this is old news.

[Psion]

Do they boost atma as well? :s

[miokomioko]

I would say Atma HP/MP effects and/or Temp Potion/Ether effects.

[benny]

From what I can tell it's always modified by your gear so that no matter what your HP would be, it's always +40% of that. Based on that I'd assume that atma increases would be boosted as well, but I only have the resist slow/curse atma so I can't test personally.

[NynJa]

So, I dont know if this has been covered, but we were doing NM's in Tahrongi yesterday...my initial experience were that Limules aggro, and Clionids didnt...

We were doing Veltherenien(sp), camping in the middle of the Limules, which werent aggroing whatsoever, then randomly they aggroed for no reason. We think it could be cause undead time hit, and they aggro at night like ladybugs.

Anyone with similar experiences?

[Yugl]

I was soloing Piasa and never received aggro from the Limule. When I killed the NM a second time, two Limules aggroed. I didn't check the time, but that is an interesting theory if no counterexamples exist.

[Byrthnoth]

I've heard they agro based on light levels.

[Not Kuno]

I got agro with and without any lights.

[Psion]

I always get clionids and limules mixed up, but I thought limules aggrod magic and clionids aggrod low HP?

[Yugl]

I always get clionids and limules mixed up, but I thought limules aggrod magic and clionids aggrod low HP?

That couldn't have been the case because in the instance where I received no aggro, they were close enough to magic aggro. However, when they did aggro, I wasn't even casting anything (Repinning the mob).

[Rocl]

Limules fucked me up just running by them once in Tahrongi. It was after an EXP session and killing Bhumi though if that has anything to do w/ aggro.

[Ripples]

I ran through the Clinoids near teleporter #3 didn't aggro later ran past with Raskovink claimed and they started casting on me, strange thing was they only casted one spell and wouldn't follow after that. No idea what was going on there.