Abyssea Discussion

[Nadrojj]

Is it possible for a 75NIN/DNC to go in and solo mobs for cruror? My LS goes while I am at work and the few friends I have in game are not interested at all in going.

[Karbuncle]

Is it possible for a 75NIN/DNC to go in and solo mobs for cruror? My LS goes while I am at work and the few friends I have in game are not interested at all in going.

You can find several DC~EM mobs amongst a crowd of VT/ITs occasionally at level 75, but at like 20 Cruor a fight and the time it takes coupled with the fact you have a maximum time of 1:30 inside, you'd take a while to get enough Cruor for anything.

Plus theres never a guarantee there will be those DC/EM mobs up...

I suggest finding -someone- to team up with, since Cruor is obtained same was as exp finding even just a random person in the zone to duo with will speed things up.

But, it IS possible to do solo, it will be slow, and you'd have to find a mob family you can fight easily and then search out the DC/EM mobs in the crowd (If any are up) to fight.

[Malacite]

Oh thanks, hadn't noticed he was updating his OP.

[Jericho]

When we fought Baba Yaga we seen the !! pop over her head and she did nothing for like 1 min, seen same thing happen on big crab in WoE

Oh and Tefenet's weakness is Bio II, lol. Every time we cast Bio II a !! appeared.

These NM weaknesses seem to have great potential for making things more lowmannable, but maybe someone can answer these questions;

Is it known yet how these weaknesses work, and/or to which NMs they're rescricted to? I mean, Carabosse sounds like a real bitch, but is it possible that she could be weakened too? Also, is it feasable to just repeat the weakness trigger over and over? (E.g. constantly re-casting Bio II on Rocl's hecteye NM.) Or is there a cooldown before you can repeat it? Sounds like it would be hugely benefitial to understand these weaknesses to be able to exploit them properly.

[Skeelo]

Edit:nvm found it

[Uzor]

These NM weaknesses seem to have great potential for making things more lowmannable, but maybe someone can answer these questions;

Is it known yet how these weaknesses work, and/or to which NMs they're rescricted to? I mean, Carabosse sounds like a real bitch, but is it possible that she could be weakened too? Also, is it feasable to just repeat the weakness trigger over and over? (E.g. constantly re-casting Bio II on Rocl's hecteye NM.) Or is there a cooldown before you can repeat it? Sounds like it would be hugely benefitial to understand these weaknesses to be able to exploit them properly.

I get the feeling its a new weakness every time a NM spawn, so simply finding it and sticking to it for all eternity won't be possible.

I mean, do you really want to go through the entire spell list, ability list and weaponskill list every time you pop an NM to find its weakness? Unless NM's rotate between 5-6 possible weak points, its gonna be a pain. I don't want the BLM, WHM or a melee to gimp themselves by using Spirit Taker on an NM because he happen to be weak to it.

[Seol]

<_< I'll tell you this, dieing in Abyssea with only a 5k buffer brought me down to 144xp, I got a raise 3 and I only got back 500xp, was bull shit.

Can someone start noting down how much exp we lose when we die inside Abyssea? I was lvl 80 with 3.9k buffer yesterday in A-Tahrongi. we tried the NM worm with 10 ppl, less than 3minutes into the fight WHM/BRD/COR got kicked out (They were only using 1 stone...) Then out of nowhere our RDM, 2nd WHM and me (RNG) aggroed like 5 small worms from huge distance (We were the members staying out of range from the NM) short story: we ended up wiping. Me and Someone else Delvled. (I am not sure what the other person's buffer was) 3.9k exp lost or more @ lvl 80?

Anyways I got a raise II which put me @2.7k buffer but I was back to lvl 80, and the other person who delvled got a raise III getting his lvl back to 79, we recover and just went back to fight normal mobs. First mob we start to fight, I start getting archery skill ups since my archery isn't caped at lvl 80 yet, but it is caped at 79 and lower. After we killed the mob (was a normal Manticore) It gave 142 exp and some cruor, but me and the other guy who had deleveled leveled up again me to 80, and him to 79-- Even though we were our respective levels. It seemed like a bug, but it was a huge WTF moment.

[ringthree]

In Abyssea-Konschtat we farmed Razorbacks until we got a Ripped Eft Skin. This was traded to the ??? in the same area which spawned Sarcophilus, a larger Eft. It was no real trouble for our group of about 12. It used normal Eft moves, but if I remember correctly it used Geist Wall and Numbing Noise a lot, and I think Numbing Noise was full AoE and the stun lasted a while.

It dropped this:
http://i236.photobucket.com/albums/f...cp/New_hat.png

[krizz]

Now the Bringing Down the Mountain quest i am a little confused with. The child Galka in the central camp wants you to find his older friend. You'll find this galka on the way east side just north of the blood bats. You'll talk to him, and he will now acknowledge his galka friend, but says he will not stop till the mountain comes down because he wants to get to Mhaura. He asks you, "don't you hear the voices? They are telling us to bring this mountain down. I will not rest till I get to Mhaura."

Clearly I have to trade something to him. Whether it's explosives I am not sure. I tried going to Mhaura during present time and talking to all the npcs, but to no avail. I even examined the spot in the present day where the mountain wall would be, but there is nothing. I think the hearing of the voices is key, but I'm not sure what I need to give him? maybe echo drops? Maybe a mhaura waystone? Maybe an explosive of some type? who knows.

Wiki says that the Qutrubs drop some sort of gunpowder item, although I haven't fought those personally so I'm not sure if it's accurate or not. If that's true, I wonder if the NM which is poped by that is what drops the vestige. If not... well I'm not really sure where else it'd be from. :<

Maybe Gunpowder Swathe is the item you need for that quest.

[urat]

Maybe Gunpowder Swathe is the item you need for that quest.

Probably 3 of them if it follows the pattern of all the rest of the abyssea quests.

[krizz]

Has anyone popped the NM from F-6 in La Theine? (Cankercaps drop the giant agaricus mushroom, iirc)

Same for the G-11 pop. Requires filthy gnole claw. Guessing this is Lugarhoo since someone mentioned it is a gnole on a previous page.

Do dried chigoes only drop from black merino or the irate sheep as well? It seems kind of odd for a mob to have no drop related to a NM or quest.

I ran searches for all of these things, but sorry if I overlooked a post somehow.

[firefeng]

Fishing Rod Quest now only grants 120 Cruor.

Goddammit.

[urat]

I guess se just doesn't like us getting stuff accomplished on their game.

[Gwynplaine]

Quests are not going to be a boon for your cruor points. You're far better off teaming up with someone, anyone, to kill some mobs. The more people, the faster you can farm cruor, but quests are really for fame and progress first, not cruor points.

There's just no way all of the time you need to spend running back and forth talking to quest NPCs and all of the cruor you spend warping will be better than points from mobs. Neither is obtaining the quest items needed quick or cheap. Mining up the hardened bones and fishing the weapons etc. takes precious time. If you feel like messing around because there's no other options at the moment quests are fine to do for some points and work toward fame. But like Failure has explained taking as many people as you can and chaining things non-stop will get you thousands more points.

[Zirael]

STR/DEX boost for 120 cruor gives you +10 STR and +10 DEX

[firefeng]

But like Failure has explained taking as many people as you can and chaining things non-stop will get you thousands more points.

Until the next emergency maintenance, of course.

Should I just take otherwiki at its word that rusty gear can be turned in for 40-80 Cruor in La Theine?

[krizz]

Until the next emergency maintenance, of course.

Should I just take otherwiki at its word that rusty gear can be turned in for 40-80 Cruor in La Theine?

Spear is 80, Kunai 40?

Don't know about the others since the maint has changed things over the last couple days.

[NynJa]

which dats correspond to the mob list for the 3 abyssea zones? Tried searching, but no luck.

Or is there a new dat reading program I'm unaware of? POLUtils is out of date

[FailureMidgard]

Briareus -
Seems to have innate -DT.

Uses Mercurial Strike...AoE damage move, started out not breaking stoneskin, then hit for 1k+. Seems to have a chance to reset all JAs (only happened once for us)?? Ignores/wipes shadows.
Uses Meikyo Shisui,spams Colossal Slam x3, does 1k-1500 aoe per use. Puts up an immune to healing debuff. Neither sacrifice nor Cursna seemed to work. Wore off naturally after ~5-15 sec. Ignores/wipes shadows. It is rangeable, seems to be the best way to handle it, force a ready and get out with 1 person. 2hred at 90%, 80%, 20%, 10%, 5%.
Throws rocks (??under 50%??), 3 shadows aoe.

Took ~30min to kill, screenshot inc shortly.

http://www.risen-guild.com/fail/gigasab.png

Oh ya, no key item.

[Renzy]

Went 2/2 on this belt, NM uses Catapult constantly which ignores utsusemi.
Also got a key item 'Dented Gigas Shield', which nobody else got (1 of the 3 key items used to pop Briareus?)

http://img6.imageshack.us/img6/3150/...0630222251.png