Abyssea Discussion

[miokomioko]

I was just soloing the T1 Tahrongi VNM "Hungerer" on PUP/NIN. Incredibly easy, as mentioned before. A single well-geared Stone V was taking 38% of its HP down. In about 15 minutes, I managed to kite-nuke 3 of them down.

Every time, I (obviously) killed with magic damage , I got [feeble azure light], which I've never got before because I always solo as PUP/NIN with a WHM-Automaton.

No Abyssite change, but each kill at 79 was 178 exp, 33 cruor, if that matters at all.

[CaitsithCrumb]

They're trying to figure out if when you have 3 on you, the NPC will save up 3 more.

That would be a yes also, i think the original idea was that npc could hold more than 3 tho, sounded like he was saying npc had 5, he took 3 out and came back to get 2 more immediately.

[Eleven19]

Yes, can confirm that if you have 3 stones on you, the NPC basically is 'out' of them and will restock another three. Friend didn't go on some runs with us then went again, and he ended up with another hour of stones available on us because he'd been holding his 3 for a few days.

Also, the Thew bomblet NM is pretty easy with a full party. Killed him today more as a test to see if we could at all because I hadn't checked him out on BG's info or anything. In fact I haven't looked through this thread very hard, either. We left the first HP down move on to keep him from landing a stronger one on us each time, worked pretty well. At the time our tank was just PLD/NIN for messing around getting XP and farming cruor, probably would have him PLD/WAR for future runs. Main healer was a RDM and a PUP/WHM backup. We took it slow, I didn't WS at all before maybe 25%. Not that I could half the time with his TP erase.

Expect Thew bomb price to plummet within 3 weeks or so.

[urat]

I was just soloing the T1 Tahrongi VNM "Hungerer" on PUP/NIN. Incredibly easy, as mentioned before. A single well-geared Stone V was taking 38% of its HP down. In about 15 minutes, I managed to kite-nuke 3 of them down.

Every time, I (obviously) killed with magic damage , I got [feeble azure light], which I've never got before because I always solo as PUP/NIN with a WHM-Automaton.

No Abyssite change, but each kill at 79 was 178 exp, 33 cruor, if that matters at all.

Quick question, this was a craver boss by chance right? If so wild stab in the dark Im guessing the VNM T1 in konschtat is gonna be a thinker

Anyone fought it and have the name,s and/or the names of the T2 VNMs?

Trying to add to the charts on wiki, and its hard if you don't have anything to put in them =/

[Evane]

Killed Kukulkan today.

Did it have any sort of MDT/PDT down? Also what was your set up, do you suggest tanks sub something other than /nin ?

Last question, how did you deal with the eye nm? Do the mobs it spawns depop via sac'ing method or must be killed?

[miokomioko]

Yeah, Abyssea-Tahrongi VNMs are Cravers. La Theine's VNMs are Thinkers and Konschtat's VNMs are Gorgers. Cravers do have a slightly reduced movement speed which is very convenient. I'm not sure about Gorgers/Thinkers' movement speed though.

Abyssea-Tahrongi VNMs
T1:Hungerer
T2:Yearner
T3:Usurper? (assumption from the .DATs)


I haven't noticed any reports of VNMs in the other two zones, but I did a quick sift through the mob name .DATs...


Abyssea-Konschtat's Gorger-ish names are: Depths Digestor, Hadal Satiator, and I can't find the last one... (these are odd, being more than one-word, unlike all other empty NMs, perhaps they ran out of "fatass" synonyms)


Abyssea-La Theine's Thinker names are: Meditator, Brooder, Ruminator


Also, it seems like:

Tahrongi could have a Weeper T4 (Lamenter)
Konschtat could have a Wanderer T4 (Meanderer)
La Theine could have a Seether T4 (unknown)

[Evane]

Konschtat could have a Wanderer T4 (Meanderer)

IIRC Meanderer was Konschtat's T1.

[miokomioko]

IIRC Meanderer was Konschtat's T1.

Do you know if it's a Gorger or a Wanderer?

[Evane]

It was a Wanderer as you mentioned.

[miokomioko]

That's odd...

Perhaps there's two possible T1s in each zone (like normal VNM flow). One being the zone's native Empty, and the other being a Wanderer/Seether/Weeper. Though I popped 3 Hungerers in a row, all very close to each other, I don't know if that might be luck or not. I have yet to see any variety to T1s inside Abyssea as of yet.

Also, I can't find a name in the La Theine .DATs that suggests any Seether, only those 3 obvious Thinker names.

[ringthree]

Did only one VNM in Abyssea-Konschtat last night. It was a tier 1 called Meanderer, and it was a larger Wanderer model. Killed it and got the Abyssite upgrade. The next tier was up but we didn't have enough time to deal with it.

[Cairthenn]

Sorry about lack of updates, I've been busy in game. I'll make some additions to the OP in a bit.

[Uzor]

anyone know what mob in abyessa drops the ranger neck piece thanks a bunch

If its the one I think you mean with Snapshot and ranged accuracy and -enmity, I believe we got it from Abyssea - Tahrongi off of the Sandworm NM, flower NM or Gnat NM. I *think* it was the Sandworm one, as I seem to remember the Gnat one dropping a RDM neck, and the flower dropping nothing.

[krizz]

Has anyone tested to see if the time extension abyssite raises the max amount of time in zone from 120 to 132?

[Zeratu]

Has anyone tested to see if the time extension abyssite raises the max amount of time in zone from 120 to 132?

It doesn't, it's still a 120 minute cap.

[ringthree]

A small bit of mob info.

Keratyrannos is a Wivre-type mob.

Keratyrannos uses Boiling Blood and then immediately uses Crippling Slam. If you stun Crippling Slam it will prevent it from using Crippling Slam, but will immediately use Boiling Blood again, then immediately use Crippling Slam again. It was unclear to me if the Boiling Blood/Crippling Slam combo was HP triggered or TP dependent but it did appear to use the combo quite often. I personally did not observe it using any other TP moves.

Crippling Slam is a full AoE centered on itself with a distance of 20'. Crippling Slam used with the Boiling Blood effects still active did over 1000 damage to mages. You can not avoid Crippling Slam by standing on it's sides, it will use the move no matter it's target's relative positioning.

The paralyze from Crippling Slam has a very high potency.

Crippling Slam appears to be absorbed by 3 shadows.

Speculation: Crippling Slam is greatly effected by the Berserk effect from Boiling Blood. If you have multiple dispelers it appears to be possible to remove both the Haste and Berserk effect from Boiling Blood before Crippling Slam is used. This appeared to decrease the damage of Crippling Slam. I didn't run a parser so I can not confirm this, at this time.

[krizz]

It doesn't, it's still a 120 minute cap.

Ouch... thanks.

[Knyghtmayre]

Does anyone know if this is possible?

Day 1: Get Stone from NPC and enter Abyssea, acquire Visitant Status and Warp with 29 minutes remaining.
Day 2: Get Stone from NPC; totaling 1 key item on your character.
Day 3: Get Stone from NPC; totaling 2 key items on your character.
Day 4: Get Stone from NPC; totaling 3 key item on your character.
Day 5: Let stone accumulate on NPC; totaling 1 key item on NPC.
Day 6: Let stone accumulate on NPC; totaling 2 key items on NPC.
Day 7: Let stone accumulate on NPC; totaling 3 key items on NPC.

Day 7: Enter Abyssea for (90 mins + 24 [out of the 29] mins remaining) 114 mins, Warp out with more than 5 minutes remaining. Go to Jeuno and collect your 3 stones off the NPC and wait an hour and enter again for (90 mins + 5 mins remaining) 95 mins, for a total of 209 minutes (3 hours and 29 minutes) in a single day.

I don't know if this has been discussed in the thread so far, but I'm just curious as to whether or not this is possible.

[Heie]

Just check this morning but basically you can stock pile time and stones so you could have 5 hours in Abyssea with only taking 2-3 breaks in your session. You have to have done the quest so you can hold 4 stones. Trade in 4 stones so your vistation status is 120 minutes then leave. Stock pile 4 stones. Then wait till the NPC in port Jeuno has the 3 stones for you. You can go in use your old visitation status. After an hour to hour and half head back and turn in your stones for more time. After another hour to hour and half head back turn in your remaining stones then head to port to get the three stones off of the npc. You can then head back in and just use those 3 remaining stones for the rest of your time. Only problem with this is it takes 10-11 days to stock pile all that time. Also you have to remeber to run into Abyssea in that 10 day time frame to build your time up to 120 minutes.

[Heie]

Does anyone know if this is possible?

Day 1: Get Stone from NPC and enter Abyssea, acquire Visitant Status and Warp with 29 minutes remaining.
Day 2: Get Stone from NPC; totaling 1 key item on your character.
Day 3: Get Stone from NPC; totaling 2 key items on your character.
Day 4: Get Stone from NPC; totaling 3 key item on your character.
Day 5: Let stone accumulate on NPC; totaling 1 key item on NPC.
Day 6: Let stone accumulate on NPC; totaling 2 key items on NPC.
Day 7: Let stone accumulate on NPC; totaling 3 key items on NPC.

Day 7: Enter Abyssea for (90 mins + 24 [out of the 29] mins remaining) 114 mins, Warp out with more than 5 minutes remaining. Go to Jeuno and collect your 3 stones off the NPC and wait an hour and enter again for (90 mins + 5 mins remaining) 95 mins, for a total of 209 minutes (3 hours and 29 minutes) in a single day.

I don't know if this has been discussed in the thread so far, but I'm just curious as to whether or not this is possible.

Posted mine at the same time you posted yours. lol. You can do this but you can also have your vistiation status up to 120 minutes. 119 Since you are in the zone for that minute turning in your stones. Store up stones on yourself. Let the npc in port store up stones. Then just go in use your old vistation status while you still have the stones as key items. You can then just turn them in when your time gets low.