Abyssea Discussion

[Luceo]

Ok, just went back in to Abyssea-Tahrongi with a different group for more testing. As I expected the chests drops really start to pick up at the 60min mark, we didn't get any time extensions this run, but had totally different people including these two DD that kept D/C'n half of the run. Our kill speed was markedly slower than last night and thus less chests were popping.

So moral of the story here kids is, Suck Less.

If you want to repeat the magic go in serious business style, 18 people, multiple pullers/sleepers. Also would help to get the time extension key item net an extra 9min to work with. If you don't have something dead every 30-40sec you aren't gonna break into that next tier.

Good luck everyone else, hoping to see more info from others.

[Enygma55]

Yea Im starting to think Abyssea is recording your killrate and rewarding you in kind.

Xp rate also seems to scale to the lowest person in ally so a full ally of 80 will get those 300xp/kill while alliance full of 75s will linger around 120~

[Marcicus]

IMO if you want to maximize the reward for doing this, every single person in your alliance needs to have 90+ mins ready to go.

Did a run today in Tahrongi and we really didn't notice anything until the 50min mark and chests started to come in more rapidly. Unfortunately, time went on and we lost more and more people, so our kill speed went down and we got fewer chest. Also, no time extensions.

[Belkin]

IMO if you want to maximize the reward for doing this, every single person in your alliance needs to have 90+ mins ready to go.

Did a run today in Tahrongi and we really didn't notice anything until the 50min mark and chests started to come in more rapidly. Unfortunately, time went on and we lost more and more people, so our kill speed went down and we got fewer chest. Also, no time extensions.

This pretty much. We took an alliance to farm/exp at Crapaud's (frogs) in La Theine and didn't notice very many blue chests at all for about the first 20 minutes. Afterward, they had a decent spawn rate but rarely did we get any time chests. Most people only had 60-70 minutes and we got 2 time extensions. It might be worth mentioning that our alliance was kinda meh.

Things that would make this much more worth it would be 90 minutes to start. We started at sheep but there was one Black Merino that kept messing up chain so we moved to frogs. Did Frogs for the remaining time. We broke the chain about 10 minutes in because we pulled a glowing chliod. After that, it was non stop frogs for like 40 minutes. We were up to 200ish EXP per kill before we got kicked out.

It would also be worthwhile to set it up meripo style and just have them kill different mobs. Designate 1-2 people to open chests as well.

[Loire]

Spent around the first 60 minutes farming just a small group of around 12 mandies with full ally and saw a few chests here and there and received a TE fairly early. After the 60 minute mark chests were pouring in like no ones business. We spent nearly two full hours solely on those mandies and ramped up their xp with a full alliance to 360 xp per kill. With amount of TE chests that we popped we were able to do all of that time and still have 140 minutes when we decided to finally spam pop the thew bomblet mandy.

Oh and xp per hour surpassed 26k at the speed we were killing. Ally setup was typical tank + melee + blm party setups since we aimed to hit up a few more NMs after testing this.
We did however bring TH4 but I cannot confirm if it helped or not for chest drops.

spoiler shows us going over the 120 minute limit from stones

Spoiler: show

http://img40.imageshack.us/img40/271...0703210751.jpg

[Karbuncle]

i doubt TH effects it, since i was there *with TH4* and another THF was also there =x (The original Leader) on my run and we got shit for boxes almost the entire run until the last ~20 minutes.

[Toth]

Interesting, we did a 90 min run today on mandies and bats (to start).

EXP never reached past 170 BUT we interrupted our chain twice to kill the Titan NM. When we went back to killing the mandies, the exp appeared to 'reset', dropping back to 90 a kill.
Chest rates seemed to greatly increase based on two factors:

a) amount of time killing mobs
b) the amount of red chests opened.

I was the official chest opener and I also noticed that after a mob died, I would glow a color in text (despite not touching the mob) and a chest would spawn right after.

We got around 21k for the time and about 6.5k cruor. No time extension chests despite constant pops too

BTW Is the time extending abyssite universal across the three stones or do you need one for each?

[Yatuwatu]

Picked up a Tarnished Pincer out of a chest in Abyssea - Tahrongi today, anyone have any idea what it's for? I can't find out any info about it.

[Mazmaz]

Are you guys sure that the increase in exp isn't due to your mobs going from EM to IT?

[Loire]

Mobs were DC-IT when we got to them to begin with but it was highly noticeable watching the top XP go staggering up over the entire time frame.

[Pergo]

i'm sure this has been posted--- but if it hasn't...

blue chest cruor = [(# of successful guesses requires)*200] -200.

6-guess cruor chest =

http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i3...703_235550.png

[Francisco]

Not sure if it's been mentioned, but the XP seems to increase as such...

100, 100, 101, 101, 102, 102... (assuming all small mobs)

200, 200, 202, 202, 204, 204... (assuming all large mobs)

If you alternate, it stays pretty much the same...

100, 200, 101, 202, 102, 204...

Or in whatever pattern you kill them... small mobs increase by 1 xp for every two kills - and large mobs yield double xp.

We hit around 204/xp per kill on Bugards - then took a longer time to kill one because one of our 3 DDs timed out, and another was playing with a chest. XP dropped from 204 on a large mob to 194-198ish...

[Braxis]

i'm sure this has been posted--- but if it hasn't...

blue chest cruor = (# of successful guesses required) x 200.

6-guess cruor chest =

Might want to find yourself a calculator...

[Pergo]

Might want to find yourself a calculator...

sorry... i meant to say after the first guess since i've yet to see 1-guess chest.

so i guess it's

[(# of successful guesses requires)*200] -200

gonna edit my original, thanks

[Priran]

6 times 200 equals 1000

[Gwynplaine]

Not sure if it's been mentioned, but the XP seems to increase as such...

100, 100, 101, 101, 102, 102... (assuming all small mobs)

200, 200, 202, 202, 204, 204... (assuming all large mobs)

If you alternate, it stays pretty much the same...

100, 200, 101, 202, 102, 204...

Or in whatever pattern you kill them... small mobs increase by 1 xp for every two kills - and large mobs yield double xp.

We hit around 204/xp per kill on Bugards - then took a longer time to kill one because one of our 3 DDs timed out, and another was playing with a chest. XP dropped from 204 on a large mob to 194-198ish...

Interesting... So if you'd like to focus on farming exp, you party on large mobs. Or if you want to focus on farming cruor small mobs.

Picked up a Tarnished Pincer out of a chest in Abyssea - Tahrongi today, anyone have any idea what it's for? I can't find out any info about it.

Check this spawn chart.

[Toth]

So is the time extension abyssite universal or is it one per zone?

[ReddwarfX]

went over my logs from last night, and this is what i found

[00:40:13]yYour visitant status has been extended by 10 minutes.
[00:46:12]yYour visitant status has been extended by 10 minutes.
[00:56:50]yYour visitant status has been extended by 10 minutes.
[01:08:55]yYour visitant status has been extended by 10 minutes.
[01:14:31]yYour visitant status has been extended by 10 minutes.
[01:25:23]yYour visitant status has been extended by 10 minutes.
[01:32:15]yYour visitant status has been extended by 10 minutes.
[01:58:32]yYour visitant status has been extended by 10 minutes.
[02:12:14]yYour visitant status has been extended by 10 minutes.
[02:18:53]yYour visitant status has been extended by 10 minutes.
[02:27:19]yYour visitant status has been extended by 10 minutes.
[02:35:48]yYour visitant status has been extended by 10 minutes.
[02:50:11]yYour visitant status has been extended by 10 minutes.
[02:55:36]yYour visitant status has been extended by 10 minutes.
[03:05:28]yYour visitant status has been extended by 10 minutes.
[03:13:14]yYour visitant status has been extended by 10 minutes.

and

[03:14:56]yReddwarf obtained 1000 cruor. x 19 times

and

[03:20:58]Reddwarf gains 1250 limit points. x 16 times

in the span of 3hours and 10minutes (i had only access for 30mins and stayed 3h10)

[Salmijr]

Ivory Abyssite of soujorn (the time one) works on all 3 zones. Still need to test if you can buy/hold multiple copies like you can with the traverser stones.

[Spira]

Not too sure how aura comes in.. but i'm guessing kill speed affects aura as well as affects the type of chests that pop...

if you dont kill fast enough, you wont get the time extension chests.. i suppose. in which case the type of mobs killed matter too...
I'm guessing mandies are good cos low dmg and few aoe.. i noticed a lot of JPs killed Crapaudy frogs in La Theine too.. its a far out camp but no TP moves or spells i think..

also.. does anyone know for sure if Forbidden Keys open chests? I tried it on a free-spawning blue chest and got a 'you cannot open that treasure chest message.
It was a working chest too.. temp items in it..

Perhaps it only works on the golden item chests?