Abyssea Discussion

[Spira]

exp woulda went up because there was less people in the alliance to split the exp around..

but other than that, based on the reports here, it would seem to be that your aura highly determines your exp rate. It could even not be that rigid, in that as long as you have a particular aura color you might be able to move on to another mob family?

what I've noticed is that aura will last on you for as long as until the next mob you kill, or red chest you open that changes your aura.. I've seen ebon, silver and gold auras but have no f-ing idea what each of them do. They all last only 1 mob tho...

in conjunction with that, there must be some kind of individual score keeping system in the game.. because when I was farming cruor and killing NMs in a PT where everyone had started off at the same time doing the same thing, EXP and cruor amounts obtained from the NM would vary... and it wasn't level that made the difference..

also, long shot but assuming ephemeral mobs come with a specific aura, maybe if we kill them while having the corresponding aura on ourselves we get far more exp/cruor and can keep 'chain'?

[Arthars]

friend got azure abyssite of lenity (the xp reduction on death one) from NM rabbit in la thiene

seem that all pre-popped NM have a chance of getting abyssite from any zone :O

[Salmijr]

Ok, so we cant buy more than one Ivory Abyssite of Soujorn, they dont stack.

And another interesting find: The max amount of time you can buy, WITHOUT ZONING , is a total of 120 minutes. If you want more, without time extensions, you need to exit. Yes, people showed before that the max was 120, but that was trying to get more than 120 at the very start.

One of our members went in with 117 minutes (or something similar) on the clock, so he didnt use any stones to enter. After about 70 minutes, he went back to base camp to buy another 30 minutes, it told him he was getting 33 minutes (with soujorn) for a total time of 33 + w/e he had left, but only gave him the 3 minutes to bump him to 120.

The rest of us were able to zone out, reenter , and got our full time from the stones.

So yea, if you are planning on a multiple hour run, you can have 120 on the clock, 3 stones on you, and 3 stones on Joachim. But you will need to zone out to use them all. Spending the 120 on the clock and using the 3 on you wont work unless you zone, thus breaking any chain you might have had on that character.

[Psion]

I'm starting to think the colored lights give you boosts in certain ways, depending on your color. red is physical, blue magical, gold seems to be exp as whenever we got gold light the next monster always seemed to give more than normal exp, with a faint gold light seeming to boost exp by 10 or so instead of 2 on bugards, but then the next bugard would be normal. I'm thinking if this is the case, perhaps the light's are the key, and we need to find out which light produces which effect. I'm suspicious of the silver and pearl lights, as silver often represents time.

Near the end of our bugard run our red chests were giving slightly stronger lights, but they were still rather weak, despite normal exp chests and the like giving a lot stronger ones, second from best. I was opening every blue chest I saw, with the exclusion of some benediction type ones, as they only affected me, and I noticed at the last few minutes the beni ones were finally starting to get stronger, and the red chests were still weak, second from best. The red chests were often going unopened or failed, because I suck at the pressure release. I'm starting to wonder if perhaps the key to time extensions is to focus on red chests, getting them to strongest lights, so that way you get strong silver lights or whatnot and cause time extension chests to drop the next monster killed.

Chests dropped much more frequently near the end, so perhaps the mob chain bonus ups the chest drop rate, but you need to keep opening the chests successfully to upgrade their strength?

[urat]

I left 5 red chest / glowing chests alone in a row, 6th chest that dropped was a 800 crour chest and a 1K exp chest.

Im fairly certain the gold aura gives an exp bonus and silver gives a crour bonus, unsure about ebon, maybe a chain bonus or TH?

We pulled off T4 pearlescent and everyone got temp items, they varied widely.

[Ezekial]

off mandy,

Experience Rates
Total Experience : 30076
Number of Fights : 159
Date             : 7/5/2010
Start Time       : 9:42:08 PM
End Time         : 11:23:05 PM
Party Duration   : 1:40:56
Total Fight Time : 0:45:53
Avg Time/Fight   : 38.09 seconds
Avg Fight Length : 17.32 seconds
XP/Fight         : 189.16
XP/Minute        : 297.96
XP/Hour          : 17877.59


Experience Chains
Chain   Count   Total XP   Avg XP
0         159      30076   189.16

Highest Chain:  0

Got 1 Time Extention box, 2nd one dropped but I failed it...

[Shamaya]

bunch of heavy DD (no thfs!!!)

"heavy"

Gwynplaine, I was wondering about where you go in POL-Utils to find the "debug" dats. What is the purpose of these .dats, btw? Just meant only to be used by the QA branches but are nonetheless installed on everybody's PC for no particular reason?
Very useful information to be found in those, though.

[Spira]

Would like to ask how to find abyssea mob data in utils too.. Mine doesn't show em

[Priran]

Would like to ask how to find abyssea mob data in utils too.. Mine doesn't show em

Find them manually. The only one I know of is Konschtat, which you can look at by clicking on

ROM(labeled as Final Fantasy XI)/25/80.dat.

[Noneko]

Would like to ask how to find abyssea mob data in utils too.. Mine doesn't show em

ROM/26/69.dat - La Theine
ROM/25/110.dat - Tahrongi
ROM/25/80.dat - Konschtat

[Spira]

thanks.

[Aquilo86]

Does kparser have the capability to parse old logs saved by the logger plugin? I'd like to post a parse from our run the other night as it was pretty intense lol

[Kegsay]

As if the light aura thing wasn't confirmed already, I killed a monster with DoTs so it 'fell to the ground' and received no light message at all. Killing with magic yielded Azure as expected.

[krizz]

friend got azure abyssite of lenity (the xp reduction on death one) from NM rabbit in la thiene

seem that all pre-popped NM have a chance of getting abyssite from any zone :O

The PLD in my group got the same abyssite from the same NM.

We only killed one ephemeral mob before fighting the NM. Not sure if we got a glow from it or not. Just checked and I didn't SS it like usual (was pretty pissed at the PLD for pulling and wasting time).

[Lordesequiel]

We got a pearlescnet glow, mob dropped chest and it was a TE. Anyone else noticed the chests that give you full restore? A blue chest that when you peer inside says something about a warm light.... Gives 300% TP restores all timers, hp and mp. We got 3 last night >.>

[Loire]

So really great sunday run for ourselves least for cruor farming and xp, hit above 45k/hr xp and cruor was around 25k. Did two full out meleburn parties with dnc brd cor healer DD DD. And one blm party cause doing chests for them is a great way to leech. At the end but the oddest thing was the item chests that we were receiving for the last hour or so. Anyone else see increase in size of item chests? number range for guessing was 11-99.

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[Jeryhn]

Would like to ask how to find abyssea mob data in utils too.. Mine doesn't show em

I simply used the NPC Renamer on utis for Abyssea areas. It seems to "auto-update" for me.

[Lordesequiel]

In abyssea tahrongi right now, mobs keep popping from thin air called hungerers. 175 xp per kill 20+ cruor easy solo on BLM. Dropped 2 temp items so far, one was a aoe tp wing.

[nyaraa]

Fuck my 55 min i had left over from yesterday dissapeared. i have only one stone to use and it let me only choose 30min. i exited via the maw yesterday when i had 55min left. has this happened to anyone else?

[kemigumi]

Fuck my 55 min i had left over from yesterday dissapeared. i have only one stone to use and it let me only choose 30min. i exited via the maw yesterday when i had 55min left. has this happened to anyone else?

this worries me... i turned in 3 stones last night.

** just verified that i still have 89 minutes left. LS mate says that he also exited using the maw and lost his 30 minutes.
my first venture inside i died and hp'd, was able to use the time i had remaining upon entering again.
last night i teleported out using dutchy earring and as of 5 minutes ago the time is still available.

basically: don't use maw with visitant status on (?)