Abyssea Discussion

[Braxis]

Also, regarding the chests I was simply indicating that buying a stack of keys might be worth it, seeing as you failed about half of the high/low chests that spawned. As far as I am aware, you can save the key and decide to use it if it looks like you're not having any luck. I suggested it three times over the course of an hour, with no response, so I simply figured you hadn't noticed.

Yes I may have failed "half" of the chests but that totaled maybe FOUR CHESTS.

When I'm trying to figure out why we're seeing barely a fraction of the chests we should be seeing the last thing I need is someone going on and on about keys every time I fail a light chest or low tier temp item chest.

I'll repeat what I said at the end of the run, you really need to learn when to shut the fuck up. Our start was nowhere near as slow as you're trying to pass it off as and near the end we were nowhere near a chest every other kill until maybe the last 5 seconds before people started getting booted. Less than a dozen chests over the course or a run is nowhere near normal for an alliance and there is no need to be going on and on and on and on about the damn keys when you know neither the contents of the boxes or the tier of the reward.

Failed chest or not there is no need to waste a key on a handful of temp items that would have despawned like the ones I did open or for a minuscule amount of light with effects people still aren't even sure of. Perhaps the next time you start a run you can bring along a few stacks of keys so you can instantly pop every single one.

[Seraphise]

Incase anyones still worried that they nerfed, going on hr 4 of an alliance merit in la thein. @ 50 cruor / mob

[Tarot]

Picked up and completed the quest "Good Cardians Go Bad" in tahrongi today and got the viridian abyssite of guerdon for the reward. Going by the description, it gives you temp items every time you acquire visitant status.

[Auspice]

My LS went in to farm some xp and cruor with 90 minutes and just now quit pulling 5 hours later. Ended up with over 180k xp and nearly 40k cruor. Could have kept going but we had already subbed half the alliance and was just getting really tired. I don't think any of us are ever going to bother with astral burns ever again.

[absolutezero]

Btw anyone seen the fly dragons like in Xarc [S]

couldn't get it to drop anyone got info? or any other zone.

found one roaming in Dem~

[Psion]

Btw anyone seen the fly dragons like in Xarc [S]

couldn't get it to drop anyone got info? or any other zone.

found one roaming in Dem~

Congratulations! You found a missing monster! You'd get a cookie, but the amphiptere ate it, and your corpse as well.

Jesus, all those times I walked to bugard camp and I was that close to getting my face munched on? @@;

[Blittz]

My LS went in to farm some xp and cruor with 90 minutes and just now quit pulling 5 hours later. Ended up with over 180k xp and nearly 40k cruor. Could have kept going but we had already subbed half the alliance and was just getting really tired. I don't think any of us are ever going to bother with astral burns ever again.

just curious what zone and family?

[Ezekial]

So far today in a PT that is still going

Experience Rates
Total Experience : 121008
Number of Fights : 415
Date             : 7/7/2010
Start Time       : 9:32:33 PM
End Time         : 1:45:35 AM
Party Duration   : 4:13:01
Total Fight Time : 0:51:30
Avg Time/Fight   : 36.58 seconds
Avg Fight Length : 7.45 seconds
XP/Fight         : 291.59
XP/Minute        : 478.26
XP/Hour          : 28695.36


Experience Chains
Chain   Count   Total XP   Avg XP
0         415     121008   291.59

Highest Chain:  0

Umm, we've gotten so many time extention chests I personally have over 144 minutes left in zone still and we have been going for well over 3 hours.

Someone in my Alliance has over 170 minutes.

This is funny.

EXP was hitting 367 per mandy.

When I capped 80 with 10/10 merits I job changed jobs and mobs reset to 90 exp per.

Someone in alliance just hit 403 per mob.

[Kuishen]

Mind confirming that the chests are dropping off of mobs that give Azure light? Or adding anything to the thread aside from parses going "Look at me! I'm getting shitloads of exp!".

[Zag]

Do the colors mix and create new colors as well?

I say this because I had a golden light from a chest, then from another chest it said a very strong ebon light or something to that effect when I examined the lock. Then when I opened it, it lied to me and gave me a feeble ebon light. Golden light + Very strong ebon light = feeble ebon light how?

Theories on lights include

-Affecting chest drop rates.
-Affecting certain mob families into becoming aggresive or non-aggro.
-Affecting exp/crour chains or increasing the exp and crour per kill.
-Affecting drop rates on NMs or stuff like logging/fishing results.

from my experience, ebon always reset our strong lights and reverted everything back. I no longer open ebon chest until I see them stop doing negative resets on my light colors. Everytime I opened an ebon light and reset our azure light, chests weren't popping for awhile after that.

[Kuishen]

I just bought Ivory Abyssite of Confluence. Shaves off about 20% of the cost. Costs went down from 105 and 75 to 84 and 60 respectively. Just two examples. In case anybody was still wondering.

[Ezekial]

Mind confirming that the chests are dropping off of mobs that give Azure light? Or adding anything to the thread aside from parses going "Look at me! I'm getting shitloads of exp!".

We have gotten chests that have Stone Fragments in them off of;

Gold, Silver, Ebon, Azure, Ruby, pretty much all chests, we have opened every since red box we can. It really just seems entirely random.

The only thing we did notice from lights was we had a glowing mob by camp and it aggro's us when we got a specific light, couldn't tell which because we got about 4 different ones in the time of when it aggro'd.

I think everything is random and the aura's don't influence types of chests.



**Edit**
Then again our light changes so often it's really hard to tell

Just got a time chest off Azure light after an hour of going dry.
**EditX2**

2 chests off Azure light for time.

[Kuishen]

Was your current light when you killed the mob Azure? As in the one you had before you killed the mob that dropped the chest. I'm fairly sure what light you have affects the NEXT mob.

I hardly think it's random, especially since the first time I did a burn we had one, maybe two azure lights and got no TEs, and then in my logs (second burn) we get 5 of them in a row and we get a TE.

[Ezekial]

Was your current light when you killed the mob Azure? As in the one you had before you killed the mob that dropped the chest. I'm fairly sure what light you have affects the NEXT mob.

I hardly think it's random, especially since the first time I did a burn we had one, maybe two azure lights and got no TEs, and then in my logs (second burn) we get 5 of them in a row and we get a TE.

Here is the last 2, take from it what you will

http://img413.imageshack.us/img413/5...0708031537.png
http://img710.imageshack.us/img710/4...0708032654.png

[Spira]

Btw anyone seen the fly dragons like in Xarc [S]

couldn't get it to drop anyone got info? or any other zone.

found one roaming in Dem~

I believe you might have found Turul

[Yugl]

Spoiler: show

Six hours still going. Not broken!

Edit: Yes to azure light from the looks of it. About to finish with an NM (~171min remain) 7-8hr group.

Spoilered to scare away SE.

[Kurgan]

I'm almost sure that the light glows you receive after killing monsters or opening chests containing light are simply boosts to bonuses that you receive. Different colors represent different boosts. There's clearly one for exp, one for cruor, and probably one for chance of treasure box dropping. Probably more. The intensity of the light indicates how much of a boost you received.

[CubsWoo]

What job is Xviper? Looks like a mage, maybe magic damage as the killshot gives azure light and time extension chests?

[Darte]

What job is Xviper? Looks like a mage, maybe magic damage as the killshot gives azure light and time extension chests?

I'd say this is true. I had a 3.5 hour party yesterday and we had BLMs nuke mandies down after 15%. Our light never changed from Azure except for when red chests were opened.

[Braxis]

I really have reservations about the whole "azure light means time chests" thing people keep proposing. Just for the sake of it last night during my dreadful run we spent the last 15-20 minutes doing all magic kill-shots and we really saw nothing but a gold/augment chest, light chest, a temp chest and an exp chest.

People just seem to be getting extremely lucky and chalking it up to doing this or that. Hell maybe I missed it already but I'm surprised people don't have a theory linking the chests/light to moon color/phase yet just for the sake of it.

Remember that Correlation Does Not Imply Causation.