Abyssea Discussion

[Gwynplaine]

Has anyone timed how long stored time lasts? How long before you went back in? Maybe it will only last a certain amount of time or perhaps week end tallies wipe it.

If that were the case, Square would have gone into detail in the update notes.

[Karbuncle]

Did all these people who have their time wiped leave through the maw, or warped out? Cause I know the one time I left with time on the clock, was via Maw, and my time remained. Is it also possible that time granted via TE's doesnt carry over?

My friend logged out in Abyssea (Had things to do) and came back and was booted.

Apparently if you log out in abyssea your clock is still ticking, So if people got Emergency Maint'd inside of Abyssea their clocks would tick down while they were away

Which might give the illusion Maint. resets it, when it facts its because logging out inside abyssea keeps your timer going.

[rahskala]

A curious thing that happened to me last night in La Theine:

I entered Abyssea with 3 stones, talked to the Conflux Surveyor and set my time to the 63 minutes I had carried over from a run the night before. I immediately talked to the NPC again and turned in 2 stones to extend my time to 120 minutes. (Which wasted 3 minutes, but whatever)

After slaughtering frogs for a while, I got a 30 minute warning and teleported back to the base camp to turn in my 3rd stone. (I don't recall whether we had received any time extensions yet...this might have been 90 minutes later, or it might have been slightly longer.)

I talked to the NPC, turned in my 3rd stone, and got a message saying "Your time in Abyssea has been extended by 1 minute. Time remaining: 30 minutes" (paraphrasing here, but the numbers are accurate)

Does anyone think they know why this would happen? This time-allowed-in-zone gameplay mechanic is freakin' bizarre.

Edit: Also confirming that logging out/disconnecting in Abyssea does not stop your visitant time from ticking away. It happened to a few of our people last night, myself included.

[nyaraa]

Did you enter with time left or did you actually use stones after entering? Might have missed it if this was proven wrong, but the idea came up that using visitant status without consuming a stone will wipe your time upon exiting.

the day before my time disappeared, i got visitation status with only my left over time. i didn't add any stones to it. However, there have been post on here that have had ppl use only left over time multiple times without having their time disappear.

[nyaraa]

Has anyone timed how long stored time lasts? How long before you went back in? Maybe it will only last a certain amount of time or perhaps week end tallies wipe it.

I had 55min left over time after a Monday xp pt. On Tuesday i went back in and saw that my time was gone. I'm positive that week end tallies do not wipe time. because i was doing abyssea all that weekend and didn't have problems with my stored time at all until it randomly disappeared on Tuesday ; ;

[Kegsay]

A curious thing that happened to me last night in La Theine:

I entered Abyssea with 3 stones, talked to the Conflux Surveyor and set my time to the 63 minutes I had carried over from a run the night before. I immediately talked to the NPC again and turned in 2 stones to extend my time to 120 minutes. (Which wasted 3 minutes, but whatever)

After slaughtering frogs for a while, I got a 30 minute warning and teleported back to the base camp to turn in my 3rd stone. (I don't recall whether we had received any time extensions yet...this might have been 90 minutes later, or it might have been slightly longer.)

I talked to the NPC, turned in my 3rd stone, and got a message saying "Your time in Abyssea has been extended by 1 minute. Time remaining: 30 minutes" (paraphrasing here, but the numbers are accurate)

Does anyone think they know why this would happen? This time-allowed-in-zone gameplay mechanic is freakin' bizarre.

Edit: Also confirming that logging out/disconnecting in Abyssea does not stop your visitant time from ticking away. It happened to a few of our people last night, myself included.

It's something funny about how adding stones will only go up to the limit of your current time on entry. In this case, having time on the clock then tossing in stones will only work up to 120 minutes for that time you came in with, not 0, so only 2 stones would increase it (in your example with 60 mins), the third one wouldn't necessarily. I imagine SE put a minimum amount of 1 minute extension so it adds -something- rather than 0.

I died in Abyssea, HPed and came back the next day; I still had my time left, which was a pleasant surprise. Leaving via Maw isn't the only way to do it.

[Lilswitche]

So I started an xp grind with 120 mins today. Got the hp/mp/int/mnd/chr buffs. They ended up lasting the whole 8 hours I was in there. The curious part was exactly at the 2hr mark of me being in abyssea, in my chat log, it said all those buffs wore off, but I still had the effects and the buff icons for them. I have screenshots of the chat log if need be.

Edit: Also a question. Is fame independant for each zone, or do they all share the same fame?

[Not Kuno]

How many quests do you have to do to rank up? I did all but two quests in latheine and did a bunch of the other repeatables but I'm not even on the second rank yet. D:

[Chen]

I guess every server is experiencing mass congestion in their abyssea zones?

atm phoenix has 2-3 exp alliances in mea. anyone got a vague list of the better exp spots?
like:
#1 mandies - mea
#2 bats - mea
#3 liz - dem? (never been here)

[Plow]

I guess every server is experiencing mass congestion in their abyssea zones?

atm phoenix has 2-3 exp alliances in mea. anyone got a vague list of the better exp spots?
like:
#1 mandies - mea
#2 bats - mea
#3 liz - dem? (never been here)

Just pick a mob that's not a nasty bitch, and do it.

You could do it on 90% of the mobs in abyssea, and probably 60% are "good" targets. Only about 10% (clionids/lemules, pixies, flies with their aoe spam, etc.) are truly bad targets.

[Tuna]

I guess every server is experiencing mass congestion in their abyssea zones?

atm phoenix has 2-3 exp alliances in mea. anyone got a vague list of the better exp spots?
like:
#1 mandies - mea
#2 bats - mea
#3 liz - dem? (never been here)

Bugards in konschtat are a pretty good choice. Often other alliances there too though

[tsaroth816]

I had 55min left over time after a Monday xp pt. On Tuesday i went back in and saw that my time was gone. I'm positive that week end tallies do not wipe time. because i was doing abyssea all that weekend and didn't have problems with my stored time at all until it randomly disappeared on Tuesday ; ;

As far as I have gathered, choosing "only use my old left over time" does in fact erase that time if you leave. You have to use up that time that run, or lose it. It's a 1 time deal, unless you add a stone, then it can carry over again. Basic rule I'm told is: always add at least one stone when getting visitant, always use warp/tele/maw to exit with more than 5min on the clock.

Quest fame/rank is separate for all 3 zones. It will suck so bad with the next 2 expansions if that fame/rank won't carry over to new zones ><

[nyaraa]

I did the same thing back on Sunday. Went in and bought an aurore doublet on Saturday, then left through the maw. I came back on Sunday after the conquest tally to check, and had my time available. I set the remaining time and then left again. When I came back later in the day for a cruor farm, the time was still available. It's weird that people are losing this time...

Quoting this to bump it back up.
so Tsar, there have been ppl who have got visitant status with only left over time, not adding a stone, and the time didn't disappear after they left.


edit: to make that quote more clear, he was responding to my post about how maybe it was not adding a stone onto the time that wiped my remaining time.

[Maurauc]

I had an exp party in Tahrongi yesterday, went back to the camp, and traded in a stone when I had two minutes remaining. It then said: "Time remaining: 14 minutes".. Anyone able to explain that?

[Plow]

Reading the page you're posting on is pretty difficult.

[Psion]

As far as I have gathered, choosing "only use my old left over time" does in fact erase that time if you leave. You have to use up that time that run, or lose it. It's a 1 time deal, unless you add a stone, then it can carry over again. Basic rule I'm told is: always add at least one stone when getting visitant, always use warp/tele/maw to exit with more than 5min on the clock.

Quest fame/rank is separate for all 3 zones. It will suck so bad with the next 2 expansions if that fame/rank won't carry over to new zones ><

This is 100% false, as I wouldn't be able to do all my fame whoring otherwise. Setting time to what you had remaining will not wipe time when you exit, because I've exited the maw about 18 times when I started with 3 stones, setting time to remainder each time, and it never wiped.

You guys are probably just getting glitches.

[Gwynplaine]

Honestly, there's no good reason the time has to be so complex. The Surveyor NPC should just serve the same purpose as Joachim and accrue your time as well.

BTW, if you pull enemies near the entrance area and kill stuff with a party member who is only on the 5 minute "lobby" timer will they get exp/cruor?

[Enygma55]

Definitely sounds like a glitch. I've been in and out of abys-LaThein countless times spamming repeatable quests for an hr straight. Having no issues reclaiming my old time nor adding more.

[Silvx]

This 'leveling up your Azure light' stuff is confusing me, I did a Spirit party in La Thiene and got everyone to focus on Magic kills, but the light just constantly gave a message after each kill saying we got a "Feeble Azure light" if a melee killed we got a pearlescent light, Does the "Feeble" level up to something higher or is it an imaginary level up? Kind of lost on this one.


Although in our 90 minute stay, in the final 20mins we seen 3 TE chests, 1 failed 2 opened, one was off of a melee kill, the other was off a whm Banishing it lol.

[Gwynplaine]

Just an FYI because I don't think it's been pointed out yet. Quick Draw kills count as pearlescent not azure.