Abyssea Discussion

[Karbuncle]

I imagine you can't get a key item from a CFH'd Ephemeral... can you? :3

Then kill it on your own time instead of breaking everyone in the alliances chain, causing them to waste hours of work and start from scratch?

Its not like those things are hard to find :D

[Baelorn]

I imagine you can't get a key item from a CFH'd Ephemeral... can you? :3

If someone aggro'd it and you don't want to kill the chain it's best to just cfh imo.

[miokomioko]

What the hell? I am fully aware that CFH is the best plan of action during an exp/cruor run. Sometimes shit comes/pops too close and people aggro. I was just half-serious asking if you could still get the key item in such a situation.

What's with the fucking attitude? Jesus.

":3"

[Deadlast]

When you cfh on mobs you don't get exp/seal/items. I would think that Ephemerals would be the same.

[Kegsay]

Been keeping up with this thread but haven't seen anyone provide after how many lights do certain chests pop up. From my run just now, I tracked a total of 38 feeble azure lights before the first Time Extension.

[Trekk]

First of let me say, this is a ton of info to read. Some of what I say here might just be a repeat.

I've been running an Abyssea ls since day 1, and have been following the forums pretty close. Our first few runs we just went from place to place, popping and killing NM's. As more info about the XP that can be made came out everyone wanted to switch to that instead.

Our first grind attempt we made about 21k xp 8k cruor in 100min. We at the time, in that attempt got aggro from a glowing mob and didnt know it would reset our chain, so we killed it at about 50min in. This took our chain back down to the 80xp mark. It didnt appear to reset our lights. As we started grinding mobs again we started to climb back up in the chain. I wasn't really watching the boxes and time, but we did get our first TE about 20min into the chain, which put as at around 70min in. We were also getting the 1000cruor boxes and 1250xp boxes everytime our 1 blm could land the kill shot.

Also at the time we were letting the melee go ape crazy and they were getting most of the kills with WS so we had tons of red boxes. We kind of knew this would happen but it was sort of testing also.

[urat]

Or, if you have a 50% chance at getting a chest at all, and within that 50% are the odds of getting certain colors. That is a situation where it would also fuck with your chances at other colors.

When I'm seeing more than 50% of mobs being killed being blue chests, chances are, potentially raising the odds for other chests will reduce the chances at blue.

Good to know, however for all we know it could be a series of checks instead of a blanket random check for a chance.

Could be a:

D they get nothing? if not then do they get a blue chest? If not do they get a red chest? If not they get a gold chest.

Shouldn't take much testing to point out which way it is, if increasing red chest rates lowers blue then its pretty obvious, our run is starting soon so I'll probably just use timestamp + parse and filter all the battle and etc to make ti easy to keep track of chest rates and lights.

[Guitarman]

been following this thread fairly close, but maybe I overlooked it; anyone have a clue what the air pressure does? When opening certain chests, the air pressure drops (1 minimum).

[HKR]

Frogs suck.

[Priran]

been following this thread fairly close, but maybe I overlooked it; anyone have a clue what the air pressure does? When opening certain chests, the air pressure drops (1 minimum).

That's just how red chests are unlocked, idk why those messages are displayed to the entire alliance but they are.

[Yabby]

Went in for the 1st time today on 77 monk. I was a little mad when i was told by my LS that my stone would only last 30 mins then i would have to wait 20 hours to go again. 4 hours later on my lvl 80 capped xp with a few merits monk i was very happy with the xp here..... I would give props to SE but this is just too good to be true.

[Malacite]

Not sure if this has been pointed out yet or not but unlike Assault Tags and Campaign Ops, Traverser Stones can stockpile.

This is seriously fucking win as I'd only gone in once when it came out, and left it alone until just recently. I went in with 3 stones last night with friends, and I've gotten at least 5 more since today and I assume I have even more in reserve. This, coupled with the fact that you can hold up to 120 minutes in advance is just sheer fucking win.


Now to get my hands on some more Ancient Abyssite.

[nyaraa]

Went in for the 1st time today on 77 monk. I was a little mad when i was told by my LS that my stone would only last 30 mins then i would have to wait 20 hours to go again. 4 hours later on my lvl 80 capped xp with a few merits monk i was very happy with the xp here..... I would give props to SE but this is just too good to be true.

Your ls got time extensions in the first 30min? /jealous
Sounds like your xp built up quickly too ._. how fast were you killing?

I built a rather fail abyssea alliance today, i think we were killing to slowly but other then that we were doing everything else right. hardly saw any chests though.

[Sho]

Went in for the 1st time today on 77 monk. I was a little mad when i was told by my LS that my stone would only last 30 mins then i would have to wait 20 hours to go again. 4 hours later on my lvl 80 capped xp with a few merits monk i was very happy with the xp here..... I would give props to SE but this is just too good to be true.

Gonna be stalking the LS for EXP on COR nao.

[urat]

Well not a single TE chest, however after an hour of killing birds every 20~30 seconds we didn't get one single red chest. Period.

3 brown chests and 19 blue chests, not a single red, so I'll add that into the data.

However I will also point out that we were only getting chests, even at capped tier, every 7-8 mobs. The first blue chest took half an hour to drop despite how fast we were killing.

So it appears either we had terribly shitty luck or you can't just focus entirely on azure light, need to strike a balance? Meh.

Other things of note: DCing doesn't reset your chain, and of all the azure chests we get half were temp items, 2 healing chests and the rest top tier exp/crour bonuses.

/shrug must've been shitty luck?

[Aquilo86]

So it appears either we had terribly shitty luck or you can't just focus entirely on azure light, need to strike a balance? Meh.

This is what I was leaning towards.

[Seraphise]

I think I've been shafted
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[ringthree]

I think I've been shafted
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That screenshot doesn't mean anything unless we know the situation surrounding it.

[Seraphise]

That screenshot doesn't mean anything unless we know the situation surrounding it.

all there, I gave a traverser stone and it gave me 3 minutes rather than 30

I was at 2 minutes of time left, went to extend my time and rather than pushing me to 33 minutes, it put me to 5 minutes. I suppose its what I get for mashing the enter key

[Psion]

It's pretty obvious what happened. They used stones in abyssea to set time at about 119-120 minutes, then when time was running low, went to add more stones and raise time some more, only they didn't know that you can only add up to 120 minutes total with stones per entry, and so adding another stone past that only gives you one minute per stone. (or perhaps two with the extended duration abyssite.)

Time extension chests can push the cap past this (though if you exit with say, 300 minutes remaining, and reenter, you can only set it to 120 and rest is lost), but adding more stones cannot, you must exit then re-enter abyssea to get the full duration.