Abyssea - Vunkerl Discussion

[Raen Ryong]

Unusual... I've taken it from a wiped RDM (who raged it) and allowed it one tick to unrage, took from ~40% and it was fine.

[Heie]

I didn't even need it to regen for me. Just made sure it lost hate on everyone. I have seen it rage in under 20 minutes before when someone else raged it and wiped with it @ 10%. It regened to full and raged again in 20. When it rages I just put a fresh bio on. Have everyone in the PT leave the zone. I hit the conflux and come back and rage is off without it ever regening. Not sure why yours was still raged after a full regen.

[TehKerm]

Yeah it didnt make any sense at all to us. What made the situation worse was some jps kept training the Marid NM to our kite spot and dieing -.- GMs arent good for shit anymore lol.

[Pandorablue]

I just kinda skimmed through this thread, any strats for Hrosshvalur? Preferably as few people as possible.

[vagus]

I just kinda skimmed through this thread, any strats for Hrosshvalur? Preferably as few people as possible.

Not very difficult. Just keep barwatera up and stun his AOE move.

[Jado818]

Anybody have a link to an updated map for this zone that shows where the maws are.. or even just a list of the <pos>'s?

[Bootykilla]

Anybody have a link to an updated map for this zone that shows where the maws are.. or even just a list of the <pos>'s?

http://wiki.ffxiclopedia.org/wiki/Ab...-_Vunkerl/Maps

[Ryolen13]

do smaller gold chests drop AF more commonly than larger chests? i read that somewhere but forgot where. also, what are good mobs in abyssea Vunk for pearl light capping?

[carmancilla]

I was with someone the other day in vunkerl and grabbed that giant when some rdm wiped soloing it, she told us it was going to rage in about 10 minutes but we kept trying anyway. Nukes dropped considerably during rage and we tried to reset hate on it to get it to unrage, but funny enough it didnt seem to change anything regardless of the fact we let it regen back to 100% before taking it again. Anyone else have this problem with him?

Mentioned this in the Attowa thread. Same thing happened to me one time. Saw a dead rdm and NM making its way back to its spawn point coming from Conflux 0. I didnt check if it had DoT on so due to my anxiousness I claimed it and proceeded to kite it near the Bastion area. After about 10mins or so I was noticing my Thunder 3 and Water 4 hitting for about 50-90ish dmg on RDM wherein usually they would be 800+-900+ then I got caught one time getting hit for about 1200+.(Full stoneskin + Phalanx and some -PDT gear) My only guess is it was already raged with a Dot from the dead guy when I claimed it and takes awhile to reset maybe if any previous dot was on.

[Raen Ryong]

Did you let it go passive for one tick; so it's just standing there, not chasing anybody?

[FailureMidgard]

I've definitely seen random 1500 hits from them without it being raged (goes right back to hitting for 200 after).

[Raen Ryong]

Really? O_o I mean the foot stomp hurts more than the sword swing but regardless. I'm glad that hasn't happened to me! No chance their melee damage is inversely proportional to distance?

[carmancilla]

Did you let it go passive for one tick; so it's just standing there, not chasing anybody?

Yup It was just standing around that path towards the Bastion area. Killed this a few times already solo/lowman/duo etc (0/12 Pluviale atm QQ) Ive never seen it hit me for more than 200+ damage even without the usual rdm buffs before and the nukes landing for less than 100 after awhile made me think this was fully raged. Also forgot to add that before hitting me for 1200+, it hit me for 500+ dmg previously too and this already made me wonder so like most NMs its gradual > full rage. After this incident, Ive done 3 more claims but didnt see this rage even after about 30mins of usual kiting/nuking with a small group.

[jimbobsonofgod]

do smaller gold chests drop AF more commonly than larger chests? i read that somewhere but forgot where. also, what are good mobs in abyssea Vunk for pearl light capping?

Honestly I know shit is random but most of the time for me a I've see mostly key items and temp items in larger chests over AFIII. Can do lady bugs or triple bats both seem to be pretty easy to cap pearl with.

[Fiendishone]

Funguars seemed to be fairly generous with pearl light for us the other night, first time fighting them to get some NM funguar pops for feet seals.

[Bootykilla]

Any lowman startegies for Armillaria? Was messing around in Vunk yesterday with friends, around 20-30% it has aura effect that gives Silence and Paralyze to anyone near which led to wipe. probably werent the rights jobs, wondering whats needed or how to work around that aura.

[Massimo]

Any lowman startegies for Armillaria? Was messing around in Vunk yesterday with friends, around 20-30% it has aura effect that gives Silence and Paralyze to anyone near which led to wipe. probably werent the rights jobs, wondering whats needed or how to work around that aura.

Dual-boxed it RDM/NIN x2, wasn't hard.

[Byrthnoth]

Any lowman startegies for Armillaria? Was messing around in Vunk yesterday with friends, around 20-30% it has aura effect that gives Silence and Paralyze to anyone near which led to wipe. probably werent the rights jobs, wondering whats needed or how to work around that aura.

Sorry, I couldn't remember/spell his name:

I imagine the mushroom NM that drops Pax grip would be a very easy solo, and he was certainly a very easy duo. Sabo -> Pop him -> Slow II -> Powder Boots -> pull south through the canyon. He may deagro at this point if you aren't careful. I had a second person to reclaim him so I never bothered being careful. Train your NQ mobs across the bridge (hug the left wall) and they'll deagro before you cross said bridge. Kite him around the downed tree and rocks near it. He can swing through the east end of tree if you walk too close and it isn't long enough to pin him that way, so it's less ideal than it looks. Doesn't matter, easy fight.

He doesn't have much HP, cycling through all our spells took him to about 50%. No enhanced movement speed that we ever noticed. Resists water magic and Paralyze, but isn't immune to either. His "gimmick" is obviously the breath moves, but they do shit damage as long as you aren't directly in the middle of them (distance doesn't matter so much, it's a breath, and he doesn't seem to turn). After 50%, when he successfully uses a breath move he'll get an aura that corresponds to the move. Landing Silence Gas will give him a silence aura. Dark Spore will give him a blind aura, etc. It still doesn't matter if he can't catch up to you. He hits pretty normally for Abyssea NMs, ~250 without any PDT and just Prot 5.

He's a pretty easy fight. I managed to get some Bliz 3s off with hate when his silence aura was up, but if you're afraid of it you could just kite until it goes away. The log on the ground to the south lets you out of range most of his breath attacks if he does it towards the end of the log (log is longer than their range).

[TehKerm]

Killed the giant 2 times yesterday finally! fairly simple fight with 2 rdm/nin and a smn. SMN was dual boxed, we kited/nuked it south of the bastion area. even unraged though our nukes were still doing under 100 lmao, there has to be something were doing wrong or this mob is broken. regardless some nukes landed unresisted for around 800ish, but majority of the time 100ish -. even so took about 45 mins a kill, so not too bad. Hit !! with bio 2, didnt see which color but it dropped a shit ton synth mats lol, no Body :'(

[Darkmagi]

Only nuke with water and thunder. If you already were.... suck less?