Abyssea - Vunkerl Discussion

[Xanthe]

Conflux map for the zone until Cairthenn finishes. Note that VC#6 is actually at the bottom of 13, but the game won't let you place markers past 12.

http://i55.tinypic.com/3356uwx.png

[Gwynplaine]

Just fore reference here's a list of the quests in this zone. This time there's only 9 instead of 10, not counting martello mini-quests, and Bastion Ops.

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Abyssea +A Ward to End All Wards Client: Belgidiveau (Base Camp,
Abyssea - Vunkerl)
Summary:
The searing ward maintained by the
brilliant Belgidiveau could not
possibly be malfunctioning!
Nevertheless, he requires your aid to
perform a routine test. Deliver a body
part of an Abyssean fiend to your
client, and confirm that his remarkable
creation is still performing optimally.

Abyssea +The Boxwatcher's Behest Client: Deraquien (Central Encampment,
Abyssea - Vunkerl)
Summary:
Supplies must be delivered on foot to
the newly constructed outpost, and
the sluggardly Deraquien is clearly not
up to the task. Go in his stead and
deliver the goods to Captain
Elmemague.

Abyssea +His Bridge, His Beloved Client: Cheupirudaux (Western
Encampment, Abyssea - Vunkerl)
Summary:
The bridges across the inlet are in a
state of dire disrepair. Go repair
them, that a sensitive woodworker's
heart may again rest easy.

Abyssea +Bad Communication Client: Ferdechiond (Outpost,
Abyssea - Vunkerl)
Summary:
The linkpearls planted afield to gather
intelligence on the Abyssean hordes
are not functioning as intended, and
Ferdechiond is displeased. Investigate
the situation with all speed!

Abyssea Family Ties Client: Teigero-Bangero (Western
Encampment, Abyssea - Vunkerl)
Summary:
A devoted Tarutaru father was
separated from wife and child in their
flight from Jeuno. Deliver his letter,
that this loving family may be
reunited once more.

Abyssea Aqua Pura Client: High Bear (Outpost,
Abyssea - Vunkerl)
Summary:
An enthusiastic researcher is on the
verge of a discovery that might
restore potable water to the inlet.
Retrieve plant samples from the
vicinity of the ponds, that his labors
might at long last bear fruit.

Abyssea +Aqua Puraga Client: High Bear (Outpost,
Abyssea - Vunkerl)
Summary:
An enthusiastic researcher is on the
verge of a discovery that might
restore potable water to the inlet...
for certain this time! Retrieve plant
samples from the vicinity of the
ponds, that his labors might at long
last bear fruit.

Abyssea Whither the Whisker Client: Rahal (Central Encampment,
Abyssea - Vunkerl)
Summary:
A savage pack of fiends terrorizes
Vunkerl, their whisker of power and
omniscience confounding the bravest
attempts of a celebrated San d'Orian
hero to secure the safety of his men.
It falls to you to sever and retrieve
this Samsonian strand!

Abyssea+Scattered Shells, Scattered Mind Client: Aladoverre (Western
Encampment, Abyssea - Vunkerl)
Summary:
The resistance's supply of linkshells
has dwindled to dangerously
low levels. Retrieve three from the
field before your addle-minded client
forgets just what exactly he asked
you for.

[Kegsay]

I have noticed minor correlation between heaviness of bag and chance of a seal; I think the fame rewarded is the same though. For that reason, I'm going to keep doing light ones until I max out fame, then maybe the Medium ones which has a nice balance of time/chance I think.

Why bother with fame? Well, we do not know which quests (if any) reward abyssite, and the ones from Vunkerl are...
-Crimson Lenity (EXP loss; meh)
-Crimson Celerity (Stone-4hours; omfg yes)
-Crimson Acumen (guesses-1; different I guess)
-Crimson Confluence (Conflux cost down; it adds up)
-Crimson Destiny (Gold casket up; nice to have)

[Odin'sLaw]

I have noticed minor correlation between heaviness of bag and chance of a seal; I think the fame rewarded is the same though. For that reason, I'm going to keep doing light ones until I max out fame, then maybe the Medium ones which has a nice balance of time/chance I think.

Why bother with fame? Well, we do not know which quests (if any) reward abyssite, and the ones from Vunkerl are...
-Crimson Lenity (EXP loss; meh)
-Crimson Celerity (Stone-4hours; omfg yes)
-Crimson Acumen (guesses-1; different I guess)
-Crimson Confluence (Conflux cost down; it adds up)
-Crimson Destiny (Gold casket up; nice to have)

do you know which Quests give which abyssite? and also can all gold chests hold within them AF3 boots for job of that area or only some jobs can drop from some mobs?

(Puks dropped af3 dnc boots after about 20 mins)

[ronin sparthos]

NM Pugil spawned in the Pallas area of Vunkerl off the surrounding Pugils.

Names Hrosshvalur.

[fredjanx]

-Crimson Celerity (Stone-4hours; omfg yes)
-Crimson Confluence (Conflux cost down; it adds up)

Which quests?

[Yugl]

Which quests?

I have noticed minor correlation between heaviness of bag and chance of a seal; I think the fame rewarded is the same though. For that reason, I'm going to keep doing light ones until I max out fame, then maybe the Medium ones which has a nice balance of time/chance I think.

Why bother with fame? Well, we do not know which quests (if any) reward abyssite, and the ones from Vunkerl are...
-Crimson Lenity (EXP loss; meh)
-Crimson Celerity (Stone-4hours; omfg yes)
-Crimson Acumen (guesses-1; different I guess)
-Crimson Confluence (Conflux cost down; it adds up)
-Crimson Destiny (Gold casket up; nice to have)

Not sure!

[mofa]

Crimson Lenity I received from completing

His Bridge, His Beloved

Fame 2 at least.

[Yoky]

Friggin regular imps and flayers weren't true sight but the regular taurs were.

Clammy Imps are 100% TS... I test this and it agro'd me.

Also did the heavy bag and that monkey NM just hovered in my path which made the quest take alot longer then it should of, but it does take a while w/o the + movement speed anything.

[Tawa]

Conflux map for the zone until Cairthenn finishes. Note that VC#6 is actually at the bottom of 13, but the game won't let you place markers past 12.

http://i55.tinypic.com/3356uwx.png

It will let you place markers past 12, but you have to zoom in on the map (thats what I did anyway).

[Diddy Kong]

How often can Aqua Pura be done?

Edit: Just did the supply run again as DNC for the 6th time. Got another Charis Feet seal.

[Rooney]

Just did a pt on the Shewriwhiles (new corpselights) just north of conflux #7. Do not recommend these at all. Exp started really low (~50) and hard capped at 361. They do give all lights and are as squishy as expected.

[mofa]

How often can Aqua Pura be done?

Appears to be once/game day

[mofa]

lag duplicate

[Fereydoon]

How often can Aqua Pura be done?

Edit: Just did the supply run again as DNC for the 6th time. Got another Charis Feet seal.

Are you doing heaviest? Or are you doing medium/light? I did heavy three times and the only seal I got was war, I was on smn at the time.

[mofa]

Fame 1:

A Ward to End All Wards
Client: Belgidiveau (Base Camp, Abyssea - Vunkerl)

The Boxwatcher's Behest
Client: Deraquien (Central Encampment, Abyssea - Vunkerl)

Aqua Pura
Client: High Bear (Outpost, Abyssea - Vunkerl)

Aqua Puraga
Client: High Bear (Outpost, Abyssea - Vunkerl)

Fame 2:

His Bridge, His Beloved
Client: Cheupirudaux (Western Encampment, Abyssea - Vunkerl)

Bad Communication
Client: Ferdechiond (Outpost, Abyssea - Vunkerl)

Fame 3:

Whither the Whisker
Client: Rahal (Central Encampment, Abyssea - Vunkerl)

Fame 4+

Scattered Shells, Scattered Mind
Client: Aladoverre (Western Encampment, Abyssea - Vunkerl)

Family Ties Client:
Teigero-Bangero (Western Encampment, Abyssea - Vunkerl)

[FailureMidgard]

Information Dump. Some is repeated, some is more specific, some is new!

Bukhis (Taurus) "Path". Pop is on the Campaign Tower Island.
Requires 3 key items:
--Ossified Gargouille Hand, drops from Gargouille NM. Never fought it, pops west of the lake with the campaign tower.
--Ingrown Taurus Nail, drops from Taurus NM, Khalkotaur, north of campaign tower.
--Imbrued Vampyr Fang, from a free-standing Vampyr NM, Lord Varney. He pops around where you teleport into Vunkerl_S via CA teleporters.

Lethal Tripclip dispels buffs quite often, including cruor buffs. Also inflicts a Max HP Down if you don't have cruor HP buff.
Ruinous Scythe does ~1700-2100 damage to my monk with 0 shadows up, 4+ hits, shadows do lower damage. Inflicts Max HP Down if you don't have cruor HP buff.
Apocalyptic Ray does Doom, turning doesn't help, hits people in a cone.
Lithic Ray does Petrification.
Casts all ice based enfeeble-gas (para, bind) and nukes (T5, T4ga).
PD-zerg with 2 DD parties only got it to ~50%.
Mnk/nin with Atma from Dozing Dorian can definitely tank, but once you lose Cruor buffs, you can easily die to Paralyga>Ruinous Scythe>Failed Counter (at ~2100 HP). If you are straight tanking it, I'd suggest multiple people that can "tank", and no more than 2 in at a time. We were even running back to the start to get cruor buffs if we died, while weakened.

Drops: We have 3 kills, all 3 dropped Petrification GK (don't recall name). Drops Stone of Voyage and Coin of Voyage. On our 3 kills, we got both twice, and got one once.
http://www.gwcdn.com/albums/images/4...4435000674.jpg


Sedna (Ruszor) "Path". Pop is right by Hrosshvalur.
Requires 2 key items:
--Glossy Sea Monk Sucker, drops from Sea Monk NM, (forgot name, too lazy to look), right by Conflux 3.
--Shimmering Pugil Scale, from a free-standing Pugil NM, Hrosshvalur. He pops in the Pugil area near J-6, not on the actual map.

Spams Aqua Blast - Wipes shadows, does ~330ish damage to my mnk with just shell4? I think. Rarely meleed. Used 1 other TP move I'm too lazy to look up. I just blood tanked it on mnk with people spamming cures. May be a better way to do it, but the fight was pretty fast (8minutes with 2 DD on it full-time, plus some watching/WSing only, which I think was unnecessary, but we were low on support).

Drops:
http://www.gwcdn.com/albums/images/4...4435000757.jpg


Durinn (Dvergr) "Path".
--Decayed Dvergr Tooth, drops from a Dvergr NM, Dvalinn. The pop item drops from Cointeaches @ D-11ish.
--Pulsating Soulflayer Beard, drops from a Soulflayer we never fought, nor do I know where they are.
--Chipped Imp's Olifant, from a free-standing Imp NM, Div-e Sepid. He pops in H-11.

Doesn't do anything special. Casts some -ga4s, normal Dvergr TP moves. Trioable in my personal opinion with DD/nin, brd, rdm. We killed it in 7min with 2 DD and a couple avatars BPing on it (only bard + mage for DD support, had like 1 blm that didn't do much at all).

Drops:
http://www.gwcdn.com/albums/images/4...4435000758.jpg





Comments on a few other things. First off, defeating the Cutscene boss (Ruszor) continues progress along the old Curscene progression. IE, if it's your first (this part is assumed) you'll get a Lunar Abyssite. If it's your 2nd, you'll get the reward for doing 2 before this patch. If it's your 3rd, you'll get the reward for doing 3rd from before this patch. None of us ever popped or killed Glavoid, so no idea what reward is given for 4th.

Crawler popped NM, drops Crimson abyssite of confluence (lower Teleport cruor cost). Pop is @ G/H-10.

Spider freestanding NM, drops Crimson abyssite of destiny (gold chest luck). Location is @ I-11.

As far as we can tell there is no higher tier NM.

[Diddy Kong]

Are you doing heaviest? Or are you doing medium/light? I did heavy three times and the only seal I got was war, I was on smn at the time.

First time I did the lightest, second-fifth time I did the heaviest. 6th try was the medium one. All runs were as DNC, if that means anything.

[Jeryhn]

Well, the new Ivories that cannot be bought are:

Guerdon (Temp items on visitant status)
Perspicacity (EXP bonus)
The Reaper (Cruor bonus)

Hopefully the EXP bonus one is not the last one offered...

[FailureMidgard]

Well, the new Ivories that cannot be bought are:

Guerdon (Temp items on visitant status)
Perspicacity (EXP bonus)
The Reaper (Cruor bonus)

Hopefully the EXP bonus one is not the last one offered...

It doesn't break the mob exp cap afaik, pre or post gold lights, so all it does is give you a little more exp in the first hour you're there, not sure why you'd care about that specifically. Also, since when does exp matter? I don't even mind homepointing or anything any more 'cause it's so easy to cap and overcap buffer if you fight Abyssea NMs...