How to fight Serket

[Aeni]

Zone all the mobs to the entrance.

What I don't understand is that the monsters are suppose to re-pop instantly, back to where they were before. It's not even working in this manner! Zoning out monsters causes multiple death on monsters instantly and the game then puts a timer on the mobs that were zoned out to repop.

What I don't understand is ...

(1) Do monsters that were "wiped" at once then repop at the same time?

I've seen monsters reappear slowly ... not simultaneously. A bug in the design?

(2) Do monsters reappear on their original timers (Some 5 min, some 14 min, some 18 min, etc.) or do they reappear at set intervals?

I've seen monsters go back to their normal timers and in some cases, take even longer than that.

Needless to say, GC was empty for mobs to exp on, due to massive training of everything you can think of possible by some nub HNMLS wannabes (levels 55-75) clearing out the area so they can have a better chance of pulling Serket. Serket did pop, but this stupid zoning continued (Maybe this LS is so nubby, they couldn't take on Serket with all of these monsters about) I've seen everything from chamber beetles to fallens and tons of bats being zoned out. This causes a train of lower level monsters to zone out as well, killing the exp in there. What started with 4 parties in the 30s ended up with just one - our party. Pretty desolate and even then, we were pulling at a rate of 1 mob every 5-7 minutes due to the lack of monsters around.

I mean seriously, WTF?

[TheGrandMom]

Re: How to fight Serket

I have never seen this "technique" of killing Serket. I guess for someone lower lvl it would be irritating. I would laugh my rear off those because that has to be the nubbiest thing I have ever heard of!

[Jei]

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lol. i can imagine what the train looked like.

might be a family style ls briging friends to join the hunt ^^

[Aeni]

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lol. i can imagine what the train looked like.

might be a family style ls briging friends to join the hunt ^^

I was thinking that too. Maybe it was a group of IRL friends. But I can't imagine what the general populace is thinking right now, because it really makes it so difficult for other players to enjoy their time at exp. At one point, there was some PLD (I.M. Helm and Brigandine make me think of Power Rangers for some reason) and he trained out no less than 8 fallens and three chamber beetles (with a few lower level beetles) ... I wept when I saw all of our bats got trained and then de-popped. We couldn't chain even if we wanted to. So sad.

[TheGrandMom]

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I know if we camp Serket, we leave the mobs alone except for harder ones like the skele's for tp. But once we have tp, thats it for those too. Leaving the mobs is part of the strategy too. The lower ls's that have lower lvl people in it and are camping Serket get aggro from the mobs so they are busy killing them and not able to watch for spawn. Less watching for spawn is a good thing.

[Caspian]

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So, at the cost of screwing over every xp party in GC, they'll despawn every mob in there just to have a better chance of getting claim? Thats pretty f***ed up.

[Balfree]

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O.O

While i was getting a GC coffer key down there, a bunch of LS-less /anon people with similar names were standing around, arguably gilsellers. Serket pops right on top of me while im resting, bunch of mobs all around and then suddenly every single gilseller grabed a mob and solo'ed it while a second team killed serket, never seen the trains you mentioned though aeni.

It's stupid though, suddenly both the exp pt's down there had to stop exping due to this.

[Aeni]

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O.O

While i was getting a GC coffer key down there, a bunch of LS-less /anon people with similar names were standing around, arguably gilsellers. Serket pops right on top of me while im resting, bunch of mobs all around and then suddenly every single gilseller grabed a mob and solo'ed it while a second team killed serket, never seen the trains you mentioned though aeni.

It's stupid though, suddenly both the exp pt's down there had to stop exping due to this.

The problem we encountered was one of those situations where you can't call a GM because there's no proof of any wrong doing. Those players can claim they merely zoned for their lives (But having Escape + Chainspell would solve this problem) None of those players were there to exp and they know it. The only reason they're down there is for Serket. You see plenty enough high levels going into GC to know that there's no way they're going there for a mere skill up party.

Then an LS mate of mine called out over chat saying Serket popped. That pretty much explained everything, regardless of what those players were claiming they were doing.

The end result was exp being killed. Thankfully, this isn't something that happens in every zone, but I can already see other zones suffering because of this (Imagine zoning out all the Robber Crabs and what have you just so you can fight Guivre, for example - or zone out all the gobs/crabs in Gustav for Wyvern Poacher)

[Balfree]

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This is just another of FFXI's perks >_>

[Tirrock]

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I miss the good old days when a THF/NIN with antidotes could/would solo serket. >_>a

[Rodin]

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Imagine zoning out all the Robber Crabs and what have you just so you can fight Guivre, for example

You mean there's crabs in Kuftal? I thought the NPCs killed them all. ;>.>

Anyways, my LS leaves the mobs alone when fighting Serket, EXCEPT for the bombs. A buddy of mine is MNK main, but he has a 58 BST. He'll go and "XP" on the bombs, and when serket pops, there's no bombs for the gilsellers to MPK us with. (Because everytime we claim, they go right for the Explosure room.) I remember one time the gilsellers went right for the Explosures, and my buddy was fighting one. The thing blew up as all of them were passing as a group, killing their WHM, WAR, NIN, and RDM. That was probably one of the funniest things I had seen in a long time on this game.

[little ninja]

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mobs pop length is never for certain. i heard the further out you were from its radius, the longer it took to repop. now as a bst i have seen them take 30 seconds. to over a minute whne released in the same spot. usually the first one to aggro you is the first one to repop then it goes in order.

actually aeni i got spoken to by a gm for depopping the mobs. i dont remember what he said exactly. something along the lines of interfering with others right to exp. not sure if he was bull poopin me or what. but thats what he said.

sadly this is another one of S.E's never thought out plans. an basically what were seeing is no aggro to low lvl, no aggro due to low hp, an no bombs going boom. on my server this is 100% of the time a gil seller thing. since they got banned an arent 75 anymore. they need this method to fight serkets an other mobs til they are 75 again.

an just so you guys know, i seen them do this to bune not to long ago. they were no hnmls id ever seen, an once you get in the schene you know who they are, an who they have,

[Aeni]

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Wow, that's interesting little ninja. I never really thought about that (But it makes sense since the account banning) So RMT are here to stay, just that they get "inconvenienced" from time to time with account bannings.

Sigh...