KS for Hire - KS30 vs. KS99

[Tomatoes]

Just wanted to gauge how it is on other servers and what you think is a better investment. My luck with both has been less than satisfactory. The only time I've had a good KS run, is when a friend ran an orb for me free of charge.

On Pandy, rates are currently:

70/30 for KS30 (all types, 70 to orb holder, 30 to BLMs)
50/50 for KS99 (all types)

For the record, my drops from mercenary groups so far:

KS30 - O.Ingot
KS30 - lost battle
KS99 - assortment of junk totalling 250k-ish

If you had 2 stacks of KS, would you run 2x99 or 6 or 7x30?

[Atma]

Re: KS for Hire - KS30 vs. KS99

Just wanted to gauge how it is on other servers and what you think is a better investment. My luck with both has been less than satisfactory. The only time I've had a good KS run, is when a friend ran an orb for me free of charge.

On Pandy, rates are currently:

70/30 for KS30 (all types, 70 to orb holder, 30 to BLMs)
50/50 for KS99 (all types)

For the record, my drops from mercenary groups so far:

KS30 - O.Ingot
KS30 - lost battle
KS99 - assortment of junk totally 250k-ish

If you had 2 stacks of KS, would you run 2x99 or 6 or 7x30?

Well, 70x30 would be 210 seals, so I'm assuming you have a bit more then 2 stacks

Personally I'd do one 99, see how loot was, and then:

1) If bad, do 3 30s
2) if good, do another 99

[TaruBST]

Re: KS for Hire - KS30 vs. KS99

I'd do the same as Atma.
But if it takes longer to gather people for KS99, then I'd just stick to KS30.

[Jei]

Re: KS for Hire - KS30 vs. KS99

they merc 99KSBC too? With 17Blm? Wow I haven't seen one doing 99 on my server yet.

[Drizzt_991]

Re: KS for Hire - KS30 vs. KS99

Theres a few ls's that run ks 99 mercs on Horns of war ( http://ffxi.somepage.com/bcnm/34 ). From the runs that I was in the orb holder kept one item of there choice and the rest was split between the blms. The seven or so runs that we did the orb holders averaged like 8+ mil.

The fight usually consisted of all the blms using a RR hairpin, all -ga3 nuke at one time, then nuke with T4 spells, toss in some stuns untill Final meto. Then everyone reraises and finishes him off. All the behemoth hides that drop make it pretty worthwhile for the blms.

From all the ks 30 fights I have merced I would highely recomend ks99. But then again prices differ quite a bit depending on your server if the weapons from horns of war were low on price ks 30 may be a better choice.

[TheGrandMom]

Re: KS for Hire - KS30 vs. KS99

We do KS99 runs all the time in our LS. Just did one recently and an Unsho dropped which goes for 30 mil on our server. Also other various stuff like 2 Behemoth Horns, Raxa, etc. It made a tidy little sum for our bst.

[Shahar]

Re: KS for Hire - KS30 vs. KS99

I burn the ks30's on the Pandy server Friday nights (we do the 70/30 split with an option pay 1mil upfront and keep all drops) and I would suggest trying a ks99 fight, (I know one group that does burn them, and my group was thinking about getting something set up for the 99's) and if that doesn't work well for you then use the rest on the 30's as suggested above.

I know you make a pretty decent chunk of change with the 99's, but on average our group manages to pull in 2-3 of each of the high priced stuff (the v.claw, ingots, and cloth) with the 30's and if you do Double Dragonian for the Destroyers, we've had only two orbs that didn't drop the Destroyers.
But they are your seals and it's up to you how you want to spend them. I guess you'd have to ask yourself wether or not you want to spend 99 or 30 seals on the possibility of getting little drops.

Good luck and I hope when you do spend your seals you get good drops and if you decide to go the 30 seal route, send me a tell (lol). ^^

[TheGrandMom]

Re: KS for Hire - KS30 vs. KS99

I've had horrendous luck with the ks30 battles. For my orb drop once, each person got 7k. >.< Usually we have one good loot drop like a claw or ingot but I've never made more than 1 mil on any run that I've done. Luck luck luck...if you have it then its all good.