[dev1015] Abyssea Update Scheduled for June 6

[Malacite]

[dev1015] Abyssea Update Scheduled for June 6


[dev1015] Abyssea Update Scheduled for June 6
As part of a continuing effort to alleviate congestion in Abyssea areas, an update will be performed on Monday, June 6 incorporating the following refinements:

• Sturdy pyxides in Abyssea areas will appear in significantly greater quantities.
• Players will be given the option to manually destroy any sturdy pyxis.
  *When exercising this option, the destroying player will receive a cruor reward proportional to the rank of the pyxis.
• The name of the player who successfully struck a fiend's weakness will be displayed in the message log.
• When performing atma infusions, players will be able to view and select from a list of their twelve most recently infused atma.
  *When selecting from this list, players will be able to infuse two or three atma at once.
  *This feature will function independently of the "Reinfuse previous atma set" option. (Atma selected from the list will not overwrite the previous atma set, nor will atma infused via "Reinfuse..." be stored in the list.)

Awesome sauce!

[Yygdrasil]

Re: [dev1015] Abyssea Update Scheduled for June 6

Awsome... awsome... awsome.. awsome... and awsome.

[Neverslip]

Re: [dev1015] Abyssea Update Scheduled for June 6

Epic Winsauce. I really like the changes to Sturdy Pyxides now that my LS is farming KIs through those more and more.

[Yygdrasil]

Re: [dev1015] Abyssea Update Scheduled for June 6

Yeah. Destroying pyxides for curor. yes please!

[Neverslip]

Re: [dev1015] Abyssea Update Scheduled for June 6

It's a good idea to give people the incentive to get rid of them. I have heard that there can only be so many of them in a given zone an one time.

[Malacite]

Re: [dev1015] Abyssea Update Scheduled for June 6

^ there's an NPC cap in any given zone, that's why they didn't increase box rate before.

I'd like it better if everyone got cruor but oh well. Woulda been epic for cruor PTs

[Romyro]

Re: [dev1015] Abyssea Update Scheduled for June 6

I'd like it better if everyone got cruor but oh well. Woulda been epic for cruor PTs

While the 1k cruor chests are pretty helpful, that’s not what people in cruor parties go for…at least they shouldn’t be.

For xp, you fight the same family
For cruor you alternate between 2 families.

In Mis coast I do bat/detector/bat/detector
Bats give about 450 cruor per kill, detectors about 550

So about 1k cruor every 2 enemies.

[Yygdrasil]

Re: [dev1015] Abyssea Update Scheduled for June 6

Please explain this seemingly simple process in greater detail.... I was not aware of this.

[Romyro]

Re: [dev1015] Abyssea Update Scheduled for June 6

Enter Abyssea Mis
Get atmas
Kill Bat
Then kill another mob (coliribri is closer/safer)
Kill bat
Then kill another mob (coliribri is closer/safer)
repeat for as long as desired
swim in cruor.

Just like killing a different mob breaks XP chains, killing the same mob breaks curor chains.
After a short amount of time you’ll start hitting curor caps without getting silver lights.

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exp/kill will always be low though

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Bat/colibiri is a great option for any soloer. Especially Nin

The birds don’t give ruby so they drop fast. Just try not to WS kill bats or you can screw up getting blue chests with too much ruby.

[Yygdrasil]

Re: [dev1015] Abyssea Update Scheduled for June 6

I must do this important thing.

I'll amber kill for gold boxes and farm cruor... good lord...

[Romyro]

Re: [dev1015] Abyssea Update Scheduled for June 6

lots of edits ><

It was AMAZING before the recent Bst PDT nerf.

2 DDs, 1 Whm, 2 Bsts could net TONS of cruor per hour….TONSs.

Both Bsts get -100 PDT for pets. One links as many colibri as possible to pet, other links as many birds (fridgate?) as possible to other pet.

Both Bsts chill by the camp area. DDers pull links off and destroy (alternating kills). I made a few mil cruor that way.

[Yygdrasil]

Re: [dev1015] Abyssea Update Scheduled for June 6

Awsome... I can use Ducal Guard Atma and do fairly well with Avatars on SMN I'd bet. Wouldn't be able to do the BST exploit... but still.

How long do you figure it takes to work up to a million doing it this way... solo on NIN

[Neverslip]

Re: [dev1015] Abyssea Update Scheduled for June 6

Enter Abyssea Mis
Get atmas
Kill Bat
Then kill another mob (coliribri is closer/safer)
Kill bat
Then kill another mob (coliribri is closer/safer)
repeat for as long as desired
swim in cruor.

Do you need to get to a certain level of a certain type of light prior to killing the mobs or not?

[Yygdrasil]

Re: [dev1015] Abyssea Update Scheduled for June 6

I would assume that you work on Pearl, Azure and Amber as you progress.

[Romyro]

Re: [dev1015] Abyssea Update Scheduled for June 6

I haven’t tried it lately so I’m not sure how it will work now that they fixed the PDT on Bst. It was the -100% pdt that allowed pets to hold 20+ birds w/o a scratch. Although maybe they can use Ducal Guard/Mounted Champ/Vissicute (sp) and still stay afloat. -87.5% pdt mixed with 35h/tic regen goes a long way.

You need a mini party. If your too big, then you have people barely getting hits in before mobs die and lots of people just standing around. The ideal setup we did was…

1 Whm – to heal obviously
2-3 DDrs – anything will do. One with voke/RA/throwing (etc) to pull links is helpful.
2 Bst pullers – must be able to hit max pet: -pdt
1 key guy

If your choosing a different area, you also need to find 2 families that are close to each other and that also link in some form. Which is why the 2 bird groups work so well. Keep in mind I said link, not agro. The pets are doing the tanking, not you.

As for lights…it all depends I guess. If you plan on staying for a while, Azure some murexes prior to starting. Maybe even split up and pop a couple T1 vnms and pearl them (NM such as VNMs give guaranteed pearl lights…if killed correctly). That should be all you need to get 1k chests for the extra little cruor boosts, Time extension and xp for your key guy or merits. I prefer to build Azure first over pearl. I’d rather get rare chests with TEs then more chests with minor rewards.

Amber lights are your call. If you want to get gold box items (more specifically a Gutz KI) then mix in some Amber lights. In low groups I always avoid ruby lights. They mess up the blue/gold chest spawns so I don’t even bother. If you’re getting a good flow of TEs, I guess it doesn’t matter

How long do you figure it takes to work up to a million doing it this way... solo on NIN

Here’s the shitty thing about soloing. You can probably get 40-60k an hour once you become a pro at it (it’s not hard to do). But…since your solo, you’ll need to purchase your own keys (25-50k). You’ll need to check all your own chests and use keys to open them. Even if you’re a master at solving the puzzles, it takes too much time. You’ll probably always be ~10 minutes ahead or behind of what you started with. You’re not going to end up building 600 minutes.

You can bring a key guy but the issue with that is he’s probably going to be too low to get xp/kill…and since you’re constantly resetting the xp chain he may never get xp and the 1250xp chests can no where compete with him keying in a regular party. I do it when I’m bored and have a surplus of keys. Finding a duo partner only sweetens the deal.

Suggested areas that might work (astrik means I’m not sure, I haven’t tried it)

Aby – La Thinen: *Birds & Rabbits
Aby – Mis coast: Fridgegate birds and Colibri
Aby – Vunk: Puks and crawlers (could be difficult if mass pulling with Bsts)
Aby – Ule: *Buffalo and tigers?
Aby – Grau: *Gobs & Pugils?

I’m sure theirs plenty more.
If your soloing, any families that are close will work just fine. To find the most effective mobs to alternate between, build up your cruor chain then run around the map killing 1 mob in each family. The 2 families that give high cruor next to each other are your targets.

Cruor only resets if you kill 2 in the same group. So you can kill 1 of everything w/o breaking your chain.