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You may have noticed the price of Venomous Claw is going down recently. It went from 4M to 2M on Gilgamesh. The price of Scorpion Harness also dropped to 3M. There are some possible reasons of these price drops. One should be because of the change of tax system. The other is, I think, because of this BCNM, Operation Desert Swarm" where we can obtain the claw. In fact, we expected we would be able to get it after we read the release note of the update and knew about this scorpion BCNM. Waughroon Shrine is, as a result, always crowded - 80+ people last time...
This BCNM isn't hard if we have good PT setup and know the trick. We basically fight with 6 scorpions. They are regular scorpions - No 2H. In addition, they don't use Death Scissors but Earth Powder (100 - 150 damage) and Wild Rage (200 - 270 damage). Our basic tactics is similar to most BCNMs, fighting with them one after another while making rest of them sleep.
However, there's a trick here. Wild Rage awakes them if the one using it stays nearby others. Therefore, we have to take each one of them away. So, here's how we did it.
http://www5.sppd.ne.jp/grendal/FF11/bcnm_new.wmv (WMV9, 901kbps)
We, RDMs, play the most important role. We cooperate with BRD and have to keep rest of them sleeping until attackers finish killing 5th one. It seems to be easy since we don't need elemental seal. Well, no. It's a little hard because they start to have resist against Lullaby and Sleep. The duration is going to be shorter as time elapses. You'll notice the first Sleepga with Elemental Seal only lasted 30 seconds (1/2 duration) in the movie.
It is nice of us to have some def+ food because their each hit does 80 - 100 damage without it. Always keep Aquaveil, Blink, Phalanx and Stoneskin up. We may not have enough time to refresh other casters since the duration of sleep spells really varies. We cannot expect when they wake up.
Finally, as for PT setup, it's not necessary but nice to have one BRD since songs aren't interrupted (except for Wild Rage knocking us back). For our safety, we need two people to make them sleep, BLM + BRD or RDM + BRD. One more caster takes care of healing. Both PLD, NIN, and WAR74/NIN37+ can tank them well but I recommend NIN/WAR or WAR74/NIN37+ since having more firepower is preferred to save our life
Woops, one more thing to add. Drops aren't bad even though we aren't able to get the claw. For instance:
- Warwolf Belt (600K in AH): AR6, STR+5, VIT+5, DEX+5, Enmity+3
- Hierarch Belt (500K in AH): AR3, MP+48, hHP+2, hMP+2
We sometimes get Damascus Ingot or Damascene Cloth, too.
This BCNM isn't hard if we have good PT setup and know the trick. We basically fight with 6 scorpions. They are regular scorpions - No 2H. In addition, they don't use Death Scissors but Earth Powder (100 - 150 damage) and Wild Rage (200 - 270 damage). Our basic tactics is similar to most BCNMs, fighting with them one after another while making rest of them sleep.
However, there's a trick here. Wild Rage awakes them if the one using it stays nearby others. Therefore, we have to take each one of them away. So, here's how we did it.
http://www5.sppd.ne.jp/grendal/FF11/bcnm_new.wmv (WMV9, 901kbps)
We, RDMs, play the most important role. We cooperate with BRD and have to keep rest of them sleeping until attackers finish killing 5th one. It seems to be easy since we don't need elemental seal. Well, no. It's a little hard because they start to have resist against Lullaby and Sleep. The duration is going to be shorter as time elapses. You'll notice the first Sleepga with Elemental Seal only lasted 30 seconds (1/2 duration) in the movie.
It is nice of us to have some def+ food because their each hit does 80 - 100 damage without it. Always keep Aquaveil, Blink, Phalanx and Stoneskin up. We may not have enough time to refresh other casters since the duration of sleep spells really varies. We cannot expect when they wake up.
Finally, as for PT setup, it's not necessary but nice to have one BRD since songs aren't interrupted (except for Wild Rage knocking us back). For our safety, we need two people to make them sleep, BLM + BRD or RDM + BRD. One more caster takes care of healing. Both PLD, NIN, and WAR74/NIN37+ can tank them well but I recommend NIN/WAR or WAR74/NIN37+ since having more firepower is preferred to save our life
Woops, one more thing to add. Drops aren't bad even though we aren't able to get the claw. For instance:
- Warwolf Belt (600K in AH): AR6, STR+5, VIT+5, DEX+5, Enmity+3
- Hierarch Belt (500K in AH): AR3, MP+48, hHP+2, hMP+2
We sometimes get Damascus Ingot or Damascene Cloth, too.
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