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By Leviathan.Boposhopo 2021-04-21 11:39:43
Is your WHM keep Regen IV on everyone (and have a set for it?)?
Actually the topic of a recent argument. Has a very solid regen set, but doesn't believe he has the time to re-apply it mid fight.
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By Bahamut.Belkin 2021-04-21 11:44:26
Leviathan.Boposhopo said: »Actually the topic of a recent argument. Has a very solid regen set, but doesn't believe he has the time to re-apply it mid fight.
We ran into the same issue. The solution, after 5-6 attempts at V15, was to Regen 4 the PLD only and indi-regen everybody else. Keeping everybody topped off through their various HP-fluctuating-gearswaps was the difference.
Indi-Regen/Geo-Fury/entrust haste on the DD was what we settled on.
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By Lakshmi.Buukki 2021-04-21 12:19:45
We used a DRK over SAM for our clear. Soul Enslavement is an extra layer of "defense" to help push Mboze as low as possible before the inevitable Tiiimbeeer happens. I don't remember Mboze using it in our run, so we got lucky.
Leviathan.Boposhopo said: »it just seems to sense a rampart timer coming down and likes to timber right then
Have the PLD announce when you are @ 15 seconds remaining, and time your RD/WC's so it never drops. The fight can be unpredictable compared to the other A3s. Just don't leave that up to chance. I have seen him use aura within the first few TP moves, which was something we weren't prepared for. Repeated success on Mboze is really hard to pull off.
By Guyford 2021-04-21 13:14:59
We've found low tp method works best for Mboze. Sam whm brd smn cor geo. Sam and monk rolls, honor mad minx3, indi barrier, geo fury, hastega2, shiva tp bonus, earthen armor, shining ruby, and smn uses mew every 30 seconds. Sam alone engages with everyone in range, uses masa for first 50%, then switches to su5 path B (kinda optional I guess but makes things easier). At 25% Sam turns and swaps back to masa, while smn uses perfect defense and then conduits to mew once and reapply buffs. During PD sam/geo 1hr and zerg it down as much as possible. Sam swaps back to su5 when PD ends.
If timber happens whm can benediction, if benediction is down sam can use a panacea to get rid of the all stats down from timber, but not root of the problem
If root of the problem happens brd needs nitro back from cor to spam dispels to get any problematic buffs it might have stolen.
If uproot happens sam just multisteps it off.
If it hits sam with slowga dont worry about garuda hastega 2, whm haste should be enough.
By alamihgo 2021-04-21 14:40:50
should have been the gear RPed by a boss was determined by slot instead of set. SE should allow us to spend RP from any NM in the same Atonement grade with a 50% penalty on mismatched items. If you do NM A and NM B, you spend 6000 segments and net either 0, 400 or 800 RP - depending on how useful you find NMs A and B. But if you adopt a cross-RP option, 6000 segments turns into 400, 600 or 800 depending on how you choose to allot the points. This is enormously more attractive than the paltry 10% rebate you get on segments.
Granted, you could spend twice as many segments to level up an off-path set of gear, but is that not a fair tradeoff?
By Vaerix 2021-04-21 15:08:15
You gonna upgrade 5 Katanas to help your friends work on their entire set?
I don't know about you, but do you really see a reason to upgrade all 5 pieces of Ikenga? If so, please tell me why because I'd love to know the cor rng set isn't just a couple swap pieces at best...
Oh my fault, I thought we were talking about augmenting full sets. It's a great thing this doesn't apply for any of the other sets then either, my face sure is red.
My issue is segment allocation. If you are doing this with a group you aren't gonna be doing a single fight most likely, which means the amount of segments needed to finish yours will have doubled. Bumba is the only mob that doesn't have this issue because it's all jobs. Should really just let RP gained from an atonement be spendable across all mobs within that tier.
Obviously you thought I was being facetious... I was actually wondering about Ikenga ;_;
In response to organizing groups and rp allocation, I think it does take some level of civility and planning. Yes, the group might do trex a few times and you have no need of sakpata right now. So what? You're doing content. If it's really that upsetting to you, drop your spot in the group for someone who needs sakpata and save up segments, that's your prerogative. Honestly, if you find a static that can clear every boss count it as a blessing and just bite the bullet and idk, help altruistically? The answer isn't to let people upgrade across atonement tiers, because it would mean Mboze only has to be beaten once for all intents and purposes.
I think the answer isn't in SE's hands other than maybe relaxing segment cost of KI or KI storage for Mog phone 1's.
Other than that it's in the players hands of working together, idk like the game was 15 years ago? Entire dynamis runs would dedicate currency for people's relics, how is it possible that people just want to do their fights for their gear and complain about helping others now? Serious question.
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By Fenrir.Melphina 2021-04-21 16:00:50
Quote: Other than that it's in the players hands of working together, idk like the game was 15 years ago? Entire dynamis runs would dedicate currency for people's relics, how is it possible that people just want to do their fights for their gear and complain about helping others now? Serious question.
Donating currency toward one person's relic is a bad analogy here. That was a result of an archaic system from 2004, and at the time the leader also paid 500k for the hourglass so there WAS actually an upkeep cost involved. Players got relic armor out of the deal as well, and some of it was very good for the time. Dyna xarc drops continued to be squabbbled over to the day the 75 cap era ended.
These atonement 3 nms require a lot of effort in time gated content to even access, and it's likely that a static will have wants of something like 3 people on sekpata's (it's the most popular after all), one person on Gleti's, one person on Ikegna, and one person on Mpaca set.
How do you work with that? When half the group wants the same set and the other half each want a set that nobody else does you have 4 sets to work on and people are invariably going to want to work on the set that the majority is on. Are you honestly suggesting it's OK to want to split the nm's evenly and do each an equal number of times, because that means everyone gets progress toward their chosen set at 1/4 the rate. That would mean each person is paying 12,000 segments for a single clear of their preferred NM. That's ludicrous. You would get progress twice as fast killing your chosen NM on veng 10 with pickup groups than you would sticking with the static and killing nms on veng 15.
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By Bismarck.Nickeny 2021-04-21 19:20:47
In response to organizing groups and rp allocation, I think it does take some level of civility and planning. Yes, the group might do trex a few times and you have no need of sakpata right now. So what? You're doing content. If it's really that upsetting to you, drop your spot in the group for someone who needs sakpata and save up segments, that's your prerogative. 
By Vaerix 2021-04-21 23:13:31
Well, after everyone finishes nyame set 5/5 r20 are you anticipating being able to pug mboze v10? Are you able to pug bird v10 with much success? Because honestly you're not leveling up your set in 1/4 the time, because you still get to level stuff in the sakpata. If alternating items to r20 is what the group wants to do, that's fine, I need mboze and the bird, if I have a better chance at doing those with the static hell yes I'm doing sakpata first, obviously you need bosses that are zerg able, go forth and conquer amigo, I'd rather stick with a static for fights I don't need (I still get points if I ever want to get that armor), BEYOND THAT, None of the sets are "omfg I need to get this to r20 right now" for every piece in the set, most have clear winners for pieces to be upgraded first. You want your full sets, go pug with people who want the same. I'd rather clear a set in half the time with a group of players worth using my segments with.
By the way, your 192 per kill on V10 looks pretty bad for time to segment use anyway, 341 total V10 kills to hit r20 for 5/5 on a set. 334 total V15 kills to level up 2 5/5 sets to r20. So yeah, you're wasting segments. Again not every piece in a set is a winner for augments, maybe help people and they'll help you otherwise good luck in the pugs.
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By Quetzalcoatl.Khajit 2021-04-21 23:21:36
Quote: Other than that it's in the players hands of working together, idk like the game was 15 years ago? Entire dynamis runs would dedicate currency for people's relics, how is it possible that people just want to do their fights for their gear and complain about helping others now? Serious question. You mean the dynamis runs where many players didn't feel like they had any choice but to go along with the rules the leaders/sponsors set forth because everyone else on a given server was doing the same setup? The same dynamis runs where a sponsor could spend 1 mil and make out with several times more in gil/currency after selling currency while acting like it's such a burden/risk to be making profit off of everyone else working to not get the item they want to drop in dynamis? Those dynamis runs?
And this is the example you come up with as an example of what you want players to willingly do 10+~ years later when there's enough content around that they could do literally anything else to pass the time?
By Foxfire 2021-04-22 01:22:43
Ah yes, the dynamis runs you had to join a linkshells via applying, to then be put on an attendance list where you were [x] spots behind the people who are already in the linkshells, and you had to earn attendance "points" to even be considered for lotting. Where you made no money because the leader funneled all the currency for their own relic and you had to be grateful to get a chance for your item.
Clearly, we all worked together for the sake of mutual benefit - definitely nobody taking advantage of anyone
that's why the bg server player warning subforum didn't need to exist :)
anyway, for what it's worth, i think keeping some form of optimism in them allowing more cante- er moglophones to be stored down the line is our current best case. Or they have some *** secret method to boost segment gain we're unaware of but that's unlikely
By joemamma 2021-04-22 12:57:21
Ah yes, the dynamis runs you had to join a linkshells via applying, to then be put on an attendance list where you were [x] spots behind the people who are already in the linkshells, and you had to earn attendance "points" to even be considered for lotting. Where you made no money because the leader funneled all the currency for their own relic and you had to be grateful to get a chance for your item.
Clearly, we all worked together for the sake of mutual benefit - definitely nobody taking advantage of anyone
that's why the bg server player warning subforum didn't need to exist :)
anyway, for what it's worth, i think keeping some form of optimism in them allowing more cante- er moglophones to be stored down the line is our current best case. Or they have some *** secret method to boost segment gain we're unaware of but that's unlikely
Don't worry once you save up enough linkshell points you can finally lot something.
By joemamma 2021-04-22 13:04:42
170 vs 235 is still the exact same stupid ***.
I focused on it because I wasn't sure where you were getting the numbers from. The grind is bad, but no need to exaggerate. 235 is not the same as 170, the hell are you talking about. Just in terms of segments using your average, that's like another 400k segments needed. I get the frustration but no need to go overboard with the hyperbole.
Eiryl basically beat me to it, but you're complaining about the history of ffxi
Just in modern ffxi alone:
Omen body: hundreds of runs (possibly nothing to show for it)
Aman trove: hundreds of runs (possibly nothing to show for it if you were after bodies)
Dynamis midboss clear: x # of jobs, x4 zones
Farming a REMA weapon: grind mindless tasks, multiply by number of weapons
Farming literal thousands of REMA stones, swarts, materials
Farming volte gear from dynamis bosses pre Gaol
Farming RP on dynamis necks: x #of jobs
It's literally the same number of mindless ***you're complaining about. And you did it. This is equally as annoying, but the difference with this and some of the things above I mentioned is that you get guaranteed progress in Gaol. Would you feel better if this was locked to every 3 days like how dynamis is? They airways find ways to sink your time into it, that's the point of the game
Again, the point of the post was my frustration at an event that gives arguably the best armor in the game, but is so poorly designed/implemented/thought out that it's making me not want to log in and do it. going from 235 kills to 170 doesn't make me feel an ounce of better, unfortunately.
Huh? So you don't want to grind content to get the best gear in the game, but you grinded previous content for like 1% improvement in the past?
Odyssey V15 just when you are finished with max augments. SE releases something better that doesn't require 200 plus kills.
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By Lakshmi.Zaps 2021-04-22 15:41:18
I just wish we could hold more Moglophones. MogII's are fine as they are imo.
The RP farm does seem a bit excessive, 35ish R15 runs per piece is rough.
Segment farming also being worth decent gil is a huge plus, and takes a lot of the sting out of the farm.
Personally I'm just hoarding segments until they adjust RP or i get bored and spend it all over a weekend.
By Nariont 2021-04-22 17:26:17
Odyssey V15 just when you are finished with max augments. SE releases something better that doesn't require 200 plus kills.
More than likely just adds campaigns that double/triple the point reward after a good portion have already completed it the "hard" way
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By Guyford 2021-04-22 18:13:55
Odyssey V15 just when you are finished with max augments. SE releases something better that doesn't require 200 plus kills.
More than likely just adds campaigns that double/triple the point reward after a good portion have already completed it the "hard" way
It'll be a while for that still, haven't even gotten DI campaigns back yet.
By Yzen 2021-04-25 09:50:14
What are the specific tasks for BRD's [both combat vs non-combat] for Sheol C farming? [4song and no Carn]
By SimonSes 2021-04-25 10:09:30
Keep songs, sleep big pulls and dd with Naegling/dagger?
By Yzen 2021-04-25 10:19:42
Thanks Simon /
By Yzen 2021-04-25 10:21:08
Gonna work on making the best lullaby duration set possible then if that is the brd's primary concern [besides the other responsibilities]
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By Bahamut.Balduran 2021-04-25 10:45:35
Gonna work on making the best lullaby duration set possible then if that is the brd's primary concern [besides the other responsibilities]
I'd advise to go for MACC rather than duration, since it's not a situation where you need the mobs slept for long, rather just enough to reduce the damage tank is taking while the DD and yourself take them down.
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By Leviathan.Celebrindal 2021-04-25 10:49:41
there are a small handful of families in C that resist light-based sleep (sheep come to mind offhand), so do be aware of those. One eager-beaver lullaby on those families can bring a run to a crawl as the BRD is recovering right quick ;)
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By Asura.Sechs 2021-04-25 14:08:56
Karakuls (black sheeps) do not resist Light Based sleep. I don't even remember "regular" sheeps in Sheol C but maybe I'm just being dumb.
If you were talking about the big sheeps, the Rams, they are immune to Lullaby, just like Qutrubs.
By mhomho 2021-04-26 06:44:35
Is dancer any good? I mean, you get Tauret, Karambit, and Naegling. Malignance set. Provides support from sambas and steps and heals. Seems good for an entry level player to Odyssey, no?
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By Fenrir.Melphina 2021-04-26 06:53:52
Dancer can't equip Naegling.
By mhomho 2021-04-26 07:08:26
oof. nvm then.
By SimonSes 2021-04-26 07:21:45
Yep like I mentioned few times here and in game, DNC slashing option is *** hidden behind Bonanza...
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By Asura.Sechs 2021-04-26 09:51:27
Would that option be good though?
DNC gets 350 Sword Skill, not sure if DNC gets Savage Blade by going /WAR, but even if you do it would be without its 15% special WSD and the related Att % bonus.
At that point I wonder if Slashing would be good at all, or if you would just have a better overall DPS by going with your typical setup and eating the damage reduction for piercing.
By Taint 2021-04-26 11:13:12
Is dancer any good? I mean, you get Tauret, Karambit, and Naegling. Malignance set. Provides support from sambas and steps and heals. Seems good for an entry level player to Odyssey, no?
DNC is really good in A/B and Gaol (where applicable).
We should make a petition for Naegling to include DNC....its that broken/important.
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By Leviathan.Celebrindal 2021-04-26 11:39:32
We should make a petition for Naegling to include DNC....its that broken/important.
We should be taking jobs OFF Naegling, not adding them.
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Hmmm...
Initial Speculations:
Looks like they took components of Walk of Echoes (setting), and Elemental Circles and brought it together.
They must of learned new ideas through the Lilith HTBF and how they can play with those elemental fetters to create unique battlefield environment and apply further stress with them..
Instead of Abyssea, this may be a Walk of Echoes 3.0? Anything iLvl 140+ .. We are ready!
Keep this thread clean, hoping to post critical details and discuss strategies.. Eventually I will create a Node on this with full details.. We can then update BG-Wiki with information that we gather..
Those of you who play on Nasomi.. Please don't post on here, you have a Fafnir to camp.. so get back to work.. This is isn't Bubbly Bernie version 3.0. He will be OG 1.0 forever on Nasomi.. ^_^
Sorry about the delay on updating this as I have been slammed with a lot of work since COVID-19 defense ramp up procedures at my hospital facility.
I have barely had time to update and barely any time to explore this content myself. I appreciate everyone's work so far. I will update this OP Thread with some resources and information that people have found across all servers including videos and screenshots..
Keeping this as a basic vital post highlight source so as new posts with vital information emerges I will just pin it here so it is all in one space and no need to jump around different pages..
To Begin.. The Basic Release Info from SE:
Some First Initial Basic Discoveries:
looks like you enter through Rabao
And you have 30 min to kill a bunch of trash mobs. Probably a boss at the end too.
More Initial Entry Discoveries Pinned:
About to enter Odyssey for the first time.
I'll report back. Setup is PUP, COR, BLU x2, SMN, RDM
Ok, it's looking like they made this content specifically to prevent BLUs from cleaving through this content.
Only main target took full damage. Surrounding targets took 90% reduced damage (main targeet 15k, all others 500 or less)
All mobs can be fully enfeebled (Sleep, Silence, Slow, Para) but standard rules apply for mob types (we saw Skeletons, couldn't Blind them)
I can very easily see a RUN or PLD tank running in and aggroing the group of mobs, with a BRD sleeping them all. 2 DDs kill one by one with proper support. SMN Bloodpacts were doing full damage on single mobs (same rules for BLU applied for SMN when we tried Thunderspark for lulz)
At the end, we found a group of mobs (bats) with a Fetter and a group of untargetable Yagudo. We cleared the bats, then killed the Fetter. Once the Fetter is killed, the Yagudo become targetable. For killing all of the Yagudo, you get 10 Izzat.
In total, we farmed 20 Izzat. We'll try using them tomorrow on boxes, maybe even spawn an NM. After we killed the fetter, a conflux spawned that gave us the opportunity to spawn a monster for 10 Izzat. We were low on time, so we just chose to exit.
Player with Trusts.. First Experience Testimonies:
Went in with trusts. Was able to 1 shot most things with leaden.
Yield: 31 scales and 3 scale boxes (from the chest).
Edit: Chests gave 11, 13 and 16.
More Vital Data Testimonies Discovered:
Random info:
-Killing trash gave izzat and lustreless scales
-Using 10 izzat to pop chest gave 2 scales and a box
-Killing fetter made untargetable yagudo killable, giving 10 izzat killing them all
-Popping NM with 10 izzat from ethereal junction spawned a red morbol that did blood weapon and dropped 2 boxes of scales
-Not sure what items you need to trade to junction to spawn monsters
-Was unable to use the thing at the start after killing fetter/yagudos/morbol, may have to kill all trash? I looked around and missed a pack, timed out before I could kill them all
-Moogle keeps track of trash killed, physis, and chests, and the power of your alter egos while in odyssey (Moogle Mastery)
More Testimonials and Discoveries..
Does anyone know what is needed to clear the RoE for Sheol A?
You need to run (can do on sneak/invi, only trasnparent mobs are true sight/sound) to last floor (A7) using confluxes. On last floor there is Otherworldly Vortex mentioned in RoE quest. You need to touch it (it lets you leave Odyssey too) to complete the quest. Credit for that info goes to Mischief from Bahamut. Here is a video of my first experience with Odyssey:
YouTube Video Placeholder Tried exploring, found more information
- I didn't realize there was a conflux on each floor to move up
- Each floor increases in mob level, capping at 131, and general nastiness of monster family (manticores, giants I remember on last floor)
- Translocators bring you down to previous levels, so the first floor one doesn't work until you find the higher level ones
- One character got stuck on a floor and couldn't move up, nor did they get the RoE objective upon someone else reaching the top
So for soloers, seems like it's best to stick to lower level floor to farm scales, more experienced parties can move up to desired difficulty for more scales. First time in would be best just getting the RoE objective and unlocking translocators.
Initial Video Detailing Climb to 7th floor for easy RoE Completion for Augment Unlock on Gear:
YouTube Video Placeholder
More Info about Moglophone KI's:
Anyways did a solo run this morning and got about 100 scales from just killing trash in first floor. Wondering what others are getting from parting up vs solo.
edit: Also can you hold one Moglophone KI on you, and then have the moogle hold one?
I was wondering this too. I picked up my KI last night and am holding it until later today and going to see if I can run two times in a row.
You can. I used my ki after few hours yesterday and when I checked moogle timer was at 15h, so it was going down while I had KI on me.
More Testimonial Higlights:
Bahamut.Lexouritis said: »Maybe Mischief will post about it, he figured it out on his mule. I'll try and post what i know, but it seems like we skip everything and just kill the fetters, mobs around the fetters, and sometimes the UNM near the fetters. Bahamut.Lexouritis said: »and if u get to the final thing upstairs, personal chest for everyone. Not sure if someone said it already, but you CAN store a KI. So only need to farm every 2 days! I am confused on how people move up using sneak and invisible, in this run I explored everything, vortexes just said "you can't use this yet", or let me summon an NM but never move somewhere else, even after i killed the fetter, all the guards, the NM, opened one chest, and killed about 90% of all the mobs. If anybody can spot where in this video I should have been able to "move up" it would really help: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5i9GhE5nO3I
thanks At the mandies in your run. Just hug left wall and you'll find it. It took me a while to find the first flux as well, but the rest were less "hidden". A video was posted a couple pages ago showing the route.
YouTube Video Placeholder Bahamut.Lexouritis said: »vortexes just said "you can't use this yet" Need to click Shimmering lights for access to some portals or not have aggro iirc. I may be wrong though Bahamut.Lexouritis said: » It rewarded me again with a box + 50k gil.
did u kill a fetter? Seems like 50k per Fetter and 1 box per fetter (per character). The big Box from RoE seems to be just 1 time thing. The smaller boxes seem to be fetter based?
Killing all 4 fetters netted us about ~70 scales per run per person after touching otherworldy vortex.
Edit: With RoE quest being completed in a run, was more like 110-130. So how many scales is it per upgrade? Didn’t see on Bg-wiki and don’t feel like shifting through posts on here. Should be just under 12 stacks to max. Based on scales only being worth 5rp instead of 10 :/ Clip to the top and nab the box, in and out, 5 minute adventure.
For realsies? SE let content like that out after the mass-ban clipping/duping-alex adventures get onto the live server? Thought they learned their lesson since the AMAN trove boxes can't be scouted via Hex IDs. The box he means is the one from completing the RoE once. You can walk to it in 6-7 mins without speed hacks anyway. The big deal about completing the RoE is you can start augmenting your gear at that point. Well if dude already finished a piece few days after update, there isnt much time gate here it seems.
Probably just the appetitizer was released (im on a work trip, cant "enjoy" the new content till weekend...)
He finished because he bought scales or have legion of mules. Regular player with 1 account will need realistically around 10-14 days for one piece farming daily. Traded 5 Emperor arthro shells to vortex (dunno how many it took from inventory, might have only taken 1 of the 5). Summoned Brachys, a crab that had a high ass counter rate and instantly killed me on my thf in one attack round. 500+ damage counters with no DT set. Likely not advisable to spawn mobs solo with trusts. Bahamut.Lexouritis said: »Personal box at the end when touching Otherworldy Vortex for each FETTER you kill, for all party members. If u kill all 4 fetters AND EVERYTHING around them it seems you will get 4 boxes.
~edited phrasing
So looks like if you solo, go for trash and farm with th4+ and for group you kill featers and go touch otherwordly.
Unless maybe kill 2 featers solo and go to the top? You could open 2 chests that way and get 2 boxes. So in theory maybe even get 4 chests and some scales from farming. Bahamut.Lexouritis said: »
Personal box at the end when touching Otherworldy Vortex for each FETTER you kill, for all party members. If u kill all 4 fetters AND EVERYTHING around them it seems you will get 4 boxes.
~edited phrasing
So looks like if you solo, go for trash and farm with th4+ and for group you kill fetters and go touch otherwordly.
Unless maybe kill 2 fetters solo and go to the top? You could open 2 chests that way and get 2 boxes. So in theory maybe even get 4 chests and some scales from farming.
I'm not sure if you need to just kill the fetters or the fetters + all the semi-invisible beastmen around the fetters.
It's possible to kill a fetter without aggro from the semi invisible beastmen that are sight aggro like Yagudo and Orcs. I'm assuming Quadav will sound aggro which makes them easier to gather in a group.
On the first day, when I duo'd with my cousin on RUN and me on COR with a THF4 set, we killed 1 fetter but stopped killing the semi-invisible beastmen because they were not dropping anything. Not all of the beastmen aggro'd. Only the Yagudo beastmen that were in sight of us or each other aggro'd us. Care needs to be taken by support in this case as support will get aggro'd if they rush in too early before the tank has claim on everything. These mobs hit very hard.
Definitely go in with at least th4 if solo farming just trash mobs.
Go in with a full, balanced party to maximize drops from fetters. The fetters are easy to kill. The beastmen hit hard and have a little more hp than common trash mobs. Helps to sleep them too as they can easily overwhelm even the toughest of tanks. Me and a group of peeps went in yesterday, to do some testing.
Killing a fetter + beastman group rewards 10 izzat, no special drops were seen, we did not have a thief, just a range using bounty shot.
Gonna test farm some nms tonight. i tried to spawn 1 today with my alt using unity items, turns out 1 is not enough. My second run of this is probably the best I can do.
Went in, killed all normal monsters, Feters and Beastmen, killed all of the Yaguado. I had 20 Izzat, spawn a Unity NM Which was a Sporebat type mob that died in a 4 step SC. This NM used Blood WEapon, the NM I tried yesterday used 100 fists and rek'd me.
I got 90 Izzat from Monsters and 22 from the 2 boxes that I got from NM and a chest I used them on. The only thing I didn't do on Floor 1 was spawn the Junction that said "Item can be used to pop something here" I had 3 Sarama Hides, 2 Thuban Things and neither worked, nor did a combination of them work.
All of my drops were done with TH2 from Gear. Few unanswered questions:
How is the augmentation to Trust power in Odyssey earned? I believe the requirement must be more than simply killing sets of trash mobs and making it to the otherworldly at the end.
Rewards upon reaching end were:
360k gil from a group that killed everything on first floor, 2 NM's popped.
100k gil for solo killing 2 groups (4 izzat) worth of scrubs and reaching end.
On another run I also got 100k gil for solo killing more scrubs (4 sets I think. Seems like the NMs from either spawn point will be one of the 119/122 unity NMs with similar mechanics, but not exactly the same as my morbol didn't go through 3 stages and only did blood weapon. May be a good ideal to either focus on repeatedly killing one to raise its kill count for the moogle or killing all of them at least once. Can't wait for Pandemonium Warden v3 in the future lol Yep. Surprised the hell out of us.
But as I said I was getting 100k for just clearing a couple of easy rooms and heading for the exit solo for the RoE.
Thinking about it, we did a bit more than the first floor full clear on that run, did a second fetter and agon mobs and popped another NM at least. spawn a Unity NM Which was a Sporebat type mob
What method did you use to spawn this nm?
So there seems to be 2 spawn methods, Unity Item (I think 5 minimum) or Izzat once you have killed a fetter.
In terms of the invisible mobs I don't know if its a coincidence or not but every time they have aggro'd they go after my GEO and no other character. Dunno if the bubble is causing something funky to happen.
It should be possible, to kill fetters on all floors + escape as low as 3 man, I cleared everything in my run and had about 3 minutes to spare but a lot of it was goofing about looking at chests etc. I'd say 4 man would be the most optimal though as you can't really AOE.
Only flaw would be is that the fetters on floors seem to be placed randomly so you could get screwed over on travel times but imagine if you wanted to eat some taco's and take that risk you could and do it no probs. My second run experience soloing on COR with trusts:
Leaden Salute all the things
Tact/Sam with august, ygnas, monb, star sybill, koru
Killed everything on floor 1 and 4 groups on floor 2
30 izzat but could only find 2 chests to open
both chests only dropped 1 box each so was a little unlucky
TH4
Ended up with 135 scales. Could have been alot higher if I found a third chest and if the chests dropped more than 1 box each.
(I also got a message saying 'moogle magic II' when I killed a regular enemy. Must be to do with the total amount of things killed.) Leviathan.Kingkitt said: »My findings thus far:
As stated multiples times already here, you can sneak/invisible to maneuver around the mobs here. However..
The invisible mobs appear true sight and/or sound, so you have to be cautious of them.
Appears that killing fetters gives personal loot. We all got a box.
You can solo for the RoE if you want following the guidlines above.
Competing RoE gives you 1 large box.
Clear is NOT party wide and each person must touch it individually for credit. (Also recieved 60k gil, we cleared 1 fetter/quadavs, and the mob family near it)
Didn't notice until after fetter and invisible mobs were dead, but one or the other gave 10 izzat.
Have tried a few different unity mats for unm 119/122 and traded 5 to pop a NM. NM that spawned was of the same mob family as items traded. Tonight ill be going in with my COR GEO duo. How do you do the fetters? Kill the surrounding mobs then attack the fetter while trusts keep you alive with invisible beastmen smacking you? Then the beastmen?
Pull and kill regular mobs, until you see opportunity where nothing is close to fetter (there is always a moment when there is max 1 mob close to it at some point). Kill fetter fast (It's easy to kill. One good 2 step SC will kill it), then kill remaining mobs. I wouldn't try to aggro more than few mobs in general when solo or duoboxing, especially if you dont have Malignance set on COR. Something of note to add was that our rng and cor were doing 0 dmg to the fetter from distance and had to move much closer to do any damage. This may relate to how aoe does much reduced damage. Max gil reward is higher than we thought, just got 495k from today's run.
Btw force popping nm's uses a single UNM mat, not 5. And they cannot be reused within the same run. Spawning NM appears to be unrelated to what you use to pop.
So far NM's we faced: Tipuli(fly),Aegupius,harpe(weapon),leucippe and physis (morbol).
Moogle mastery ranks up as you kill stuff, @287 kills, 8x NM and 2 chests we at Mastery III. Max gil reward is higher than we thought, just got 495k from today's run.
Btw force popping nm's uses a single UNM mat, not 5. And they cannot be reused within the same run. Spawning NM appears to be unrelated to what you use to pop.
So far NM's we faced: Tipuli(fly),Aegupius,harpe(weapon),leucippe and physis (morbol).
Moogle mastery ranks up as you kill stuff, @287 kills, 8x NM and 2 chests we at Mastery III.
Do you need to touch the flux on the top floor to get the gil? Or when does the gil actually get distributed to you? Yes, you have to leave personally to get it, and as always if other party members are fighting its locked out. My second run experience soloing on COR with trusts:
Leaden Salute all the things
Tact/Sam with august, ygnas, monb, star sybill, koru
Killed everything on floor 1 and 4 groups on floor 2
30 izzat but could only find 2 chests to open
both chests only dropped 1 box each so was a little unlucky
TH4
Ended up with 135 scales. Could have been alot higher if I found a third chest and if the chests dropped more than 1 box each.
(I also got a message saying 'moogle magic II' when I killed a regular enemy. Must be to do with the total amount of things killed.)
Tonight ill be going in with my COR GEO duo. How do you do the fetters? Kill the surrounding mobs then attack the fetter while trusts keep you alive with invisible beastmen smacking you? Then the beastmen?
Pull/kill regular mobs with ranged attack. Run in to fetter with max 1 or 2 shadows aggro. Kill fetter > kill the rest. Just look out what you aggro. Aggroing BLM mob that stand close to middle will probably result in mass link eventually. Regular mobs dont link at all, but transparent mobs (before and after killing fetter) do. Each flux takes you to a higher floor. There are 7 floors with the 7th floors flux being the exit and the RoE objective. Each flux takes you to a higher floor. There are 7 floors with the 7th floors flux being the exit and the RoE objective. Not sure if it was mentioned, but looks like you can't pop the same NM twice from UNM mats in the same run. Popped once on first floor, and later on the 4th floor it gave a message saying we couldn't pop the same NM again. Sharing Shamgi's notes posted in the BST forum for relevant details:
Ok, just went into an Odyssey and discovered some things:
1. You can charm things in there. Things seemed to be fairly simple to charm, and Charm+ gear meant that my dhalmel stayed charmed 15+ minutes.
2.Charmed pets seem to be quite strong. Beyond the normal HP, they seemed to have fairly high damage, hitting other mobs in their own pack for 4-600 a swing, with crits as high as 900. My Dhalmel once used Berserk and those numbers got pretty big, same with their Sound Wave move. My record was a crit for 1500 or so. This is with NQ food and no other pet related buffs. I had one crawler end up at 74% when it killed another crawler in the pack, likely benefiting from all the DA and Haste.
3. Pets seem quite effective at killing the Halos. They hit hard already, but notably, they aggro nothing, not even the Beastmen around the Halos when doing so. The Halo produces a damaging AOE every couple of seconds that was hitting for 200 or so, but the pet, with it's 40k+ HP, doesn't care at all. Indeed, I left the pet to it's own devices and killed other packs with trusts while it worked the halo down itself, which actually seemed quite nice. When it died, the Orcs around it didn't aggro, so it was easy to pull them one by one, as they don't link either.
4. Mob spawns are random, which can hurt this strat, but from two runs a majority of the packs seem charmable, and many of them are often pretty powerful. Given the strat above, I feel like a monk style pet would be best here.
Overall, I'm super interested in trying this with a full group where you can use the pet to deal with adds while you work on a pack yourself and to safely kill Halos while you clear other things.
One issue was Sic, the recast was way worse than I remembered, and my lua isn't set up at all to deal with it. My best guess is to just set up my gearswap to always produce a physical damage set for Sic and then just use pets who focus physical damage with their TP moves. If it's a buff move, then no big deal, if it's physical then it's the right set. They do link, my experience has been all sight linking though (fought orcs and yags so far). Do not link with the Fetter though, found this out by trying to range attack the fetter down, only to realize the fetter is immune to auto-range attacks. They do link, my experience has been all sight linking though (fought orcs and yags so far).
Well its kinda expected. Orc, Yagudo and Goblins are all sight aggro/link. Quadavs are sound aggro/link and it's how they are in Odyssey too. They arent immune to ranged attacks you just need to be stood in the fetter to do damage.
So not immune to ranged attacks, but immune to any attacks from a range. XD As with all farming things it's more efficient to solo, if the kill speed is high, like 119 content. 6 solos have 6x more chances for boxes.
Luck's definitely a factor; and yeah I think solo probably is best.
I think a lot of it has to do with people finding each other, people needing to sneak/invis themselves, and having to stagger the flux (so it doesn't glitch out). Was a lot of wasted time there.
Was just curious if other groups were experiencing it as well. Went in as Pup/Whm. Killed 3 Fetters, champion NM on floor 7 after fetter, and a few other random mobs using automaton only.
Literally no drops + exit only gave me 5k gil.
I wonder if you need to take an action on the fetters or something yourself before you can get drops or credit for killing them. Went in as Pup/Whm. Killed 3 Fetters, champion NM on floor 7 after fetter, and a few other random mobs using automaton only.
Literally no drops + exit only gave me 5k gil.
I wonder if you need to take an action on the fetters or something yourself before you can get drops or credit for killing them. As group you are suppose to kill Fetter at floor 1,3,5 and 7 and run to otherworldy vortex at the end. You should get 4 PERSONAL box from otherworldy that way and I think one more personal box from killing beastman kings at floor 7 (they are around Fetter there).
So thats 5 personal chests
At least 40 Izzat to open chests
Probably at least 40 single scales from killing trash around fetters if you take at least TH4 with you.
Small boxes are on avg around 13 scales?
So probably around 70-80 scales at least per person, maybe more if you have time to farm more.
Very good geared solo player on specific job like COR, can get more with luck, but it might be other bonuses from killing fetters and NMs that we might dont know about. Went in as Pup/Whm. Killed 3 Fetters, champion NM on floor 7 after fetter, and a few other random mobs using automaton only.
Literally no drops + exit only gave me 5k gil.
I wonder if you need to take an action on the fetters or something yourself before you can get drops or credit for killing them.
No, you need to kill Fetter AND beastman mobs around it to get credit for personal box at the end and 10 Izzat. I assume you killed only Fetters. Bahamut.Lexouritis said: »THF can pick the locks/chests in odyssey, in case no one mentioned, or knows about it yet. However some times mimic will pop out. Unsure how hard they are, as it opens with deathtrap, and his mule has sparks gear (and it got one shot). Credit goes to mischief
"Either gave a 'however it has no effect' message and consumed the tool, opened the chest, or a mimic popped out" I made a quick map of Odyssey to make ease to hit the fluxes.
Etheral Junctions, Fetters and camps change apparently random.
EDIT: all maps have North heading the upper border.
Aegypius NM:
Bird
Popped using 5 Abyssdiver feathers
Uses Broadside Barrage and Damnation Dive
Uses Perfect Dodge at low HP and gains an Encumbrance aura that stays for the rest of the fight Carbuncle.Papesse said: »Beware of the Treant NM Ptelea and its dangerous Leafstorm AoE. Leafstorm is hybrid wind based. It can crit, miss, be absorbed by shadows and Elemental Sforzo. One For All, Gelus Valiance and Baraero substantially reduce damage. As far as getting these telepoints, mentioned on BGwiki's Odyssey page that you're supposed to be able to travel between to get to further levels of Odyssey, does anyone have any info on the requirements to gain access to these? Do you have to kill all of the fetters to go up a floor? Also, has anyone tried going in with a group of six and then disbanding and everyone using their own trusts to expediate the process of both killing enemies on every floor, taking care of all the fetters on a floor and then popping the nm's so that you might progress to these tele-points if those happened to be the requirements? I know some players might have found that they can farm higher amounts of the Lustreless Scales solo rather than teaming up but if you go in with 6 and then make you're own parties with trusts.. and there are multiple telepoints with up to say 15 sets of mobs and fetters then the possibility of having a high return still might be worth it. Another thing i noticed maybe means nothing but i saw some pixels floating out of nowhere that seemed like a mobs name. Maybe a glitch? Or the others maps? Or a random mob?
 I'm sure people regularly killing fluxes/beastmen already knew this, but AoEs that would have hit the untargettable/invisible beastmen will still generate enmity on them, so people should watch for that if they're sleepgaing or horde lullabying fodder. We spawned an NM in today's run.
Brachys: Crab NM (PLD/MNK)
Had a pretty decent (25-30%) Counter rate. Bubble Curtain's Shell effect reduced enspell (RDM with Crocea Mors) dmg to 0 unless it was dispelled. Used Invincible at 25%. Easily landed enfeebles (Slow, Para, Blind, Frazzle, Distract) Pretty easy fight overall.
It was spawned using 10 Izzat after we killed Fetter + Beastmen mobs surrounding it. Asura.Ladyofhonor said: »I have Moogle Mastery III, not sure what's doing it. Status report has:
Nostos killed: 306
Damysus: 2
Salmandra: 2
Cynara: 1
Chests: 3
Seems I ranked up when I killed an Agon Bruiser. The augment system is “tiered”. I’m working on my alts Emeici +1.
Ranks 1-5 give +2 damage. Ranks 6-10 give +2 damage, +3 acc/macc. I assume ranks 11-15 give +2 damage, +3 acc/macc, +2 crit rate.
That’s a neat way to do it, it incentivizes the more expensive ranks. Just had a bad solo experience... turns our not all popped NM's are soloable. Do not recommend popping the nm's for 10 izzat.
Got a cactus who would constantly triple attack and did 600 normal / 1200 crit per attack round. August got insta-KO then healer then myself within 7 seconds. YouTube Video Placeholder
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