Up In Arms BCNM

Meme weapons would be fun, but no need to stop at weaponry. Bring back meme magic. Confusion. Frog. Chocobo and Mog summoning magic.

Meme magic would be too fun, so they will never. "Stick to casting Deodorize on your friends" -SE probably

Moblin NM released

Gives status ailment "stinky" that is a turbo plague/poison/bio

Cannot be removed, only overwritten by deodorize

Meme weapons you say -- Imagine if it was one of the bonanza weapons that you could get with the kupon?

Looking for an optimal gear set for MNK for this fight.

The fight is level capped. This means the bcnm is synced down with level 60 gear. Nearly all ilvl gear is identical as far as stats are concerned. If you really cared to see what stats you're getting on a synced piece, you can check the ballista revolution lv60 sync blog (probably the only useful contribution this community has ever produced, sorry xD) and decide for yourself. There's still a few pieces of gear that can be bought at level 60 cap that are better than anything you can sync down to, but I'm not making an exhaustive list for you. Should be pretty easy to tell with a few minutes of research

With that all being said, I also don't know why you would want to do this fight on Monk when you can easily solo this fight naked on PUP on about 90 seconds with Overdrive. The amount of time it would take you to unlock pup, level it to 60 and get skill books for your robot is probably like 2 hours, but pays dividends if you're going to repeatedly do this fight. This entire thread is dedicated already to how you can solo it, and the strat, attachments and fight are all outlined here. Literally just look back a few pages? Simpler that way imo.

Ilvl gear for main 5 slots named Mpaca or Nyame; anything that gives Attack/Accuracy or increases attributes (STR, DEX, etc) in all other slots.
Spartan Cesti in main.

Hard Mode: OKote and Fuma Kyahan

Lunatic Mode: Spelunkers Hat

wait what????

I get asked pretty often which set I used in my mnk solo YouTube video
Enough to make a post about it on my website

ItemSet 385590
H2h has +dmg augment
Rings have str augs
Mantle has dex
Neck has mnd
Cap has vit+3(I also have a str+2 one but prefer the vit+3)
Feet have +attack
Waist has an Aug but I can’t recall I think +atk

All nearly perfect or perfect augs
I got serious about 60 cap ballista when that was a thing on azura for a few years
Field of valor augs
Body and legs also have aug but that’s not field. Should be pretty obvious which one you want though.

if only(if just to speed up magic), thankfully its the less painless of the auto skills to level and they get food + an attachment so its pretty painless

This is what I was looking for...not an exhaustive list, but I figured someone has an "Up in Arms" MNK set that they could post.

How do I get these? Asking for someone I paid to let me call them a friend.

Ohh I misspoke. You can throw your robot on a Reive and cap it to around 200 skill in a short time though.

Upbeat has a set but most of those items are impractical or you'd have to go out of your way to get them unless you've done fields of valor for augments. It's really not hard to look at Ochiudo's kote and see that 20 attack is far better than any synced down pieces you can get. Ditto for brown belt or fuma kyahan with haste. Sub DRG for wyvern earring if you care. I'd just wear ilvl gear and hundred fists it down, pop chakra/elixirs and win.

The set is more defense focused; 8 attacks per round with low damage

30 def on the hands is a lot

Also definitely a bibiki seashell, not chakram

It's practically what anyone who was serious about ballista would wear, just a high HP high defense build on Monk where you outlast everything. The H2H can be Nibiru Sainti with HP assignment (augments of stat a/b do properly sync down), though the adargas have a significant delay advantage. Upbeat is in the minority with those pieces because he kept them over from ballista, I tossed all of them years ago because ilvl was easier. I highly don't anybody would have intruder earring or protecting bangles lying around. The accessories are the big things, some you can buy some you can farm. Augments are nearly impossible to farm without investing weeks of time and wasting several items in the process with fields of valor. The hands are great but are a pain in the *** to farm. Can use assault accessories to fill the difference.

Just seems like a lot of effort gathering those items just to do that fight still slower than what a naked PUP can do

I didn't know some of those had Augs. I didn't see anything in terms of Augs for the Brown Belt. I am already using some of this gear...I'll tweak the rest accordingly.

I like Escha-Sky NMs for skilling robot.
temperance is immune to magic.
faith takes reduced melee.
teleport away and let them idle back to 80~90% before re-engaging when they get to <10%.
if someone actually needs the kill, just hand it over so they don't complain.
robot gets your atma buffs or w/e they're called for basically infinite MP.

Why are KC prices dropping with 5 on stock both on asura and bahamut?

Short answer, server jumpers can't come over and buy them so they rot on the AH

Addendum, Hoxne eliminates kraken usefulness (nonRNG)

Second addendum, they added new ***to the game (limbus gear) to buy so that's more important than saving up a billion for KC

I would guess that Hoxne is the primary culprit, it's far superior and has no acc penalty, it targets the same idiots with more gil than braincells. and you can't wear both. (well)

But also, Hoxne is crashing. Orph is crashing. Epam is crashing. Due to the server closures and the limbus gear. So it's not one single answer. Economics usually are a perfect mix of things all shitting the bed at once.

Community hype/peer pressure made Kraken Club the absurd price that it is right now. I haven't used mine in months, and really only use it on BST or Naegling RNG (hence the months). Kraken club isn't really "worth" a billion gil, it just got hyped up a lot. I probably wouldn't even be able to sell it for a 900M in today's market. But its still an ultra fun weapon to use.

Eiryl's right, though. All of those factor into why Krakens aren't moving on Asura. RMT can't mass buy them and move them to another server (without losing the account from Asura), and people won't migrate here just for a Kraken only to not be able to return home. The result is tons of clubs people don't have anything to do with.

There's a couple of other things that killed off KC too. Weapon Skill walls; Normally you pair KC with Naegling and Savage spam all the things, people now want each DD to kind of have their own strong unique WS, so group damage doesn't dip too low. Prime weapons are strong enough, SC very well, and don't wall another person unless it's the same job/weapon. Primes are another indirect reason why KC fell off. An example would be DRG would normally use KC and spam Savage, but Gae Buide 4/5 is just amazing. I've heard from many people (myself included) who enjoy using Prime instead of Savage/Kclub, and if you need to Savage, just sub WAR. You unlock Judgment. You pair Prime weapons with Hoxne Ampulla and the right STP build, and you gain TP at an absurd rate. I can't really think of many jobs after DRG that benefit a lot from Kraken Club (BST mostly, RNG, BRD kinda?)

I'm surprised it hasn't tanked in price (nobody wants to be the guy to drop it to 50% asking price)

Hoxne, orpheus, epam, pretty much all the A.M.A.N. drops can be explained by the successive campaigns. At least I think there were multiple in a row or with just 1 or 2 months between them.

Afaik there is no campaign for KC.

With Hoxne 1.000.000 attack rounds, 500.000 when dual wielding, is roughly the equivalent of a cap gil KC. Not accounting for triple/quad procs or trade/bazaar exploiting.

That the bazaar thing works is ultra fail imho, the people who can afford to use Hoxne 24/7 are all multi boxing. If hoxnes primary objective was combating inflation (which it clearly is) they screwed up royally there.