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By Bahamut.Justthetip 2022-12-19 07:41:19
Bahamut.Lexouritis said: »They just trolled everyone, oh well, they were still beatable with the WS wall, made things interesting to say the least lol. Bruh this gotta be the jp upset about the fights lol
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By Asura.Melliny 2022-12-19 07:47:41
Quote: But there's also 10% you get from merits which 99% of us have
SIRD merit's are in the same category as critical hit rate up and enemy critical hit rate down. If you can build a set where you don't need to compromise gear to reach SIRD 102% it makes sense to have both crit merits instead. There are plenty of people with -5% enemy crit rate merited.
Quote: In the battle contents Sheol: Gaol Odyssey after Veng+21 and Sortie from sectors E to H
I would have liked for them to have at least kept the weaponskill wall in Sortie. The veng 25 Gaol bosses might have been bit much, but the sortie bosses are easy to overcome that mechanic and I was enjoying my manaburn strats.
By SimonSes 2022-12-19 07:53:11
So the way I understand the change is that let's say we have a party of cor brd drg war all using naegling.
The first Savage blade goes off, for 10s all following Savage blades do what we've come to see from the "ws wall" and each ws continues to wall other Savage blades.
5s later they all Savage blade again and all of the damage is garbo.
Same party naeg cor, Twash brd, Trish drg, chango war.
Party all weaponskills simultaneously.
Cor does Savage blade for full damage, for 10s any other Savage blades will be walled
Brd does rudra's for full damage, for 10s any other rudra's storms will be walled
DRG does stardiver for full damage, for 10s any other stardiver will be walled.
War does upheaval for full damage, for 10s any other upheaval will be walled.
5 seconds elapsed
Cor does requiescat(lol) for full damage, for 10s any other requiescat will be walled. 5s remain on Savage wall.
Brd does evisceration for full damage, for 10s any other evisceration will be walled. 5s remain on rudra's wall.
DRG does impulse drive for full damage, for 10s any other impulse drive will be walled. 5s remain on stardiver wall
War does armor break for full damage, for 10s any other armor break will be walled. 5s remain on upheaval wall.
8 ws's in 5 seconds for max damage, vs what would have been 1 max ws and 7 wiffs basically before the "fix". Atleast this is what I thought they meant they fixed
Probably not. It's probably the same WS wall thats in Dynamis, so if 2nd WS is different, it will reset the wall window for 1st WS. As long as you won't use same WS in a row, none should get walled.
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By Asura.Saevel 2022-12-19 07:54:43
Quetzalcoatl.Jakey said: »now the real question, does BLM get retired again in sortie now lol
Hmm probably not in general since those basement bosses are dangerous to use random WS's on. We can't go back to Savage Spam (high damage WS that doesn't SC with itself), and area F and H bosses require specific elemental bursts. But it means people can use a melee group to do the four ground floor NM's and basement E and G.
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By Valefor.Prothescar 2022-12-19 07:55:47
Lmao how did they not notice until now
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By Asura.Melliny 2022-12-19 07:56:37
Quote: Probably not. It's probably the same WS wall thats in Dynamis, so if 2nd WS is different, it will reset the wall window for 1st WS. As long as you won't use same WS in a row, none should get walled.
Which pretty much negates the purpose of it. If I'm on thief or dancer I can just alternate between rudra's and evisceration, or I can throw in pyrric if I'm using terpsi. Ranger and cor can alternate between last stand and detonator on arrebati. Even war can swap between judgment and true strike on ngai, which really isn't terrible at all. Monk already uses like 4 different weaponskills, so between raging, howling, tornado and dragon.... no problems. Pure savage blade spam on Mboze would still be an issue, but that can just be circumvented by having the warrior alternate between chango and nageling or something.
Quote: Lmao how did they not notice until now
I'm pretty sure they knew. It's most likely a case of what was said a few posts up. They let the content go a week and reviewed the metrics this morning and realized the rate of progress we were seeing was lower than intended. So rather than say "oops we *** up with our design" they scapegoated it into "oops, there was a bug we missed". That way they look less bad and have less egg on their faces.
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By Asura.Saevel 2022-12-19 08:00:15
Wow wow wow wow! Lmao
Well you still have the WS wall for single WSs. So it's not like you can go there and spam Savage Blade or whatever other WS to your heart's content.
Then again it's undeniably a huge difference and this is gonna make getting kills with 1 or 2 KIs much more accessible even to groups who don't have ideal setups/gear.
Yeah the new regen + 10s lockout on WS's was a huge issue. Now it's per-WS, so they really only blocked the "Savage Spam" mechanic. I guess it was supposed to be the Dyna-D W3 boss mechanic but stronger, only they didn't test their code and just released it. The community found a way around it with Sortie so nobody noticed, but the JP's who were already complaining hard core about Ody V20 being ridiculous went into overdrive and the devs actually checked into it.
Makes me wonder how many other systems in the game are broken this way and we just found a way around it thinking it was on purpose.
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By Sylph.Brahmsz 2022-12-19 08:01:44
Bahamut.Justthetip said: »Bahamut.Lexouritis said: »They just trolled everyone, oh well, they were still beatable with the WS wall, made things interesting to say the least lol. Bruh this gotta be the jp upset about the fights lol
This.
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By Asura.Saevel 2022-12-19 08:03:21
Which pretty much negates the purpose of it. If I'm on thief or dancer I can just alternate between rudra's and evisceration, or I can throw in pyrric if I'm using terpsi. Ranger and cor can alternate between last stand and detonator on arrebati. Even war can swap between judgment and true strike on ngai, which isn't as terrible as it sounds. Monk already uses like 4 different weaponskills, so between raging, howling, tornado and dragon.... no problems.
The purpose of it so that we don't have WAR COR BRD NIN THF DRG etc all spamming Savage Blade. We used that method because it was the simplest solution to a problem of doing lots of damage without making random skill chains and triggering mechanics. Now we need to divide up and cordinate various WS's, which isn't nearly as big a hurdle as " one DD doing one WS every 10s".
Valefor.Prothescar said: »Lmao how did they not notice until now
Because the devs do FFXI work on the side and when they do pay attention to the JP's it's with half an ear. With sortie we quickly found a way around the problem using magic bursts, so we all thought it was WAI and SE didn't think much of it. With Ody V25, we can't exactly burst Kalunga or Ngai so the issue became super relevant super fast.
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By Asura.Eiryl 2022-12-19 08:04:52
Whelp there you go, even more effortless. GG's
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By Bahamut.Mhysa 2022-12-19 08:19:31
Back to ooogaaa booogaaa WS.
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By Asura.Saevel 2022-12-19 08:21:00
Ohh noes, my Exclusive Trophies, now all those dirty peasants will have it too /slash wrists.
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By Bahamut.Justthetip 2022-12-19 08:26:13
Just took out Henwen V25 in about 7 mins, killed neither add. War alternated Judgment and Halo, MNK alternated Smite and Howling (Kicks when footwork up), enmity was spicy on the last few % but overall was pretty simple. Never saw any reduced WS damage when alternating. Yep figured this was gonna happen henwen was one that kinda caught people. But both dd hitting it should make it easy. Means rest gonna be cake walk sadly.
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By Asura.Saevel 2022-12-19 08:27:05
Yep managing the adds just became the prime challenge, and getting TP on Ongo.
By SimonSes 2022-12-19 08:27:51
Quetzalcoatl.Jakey said: »now the real question, does BLM get retired again in sortie now lol
Hmm probably not in general since those basement bosses are dangerous to use random WS's on. We can't go back to Savage Spam (high damage WS that doesn't SC with itself), and area F and H bosses require specific elemental bursts. But it means people can use a melee group to do the four ground floor NM's and basement E and G.
Because only savage doesn't sc with itself right?
1. Ukko's Fury, Savage, Black Halo, King's justice, Dragon's kick
2. Rudra, Torcleaver, Cross Reaper, Expiacion, Fudo (chain with Torc, but not with other)
That's just an example of WSs working together but there is much more.
Also there is no restriction really not to do skillchain on F and H, you just need to avoid doing wind during wind hand and thunder during thunder hand on F, so you need to avoid impaction/detonation/fragmentation/light.
You could go DRG/BLU/DNC/COR/WHM/BRD for example and do
Impulse/Expiacion/Rudra/Leaden on F and on H when it's in Light aligned element and Savage/BlackHalo/SharkBite/LastStand when it's in Darkness aligned element.
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By Asura.Saevel 2022-12-19 08:44:16
Yep managing the adds just became the prime challenge, and getting TP on Ongo.
Adds are very manageable at high mlvls now tbh too. bind -> CS Sleep first one, Stymie sleep 2nd one. boss dies before either wake up if you are quick enough. We're seeing much better success on landing sleeps even through macc down aura at high mlvl.
That's putting a RDM in place of something that might be more useful. Might have no choice but on the V20 T3's myself (WAR) or the WHM just tanked the adds. For arribati we had the Bard kite them away, same with Ongo. DPS is still going to be an issue under 40% unless an add is killed somehow. Maybe still dual team, just first one takes off as much HP as possible to spawn the add, second has less HP to worry about and the add is easy to control since empty hate list.
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By Asura.Shaedhen 2022-12-19 08:53:34
They stripped us of our biggest challenge in a long time :(
More like they got rid of an artificial challenge that didn't make any sense in the first place and was more than lazy. It would've been interesting if it was for 1 or 2 boss. But for every single one of them ? Definitely not.
I'm pretty sure they knew. It's most likely a case of what was said a few posts up. They let the content go a week and reviewed the metrics this morning and realized the rate of progress we were seeing was lower than intended. So rather than say "oops we *** up with our design" they scapegoated it into "oops, there was a bug we missed". That way they look less bad and have less egg on their faces.
If that's the case, to me it would've been better if they just straight up said they realized it didn't go as they planned and decided to change it. I don't know how you could possibly look more bad than straight up admitting you did absolutely zero testing on what you implemented in your game. (because that's like the most basic test any IT guy would do when implementing that)
I don't know if it was really a bug or not to be honest. If it wasn't, I don't think they needed to change how it works in Sortie since pretty much everyone got used to it and it isn't much of an issue there. It would also have made more sense to just admit there was a bug in something they just pushed 1 week ago and not 2 months ago and just change it for Ody.
If it was a bug well... It's just quite embarassing.
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By Bahamut.Justthetip 2022-12-19 08:54:14
Yep managing the adds just became the prime challenge, and getting TP on Ongo.
Adds are very manageable at high mlvls now tbh too. bind -> CS Sleep first one, Stymie sleep 2nd one. boss dies before either wake up if you are quick enough. We're seeing much better success on landing sleeps even through macc down aura at high mlvl.
That's putting a RDM in place of something that might be more useful. Might have no choice but on the V20 T3's myself (WAR) or the WHM just tanked the adds. For arribati we had the Bard kite them away, same with Ongo. DPS is still going to be an issue under 40% unless an add is killed somehow. Maybe still dual team, just first one takes off as much HP as possible to spawn the add, second has less HP to worry about and the add is easy to control since empty hate list.
We've been theorising a 25% squad just to get the boss to 74% and timeout, then go back in with the A team and do 75% holding both adds. Few more T2s to kill before we get there though. Tbh with the fix you shouldn't even need to do any of that at this point they should just melt.
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By Bahamut.Lexouritis 2022-12-19 08:55:40
Bahamut.Justthetip said: »Bahamut.Lexouritis said: »They just trolled everyone, oh well, they were still beatable with the WS wall, made things interesting to say the least lol. Bruh this gotta be the jp upset about the fights lol
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By Bahamut.Lexouritis 2022-12-19 08:57:33
but the JP's who were already complaining hard core about Ody V20 being ridiculous went into overdrive and the devs actually checked into it.
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By SimonSes 2022-12-19 09:00:11
Pure savage blade spam on Mboze would still be an issue, but that can just be circumvented by having the warrior alternate between chango and nageling or something.
WAR is not a part of any Mboze strategy I know. It should be something like DRK + BLU + COR + BRD + BST + PLD.
DRK Insurgency
COR Savage
BLU Expiacion
PLD should Atonement add to keep hate better
Could also use WHM instead of BLU, but I think it would be worse.
Using BLU would mean PLD would need to use Panacea and Remedy and BLU and DRK would need to remedy too, but with BLU+BST TP resets, it should be much easier to stop Mboze from TP moves and would potentially let everyone keep WSing below 25%, when normally with BST only doing tp reset, DRK is the only one WSing below 25% beside the time when you use Unleash or Soul Enslavement and with higher regen from 2 adds, it might be a key factor to keep WSing on more than just DRK.
By SimonSes 2022-12-19 09:03:21
Yep managing the adds just became the prime challenge, and getting TP on Ongo.
Adds are very manageable at high mlvls now tbh too. bind -> CS Sleep first one, Stymie sleep 2nd one. boss dies before either wake up if you are quick enough. We're seeing much better success on landing sleeps even through macc down aura at high mlvl.
You are forgetting the fact, that on A3, when NM does the TP move that triggers fetters, it strips adds from all debuffs, so your Stymie slept add can wake up 5 sec after you land the sleep, if you are unlucky.
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By Bahamut.Justthetip 2022-12-19 09:05:28
Pure savage blade spam on Mboze would still be an issue, but that can just be circumvented by having the warrior alternate between chango and nageling or something.
WAR is not a part of any Mboze strategy I know. It should be something like DRK + BLU + COR + BRD + BST + PLD.
DRK Insurgency
COR Savage
BLU Expiacion
PLD should Atonement add to keep hate better
Could also use WHM instead of BLU, but I think it would be worse.
Using BLU would mean PLD would need to use Panacea and BLU and DRK would need to remedy too, but with BLU+BST TP resets, it should be much easier to stop Mboze from TP moves and would potentially let both everyone keep WSing below 25%, when normally with BST only doing tp reset, DRK is the only one WSing below 25% beside the time when you use Unleash or Soul Enslavement and with higher regen from 2 adds, it might be a key factor to keep WSing on more than just DRK. War can be used in place of drk for sure it's more risky but we've done it before. I'd also just stick with torcleaver over Insurgency. Holding tp for it would mean torcleaver should be way better but yea either works.
By Penpenn 2022-12-19 09:06:07
Has anyone gone into Sortie yet to test if the WS wall applies to the Sortie bosses still?
I'm interested to see if that completely changes Aminon from being a magic burst death only strategy to something more accessible by the playerbase...
I know this is the odyssey thread, but this only place people talking about WS wall.
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By Asura.Saevel 2022-12-19 09:11:28
Has anyone gone into Sortie yet to test if the WS wall applies to the Sortie bosses still?
I'm interested to see if that completely changes Aminon from being a magic burst death only strategy to something more accessible by the playerbase...
I know this is the odyssey thread, but this only place people talking about WS wall.
The update notes tell us what will happen in six hours.
The "wall" was supposed to individual WS's, one person Savage Blading stops everyone else from Savage Blading for the next 10s. Everyone has to use different WS's to prevent activation of the wall while making the most out of white damage.
As for Sortie, it means you need to carefully chose weapon skills and yes it should actually be "easier" in that you just never proc any of his mechanics. But it means not making random SC's, so time to all WS together or find compatible WS's to use.
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By Asura.Melliny 2022-12-19 09:12:30
Quote: I know this is the odyssey thread, but this only place people talking about WS wall.
Nothing is stopping you from posting in the sortie thread and starting a discussion there about the weaponskill wall you know. I'm sure people will respond. The news only came out a little over an hour ago. People just haven't had much time to test things out yet is all.
By Penpenn 2022-12-19 09:14:12
Quote: I know this is the odyssey thread, but this only place people talking about WS wall. Nothing is stopping you from posting in the sortie thread and starting a discussion there about the weaponskill wall you know. I'm sure people will respond. The news only came out a little over an hour ago. People just haven't had much time to test things out yet is all.
Fair enough
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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