The Eldiem Necropolis

[Arguile]

My single most hated place in the entire game.

You'll spend way too much time there camping for Papyrus then coffer key then looking for coffer.

If you need a coffer key there, don't go with a party where more then 2 people need one. The drop rate on these things is horrible. 8 hours spent trying to get people keys and only 3 dropped.

Alliance of 12 people, so killing them none stop.

If you need a key, get yourself 4-5 lvl 60's to come with you for your key alone. Otherwise don't bother. Just go back to lvling and come back when you're higher lvl.

[Erasmus]

hehe ya its a pain. Finding the coffer isnt too bad, butgetting the papyrus and the key is hell. Ive been numerous times and still havent gotten my key. Next time I go im organizing the PT and using quartermaster distribution. Im gettign the first key :P

[Harlequin]

Optimal pt for Hunting in Eldimie Necropolis

1 Pld lvl 65+
1 Blm lvl 29+
1 Whm lvl 56+
1 Rdm lvl 60+

You go down into the Lich Magnus C room and you pull (This requires a good pld who knows wtf he's doing). You will have continous pulls and you will eventually get a key a bell and a papyrus. Barring a really horrible pull and the Blm forgeting to escape you should have no problems.

Also note the smaller the pt the easier papyrus and keys drop.

[Synbios]

You must be very unlucky, my group went in with 3 people who needed the key and we got all 3 in around 45 mins.

[riceburner4540]

you must be horribly lucky...5 hours there and all my group got was 1 coffer key, 0 bells, and 2 papyrus. unfortunately, we needed 3 keys, 2 bells, and 0 papyrus...

eldieme necropolis is evil...if anybody needs papyrus, i suggest going through beaucedine glacier to F-5 of batallia downs. the eldieme necropolis entrance there is awesome for papyrus.

[Ungerpurr]

Hunting bones without a mnk? Sacrilege!

[xNecrosanx]

Spent a hour today killing haunts/spriggens/tomb (mage/wars) with an alliance of 18 people.

not one key dropped. :mad:

[riceburner4540]

only an hour?

[xNecrosanx]

people had to leave, so the alliance disbanded :(

[AtraposBLM]

why did you go with an alliance?

A party of 55's could do it fairly easily...might even get some decent exp out of it...

[riceburner4540]

haha...yeah, a party of 55s could do it and get pretty decent exp. unfortunately, mine has both a thf and drg (damage vs skels = sux). one of Icemage's posts had something regarding this...if you cast banish, drg (not sure about thf...but i figure it'd work the same way) can hit for normal damage on skeletons. this effect will last 2 hits i believe. sounds like crap, but if you cast banish before penta thrust or something, their WS won't be totally gimped.

[Elsurion]

Umn, made 200dmg yesterday on a Lich only with SA.

I hope to do today a realy SATAnVB on them, and i'm sure it will be about 350~450. So THF don't suxx in the way you're saying :p

[--e]

compared to mnk, yes thf does suck against bones. I was down there as a 47 mnk hitting for 60-80 per fist, thats 100-120 per melee round. My rangeki was hitting for 600+, and thats not including renkei damage. The (rank 10) thf in the pt was using H2H.
As a side note, we had 3 papyrus drop in the first 45 minutes and during the 3 hours we were there we saw 8+ papyrus and 10+ keys.
threw em all away ;_;

--e

[AtraposBLM]

Originally posted by --e
compared to mnk, yes thf does suck against bones. I was down there as a 47 mnk hitting for 60-80 per fist, thats 100-120 per melee round. My rangeki was hitting for 600+, and thats not including renkei damage. The (rank 10) thf in the pt was using H2H.
As a side note, we had 3 papyrus drop in the first 45 minutes and during the 3 hours we were there we saw 8+ papyrus and 10+ keys.
threw em all away ;_;

--e

It's funny sometimes how people screw up:
60-80 per fist, right?
That adds up to 100-120 damage per round how?
60+60 = 120 (minimum)
80+80 = 160 (maximum)
60+80 = 140 (average)

Of course this isn't factoring in misses...but that's besides the point. Bottom line is if you quote damage...make sure you do it right.

[Discordian]

I was there for about 40 game hours. I should be a mentor of Eldemine Necropolis alone. Its basicly my mog house since I've spent more time in there than in my mog hiding from the jeuno spam.

I agree this has to be one of the more evil coffers because its undead everywhere. Hunt this thing at level 55 and you shouldn't have too many problems. You get xp while you are doing it so oh well.

[riceburner4540]

Umn, made 200dmg yesterday on a Lich only with SA.

I hope to do today a realy SATAnVB on them, and i'm sure it will be about 350~450. So THF don't suxx in the way you're saying


think about what you're saying here...dagger does 1/2 damage to skeletons. this is a fact. the only time you would do normal damage is if someone casted banish...but i put that in my post...since i don't like spamming banish, ideally, my skeleton hunting parties will NOT have a thf or drg in it. so yes, thieves do suck vs skeletons.

if you're saying you dealt this much damage without banish, then you would do 400 normal sneak attack and 700-900 viper bite?

[Cloud Tiamat]

For best results, go during Full Moon; higher overall drop rates.