BCNM30 Earrings

[csBahamut]

Mercenary's Earring 　 　 30 　 All Jobs
Latent effect : VIT+2

One of the supposed new earrings that can be gotten from BCNM30. Think these will be useful? What about some of the others that add +acc, +haste%, +MP, etc?

I'm hopefully going to be able to get some to try out. My LS tried the BCNM30 3 times the day the patch was released, and they failed all three times. It was 2 beetles, one of which was a mage type that stonegaII'ed them to death.

[sharvax]

I did BCNM30 with a WHM/BLM and BLM/WHM. We barely won even after using all of our 2HRs. :S

- sharvax

[Clifford]

Can anyone direct me to where i can find info on the new BCNM's?
Ive been wondering what the monsters were and what the new item drops are @_@

[kuroitsuru]

I did BCNM 30 in horlais peak twice yesterday. Our party was:
Elvaan Pld/War
Taru Rng/Nin
Taru Brd/Whm

The Bard and I both carried some melon juice. We had the songs Mage's Balld and Valor Minuet going. I used a fish kabob and the ranger used a meat kabob. Since I had to cure myself a lot, I used my RSE gloves and boots which give me 36 mp together.

We opened by sleeping both of them and I attacked one and then voked it. The beetles really didn't do that much damage with physical hits. We lost the first time because we attacked the melee type beetle first. Then on the second beetle (which we soon found out to be a mage) the ranger opened with a barrage taking away the hate from my voke and was promptly 1 hit KOd by a full blow of Stonga II. After he died the bard and I *COULD* have beat it I guess, but I didn't disengage fast enough and interrupted the bard's sleep. I guess we could have rested to full mp, whacked at it a bit more, and then repeated until it died.

The second time we went after the mage first. After it got to about half life, I took a full blow from Stonega II for around 400 dmg and I was out. The ranger wound up tanking it with Utsusemi until he managed to take it out. They moved onto the melee beetle and what I could see from the chat log, the ranger would attack the beetle until his Utsusemi wore off, the bard would cure him a couple times and then put the beetle to sleep so the ranger could recast Utsusemi and the bard could get some mp. The ranger also had a couple hi-potions this time and used them when it was necissary. They killed it after a couple minutes and our rewards were something like:

1000 gil apiece
Beetle Shell
Mythril Ingot
Fire II
Pilferer's Earring

It comes out to about 25k per person.

We are planning to go again today, but this time I think I'll carry a couple hi-potions and use them when I see it's casting Stonega II.
I'll also try shield bashing it but that's pretty unreliable.