excalibur

[Detrious]

So i was playing FFXI when one of my friends sends me a tell saying hes gonna be the most powerful paladin... so i ask how. After much deliberation, he finally says... excalibur. i have no idea what hes talking about since iv never heard of this before. anyone else know about this? Supposedly teaches WS knights of the Round. Any info on this would be great or maybe a link to were i can read some about it. Thanks ahead of time for the info.

[Grizzlebeard]

Partial enlightenment. (http://ffxi.allakhazam.com/db/item.html?fitem=5200)

[Irinicus]

I think hes pulling your leg bigtime

[Paul]

Excalibur is a final stage version of the relic sword. By doing tasks in dynamis, mostly gathering a lot of currency and assertion and fighting certain NMs. To get Excalibur it would take a few years of playing. It is the ultimate sword in the game.

[Detrious]

wow.... :handsdown lvl 75 here i come....

[AtraposBLM]

My RDM friend Discordian is determined to be the first player (or at least, first NA player on Midgardsormr, since we can't verify when other people get it) to have the sword. At the moment, I believe he's upgraded possibly to stage 2 (I know he's done stage 1). That means many many many millions of gil, lots of hours in dynamis, and a ton of patience. He's been lv75 for...at least 9 months, maybe more. Have fun getting it...I don't envy anyone who would actually try to get this sword.

[Skold]

I will post a picture so you guys can drool over it... hehe...


http://www.herocd.com/forums/uploads/1099441721/gallery_44_5_1100056488.jpg

[Aeolus]

Is knights of the round a 13 hit ws?
what ws does the upgraded greatsword give you?^^

[Detrious]

/em Drool ..... :handsdown
i want

[Ayrilana]

There was a thread somewhere many many months back with movies of all the new relic weaponskills. Knights of the Round didn't look too impressive

EDIT: Found link

http://www.geocities.co.jp/SiliconValley-Bay/2740/index2.html or
http://www38.tok2.com/home/pso/ff11/rws_sword.avi for the sword WS

[Tythera]

Atrapos, if I'm not mistaken I think a friend of mine saw Lei with one (but he/I could be wrong). If you see him check him out (I've wanted to see for myself but I haven't run into him since my friend told me).

[Negs]

wow, how anticlimactic, seeing knights in action...

[Thoronas]

I still like Savage Blade more. :thumbsup:

[imac2much]

The rumor of Lei having excalibur was some false one spread around about a month or two ago. He has dynamis sword or whatever, and is waiting for attestations for both his 1hs and great sword as of last month. I don't know if he got an attestation in this recent month, but I know the rumor of him having excalibur is more than a month old (which is why several people /checked him and found him with dynamis sword, dispelling the rumor).

[Tythera]

He recently told me that but it looks to just be the echo of the rumor from a month or more ago.

[Biterman]

The animation is....well...umm, it doesnt suck. The small fusion at the end looks neat, but for all that work and trouble to get the WS you expect something way better.

[Detrious]

what did you guys use to view the vid? My windows Media player only plays the sound...

[Discordian]

Yeah I'm going for an Excalibur and seeing if I burn out doing it. Takes patience, support, and the willingness to make your gil.

I plan on taking Ninja to at least 60 and Possibly Paladin and Ranger to 70+ as I'm not planning to leave for WoW.

[Jonishush]

Its so.. beautiful.. /cry

[Cyclonus]

OMFG Skold! I'm startin PLD now!!! :D

[Paul]

At most people seem to only have the 2nd upgrade the Dynamis Sword. On my server I have never seen any weapon past the 2nd. The reason seems to be is that it costs far more currency then the first 2 upgrades and you need 3 rare ex items which are droped from Dynamis-Beaucidine and Dynamis-Xarcabard, a fragment, asserttion and indulgence. Not sure on the exact names, but they are a rare drop.

[Discordian]

Originally posted by Paul
At most people seem to only have the 2nd upgrade the Dynamis Sword. On my server I have never seen any weapon past the 2nd. The reason seems to be is that it costs far more currency then the first 2 upgrades and you need 3 rare ex items which are droped from Dynamis-Beaucidine and Dynamis-Xarcabard, a fragment, asserttion and indulgence. Not sure on the exact names, but they are a rare drop.

I think its because many Dynamis linkshells go to Dynamis-Beaucidine for 2 reasons

1) Complete the zone to get more people to Dynamis-Xarcabard.
2) Farm AF2 drops

The path that you have to take to pop the attestenation droppers is a difficult road as you apparently have to kill all 4 statues then backtrack to the Shadows in the NW area to kill the Vangaurd Eye for the NM pops, then race back down. Its a tricky proccess even with a very good lineup of people.

[Genuine]

what do you use to watch the video, I couldnt see it, only volume. But I still think The Gluttony Sword looks way better than it.

[Zymm]

this sword is near impossible to get.

most ppl get burned out after the 2nd upgrade, b/c the 3rd upgrade+ kills most ppl.

its the best sword in the game yes, but unless your truly willing to go all the way, i would suggest to you to just forget about it or u will just have a couple of millions wasted in the 1st and 2nd upgrade.

[kumaeru]

Attestations is the hardest part to upgrading, and even then you need more currency.

1st > 2nd stage of most relic weapons requires about 3-4 of 1 type of "100" currency. 2nd > 3rd stage takes about 14 of another type of "100" currency. 3rd > 4th stage takes an Attestation (hard to get) and around 50 of another type of "100" currency.

Finally 4 > 5 stage is even more insane, as it requires a fragment for the particular weapon (this is fairly easy.. easier than attestations) but needs an absurd number of currency. This absurd amount is gotten by killing Dynamis Lord probably more than a couple times for his "10,000" version of currency.

So far I only know of 10,000 byne bills.. but there could probably Goldcoins for Sandoria and some other type of shell for windurst.


A single 100 version currency costs around 500-700k gil (at least on midgard).

Also getting 100 version currency in Dynamis runs is quite rare, as everyone become very happy if even 1 drops. So spend a lot of time and money doing dynamis with a dynamis shell that absolutely loves you and spend a ton of gil buying currency.

[l)@RK-l)EVIL]

Originally posted by kumaeru
Attestations is the hardest part to upgrading, and even then you need more currency.


Not really Attestations isnt hard at all
its just all this damn coins thats the "hard part"
need like 100million~ gil worth of coins just to get damn single weapon
{Thanks for the offer but i will have to pass}

http://img221.exs.cx/img221/8409/nm2hour3qc.jpg

http://img208.exs.cx/img208/5625/attestation1hp.jpg


Can find more info here http://www.livejournal.com/users/rukenshin/

:spin:

[Discordian]

Does anyone have any good true information about Knights of Round? I recently upgraded to Caliburn after shoving 61 jadeshells into the goblins shnoz. Its damage in Dyn-Xarca wasn't a decent test for the weapon considering their high defense.

[Shinobinchu]

Originally posted by Discordian
Does anyone have any good true information about Knights of Round? I recently upgraded to Caliburn after shoving 61 jadeshells into the goblins shnoz. Its damage in Dyn-Xarca wasn't a decent test for the weapon considering their high defense.


As far as I know, you are the farthest. gratz.

[Kiyone]

I read a post a few weeks back about testing Knights of the Round with a Caliburn in Dynamis-Sandy.

It said that the hidden effect was Regen, and that the amount of TP you have affects the length of the hidden effect, which activates at the time of the weapon skill.

The weapon skill is a 1 hit attack. I think it said that double attack can occur with it though. (It was a PLD test)

They tried a number of things to boost the attack but the results varied a lot. They tried eating sushi to boost accuracy. They tried raising and lowering HP but came up inconclusive. They tried TP300 Berserk Warcry HP Max, but couldn't figure out what modifies the damage. However normal damage was also strange. Without 100% TP, sometimes the sword would hit for as much as 485. (Add effect, I assume). The damage averaged around 280. (I dunno if this is all hits or just WS).

Swift Blade with Caliburn came up around 200 damage at 100% TP.

As to the attribute of the WS:

After Fragmentation effect, KoR made light.
After KoR, Asuran Fists made Gravitation.
After Heavy Shot, KoR made nothing.
After Asuran Fists, KoR made nothing.
After Blade Ku, KoR made nothing

Spin Slash to Heavy Shot, light, KoR after makes a second light.

So they concluded it's possibly a Fusion weapon skill.


Hope this helps, but they couldn't figure out the damage modifier as well.

My assumption is that this weapon is not so much for the weaponskill as it is for the add damage from regular attacks (and I hope I haven't misread their post, because I don't remember if Caliburn has the add effect of Excalibur >.>).

[JP_Ikari]

That sucks. So to this day, we still have yet to fully know what is up with that WS.


JP

[Kooldac]

Hmm, I'm not sure why Discordian has not posted his new info... but I will relay what he and Whren have posted from various forums.

Video of him doing consecutive Light SCs - http://www.zenmetsu.org/ffxivids/purepwnage.avi

Him describing it - http://www.killingifrit.com/forums.php?m=posts&q=74479

[Discordian]

Sorry about not posting here but the new layout is a little annoying. Its a fairly powerful 1H Sword and I'm going to experiment with a good accuracy build or a weaponskill macro for double light chains.

[JP_Ikari]

Sorry about not posting here but the new layout is a little annoying. Its a fairly powerful 1H Sword and I'm going to experiment with a good accuracy build or a weaponskill macro for double light chains.

Hey Discordian, dude, that's so sick that you have it. Have you tested it with your PLD yet?? Cause it'd be nice for you to tell us how much DMG you're doing per swing with a complete Koenig Armor set.

JP

[pantherball]

well the links didn't work for me ... i would like to see it tho it sounds pretty cool if any1 could post an up tpo date link on that i'd really apreciate it

[neighbortaru]

does Disco even have PLD unlocked? :biggrin: afaik, he unlocked it with his RDM

[Enialas]

I though it was so cool when I saw RDM/PLD instead of PLD/WAR. way too off for me to worry about though.

[Discordian]

I completed Excalibur on my rdm and even with the choice of rdm melee gear it can still come with some impressive damage numbers when the additional effect starts going off. My Paladin is heading for 75 quickly so we'll see how it performs. From my experience with Excalibur on my rdm it can quickly and easily pull a lot of hate like when in Valley of Sorrows fighting Raptors the additional went off every other swing in the fight.

Additional Effect damage is 1/4 your current HP i.e. 1200hp = 300 additional.

[JP_Ikari]

I completed Excalibur on my rdm and even with the choice of rdm melee gear it can still come with some impressive damage numbers when the additional effect starts going off. My Paladin is heading for 75 quickly so we'll see how it performs. From my experience with Excalibur on my rdm it can quickly and easily pull a lot of hate like when in Valley of Sorrows fighting Raptors the additional went off every other swing in the fight.

Additional Effect damage is 1/4 your current HP i.e. 1200hp = 300 additional.

DAMN, that's SICK > <. Man I really wanna have one now.

JP