[Sabaron]

Originally Posted by hongman

Thanks all

Slightly OT, but I have noticed a lot fo the times, wearing Fencer's Ring does not add to the enspell damage - what gives??

Firstly, it could be a resist. Secondly, it could be that you don't have yellow hp or that you may have 100% TP or more. When I was lower level, my enspell damage was extremely consistent unless the mob was resistant. At higher levels, your enspell damage will have a noticeable variance.

The conditions that must be present for Fencer's Ring to activate:

1. HP < 75% [Yellow HP number]
2. TP < 100%

The second condition is the one most likely to cause a proc failure on the ring. I always use /blockaid when I've got my ring on to prevent outside healers from going ZOMG DAMAGE!!!!1!! CURE CURE CURE!

[hongman]

You know what I failed to even realise it was a latent effect. :/

So, last night I spent (after the tediously long update) about 4 hours in the Temple, killing bees. No drop.

Solo-wise, each and every fight was a long damn fight!!! I was hitting for between 37-60, critting on 100ish, and en-spell doing 12-17 per hit. Also with Phalanx up it wasnt too much of a problem recasting SS mid fight. I will say however:

Some fights were so long, others buff like Ice Spike, En-Blizz, etc would wear before fight was over!

Pollen is annoying. Especially when Iv whittle it down to a few % HP and then it Pollens for 1k HP.

Each and every Wespse Final Sting'ed me. THe first was the worst - full (1000HP) HP, and partial SS with Phalanx - took me to 230HP. That was scary, the others wasnt so bad.

I got plenty of skillups though, from 130 something to 170 now XD I ate sushi to compensate for ACC as well. Towards then end of the night a kind JP 75RDM helped out, made killing a lot faster, but still no drop. Although he eneded every fight with a Savage Blade WS and Iv noticed you get less drops when ending in WS...or is that another myth...

EDIT: Yes, Ill be back tonight to get my drop. I am determined. I think.

[Murphie]

Yeah, my fights were really long like that too. I often had to recast all of my buffs before the fight was over.

[Sabaron]

Originally Posted by hongman

Solo-wise, each and every fight was a long damn fight!!!

This is just how we work. In order to speed up the fight, you would have to use your nukes which depletes your mana quickly and forces you to recover it in some way. You should probably try to solo more things as your Red Mage career progresses both for profit and practice.

[hongman]

Agreed, Sabaron. I should.

I did nuke a few times when I had the mana, towards the end of a fight to kill it quickly, and not chance another damn 500-1000hp Pollen. But I tried to avoid it in case i needed for Cures/buffs.

Still, I logged there so as soon as I log in tonight, Im getting that damned drop!!!

[Murphie]

When I fought them I wanted the weapon skillups anyway, so longer fights were fine by me.

[Vyuru]

I don't know how powerfull your WS are, but when I solo'd Wespes as drg, towards the end of the fight I would save my WS for when the Wespe readied Final Sting, I could get my WS off first, possibly even a jump or two, and take off as much as 600-700 damage from the Wespes normally 800-1kish Final Sting. You might want to try something like that to reduce Final Sting damage.

[Sabaron]

Well, I didn't exactly recommend nuking--I've always found it more efficient to be conservative and use the bare essentials:

Protect IV/III/II/I
Phalanx
Stoneskin
Refresh
Enspell
Haste
Shock/Ice/Blaze Spikes [optional]

With ring on, I keep my hp teetering on yellow. Versus bees, however, you may want to not use the ring. If you are not subbing one of the following: WAR, DRK, BLU, PLD, you will not be getting nearly as good of weapon skill damage as you would be normally.

If you have a signal pearl and/or tactics pearl, you should grab your NPC too. Use your NPC whenever you have the chance to make them stronger and more useful and to advance their associated storylines.

[hongman]

I didnt have signet nor my NPC with me last night, comepletely forgot them.

So Im gonna run back to town and grab those 2, then...wish me luck.

[Srxjo]

good luck hong

[hongman]

Thank you.

And to all who are on Bahamut - while I am determined that as slow as it may be to solo, I will not in any circumstances say no to a hand, even ifs it passing through and helping to speed up 1 kill :p