Abyssea Experiences

[Neverslip]

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So far my experiences have been limited to the Mandies

Only mandies for me... shoulda/coulda mention'd that ... totally spaced, lol.

[Solymir]

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Have you noticed any particular mobs being better exp than others? So far my experiences have been limited to the Mandies and Bats in Tahrongi.

[Laynton]

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I am still excited about abyssea, but I am also a little disappointed. It seems you have to have a full alliance to ever see the kinds of cruor/exp returns you guys have been lucky enough to see. This is disappointing considering I hoped to do this with my social ls exclusively. There may come a time when my ls has 2 full parties, maybe slightly more, so I guess if all we wanted was cruor/exp we could shout for another 6'ish people.

Ya it will take an alliance to get the 40,50,60k/hr but you can definately do it with 6-12. my first time in was with an 8 man burn pt. only got 8k exp and 4k crour but we took 40min to get to an actual camp b/c we were all new and didnt have the warps yet and were exploring and messing around killing other mobs. So if you find a decent camp shortly after entering with say 9 ppl i would be surprised if you didnt get 12-15k exp 8-10k crour in the 90min your in there. and more if you get good TE and exp/crour chests. but dont get to discouraged....especially once you have everyone @80. and there are definately some NM's you can do with a small social LS. there are some that have been duoed.

[Solymir]

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I am still excited about abyssea, but I am also a little disappointed. It seems you have to have a full alliance to ever see the kinds of cruor/exp returns you guys have been lucky enough to see. This is disappointing considering I hoped to do this with my social ls exclusively. There may come a time when my ls has 2 full parties, maybe slightly more, so I guess if all we wanted was cruor/exp we could shout for another 6'ish people.

[Neverslip]

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Neverslip's "go crazy" party didn't have anyone on chests though.

We actually had 2 people (one main and one 2nd) on chests the first time and only one on the second time if I remember correctly. The first time was pretty much a blur tho. I'm thinking we didn't kill fast enough. Our MA's were very slow it seemed to me... and kill times on the second party were pretty slow. That maybe due to adhering to not WS'n during the last 15% HP so BLMs could get killshots.

[Malacite]

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BG people... BG. Massive 56+ page thread on Abyssea over there, Wiki is slowly being updated from it's findings.


As for lights, they all build up over time and are all active at once. So, the more killshots with magic you get, the more everyone in the party's Azure light goes up, which as the tier of your light goes up, so does the appearance and tier of blue chests.

[Laynton]

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I've never paid attention to kill shot and don't know anything about it. If you're there for the XP, I strongly suggest discarding such nonsense. Leave it to manaburns. It sounds like Neverslip's "go crazy" party didn't have anyone on chests though. As (I think) I said before, we have 2 people on chest duty pretty much all the time. COR or a non-pulling BRD is pretty good for this.

Exactly what i was thinking! especially for pick-up alliances. Different kill shots do make your light change but as for how effective it is i dont know and i dont think it matters that much. some ppl swear by it and say they coudnt have gotten 60k//hr+ if they didnt. I got 40k/hr+ and stayed in for 5 hrs (and left with at least an hour left on status) with a bunch of random ppl and at least half the DD's were pretty gimpd. So with a really good geared alliance thats organised i would say that they could just go and not have to worry about kill shots.

[Lmnop]

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I've never paid attention to kill shot and don't know anything about it. If you're there for the XP, I strongly suggest discarding such nonsense. Leave it to manaburns. It sounds like Neverslip's "go crazy" party didn't have anyone on chests though. As (I think) I said before, we have 2 people on chest duty pretty much all the time. COR or a non-pulling BRD is pretty good for this.

[Laynton]

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Went in with a /sh group and kill mandys for 5hrs. went from 77-80 +27k buffer and 30k crour. was about 40kish/hr xp. so you CAN get good exp/crour with a /sh group lol.

How do you get the time chests? I’ve heard (I think from this topic and from random peeps) that you need magic to be the final blow to get Azure light. Does it sort of work like chaining though? Last night we went in an alliance with I think 2 Blms and 2 pups (me as 1 of the pups). I guess some of the melees have listening problems and after every 3-5 kills one would ‘accidently’ WS the mob to death. Once that happens do you need to build up magic kills again or are you solid when Azure light comes back?

I dont think there is hard fact evidence as to what makes them drop but some strong threorys. What seems to work is that you consentrate on one type of mob and kill as fast as possible. I stopped counting TE chests @14. We got our first around 50min in or something like that. There is also the thing with the light that you get from killing a mob a sertain way. (WS, normal hit, magic) Since it was a pick-up alliance trying to get the group to kill a certain was as to maintain a sertain light was like trying to herd cats....damn near impossible. so i gave up which proved to be a good thing....whether we would have gotten more exp/crour, probably, but who knows since it was a pick-up.

Anyways the main thing that is fact and a must is keeping that "chain" on that single type of mob. The exact same mob not just the same family.

Edit: You dont need magic kills as my party just proved that. We had 2 blm and 5 rdm. blm didnt nuke that much and neither did the rdms since they were on healing duty. Yes magic seem to make blue chests pop more which increases chance on getting TE but other than that no one knows exactly how to get them or if it just random.

[Neverslip]

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I'm in the same meh-boat as Romyro...

1st Experience - 90min 18 person Alliance and got about 30k experience. Maybe got 1-2 time extensions. People really just going nuts. DD's making killshots and we got several temp. item chests, few Xp chests, couple cruor a few item chests but I didn't know what was in them.

2nd Experience - 90min 17-18 people. Bit more organized but only came out with 6-7k xp. Mages made almost all the killshots. We didn't even see a chest until about 45min -1hr into it. Got 2 time extensions, 1-2 item chests, 1-2Xp chests, 1-2 Cruor...

All told between the 2 times, I had just under 7k Cruor. For the life of me I have no idea what we were doing wrong. First time where we really had no game plan was way way better. People in my social LS have gotten some epic numbers but both times were pretty meh compared to the numbers posted here and what others in my LS have gotten.

[Romyro]

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Regarding the chests, to gain the time you seem to have to open select blue chests with the key you purchase from the vendor who sells armour, cost is 500 Cruor per key. Black and gold chests seem to be items, have half a dozen Adaman Barbutas, a scroll of Stone V, and a couple of Baramnesia or however it's spelled in addition to high end crafting materials and VNM pop items.

How do you get the time chests? I’ve heard (I think from this topic and from random peeps) that you need magic to be the final blow to get Azure light. Does it sort of work like chaining though? Last night we went in an alliance with I think 2 Blms and 2 pups (me as 1 of the pups). I guess some of the melees have listening problems and after every 3-5 kills one would ‘accidently’ WS the mob to death. Once that happens do you need to build up magic kills again or are you solid when Azure light comes back?

Got no time extensions
1 chest with 1000 curor (maybe more that I missed)
1 chest with 1250 xp (maybe more that I missed)
Some chests with Temp items.

[LeonstrifeLEV]

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Damn. well at least I know where they are now. "sharing" the drops though is gonna be a pain.

[hexx]

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I've only been looking into Caladbolg and Redemption trials so far since those are the only ones i want but caladbolg is the same as masamune and some... other... thing. Anyway the trig to pop the nm for the gems needed for these 3 weapons are 2 key items you can get off of the fairy nm and fly nm in abyssea la theine. Sadly the wiki for her is very vague and I haven't fought em myself. As for chloris buds no one knows where they hell they come from.

For the Chloris Buds, my limbus leader has been getting them off of chests in Abyssea - Tahrongi Canyon, but I think you need to kill a fair amount of mobs and pop the high tier chests for that.

[LeonstrifeLEV]

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Leon do you have any info on the Tier II's and the new weapons?

I've only been looking into Caladbolg and Redemption trials so far since those are the only ones i want but caladbolg is the same as masamune and some... other... thing. Anyway the trig to pop the nm for the gems needed for these 3 weapons are 2 key items you can get off of the fairy nm and fly nm in abyssea la theine. Sadly the wiki for her is very vague and I haven't fought em myself. As for chloris buds no one knows where they hell they come from.

[Truece]

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For all of those people who can't seem to keep a proper buffer after dynamis (or other endgame events), this is the perfect solution...

Just died a dozen times in Dynamis/Salvage/etc? Take the alliance to abyssea for 30-60 mins after the event and possibly cap your xp! Definitely a good way of gaining experience/limit points post-75!