Abyssea Experiences

[Elwynn]

Re: Abyssea Experiences

It's very random but from what I've gleaned more people seriously need to get off their asses and do what I did;

Fish for Rusty Items by camp 4 in LTP until you have max fame and quest the Scarlet Abyssite of Kismet - It makes a huge difference.

Um, yeaaaaah. I tried that the other day. The main problem is that there are fished-up monsters. The Sentinel Crabs are at least 75.

I took my 76 WHM out there and fished at the pond by VC#04 (where the NPC is). I fished up two items and got KOed three times. RR3 FTW. Fishing for rusty items could be considered "getting off your ass", if there wasn't fished-up aggro involved. Then it's all down to having the "right" job.

On the other hand, I did get the key items from the Prospector. Another 3 minutes per stone is better than nothing, and anyone swimming in cruor who hasn't gotten them already is an idiot. For some reason they're temp key items, but checking wiki, there is no known way for them to disappear. WTF SE?

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By the way. The katakana on the JP POL site reads "a-bi-se-a." NOT "a-bi-shi."

So the event is properly pronounced "Abyss-e-a." PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE stop calling it "Aby-Sea."

Thank you for your time.

Also, I have been informed (by a friend who used to play FFXI) that it's pronounced "bas-tuke" (rhymes with "nuke"), not "bas-tawk". :p

[Yellow Mage]

Re: Abyssea Experiences

Add one more A on to the end and you have a deal . . .

[Elwynn]

Re: Abyssea Experiences

Let's just pronounce it ABC and we can all be equally confused.

[ShepardG]

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Did people really say that on vent or something? wow!

[Grizzlebeard]

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Do you feel better for getting that off your chest now dear?

[Yellow Mage]

Re: Abyssea Experiences

By the way. The katakana on the JP POL site reads "a-bi-se-a." NOT "a-bi-shi."

So the event is properly pronounced "Abyss-e-a." PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE stop calling it "Aby-Sea."

Thank you for your time.

[ShepardG]

Re: Abyssea Experiences

Nio, you shouldn't lose your light if you get D/C'd and get back on before your abyssea time runs out, but if your offline past how much time you had left in abyssea then yeah, you'll be pushed out and screwed.

[Malacite]

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Not to mention lately I've been getting booted off for no god damn reason. I just randomly get kicked off the server, or XBL too for that matter when I'm on my Xbox... no indication as to why, and I can usually re-connect right away. But that momentary disconnect is enough to screw me over, losing my chain & my lights.

[ShepardG]

Re: Abyssea Experiences

Um . . . Grizzlebeard was saying that when you get disconnected and then log back in, you're put back in to the exact same standing you were in as before you got disconnected, minus any intermediate time spent. And presumably, the only reason that even that is lost is so people don't find some kind of silly exploit in logging off within Abyssea to bank their time.

What part of any of that is fail, particularly if you're trying to draw a connection to Besieged or Campaign?

I have 3 stones
I turn them in and begin exp'ing with a group.
30 mins in, I D/C because Mediacomm can't design a decent network in florida
I can't log back in for 2 hrs

I log in, get booted, have to wait an hour, get 3 more stones, and you come back and the EXP party has been going strong for 3 hours now, have 2 1/2 hours of time saved up from open chests, and your playing catch up.

If you have 3 stones left I mean, cause if you don't your hosed.

[Malacite]

Re: Abyssea Experiences

It's very random but from what I've gleaned more people seriously need to get off their asses and do what I did;

Fish for Rusty Items by camp 4 in LTP until you have max fame and quest the Scarlet Abyssite of Kismet - It makes a huge difference.

[Ayrlie]

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I have came in with 120 minutes and seen 70 minutes pass until a TE chest pops up, even though we have capped azure and been seeing tons of blue chests pop. Oddly enough, a puller gets booted because he ran out of time and next thing happens the next 5 blue chests are TE. I left that alliance with 120 minutes of time although on 3 different occasions I was down to less than 20 minutes.

We only had 2 BLM, they started doing Tier II AM at 75% when we needed the blue chests the most.

[Elwynn]

Re: Abyssea Experiences

Max Wings rank won't get you nocturnus; your server also has to take over northlands, something you can't do by yourself and that may or may not ever happen again on some/most servers now that multiple alliances full of people are in Abyssea all the time.

It doesn't look like anyone cares about the Northlands anymore on Fenrir which is very frustrating.

Supposedly all it takes is a LS going in and killing all the sword-icon mobs in the zones even when there's no battle going on. No exp but that's not the point. Of course an LS actually has to be care, and with Abyssea now ramping up (I even registered it and am now building up stones)...

Equally though, I'm rapidly losing interest in Campaign myself as I've earned and lost and re-earned my max rank in the last month due to the massive surge of people in the standard zones.

And so are a lot of other people. Suddenly this week (on Sylph at least), Campaign is back to it's old self. Even during JP prime. I can get decent XP now, unless a battle ends while my XP is still time-capped.

So at least I can have some fun with campaign while I save up Abyssea time.

[Yellow Mage]

Re: Abyssea Experiences

{/facepalm}

SE still hasn't learned from Besieged and Campaign that sometimes people get disconnected?

Um . . . Grizzlebeard was saying that when you get disconnected and then log back in, you're put back in to the exact same standing you were in as before you got disconnected, minus any intermediate time spent. And presumably, the only reason that even that is lost is so people don't find some kind of silly exploit in logging off within Abyssea to bank their time.

What part of any of that is fail, particularly if you're trying to draw a connection to Besieged or Campaign?

[Solymir]

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I joined another Abyssea party last night. This time I was Black Mage trying to get killshots to increase Azure Light and get Time Chests. There was one other Blm and I believe 2 Rdm. We were struggling to beat the melee to the death blow. Barely any instruction was given to the melee to not WS below a certain %. Finally just before we timed out some of the melee were starting to understand they needed to lay off at low %, but by then it was too late. We got a total of 2 time extensions added to the 90 minutes.

In short, I guess I must be elitist because I understand that a group playing TP Party +1 in Abyssea will not get great Exp and will time out. They need to understand that there is an Abyssea Alliance Party strategy.

I did however get a semidecent amount of exp considering we never broke 250 exp per mob and we timed out. So not a complete loss, but could have been much better.

[Elwynn]

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Yeah, it's mentioned on wiki that if you log/dc in Abyssea your timer continues ticking down to the point where you have no time left and will be kicked once you log back in. Equally, if you return from dc you should still have your Visitant Status, any remaining time, and if you were killing mobs you'll be at the same exp per kill as you were before you dc'd.

{/facepalm}

SE still hasn't learned from Besieged and Campaign that sometimes people get disconnected?

The fail is so strong here that it could melt polar ice.