BCNM 20 (Cloudy Orb)

[Huck]

This isn't really a Burning Circle NM, seeing how you do NOT fight it at the Burning circle.
You get the Orb at the same place as all the other orbs.
However, you trade the Orb to the Hut Door where you fight the Dragon for the Dragoon flag quest.
Only 3 Party members can enter the battle at once, You fight some bats. 2 grouped-bats, and 1 large single bat.
Our party was Whm <-(me) Mnk Mnk. one of the monks dc'd as soon as we started the battle... so it wasn't a very good start. The other mnk beat down the Big Bat himself with 100 fist while i healed him. the Big Bat went down, with only the 2 smaller bats left for us to kill. Then the other monk came back, but by then it was too late.
Not a hard Fight. No clue what items you can get. I'll post if we have better luck later, we decided that was going to be all for the night, because it was kind of late for them, and by the time the 2hrs were ready again, it would be even later.

[idream83]

First BC20 completion in Bismarck:

Party consisted of RDM/WAR, MNK/WAR, BRD/WHM

RDM/WAR tanked with Phalanx, Stoneskin, Blink buff before entering

1st drops : 375 gil record time was 5 mins 30 seconds
Bat Fang, Bat Wing, Translucent Rock, Deodorize, Platoon Wing

Party chagned to RDM/WAR, RDM/SMN, BRD/WHM

2nd drops : 375 gil time was 7 mins 20 seconds
Bat Fang, Blue Rock, Mythril Beastcoin, Invisible

Pretty crappy if you ask me...

[Xccoortri]

The drops will probably be bad because I think these new ones are geared towards the new players...gives them something fun to try before they lose their minds trying to get to level 40, 60, etc.

[grunion]

crap for 60+ but if i remember, at level 20 i had never had more than 3k in my pocket at one time ever, and a drop like that would be pretty cool

[xarddrax]

I went in last night also..... since we had NO CLUE what was in there, PT was
SMN/WHM, SMN/WHM, WAR/??? (PLD i think)

The idea was to go in and 2 hour (Astral Flow) the hell out of whatever was in there.

At first I summoned Ramuh to use Thunderspark to paralyze the bats.
Well we didnt have very good commucation as to when to use 2 hour and the other SMN/WHM went down really fast (we forgot that with WHM subbed at 20 you dont have CureII)
Then i went down right after (before any Astral flow could get off).
So our poor WAR had to solo the bats. I think she killed one of them, but the other two got her. It was a learning experiance at least. I really want to try with BST next to see if they can be charmed like Mandragoras.

[Huck]

the bats are "Impossible to gauge"
so bst probbaly wouldn't be able to tame them

[idream83]

Yeah, what we did was:

RDM/WAR (me) tanked the main NM bat (Colo Colo)

The bard slept the other 2 bats. Also, we went in with 300% full TP, so I had the BRD do Burning Blade, then had the monk do Combo, and I finished with Red Lotus Blade, for Fusion + Fire magic. Colo-Colo died shortly after. The other 2 were a bit easier, but they still had the Jet Stream Ability, which hit me for 111 damage before it died.

BC20 : Completed ^^

BC30 : being planned...