Final Fantasy XI Then...

[Darwock]

My top tip for Aht Urgan access is take the intermediate option - you just need 3 garrison triggers; one each from beadeaux, oztroja & davoi. I got them all in less than an hour, most of which was time spent travelling to the respective areas. You can go hours without seeing a coffer key, and getting all 6 support job drops doesn't strike me as being a quick exercise either.

[talizker]

You can go hours without seeing a coffer key

Yes, for Tobal and I it was indeed hours with no coffer key /sigh

[Tsingtao]

I had one banging around from helping another PLD get his AF legs I just went and traded it

[C']

Wedge saved me the potential heartache of going hours with no drop.

Whilst I was in the process of deciding which coffer key to hunt (and which area wouldn?t be filled with EXP parties or infested with gilsellers) I mentioned testimonies could also be used.

In his BST levelling Wedge said he came across lots of testimonies in Cape Terrigan. 10 minutes of NIN/BST duo action and all sorted.

I owe a great deal to Wedge for that tip

[Tsingtao]

Yeah Tests drop like rain most places, when we xped our NPCs at the Novv camp we got loads.

[dataDave]

Does Treasure Hunter affect Rare/EX items?

[C']

Yes (unless you are clueless Allakhazam/FFVault poster from 2004 inwhich case it doesn't)

[djtickle]

Yes i belevie it affects all item "Drops".

[Darwock]

Well that was really rather pish, the mithra fight did not go at all to plan - the one we selected to open up on was stupidly the one with whm sub, so the first freeze was blinked off.. then for some reason after my sleepga I still had all the hate - so I lasted around 10 seconds after the others woke up. Everyone else cleaned up quickly and won the fight... but it was certainly not a triumphant victory from my point of view. We can call it an easy fight when we can get everyone through with no deaths.

And we've just wiped on the snoll, it caught us totally off guard and has some hugely powerful attacks beyond just being a time bomb. So we've given up.

[Daragon]

And from a relatively unsuccessful evening to a very successful one ^_^

I am now the proud owner of my very own Fenrir. Not the easiest of battles by any means, but to be 1/1 on him is quite an achievement I like to think.

[Tsingtao]

Last night didn't quite go to plan but was still pretty productive...

Mithra BC went down quickly enough and then we followed up with 2 successful assaults then came the Snoll BC. For the first time ever I encountered a BC were the mob agro is a wider range than my ability to draw a weapon. My usualy technique is to edge forward til I can draw then line up everyone with me. The plan being that Darwock would start casting AM once Mosley pulled out his Avatar and Wedge had a buffed pet. At 25% of cast time I would leg it in voke and invincible and imeadiately Msoley Astral Flow and then we win ^^

However the mob agroed early before I could draw the sword and in the ensuing mess we lost, I was one shotted by a move for 1300 damage. I reckon this is still very doable though by exactly how we planned to do it. Sheer number of mistakes from me I think was fatal, it agored me before I had regen or refresh on and I'd set up for damage output as I'd thought that was our main challenge and I was so wrong.

So on Monday night I suggest the following change, I set up for full tank and we all vring more hi-potions to pop as I still think we can't really afford a dedicated healer. Again we set up as usual and get pets out I then agro, voke, invincible and use the first salt.

Talzker chainspells highest tier spells he has

Darwock I suggest does the same as talizker

Mosley Astral Flows again

Wedge melees and uses salt number 2 when the first wears

Tobal uses salt 3 and 2 hours straight out of the box

Suggest also all 3 melee take an icarus wing before we engage and WS as soon as we can. I think that will do it...

We were close I think last night despite the mess, think we had it to below 25% and had I not died would have won.

[Darwock]

I am now the proud owner of my very own Fenrir. Not the easiest of battles by any means, but to be 1/1 on him is quite an achievement I like to think.

I thought you said you all wiped on the first attempt with him at 10%? That's not 1/1!

[Daragon]

Ok, I actually meant 1 win 1 loss so maybe it should have said 1/2, but nevermind though. Its in the past.

And winning 2nd time round against one of the most powerful monsters in the game is still something to be proud of, especially for me.

[Darwock]

Alright, Bevan and Theanu have agreed to come for the BCNM60 so we just need to set a date/time now.

[Darwock]

OK.. I need to take a break. After last nights screw ups and two failed attempts at Diabolos today I am losing xp by the bucket load at the moment.. combined with the usual AH shenanigans pissing me off I'm getting the old 'delete character' urges again.