August 2018 Version Update

I remember the Soulflayer...

Give me a few hours and I'll have the strat vid up.

Love all the vanity items.

Can you not use ranged attackers, cause like that'd be awesome if the entire month isnt ranger rangedcor and lolsmn. No strat is involved with ranged damage.

The new Vagary RoE quests are pretty nice though. You get a free of each boss material once per week upon completing the bosses.

Does anybody know where the Trove RoE is?

The starter ROE is in tutorial > Basics

Then it opens up a whole new section in "content"

There's a total of 11 monthly RoEs that give you Silver AMAN vouchers... so it looks like this event is time-gated too.

Why?

EDIT: You can buy 5 vouchers per month, for 100k gil each.

Still gated content, considering that "easy mode" takes 6 vouchers and hard mode takes 10 *** vouchers.

Double... Oh Jesus Christ these objectives for silver vouchers, sigh.

They aren't hard, but ugh. Complete AH sales, say hello in chat, complete a besieged, complete some conquest, complete a campaign battle... complete a reive. enter Dienamis #fail. Enter ambuscade.

Theres going to be a LOT of bitching about unity chat again for a week or so.

Nope. The Soulflayer has a bunch of Imp adds and they all aggro before you can even engage the Automaton. Maton could tank the boss at best, but you'll have to bring RUN or PLD to be able to hold adds anyway, unless they die quickly to AoE.

AMAN Trove is the stupidest *** event ever.

I got a mimic which has an instant-KO move when you open it.

What the ***?

It literally doesn't do damage and it bypasses shadows.

It's called "Ka-thwack" and it just instantly KOs you.

Working as intented.

yeah the exact same thing happen to me... is that what they had in mind when we had to "fight" the mimic when it spawns?

I guess the strategy is to just full-time the Twilight Mail/Helmet combo and just... reraise infinitely and zombie it? lol

I'll add that the gold chest disappeared when the mimic spawned, so there has to be SOME way to deal with the mimic, right? Unless SE literally is just *** with us?

Does the mimic despawn after you die or do you get kicked out of the BCNM? Anyone tested reraise (if you stay within the BBCM) to see if the mimic reaggros with the AOE KO move again? Maybe it's not meant to be beaten or is there maybe sufficient time to stun it before it can do it? Wonder if any JA like perfect dodge would avoid it.

Did Mars orb and opened all the brown chests and middle gold chest without getting a mimic.

Items were

Anahera scythe
Pil's Tunile
Exalted Log
Worn sack of snowtip stones +1
Kidney Stone
Frayed Sack of morality +2
Plate of indi haste
Plate of indi fade
Staghorn coral

Damn that's a painful BCNM if it gives you Kidney Stones >.>

Assuming the soulflayer fight works like it did before it had some sort of immunity shield mechanic and summoner was unaffected by it. RNG, COR, and SMN were all really good for it since you wanted to stay out of range of the Soulflayer. It has an incredibly potent bio aura that can easily wipe anyone in range + the amnesia from imps is annoying. PLD or RUN to hold everything while the imps are picked off and the main NM melts afterwords.

SMN can apogee Flaming Crush > Volt Strike/Predator claw to instantly knock out one of the imps at the start. Closing lights off of last stands is also very effective for taking down the boss quickly.

Anyone know if the AMAN Trove drops those new accessories or maybe the Iroha fight does? Anyone tried the Iroha fight yet?

So, this is logwatch v2. 100% straight garbage and a Squarechance1% at something "nice"

I just did the 1 merit Iroha fight and got the vanity lvl 1 bow "Mizukage-no-yumi"

Maybe the low tier Iroha drops those level 1 style lock weapons and the high tier one drops the sellable gear?

Mars orb = difficult or easy?

Pretty much given that her fight will be cosmetic only and everything else is from A.M.A.N Trove

Mars is easy

If there's no way to defeat or otherwise deal with the mimic, and you can only do this event up to 4 times per month,

I would literally call this the worst event SE has ever put in this game

Multibox says <hello!> Gonna be a looooot of people pling level 1 mules to 99 for more AMANs. lol.

and Infailsion and Divergance are still the worst. By far.

Great. another weekly chore to feel obligated to do on every active account because the 1% chance at an amazing item! Gil

I got 8/9 chests during my second run on Mars, and got:

Sack of snoworb stones +2
Karmesin vest (lol)
Sack of snowslit stones +1
Indi-Frailty
Beryllium ore
Sack of plenty
Celaeno's cloth
Sif's lock

Based on what phunky said (getting 9 items from 9 chests) and what I found (8 items from 8 chests) I'm gonna guess that each successful treasure gives you one treasure slot

So went into the AMAN grove fight and got the mimic, it opened with Cathwack which KO'd 4/6 of our group. The BRD was able to sleep it. We got up and recovered with the COR light shotting it to keep it asleep. It'll cast Death and -ga 3 spells.

Indi-paralysis seemed to do nothing to it, but regular paralyze worked. Light shot was interrupting his casting every time, but we lost our tank when light shot was resisted.

It had pretty high HP, but we eventually got it down to 74%, when it used Cathwack again and again 4/6 of the party died. Somehow the WHM was without RR so we just HP'd it. My guess is it will use Cathwack every 25% and maybe again at 10% like Omen mobs. Rudra's was hitting decently hard (45-50k stacked with chaos+frailty+minuets) but Leaden was being resisted heavily, possibly a MACC issue though.

Might be time to invest in death resistance gear, or something.

How did you sleep it when it uses Kathwack as soon as it pops? Does it have a small enough radius that you can just run away? Or do you just have people stand far enough away?