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By Asura.Geriond 2022-01-29 08:12:48
There are several reports in this topic of people holding the add with bards by spamming songs on the add until it goes after them
This is completely different thing. This is only possible after Caper, which doesn't need to mean anything. I'm not saying you are wrong, but I haven't seen any 100% reports of someone stealing hate on add from 2nd person on the hate list with just enmity generation toward adds. Even if you think Caper somehow changes how the enmity works, runs that do not have a solid person in 2nd place (like TP denial Mboze runs) will often have the add periodically shifting who they are hitting as enmity changes.
There's also other testimonies like Saevel's on page 167.
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By Odin.Karizo 2022-01-29 11:59:47
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Aramith posted their fight.
Same core setup as v15 (WAR DRG COR BRD WHM), added DRK for enslavement at ~30% HP to limit TP moves. Didn't see fetter.
Still think this fight is a bit luck dependent, add was Tulfaire so didn't hit that hard.
For reference, our win was WAR DRG COR BRD WHM GEO.
We had the snapweed add, which also didn't hit nearly as hard as the raaz would.
We lived through 1 set of fetter, 2nd set of fetter killed all but WHM and WAR, and the WAR finished Bumba off.
Fight was maybe ~3min engage time.
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By Lakshmi.Buukki 2022-01-29 13:48:34
-SP wasn't Invincible, Yaegesumi, or Perfect Dodge (automatic loss*)
--Add wasn't Cracklaw, Raaz(, or Matamata*)
---(WC may have rolled a 6, but overall insignificant to the fight unless the WAR got 2 Mighty Strikes)
DRK also forces the Chaos Roll job bonus instead of a 50% chance without it, even though group dps goes down without Bolster STR. The DRK more than makes up for the dps loss of having geo buff everyone's SBs higher, and Soul Enslavement is a great ability to use for a zerg/low tp so it probably favors DRK even more. Good stuff.
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By Asura.Aldolol 2022-01-29 14:43:37
so we cleared our Bumba V20 today so are done with content, happy and sad at the same time since it's been a really good challenge.
Nothing out the box but figured I would share the fight for us.
WAR, DRG, GEO, WHM, BRD, COR
BRD - HM, VM5/4, Madrigal, Minne5
GEO - indifury - Geo STR (not sure if we needed the fury tbh)
COR - crooked sams, chaos
We got lucky and had sforzo, killed in 2:20, I did have a thought about similar to the JP video linked above, could you use BST at 2:25 and unleash spam for an extra minute in the fight? You can savage to contribute to a bit of the damage, but just not sure how viable this might be, but if it did work, you'd get an extra 1 minute kill time?
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By Bahamut.Shozokui 2022-01-29 14:58:57
so we cleared our Bumba V20 today
Seems like a good number of groups did yesterday haha. We did too. Seems like same everything works with a little bit of luck.
Took us 3 attempts. First we got murdered unceremoniously by the Raaz hitting for 1k+, second we had like a 10 minute fight without anything bad happening (I wanted to try a crazy comp), but got rekt at 20% finally.
The kill was just like a V15, go fast, kill things.
Our setup was WAR,DRG,BLU,COR,BRD,WHM.
Torbillion all the things.
By Guyford 2022-01-30 01:22:30
So mewing strat works on Bee as well as tree with a little luck. SAM BRD COR GEO WHM SMN. Used widened compass on first BoG fury loupan to keep it from dying before bolster at 40%. Everyone in for wildcard/alexander at 25%. Honor minx3 scherzo, sam/mnk rolls for sam, standard smn buffs, minnes barrier and gallant for backline. TP moves go off under 25% but as long as SAM doesnt get 1 shotted by weakness move and brd/cor pull out taurets to get rid of aura pretty solid.
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By Lakshmi.Buukki 2022-01-30 10:01:17
so we cleared our Bumba V20 today
Our setup was WAR,DRG,BLU,COR,BRD,WHM.
Torbillion all the things.
Can second this setup being useful. I suppose I didn't consider how good BLU is in place of GEO. BLU can apply diffusion Nature's Meditation and Diffusion Harden Shell, to help deal with the add. White Wind is very helpful if the WHM gets overwhelmed. Didn't check if Cesspool lands, might look into that. Worth noting that the attack down effect from Tourbillion does not land on Bumba nor its add. Whatever permanent attack+ buff is being applied to all Gaol bosses evidently applies to the add, as I only saw the defense down message wear off, but never the attack down message.
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By Valefor.Prothescar 2022-01-30 10:19:44
Tourbillion doesn't have Attack Down on it
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By Lakshmi.Buukki 2022-01-30 10:22:41
Oh, I was misremembering between that and Bilgestorm. I'll have to validate my comment against that spell some time. Thanks for the correction, Proth
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By Bahamut.Shozokui 2022-01-30 11:01:03
Oh, I was misremembering between that and Bilgestorm. I'll have to validate my comment against that spell some time. Thanks for the correction, Proth
Yeah, Tourb is the mother of all defense downs. When it gets dropped by his erase you just apply angon or tenebral.
The rest of BLU's kit is just icing. BLU is one of the most useful jobs in Odyssey period in this man's opinion.
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By Lakshmi.Buukki 2022-01-30 11:49:37
I've found with UL, UW's duration, and WC/RD resets, there was never a time I couldn't reapply Tourbillion. So it's a great full time debuff that I actually hadn't considered using before. Good stuff. I agree with your assessment of BLU
By SimonSes 2022-01-30 12:08:06
Couldn't you go with WAR DRG THF WHM BRD COR and just steal SP with THF? THF with Savage should be pretty competitive as DD and you would minimize the luck factor by a lot. Also in case of Mighty Strikes or Yaegasumi THF damage would skyrocket?
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By Lakshmi.Buukki 2022-01-30 12:25:10
I said larceny THF on the other page. You can also steal party members hate with accomplice and try to position yourself to be second on hate list so that you have attention of the add as soon as it pops. Shouldn't be too hard if the DRG uses High Jump or the THF uses accomplice on him. Then the Warrior sounds be solidly in first place of hate. Perfect Dodge should allow you to evade tank the Raaz or Chapuli (if they are on you) for full duration, which improves group survivability. RD allows you to repeat process, and since you can steal perfect Dodge or invincible anyways, it serves the double purpose or removing damage immunity as well as makes you a tank to any physical damage.
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By SimonSes 2022-01-30 14:45:28
So many cool things that can be done, yet we chose to SB it to death. lol.
You can go BLU and Black Halo it to death instead. When we are at it, why is that DRK in JP group using Savage Blade, when Great Sword and Resolution should be way stronger? I mean he single wield with 68.75% haste, while with Great Sword he would be at cap.
EDIT: by stronger I mean DPS, not WS damage itself. Resolution would probably do similar damage, but with much better frequency.
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By Asura.Geriond 2022-01-30 15:23:19
Resolution has fallen off hard in recent years. Savage is going to be better DPS than Reso will on Bumba, even on DRK.
Reso has less fTP than Savage at Warcry WS TPs, a 15% attack penalty instead of a 20-30%+ attack bonus, and doesn't benefit from the glut of powerful WSDMG gear we have these days or a weapon-specific boost like Naegling. In a battle like Bumba where capping attack is an issue, Savage could easily do twice as much damage as Resolution or more. That's not even considering the 100 acc bonus on the majority of Savage's damage, and on a fairly evasive mob like Bumba you'd have to slot in more accuracy on Resolution.
The haste difference can't make up for the massive difference in WS damage.
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By Lakshmi.Buukki 2022-01-30 16:21:35
Just tried Larceny on Bumba's Brazen Rush, and it failed. Might not work for SP2s.
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By Asura.Wotasu 2022-01-30 16:38:33
Just tried Larceny on Bumba's Brazen Rush, and it failed. Might not work for SP2s. It doesnt work for Yaegasumi, but does on PD/Invicible. So yes SP2 is a no go.
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By Lakshmi.Buukki 2022-01-30 17:25:13
I thought someone mentioned that a long time ago, but I may have forgot. Would have been cool for THF to steal Yaegesumi.
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By Odin.Karizo 2022-01-30 22:29:47
-SP wasn't Invincible, Yaegesumi, or Perfect Dodge (automatic loss*)
--Add wasn't Cracklaw, Raaz(, or Matamata*)
---(WC may have rolled a 6, but overall insignificant to the fight unless the WAR got 2 Mighty Strikes)
DRK also forces the Chaos Roll job bonus instead of a 50% chance without it, even though group dps goes down without Bolster STR. The DRK more than makes up for the dps loss of having geo buff everyone's SBs higher, and Soul Enslavement is a great ability to use for a zerg/low tp so it probably favors DRK even more. Good stuff.
Haven't spammed enough to know for certian yet, but we don't think the trigger for fetters is time based, so I don't think SP plays as big a part as you think. We've consistently seen fetters at around 30% regardless of kill speed.
Add is a HUGE luck component. Raaz really *** you up. Correct to put a heavy emphasis on it lol. Either craklaw or matamata also isn't fun, since they can stun with their normal attacks which is aoe.
Our first kill WC didn't reset SP1 (mighty strikes being the most critical), so I would say WC isn't critical, but certainly helps.
We thought more about the DRK usage, but we don't think Soul Enslavement actually impacts fetters (nor should we have thought that it did, silly us).
We think it's simply because Aramith is probably main DRK, and they don't have another job to sub in, so they used DRK instead of a GEO.
Another reason can be that DRK is pretty tanky in Sakpata, so if they are able to maintain 2nd in enmity, can alleviate some pressure from the WHM. Although DRG can output a lot of damage as well, so it depends on the output of the DRK vs. DRG.
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By Asura.Bippin 2022-01-30 22:59:24
so it depends on the output of the DRK vs. DRG. DRG will do more then a DRK if both are doing Savage blade, DRG can often do more then WAR outside of SP.
DRG will likely be using High Jump have less enmity then anyone else.
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By Lakshmi.Buukki 2022-01-30 23:13:09
We thought more about the DRK usage, but we don't think Soul Enslavement actually impacts fetters (nor should we have thought that it did, silly us).
It's not for Fetters, but for Denounce.
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By Vaerix 2022-01-30 23:26:04
We thought more about the DRK usage, but we don't think Soul Enslavement actually impacts fetters (nor should we have thought that it did, silly us).
It's not for Fetters, but for Denounce.
I might be misremembering but early on (like V0) didn't someone remark that bumba can double tp at will during aura/fetter? And if it can double tp at will wouldn't it stand to reason that it can just tp at will? I distinctly remember someone saying they got smashed with double denounce.
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By Lakshmi.Buukki 2022-01-30 23:59:58
And if it can double tp at will wouldn't it stand to reason that it can just tp at will?
One doesn't necessarily have to do with the other.
By SimonSes 2022-01-31 05:22:27
Soul Enslavement is not used defensively at all. It's used offensively to TP faster and only for that. There is no way for ~230TP absorb per hit to stop Bumba from using TP moves, when 4+ people is feeding TP. He used it above 40%HP in the video and Bumba still TPed 4 times during SE.
Resolution has fallen off hard in recent years. Savage is going to be better DPS than Reso will on Bumba, even on DRK.
I depends if you mean capped or uncapped attack Resolution. Capped attack Resolution haven't fallen off at all. Exactly the opposite. It was super buffed with Sakpata.
Reso has less fTP than Savage at Warcry WS TPs, a 15% attack penalty instead of a 20-30%+ attack bonus, and doesn't benefit from the glut of powerful WSDMG gear we have these days or a weapon-specific boost like Naegling
DRK has Smite V tho. Doesn't benefit from WSD, but it does benefit from PDL and PDL has much less diminishing returns than WSD on DRK.
In a battle like Bumba where capping attack is an issue, Savage could easily do twice as much damage as Resolution or more. That's not even considering the 100 acc bonus on the majority of Savage's damage, and on a fairly evasive mob like Bumba you'd have to slot in more accuracy on Resolution.
I agree that Resolution performance would be totally dependent of being able to cap attack with it. You assume DRK wont be able to cap attack. Is that assumption based on some data or guessing?
In my Reso set with Crooked IV Chaos (I know you can't guarantee it) SV Honor and Minuet5/4, Endark2, Entrust Fury and Last Resort I am at over 9000 attack. I'am also above threshold needed for 95% accuracy. Bumba will get hit with almost -43% def down (Angon and Dia II with light shot). This is WITH subjob EDIT: all numbers are basically without subjob, I changed to /GEO lv1, but with Sakpata at R20, so there is still +25 accuracy from getting it to R25 and in 2 weeks we will probably be at ML40, so additional ~33+ accuracy from that too. Accuracy wouldnt be the problem at all. In the actual fight there will also be entrust Fury EDIT: I included Entrust Fury in the end. I also forgot there will be additional attack from Warcry from WAR and Precision that I dont even count.
So the question is - Does 9000 attack with -43% def down on Bumba allow to cap attack pdif with Reso. Cap is at 5.95 for Great Sword in this set. Let's assume -15% penalty is modifier at the end for worst case scenario.
9000 * .85 = 7650
7650 / 5.95 = 1285
1285 / 0.57 = ~2254
Does Bumba have more than 2254 Def before debuffs? Possible, but unlikely.
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By Asura.Geriond 2022-01-31 07:56:06
This "assumption" is based off of actually trying it against Bumba (V15, but rhe principle is the same). Resolution does comparatively poor damage even when buffing hard in this fight.
Even when assuming you're fully attack capped, ~2000 TP Reso (Moonshade + Warcry) has less fTP than same TP Savage even with possible DAs included, PDL setups give less bonus than WSDMG sets due to lower values (and PDL/WSDMG mixes are even better than either for Savage), and Naegling gives a 15% bonus on top of everything. The only advangae Reso has is a higher DMG rating on the weapon, which isn't close to enough to catch up with Savage.
Finally, that's not even counting the fact that keeping optimal defense down up the whole time is iffy due to him erasing himself so often. It's much easier to stay capped with Naegling attack bonus, and can slot in some (not 5/5, but a couple pieces) Sakpata when you know you're capped much more safely than with Resolution.
Hmmm...
Initial Speculations:
Looks like they took components of Walk of Echoes (setting), and Elemental Circles and brought it together.
They must of learned new ideas through the Lilith HTBF and how they can play with those elemental fetters to create unique battlefield environment and apply further stress with them..
Instead of Abyssea, this may be a Walk of Echoes 3.0? Anything iLvl 140+ .. We are ready!
Keep this thread clean, hoping to post critical details and discuss strategies.. Eventually I will create a Node on this with full details.. We can then update BG-Wiki with information that we gather..
Those of you who play on Nasomi.. Please don't post on here, you have a Fafnir to camp.. so get back to work.. This is isn't Bubbly Bernie version 3.0. He will be OG 1.0 forever on Nasomi.. ^_^
Sorry about the delay on updating this as I have been slammed with a lot of work since COVID-19 defense ramp up procedures at my hospital facility.
I have barely had time to update and barely any time to explore this content myself. I appreciate everyone's work so far. I will update this OP Thread with some resources and information that people have found across all servers including videos and screenshots..
Keeping this as a basic vital post highlight source so as new posts with vital information emerges I will just pin it here so it is all in one space and no need to jump around different pages..
To Begin.. The Basic Release Info from SE:
Some First Initial Basic Discoveries:
looks like you enter through Rabao
And you have 30 min to kill a bunch of trash mobs. Probably a boss at the end too.
More Initial Entry Discoveries Pinned:
About to enter Odyssey for the first time.
I'll report back. Setup is PUP, COR, BLU x2, SMN, RDM
Ok, it's looking like they made this content specifically to prevent BLUs from cleaving through this content.
Only main target took full damage. Surrounding targets took 90% reduced damage (main targeet 15k, all others 500 or less)
All mobs can be fully enfeebled (Sleep, Silence, Slow, Para) but standard rules apply for mob types (we saw Skeletons, couldn't Blind them)
I can very easily see a RUN or PLD tank running in and aggroing the group of mobs, with a BRD sleeping them all. 2 DDs kill one by one with proper support. SMN Bloodpacts were doing full damage on single mobs (same rules for BLU applied for SMN when we tried Thunderspark for lulz)
At the end, we found a group of mobs (bats) with a Fetter and a group of untargetable Yagudo. We cleared the bats, then killed the Fetter. Once the Fetter is killed, the Yagudo become targetable. For killing all of the Yagudo, you get 10 Izzat.
In total, we farmed 20 Izzat. We'll try using them tomorrow on boxes, maybe even spawn an NM. After we killed the fetter, a conflux spawned that gave us the opportunity to spawn a monster for 10 Izzat. We were low on time, so we just chose to exit.
Player with Trusts.. First Experience Testimonies:
Went in with trusts. Was able to 1 shot most things with leaden.
Yield: 31 scales and 3 scale boxes (from the chest).
Edit: Chests gave 11, 13 and 16.
More Vital Data Testimonies Discovered:
Random info:
-Killing trash gave izzat and lustreless scales
-Using 10 izzat to pop chest gave 2 scales and a box
-Killing fetter made untargetable yagudo killable, giving 10 izzat killing them all
-Popping NM with 10 izzat from ethereal junction spawned a red morbol that did blood weapon and dropped 2 boxes of scales
-Not sure what items you need to trade to junction to spawn monsters
-Was unable to use the thing at the start after killing fetter/yagudos/morbol, may have to kill all trash? I looked around and missed a pack, timed out before I could kill them all
-Moogle keeps track of trash killed, physis, and chests, and the power of your alter egos while in odyssey (Moogle Mastery)
More Testimonials and Discoveries..
Does anyone know what is needed to clear the RoE for Sheol A?
You need to run (can do on sneak/invi, only trasnparent mobs are true sight/sound) to last floor (A7) using confluxes. On last floor there is Otherworldly Vortex mentioned in RoE quest. You need to touch it (it lets you leave Odyssey too) to complete the quest. Credit for that info goes to Mischief from Bahamut. Here is a video of my first experience with Odyssey:
YouTube Video Placeholder Tried exploring, found more information
- I didn't realize there was a conflux on each floor to move up
- Each floor increases in mob level, capping at 131, and general nastiness of monster family (manticores, giants I remember on last floor)
- Translocators bring you down to previous levels, so the first floor one doesn't work until you find the higher level ones
- One character got stuck on a floor and couldn't move up, nor did they get the RoE objective upon someone else reaching the top
So for soloers, seems like it's best to stick to lower level floor to farm scales, more experienced parties can move up to desired difficulty for more scales. First time in would be best just getting the RoE objective and unlocking translocators.
Initial Video Detailing Climb to 7th floor for easy RoE Completion for Augment Unlock on Gear:
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More Info about Moglophone KI's:
Anyways did a solo run this morning and got about 100 scales from just killing trash in first floor. Wondering what others are getting from parting up vs solo.
edit: Also can you hold one Moglophone KI on you, and then have the moogle hold one?
I was wondering this too. I picked up my KI last night and am holding it until later today and going to see if I can run two times in a row.
You can. I used my ki after few hours yesterday and when I checked moogle timer was at 15h, so it was going down while I had KI on me.
More Testimonial Higlights:
Bahamut.Lexouritis said: »Maybe Mischief will post about it, he figured it out on his mule. I'll try and post what i know, but it seems like we skip everything and just kill the fetters, mobs around the fetters, and sometimes the UNM near the fetters. Bahamut.Lexouritis said: »and if u get to the final thing upstairs, personal chest for everyone. Not sure if someone said it already, but you CAN store a KI. So only need to farm every 2 days! I am confused on how people move up using sneak and invisible, in this run I explored everything, vortexes just said "you can't use this yet", or let me summon an NM but never move somewhere else, even after i killed the fetter, all the guards, the NM, opened one chest, and killed about 90% of all the mobs. If anybody can spot where in this video I should have been able to "move up" it would really help: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5i9GhE5nO3I
thanks At the mandies in your run. Just hug left wall and you'll find it. It took me a while to find the first flux as well, but the rest were less "hidden". A video was posted a couple pages ago showing the route.
YouTube Video Placeholder Bahamut.Lexouritis said: »vortexes just said "you can't use this yet" Need to click Shimmering lights for access to some portals or not have aggro iirc. I may be wrong though Bahamut.Lexouritis said: » It rewarded me again with a box + 50k gil.
did u kill a fetter? Seems like 50k per Fetter and 1 box per fetter (per character). The big Box from RoE seems to be just 1 time thing. The smaller boxes seem to be fetter based?
Killing all 4 fetters netted us about ~70 scales per run per person after touching otherworldy vortex.
Edit: With RoE quest being completed in a run, was more like 110-130. So how many scales is it per upgrade? Didn’t see on Bg-wiki and don’t feel like shifting through posts on here. Should be just under 12 stacks to max. Based on scales only being worth 5rp instead of 10 :/ Clip to the top and nab the box, in and out, 5 minute adventure.
For realsies? SE let content like that out after the mass-ban clipping/duping-alex adventures get onto the live server? Thought they learned their lesson since the AMAN trove boxes can't be scouted via Hex IDs. The box he means is the one from completing the RoE once. You can walk to it in 6-7 mins without speed hacks anyway. The big deal about completing the RoE is you can start augmenting your gear at that point. Well if dude already finished a piece few days after update, there isnt much time gate here it seems.
Probably just the appetitizer was released (im on a work trip, cant "enjoy" the new content till weekend...)
He finished because he bought scales or have legion of mules. Regular player with 1 account will need realistically around 10-14 days for one piece farming daily. Traded 5 Emperor arthro shells to vortex (dunno how many it took from inventory, might have only taken 1 of the 5). Summoned Brachys, a crab that had a high ass counter rate and instantly killed me on my thf in one attack round. 500+ damage counters with no DT set. Likely not advisable to spawn mobs solo with trusts. Bahamut.Lexouritis said: »Personal box at the end when touching Otherworldy Vortex for each FETTER you kill, for all party members. If u kill all 4 fetters AND EVERYTHING around them it seems you will get 4 boxes.
~edited phrasing
So looks like if you solo, go for trash and farm with th4+ and for group you kill featers and go touch otherwordly.
Unless maybe kill 2 featers solo and go to the top? You could open 2 chests that way and get 2 boxes. So in theory maybe even get 4 chests and some scales from farming. Bahamut.Lexouritis said: »
Personal box at the end when touching Otherworldy Vortex for each FETTER you kill, for all party members. If u kill all 4 fetters AND EVERYTHING around them it seems you will get 4 boxes.
~edited phrasing
So looks like if you solo, go for trash and farm with th4+ and for group you kill fetters and go touch otherwordly.
Unless maybe kill 2 fetters solo and go to the top? You could open 2 chests that way and get 2 boxes. So in theory maybe even get 4 chests and some scales from farming.
I'm not sure if you need to just kill the fetters or the fetters + all the semi-invisible beastmen around the fetters.
It's possible to kill a fetter without aggro from the semi invisible beastmen that are sight aggro like Yagudo and Orcs. I'm assuming Quadav will sound aggro which makes them easier to gather in a group.
On the first day, when I duo'd with my cousin on RUN and me on COR with a THF4 set, we killed 1 fetter but stopped killing the semi-invisible beastmen because they were not dropping anything. Not all of the beastmen aggro'd. Only the Yagudo beastmen that were in sight of us or each other aggro'd us. Care needs to be taken by support in this case as support will get aggro'd if they rush in too early before the tank has claim on everything. These mobs hit very hard.
Definitely go in with at least th4 if solo farming just trash mobs.
Go in with a full, balanced party to maximize drops from fetters. The fetters are easy to kill. The beastmen hit hard and have a little more hp than common trash mobs. Helps to sleep them too as they can easily overwhelm even the toughest of tanks. Me and a group of peeps went in yesterday, to do some testing.
Killing a fetter + beastman group rewards 10 izzat, no special drops were seen, we did not have a thief, just a range using bounty shot.
Gonna test farm some nms tonight. i tried to spawn 1 today with my alt using unity items, turns out 1 is not enough. My second run of this is probably the best I can do.
Went in, killed all normal monsters, Feters and Beastmen, killed all of the Yaguado. I had 20 Izzat, spawn a Unity NM Which was a Sporebat type mob that died in a 4 step SC. This NM used Blood WEapon, the NM I tried yesterday used 100 fists and rek'd me.
I got 90 Izzat from Monsters and 22 from the 2 boxes that I got from NM and a chest I used them on. The only thing I didn't do on Floor 1 was spawn the Junction that said "Item can be used to pop something here" I had 3 Sarama Hides, 2 Thuban Things and neither worked, nor did a combination of them work.
All of my drops were done with TH2 from Gear. Few unanswered questions:
How is the augmentation to Trust power in Odyssey earned? I believe the requirement must be more than simply killing sets of trash mobs and making it to the otherworldly at the end.
Rewards upon reaching end were:
360k gil from a group that killed everything on first floor, 2 NM's popped.
100k gil for solo killing 2 groups (4 izzat) worth of scrubs and reaching end.
On another run I also got 100k gil for solo killing more scrubs (4 sets I think. Seems like the NMs from either spawn point will be one of the 119/122 unity NMs with similar mechanics, but not exactly the same as my morbol didn't go through 3 stages and only did blood weapon. May be a good ideal to either focus on repeatedly killing one to raise its kill count for the moogle or killing all of them at least once. Can't wait for Pandemonium Warden v3 in the future lol Yep. Surprised the hell out of us.
But as I said I was getting 100k for just clearing a couple of easy rooms and heading for the exit solo for the RoE.
Thinking about it, we did a bit more than the first floor full clear on that run, did a second fetter and agon mobs and popped another NM at least. spawn a Unity NM Which was a Sporebat type mob
What method did you use to spawn this nm?
So there seems to be 2 spawn methods, Unity Item (I think 5 minimum) or Izzat once you have killed a fetter.
In terms of the invisible mobs I don't know if its a coincidence or not but every time they have aggro'd they go after my GEO and no other character. Dunno if the bubble is causing something funky to happen.
It should be possible, to kill fetters on all floors + escape as low as 3 man, I cleared everything in my run and had about 3 minutes to spare but a lot of it was goofing about looking at chests etc. I'd say 4 man would be the most optimal though as you can't really AOE.
Only flaw would be is that the fetters on floors seem to be placed randomly so you could get screwed over on travel times but imagine if you wanted to eat some taco's and take that risk you could and do it no probs. My second run experience soloing on COR with trusts:
Leaden Salute all the things
Tact/Sam with august, ygnas, monb, star sybill, koru
Killed everything on floor 1 and 4 groups on floor 2
30 izzat but could only find 2 chests to open
both chests only dropped 1 box each so was a little unlucky
TH4
Ended up with 135 scales. Could have been alot higher if I found a third chest and if the chests dropped more than 1 box each.
(I also got a message saying 'moogle magic II' when I killed a regular enemy. Must be to do with the total amount of things killed.) Leviathan.Kingkitt said: »My findings thus far:
As stated multiples times already here, you can sneak/invisible to maneuver around the mobs here. However..
The invisible mobs appear true sight and/or sound, so you have to be cautious of them.
Appears that killing fetters gives personal loot. We all got a box.
You can solo for the RoE if you want following the guidlines above.
Competing RoE gives you 1 large box.
Clear is NOT party wide and each person must touch it individually for credit. (Also recieved 60k gil, we cleared 1 fetter/quadavs, and the mob family near it)
Didn't notice until after fetter and invisible mobs were dead, but one or the other gave 10 izzat.
Have tried a few different unity mats for unm 119/122 and traded 5 to pop a NM. NM that spawned was of the same mob family as items traded. Tonight ill be going in with my COR GEO duo. How do you do the fetters? Kill the surrounding mobs then attack the fetter while trusts keep you alive with invisible beastmen smacking you? Then the beastmen?
Pull and kill regular mobs, until you see opportunity where nothing is close to fetter (there is always a moment when there is max 1 mob close to it at some point). Kill fetter fast (It's easy to kill. One good 2 step SC will kill it), then kill remaining mobs. I wouldn't try to aggro more than few mobs in general when solo or duoboxing, especially if you dont have Malignance set on COR. Something of note to add was that our rng and cor were doing 0 dmg to the fetter from distance and had to move much closer to do any damage. This may relate to how aoe does much reduced damage. Max gil reward is higher than we thought, just got 495k from today's run.
Btw force popping nm's uses a single UNM mat, not 5. And they cannot be reused within the same run. Spawning NM appears to be unrelated to what you use to pop.
So far NM's we faced: Tipuli(fly),Aegupius,harpe(weapon),leucippe and physis (morbol).
Moogle mastery ranks up as you kill stuff, @287 kills, 8x NM and 2 chests we at Mastery III. Max gil reward is higher than we thought, just got 495k from today's run.
Btw force popping nm's uses a single UNM mat, not 5. And they cannot be reused within the same run. Spawning NM appears to be unrelated to what you use to pop.
So far NM's we faced: Tipuli(fly),Aegupius,harpe(weapon),leucippe and physis (morbol).
Moogle mastery ranks up as you kill stuff, @287 kills, 8x NM and 2 chests we at Mastery III.
Do you need to touch the flux on the top floor to get the gil? Or when does the gil actually get distributed to you? Yes, you have to leave personally to get it, and as always if other party members are fighting its locked out. My second run experience soloing on COR with trusts:
Leaden Salute all the things
Tact/Sam with august, ygnas, monb, star sybill, koru
Killed everything on floor 1 and 4 groups on floor 2
30 izzat but could only find 2 chests to open
both chests only dropped 1 box each so was a little unlucky
TH4
Ended up with 135 scales. Could have been alot higher if I found a third chest and if the chests dropped more than 1 box each.
(I also got a message saying 'moogle magic II' when I killed a regular enemy. Must be to do with the total amount of things killed.)
Tonight ill be going in with my COR GEO duo. How do you do the fetters? Kill the surrounding mobs then attack the fetter while trusts keep you alive with invisible beastmen smacking you? Then the beastmen?
Pull/kill regular mobs with ranged attack. Run in to fetter with max 1 or 2 shadows aggro. Kill fetter > kill the rest. Just look out what you aggro. Aggroing BLM mob that stand close to middle will probably result in mass link eventually. Regular mobs dont link at all, but transparent mobs (before and after killing fetter) do. Each flux takes you to a higher floor. There are 7 floors with the 7th floors flux being the exit and the RoE objective. Each flux takes you to a higher floor. There are 7 floors with the 7th floors flux being the exit and the RoE objective. Not sure if it was mentioned, but looks like you can't pop the same NM twice from UNM mats in the same run. Popped once on first floor, and later on the 4th floor it gave a message saying we couldn't pop the same NM again. Sharing Shamgi's notes posted in the BST forum for relevant details:
Ok, just went into an Odyssey and discovered some things:
1. You can charm things in there. Things seemed to be fairly simple to charm, and Charm+ gear meant that my dhalmel stayed charmed 15+ minutes.
2.Charmed pets seem to be quite strong. Beyond the normal HP, they seemed to have fairly high damage, hitting other mobs in their own pack for 4-600 a swing, with crits as high as 900. My Dhalmel once used Berserk and those numbers got pretty big, same with their Sound Wave move. My record was a crit for 1500 or so. This is with NQ food and no other pet related buffs. I had one crawler end up at 74% when it killed another crawler in the pack, likely benefiting from all the DA and Haste.
3. Pets seem quite effective at killing the Halos. They hit hard already, but notably, they aggro nothing, not even the Beastmen around the Halos when doing so. The Halo produces a damaging AOE every couple of seconds that was hitting for 200 or so, but the pet, with it's 40k+ HP, doesn't care at all. Indeed, I left the pet to it's own devices and killed other packs with trusts while it worked the halo down itself, which actually seemed quite nice. When it died, the Orcs around it didn't aggro, so it was easy to pull them one by one, as they don't link either.
4. Mob spawns are random, which can hurt this strat, but from two runs a majority of the packs seem charmable, and many of them are often pretty powerful. Given the strat above, I feel like a monk style pet would be best here.
Overall, I'm super interested in trying this with a full group where you can use the pet to deal with adds while you work on a pack yourself and to safely kill Halos while you clear other things.
One issue was Sic, the recast was way worse than I remembered, and my lua isn't set up at all to deal with it. My best guess is to just set up my gearswap to always produce a physical damage set for Sic and then just use pets who focus physical damage with their TP moves. If it's a buff move, then no big deal, if it's physical then it's the right set. They do link, my experience has been all sight linking though (fought orcs and yags so far). Do not link with the Fetter though, found this out by trying to range attack the fetter down, only to realize the fetter is immune to auto-range attacks. They do link, my experience has been all sight linking though (fought orcs and yags so far).
Well its kinda expected. Orc, Yagudo and Goblins are all sight aggro/link. Quadavs are sound aggro/link and it's how they are in Odyssey too. They arent immune to ranged attacks you just need to be stood in the fetter to do damage.
So not immune to ranged attacks, but immune to any attacks from a range. XD As with all farming things it's more efficient to solo, if the kill speed is high, like 119 content. 6 solos have 6x more chances for boxes.
Luck's definitely a factor; and yeah I think solo probably is best.
I think a lot of it has to do with people finding each other, people needing to sneak/invis themselves, and having to stagger the flux (so it doesn't glitch out). Was a lot of wasted time there.
Was just curious if other groups were experiencing it as well. Went in as Pup/Whm. Killed 3 Fetters, champion NM on floor 7 after fetter, and a few other random mobs using automaton only.
Literally no drops + exit only gave me 5k gil.
I wonder if you need to take an action on the fetters or something yourself before you can get drops or credit for killing them. Went in as Pup/Whm. Killed 3 Fetters, champion NM on floor 7 after fetter, and a few other random mobs using automaton only.
Literally no drops + exit only gave me 5k gil.
I wonder if you need to take an action on the fetters or something yourself before you can get drops or credit for killing them. As group you are suppose to kill Fetter at floor 1,3,5 and 7 and run to otherworldy vortex at the end. You should get 4 PERSONAL box from otherworldy that way and I think one more personal box from killing beastman kings at floor 7 (they are around Fetter there).
So thats 5 personal chests
At least 40 Izzat to open chests
Probably at least 40 single scales from killing trash around fetters if you take at least TH4 with you.
Small boxes are on avg around 13 scales?
So probably around 70-80 scales at least per person, maybe more if you have time to farm more.
Very good geared solo player on specific job like COR, can get more with luck, but it might be other bonuses from killing fetters and NMs that we might dont know about. Went in as Pup/Whm. Killed 3 Fetters, champion NM on floor 7 after fetter, and a few other random mobs using automaton only.
Literally no drops + exit only gave me 5k gil.
I wonder if you need to take an action on the fetters or something yourself before you can get drops or credit for killing them.
No, you need to kill Fetter AND beastman mobs around it to get credit for personal box at the end and 10 Izzat. I assume you killed only Fetters. Bahamut.Lexouritis said: »THF can pick the locks/chests in odyssey, in case no one mentioned, or knows about it yet. However some times mimic will pop out. Unsure how hard they are, as it opens with deathtrap, and his mule has sparks gear (and it got one shot). Credit goes to mischief
"Either gave a 'however it has no effect' message and consumed the tool, opened the chest, or a mimic popped out" I made a quick map of Odyssey to make ease to hit the fluxes.
Etheral Junctions, Fetters and camps change apparently random.
EDIT: all maps have North heading the upper border.
Aegypius NM:
Bird
Popped using 5 Abyssdiver feathers
Uses Broadside Barrage and Damnation Dive
Uses Perfect Dodge at low HP and gains an Encumbrance aura that stays for the rest of the fight Carbuncle.Papesse said: »Beware of the Treant NM Ptelea and its dangerous Leafstorm AoE. Leafstorm is hybrid wind based. It can crit, miss, be absorbed by shadows and Elemental Sforzo. One For All, Gelus Valiance and Baraero substantially reduce damage. As far as getting these telepoints, mentioned on BGwiki's Odyssey page that you're supposed to be able to travel between to get to further levels of Odyssey, does anyone have any info on the requirements to gain access to these? Do you have to kill all of the fetters to go up a floor? Also, has anyone tried going in with a group of six and then disbanding and everyone using their own trusts to expediate the process of both killing enemies on every floor, taking care of all the fetters on a floor and then popping the nm's so that you might progress to these tele-points if those happened to be the requirements? I know some players might have found that they can farm higher amounts of the Lustreless Scales solo rather than teaming up but if you go in with 6 and then make you're own parties with trusts.. and there are multiple telepoints with up to say 15 sets of mobs and fetters then the possibility of having a high return still might be worth it. Another thing i noticed maybe means nothing but i saw some pixels floating out of nowhere that seemed like a mobs name. Maybe a glitch? Or the others maps? Or a random mob?
 I'm sure people regularly killing fluxes/beastmen already knew this, but AoEs that would have hit the untargettable/invisible beastmen will still generate enmity on them, so people should watch for that if they're sleepgaing or horde lullabying fodder. We spawned an NM in today's run.
Brachys: Crab NM (PLD/MNK)
Had a pretty decent (25-30%) Counter rate. Bubble Curtain's Shell effect reduced enspell (RDM with Crocea Mors) dmg to 0 unless it was dispelled. Used Invincible at 25%. Easily landed enfeebles (Slow, Para, Blind, Frazzle, Distract) Pretty easy fight overall.
It was spawned using 10 Izzat after we killed Fetter + Beastmen mobs surrounding it. Asura.Ladyofhonor said: »I have Moogle Mastery III, not sure what's doing it. Status report has:
Nostos killed: 306
Damysus: 2
Salmandra: 2
Cynara: 1
Chests: 3
Seems I ranked up when I killed an Agon Bruiser. The augment system is “tiered”. I’m working on my alts Emeici +1.
Ranks 1-5 give +2 damage. Ranks 6-10 give +2 damage, +3 acc/macc. I assume ranks 11-15 give +2 damage, +3 acc/macc, +2 crit rate.
That’s a neat way to do it, it incentivizes the more expensive ranks. Just had a bad solo experience... turns our not all popped NM's are soloable. Do not recommend popping the nm's for 10 izzat.
Got a cactus who would constantly triple attack and did 600 normal / 1200 crit per attack round. August got insta-KO then healer then myself within 7 seconds. YouTube Video Placeholder
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