Tavnazia, where were you? You missed the fun!
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hex
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they gota diablos to 15% before someone aggroed another and the end
aka no clear
That's not quite true we had the 2nd diabolos on us the whole fight... yea it's umm... a 'unique' pull
But was much fun and I'd say we did pretty freakin well considering we were 15/18, can't wait to go again
Varda
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Yeah, without that 2nd Diabolos, we'd have had it no problem. It was especially annoying because Preda went to kite him and almost immediately died from Diabolos casting Death. >_< We also learned that linking eyes is bad (see pictures 2-4). We'll have to be more careful in both cases.
We learned a lot though and it was a lot of fun. I'm looking forward to the next run. =^.^=
We learned a lot though and it was a lot of fun. I'm looking forward to the next run. =^.^=
Overall the run went very well, despite wiping once & not gettng the clear.
We entered quickly.
Killed the Bugard easily, he took a few minutes but wasn't that dangerous.
We planned to go to the 3rd floor and do the antlion before the worm. The worm aggro'd us as we went to go past the Altar. The initial Stonega IV caught us off guard, in the future we should use barstonra befeore going to the 2nd level, in case it does aggro. The worm did not have very many HP however, and was killed much faster than the bugard.
On the third floor Preda took point to find the Antlion, its Pit Ambush went through shadows & one-shotted Preda. In the future I think a Pld should aggro this, they ought to be able to survive Ambush. It wasn't that hard to fight.
After this we tried to get one of the TE's, we fought our way easily through the hallway and the first Eye. The 2nd Eye linked with another & caused us to wipe, we need to either figure out a better way to pull this or some kind of sac pull to get to the TE. I made a post on DynamisBums asking how they approached the TE to see if they can offer any advice.
After wiping we decided to try for clear instead of screwing around trying to get the TE.
We weren't sure why the strategy said to walk past the Diabolos NPC's before aggro'ing any of them, and as I guessed originally we'd probably find out the hard way, and did.
Basically if you aggro an NPC it runs away & causes a Diabolos Megaboss to spawn at one of the 4 zone lines. The strategy is to walk past them all so you are camped at the zones, then aggro one, this will cause only one Diabolos to spawn. If you spawn more than 1 they automatically link & you have to kill both in order to get the clear. We actually did an 'OK' job walking past them, we only aggro'd one more, if we hadn't been in such a hurry I think we could have done much better on walking by them.
The Megaboss itself wasn't too bad, we were fighting Spade I believe. Had we had 18 people, and not had a 2nd Megaboss railing the mages I think we would have won. The creepiest part about the fight is that when you aggro an NPC the zone music changes to the FFXI Christmas music, which is just downright weird.
Overall the run went very well though, I think had we not aggro'd that 2nd Diabolos we would have gotten clear. We had plenty of time, even after screwing around with the TE, wiping, and resting back to full we had maybe 15 minutes left to play with the Megaboss.
If we can figure out how to get the TE's properly we'd be in good shape.
If we can get more CoP clears this month, Qufim & Valk in particular, then I will start scheduling Tavnazia once a month.
Good job everyone.
We entered quickly.
Killed the Bugard easily, he took a few minutes but wasn't that dangerous.
We planned to go to the 3rd floor and do the antlion before the worm. The worm aggro'd us as we went to go past the Altar. The initial Stonega IV caught us off guard, in the future we should use barstonra befeore going to the 2nd level, in case it does aggro. The worm did not have very many HP however, and was killed much faster than the bugard.
On the third floor Preda took point to find the Antlion, its Pit Ambush went through shadows & one-shotted Preda. In the future I think a Pld should aggro this, they ought to be able to survive Ambush. It wasn't that hard to fight.
After this we tried to get one of the TE's, we fought our way easily through the hallway and the first Eye. The 2nd Eye linked with another & caused us to wipe, we need to either figure out a better way to pull this or some kind of sac pull to get to the TE. I made a post on DynamisBums asking how they approached the TE to see if they can offer any advice.
After wiping we decided to try for clear instead of screwing around trying to get the TE.
We weren't sure why the strategy said to walk past the Diabolos NPC's before aggro'ing any of them, and as I guessed originally we'd probably find out the hard way, and did.
Basically if you aggro an NPC it runs away & causes a Diabolos Megaboss to spawn at one of the 4 zone lines. The strategy is to walk past them all so you are camped at the zones, then aggro one, this will cause only one Diabolos to spawn. If you spawn more than 1 they automatically link & you have to kill both in order to get the clear. We actually did an 'OK' job walking past them, we only aggro'd one more, if we hadn't been in such a hurry I think we could have done much better on walking by them.
The Megaboss itself wasn't too bad, we were fighting Spade I believe. Had we had 18 people, and not had a 2nd Megaboss railing the mages I think we would have won. The creepiest part about the fight is that when you aggro an NPC the zone music changes to the FFXI Christmas music, which is just downright weird.
Overall the run went very well though, I think had we not aggro'd that 2nd Diabolos we would have gotten clear. We had plenty of time, even after screwing around with the TE, wiping, and resting back to full we had maybe 15 minutes left to play with the Megaboss.
If we can figure out how to get the TE's properly we'd be in good shape.
If we can get more CoP clears this month, Qufim & Valk in particular, then I will start scheduling Tavnazia once a month.
Good job everyone.
Lol... mark me down on the Qufim list too.
Tavnazia looks like fun and it's the last zone in the game that I don't have access too... (that I know of). Have yet to go into Limbus so I'm not sure how that heirarchy works.
I was content with the night off, but it's too bad an alternate run never got planned, though I completely understand why.
Tavnazia looks like fun and it's the last zone in the game that I don't have access too... (that I know of). Have yet to go into Limbus so I'm not sure how that heirarchy works.
I was content with the night off, but it's too bad an alternate run never got planned, though I completely understand why.
I was a bit surprised when Varda asked if I wanted to come. I never bothered signing up on your thread because when I had realized the 29th WAS NOT Thanksgiving Eve the thread had 25+ replies for a zone that could only hold 18.
Avoiding aggro should be easy. I think I only targetted Heart once and saw that his HP was at 50% when all the fighting was against Spade. Did these Diabolos also have shared HP? so killing one also means the death of the second? If so... I wonder... if grouping both of them together and having nuke-ga fest would kill them both faster.
The hornest seem to have a short aggro range. Is it possible to use the circle to kite mobs in the future?
Avoiding aggro should be easy. I think I only targetted Heart once and saw that his HP was at 50% when all the fighting was against Spade. Did these Diabolos also have shared HP? so killing one also means the death of the second? If so... I wonder... if grouping both of them together and having nuke-ga fest would kill them both faster.
The hornest seem to have a short aggro range. Is it possible to use the circle to kite mobs in the future?
For every Diabolos you spawn their HP is reduced by 1/4. So if you spawned all 4 you would have to fight 4 Diabolos all at 1/4 HP. The problem is you have to kill every single one you spawn to get the clear, so it's really better to have to fight one from 100% than it is to fight any combination of more than 1. That's the trick.