Capping A Certain Light In 3 Kills
Capping a certain light in 3 kills
An ls mate of mine was saying he capped his azure light by killing 3 ephermeal mobs(with magic of course.) He said he got a 1,250 blue exp chest on the third mob and that ephermeal mobs give 10x light. I'd be willing to test this on my own if I had enough time but imagine the time we can save for abyssea exp/af3 feet farming if this turns out to be true. Thoughts and opinions are welcomed.
It's gimped now. Some ephemeral give normal lights; I believe they're related to martello cores or something..
LS mate tried it today. I'm not sure if it's gimped or not.
Siren.Itachi said:
LS mate tried it today. I'm not sure if it's gimped or not.
but there have been different cases.
He did this with clionods in La' thiene apparently.
Siren.Itachi said:
He did this with clionods in La' thiene apparently.
Wow, from the title I could have sworn this was a Nablis thread.
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Question though... did he have any abysite that enhanced blue chest rate or anything?
I was wondering if it was viable to farm gold chests for AF3 feet low man instead of full alliance :\
I was wondering if it was viable to farm gold chests for AF3 feet low man instead of full alliance :\
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I believe he only had the bought blue chest abyssite.
Are lights easier to cap when there are fewer people in the party? We had a 6~8 man team farming pop items one night and it seemed like our lights were capping a lot sooner than normal, even without everyone having the abyssites that enhanced the blue chests and such.
Ryu, I think that was due to the fact it's easier to coordinate 8 skilled players versus 17 idiots you don't know.
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Unicorn.Ryuchan said:
Are lights easier to cap when there are fewer people in the party? We had a 6~8 man team farming pop items one night and it seemed like our lights were capping a lot sooner than normal, even without everyone having the abyssites that enhanced the blue chests and such.
I would only assume its based on the amount in the group as well.
I wonder if going in with 2-3 people low manning amber light for gold chests if it would be easier to get AF3 feet that way. :| hmmm
I killed one Ephemeral Murex in Misareaux, then 3 mandies at conflux 8. The last mandy dropped a time extension, which was the only chest that dropped of the 4 kills. One of the mandies gave pearl from dying to bio.. the other three kills were azure. I have the ivory abyssite of kismet. If that means anything at all... I had somebody in party for the murex and one of the mandies, I was solo for the other two and the time extension.
Hmm, Party size might be a factor in this. LS mate was solo when he killed those emphermeal mobs.
Though I do agree that it's easier to coordinate 8 people instead of 17 idiots, haha! But yeah, we counted and it was pretty close to the 15 mark instead of 25 when we capped. Maybe because he was solo it went down even more?
I believe the abyssites which increase the "chance of X color box dropping" really just give you pre-built up lights when you enter the zone. This explains why one person getting a killshot could get a TE, and another person in the same group (Possibly without the abyssite) only produced a 250exp box. It's impossible for one person to kill two mobs and get these results.
It also can explain why some people have better "luck" with the Emphermeal mobs.
Note: This is untested speculation, nothing more.
It also can explain why some people have better "luck" with the Emphermeal mobs.
Note: This is untested speculation, nothing more.
Siren.Itachi said:
An ls mate of mine was saying he capped his azure light by killing 3 ephermeal mobs(with magic of course.) He said he got a 1,250 blue exp chest on the third mob and that ephermeal mobs give 10x light. I'd be willing to test this on my own if I had enough time but imagine the time we can save for abyssea exp/af3 feet farming if this turns out to be true. Thoughts and opinions are welcomed.
Easyest way to test this would probably be to kill ephermeals only for 3 amber then 3 pearls since gold ones are easyest to tell if you have caped... I'll go poke around a bit if i have time later.
Killed an ephe with magic, got feeble azure light. Have key item to enhance blue chests. We were killing worms that don't give azure light. We got a chest for 1000 cruor.
Carbuncle.Axle said:
Killed an ephe with magic, got feeble azure light. Have key item to enhance blue chests. We were killing worms that don't give azure light. We got a chest for 1000 cruor.
Was it low man?
Siren.Itachi said:
Carbuncle.Axle said:
Killed an ephe with magic, got feeble azure light. Have key item to enhance blue chests. We were killing worms that don't give azure light. We got a chest for 1000 cruor.
Was it low man?
ya, 3 ppl in pt.
15 is normal for Azure with 2x Kismet key item. Pretty sure sometimes they did and sometimes they didnt give more lights to me. its strange
Have been capping azure the last few days on 3 kills for getting magic kill on Ephemral Murex. This does not work the same way for Pearl light.
Killing 3 of these murex will allow you to start gettin TE's 5 mins after zoning into Abyssea. This allows you to quickly get down to business and farm your pearl on more reliable mobs and switch to whatever mob your intending to farm etc. It also means your going to be much more productive with your time and avoid having to go into abyssea with high numbers to get your lights fast. AVOID the pain of idiots who ruin your lights and focus on a small group of people who know there stuff!
Killing 3 of these murex will allow you to start gettin TE's 5 mins after zoning into Abyssea. This allows you to quickly get down to business and farm your pearl on more reliable mobs and switch to whatever mob your intending to farm etc. It also means your going to be much more productive with your time and avoid having to go into abyssea with high numbers to get your lights fast. AVOID the pain of idiots who ruin your lights and focus on a small group of people who know there stuff!
Asura.Tezmania said:
Have been capping azure the last few days on 3 kills for getting magic kill on Ephemral Murex. This does not work the same way for Pearl light. Killing 3 of these murex will allow you to start gettin TE's 5 mins after zoning into Abyssea. This allows you to quickly get down to business and farm your pearl on more reliable mobs and switch to whatever mob your intending to farm etc. It also means your going to be much more productive with your time and avoid having to go into abyssea with high numbers to get your lights fast. AVOID the pain of idiots who ruin your lights and focus on a small group of people who know there stuff!
This ^
Siren.Clinpachi said:
Question though... did he have any abysite that enhanced blue chest rate or anything? I was wondering if it was viable to farm gold chests for AF3 feet low man instead of full alliance :\
If you were just solo though without a party, I would think building Amber light solo + Destiny Abyssites would make it a little easier on you.
Party size does not matter, a member of my ls told me about this several weeks ago. Killing 2 ephemerals with magic will cap azure light, even in a full alliance. I saw it proven today in my attohwa party. We started out with 2 ephemeral murex, and the next chest that dropped was 1000 cruor. Second chest was a TE.
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This got me thinking... has anyone tryed building a pearl light off the avatars that wander the area? Since only 2 of them actually drop anything that we know of aside from temps I'm sure they are there for some reason or another.
I've gone in with 3 people and turned 90 min into 5 hours. We had 3 boots drop that run. Also gone in with 5 people plus a leach and went for 4 hours and left with 100 min. Just have to watch your kills. Also the abyssites for bonus lights are big help.
We kill reg murex getting the lights we need and whenever we spot and ephemeral mob floating around we kill it with whatever light we are short on. We don't worry about the exp chain at the beginning since we're all 85 and we'll cap merits in a few hours anyway with this method. We usually see 2-3 pairs of boots each run with this method. Its a lot nicer when you only have to split them between 3-6 people instead of 18.
We kill reg murex getting the lights we need and whenever we spot and ephemeral mob floating around we kill it with whatever light we are short on. We don't worry about the exp chain at the beginning since we're all 85 and we'll cap merits in a few hours anyway with this method. We usually see 2-3 pairs of boots each run with this method. Its a lot nicer when you only have to split them between 3-6 people instead of 18.
Just did Abyssea - Attohwa last night and we were able to cap azure light off of the first two emphermeal murex's. Attempted to kill them for pearl light but they didn't seem to want to drop it so I'm not entirely sure whether it works for that or not. I can confirm that it still works though. Might have to do with having the new abyssite too by chance?
I must admit ive done a couple of parties in the Chasm where the first thign we kill is one if not 2 murex and if one lurks the area mid party unless we're capped on lights we killed that too it DID seem to make things quicker.
but then again we're all eyeballing lol
but then again we're all eyeballing lol
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