Some Rarities!
I've been pretty busy with work and family lately, and to top it off I've been sick so I've lacked updates here and not been online much outside of events so it's not like there's been tons to report on anyway. However, there have been a few notable happenings along with some cool rare stuff that happened to us.
Ouryu Cometh:
Last Thursday, we knocked out 5 Cloud Evokers that LS members had. About 2 weeks beforehand, we only had two amongst all LS members, but there was a streak of a couple days where members picked up 3 more from ENMs, so that was good. We're totally depleted now, so it might be awhile before we do more Ouryus... I don't really like the idea of buying from outsiders, but we might if we go through a big Evoker drought.
Anyway, the fights were mostly all normal. It seems like the first one every time we do it takes longer, but as people quickly remember how the fight is supposed to go and latecomers show up on BLM, we trimmed the time down in the end to 23 mins or so. aries_black has some pretty pictures from the event.
Byakko-a-thon!:
Between LS owned pops and pops owned by LS members, we had somehow accumulated a total of 8 Byakkos, so we made an entire evening out of the event. It was originally planned before SE changed the repop timers to 3 mins, so what first figured to be a long grinding evening actually went pretty brisk and was very successful.
In total, we got 5 Haidates out of the 8 pops and numerous N.Hands and synth mats that got sold for gilssss! Included in the drops was possibly the sexiest Byakko drop pool I've ever seen:
We've almost completely fulfilled our Byakko's Haidate wishlist now. I think there's a few BRDs that would like one and maybe a couple people who very rarely attend sky, so it's not like Byakko is a priority anymore... although we'll surely still do it when we have the pops ready.
Dynamis-Qufim:
This is probably the least interesting of the CoP Dynamis zones because it's sort of a pain to knock out the pre-reqs for the boss and farming Nightmare mobs can be tricky here because they almost all have powerful AoE moves, but I find it fun anyway... and on this particular run, we were rewarded with the fabled quadruple HQ coin drop from the boss, just as we were the very first time we did the zone!:
You see my 'zoop' right away in LS chat, because I saw the treasure chest pop up upon the kill and I knew that could only mean one thing. >.> I wish this happened more often, but it's our 2nd time so we've gotten it 2/10 Qufims and 2/34 CoP Dynamis runs overall. That scales out to about a 6% chance which sounds about right.
On a personal note, I also picked up Commodore Bottes -1 from the run, so I traded in the NQs and I'll pick them up Sunday making me 4/5 on COR +1 AF2. I don't find the feet to be super useful, but they do have tons of Accuracy and would be good for my full Accuracy build. I just need the Body -1 now and I'll have them all which is pretty much just for the coolness factor, white box gogo.
Brunhilde's Chamber:
After breezing through Wing 3 last time, we got stalled again on our first two attempts this time through. Each time, we got waves that included high HP Ormrs (Dahak mob type) and they are crippling to our particular setup because we don't bring a ton of BLMs for Stuns and most all of our melee DDs sub SAM now since shadows pretty much only help vs. Dahaks, Slimes, and Clots. So when we get stuck with those mobs, we usually suffer casualties due to their nasty AoE damage moves and it slows down our DoT. On our 2nd attempt, we had the Vampyr boss so I knew if we could just finish up the Ormrs with 3-4 minutes left we could still TP burn it down and get the win, but we killed too slow due to deaths and timed out. ; ;
Then this Wednesday, we got another 2 wave run, and this time mobs were fairly manageable. However, big, fat, ugly Dendainsonne was staring us in the face when the 2nd wave loaded. Of course, we'd beaten him last time, but he's still been our nemesis for awhile. Nevertheless, we took off after him with the same strategy... and once more we took him down! This time was a lot messier than before and a lot of people had to zombie the last 25% or so, but we still killed him for the clear ... it was awesome. And to add to the 'rarity' theme, we got a useful abjuration from the treasure box:
Other Stuff:
WAR leveling has been on hold because I've not had the time to do it, not to mention I've been working on MKD missions with a group of LS mates. We took on the Chamber of Oracles BC Wednesday, but got unlucky and bit it with the boss around 15%. So we have to recollect the key items and try again, but I'm sure we'll get it next time.
I honestly can't think of anything else of note that I did, but there's a couple of Limbus boss drop updates that are needed, so here you go!
Total Omega Drop Summary (48):
Homam Corazza - 15
Homam Cosciales - 18 (+1 Elphaba)
Homam Gambieras - 25 (+1 Zecilus)
Homam Manopolas - 26
Homam Zucchetto - 27
Total Ultima Drop Summary (14):
Nashira Crackows - 7
Nashira Gages - 6
Nashira Manteel - 1 (+1 Clannagh)
Nashira Seraweels - 6 (+1 Reiajeia)
Nashira Turban - 9 (+1 Anissa)
Ouryu Cometh:
Last Thursday, we knocked out 5 Cloud Evokers that LS members had. About 2 weeks beforehand, we only had two amongst all LS members, but there was a streak of a couple days where members picked up 3 more from ENMs, so that was good. We're totally depleted now, so it might be awhile before we do more Ouryus... I don't really like the idea of buying from outsiders, but we might if we go through a big Evoker drought.
Anyway, the fights were mostly all normal. It seems like the first one every time we do it takes longer, but as people quickly remember how the fight is supposed to go and latecomers show up on BLM, we trimmed the time down in the end to 23 mins or so. aries_black has some pretty pictures from the event.
Byakko-a-thon!:
Between LS owned pops and pops owned by LS members, we had somehow accumulated a total of 8 Byakkos, so we made an entire evening out of the event. It was originally planned before SE changed the repop timers to 3 mins, so what first figured to be a long grinding evening actually went pretty brisk and was very successful.
In total, we got 5 Haidates out of the 8 pops and numerous N.Hands and synth mats that got sold for gilssss! Included in the drops was possibly the sexiest Byakko drop pool I've ever seen:
We've almost completely fulfilled our Byakko's Haidate wishlist now. I think there's a few BRDs that would like one and maybe a couple people who very rarely attend sky, so it's not like Byakko is a priority anymore... although we'll surely still do it when we have the pops ready.
Dynamis-Qufim:
This is probably the least interesting of the CoP Dynamis zones because it's sort of a pain to knock out the pre-reqs for the boss and farming Nightmare mobs can be tricky here because they almost all have powerful AoE moves, but I find it fun anyway... and on this particular run, we were rewarded with the fabled quadruple HQ coin drop from the boss, just as we were the very first time we did the zone!:
You see my 'zoop' right away in LS chat, because I saw the treasure chest pop up upon the kill and I knew that could only mean one thing. >.> I wish this happened more often, but it's our 2nd time so we've gotten it 2/10 Qufims and 2/34 CoP Dynamis runs overall. That scales out to about a 6% chance which sounds about right.
On a personal note, I also picked up Commodore Bottes -1 from the run, so I traded in the NQs and I'll pick them up Sunday making me 4/5 on COR +1 AF2. I don't find the feet to be super useful, but they do have tons of Accuracy and would be good for my full Accuracy build. I just need the Body -1 now and I'll have them all which is pretty much just for the coolness factor, white box gogo.
Brunhilde's Chamber:
After breezing through Wing 3 last time, we got stalled again on our first two attempts this time through. Each time, we got waves that included high HP Ormrs (Dahak mob type) and they are crippling to our particular setup because we don't bring a ton of BLMs for Stuns and most all of our melee DDs sub SAM now since shadows pretty much only help vs. Dahaks, Slimes, and Clots. So when we get stuck with those mobs, we usually suffer casualties due to their nasty AoE damage moves and it slows down our DoT. On our 2nd attempt, we had the Vampyr boss so I knew if we could just finish up the Ormrs with 3-4 minutes left we could still TP burn it down and get the win, but we killed too slow due to deaths and timed out. ; ;
Then this Wednesday, we got another 2 wave run, and this time mobs were fairly manageable. However, big, fat, ugly Dendainsonne was staring us in the face when the 2nd wave loaded. Of course, we'd beaten him last time, but he's still been our nemesis for awhile. Nevertheless, we took off after him with the same strategy... and once more we took him down! This time was a lot messier than before and a lot of people had to zombie the last 25% or so, but we still killed him for the clear ... it was awesome. And to add to the 'rarity' theme, we got a useful abjuration from the treasure box:
Other Stuff:
WAR leveling has been on hold because I've not had the time to do it, not to mention I've been working on MKD missions with a group of LS mates. We took on the Chamber of Oracles BC Wednesday, but got unlucky and bit it with the boss around 15%. So we have to recollect the key items and try again, but I'm sure we'll get it next time.
I honestly can't think of anything else of note that I did, but there's a couple of Limbus boss drop updates that are needed, so here you go!
Total Omega Drop Summary (48):
Homam Corazza - 15
Homam Cosciales - 18 (+1 Elphaba)
Homam Gambieras - 25 (+1 Zecilus)
Homam Manopolas - 26
Homam Zucchetto - 27
Total Ultima Drop Summary (14):
Nashira Crackows - 7
Nashira Gages - 6
Nashira Manteel - 1 (+1 Clannagh)
Nashira Seraweels - 6 (+1 Reiajeia)
Nashira Turban - 9 (+1 Anissa)