Abyssea - Best Party Setups?

yeah i always wait for evokers and refresh, plus i run around in my black cloak.

I was surprised at the number of mages who don't idle in refresh gear/earth staff. It made me sad.

I had a blm who was only..ONLY getting killshots, not even sleeping, and he was resting half the time. I bitched him out in party chat, and he tried to get me kicked. Saying i was an elitist level 80/rdm who had the "luxury" of convert and that the rest of the mages had to rest for their MP. I asked him if he was using temps and he said "temps?" The party ldr just laughed and told him to stop being fail.

ONLY ON LEVIATHAN

eh. i was in a manaburn on Mount Z last year and i had to have Mr Rodgers style sit down talk with a blm and explain to him why and how he should macro in his refresh gear/earth staff/mp+ stuff when we were running around. "But it doesn't make THAT much of a difference" Right after that a pudding linked, and smacked him around for 250+ melee hits. I just lol'd and saved his candy ***.

Bag quest XV please.

And for the love of anything holy, please give us 20 merit capacity instead of 10.

I think the best setup is to have one person put it all together, then like 5 other people argue the entire time on what you should be doing. :P

? is this in a wrong thread?

THIS IS LEVIATHAN!!!!!!

Oh, no. Was just adding to the whole -pdt thing about blms and carrying refresh items.

oh yeah, i only have 65 item slots and i am almost at max, but my idle gear is finished yet, need +movement legs and -dmg feet, then i should be gtg

I was thinking the exact same thing here..


also i'm still lmao @ checking the gear of every single person before you you invite them to your precious Abyssea PT.


Good Abyssea vs Bad Abyssea has nothing to do with gear. For me it's all about having a fair amount of DD and fair amount of Nukers for azure and a quick puller.

The most "important" part about the Good Abyssea vs the Bad Abyssea is having a leader who understands the lights and having alliance members who are capable of listening, comprehending and then carrying out said instructions.

; ; I'm a BST perfectionist and have like a gear swap for every damned macro. I have like 10 gear swaps for Reward. A whole set for Charm, a whole set for DD and a ACC set and STR set.

I think at most, with what invo I have left, I can do around.. -30%ish PDT idle gear. That'd leave me with 2 slots free in all of storage/MH/Lock/Stachel/Invo. x.x;

Cheviot/Patro/Jelly/Staff. In fact, I'm going to make an item set and see what I can do invo/% wise..

With NQ melody earrings? For shame, Sir. For shame!

I've had absolutely no problems sleeping frogs on BLM, and I didn't have any problems landing enfeebles (aside from the odd resist here and there that every mage experiences). Nukes are a different matter though. Frogs aren't overly resistant, but they seem to have some sort of MDT trait that reduces nuke damage by roughly 33% (and that's a very rough estimate based off loleyeballing tier4 nukes). It's not that big of a deal though. It just requires BLMs to pay closer attention to timing their killshots.

All in all though, I still love frogs. They basically just sit there doing nothing while the DDs beat the hell out of them, and speaking as a BLM, I love the fact that I can Aspir them.

You could not have said it better!!!
With Abyssea, SE has achieved the ultimate goal: find an activity where EVERY job is useful, handy and can perform well.

Key to the success of Abyssea is the coordination between members and following the correct lights strategy.

SHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH.
NOBODY KNOWS OMG.
; ;

TBH i think checking other people's gear before abyssea is abit OTT.

However i do agree Spicyryan's list of 18 people LMAO.

It's so true.... !!!!

And tweek also hit the nail on the head.

Teamwork and listening to someone who knows what they're doing../dd's good nukers/ and a great puller helps.

..and of course someone who can open those juicy boxes :)

ice xxx

Hmmm. Measured using KParser, Aug. 6, 2010, SAM78-80 (/NIN) at Shadow Lizard camp:

Shadows Used: 433
Melee Dmg taken (per hit): 166.05
Duration: 281 min (4 hr 41 min)

So, pretending never getting hit critically, and pretending Shadow Lizard's TP moves only hitting as hard as regular melee attacks, we'd arrive at the low end estimate of:

Total Dmg (avoided): 71899.65
Dmg/min (avoided): 255.87

That's a decent amount of MP saved there, minute after minute. (The actual damage taken per minute was 110.12, so the 255.87 saving really made me much, much less of a burden on the healers.)


I was just one DD; would things die 10% faster if I wasn't /NIN? 5%? 3%?! Even if things die 10% faster, it won't translate to 10% less damage taken, since I'd be spending nearly same amount of time each minute in combat.

If I have to do it again, I'd pick /NIN again.