Warning: Stay off Ob's lawn...

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Originally Posted by Annahya

Hmmm. Perhaps there is a situational trigger, or something. I fight Ob a lot

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What's "a lot" to you?
Over the last month I fought him 25 times and it always happened whenever we were making him go in Valoredge mode.
It's not related to the % of his HP as I first thought, it happens even at high %.
You may wonder "why the hell fighting valoredge?!" the answer is simple: so that the fight lasts longer, so that TH goes up more :D

Cannibal Blade misses 9/10 anyway lol, it's not a bg deal. Generally we had at least 3 people during my runs. Me on PUP/NIN, a WHM and a THF/NIN. We still did Valoredge mostly. If the THF died (most of the times he was avoiding Cannibal Blade, and it's not like Ob always uses that move only) I tanked him for a bit swapping to Stormwaker.

I fought Ob several other times in the past, but we're talking about level 75 here, and back then we weren't even daring to face-2-face tank him, we were just kiting him around the zone while in Stormwaker form.


Anyway I never meant to say this was "working as intended", it's pretty clear there was something wrong, just wanted to say that it has been this way for more than a month, probably even more :)

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Originally Posted by Zhronne

What's "a lot" to you?

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This is answered in the post you quoted.

Also, in the same post was a concession that my experience, statistically, is a limited sample size. To spell it out as specifically as I can from memory: 2-3 fights, roughly twice a week (sometimes more, sometimes less), for 2-3 months.

If we were to take a very raw average of that: two fights, twice a week, for two months = 24 fights. This seems low for the actual number of fights I have done, but it is a good "best fit" number for the purposes of conversation. That said, what is "a lot" has nothing to do with personal perspective, and more to do with comparison to the average. I have fought it less than you, at least in the last month it seems; but if most others have only gone out a handful of times at all, then both of our experiences are "a lot" of fights.

Back to the point, though: Every single fight was done with a swift change to Valoredge (where he was kept for the entirety of the fight, with the exception of the last fight on the night in question). Instances of Cannibal Blade dealing abnormal damage: 0% previous to the night referenced in the OP. 100% the night referenced in the OP. I have seen Cannibal Blade in nearly every fight, but the damage did not seem out of the ordinary until the night in question - which is why I wonder if there is a situational trigger causing the error. I did not pay attention to the in game day, that night, for instance. Maybe on Darksday it goes nuts because the error has to do with the interaction between the Cannibal Blade formula and the elemental bonus from the day? Just a thought to illustrate what I meant by the trigger comment.

Again, I never stated that you were wrong in stating that it had been happening previously; just that my experience with the NM is routine enough to be significant and I had not encountered it previously.

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Originally Posted by Zhronne

...it's not a bg deal.

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While I will agree that it is not a deal breaker on hunting the NM, it is certainly something worth mention for individuals who are new to farming attachments, or who have not returned to face him in quite some time. This is the purpose for the initial post - just a warning to the green and rusty.

Also, for the record, none of this is intended as combative if it seems as such - I am merely engaging in discussion, and I tend to be verbose and cold sounding. I wanted to clarify because I know text does not convey tone well, and I want to be clear that I am not attacking you, Zhronne.

I dunno what to say. In my limited experience (25ish fights) the few times someone got hit by Cannibal Blade (can't really remember how many times it happened, 10 at best?) it always did big damage. ~20k.
I've never seen it do "normal" damage, altough it was missing so much the sample is probably too small to tell.
Was just sharing my experience :3

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Originally Posted by Zhronne

I dunno what to say. In my limited experience (25ish fights) the few times someone got hit by Cannibal Blade (can't really remember how many times it happened, 10 at best?) it always did big damage. ~20k.
I've never seen it do "normal" damage, altough it was missing so much the sample is probably too small to tell.
Was just sharing my experience :3

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No worries at all. Again, sorry if I came across as more than just discussing it.

Stupid Ob.

I had this happen to me too, but just kept shadows up and it got absorbed every time. Strangely enough I got my percolator when this happened.

I might be wrong but I thought Cannibal Blade went through shadows? Magic Mortar definitely does. It just misses a lot on lv95 characters, especially jobs with high eva.

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Originally Posted by Zhronne

I might be wrong but I thought Cannibal Blade went through shadows? Magic Mortar definitely does. It just misses a lot on lv95 characters, especially jobs with high eva.

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CB's always acted like spirits within without losing it's physical/slashing damage. No miss No Enmity, Ignores shadows, No resists unless the mob is a whore, damage goes up with TP/melee skill, but the difference between 100 and 300 TP is always fairly meh (less than double, so for 3x the TP you get like, 1.5 cannibal blades, but it's early and I'm totally fudging those numbers from memory). That you evade Ob's cannibal blade is what bothers me O.o

Ob's Cannibal Blade is quite likely under different rules from Players' Canibal Blade.
It can definitely miss, it does so most of the times on level 95 characters actually ^^'