Abyssea + 1 seal system revamp/suggestions.

Didn't know about those.. Can fresh 99 solo them?

Yes.

Are you familiar with campaign? Colonization reives are a lot like them in that you can go participate on your own, but difficult to solo. In other words, many soloers can do it, one soloer can't, or it takes a really really... really long time.

And then there's Support reives.

Spend 60 tags (20 3*tag repeats) of Support: Ceizak Battlegrounds. Doing this will get you enough bayld for your first armor piece or two. This part takes about 2 days to do. The reason is because tags take time to recharge, and after you deplete the 15 you have, you'll need 5 more and that takes about 2 days.

And then, when you can do Support: Foret de Hennetiel, you can and should do the quest "I'm on a boat" at the same time. I'm on a boat. since you'll be walking out there anyway. Make certain that you don't take any waypoints before completing "I'm on a boat.". There's a waypoint and station administrator on most of the islands in the zone. Any but the first will work for the turn-in for Support: Foret.

This is crappy art depicting the basically fastest path there. There's clearly a path that looks faster, but there's typically a reive in the way.

First, follow this path through Ceizak to Sih Gates:

http://i.imgur.com/F4CuAs3.png

And then, through Sih Gates to Foret:

http://i.imgur.com/kCHb9He.png

And finally, once that's done, you need to do "I'm on a boat" and take your package to any of the station administrators besides the one at the island you arrive on.

I prefer this path once "I'm on a boat" is done.

http://i.imgur.com/XLl8Lxo.png

I'm not sure they were talking about rieves or anything in Adoulin when they were asking about soloing.

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Originally Posted by Lithera

I'm not sure they were talking about rieves or anything in Adoulin when they were asking about soloing.

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Originally Posted by Spectreman

create basic gear (level 90 version of that 78 basic gear from abyssea)for Adoulin for each job that can be solo quested.

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Specifically says from Adoulin, and its possible to do quests solo for all of the Bayld you need, just much more time taking if you do not do Reives.

Interesting... Might be my salvation to this game since i realized that there are no more Abyssea dedicated Linkshells in FFXI any more.

Well in all honesty Abyssea does not require a linkshell anymore, shouting can often lead to success if others are interested, or if you can make some good friends willing to help you out with it. Almost everything in Abyssea can be done with a party at most, or a duo/trio of decent players, so it should not be all to bad to catch up through that with some help. That is, of course, provided you can get said help, its not as easy as it sounds sadly but if you can its easy.

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Originally Posted by Demon6324236

Specifically says from Adoulin, and its possible to do quests solo for all of the Bayld you need, just much more time taking if you do not do Reives.

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I know but that isn't what this thread is about. If one read that post and kept in mind of what this thread is about it's easy to think they were talking about Abbysea and not Adoulin. A new 99 who might not have done anything but xp inside might not be able to solo things for seals. Or get the ones they want thus the birth of this thread as an idea on how to help with that. Not if rieves are soloable or not. Nor if someone should go from the 78 gear straight to the 99 bayld basic gear.

A new 99 should start working on their bayld immediately, and while the karieyh, etc gear is mostly meh (it was neat for like a week there), it is better than most +1 and a chunk of +2 (job/set-bonus/piece stats dependant). Players should still get the +2, but having this gear will allow them to do that better.

This doesn't at all fix the problems with abyssea being a ghost town, but it helps players when they must solo their abyssea stuff, and helps them contribute more when they're in a group.

A naked lv1 can do this, so long as there's no pre-requisitive level. Lowest level I've done it on is 59.

Just did it on 30 Corsair. Lowest job. I got the same 6k exp and bayld that my 99s get.

Question: Why are we talking about SoA in an aby thread? O_o


Back on topic since people kept talking about the whole +2 integration.

I agree now that it could be put into the system as well, though they can't be obtained via battle trophies straight out. Instead you trade seals to get +2 items.

3 seals = 1 +2 item. However the 3 seals have to be the same (To make it easier for the dev's if they ever incorporate this into the game which more than likely they won't despite the thoughts put out by the community.)

Because, the gear is relevant to newbie players, and a lot farther than that. Newbie players, who are likely interested in this thread, need to know that have immediate good options if they are left to just soloing/shouting for groups.

Would you rather someone show up in full perle or full Karieyh?

I don't think +2 should be implemented. There's a difference between giving people a leg-up, and making things too easy. +1 is enough.

Oh how I love the current system, just spawned Ningi in Aby Grauberg 4 times and didn't get a single worthwhile drop. Seriously why do they make us suffer like this?

Update: got 1 Mavi seal in those 4 runs and we had proc every time...

How many people did you do him with? The cactaur tends to be Mavi heavy if you have enough people to spread out the needle damage. Slightly easier pop set unless the mandy is not being helpful with dropping the water.

With Ningi? We had 4 people (Joecool, Yku and Boa came with me) we proc'd the Hydra every single time.

I'll try your idea with the Cactuar, -if- I can get people to come and help me since every time I ask it's always "Not that son of a b***h"

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I'll try your idea with the Cactuar, -if- I can get people to come and help me since every time I ask it's always "Not that son of a b***h"

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Well, admittedly its well deserved... whoever thought it was a good idea to make a Seal NM be able to spam 4k Needles back to back 4 times in a row... as well as the guy who thought it was a good idea to allow ??? Needles to hit for tens of thousands of damage (enough to kill more than an Alliance of Galkan MNKs)... are both are completely insane.

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Well, admittedly its well deserved... whoever thought it was a good idea to make a Seal NM be able to spam 4k Needles back to back 4 times in a row... as well as the guy who thought it was a good idea to allow ??? Needles to hit for tens of thousands of damage (enough to kill more than an Alliance of Galkan MNKs)... are both are completely insane.

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That's why legitimately at this point I want to abandon seal hunting and just stick to using relic +2 and get empy +1 on the side. Because in all honesty this is just too stressful.

Well some of them are, like that one, others are quite easy, your after BLU body? I honesty think DK is easy, but that's just me, tank him from the back, have a good enough WHM they can keep you alive, if you want to be really careful bring a PLD with some level of tank gear and Atma so they can hold it. So long as you yellow it and kill it fast enough Chainspell will never show up, if you take to long and it does, then hope the PLD can be kept alive. Besides that anyone making the Harp or getting an Almace/Kannagi to 90 probably wont need the seals, so run by DKs spawn at Flux 7 Uleg and check it out now and then, might get lucky and find a group to help ya out while they do their own thing as well.

Last nights NIN Leg seals run resulted in me completing the legs for MNK (AND had to throw away 6 seals), COR, and PLD before completing NIN. While I guess it's good that those jobs are covered now I would have liked to just use the OP system and trade up for what I needed and not waste 4 hours of everyones time.

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Last nights NIN Leg seals run resulted in me completing the legs for MNK (AND had to throw away 6 seals), COR, and PLD before completing NIN. While I guess it's good that those jobs are covered now I would have liked to just use the OP system and trade up for what I needed and not waste 4 hours of everyones time.

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That's just it as well. Certain nm's seem to favour certain seals over others. However usually you can only guess which will have the best droprate. This is irritating because people generally want to farm the easiest nm possible in a group.

BTW... in 3 days I mostly solo farmed most of my brd seals on pup/thf. Legs feet head were cake. Hands I farmed half by myself and half with a group (however even with grellow that ladybug was stingy so maybe I should've just soloed it). For body seals I actually did them as a group; however it was with a group farming colorless souls which had to fight gamayun for it (so it isn't really too hard to find a group doing that for the empy).

Not that this wasn't a pain in the ass but... still 3 days. I also had time for other things such as salvage 2, dynamis and ls event.

This is a great idea. When I AM able to log in, it's usually between 8-10pm CST until 1-2am CST, and there is hardly anyone around to get help with things. Not that I blame them. I have a few 5/5 +2 sets, but with BLU as my main, I've still yet to get my +2 Mavi body after countless kills of Dhorme and Ningishzida.

Farming the +1 items is indeed more difficult than the +2 items in many cases, as I've had the Stones of Ardor to +2 my Mavi body for well over a year. I really hope they implement this system, or at least start making it so that +2 items can be dissolved down into desirable seals with an NPC.

I doubt they would implement it at this point, I just wish that it'd get looked at since people seem to like the +1 idea so much.