Why Do You Loose Claim On Abyssea Mobs If Everyone Is Not Dead?

[svengalis]

Why would you even use those spells to claim? If you are on blm, stun - if you are on rdm, dia (or flash or stun depending on subjob) - if you are on whm, dia or flash.

I guess you missed the part where I said in a hurry. The tank died. I had all my spells set to bt. I realized the mob went unclaimed and quickly ran through the menus just wanting to hit any dot spell but of course the one I chose didn't stick.

[svengalis]

Yeah, but competition does not change whether it is possible to claim with a spell.

Btw, sven go check the wiki page for amun. That should explain everything.

But Bio is not as fast as stun.

[svengalis]

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More like, have some decency and don't pop stuff then zombie it for 2 hours holding everyone else up who wants to pop it, then throw a fit when they steal it from you. Though this is probably not a problem anymore inside abyssea, it was for awhile.

EDIT:::
Amun and Mich require 2 actions for them to claim to you and try to kill you, didn't read the whole thread but I think this is something people were not aware of? Both actions do not need to come from the same person though, like you could voke then your friend (who is in your alliance) cast dia, and it would chase after you.

Ah that was the issue then in that case. It's funny you brought it up because I think it was Bio that I casted on him and it did not claim.

[wish12oz]

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Ah that was the issue then in that case. It's funny you brought it up because I think it was Bio that I casted on him and it did not claim.

If you cast bio on it then ran off, which I assume you did, it would of went red for about 3 seconds then turned white again and never actually acknowledged you. It's just a weird game mechanic SE decided to add =/

[blowfin]

DoT has never affected claim or (after the patch) affected whether or not monsters will despawn. I know I can't be the only BLM that has had puddings on Mount Z depop with DoTs on them.

More than likely you`re the only BLM to ever cast a DoT on a pudding at Mt. Z.

[rog]

I never said you couldn't claim, I said you couldn't KEEP claim with debuff/DoT. I've been in alliances where we are fighting, doing ok, have debuffs and Dot on the Iron Giant as an example. The tank, maybe a couple other people die, BUT MUCH OF THE ALLIANCE IS STILL ALIVE. DoT and such are still active and we just want to kite the mob off the top of our tank/deaders so they can get up. DoT still doing its thing, but the mob goes yellow anyway!

It is amazing how someone can think this, when it is so clearly not true.

[Byrth]

More than likely you`re the only BLM to ever cast a DoT on a pudding at Mt. Z.

Bio II, Bind, Poison II, get a few ticks of MP while the last 2-3% of the monster tick away so you can extend your chain further. I'd hope I'm not the only person who figured that out.

[Eeek]

More than likely you`re the only BLM to ever cast a DoT on a pudding at Mt. Z.

Wrong. In addition to the DoTs Byrth mentioned, a lot of BLMs liked to cast Burn on the puddings. Or claim them with Bio when competition was around.

Why not DoT them when attempting to sleep them was generally a waste of time and MP?

[rog]

Why not DoT them when attempting to sleep them was generally a waste of time and MP?

Only if your only enfeebling gear was an nq dark staff. I had little trouble sleeping them with this.

[svengalis]

Okay guys, we had a warrior and blue mage attacking Gukumatz. The blue mage looses connection and Gukumatz goes white WHILE the warrior is still attacking it. BTW Gukumatz was facing the WAR when he went white.

If you guys are going to sit and here and tell me there is not a problem then I don't know what else to say. This is an issue and it needs to be fixed.