Black Belt items [dev1009]

[danz]

Quit complaining and enjoy the fact that instead of 1 shot per day at the item you can now have many shots at it.

there was always many shots at it. just nobody wanted to do any other KS99 other than early bird, and its still like this., finding people for KS99s just sucks.

make the rewards worthwhile for the people not wanting BB and maybe more people will be willing to help a MNK.

[Greatguardian]

Most all KS99 can be duo'd... they are nowhere near difficult. Just try them if you don't believe me. 15 levels means a lot. RDM+BLM+MNK took out Wyrm in like 5 minutes tops when I was messing around with it a while back.

[Vazerus]

Wyrm and Behemoth are easy; Turtle not so much .

[Peldin]

Most all KS99 can be duo'd

Yeah, try turtle with a duo. See if you can get it lower than 90% {Good Luck!}

[Karbuncle]

Yeah, try turtle with a duo. See if you can get it lower than 90% {Good Luck!}

Most all KS99 can be duo'd

Thats probably why he used the word "Most" implying "Not all". :\

Turtle is a pain in the ass but i think 3-4 GREAT geared BLMS could do it. i'd go 4 to be safe, i did it with ~5/6 Pick up players who were (frankly) mostly gimp as sin, and we managed fine.

So i imagine 4 Really well geared BLMS could destroy it, throw in a BRD or RDM for good measure (Refresh) and you're golden.

[Gokku]

Seirous tips / updates for people looking to get black belts
1 . Bring 2 thfs and have them as the only DD's on the NQ mobs to build TH * using this method we went 2/2 aspid pop items and 3/4 nid pop items*
2. for HQ the drop rate with TH10 is high but it can still NOT drop *just had aspid drop nothing*

[Anza]

make the rewards worthwhile for the people not wanting BB and maybe more people will be willing to help a MNK.

Have you seen the bazaar prices on the kings pop items that are 100% drop from the KSNMs? That's one worthwhile reason for people to help. Adamantoise pop is going for something like 1.5mil on my server. And if someone wants to risk using their pop item to try to get an HQ pop, those are selling for downright obscene prices.

I completed my BB, all three items from the new system (egg and beard from KSNMs, tongue from KB that a friend popped). I didn't pay for any of my items, got em from drops. Even made some money off the pop item that I sold, obtained in the turtle KSNM where I got my egg to make me 3/3. I dreaded the new changes at first too, but it's not impossible.

It's a little harder to outright buy the items like you used to be able to from HNMLS, but at least popping the NQ kings is something within reach of a small group now instead of needing to be in an HNMLS or being at their mercy to buy their drops.

[Qkan]

Hoping to go through some KS99s soon and only worried about Turtle. What's a safe estimate of people to take and recommended jobs? I'd guess 5-6 with maybe a THF tank, WHM, BLM, BLM, BRD? If 6th, another BLM? How well would MNK perform over BLM? I'd be that guy and my BLM is only 78 with decent gear where my MNK is 90 in +2 and capped haste (Twilight+Fuma... and I know).

Jobs available for at least 5 people that would go (all jobs 90 unless otherwise specified)
1: MNK, BLM(78)
2: THF, PLD
3: BRD, WAR
4: BLM, SAM, DRG
5: WHM... yeah, he's stuck with that job.
6: Well, I don't have a 6th, but I'm sure I could find someone. Thinking BLM here.

[DebbieGibson]

need more blm to be safe. can do it with two blm but they need to be very well geared and you probably need to get lucky

[Karbuncle]

Hoping to go through some KS99s soon and only worried about Turtle. What's a safe estimate of people to take and recommended jobs? I'd guess 5-6 with maybe a THF tank, WHM, BLM, BLM, BRD? If 6th, another BLM? How well would MNK perform over BLM? I'd be that guy and my BLM is only 78 with decent gear where my MNK is 90 in +2 and capped haste (Twilight+Fuma... and I know).

Jobs available for at least 5 people that would go (all jobs 90 unless otherwise specified)
1: MNK, BLM(78)
2: THF, PLD
3: BRD, WAR
4: BLM, SAM, DRG
5: WHM... yeah, he's stuck with that job.
6: Well, I don't have a 6th, but I'm sure I could find someone. Thinking BLM here.

on turtle, Its more or less BLM burn, You can do it with or without skillchains (sometimes, with bad players, skillchains just complicate things, being to slow/etc). He regens incredibly quick inside his shell, and will need to be nuked out immediately, Unless you're very very very confident in your BLM's, I'd bring at least 4, this gives you "room for error" so to speak.

The jobs you have listed could not win the fight, only 2 BLM's, one of them 78, you would lose. even at level 90 his Defense inside his shell is phenomenal, MNK and WAR would not even scratch the performance of a BLM on this fight.

THF is pretty much useless for this fight, so is PLD, or any "Tank" for that matter as with all the nuking, One of the BLM's will likely end up "Tanking", and it can be Bound/Gravitied so having 1 RDM keep that up is ideal.

I made the mistake of shouting for ~4/5 BLMs and underestimating him, It was a bad idea, "its my 12.95" people generally are what make this fight harder than it should, to be safe, I recommend at least 7 if they're "Shout tier" players.

Edit: No offense intended to anyone here, of course.