For anyone wondering this is what the new events look like

[Demon6324236]

I personally have not had much problem when looking for one, but thats me, in either case it would be nice if spots popped on your map telling you where battles were, as it would help people gather for them rather than wandering, I use BST to do this since you can see the actual targets on WS but thats just me. As for people saying its to hard, I just basically soloed a Lair Reive, so I find it hard to believe its to hard, rather its to easy for pet jobs to abuse, because if I had chosen to I could have stayed back and never gotten myself or my pet hit, rather some extra people joined which helped damage a bit, but thanks to my idiocy I attacked, and it got me killed, if it were just me alone I would have never died or even gotten scratched.

The way I did this is by abusing the small area where the mobs roam, by staying just outside of their aggro range but within the area of participation, by doing so I was able to send a Falcor in to attack without getting hate, the mobs nearby never attacked Falcor or me, letting us destroy a Wasp nest without any defensive measures taken against me or my pet. If they made the radius bigger, this very same thing would be even easier to perform, so I understand some of why its so small. Rather than do it how they did I would have liked them to simply make all of the Reive mobs Tsight or Tsound since right now I could only do that thanks to sneak/invis, allowing me to deploy my Falcor without being detected.

[Kincard]

The reives take an hour to respawn so if there is a big group clearing them out (like there is currently) they're going to be down a great amount of the time. I don't really understand why SE didn't reuse the channel for bastion messages for this, it would've worked great.

[Demon6324236]

Well one problem I can think of is that in both Campaign and Bastion it is only a single battle per zone, where as Reives are multiple battles, I don't know if they can do multiple battles as easily, sounds like it would be harder.

[Concerned4FFxi]

The reives take an hour to respawn so if there is a big group clearing them out (like there is currently) they're going to be down a great amount of the time. I don't really understand why SE didn't reuse the channel for bastion messages for this, it would've worked great.

I asked them to do the same thing in WOE, so people would know which fluxs had enough people to complete, instead of running around WOE checking the different fluxes for participants... SE rather spend time on creating job abilities like embrava, then nerfing them so that it's useless. Or bringin back evolith, which sucked, and wasting more time on BS instead of what counts.

[tarolin]

im on phoenix and im not seeing these large scale wipes just groups of players that are helping each other been in several good groups and control the flow of battle nicely. =) im finding it fun because it gives me a challenge , i personally did not like abyssea and in the end i thought it was dull but this is refreshing

[Luvbunny]

I use BST to do this since you can see the actual targets on WS but thats just me. As for people saying its to hard, I just basically soloed a Lair Reive, so I find it hard to believe its to hard, rather its to easy for pet jobs to abuse, because if I had chosen to I could have stayed back and never gotten myself or my pet hit, rather some extra people joined which helped damage a bit, but thanks to my idiocy I attacked, and it got me killed, if it were just me alone I would have never died or even gotten scratched.

Thanks for sharing the tips Demon, but I would word it carefully lol, we may not need another adjustment. It's refreshing that pet jobs can actually rule this thing. So basically the way to easy win is to gear your beast with Charm gears, charm one of these T mob, use familiar, wide scan and have a lot of fun getting easy point

[Demon6324236]

Basically yeah, thats all you have to do, though in all honesty I would rather them fix it so that pet jobs are not the best way to do it, they should have a use, but soloing these things that are meant to be hard pieces of content seems a bit extreme to me.

[Luvbunny]

Ok, I was just thinking, maybe we are doing it wrong.... You get your tags every 6 hours, which means in one day you get up to 4 if you used them all. So you can either spend 3 on 1 type of reive or do 4 different kinds. The problem is that people ZERG this like everything else in the game. They kill it so fast and move to another one and another one which has one hour respawn. Which means you are moving around blindly unless someone is beast or ranger.

I think the point is this, Reive is your personal camp spot and currency farming. Grab 6-8 people and a paladin preferably to tank ALL the mob. Have your whm cure bomb - status removal etc. And spam kill the normal mob but don't touch the root or wasp nest. Let your melee DD kill the weakened adds. And enjoy farming your never ending currency. Your status bonuses is stacking and keep happening the more you kill normal mobs, which restore 2 hours, mp, hp, status protection. In a way it is abyssea 2.0 but you can do small batch of this, stay in one camp, and have proper old school set up instead of random melee attacking everything. But it's just hard to get this point across, everyone just randomly going to different points and attacking everything and move on, instead of holding ground and farming the currency at one spot.

Also with all mobs around T, you can make old school farming party!!! Yeah shocking I know. 3-4 people can camp in one spot and have a blast doing things old school. Yet I have not seen it happening, just random people walking around killing one mob at a time.... getting killed in the result. It's a great skill up spots by the way, beats the usual camp. And you get to use your xp ring, remember double xp weekend is coming up???

[detlef]

Did my first extensive reive today. Going WHM SCH SAM DRG we could pretty much clear everything we tried so far in Cezak and Yahse. As long as you can sleep things you are golden. I'll try the other zones to see if that affects my opinion, but so far it's very easy. However, the xp/bayld for the mage jobs was absolutely pathetic and if we weren't doing quests at the same time, it would've been a total waste of time for the mages. Please do something about that SE.

[Luvbunny]

So far everyone doing the root thing, no one bother with the wasp nest, since it does not give as much bayld as the tree thing. Pretty much just zerg that thing while Pld with a healer is holding the rest of the mob. Then they move on, run around and round finding the next tree root. Pretty stupid if this is what they mean by fostering a skillful game play. Running around finding the next root with a respawn of one hour lol.