Quote Originally Posted by JustPlainLucas View Post
Are you talking about the pools of goldbile? They're still there.
Wrong.

The original 1.0 AV has poisonous fumes when you enter the large area with poison puddle. The fumes alone are already dangerous. Add that by stepping into puddle will even worse your HP droprate.

At start, party have to run to far room that contains berries. Eating berries will nullify damage from fumes, but still take damage from poison puddles. There are blue & red berries. I forgot which one does nullify and which doesn't. And the fruit has short duration that requires player to eat them again in the next area.

Back then, WHM has ability to AOE regen. This is very important to at least even out the damage gotten from fumes. And 2 WHM need to rotate their AOE regen duty perfectly so that party didn't suffer more poison damage.

Now that current ARR has WHM unable to AOE regen anymore, tweaks were made. Now the poison fumes completely gone, in a way though. Fumes still exist, but as part of 1st & last boss attack which will later on force players to eat fruit to nullify that bad status.

You can watch the old 1.0 AV run at youtube. You will notice the screen went yellow-ish when party enter toxic zones, meaning the fume damage starts taking effect. And by then, you will see WHM starts doing AOE regen, then switch to other WHM for another AOE regen, so on till party enter non fume areas.