Coloseum Gears/ Faction Information

[Dirzech]

I'm beginning to wonder if Gold chest only show sup the first time thru. as far as speed run goes. go whm + clric, nuke it to death. shouldbe able to finish it before the second set of wolves without too much problem, easily before 3rd set. if that effects the chest drops...I have no idea. so far I'm 1/4 on 3rd leve (forgot to open chest on second run like a nurbling)

P.s. - my first run (the i got the drop on), I let the NPC kill the mob. the only dmg i did to it was form aoe's. I'll try that again later

I didn't get a gold chest when I ran it the first time. The 3rd leve, that is.

[Arcell]

I'm beginning to wonder if Gold chest only show sup the first time thru. as far as speed run goes. go whm + clric, nuke it to death. shouldbe able to finish it before the second set of wolves without too much problem, easily before 3rd set. if that effects the chest drops...I have no idea. so far I'm 1/4 on 3rd leve (forgot to open chest on second run like a nurbling)

P.s. - my first run (the i got the drop on), I let the NPC kill the mob. the only dmg i did to it was form aoe's. I'll try that again later

The gold chests don't show your first time guaranteed. I've done three of them so far and only one dropped the Coliseum gear for me. I got the Coliseum Galerus from the third leve, the solo battle one. I didn't finish it particularly quickly but I managed to get it. I think it may be completely luck based just like the old faction NM drop chests.

[Admo]

Has anyone had any issues with picking up the 3rd faction quest, "Wanted: the Maskmaker"? Both my wife and I completed the first 2, but the 3rd isn't showing up.

I presume that we may need to redo the first two, but I don't want to waste the faction points if we can avoid it.

[Dirzech]

Thanks! It would be my luck that DRG is the only non-50 I have. But it's 46, so I should be able to get it to 50 and get at least my AF today. I'll try it then!

[Vanguard319]

on #2, I get by the ghosts, and then EVERYTHING aggroes and kills me, despite the fact I am still walking. What gives???

[tymora]

on #2, I get by the ghosts, and then EVERYTHING aggroes and kills me, despite the fact I am still walking. What gives???

I barely got through on whm. Slept the jellies around the crab in the tunnel, ran out of tunnel after walking past crab, realized I am in deep shit, used holy and killed the jellyfish chasing me, walked past last crab, realized I have 20 sec left, then ran through last 3 jellies without buffs.

Finished it with 400 hp and 3 sec on timer lol...

[Laughlyn]

on #2, I get by the ghosts, and then EVERYTHING aggroes and kills me, despite the fact I am still walking. What gives???

not sure you mean last tunnel, but i went MRD all the time, just so i could use protect & Stoneskin.

The biggest problem with this damn faction leve is the god damn crab outside the last tunnel on the right.
So yeah, keep to the left side at all time, if it isnt visible you are pretty much safe running up the hill after
you are out of range from the crab inside the tunnel before exit.

As this isnt enough, the problem with last crab...the NPC up top wich you have to reach before timer runs out...
dosent always pop at same spot, sometimes she even pops further back.

imo you have 40% chance of making up there witouth dying.
It all depends on the first & last crabs positioning.

Edit: i didnt really have to worry about the first jelly, i let him hit me and
kept walking until it went back to original position. (letting it hit me untilde-aggro)

The last set near final bridge that leads up hill isnt much to worry about either.
After you get out of reach from the last crab in the tunnel just run like hell up
the hill & spam target npc to complete it.

Just make sure to buff up with Pro & SS before talking to Diego,
(or you waste time casting afterwards)
then haul ass to first bridge & start walking.

[AjoraOak]

I tried a test on the chest today for leve #2, 3 runs with time 2:00m left = black chest still. My thoughts were that the only possible thing that could matter besides time is if you get aggro/get hit or not... so next run I walked someone past the ghosts in front of the first tunnel, walked through the jelly/ghost in the left tunnel and then used hallowed and ran through the rest for them, first gold chest that day.

I'd also gotten them a gold chest previously where they'd never gotten hit. Final time was about 1:10s on that try. Well just something to think about if people are trying things out for what gives golds.

Edit:
Additionally, I tested #3 as well, definitely not time since I destroyed the the maskmaker before a 2nd wave of wolves and someone else I know got 2 waves and still got a gold. I tried letting the npc kill and no luck as well. it's most likely either A) the pld never heals or B) the wolves never hit the NPC.

Tried #4 later on and found that the order they're killed in has no meaning, the npc's health has no meaning and that the time has no meaning. #4 has me stumped still, I'm told there was a regen active on the little magitek vanguard when someone else got a gold chest though.

Tying in with #4, #1's east coincutter has a regen effect that appeared when people weren't dmging it and this effect persists until death it seems.

If anyone else has any thoughts on this it'd be nice to hear because it's a lot of wasted faction points each black chest a person gets (usually)

[Asiaine]

I tried a test on the chest today for leve #2, 3 runs with time 2:00m left = black chest still. My thoughts were that the only possible thing that could matter besides time is if you get aggro/get hit or not... so next run I walked someone past the ghosts in front of the first tunnel, walked through the jelly/ghost in the left tunnel and then used hallowed and ran through the rest for them, first gold chest that day.

Bit disturbing if two people are needed (one to distract the monsters, and the other to get through without being hit) for a leve that says you are supposed to do it on your own.

[AjoraOak]

I agree obviously, considering you can't just walk through all the mobs. It's only a guess at the moment, but it worked on 2 occasions. We tried time originally using the straight tunnel path since it's faster, when the person I escorted got hit by a jelly only once they got a blue(silver?) chest instead of gold/black. I can say with a pretty high degree of certainty that none of these work on time though, they all seem to work on special conditions for the chest's quality.

The good news is, if you bring a pld friend and you take it slow and walk up till the last crab/jelly spot and hallowed/choco through no one will never die.

I'd love to hear if this works for other people as well.

Edit:
Tried #2 and got 2/2 silvers again using this method... I was told 0:40 was the time we got for a gold chest :x