Coloseum Gears/ Faction Information

[Asiaine]

Has it been confirmed that colour is dependent on time? Because.. well, that's just annoying.
2/5, 0/4, 0/4, 0/2.

*sad elf*

[Dirzech]

Has it been confirmed that colour is dependent on time? Because.. well, that's just annoying.
2/5, 0/4, 0/4, 0/2.

*sad elf*

Every time I got a drop, it came out of a gold chest. And every time I got a gold chest, I finished the leve rather quickly. I'm not completely sure if all of these things are connected, but it seems to look that way.

[Giit]

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

[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.

[Skies]

Does anyone have a good speed run strat for the 3rd faction leve? I can complete it easily, but it takes me a while, and I end up not getting a gold chest.

I did it very quickly on my Dragoon. Started wailing on the enemy, once mobs showed up I went full power with Leg Sweep combo x2 in the first wave, second wave (by then I had already used one Chaos Thrust) I used a Blindside/Blood For Blood Comboed Ring of Talons followed with Leg Sweep. I got a third wave but it was faster to finish the Maskmaker with a Chaos Thrust by then.

Edit: Right, I did get the piece on my first try, too.

[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)