Someone just finished Mythic Weapon Task and Duties...Follow

This came in from BG.
http://www.bluegartrls.com/forum/ffxi-advanced-player-discussion/66803-mythic-weapons-discussion-8.html

A player just completed Task and duties and obtained the Statless Tizona weapon. Apparently you do need the T4 ZNM pop items to enter the solo BC where you retain your subjob. The only problem is that at 1%, the player was only doing 0 damage and lost. To make matters worse, you have to re-obtain the T4 ZNM items to enter the BC again. SE really did make these Mythic Weapons a huge challenge and time sink.

Edited, Dec 10th 2008 8:34am by ImmortalAlchemist

***** it, i'm just gonna get Bravua..

That's a kick in teeth, along with a kick in the nuts.

Come on SE you just can't expect someone to go through so much **** only to be stopped by some "trick."


Make it a no frills fight.

This was a solo battle vs VT mobs at level 75?

It was said that the Zahak Hydra depopped at 95%, which is odd because why is it there in the first place. I threw out the idea of the Relief of Zahak key item but nobody seems to know about it.

-spoiler speculation ahoy- about story that is, not fight strategies.

I'm hoping there is a MAJOR story twist for those who know about Zahak. It was said he was serpent king zahak founer of the eastern empire ( perhaps just the western portion, aht urghan ), and possibly the first blue mage ( the only thing is this assumes he gained his powers through shear will rather than being transformed by a far eastern alchemist ) But if Zahak was nothing more than Balrahns personal pet...

It would be neat if: the whole time Zahak was in charge it was actually Balrahn himself. Or perhaps there was some unwavering bond between the two.

EDIT: changed first line

Edited, Dec 10th 2008 12:13pm by bleystrife

As someone pointed out in the BG thread SE needs to:

Make the quest difficult/time sink and make the final BC easy

or

Make the quest easy and the final BC difficult

Instead they chose to:
Make the quest difficult/time sink and make the final BC difficult.
No balance there at all unless there is some cheap gimmick (Killshot with the Nyzul Weapon, in this case Wightslayer)

Edited, Dec 10th 2008 9:25am by ImmortalAlchemist

I read the rest of that thread... does sound like a pain in the butt. Whatever it is, I hope it's nothing too out of control.

My first thought was the ws, as people mentioned, but apparently he used that. I hope it's not something like you have to stalemate him - get him to 1% and hold out for the rest of your time limit or something. XD I guess he died and it regen'd up to 100% again? That's too bad, really.

He should be proud to just get there at the moment, however. Since he is the first, I am sure they will be working on getting him another set of pop items to try his next idea.
I dunno about needing a wightslayer, though. Seems a little weird. Definitely not dual wield with Tizona as someone said, since that would ***** 2h users... who knows. Maybe the people saying he should save up to 300 tp for the full aftermath charge are right (though that confused me - I thought he said earlier that the guy DIDN'T have access to aftermath on his weapon...).

Very interested to see.

could be worse, could be ANOTHER 30k alexandrite >.>

I'll believe this until the servers shut down:

Either make these weapons accessible to those who are skilled enough and want them or don't release them at all.

People say that S-E wants few of these weapons to be in possession. I say they need to be concerned about fewer people even bothering to try.

eh this is a stupid thing, but this post made me think of it. What if the statless tizona was needed to strike the final blow, and you need the nyzul weapons to skip the forms of pandy warden? Each form have a different job, and needing to be struck by the nyzul weapon of the corresponding one to nullify it?

That out of the way, yeah a big wtf. You should be able to retry the battle with some form of time limit, needing znm pops again is stupid. and making the mob take 0 damage is stupid, its like SE puts content in for people never to defeat.