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

A lot of these people are sending mules to other servers loaded with gil so that they can buy Alexandrites for 3k, thus making it faster to obtain the 30k rather than trying to buy it all from their respective server.

Yeah they can. It's their business model.

Wow... that just sucks.
$5 says that you need to mainhand the Nyzul weapon (Wightslayer in this case) and use the Nyzul WS to get the finishing shot.

Or... there is another possibility.


Bit of a wild theory here, but there's bound to be a few floating around soon.
Judging from what i read on BG...

~You need to use the Tizona throughout the whole battle.
~You need to use Expaicion a certain number of times to force the weapon to unlock it's final stats. When enough weapon has had enough WS performed it will be able to defeat Balhran. The BLU who tried the fight told his Linkshell that he got a Double Attack effect after performing the WS that steadily grew in strength the more he used it, maybe you have to 'power up' the weapon before it is able to knock Balhran down past 1%.
~Come to think of it... didn't we learn at Fanfest that the Aftermath effect has teirs ranging from 1 to 3 that each use of the WS knocks it up a teir?
100% TP = Teir 1
200% TP = Teir 2
300% TP = Teir 3
Using the WS again while on teir 1 will knock it up to teir 2 and then to 3 if it is used again.
I strongly think that this is the way to defeat him, get upto teir 3 and then use Expaicion, that will finish him.


Edited, Dec 10th 2008 2:43pm by Tatham

I remember this too, and what a line of *********** I was excited that I might actually get one of them too, since I had ruled out a Relic because I play casually now and don't have 100 million.

Between the 30k Alex and the 100 other hoops to jump thru, Mythics are only accessible to rich HNMLS members who play 12 hour days, much like Relics. With a Zilart Relic you couild at least pay a Dynamis shell to kill the attestation NMs if you had the gil.

I guess SE expected "casual" players to shout in Whitegate and take a pick-up alliance of people into the Beastman strongholds, into Odin's chamber, and into Salvage (lulz). Then, farm silk threads and beehive chips (because all other drops NPCed for too much and therefore need to be nerfed) for fifteen real-life years to buy Alexandrite.

Having to use rare T4 ZNM triggers, and losing them if you lose the fight, is a deal-breaker in my opinion for this quest. It's a slap in the face, a kick in the nuts, and a rod up the *** all in one. Dear player: Thank you for your money all these years, but **** you anyway. The character isn't really yours, its ours and we can ban you whenever we want. Now, go snap some more pictures and farm that zeni so we can laugh at you again. Kiss our asses, SE.

I just feel bad for that player. Geebus McHenry Sandwiches.

Yet you keep paying them your fees every month. So, what does that say about you?

He mentioned in the thread it was just at the end. Since no SS and he could have had it filtered, maybe since it was a blu mob that he had stoneskin on? maybe its just that simple. lol

Since its a blu mob, It could have had a defense buff. It could have done diamond hide or metallic body. If his HPs wasn't full, then he would have done crap dmg on the breath spell. May not have broke stoneskin. His melee attacks would have done zero still and he couldn't get TP. Maybe? It could be broken too like everyone says. It could also just been back luck. Also he was on PS2. The exact % may have been a little off. This may have happened at 2% or 3% or something.

Obviously he needed to divide his pDIF by 0.

The current "likely" theory on BG is that it's not a fight to the death so much as it is a fight where you have to use the Mythic WS at various levels of TP. The following dialogue is in the .dats for the fight:


From that .dat it looks like you might need to use the WS (Expiacion in this case) at 100, 200, and 300 TP to get each level of Aftermath. Doesn't seem terribly unreasonable for BLU, but if it's like that for ALL jobs... lol.

Sounds like the guys at BG are onto something. Makes total sense to have to use the WS at 100, 200, and 300 TP. Just like alot of things in FFXI, once its figured out its routine (assuming this is it). Sadly, that BLU is the one who bears the cost of figuring it out.

I just wish SE would learn from things and stop being so vague. I think a quest or NPC should explain everything in the game, or at the very least give non-cryptic clues to the strategy. I'm not saying add a guy that says "Hey dumbass, use the Nyzul Weaponskill at 100, 200, and 300 TP" but a quest exploring the history and lore of the weapons that you can do and while reading the story, you get clues to "build its power" by doing stronger and stronger weaponskills. How hard would that be? Instead, players have to break into the program and read the .dats to figure stuff out.

In 2004, Kirin was an epic battle and no one knew how to beat it til it was figured out.
In 2006, Absolute Virtue kicked everyone's *** (and still does) because gathering pop items takes time and fighting him was a rare occurance. Basically, few opportunites to fight him meant few chances to develop strategies. Weeks of farming combined with instant Aeroga IV after an already hour-long fight caused players to throw up their hands in frustration. No, the video didn't help.
In 2008, ZNM sounded great, until 5% pop rates on T4 and Pandemonium Warden ruined it all. Combine that with T4 pops in the Mythic quest and we have instant fail.

Give us a damn quest so we can figure it out ahead of time. Losing pops that take weeks to get is crushing and heartbreaking for the average player. Even this BLU will likely take a few weeks to get the T4 pops again so he can retry. Thats if he has a kind LS that let him have the pops and the drop rate doesn't cockblock him. Poor guy.

More proof that SE has no intention of updating the Relics to keep them on top.

I think after they got done designing their sadistic torture device quest series they realized they'd come up with something 3x harder than obtaining a Relic and at that point they just said "aw to hell with it" and decided to make the mythics the new "ultimate" weapons.



Edited, Dec 10th 2008 10:05pm by Lobivopis