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

How about being stuck in a chocobo race filled with birds and butterflies while dodging lightning bolts (race doesn't end until you dodge 200 lightning bolts consecutively) and get a 0:00 time followed by going into a blitzball match with all avatars as players. Oh, and you need a soul plate of every monster family in Vana d'iel, or else you need to start all over from the beginning.

Good luck!

This is more of a rant, but bear with me if you feel like to.

Seriously, get over it, everyone is complaining that Mythic weapons are insanely hard to get, and no one will be there in at least 2 years but...

Yet this guy is already there.

Everyone is whining as well that get three ZM4 drops again will be a pain in the 4$$...

Yet I'm sure that he is already trying again and in less than one month(if not in less than 1 week) we will see a new try.

I said "get over it" because is time to accept it, no matter how much you complain, whine or yell, as long as those guys exists SE will have what hey need to prove that those quest are doable and the "player base", or whatever other name you want for this guy, is able to get the items.

If you want your supplier to improve the quality of the product stop taking it from their hands, before they can put it on the shelf. As long as people rush and race to complete the new stuff SE will keep making it harder and more time consuming(or wasting...).

Sincerely.

Ken.

P.D. Amazing effort of this guy, and I feel really sorry for him needing to get the ZM4 drops again, but his playing time and resources are far far
away from the average player scenario.

I assume it went something like

"Hey, the post ZM jobs don't have a choice of going after a Relic or a Mythic"
"Yeah, let's just make it harder on everybody so we don't have to gimp their weapons"
"OK LOL"

That would be bad actually.

Remember last time this happened? Instead of having all day to take down AV, they "fixed" the problem by simply limiting the time for both the Jailer and AV to 2 hours.

I don't even want to think about how they will "fix" this problem then.

It is entirely possible it is impossible to kill the mob right now, lets be honest without the duping bug which put a huge amount of extra Alex into the game there is no way he would be done this quick and they know that.

Yeah, I wouldn't put it past SE to release something unfinished yet still let people waste hours upon hours just getting it to pop. Hi2u ATNM Balrahn Test?

Tho it's probable people just don't know the trick yet.

Edited, Dec 11th 2008 3:33am by Eltio

Imagine fighting Maat, losing, and him taking all of your inventory for losing.

I'd hope SE would have learned their lesson from things that have happened in the past.

I often wonder, does anyone at SE play the game? Does a single one of their employees (who works on making the game), play the damn thing? Maybe that's why SE is one of the better companies at weaving out RMT, they invest all their money there and don't have a testers department, or more than one person working in account recovery.

From there, they come read the Alla boards, they read everything the community has to say over a year, and take the most common problem with ratings of Good and up since Sub-Default-Decent might just be a whiny biatch who doesn't know what he's talking about.

They then address this issue, but don't test it, so the update contains more problems, once again, back to the forums, is this problem legit? So since there's only 1 guy who accomplished this mystic weap feat, and only 2 people per server who do Ballista, the casket glitch won't get any attention, and neither will this.

I'd like to think this theory is how their company works...

A lot of people are upset over the flaw within the Mythic Weapons system. I think most of it stems from what appears to be a mistranslation over what was said when comparing Mythics to Relics; that they were supposed to be easier to obtain. Mythic Weapons have you jumping through many hoops just to get past Task & Duties, in which in the CS the Empire apologizes saying that they didn't want to give the task of investigating the Mythic Weapons to just anyone, thus they they have all those "errands" that you have to run. I am "Ok" with the quest Task & Duties because it's more of an investment of time even though I firmly believe that Alexandrites should also drop in Nyzul Isle, but that's another discussion.

The real problem is the Tier 4 ZNM pop items that is required for the final BC fight.

Taken from the ZNM Developer interview:

http://www.jpbutton.com/?p=1219

So you are looking at a low droprate, and then you have to choose helping someone upgrade their mythic over a chance to fight PW knowing that if they lose the battle, then the pop is completely wasted. This is what most of the uproar is about.

the fight is extremely easy, its just that the blu didnt expect the fight to be that way so he used chain affinity alot.


Zahak is there only for you to store TP on him and for storyline reasons. He depops at 95% or when you get 100 TP, so no you do not have to solo a hydra.
After he depops Balrahn says he is amazed you stodd toe to toe with zahak and defeated him or something along those lines. yyou then fight balrahn with the 100% TP you just got from zahak.

you Weaponskill him from 100-199%, he says something in say. something along the lines of "can you feel the blood pumping in your veins, this is the aftermath, or something like that" (look in the .DATs).

Then you use another WS at 200%-299% and he will say something like "you think you seen that full power of aftermath? you are a fool, you still do not know the true power of aftermath. something about Witness the true power of my arms"
(once again check the DATs for the exact sentence, mines is not the exact words but close to what I can remember. You now have level 2 aftermath on, and it should be easier to get 300 TP with it.

Then finally, at 300% TP, you do a level 3 aftermath, and he says something along the lines of. "your spirit is true, Take this knowledge I lent you and carry it with you, This is the the true aftermath." something along those lines, that is the 3rd sentence in the DATs and is used when you obtain the 3rd aftermath.

Balrahn is not like the maat fight. He will not use 2 hrs, and he wont try to completely destroy you with nasty spells. He will give up once you do the 3rd aftermath regardless of his HP. If you did not get the 3rd aftermath off when he reaches 1%, you might not be able to get that TP back since you are hitting him for Zeros, unless you are SAM or /SAM, and use an icarus wing.

I would sub sam fight the fight just to speed up the level 1 and level 2 aftermath, and use an icarus wing for the 3rd plus your DA from level 2 aftermath and meditate to speed up to 300 TP.

Zahak is only there probably to store TP on. He will depop when you get him to 95% or possibly depops when you reach 100 TP. Therefore, No whm has to solo a hydra and no whm has to get destroyed by balrahn or anything like that.

Like we said, This was a Blue mage. So its very common for blue mages to burn their TP at 100% when using chain affinity to Skillchain, or using Chain affinity to use up TP on a spell to increase a dmg/acc of a spell.
I doubt a blue mage is going to say, "let me store 300% for my chain affinity expiacion"

The blue should have read the .DATs and paid attention to to the text on his 1st weaponskill. But nonetheless, he was the first person to enter the bcnm and sadly became a test subject, and its sad and not fair he has to get the ZNM items again without another free re-try.

Looks like we've got an expert on our hands.

I didn't know anyone's beaten the whole thing yet. Gratz! Which mythic did you upgrade?