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Haven't had a chance to play with it in weather yet, to see if it's any weather, or elemental specific to the avatar.
Rakshaka got the 3rd drop of the Neck, and he left abyssea a bit early to test it out. Despite assumptions of 1tp per tic, it appears to be 1tp per second, meaning 3tp per tick. Due to the time glitch, it came out to be either 2 or 3 per tick, but he said it came out to 60tp per minute. Either way, it replaces Smn Torque, and there wasn't really anything else to idle in, so it takes the cake. Idle in it for the TP, swap in Eidolon for the BP, and then back into it again. In reality it's a free 45TP bonus for every bloodpact, with a side of incentive to leave avatars out. Combined with the fact the new perp stuff makes Garuda Free, I'm liking it. Unfortunatly I'm finding Merit Pacts to be less desirable on Abyssea NM's. But we'll see.

How tough was the Severer? He aggroed me the other day and I wondered what it would take to kill him... could you do it with a few Summoners? Or is it something that requires a good 6+ people to do?

2 blm and a blu did it using atama that give movement speed. Aparently they just kited and nuked.

No way dude, Kupo has so many people in Negative points, you start in the middle!

Why would the atma work for your avatar though? The game revolves around pets never getting the bonuses others do.

That is wonderful news if it applies to avatars as well. Large MAB bonus would make serious dents in mobs.

I'm dying to get the atma from Hadal Satiator for Shiva. 30 MAB + 30 ice MAB + 30 MAB from Lugarhoo(or MAB/Refresh from Windy) . . . ah the Heavenly Strike goodness!

Just got this beauty today!
Dropped off Misareaux's giant that pops at Riverne Site entrance, killed with 4 people: WHM/SCH(me), BLM/NINx2, RDM/something. We just run around nuking it.
The legs move will ignore shadows but won't wipe them, so you can still survive another hit or 2 after. Its other hits will be absorbed my shadows (except maybe for the shoulder(head?)/lasers one).

It was pretty easy, we killed it 2 times. Both times it dropped PUP, BLM and SMN accessories.

Just got this a few seconds ago. the fights easy did it with 2 pup and 3 smn 1 thf.

thf pulled and the smn put avatars on it. Avatars act as tanks while the pup nuke it to death. Dont get hit with Ballistic Kick cause it hurts. you will survive it with cruor buffs and stoneskin, but it strip your gear for 15 sec or so. bloodpact are optional not needed cause pups destroy. If mp allows for it use em. I just let my water spirit melee and nuke never came close to loosing mp.

No never died, i got hit at least 4 times with blalistic kick and survived with 200 or more hp from full health 1342 hp and stonekin. One of the other smns got eaten but thats was just bad timming when he ran in range to Bp.

One of the smn i ran with made a testimobial on wiki he mention something about EA's affect i think.

Edited, Sep 19th 2010 9:18am by AlternativeOne

May not be too relevant. And wasnt paying attention. but SMN in my La theine abbys party got this item from chest today. Off worms. So the nm isnt the only to have it.

I just wanted to note that if you use physical BPs like Pred Claws in Abyssea, this pendant utterly rocks for Wards like Whispering Wind. I've been doing Pred Claw + Whispering Wind spam lately and it's extremely effective. With Atma of the Minkin Monstrosity + Atma of the Stout Arm + HP/MP/STR/DEX cruor boosts, Garuda is a total beast and you won't run out of MP even spamming both of those BPs back-to-back. With 300% TP, Whispering Wind will heal nearly 600 HP.

The nice thing is that this plays well on keeping Garuda alive if she tends to steal hate, allowing you to reap the benefit of the pendant in order to use the pendant to continue reaping the benefit of the pendant for great justice!

I hate to be "that guy" but pics or it didn't happen. Are you sure that you aren't thinking of the Jeweled Collar that can be obtained from Gold Chests in La Theine, cause it'd be extremely unlikely for them to have added the accessories to Gold Chests in older zones (it's unlikely that they'd even do it for the newer zones, let alone the older ones).

Doesn't need any real testing really. Just ask a puppetmaster to check for you.

It's going to be a weather effect of the same element as the avatar itself. The text is identical to the Summoner's Horn relic piece, which only kicks in if there is a weather effect present that's of the same element as the avatar. Shiva would need ice weather, Ramuh would need thunderstorms, etc.

For your example with Fenrir and the Hippogryphs, could you give us more details? If you could give like a full list of details (your gear, your subjob, any latents active, any buffs you had on, etc).

They go away when you zone. Zoning includes d/c, tractor, and leaving. Dying does not get rid of them. I died duoing an iron giant earlier and the buffs didn't wear. Looking back at my log right now, they wore when I exited abyssea - attowha and zoned into buburimu.

I want both Beyond and MM so bad. I have a pop for Hadal maybe I should just shout..

I wanna see how good Razed Ruins is for PClaws. EE+RR might put out impressive numbers. (But then you lose refresh ; ;)

You guys can get decent Predator Claw numbers in Abyssea? Every time I've done Abyssea (EXP, or NMs) my predator claws always fall short of wind blade... And that's without my Atma of Beyond (I typically use Ambition in abyssea... getting 2nd lunar abyssite soon so i can do Beyond/Ambition)

I have had better success with the Merit Pacts so far in Abyssea. And by Merit Pacts I mean Heavenly Strike. I don't have any of the awesome atmas yet aside from Minikin and I haven't been to Abyssea as SMN since I got that. Usually I just used the Shantotto and Windurst atmas for double refresh. My Heavenly Strikes do about 1700 damage with no TP. If Shiva gets some hits in that jumps up to 2000. I had not had particularly good results with P. Claws but as I said, I don't have any atmas that will help it yet. I hope to pick up Briareus, Pulverizer and Eve soon.

I think you are probably correct though about Shiva. With Atma of the Beyond and the right gear, it is going to be hard to beat Heavenly Strike. If only I could find some people to fight it!

So just got Beyond today. I've been pumping out 2.5k Heavenly Strikes all day. It's wonderful. 5/5 MAtk merits plus gear MAB (7 from staff I haven't finished, 7 from acp body, 2 from altius mantle, and the tp bonus from AF3+1) make for some impressive numbers with this atma. I want Baying Moon to see how much more 30 MAB will push that up. ; ;

It's actually not to hard to get if you don't mind shouting/risking your luck. Solo'd the T2 pop. Duo'd the T3 pop (could be solo'd easily though.) Then shouted for some 14 odd people. Hit !! pretty early and decimated it. Just watch out for the babies and make sure people don't nuke the element it's absorbing and it's not too hard.

Also got Atma of Gales during said shout. 40 wind MAB and wind acc. Would be nice if I had Wind Blade meritted. :\

Thanks for the info. Any tips if I try to solo the T2 and T3 pops myself? :)

It is a bit tricky to tell which atma to use on a job like SMN.

The 10 MP per tick atma is like a given, just to remove the need for resting.

But many others seem like fine second choices. Personally I want atma of ruin since the 50 dex is just so good for a melee SMN. Better chance for spirit taker to crit is also wonderful (though you hardly need it with all that refresh around). The ice, wind, thunder, fire potency atmas can also be useful for BPs or spirits. (Yea, spirits are always useless, but it doesn't mean you can have fun with them!)

Still need to actually test things more throughly. Would be silly to use atmas that don't do the right things.

Yeah I agree, the INT thing is worth some testing.

I know exactly the trial you are talking about! Not the first slime trial in one of four weathers, but the one further down that's slimes in ice weather only? I've heard Lv13-16ish level sync in Ranguemont Pass is ideal for that trial. I'm not looking forward to it myself...


True dat! We need more super SMNs on Asura! Me, Enil, and Rakshaka all Asuran now. (Acturus quit unfortunately.) Join the party!

Thanks for the tip!


I just got my Caller's Pendant a couple of hours ago and I went to Abyssea Vunkerl to test it out on murex. I noticed something very strange. My Heavenly Strikes seemed to crit occasionally. I know that shouldn't be possible. Usually they would do between 2000-2300 damage, depending on how much TP Shiva had. Occasionally, the pact would do 3000-3300 damage. I couldn't attribute it to the TP Bonus on Caller's Spats +1 as there were times when a freshly summoned Shiva would hit for the 3k+ amount. It wasn't iceday nor was there ice weather. I was using the Baying Moon and Minikin atmas. The only thing I can thing of is that some piece of gear I was wearing or one of the atmas has a hidden Magic Crit Rate trait on it. That or Murex will randomly take more damage. Anyone have any thoughts? My usual MATK gear set is:

Shareeravdi +1
Marduks Tiara, Eidolon Pendant, Smn Earring
RR w/ MAB+7, Smn's bracers, Evoker's Ring
Astute Cape, Smn belt, Caller's spats +1, Caller's Pigaches +1


Also, this was just eyeballing (so take it with a grain of salt) but I did seem to nice that INT had an effect on HS. My XBOX froze while I was in Abyssea and when I returned I had lost all of my Cruor Buffs. Before I had to restart my lowest HS numbers (minus resists) were just a little over 2000. When I came back in with no buffs that dropped to 1900ish and i saw more 2900ish "crits" as well. I get +25 on my stats with the abyssites I have. Again, it was by no means a test but it did catch my eye. I had to run to get ready for lunch but when I go back I'll play around with Shiva's INT to see if it really does have an effect.

Thanks for the numbers Perg. I was in a party last night and a SMN friend was also testing out Raized Ruin while we were killing bats during a TE run. He didn't seem all that impressed and went back to using Heavenly Strike. I think for that atma to truly shine it needs to be paired with an atma like Stout Arm. If you have plenty of refresh and plan on using physical pacts, that makes the most sense to me.

Just a quick follow up on my earlier post, the crits I was getting have to be attributed to one of those atmas. I've been killing bats for Shiva's -perp staff and I have not seen anything close to the spikes in damage I saw this morning. A LS friend also mentioned that he had heard some BLMs noticing more mag crit spikes while having atmas equipped, but he couldnt remember if it was the ones I was using. Hopefully I'll get into a party later tonight or in the morning to run some more tests. If it wasn't just some random glitch then the thought of those 3k+ crits I was doing earlier along with an extra 30 MAB from atma of the beyond is simply mind boggling. I think I'll be farming a Hadal Satiator pop this weekend!