New Attachments!Follow

I'm not paying that either, but sadly someone will, I'm afraid.

I'm determined now to start gathering points and spam as many Obs as possible. With some luck, it can drop all the new attachments, and I won't have to bother with the AH.

Edited, Jul 13th 2011 4:36pm by TaimMeich

I can also confirm Barrier Module dropping, I saw it personally today when I fought him with some friends. There is also a picture on FFXIAH of Ob dropping a Disruptor http://static.ffxiah.com/images/ss/mid/OJ7Tds1rkHv43eR1.jpg so I'd say it's confirmed 4/4

Was fighting some undead with Vivi Valve, had two light maneuvers up, paralyzed, and in red health; Serenade decided to paralyna me instead. I guess no hidden effect, not surprising.

Naturally. Though that was mostly for people who were hopeful that the attachment affects AI. Given, what I did wasn't very thorough; so I would still encourage somebody to play around with the attachment—though I do doubt one will get different results from the AI.

Edited, Jul 13th 2011 8:48pm by PBlackII

I'm selling a percolator in the black markets of Port Jeuno for 5 mil. I hope someone bites.

I wouldn't pay 100k for any of them except maybe the barrier module. Percolator 50-60k, tops. And I actually need skillups.

disruptor sold for 2mil and Barrier module sold for 100k (this one sold cheap for the 1st one of the AH). Perc is on ah and hasnt sold and vivi hasn't hit the AH

A possible theory:

My friends and I seem to have a better attachment drop rate if we make Ob cycle all 4 Automaton Modes. We open with converting it to Mage mode, then shift it to Ranged mode, then lock it in Melee mode (higher defense so the THF can go to town proccing TH) and so far doing that we seem to have a pretty decent drop rate on the new attachments. (3/3 since first testing it out tbh)

We also believe the new attachments to be in a seperate loot table than the other 10 it can possibly drop due to their frequency comparison.

Current Drops: Barrier Module x4 Vivi-Valve x3 in roughly 15 fights

left a coment on the Official lolForums, on the "Job manifesto" thing, it might be good for you guys to chime in, they actually answer to stuff on the general forum so it might help, unlike the actual job forum where you get ignored to oblivion.

/rage.

Percolator loaded in a casket I opened, but I had to make space in my inventory/clear out the treasure pool... And the chest despawned. Oh well, it was only a percolator.

It's been a couple more hours and no luck on any attachments, I suspect that the new attachments might actually be only one-per zone, the percolator I found was also in ordelles, until someone else reports getting a different new attachment there it might be a nice place to hunt them (we have sandy boxes kupower now, so yeah.)

Also a theory, end frame seems to trigger certain attachments to drop... Either that or Random number generator is random.

Try using an animator (if you lost yours you can buy a new one for 10k from ikuri-wakuri or w/e the taru pups name is) and subbing /pup. Then use your gimped automaton to put up maneuvers to change frame to what you want, and then deactivate and go to down with your pets. If I remember correctly, he stays in whatever frame you put him in until you overload or change maneuvers, so you can just change him then send your dipperyuli at him.

Just keep in mind Ob is a bit of rapage on metal legs regardless of form, so choose the frame you want to deal with wisely. I know the mage frame is squishiest but it also uses pretty nasty spells, while i think sharpshot has high evasion/ranged accuracy, and valoredge high defenses and melee accuracy.

nm i just saw that it moves into melee range after a while and as a ranger im very squishy

good point. i suppose i can say something like i can use a blink band but truth is i wasnt thinking that at all lol. thanks for pointing it out

I found Ob quite an easy solo for PUP - go PUP/NIN, use soulsoother automaton, and keep Ob in Valoredge mode (I kept Light/Earth/Ice maneuvers up.) Every time you have TP, force him to go into Mage mode (replace Light or Earth with a water or dark maneuver) so he has lowered defence.

Solo'ed 2/2 so far, and never came across a problem - Valoredge Ob has very low accuracy, whereas RNG Ob's ACC is quite impressive.

Just did Pulling the Strings and got an Eraser and a Vivi-valve. I sh*t you not.

Lucky lucky. I just did Pulling the Strings and got... a Smoke Screen. 5 more days to try try again.

can confirm disruptor from rangemount pass gov chest. Thanks leveling alts...

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y164/TwoDeuce/ffxi_20110720_032556.png

Vivi-Valve, mine.
Crawler's Nest, as you can likely tell.

It took me over 15 hours to get a disruptor in rangemount pass. Not recomended.

I only can open about 1/5 brown chests anyways, which blows and makes me think there most be some other way to open them.


One of the numbers is a 3
The first number is odd
The first number is a 2,3,4
The combination is less then 39

1 attempt left...

The number was 35!

And all 3 of those numbers are 35 apart...

1/5 seems rather low, generally I can at least hit ~2/3, including caskets with only 5 attempts.

There are 6 possible hints:
1. First digit is Even/Odd. (Cuts possible choices to a pool of 50 max)
2. Second digit is Even/Odd. (Cuts possible choices to a pool of 45 max)
3. First digit is [3 Numbers]. (Cuts possible answers to a pool of 30 max)
4. Second digit is [3 Numbers]. (Cuts possible answers to a pool of 27 max)
5. One of the digits is [X]. (Cuts possible answers to a pool of 18 max)
6. The correct number is between [X] and [Y]. (Cuts possible answers to w/e range given)

Even on a 5 attempt box, getting the least useful clue, and then just guessing at a the halway point, you should still should be seeing better results than 1/5.

Not assuming that you actually played out that scenario, but in this specific situation, it's played out very incorrectly, it's almost always a bad idea to take more than two hints, especially with a five-guess box. The first clue by itself eliminates around 80% of the guesses. From that clue alone, the worst possible chance you have at opening the box should be 1/2, on a good second clue, you might even be able to bump it to 100%. Now in the example given, the second clue is largely useless (the worst possible clue in that situation), and that of course can happen. It's just a matter of knowing what possible choices you have left, and the guess most likely to remove the most answers.

Personally, I almost always stop at 2 hints, very rarely 3. I get a pretty good success rate going with that.

Edited, Jul 20th 2011 7:15pm by KodoReturns

And still, I don't think there's a pattern.

The best strategy I've found is to get the first clue, and if it's either a range of numbers (e.g.: "bigger than 45 lower than 73"), or if it's a clue about three possibilities on first digit, I just start guessing, always going to the mean value of the range (that is: first I'd guess (45+73)/2 = 59, then if for example it said "lower", I'd guess (45+59)/2 = 52, etc.) This is statistically the method which gives the better success rate, although, of course, if you don't have enough attempts you'll have to choose from several numbers in your final guess. The best situation is, of course, when you first get a crappy clue (e.g: "one of the numbers is 6") and then you get a range of numbes as the second clue. That usually is enough to have a 100% or near 100% chance.

That said, I spent a whole friday afternoon, and almost all saturday afternoon and night in Zerhun Mines, with Mystery Boxes AND the level 1 casket prowess, until I left, at 1 a.m., with one Prouesse Ring (awesome), but ZERO attachments.

Edited, Jul 21st 2011 9:04pm by TaimMeich

I was curious do these drop in all GoV zones or just certain ones like the last few did?