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I'm slowly working my way through the Trials for Varuna's Staff (Damage Form), and I thought I would start this post so it might help other people, or other people to help me.


Trial 790: 50 Treants in Weather

Well documented trial, I went to Grauberg [S] and killed the treants there. See FFXIclopedia page for more locations and details.

If no syncee Caedarva Mire works at 80, weather is much rarer, but at least 2 5 minute repops. Reynark



Trial 841: 50 Slimes in Ice, Dark, Water or Earth weather

Again well documented, I synced to 15 in the entrance area of Ranguemont Pass. Takes a while, as repops take 8 minutes.

Den of Rancor, since the weather there shares with Yhoator + Yuhtunga. Clump 4-5 and -ga to death. Balbados

Sea Serpent Grotto, just inside the gold door. Easy to get to if you have a Norg earring. There are 4 slimes within a quick walk that I know of. Fished while weather was down. VxSote



Trial 842: 50 Monsters in Ice Weather or Iceday

I stayed in Ranguemont Pass, with the same sync, however this one is faster as you can kill the goblins as well. Some may not give exp, depending on your synced level. FFXIClopedia also lists Ulegurand range.

One-shotted gigas tigers in Xarc (S). VxSote




Trial 843: 50 Amorphs in Ice Weather or Iceday

I went to Uleguerand Range, killing the Glacier Eaters in the tunnels. Ice weather is very common, so isn't too much of an issue. I also kept a level 30 sync in quifim at the pond, and ran there on iceday for faster kills on Land Worms.

Worms are nice, because they can be aspired.



Trial 848: 150 Arcana, Ice killshot of 50+ damage

Basement of Garliage killing Vault and Over Weapons. They can be aspired, but takes a while. Nigh impossible to do if there are 2 or more SAMs doing their Amano upgrades there. Plus NINs or THFs doing arcana, that place gets crowded fast.

Snolls in Uleguarand Range are killable with T4>T4>T3. Buffalos can agro, but are easil avoided. Much faster and easier than weapons.

I did aura statues in sky for skillups/dio/exp killing several birds with one stone. Reynark

I did 99% of this trial in Abyssea - Uleguarand Range. Every mob around Conflux #7 is Arcana. If solo you might have to be a bit flexible to find a family of mobs that aren't spawning T-IT. HilltopBob

I did the whole Arcana trial for my ice staff on the detector mobs, which I think are called Specatators and are page #2 from the Dominion guy @ conflux 7. If you have 3 atma and decent skill you can easily two-shot them even at IT. If you don't have quite as many buffs then just make sure you have a decent enfeebling set so that you can sleep them. eldelphia

Started by teaming up with a random BLM and -ga nuking Despot placeholders. Then killed Despot.
Finished doing domion pages on Sand Sweepers in Abyssea Altepa at Flux 8 solo. Popular spot, so lots of mobs check IT to 90, giving good xp/hr there solo, with no downtime at all. {i]VxSote[/i]




Trial 849: 200 Lizards, Ice killshot of 150+ damage

Mamool Ja Strappers in Mamook have pet lizards which are one shottable with Freeze II or Blizz 4. Camp on ledges and nuke from relative safety.

To get to camp:
Take Runic Portal to Mamool Ja Staging Point.
Head North then East and zone into Mamook.
Run past the spiders, dropping down two ledges until you get to a large room.
Drop to the floor of the large room, and then go across to the ramp that is kind of to the right. Careful of NM here, TS and TH.
Follow the ledge round until you are overlooking the two Sappers.
Drop down and run across to the other ramp.
Camp next to the bridge, and you will be out of agro range.

Teamed with another BLM friend to kill Dusk Lizards east of flux 7 in Abyssea Misareaux. Skilled duo can -ja nuke groups of 15+ easily. VxSote



Trial 1708: 200 Bees, Ice killshot of 150+ damage

I did this outside whitegate. Took a while, but is relatively easy to gather a group of 3, then aga them. I found regular competition here.




I will update this post as I continue. Has anyone else done the trials that could suggest better options for these trials, or ideas for the future trials?




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Toraimarai Canal's an excellent spot. It's a pain in the arse to get to where the crabs live, but that's partly the reason why it's so excellent, because you'll get very little competition compared with Kuftal or the tree. I, personally, was fond of F/G-10 when I was breaking a polearm down that way, but I'd be surprised if that's the only Robber Crab camp in the canal.

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Trial 841: 50 Slimes in Ice, Dark, Water or Earth weather

I did mine in Den of Rancor, since the weather there shares with Yhoator + Yuhtunga. You can ask the weather NPC in norg about the weather condition there so you'll know when the weather will happen. Yes it's a pain to get into Den of Rancor and a risky place to farm slimes, but it has the most slimes out of any dungeon I know, and i usually clump 4-5 and -ga to death.

As for crabs, kuftal tunnel seems like the best place hands down. You just need to come at certain day where u know ppl wont overrun the camp for their trial (like earth + water day). I can clump them together up to 8 crabs and -ga to death, warp back to MH, warp back to cape terrigan and into the tunnel (was having free NPC teleport kupower).

Weather patterns in the Mire and Den of Rancor has been really depressing. I've never thought that a 2nd account would be worth the cost. Now, I'm starting to seriously consider picking up a cheap trial account just long enough to get an alt up to 15 so I can dual box and sync myself down for Ranguemont.

This still isn't terribly helpful on some trials. I decided to stop by Pashhow (S) and wait for rain. If the rainy season in Vana'diel is anything like the rainy season here in Florida, rain also means lots of thunder. So even though weather might be more common out here in Pashhow (S) during the right season, there's no guarantee I'll get water (which works for Trial 841) and not thunder (which doesn't).

In fact, I just saw the weather shift from rain to thunder to rain and then back to thunder. Very frustrating.

Is there a specific spawn condition for the 2nd oil slick in Ranguemont Pass? It seems to me like it's a lottery spawn from one of the blade bats there, but I'm not sure if there's something I can do to force it to spawn instead.

My Thunder staff was long done but I was stuck on trial 841 for ice staff, for a long time.

Finally got a friend to sync to lvl 14, went to Ranguemont Pass, and, after first kill, i saw message: 45 left. I was wondering: I don't remember I ever killed any target with this staff. Or am I so forgetful?

After second kill, the moogle said, target left: 40.

Really, when, when did this happen? If you sync low enough you get 5 credit for 1 kill?

However, another weird thing, I was doing melee trial, same trial as a friend's (SAM GK). However, neither of us get credit from the other person's WS, as alleged by some posts.

What the heck is going on? Can someone enlighten me?

Den of Rancor is a great place for slimes if you're duo/trio. It's hard to describe, but there's 2 main groups of slimes down there; one by the lake where the NM pops, and another to the east; the two tunnels that connect to the Hakutaku lair are where you pull each side to. You'll end up pulling bats in the mix as well, so be prepared for those, but you can get 10+ slimes in one pull on each side. 2-3 BLMs can finish one trial in about 30min with travel time; personally, I waited for a full 3-day rainy forecast, then took a friend down and knocked out 4 staves easily.

Also, if weather isn't cooperating in the usual camps, you can always head to Pashhow Marshlands or [S]; it rains a ton, especially in [S], and you can kill Globster VNMs for credit (if you possess both Clear and Colorful Abyssite, you can pop t1s forever). Granted, it's slow as sh*t, but works out quite well if you have another trial to work on while you're there.

Curious indeed~

The second Oil Slick does indeed appear to share a spawn with the Blade Bats, with the placeholder occasionally being one of the bats in the small room with the entrance door and the two NPCs. Killing all of the Blade Bats in the entrance area -- including those in the tunnel with the Oil Slicks and the two in the room with the NPCs -- should make the second Oil Slick respawn.

Nope, there is no weather bonus or day bonus for a trial like that one.

Adding my Experience so far.

Trial 848: 150 Arcana, Ice killshot of 50+ damage

I did 99% of this trial in Abyssea - Uleguarand Range. Every mob around Conflux #7 is Arcana. If solo you might have to be a bit flexible to find a family of mobs that aren't spawning T-IT.

Trial 2195 – 250 wyverns can be done in Grauberg at flux 3 or Altepa at flux 4. Both have Martello’s next to them.

I duo grauberg with a friend and it was very easy, but I don’t suggest doing it if you don’t have good atmas,
A minimum of 2 atmas is good requirement imo.

My atmas were Minikin + Ultimate + Apocalypse. (I have full Furtherance & Merits Abyssites)
My friend had Minikin + Baying moon.

We got plenty of time extensions and we were even able to cap pearl lights so that was a nice bonus.
Heroes zones tends to drop more red chest ( from my experience anyway.)

Good luck!

-Sath

I basically did the same thing solo for this trial. On the east side of the map, there's a group of robber crabs south of the scorpion, another group north of the scorpion, and even more crabs down the tunnel further north. With two aspirs, I could handle 8 crabs on a single pull on just one MP bar.

While doing this trial, I realized just how awesome the buff to sneak duration is. Before, I couldn't rely on sneak while resting up for MP. Now, I can cast sneak, rest long enough to restore an entire MP bar, and still have plenty of time to chill with sneak still up.

Always, unless your macc is absolutely terrible (under 50-60%).

Oh. Assuming you're not nuking naked, and so have sh*tty macc, the damage+3 teiwaz obviously wins.

on so working on trial staff and am on the bee's and was wondering if people have a good spot for this?
currently i am in wajorm woodlands just wondering if anyone else had a better spot besides ifrits?

Didnt see it here, so I figured Id chime in for Crabs, you can do the ones in Abyssea Mis. Coast. What I did having 1000s of bastion points, is I kept buying fana drinks, and using mana wall, pull x10 crab, use fana drink as soon as your SS get taken off(dont wait til you get all crabs do it when you can as soon as SS drops) pop 2hour and start using your -gas. Going from Thundaga line to blizzaga lines seemed to work for me. They should be dead before fana wears.

After that just rinse and repeat, bene chest should be able to drop from the crowd you kill, or just keep killing one by one til one drops for you. Can do w/o bene, youll just probably have to wait on mana wall timers(youll probably have bene by then though...) and use up more temp items. Should be done after 25-30 rounds of that.

i joined a dominion ops party on dolls in altepa. was able to two shot the dolls every time and it didn't take long to finish trial. still got great azure lights for the party so i don't feel this was leeching in any way as i was killing nearly as fast as the meles were if not a lil faster.

So far my friend & I have duo'd most of these trials. We plan on doing the 250 Crabs in Abyssea - Grauberg (Glen Crab) at flux 4 for Dominion Ops. We both have 3 atmas and have used Minikin + Beyond + Ultimate. On the bee trial, we were able to 2-shot the bees with Blizzard V + Blizzard III, and 2x Blizzard IV. Barring resists, kills are fast and efficient. We plan on killing the crabs (and wyverns) in a similar manner.

All of the things you listed can happen, but you can certainly control them.



The first thing you always do at a new camp when you plan on againg is to gauge the lay of the land, take note of obstacles that cause mobs to path badly, etc. An initial pull or two of a few mobs is all it takes to quantify these things and ensure your safety when you start pulling larger numbers.



That's not a problem with the strategy; it's a problem with the execution. Always err on the side of caution to avoid this problem; if you have movespeed+, as long as you keep moving, you are never in any danger as you can simply keep running to gain enough distance to Sleepga safely.



For one, a NM blocking your path is not an 'accidental MPK'... regardless, this is one of those hypothetical situations that are quite easily avoided by not playing with your monitor off and rolling your face across the keyboard.



If you are utilizing proper strategy, no, they don't. Pulling the mobs away from where they spawn tends to solve those problems rather neatly. I can see how this would be a concern if you were single-target nuking mobs without pulling them to a safe distance, though.



If I was trolling, I would've just said he sucks, and wouldn't have bothered explaining a much better strategy in detail. As I said above, his strategy is workable, but horribly inefficient, given that single-target nuking is at best 4-5k on your strongest nuke, and againg is 20k+ on a single nuke; on every conceivable level, againg wins. Kills per hour, kills per nuke, damage per nuke, damage per MP, net effort per kill, etc. There's also the fact that againg mobs prevents them from leveling up, which seemed to give him trouble.

Besides, his testimony was pretty much worthless.. wrong camps, wrong spells, wrong strategies.. if that's the kind of post you appreciate... we're not gonna see eye to eye on much, to put it diplomatically, which is more than I can say of your response.

Edited, Aug 4th 2011 7:09am by LyltiaofLakshmi