Abyssea was a lot of fun yesterday. I've also been reading on Alla and BG that people are getting time extensions out of blue chests which can dramatically extend time (reported up to 6 hours), tons of XP, tons of cruor, drops, etc. Results are better with alliances as the individual xp and cruor rewards from chests are fixed per person. Faster killing, more chests, more reward.

This deserves a prime spot on our LS calendar. It worked great yesterday with Limbus first and Abyssea next. Maybe a 2 times per week slot, which would optimize stone regen.

Seems like a great event. Fantastic rewards (the armor is better than anything from limbus), xp/merits, skillups, and the speed at which you get rewarded is very nice.

AND the rewards are direct. No need for LS points and all that.

i agree loki, but i would have to add one thing the the gear drops if this becomes a weekly event. Drops should be lotted if equipable and used on a regular basis by that persons Main LS Event Job. We all know what jobs people use at events most. I would hate to see someone get a great piece of PLD gear over the LS's Main PLD's just because he/she has that job leveled so they lotted. Items seem fairly easy to obtain as we saw Saturday night, so i would be nice to see gear properly go where it is needed the most for LS Events.

The poppable NMs seem to have a very good drop rate, and the pop items drop crazy fast. The method we used last night seemed good where those who can use the item that drops from the mob NM that we're fighting lot the pop items and then the person who pops lots. With the frequency of drops, I don't think we need any complicated rules of priority.

Where I think we could get into trouble is the sellable craft items. Those should either be open lot or pooled to sell / split ala BCNMs. My preference is pool / split.

This can also be used to farm massive amounts of exp and cruor. Went with a group of 18ppl to Tahrongi Canyon for 90 mins killing bats ended up getting 35k exp and 8k cruor between boxes and mobs for the 90 min session.

sounds fun anyone want to buy it for me? lol

I am in. Although really...LS event job gets priority...? What is this 2005? The only people in the shell who's "Main" job is the same as the job the bring to events all the time are some PLD's and a mage or two. The day you tell people what jobs they can and can't lot gear for is the day you have outright rebellion on your hands.

Ya thats never been a philosophy of the LS since being remade.

If you have points, you can pretty much lot anything you can equip. Main jobs only apply at dynamis.

The game as changed. Anyone can go 1-80 in a relative short period of time, if they have time.

This allows you to get everything and anything if you have points.

Something like this will probably never have a LS point system. I dont think it needs one either.

From what I've been reading, the way that you maximize Cruor and Exp is to go crazy on killing the same mobs, which builds the chain. Killing any other mob or stopping to pop and kill the NM will kill the chain.

This suggests that the way to do these things is to pick a zone/mob whose NM drops stuff we're interested in, then going in for an entire run to do nothing but kill the normal mobs. The way the pop items drop, we probably don't need to even lot them. By the end, everyone will have one.The next run can then focus on popping the NMs. Rinse and repeat.

To maximize, we probably need 2 pullers and 2 people designated to pop chests. The rest just kill like crazy.