Tonight will be the first "serious" Nyzul session. I think we have a good group of people who can climb to the top, but for the most part, we're a bunch of newbies at this! So, to hpoefully help things along, I've put together a small list of hints that might make things go more smoothly.
1. If you haven't already, check out http://wiki.ffxiclopedia.org/wiki/Nyzul_Isle_Investigation for information about what the basics of Nyzul are all about!
2. Take initiative. This is a small group event, and we have lots to do with very little time to do it. Climbing 5 floors in 30 minutes means that we can spend an average of 6 minutes per floor, so instead of waiting for instructions, figure out what you need to do and go do it. (find the NM to kill, figure out what the objective of the floor is, go find those lamps
3. Communicate. Along with taking initiative, tell other people what you're doing and what you've found so there isn't any duplicate effort. If you found a lamp switch and intend on staying by it, announce it to the party. Also, follow instructions that you're given
4. Know your role & help others. If the party has split up and you see that someone has aggro, help them out real quick instead of letting them solo. Also, when the party splits up, try to make sure you're with someone who you will partner with well. Two mages together won't last long against mobs, nor will two DDs without healing. Sleep links if you can, and be independent as much as possible. This includes bringing powders and oils if you aren't able to cast sneak & invis on your own, and being able to hold off a mob by yourself until help arrives. (i.e.: NIN or DNC sub, sleeping/stunning the mob, etc.
5. Actions upon completing a floor. Once we complete the objective of each floor, someone needs to go back to the starting point to either get us to the next floor, or to exit Nyzul Isle. Since only one person has to do this, everyone else can do... something else! Like mages can (and should) immediately /heal in order to regain MP, even melees can do that for HP. Whoever goes back should declare it, and hopefully have enhanced movement speed. Additionally, if you see that we are about to complete the objective and know that you'll be the person that will go back to the rune, head back early so you can hit the floor up as soon aswe complete the objective. (most likely going to be Ashle when he comes on THF)
That's it for now... hope that helps somewhat!
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nains suggestion :: for bigger floors you might want more than one non mage running back to the lamp after you complete the objective. a lot of times the floors are big circles and sometimes the way one person knows is longer than the way the other person went through to get to the same point.
nain~
:D Yeah, I see what you mean... there was one part where I thought I was really far from the rune, but when I turned a corner, I saw it.
We did 2 runs, BARELY failed the first one by running out of time, but we won the 2nd with about 10 seconds left on the clock xD We need to learn better time saving, like when to send someone back to go up to the next floor.
Nyzul weapons are dropping like crazy... we had 3 drops over 2 runs. SMN which auto-lotted to Zurar, BLU which I got, and a BLM that was unfortunately lost because not everyone passed when we ran out of time :(
On floor 5 now, continuing to climb!
From from Allakhazam regarding nyzul:
"I cannot stress this enough, two of our members didn't click the Rune of Transfer in the Nyzul Lobby (The area where you can purchase temp items) and didn't obtain a disc. Thought we only did floor 1-5, their progress wasn't saved and so we have to do that floor over again to save their progress."
So, question: Did everyone at least get a runic disc? You just need to touch the pole at least ONCE sometime in the past... check your key items.
If you didn't, let me know ASAP and we'll restart from floor 0 again
grats on floor 5!! getting closer to lvl 20 and feet gears!! thanks for the comment about the runic disc ascy...that will save us from doing it again tonight (assuming i remember)!
nain~
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