[Mortifer]

I want to thank Xiaoyuna, Jesterprophet, Bakuryu, Quinzel, Crowdia and a 6th unamed player for getting the Astral Candescence truly back. Through their hard work and effort they were able to get the BCNM battle down to 33% and kept dying and trying to beat it but needed backup after everyone got tired. So two alliances came: Mictain, Xvivarant, Kaleden, Amaren, Karik, Jelyn, Bobafete, and Quintessence (myself) and helped them out as we were originally planning on just freeing prisoners. Two people left Jester's party, a 3rd afk'd for awhile. And 3 people filled in from our 2 alliances: Mictain, Amaren, and me and we kicked major ass. Couple deaths in the BCNM but nothing we weren't prepared for, in the end... Fire Threnody+Mijin Gakure got it down to 1% and then after it fell, everyone rejoiced.

I went into this thinking it was going to be the hardest BCNM battle but it truly wasn't if you got the right setup and gear, and skilled people. It was an awesome fight I encourage everyone to try it out atleast once. After that, Jester's main party was tired after 10-12 hours straight of trying to beat it, out of oils, ou of blood to give they valiantly retired for the night as my alliance's members carried on to free 5 prisoners.

We freed 2 Generals, Chacharoon(sp?), Chocobo Handler, Wahlara(sp?) Turban npc. Tomorrow we'll free the rest and perhaps I'll set out on a crusade against the others in the other area. We did take out a Mirror while we were there as well. All I can say is besides all the boring exping/meriting, this is the most fun I've had in this game in a long time... everyone was fighting so hard to do it yet it really wasn't all that bad. I encourage everyone to take a party to rescue AC, rescue prisoners, kill mirrors. People say it isn't worth anything but... it's worth accomplishment in knowing that you're the reason why a lvl 5 Besieged was easy prey because they had no mirrors.

Maybe no one does mirrors so the level of mob's is higher meaning more exp; but it also makes besieged a bastard to do any damage to anything. Also, I'm not sure but I know one of the NMs in the fight... guards a mirror. If we killed mirrors.... there would be no NMs in the besieged. Dunno something to ponder. If you want to rescue prisoners the keydroppers in arrapago are qutrubs for the reef cells; don't know much information about the other cells. Good night everyone!

[Rezo]

It'll be gone again tomorrow

[Vanburace]

Rezo :
It'll be gone again tomorrow

That's being pessimistic.

I give it five days.

[Ushallbeasgods]

Yeah it'll take a bit more than one day for the undead to get ready to take it... they are too busy laughing at us.

[LilT20o0]

Undead lv 5 gets my server every time. Then it generally takes 3-5 days to get the Candecense bak

[Ushallbeasgods]

Ours has been gone... what a month?

[ZeroBladeEX]

8 days is the longest record without the AC Ushallbeasgods. Anyway yea ever since we started to lose the AC on a regular basis no one seem to care anymore as we'll just get it back later.

[Lord InuYasha]

I give it a week and a half till it is gone again, thanks though

[Obev]

Give it back to the undead, please. I liked actually having an exp party without 100 other people in the zone for once.:con

[Gyth]

So what is the BCNM setup?
Can you take an alliance?
I was under the impression it started 6pc vs 3npc, and you just do as much damage as you can before wiping...
repeat...
many many times.

You lose xp for dying there, right?

[Shuemue]

Fucking hell, Justforprofit did something that didn't benefit him financially?!

[Saphirea]

go get the CC guild npc so I can buy stuff in alzhabi

[Draxyl]

GDI...why oh why did you rescue the AC?

Just rescue the NPC's and leave the AC in enemy hands.

[Tisiphenie]

Draxyl :
GDI...why oh why did you rescue the AC?

Just rescue the NPC's and leave the AC in enemy hands.

[Ryumihyoh]

Draxyl :
GDI...why oh why did you rescue the AC?

Ever wondered someone might like Besieged and the stuff that comes with AC?

[Amastacia]

Asura sucks at Besieged.

Somone might like it, but most people obviously don't give a shit.

Hi2u lv 1 Undead Swarm.

Next time they attack, Undead will have the candy back.

We might as well just give it up for keeps, we can't hold onto it worth a crap.

[Mortifer]

The BCNM Setup is verse 3 Lamia's in Arrapago Reef. Lamia 18 (Corsair), Lamia 11 (Boss+Ranger), Lamia 24 (Black Mage). As far as I know they're resistant to everything once you start killing them and wiping to them. If you get them down to 33% health and wipe they'll all be at 33% everytime you go back in. The method we did to beat this was:

When you go into the room to pull they're setup as follows:

Lamia 18. -- Lamia 11. -- Lamia 24.

Basically One person would kite Lamia 11 around since all she does is Range attack you, so basically no one gets hurts. No worries about Charmga or 2 houring til later on. Infinite kiting. We had the smn and blm in the pt go after the blm while the Ninjar tanked the Corsair by himself. I was Bard and my job was to sing my faggoty songs to expdite the process and be a refresh whore. Whms job well, was be whm.

I think the most important thing about this fight, always have RR up because Charmga does not always hit everybody for some damn reason when the Ranger does it. So you'll want to hurry and equip a staff before you're charmed so you don't knock the person's damn head off. Other then that, the BCNM isn't Hard. But as someone said last night, treat it as if it were a God fight.



In response to people that say leave the AC alone; that's pretty selfish considering all the people who actually do like having it and being able to get to their parties quicker. Not everyone has a massive amount of time to level everyday; and if the AC speeds theire party invites up I'm all for it. For those that are too lazy to do it; well that's your problem. This was the most fun I've had in my entire time on FFXI, I'm sure the others in the party can relate. We weren't exping we were having fun. Look at yourself and ask when is the last time you had no under pressure fun on FFXI accomplishing something that meant a lot to to a big group of people.

I'll be on later if everyone wants to go rescue prisoners and kill mirrors with me. Your choice. I'm all for it, it's fun shit. Experience points < Fun and Accomplishment in this game. Take care everyone Oh and btw, there's 1 prisoner in each stronghold. There's 1 general in either Halvung or Mamook. I've yet to actually go check where he is. I'll do that today possible. 2 Generals, Warp Taru are still in Arrapago Reef.

Key in Mamook: Blackscale Key Halvung: Brass Key Arrapago Reef: Lamian Bone Key

Or you could just go as Thief and pwn the locks everywhere I believe.

[Shuemue]

Rest assured, next time I notice Undead attacking, I'll do my utmost to Thundaga III as many charmed players as possible to ensure we lose the AC.

[Kleiner]

thanks, Shue. thanks. your valiant efforts will be loved by us all Why dont youy just go do something else if you're gonna try to sabotage it? Sit in whitegate instead of being an ass >_>

personally, I like having the AC. Even though zones are much less crowded without it, alot of the exp is lost for those of us not trying for high end chans. anyone lower than 75 and trying to exp in Al Zahbi gets a disadvantage without that exp bonus to make up for the long fights.

also, sanction lasts what, 1-2 hours without the AC? I NEED my IS, ISNMs are big source of income and this galka has alot of stuff he needs >_>


me and few others tried that BCNM the last time it was taken. it was great fun, but alot harder than you describe it ; ; maybe we were unlucky.

also, a word to the wise.

if you DC, zone. log out, or are tractored while in the possesion of an ACBCNM key item, YOU WILL LOSE IT.

so be careful ;/

[JesterProphet]

The key items are by far one of the worst parts to this BCNM. obtaining them without wiping in a small group can be a pain always have RR on at all times in the BCNM or not. The BCNM was not exactly as piece of cake as he explained it took us many hours to get the 3 mobs to the point where they were at 33% when we came into the battle. Also for future refrence anyway who wants to try this in the future even if u defeat 2 of the three mobs and then wipe when you come back into the zone they will all be alive again. If you take them under 33% and wipe they will all be at 33% when you come back in. They do however regen every fight wether it be to 33% or greater. The first run we did when we came in the 2 little ones were at 70% and the RNG at 76%. not really knowing what to expect we did take the BLM down to 25% before wiping but did very little dmg to the corsair or the RNG. When we came back in the second time to our astonishment the RNG was now at 100% and corsair at 95%. With that being said the mobs will regen every fight no matter how far you take them down or not.
A few tips for anyone who tries in the future bring a lot of reraise I went through 3 reraise earrings myself i know the others that went with me used many hairpins and lots of ninja tools lol. Also right when you walk into the BCNM the RNG is going to 2 hr and eagle eye shot you. So we always sent one NIN in first in full god gear with all -physical dmg gear on to take as least dmg as possible. As quin said it was a lot of fun I had a blast oh and to the person that asked if u lose xp lol yes you do. Combined between the 5 of us we lost clost to 100k exp. Would I do it again? heck yes i would a few of the others i think will think twice next time i ask them to come on an adventure with me. We didnt really expect to be there for 11 hours pounding away at 3 floating mermaid undead things.
To all of you who complain about it being back or that it will be lost again that is fine. I will go get it again, now i do hope it isnt lvl 4 undead this time cause those guys werent playing around but I will gladly go back for the BCNM again.
If anyone has any more questions about the BCNM or would like to go next time we are going to get it back feel free to PM me or send me a tell in game I will be happy to go over any details of the fight.