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Hirushi : Similar to Ix'DRG, if anyone in your party touches either the Ix'aern or one of the Qn'aerns, everyone in your party will have hate on all three NMs. To avoid this, break your party so individuals aren't drawing hate.

I see - I wasn't aware of that aspect for this mob OR Ix'DRG. It makes more sense, now, why you disband before popping. I don't think the other members of my Sea Gods LS are aware of this either; I should mention it to them the next time we attempt to split up mobs.

As explained earlier, the non-popper will not have hate as long as the party has been disbanded before the NMs are popped. Also, with Player A and Player B running in opposite directions (one towards zone, other towards Fortitude room) there's no chance that the Aerns can link back up with each other.

I guess I should also note that normal Aerns in the area should be grabbed by Player A either before or after the pop to avoid unnecessary aggro on Player B who is pulling Ix'DRK.

It's a very easy pull and a very easy fight, you just need to understand the hate mechanics and be aware of the other enemies around you in order to make a clean pull.

Ah, so I WAS right. The impression I was getting from the posts above were that after the initial pull, ALL THREE Aern were being pulled to the zone when actually only the RNGs (and random adds) were, while the DRK is being pulled to the kiting area. This makes much more sense, now; the popper does something to change his claim target off of the Ix'Aern, and the other player grabs it as soon as it turns white.

[HNM]

Ok, there's no chance of death seperating the Qns at the begining, stop acting like there is.
And what's

To the quotes, if it doesn't depop before you hit room , keep kiting , go aggro the flower at an Aw'euvhi room with wlegs and just run around the room , you'll see it will despawn sooner or later just running inside that room.

Mean? Are you telling me to run around the outside of the room, because that's where the euvhi is, but you're saying to kite Ix'drk, the ghrah, and the newly aggrod euvhi by whatever means.. inside the room?
So maybe it isn't as high as 50%, it certainly isn't shit like you depicted, mnk is shit, drk and drg are much higher.

And BW isn't a one shot kill, I don't think mobs even drain your health or just "heal" themselves like a player would with BW.

[Jurojin]

I didn't tell you to aggro the flower for extra fun while killing Ix'drk.
Go aggro the euvhi in the JoFaith room and kite in inside the Ebony panel room with just movement speed, you'll see it will depop just kiting inside there, which makes the pot obsolete. The Aw'ghrah is at a distance of more than 100' of the ebony panel room, it won't even stop casting on you until you get to the pot, unless it goes rasp.

BW can one shot a taru and will two~three shot an elvaan or galka BLM, it does drain HP unless half of the hits just disappear in the log.

edit:
The drop rate prolly is higher than what it is for me, since my luck tended to suck, but it's nothing close to 50%.
10% at the very best.

[MIGhunter]

My LS is 3/20+ on that cape.

Here's a hint on getting the cape (sarcastically): Work on JoL sets. The only deed you need to complete your tier 2 set and getting a JoL is DRK. Then go camp DRK. 98% of the time you will get the cape. LOL. This is what happens to us all the time. We need a deed to get our JoL. People are lazy and wait till the day before the event. They go pop it and get a stupid cape!

btw, DRG is the worst cause we always get the cape instead of the deed...

[Kaslo]

Just ignore HNM... he's.... yeah...

[Jurojin]

An ignorant dumb fuck?

Wtf at necro bump though

[Mortaru_]

Jurojin :
I didn't tell you to aggro the flower for extra fun while killing Ix'drk.
Go aggro the euvhi in the JoFaith room and kite in inside the Ebony panel room with just movement speed, you'll see it will depop just kiting inside there, which makes the pot obsolete. The Aw'ghrah is at a distance of more than 100' of the ebony panel room, it won't even stop casting on you until you get to the pot, unless it goes rasp.

BW can one shot a taru and will two~three shot an elvaan or galka BLM, it does drain HP unless half of the hits just disappear in the log.

edit:
The drop rate prolly is higher than what it is for me, since my luck tended to suck, but it's nothing close to 50%.
10% at the very best.

The drain from BW doesn't take effect on PCs, and with my "oshit" macro Ix'aern(DRK) hit my taru Blm/nin for about 300-350.

But yes, the Aw'ghrah will depop in the kiting room if you aggro it on the way (Unless you suck). It stops to change forms, and even cast AMs. Even if you die to the ghrah, kiting Ix'aern DRK while weakened is stupidly fucking easy.

Soloable by blm/nin(without gaiters), I usually call in more people for the sake of my sanity though.

[Jurojin]

How exactly are you going to get the pets off Ix'DRK solo ?

[Mortaru_]

it's nothing really hard to do, just takes practice.

Get animosity, put on your best DEF/Physical reduction gear.



Pop it at A. Run to B. Die, don't zone, just die. If you kept your distance right Ix'aern should be further behind the Qn'aerns. Reraise, Utsusemi:ni, use a reraiser(goes up faster than earrings/hairpins). From here it's a race to see who can get back to C quickest. Sleep any ghrahs that get in the way on the way back.

Claim it and take it to D before the Qn's get back and it's all yours.

[ummhi]

Dou? Get animsoty, drop party, pop it and have the other person grav/bind the Qn's or just chainspell grav the 2 Qns and they'll deaggro soon enough. Any who, both people gun it to the zone and zone back in asap. Should be fine. What I do is I bring a BLM/RDM friend to dou with. When you get the ixdrk by itself, I bring it to the porter north of the main room you zone into. Have the BLM go through first and cast something on it so it goes through the door and you just kitekitekitekitekitekite and the BLM stand ON the porter and blows it up, zones up, zones back down, rests, blows is up, ports up etc. Makes it easier/faster.

[Kegsay]

Either for the 4 times I've done Ix'DRK I've got retardedly lucky or Ix'DRK does not have Party Hate, eliminating the whole "who has claim" shizdoozle.

Now before naysayers come to flame me and tell me how wrong I am, please test it out. Yes I am aware it is "commonly accepted that Ix'DRK has PT Hate, after all, Wiki says it right?" but in my personal experience, this is not the case. Two people, person with animosity pops it, and runs to the Hu'Xzoi zone. Other person claims Ix'DRK [same pt, no issues] then runs to the Tower room. Done and done. Issues are of course, links [no problem with +% speed] and the original popper getting back alive [which if they have some defensive buffs which they should, they should be fine]

Enjoy the long fight+crappy drop~ [and for the record, about 95% of what the one with the Shana avatar says is indeed correct]

[leey]

Ghram do depop after a very short range with movement speed, farming them as BLU (crimson legs) if fight is going bad (low MP or some stupid combination of Ghram being a whore) i dont have to run far at all to lose hate so a 50- max should be fine to depop it shit ive had them in range to hit me with a spell and give up.... >_>