Black Belt NM Adjustments

[dev1009] New Trigger Conditions for Notorious Monsters

Trigger conditions for following notorious monsters will be adjusted to spawn by trading specific items to the “???” in the respective area.

Fafnir / Nidhogg: Dragon’s Aery
Behemoth / King Behemoth: Behemoth’s Dominion
Adamantoise / Aspidochelone: Valley of Sorrows

- The ”???” will respawn a minute after the battle is over.
- The NM will despawn if unclaimed for 90 seconds at the spawned location.
- The feature wherein the level of these monsters will increase after battling them for a period of time will remain unchanged.

How to obtain the trigger items:

Fafnir: Treasure from “Early Bird Catches the Wyrm”
Behemoth: Treasure from “Horns of War”
Adamantoise: Treasure from “The Hills are Alive”
* At least one of these items will be dropped in every battle.

Nidhogg: Treasure dropped by Fafnir
King Behemoth: Treasure dropped by Behemoth
Aspidochelone: Treasure dropped by Adamantoise

The treasures dropped by the following notorious monsters will be adjusted as follows:

Fafnir : Wyrm Beard removed
Nidhogg : Drop rate of Wyrm Beard decreased
Behemoth : Behemoth Tongue removed
King Behemoth : Drop rate of Behemoth Tongue decreased
Adamantoise : Adamantoise Egg removed
Aspidochelone : Drop rate of Adamantoise Egg decreased


http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxi/threads/5774

Finally I will be able to get a Black Belt, without Exodus stealing the nm's all the time. We will have to setup KSNM99 runs for the pop items, but everyone with MNK in the ls will be able to get a Black Belt way easier and in 1 day.

This seems to put an ease to those that are left behind trying to compete with other hnmls's that just monopolize the pop areas. I agree Zan this will make it easier to get Black belts. We still need to defeat the ksnm 99's.

This will also allow exp partying outside abyssea zones to collect or even straight farm kindred seals. I really like this change. In the long run we will see people going back to the old zones and freeing up congested areas like abyssea. we can do kindred farm runs on ep mobs lol would be kool.