Nyzul Isle Musings

Just as for everything else, it's been quite awhile since I've posted about our Nyzul Isle static's progress. Things seem to be winding down a bit, as we've got nearly all of the armor that people were interested in, but we're still missing desired weapons, and at least Erock would like to get a runic key (he hasn't raised a disc yet). And I need at least 129,000 tokens for my book for my Burtgang :-).

My last Nyzul update covered our disastrous first run on Floor 100, where Anastasia's disc got wiped. Since then, we've leveled my disc from level 61 to Floor 100, done another 9 Floor 100 bosses, raised Daden's disc to 96, and done lots and lots of farming on various levels. We've been doing quite well on our runs, with occasional bad luck giving us some really tough floor combinations, like Psycheflayer families, five lamps in the right order and huge kill-all floors. Floor 100 hasn't been generous to us, and so far, we only have had 3 hats in 11 runs, but they were the 3 Askar Zucchettos that people really wanted the most, so that was good at least.

Other than the hats, we've been having really decent luck on our drops, and we haven't yet had to toss something no one wanted while trying to get a particular desired piece. Our Floor 60 luck has been phenomenal - we've got 9 drops in 9 kills, and they were all the ones we wanted. Recently, I completed my Askar set, getting the Askar Manopolas on our 4th level 60 run of the night. Two weeks earlier, we had 3 level 80 runs for body pieces, and got Goliard for Erock, and Askar for Yobun and I.

Overall, we have a 66% drop rate on boss kills, ranging from 30% on hats to 100% on hands. We've won 31 pieces total out of 47 kills. Of those 31 pieces, 16 were Askar, 9 Goliard, and 6 Denali.

Anastasia has leveled SCH to 75, and has been coming on that instead of BLM. This has been working out quite well for us, especially on the boss floors. At times we've missed her Sleepga II and Stun, but the benefits of SCH outweigh the benefits of BLM for us. The rest of us pretty much stick to RDM THF PLD SAM and SAM, though Daden has been coming on his WAR once in awhile instead of SAM. I just don't understand why the general opinion of PLD in Nyzul is bad. It works very well for us.

I still really enjoy Nyzul. We've got a really good team that works well together, and the randomness of the floors keeps it different enough to not feel like you're doing exactly the same thing every time, with the same mobs in the same spots over and over again, like Limbus and Dynamis.

We also finally got Lucrezia her X's Knife from Requiem of Sin, on something like our 30th attempt. To replace that pre-Nyzul activity, we've started in on the Ashu Talif quests. We did the first, Scouting the Ashu Talif, two weeks ago, and though it was a bit messy, we won. Last week we moved on the Royal Painter Escort, and were surprised at how easy it was. The goal for this is to repeat the third quest, Targeting the Captain, and hopefully we'll get some of those Barbarossa's Zerehs for people who want them. So far so good, as we won a pair on our first run last night. Anastasia has some very nice new shorts for her PUP!