does TH affect empyrean armour droprate?Follow

I was farming for my rdm feet in abyssea-attowa for 5+ hours, with 255 azure 255 amber 255 pearl light, and i have not seen any empyrean armour in the big gold chest.

i am using rdm/dnc , my target is the rock murex.

does TH affect the drop rate?

does the empyrean armour shown up when u peek the chest content or do u have to open the chest in order to see it?

ic, thks for the reply

TH does, however, have a known effect on seal and +2 item drops drops, so if you are unable to have a full set of procs in a farming group, its a good idea to bring along some THF to ensure each round isn't a total waste.

Main thing that seemed to enhance the drop rate wasn't really affecting the drop rate, but chest spawn rate. Check the state of the martello cores. Forget what was what, but certain ones affect things like treasure and chest spawn rates. Emphasis on chest manifestation enhancement. The more frequently chests can drop, the more chances you have to get a gold chest.

Otherwise, it's basically pot luck. Get as close as you can to an increase of big gold chests. Once you start seeing augmented items showing up, you're close to or in the "danger zone" where KI's start showing up more often.

One way to keep track of it is to check the boxes as if you were going to open them. It will give you a range to guess in (like 11-33). Once the higher number hits @50, you are near capped tier 3. Any higher than that, you are getting into Tier 4 range where large chests with KI can start spawning. You want to keep that high number UNDER 75 so it keeps a decent number of smaller chests. Any higher than that, and you will be shifting towards a higher large chest rate with KI's in them.

You could cleave on Rdm itself if you're so inclined and got the atmas for Aeolian.

If you are farming in Attohwa, try this:

Equip atmas that enhance MAB and wind elemental damage. I would suggest: Atma of Gales, Atma of Hell's Guardian/Atma of the Ultimate/Atma of the Baying Moon/Atma of the Beyond (one of these, if you have Hells Guardian get that first otherwise work down the line), and Atma of the Gnarled Horn/Atma of Roaring Laughter (when you are cleaving, I find counter to be important for TP gain).

Next, max amber. Only get Azure to 128. Dont be too concerned with pearl (as you will naturally get it while cleaving). You wont be getting many time extensions, but I found that not getting any more than 128 azure is important as otherwise, you will get like 70% blue boxes, 20% gold, and 10% red with anything more than 128 azure. Actually, many times when I was farming feet I skipped azure entirely.

Lastly, cleave chigoes using the dagger WS Aeolian Edge (hopefully you have it, it requires 290 dagger skill but hopefully yours is closer to 390).

I first attempted to get my feet on my MNK killing a few at a time but I became frustrated after 30+ hours farming using a similar method you are using now. I switched to THF and followed the advice above and got ALL feet to drop within 3-4 hours (I had to reenter cause of a timeout too).

Edited, Apr 27th 2012 8:54am by ManifestOfKujata

If you are "cleaving" using Aeolian Edge, you don't need Amber maxed to start. AE kill shots will give amber, so you can start with a lower amount and it will gradually work its way up to cap.