Abyssea

Okay, since there's a lot to read in this thread I hope you don't mind my asking but.. what does the light actually do? As well as the red chests.

IMO, lights are built up, an accumulation of all of the lights you've received.

Not sure the exact names of strengths, but ones I remember
Feeble
Faint
Mild
Strong
Intense

Would be something like feeble adds +1 to your aura. Faint would be +2, etc. Each time you get the feeble message your aura increases. So in the example below, you would be Azure aura +5 and ruby aura +3: (Going to say this is purely hypothetical atm, but would be my best guess from observations.)

You gain a feeble azure light. (+1)
You gain a feeble azure light. (+1)
You gain a faint ruby light. (+2)
You gain a feeble azure light. (+1)
You gain a faint azure light. (+2)
You gain a feeble azure light. (+1)
You gain a feeble ruby light. (+1)

Getting up to a combined total of lights +10 would give you tier 3 (guess) chests
Getting up to +20 would give you tier 4 (guess) chests
Getting up to +30 would give you tier 5 (guess) chests
Getting up to +40 would give you tier 6 (guess) chests = 1000 cruor, 1250 exp, Time

You can see from the above, that each kill is increasing your light. It's not a reflection of your total light, just how much you gained from that mob. The type of chest that drops would be more often your highest aura, and less often your next highest aura, and so on, all the way down to a base rate of chests dropping regardless of killshot type. My best guess, either your total aura or the exp you're gaining from the mob would determine the rate of chests dropping.

Anyone that has been opening chests for an alliance, should notice that once 6 guess chests are dropping, that's all that are dropping. The only time you might notice anything different or lower is if you:

A. kill a different type of mob or NM, resetting chain (Definitely resets exp, not sure about the light accumulation theory)
B. Zone, die (?), or have a new member getting killshot

It seems plausible to me, when we just farm bunnies (3man) we got more chests than when we fought Puks because we couldn't kill as many :X

Results:

We killed a total of 86 mobs in 110 minutes. I received 14,645 XP and 2,456 cruor from the fights. I received an additional 500 XP and 1,000 cruor from chests. I received a total of 15,145 XP and 3,456 cruor.

We received a total of 11 chests.

Three contained minuscule amounts of cruor (200).
One contained a small amount of cruor (400).
Two contained a little experience (500), one of which was failed.
One contained a feeble soothing light (single person heal).
Two contained temporary items, one of which was failed.
One contained a faint pearlescent light.
One contained items (Dragon meat and Rascanda log).

Did a 4 man run and got a 1k exp and 1k cruor chest though.

WAR/NIN, MNK/NIN, RDM/WHM and PLD/NIN I think. The Cruor chest dropped after the MNK timed out lol

No we got a 200 cruor chest I believe, one was EXP and I got an augmented jeweled neck with MND 1 as well as some temp items.

That BG theory on the chests is accurate. After a certain amount of azure light is built up, you will only see 6 guess chests.

I've been the designated chest opener for all the runs I've done so far. After so much light is built up, you only get 6 guess chests. I usually open red only if they are azure, gold, or silver light on the inside. I leave them alone otherwise.

So far I've only had time extension chests once the guesses had jumped to 6. I've never opened a time extension chest with less.

So if it is possible, someone let me know. I haven't seen it.

I don't think this has been asked before but are there mobs to charm in the zone or if not can bst solo anything there with jugs?

Ah one more question. What produces the silver and gold light and what does it do?

Ruby chests.

Gold Light Raises the Cruor Cap

Silver light Raises the Exp cap


Or vice versa, I'm not entirely sure.

0/5 thew bomblet NM

Did u bring a TH with you? few days are went 4/4 drop w/ TH..next run 0/5 w/o TH :(