Wings of Fury  

Did this today, my first bcnm.

Setup: me, galkan BST20/WHM10 (base of 23CHR by the way),another BST20/WHM10, elvaan, and a hume WHM20/BLM10. Equip on all members
wasn't too extravagant, me and the other BST had about +10 CHR normally, +15 CHR with Tuna Sushi up.
The WHM used an apple pie for good measure, and we all had pineapple juice as well.

The Fight: Bats only begin to fight when you get close, so we threw Protectra up, ate our respective foods, and healed whatever HP and MP needed. I took
the bat on the left, while the other bst approached from the right. We used charm the same time, and when you're close enough Colo-Colo is already on you. My charm stuck the first time, but the other furies chased my bst friend until his 3rd or 4th charm. Still no problem, furies aren't that bad. In general, charm stuck for a few mins, and when it wore off, re-charming wasn't anything too difficult. Max amount of tries I had to do is 3. Just that Colo-Colo will be constantly attacking/poisonga'ing/debuffing whoever has hate at the time. Another note: Familiar, the BST 2-Hour, is not necessary here. If anything, use reward if you really need to keep your pet alive. Colo-Colo was dead before the two furies were, and when that happened, we waited for charm to wear off. Then me and the other bst went in and killed the furies, since they only had slivers of hp left. Although we didn't break any records, it was a very solid approach that worked very well.

Drops: What I can't really tell you is how the drop on astrals are. Although deemed a horrible drop, I got it on my first try, and the second time I got a thunder spirit pact. I hope to do this more in the future so I have a better look at the drop rate.

Have fun fellow astral seekers, and good luck.


Edited, Thu Aug 25 00:22:06 2005

Edited, Thu Aug 25 00:27:00 2005

did this 4 times last night with:
taru whm/blm
taru war/mnk
hume bst/whm

we pwned these bats 4 times in a row (after a trip to jeuno for another orb) and got the astral on the first fight...got the thunder pact on the second one and nothing special on the 3rd and 4th fights...but that right there is 333,333 each for the astral wo0t! didnt break the 5 min and some odd seconds record but this was no problem with our setup

I did this twice about a week ago, friend wanted the Spirit Pact.

1) PLD/WAR (me), DRG/WHM, BST/WHM.

Nobody had 'good' equips, and I think I was the only one who took food (Boiled Crab and a few juices).
The plan was for me to occupy one Furie while the BST charmed the other and sent it to attack Colo-colo. I got aggro from the 3 bats at the same time, the DRG tried taking the other furie off me but died almost instantly. The BST then charmed 1 and sent it to attack Colo, but it wore off too quickly. He dies, shortly followed by me.

2) PLD/WAR (me), DRG/WAR (his Wyvern had died) and BST/WHM.

This time the BST went to charm a Furie first. Failed first charm, got attacked by the others. I voke'd Colo off him and the DRG took the other Furie. When BST charmed, he sent it after Colo whilst we finished off the other Furie.

We rested after our Furie died and watched the charmed Furie fight Colo. It soon died and we piled on Colo. Easy win.

Bat Fang
Bat Wing
Purple Rock
Thunder Spirit Pact
Astral Ring

Unfortunatly it wasn't my orb :(.

So has anyone tried using a signal pearl npc as the third member for the BCNM? I am about to try it with SMN, SMN, npc (if it will work). lol I'll let you know how it goes.

I just leveled BST to 20 and thought I may as well give it a go. I grab a couple of friends from my linkshell (AsuranWarriors) and give it a go. Heres what happened:

BST/WHM (Me, Finntan)
DRG/RDM (Eidan. For Healing Breath)
WHM/BLM (Oddo)

I was a little sceptical, as this was our first attempt. And it didn't help our confidence watching a party die before us =/

Anyhoo, the plan was, DRG jumps on one of the Furries, takes it to the edge of the arena and starts killing it, while I charm the other and set it on Colo.

First Charm, didn't stick (=/) So I ran around in circles hitting my charm macro repetedly. Second time, it stuck! I wack my Familiar macro and set it on Colo.

While they're fighting it out, I go help Eidan kill the Other Furrie, which didn't take long and was a piece of cake. We healed up and waited for my charmed bats to die, and then we attacked colo, who had about 1/4 health left. Took a while to die, but it was a piece of cake.

We got:
Platoon Lance
Ganko
Bat Wing
Bat Fang
Thunder Spirit

Suprisingly easy win, no ring (; ;) but alot of fun ^^. Going to do it again later with my Orb.
Wish me luck =P







Edited, Mon Aug 22 04:26:30 2005

my friend and his friend are all planing on doing this as bst/whm, exept for me me, i am going to go as /nin. were planing on just charming both Furies, and using 2hr, and send them on the Colo-colo. wait till the colo-colo is almost dead and use heel, and let the furies die, then kill the colo-colo. if any one has any ideas, id be happy to hear them, thanks

I find this works faster with 2 smn/whm and one melee (in this case drg/war). We go in buff and summon Garuda then melee attacks colo and when all 3 bats are on the melee both smns use astral flow which kills colo then we take down the furies one at a time. Using this setup we have beaten this in 2 min 31 sec. Smns used 1 yagudo drink and 1 ether each and drg/war used a pamama au lait and a meatkabob.

Edited, Fri Aug 19 21:21:39 2005

What are the coordinates to enter the BC???

thinking about trying to solo this when my bst gets to lvl 20, ihave a rough idea how to solo but my question is do persikos au lait , yagudo drink and tuna sushi all stack or does lait count as food ?

I went in With my Friend Darenn, i was a 20 MNK/WAR and he was a 20 BST/NIN, we went in and made several mistakes like forgetting to use food... and he failed to charm furies twice while i Hundred Fists the other furries, Once he got Charm he 2Houred and had it fight Colo Colo, after i killed my Furries i went out of Ranged and rested with Darenn. When his Furries died we Duo'd Colo Colo and pwned him. Only had to use 1 Hi-Potion each. and we got a Thunder Spirit Pact and Broke the record by a minute or so. IN MY Name.

what is the rate of drop for it then?

Edited, Fri Aug 12 18:48:07 2005

How about this setup?

WHM/BST
DRG
WAR/NIN.

Would the white mage still be able to charm the monster if its just a sub? Or would it be like charming an INC++++++?

EH, I messed up..


Well, this was easy. We had PLD(ME), BST, and WHM.

After we got buffs. BST used food to raise character and WHM used yaguda drinks.

BST used his 2hr at the beginning and charmed a bat and had it attack the other bat as I voked colo. Our bat died and BST finished off the other bat. I had colo on me the whole time, cured to get some hate. Finished this with no problem.

Best drop was Thunder pact. Gonna try this again.

Edited, Mon Aug 8 11:27:26 2005

Just got pimpslapped three times, and then a Time limit bust the fourth.

WHM/BLM <--Me.
PAL/???
BST/WHM

First three times, Charm didn't stick. Last time, used Familiar, so it wouldn't uncharm. Thought of logging out too late. >.< I needed this for gil, and still do. Anyone on Seraph up for it, let me know.