Duende Cotehardie  

Single BLM fomors spawn as placeholders for the NM Tres Duendes in phomiuna.
http://ffxi.cannotlinkto/mobdb/3244

I got this armor piece a bit ago and wanted to know exactly how much the Conserve MP trait on this was helping. I set up the following test:

I wrote a set of seven macros that would cast Ice Spikes 20 times in a row. I ran through this seqence with the Cotehardie on then again with it off. I repeated that five times for a total 200 Ice Spikes spells cast. I alternated the coat on/coat off to try to minimize any possible effects of the day or time. Here's what I got for the MP usages of casting 20 spells each time:

Coat On:
279
288
295
291
295
Average: 289.6

Coat Off:
286
298
286
305
316
Average: 298.2

If I had no conserve MP, the sequence would cost 16*20=320 MP. When you compare the actual costs, you get:

Coat On: Used 90.5% of the stated MP cost
Coat Off: Used 93.2% of the stated MP cost

It looks like over time the extra Conserve MP from the coat lowers MP usage by 4%, which fits real nice with the +4 stated here. At level 50-ish BLM (what I was when i did this), my natural Conserve MP does about a -6%, so this coat brings it down to -10% MP used, which is pretty nice. ^^

Hope that helps anyone who is trying to decide between this and something else.

Got this yesterday and was totally not expecting it. An LS friend happened to be going through L.Jeuno at the time and got a few of us together to join an alliance that already had 9 people.

Anyway, ran to Phomiuna Aqueducts and we killed a couple of Fomors and got drops pretty quickly for several in the group. After getting enough for the NIN in the party we moved on to the first party, which is a Fomor BLM, Fomor WAR, and a Fomor DRK. This fight is extremely easy if you do not jump in without any plan whatsoever. First off, let me mention that we did NOT have a PLD and only had 1 NIN out of a party of 15. The battle plan was this:

One ranger uses shadowbind on the WAR, and the WHM use Elemental Seal/Silence on the BLM and the DRK. If you have a BLM or RDM with a high enfeebling, you can Elemental Seal/Sleepga, but it is not necessary. Everybody then jumps the BLM and kill him quite unmercifully. I would say that it did not last no more than 30 seconds when we engaged it. After the BLM goes down, the attention changes focus to the DRK and finally the WAR. At this point you can also put a person or two on the WAR if you want just to keep hate control. Total battle time was no more than 3 minutes tops.

Lucky for me, the BLM dropped the Aries Subligar and I was able to outlot the other BLM in the party. Unfortunately the WAR and the DRK did not drop anything. We waited for the party to respawn and proceeded to crush it a second time, giving both the WAR and the DRK subligars.

After going to the library and getting totally raped by 6 Formors at once and having 2 stegotaurs pop on top of us, we HPed. Traveled to Bastok in order to finish the quest, and dear Brygid wants me to wear a White Cloak and Silk Pants. The cloak was no problem, because I have a WHM friend in the LS who loaned me his. The pants, of course, were not on sale in Jeuno, but I was lucky enough to find one in Bastok for 100K (eeew). Now it is time to try the thing out, even though I think that it totally looks awful on a bald Hume. >.>

This is totally worth going after if you can get some good people together. The subligar drop pretty well and it is alot of fun.

I think the "Conserve MP+4" doesn't mean that when conserve mp happens, it doesn't conserve more. It just means that the occurence of Conserve Mp is increased. Like with it equipped you have a higher chance of Conserve Mp kicking in.

I submitted a picture of this, but if you want to see it before it shows up here, you can view it at:

http://www.anubie.org/images/duendecotehardie.jpg

It's nothing outrageously amazing, but I still like it--it gets fashion points! :)

Edit: That link button on here really hates me -.-;

Edited, Wed Mar 23 16:30:11 2005

Got it to work...

did some test on it...

tested with some spells and these were how much they costed when I got them to kick in.

Reraise = 90
Poisona = 5
Paralyna = 7
Curaga = 45

So... ya it does work, and the cost seems random too.

I am lucky enough to have this item for my 67 BLM/33 WHM , on the Leviathan server. It ROCKS THE HOUSE! Very much worth the effort involved, the BLM formor's are tough, and usually grouped with other formors, so they are tricky to kill. The Conserve MP is VERY noticable, kicks in much more often then it used to. I highly recommend it ^^

Because I was curious as to whether conserve MP +4 affected how often the ability kicked in, or how potent it was. I did a comparison of 12 castings of Curaga (because 60 was a nice round number I could easily compare by) one with the Cotehardie and one without

These are the 12 castings of with the cotehardie, how much mp was consumed. (note these numbers are a little skewed as I was mostly paying attention to the 10s digit)

60
60
30
40
30
50
60
60
60
30
60
60

And these are the 12 castings of without it

60
60
50
60
30
60
60
60
60
60
60
60


As you can see conserve MP kicked in about 5/12 times while wearing the cotehardie vs 2/12 times while not wearing it. As such I believe it is safe to assume that the conserve MP +4 influences the frequency rather than potency of the Conserve MP ability.

I'd be willing to bet that a SMN wearing this could expect to occasionally see the effects of Conserve MP kick in on Blood Pact abilities.

How would Conserve MP work if you're not BLM or /BLM? The item it still pretty beefy, though, and if I can get one for my Black Mage I'll be a happy little Taru.

Not bad but I'd take the Nimbus Doublet over this, cause how many ppl actually own a Dark Spirit? A smn that was looking for Toraimarai Canal Coffer key with me last night, was wearing it seems good but lots of better body pieces out there.

Edited, Fri Dec 24 01:20:22 2004

actually saw someone with this on in Jeuno on Quetz. god i want this......