Joyeuse  

I had this once, befor i quit over 3-4Years ago, Its one bad weapon! I used it on my BRD for kicks, then worked on lvling my RDM when I quit, biggest mistake i ever made! Now im happy that im getting right back into it right now.

Edited, Jun 14th 2010 11:53pm by namelessfate

I've had the sword for about a year now when I finally noticed the ATT on it. I had my Pluto's staff equipped and my attack was 143. Then I equipped the JoyToy and saw my attack go up over 100 points. It was then 269. @_@

I realize it "occasionally attacks twice" which is an insane amount. But I never knew it actually boosted your attack this much. Is it a hidden stat that's not really talked about or is that how it attacks so much and it's just assumed we all knew it?

OMG its finally over, after about a year a randomly camping this thing about once a week i finally took 4/5 days to do nothing but try and get this. Started on a Thursday and said if I didnt havce it by Sunday night well then so be it. I had a few friends camp it with me thu/fri just to really get the TOD while they broke latents. And then friday I finally had a capable party of 5 to do it and I was using a stop watch to ready the party at 16 min intervals to ready to claim and low in behold with about 15 seconds to pop a loan RDM runs in and charby pops right on her head. I'm like you've got to be kidding me. She kites it for about 12 minutes when finally the other mantra pops and she gets a link. She handled it pretty well for about another 5 mintues and then got stuck when charby's gravity didnt land. The very second she dies her party shows up to the second. And with our DRK zerging immediatly and we lose stun our blu/pld which could have very easily tanked it with 600 defense+ gets tanking out by TP moves. And we lose claim and I lose my chance at charby :(. 8 Hours later Saturday night ,Once again there to get TOD, I get it. So sunday morning comes at around 8 in the morning. Once again another capable party charby pops on 3rd window and another rdm gets charby presented to him right in front and charby aggros him lol. So now I've got one chance left so my LS finally takes it upon themselves to get me the is sword. I come down there to find about 25 people from 3/4 LS's and figure its over good ridance. But my LS shows up so were about 10 strong at this point. THe room is so crowded you can not even move. 2 hours into window charby pops right on front of other LS's nin, but he provokes to fast and gets stunned, and low and behold I got claim with DIA!!!. We zerg his *** and the joytoy is finally mine. Thank you so much TGS and the following people

Suzanoo
Jadas
Skygod
Cesar
Rdragon
Konkrete
Sparda
Dephiance
Nerthus

Camped this for over 200 hours so far.

Been stolen from me twice, and waited over 12 hours past window other times.

Offering 800k reward to anyone who gets me one.

Im on sylph

Got this on Saturday after 1 week of holding ToD.

Group was:

75NIN/WZR
75BRD/WHM
75RED/BLM
75PLD/NIN

Took a few min but overall was easy.

dancer can equip this too
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hope that means DNC gets good sword skill

Woot Got My Joyeuse the other day i went down campin him was killin PH's
when a 75War/nin showed up we started talking then join up to Duo the PH
and work on his GA ws Latent we agreed that when charby pop we kill and we lot on sword and whoever loses the other person helps the other get sword.
so we camp for bout 5hrs but i gotta go to dynamis. so im in dynamis i get tell from war charby up im like damn him and his ls kill he gets sword and sends me time of death. so im like thx so i go to bed with TOD get up and start my campin again few hrs a rdm and a nin from my ls come down to camp also
cause the rdm needed sword. so we camp for another 2hr when nin had to log
so me and rdm left killin PH im 75Pld/rdm he 75Rdm/whm it lunch time so i tell him i brb gonna grab some food. so i come back and almost choke on the roll i was eating cause charby was up me and rdm spam LS chat CHARBY IS UP quickly our LS gathered but had no nin cause she had to log. so i ask ls leader to come tank on thf so with in 20min we had 2thf/nin brd/nin drk/war me a Pld/rdm
and like 6RDM and the war friend who told me TOD came as BLM and we kill so
me and rdm lot on sword and i won lot. but we also have TOD so the LS had SKY event and charby window opened in middle of it so after sky i went back down
to SSG where i found a RDM DOT kiting charby so i tell LS the RDM who needed
and the Nin came down. the kiter died along with a thf and smn who was helping him so charby went unclaimed so our nin voked and begen the funnest fight ive been in after the 3of us fought him finally we won and the rdm got his Joteuse also. got pics of our fights on our LS web site WWW.MysticalPheonix.com
just click on the link to the new forum page.

Is this a 100% drop or what is the rate on it? Thanks.

wow, you wiped that many times with that many people fighting? ive killed it 3 times so far, every time its been duo 75blu and 75rdm, never get anywhere close to death.

After about 3 months of patience it was finally time to get my joy toy. And I just finally did get it ^^. Duoed it. It was a really easy fight.

I got my Joyeuse on April Fool's Day. Thanks to:

Chemius (RDM)
Saturna (BRD)
Kestrel (WHM)
Decious (NIN, my brother)
Bobar (SMN, played by me, but not my main character)

I decended upon Sea Serpent's Grotto knowing full well that Charby's window had recently opened. It was midnight, and the place was surpisingly empty. I walked inside Charby's room, and a tiny group of people had amassed. They all seemed AFK, except for a thief, who examined me. All the placeholders were dead.

My brother promised to help me get a Joyeuse, but he was in Sky fighting gods. I figured I could hang out in Sea Serpent's Grotto, just to make sure no one else killed Charby while I was waiting for my party. His window had just opened 15 minutes before I got there, so I assumed there was no way he'd pop before my brother arrived. A PH popped, so I started killing it with Fenrir.

Something strange happens to me every time a NM spawns. I get a gurgle in my stomach, and a moment of clairevoyance, as if I know without a doubt the mob I'm hunting is about to pop. Off in the distance of Charby's cave, I noticed another Manta mob spawning. It didn't stick out particular well, and I couldn't read its name, but I knew it was Charybdis. While Fenrir finished the PH i started to kill, I ran over to the new mob to target it. Sure enough, it was Charybis.

The thief had to have known as well; he had checked my not a minute ago. So then it became a race between his back-up and mine. Sadly, within minutes, a brd and mnk enter the secret door, both friends of the thf. They claimed Charby, but the fight was doomed from the beginning. The thf was knocked down to 50% health, and the mnk acquired a link from the newly spawned Devil Manta. The brd took too much hate, and Charby made short work of him. The thf didn't last long after that. Charby then finished off the weakened mnk.

My friends were fresh out of Sky and on their way. Other people showed up: a pld, a rng, a sam... No party set-ups that traditionally work on Charby. My brother tells me he is close, so I claim Charybdis with Carby. Everyone gets there and we go to work.

There's always a scare in the first 15 seconds of fighting Charby. Without proper debuffs and evasion songs, he will just go to town on the tank. My bro gets knocked down to 400 health in the first 5 seconds, but we bounce back quick. It was overkill for sure, though. Smn work extremely well on this fight, as they can do hate-free spike damage, and adaquete buffs (Eva +, Acc+, Stoneskin).

I was playing around with my Joyeuse as 71 PLD, tanking in a pt the other day. TO anyone who doubts what this weapon can do in the right hands... I took a screenshot of a short span of the log in the following link: http://img3.freeimagehosting.net/image.php?0933021766.jpg I'm Ryujistorm (the Paladin with Joyeuse). You have to really examine the log to understand it all, but if you do, you'll notice I"m attacking SEVEN times to the Warrior's ONE (GA) attack, and completely outdamaging him with DoT. The only player that came close to my DoT was the Dragoon, who had excellent gear and was using sole sushi. IN fact, all the DD's in the pt were using sushi of some kind, but I was only using Meat Jerky since it's all I had on me at the time (100gil from npc's in unlimited supply). I wasnt using any FANTASTIC gear, just some PLD AF, Ohat+SH(both for ACC), and Dusk Trousers. Also note that I wasnt TRYING to be a DD, I was just trying to be a tank and hold hate against 3 other Melee DD's, and felt I was doing a very good job of that.

Now, I KNOW theres going to be LOTS of haters in reply to this, saying this is wrong, or that is wrong, or you shoudlnt do this, or that, but come on... THis is just meant to be interestign info to see what Joyeuse can do WHILE tanking... nothing more, nothing less, so chill out, and enjoy the little tidbit of info, and decide if Charybdis is worth camping for yourself :) Anyway, here's some numbers based on the SS in the log:

PLD/WAR = 45 48 43 43 43 43 = 265 (Number of attacks on SS, SEVEN, counting one miss)
DRG/WAR = 96 + 123 = 219 (with excellent gear) (two attacks in SS)
WAR/NIN = 74 from one attack total (greataxe) (One attack in SS)
PUP/WAR = 41 + 28 + 41 = 110 (H2H) (clearly made a double/kick attack here) (3 attacks in SS, using H2H, so always at least 2 attacks)