Radar on BCNM50 Treasure and Tribulations??? : FFXI General Discussions

On the BCNM50 in Giddeus Treasure and Tribulations there are 3 treasure chests 1 being full of treasure and 2 being mimics which will almost garantee death and a horrible waste of 50 seals. So my question is, is there anyway to use the radar plugin to see which 2 are mimics and which one is treasure or do you think this info is not sent to the client untill after a choice has been made? I tried myself but i could not read anything as my radar was filled with all the previous names of people who died. Just wondering if some tweak or change to the radar plugin could give us an advantage on this as it would be great to have an easy way to get an Astral Ring other than wasting a crap load of seals or spending 700k. Thanks for any response recieved:)

Its possible the mobid for the chest with treasure is the same. More likely though to prevent cheating I am willing to bet money that all 3 chests are the same. I bet there is just a 1/3 chance that the one you open has the treasure. I doubt it matters which one you open.

I dunno, I have a few extra kindred seals, i'll try it out

i have yet to try but one of my LS members soloed this BCNM 50 by entering and casting a ga spell on the middle chest. the 2 mimics disappeared and he was left with the treasure chest , i have yet to try this since my job is war/nin but i am lvling rdm to 15 to try this. as far as i know you can no longer get the astral rings in this BCNM. on other sites all i can find is that the astral ring is obtain via BCNM 20 > wings of fury. good luck and happy hunting

Thanks for the great replys I appreciate the fast response. As far as using a -ga spell it could be that he cast it on the correct chest as why it worked, not that he hit them all as you have to pick a starting chest to cast the -ga spell on, but if you do in fact try it, I would love to hear your results. Currently I am leveling my BLM so i should get a -ga spell soon too so I may try when I get another 50 seals. As far as the astral ring is concerned I was reading a site that said it was still here and that it was moved here from the coffers in Castle Otroja (spelling?), oh well if its not it will still be nice to get the other goodies.

Thanks

Anyone else have any input?

I'd bet the real chest always has the same mobID, but I don't know many ppl who would spend the 50-100 seals needed to figure it out when they are better spent on BCNM60's phat loots.

Well I've never done a BCNM using the kindred seals. However, if they are anything like the regular beastman seals, the orb isn't used up until you actually get something. I.E. You keep the orb, even if you die. It's only until you get something does the orb go poof.

Please correctly if I'm wrong but that's the way it worked with the regular seal BCNMs I've done.

You're wrong, haha.

Once you use your orb it's gone, regardless of whether you win, lose, die, run out of time, etc, etc, etc, etc. Before you say anything about how you were able to re-use yours, I've done over 100 BCNM's to date and every single time I've used an orb it's gone win, lose, draw, or death!

Another thing is this BCNM is not a kindred seals BCNM anyways. It's a normal beastmen seal one.
For reference you can go HERE to check it out.

Well it was a long time ago, over a year. They may changed it, but it used to be that you didn't loose the orb. I tried a lvl 30 bcnm 3 times in a row, and died all 3 and still had it. But like I said that was a long time ago.

you never "lose" the orb per say. it ALWAYS stays in your inventory until you drop it. However you can only actually use it once. If you try and use it again it will tell you that it is "cracked" and unusable. It doesn't matter if you win or lose... it still is only usable one time. It has always been this way.

once orb is used and cracked you can trade it back to the guy in jueno and get a little fame by doing that

I don't know how I used it 3 times then

They didn't have bcnm 30's over a year ago -.- we had to wait til we were level 40 to do bcnm's ^^

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They brought out the bcnm 30/20 maybe 4-5 months ago? maybe a lil longer but not a year ago.. unless time really does fly..

They brought out bcnm 30/20 when they released FFXI to Playstation cause the whole world was complaining about all the noobie questions we'd be getting about ps2 ..

<Huh!?>

what did that have to do wish BCNM 50's?

Actually it has been almost a year now. I quit in about august last year. And it was before that.

The playstation version was easily released over a year ago.