Talk:Operation Desert Swarm

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(In reference to the BST group strategy): Call Beast pets no longer go with the BST through the warp into this KSNM - Hiachi 21:00, 14 July 2006 (EDT)

The drop rate of the Serket Ring is abysmal. 8% at best.--Pook 12:23, 8 April 2007 (EDT)

aoe dmg increase?

as far as i can tell, the dmg from there AEs does NOT increase as they die. its hitting my group, for a consistant 120-200 or so, regardless of how many are left.

anyone care to confirm? Rog 15:53, 24 May 2007 (CDT)

As a RDM killing these 1 by 1 today, I noticed I could absorb 2 AoEs in the beginning if I got hit with them. On the last scorpion I was getting hit for upwards of 600. A bit of an extreme example, but it does feel like they scale up. Also, they seem to get TP while being slept/kited towards the end because we had one wake up that we hadn't fought yet, and it instantly used a TP move.--Bsphil 16:20, 4 August 2007 (CDT)

I go in with a party of 6. Each person soloes one except that I take 2 as THF/NIN and two other people team up to kill one quickly. It certainly seems that the scorpions start hitting harder and more accurately as they go down. --Claquesous 03:34, 2 February 2008 (UTC)

They Definitely hit harder and more Accurately as the others start dieing, But i've not noticed an Increase in AoE Damage at all. Just did 4 runs today and was almost consistently hit for 100~150DMG From Their AoE's. At one point all 6 Were on the Final Scorpion and it used Earth Pounder with about 15% of its HP left and it hit everyone (all 6 of us) for only 100~130 DMG... Those 600DMG+ AoE's must be some Strange Fluke, doing 2 more though going to report my findings. -Karbuncle

• Edit: Just did Another Run, The Last Scorpion used "Wild Rage" and Hit 4 Of our Members for 500~600DMG, one Evaded, and me (PLD) took 250. So Looks like Earth Pounder does not Scale up with Damage but Wild Rage Does! -Karbuncle

Irregular drop

We got the following drops in a run today. We were very grateful to get Serket's Ring, but sadly this doesn't match the grouping:
Serket's Ring
Heartsnatcher
Claymore Grip
Hierarch Belt
Raxa
Raxa
--Claquesous 03:34, 2 February 2008 (UTC)

Looks like it matches perfectly to me, only irregularity i see is that you got 2 Raxa's. However, it's not unheard of to have the same item belong to 2+ groupings, therefore making it possible to have 2+ drop in the same run.
I'll update the groupings for you. --Jawat 03:50, 2 February 2008 (UTC)

Did one run today. Bow (forgot the name) H.Q shell Philosopher's stone Philosopher's stone Trainer's gloves Sword strap

Possibly the stone belongs in to two groups, much like the Raxa.--Ophenix 14:29, 12 May 2008 (UTC)

Yup, you got it. Updated groupings.--Jawat 16:52, 12 May 2008 (UTC)

Irregular drop

Just got a drop of Phoenix feather AND beetle blood (along with other things that fit into groupings.) I didn't receive anything from group 5 (The group starting with Coral fragment) So I would assume one of these two needs to be moved to that group, OR that one of these two belongs in both groups. I only did one run so far, but if any future runs provide insight I can update it. --Beaster 16:59, 23 August 2008 (UTC)

It's the Phoenix feather that belongs in both groupings, I've seen double drops of them from this and other KSNMs, just been to busy to make the changes myself ^^; --Jawat 17:37, 23 August 2008 (UTC)

I also seen a Phoenix feather drop out of both 5th and 6th group from one drop. And I also saw the 5th or 6th grouping(not sure) get skipped from one drop, because two Phoenix feathers came from one drop. So I'm guessing either the 5th or 6th has a zero to one probability and needs to be fixed. And I'm adding phoenix to the 5th grouping BTW. --Truecrow 16:53, 10 February 2009 (UTC)