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Graywords
12-04-2002, 05:14 AM
Okay, so in the GameCube version, enemies are reset to full health after piping. Meaning that if you sit back and waste all the mothmants in a monest, but leave the nest ALIVE, then pipe down, then return... all of the mothmants will be alive inside the nest again, ripe for the slaughter! I'm sure I'm not the first to notice this.

Now in normal mode this is just about useless, seeing as you only get a whopping 1 exp from each mothmant. =p But in Hard, VHard and Ultimate, you could feasibly enter a room with a monest or two, wipe out all the buggies, leave the nests alive, and keep on returning for endless exp in the forest! Seeing as some nests release up to 20 bugs on VHard at 80 exp a pop, that starts adding up. http://www.pso-world.com/psoworld/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/anime1.gif

Kind of pointless, seeing as there are many quicker ways to get exp, but it's a neat little side effect of the GCN version's feature of restoring mobs after piping. =)
Al-Rappy
12-04-2002, 05:42 AM
Eh... I dunno, this may be good for lower level characters but it isn't at all good if your up over lv 100.
Elusive_Llama
12-04-2002, 07:58 AM
Do moths drop anything good at all? I could have sworn that one of them dropped an Inferno Bazooka last night for my friend's RAcast, but that was on Vhard.
rbf2000
12-04-2002, 09:05 AM
As far as I know, when you pipe back to town with a monothist in the room, it "deactivates" and stops spitting out the bugs.

Maybe it's differant in ep2, or I just didn't notcie correctly...
ABDUR101
12-04-2002, 03:36 PM
From what I've seen, only the first wave of mothmants drop items, and after you kill the initial wave they only come one at a time. The time it takes you to acrue exp points from one mothmant every so often, would best be spent going through the rest of the areas of the game and possibly finding more items and so on.

The time/exp gain ratio just doesn't add up when you're fighting one mothmant at a time. =
Whatley
12-04-2002, 09:13 PM
A monest will spit out 2 mothmants at a time after it falls to the ground.
ABDUR101
12-04-2002, 09:25 PM
On 2002-12-04 19:13, Whatley wrote:
A monest will spit out 2 mothmants at a time after it falls to the ground.

hmm, I've been killing it too quickly then. >_>

It usually only throws one out by the time I reach it and *insert afew slash sounds here*... =X