How rare are the 12* boards from Bruce S?

[panzer_unit]

Are they rare like boss-drop boards, where you usually get materials and crap... or can you expect to get the good stuff pretty quickly?

[Lamak]

I hear they're pretty rare. Like pre-AoI boost to the PSU Vanilla boss boxes.

[Eleina]

They are less rarer than the 11* weapon boards

[RedMussel]

On 2008-03-19 09:11, Lamak wrote:
I hear they're pretty rare. Like pre-AoI boost to the PSU Vanilla boss boxes.

Not that rare..



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[Astarin]

Well, getting S-rank on Bruce alone seems to be pretty rare so far, so...
*shakes fist at Bruce for being a nub*

[panzer_unit]

Wouldn't a team with a stocked PT just own the place with nonstop EX traps?
Freeze for anything small, Stun for the big stuff... 20 traps vs 91 monsters is pretty good odds.

[Kylie]

It's really not that hard if you keep Bruce away from vears. I got A with only two other people yesterday, then I got S twice out of four runs with five (they were insistent on bringing Bruce to fights). He didn't give us any 12*'s, but eh... After talking to a friend about them, they seem rather weak, and they don't have the same effects as their real counterparts.

[Reginaldo]

Been getting S's since the update, no boards yet D:

[Kitio]

Just got a board from the mission. Apparently when they give you a 12* board from the mission EVERYONE in the mission gets the same board.

... Now the 5 hours of waiting for it to synth.....

[amtalx]

On 2008-03-19 10:04, panzer_unit wrote:
Wouldn't a team with a stocked PT just own the place with nonstop EX traps?
Freeze for anything small, Stun for the big stuff... 20 traps vs 91 monsters is pretty good odds.



Yes. PTs turn that mission into a bowling alley.

[garjian]

actually gudda iggac is alright, great accuracy (which doesnt really matter) just less attack and well 100 less pp than gudda hon but knuckles dont run out fast anyway... and if you grind them they get lost better-ish... other ones suck though

[danny_o]

All team members get the same board? Strange...

Then again, when we got S grinders, each of us got one.

Hord on to your Catirium guys, you wirr need rots and rots.

[Reginaldo]

Thank god Catilium drops just about every run.

[Kitio]

On 2008-03-19 12:05, Mysterious-G wrote:

On 2008-03-19 11:45, Simmy wrote:
Just wanted all you ppl to see my new signature, and by the way. I just sold a 12% Muktrand to the NPC store for 50k!



WTF Simmy, nobody cares! D:

Bruce drops: Anybody know what drops from the end boxes on S? I even heard that Bruce A dropped a Blackbull.. And since drop rates for old missions improved, who knows?



All I have seen board wise drop is a 9* and Gudda Skela, and quite a few catiliums...

[DarkEliteRico]

2 Iggacs and the spear....not running it for a while now. They begin to shine at least in the iggacs case once you break the 5-6 grind mark

[Dragwind]

I'm interested now in EX trapping the place. I'll hopefully be trying that this weekend, sounds fun and effective.

[Delete]

I thought you were only able to get one board, I got my iggacs on the first run,I didnt know you can get more stuff. I hope i can find another good party, Too many noobs who get killed at the end part lol.

[Dark Emerald EXE]

I've got an S 5 times.
This is what i got in this order
1. PA Frag X3
2.PA Frag X3
3. Grinder Base S
4. Gudda Iggac
5.PA Frag X3

lol
I havent made it yet tho ^_^

[NPCMook]

On the 360 the Ank Butic is down to like 1 mil last I checked which was like a day or 2 ago, probably less now!

[Dark Emerald EXE]

anybody know what the guddac iggac board/weapon go for????

[HFlowen]

I got an ank deddac from a vanda orga, that's about it. Might make it fire and level jabroga on the dragon with it.

EDIT: On a side note, why are tenora kubara replica axes such MASSIVE fail?

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[dc534]

Well as far as axes are concerned the bil de axe is the best at this point. Accuracy does not matter since jabroga never hits zero's. So buy up bil de axes because as of right now they have the best pp and best damage, well equal damage to the tenora axe, but still a ton more pp.

[ThePendragon]

Gudda Iggacs go for about 2.5 mil as of last night. Oddly enough the boards go for 3.5mil and up. :|

[panzer_unit]

For valuable melee weapons, the board usually goes for about as much as a 30% made, based on the average synth result being high 20's anyway plus a small chance of an awesome 46~50% result.

[Andy1423]

The other 12*'s were going for around 600k-500k last night on 360

[Neith]

They're not that rare I think. Maybe I've just got lucky, but in 6 runs, ive had 2/3 of the possible S-Rank Kubara boards (one being the one I wanted http://www.pso-world.com/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/icon_eek.gif )

So far I've had:
1) Grinder Base S
2) 3x PA Fragments
3) 3x PA Fragments
4) Gudda Iggac Board
5) Ank Butic Board
6) 3x PA Fragments

And yeah, getting S in Bruce's S is easy. Protransers turn the whole mission into easy mode http://www.pso-world.com/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/icon_lol.gif Obviously, we didn't have Just Attack when we all were running Bruce's A either, so factoring in that helps too. I thought Lv141 Bil De Vears would hurt more, to be honest, but with a Protranser (a good one), they only get about 1/2 a second of movement before EX traps kick in >_>

Still, I wouldn't run Bruce's S with a Uni 2 random party, I only run it with my friends and people on my partner card list.

Edit: On PC/PS2, cheapest I've seen an Iggac board is 25mil. I just pulled out a 22% Light one, but I'm likely not selling it (1100+ ATA on a fF is too nice http://www.pso-world.com/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/icon_lol.gif )

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[Seority]

I wonder if debuffs are really nessessary then.
If PT's just freeze stuff the whole time, then I'll just have to be on giresta spamming Bruce the whole run. (No exp for me :< )

[gundam0079]

i get S ranks non stop......ive gotten like 20 so far....got ank butic and gudda iggac so far

[Ffuzzy-Logik]

On 2008-03-20 07:52, Seority wrote:
I wonder if debuffs are really nessessary then.
Debuffs are never necessary.

[Arika]

welll consider it is true for the rarity to obtain, ..but! when you get it, all your team member will get it 1 each per person too!!
so see? 5 people get it together, drop rate has to "x5" to be the exact of the [b] rate. it is not rarer than 11*

[XenithFlare]

On 2008-03-19 10:25, Kitio wrote:

... Now the 5 hours of waiting for it to synth.....



Just think about it pre-AOI. It'd be, what, 48 hours?

[landman]

I only played once and got S, but when I told my friends the crap drops they decided to do something else worthy of their time -.- I'm happy with bruce card thou http://www.pso-world.com/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/icon_wacko.gif and got PA frags

[MrBeans]

That run must hate me, then. Either that or frags come flying at me to be used on nothing. I've done probably upwards of 20 runs, and have gotten fragx3 every time, except for once. I got grinder s x2 on that one. Too bad 'cause I really want an Iggac board but I refuse to pay for something that's a freaking mission reward.

[Yusaku_Kudou]

I've only gotten an A like once, I think. I make sure to make parties specifically. Maybe it's just on 360 since we have a larger population, but people are very pick to have this kind of set-up:

1 Techer (babysits Bruce and keeps him away from everything)
1 Protranser
3 Fighters

Ideally, you'll have at least two or three people with SUVs/Nanoblasts. My best is like 9min 53sec, but some people I've seen have under 8. Bruce rarely dies.