FFXI Abyssea Experiences

Basicly a thread to talk about trips to Abyssea. Experience with the mobs and NM's.
I have only been to Abyssea - Tahrongi twice and both times we were farming pops for Gancanagh, the mandragora NM that drops the Thew Bomblet and the Rare item Acidic Humus (not currently known what this is used for).
So the basic idea in Abyssea seems to be pick what you want to go after. Travel to the spot with the normal mobs that drop the pop item for the NM. Pop the NM and hope for drops. Not too horrible.
Last farming run we had Bhumi run through our camp. This is basicly the avatar Titan with a different name. We only had 4 members in our party so we did not attempt to kill it.
We have popped quite a few chests dropped from the normal mobs, luckily no mimics have appeared from them. Notable drops were 250 exp, 400 Cruor, an Adaman Barbuta that had some elemental resist augments and one that gave HP (party member was at full hp so not sure how much it would have given. Other drops were temp items.
There seems to be conditions where the melee will receive temp items after killing a mob.
http://www.mmofuns.com/