Meeble Burrows Findings

[pchan]

If someone wants to get on the test server and bang out all the goal 3s....

The mission with lamps in the middle of 50 gobs is likely impossible solo on the test server. Personnally I'm missing 3 goal 3 (lamps, bats, movement speed, I'm only rank 4 so far) and I can only do bats & mvt speed on the TS.

[Zirael]

Somewhat related, has anyone tried for the "do not aggro" to pull the mobs before they "aggro" - like gears on Bhaf 4th? Those are the only ones so far we haven't just walked over for 3stars.

Did just that this weekend. You're talking about bats and "Everyone arrive at Goal with no aggro" mission I presume?
What I did was, Diaga both bats when they moved close together and later snipe chunks of mobs with Diaga in the later big room. Please note, in the big room you still need to be careful cause some of the mobs were pathing in wide arcs around rocks so there's a small risk of them aggroing something further way.
We were able to get #3 with this method. Sc**w sneaking around, murder everything.
Also, as a note, if you'd want to sleep mobs after pull (doubt bats are immune), use something else, like Accesion-Sleep/Dispel/Drain/Gravity or Banishga, obviously.

[Zirael]

The mission with lamps in the middle of 50 gobs is likely impossible solo on the test server. Personnally I'm missing 3 goal 3 (lamps, bats, movement speed, I'm only rank 4 so far) and I can only do bats & mvt speed on the TS.

Try a pet job? Mythic BST (if you want to build aftermath before going for lamp, more power to you) with 2-houred WAR pet comes to mind as best choice.

[Chimerawizard]

Did just that this weekend. You're talking about bats and "Everyone arrive at Goal with no aggro" mission I presume?
What I did was, Diaga both bats when they moved close together and later snipe chunks of mobs with Diaga in the later big room. Please note, in the big room you still need to be careful cause some of the mobs were pathing in wide arcs around rocks so there's a small risk of them aggroing something further way.
We were able to get #3 with this method. Sc**w sneaking around, murder everything.
Also, as a note, if you'd want to sleep mobs after pull (doubt bats are immune), use something else, like Accesion-Sleep/Dispel/Drain/Gravity or Banishga, obviously.

Cool, good info. how many people did you kill everything with? I am wondering whether it would be better to just run past the mobs after claiming them or if 2 DD + SCH can kill everything in 5mins.

[Slycer]

The mission with lamps in the middle of 50 gobs is likely impossible solo on the test server. Personnally I'm missing 3 goal 3 (lamps, bats, movement speed, I'm only rank 4 so far) and I can only do bats & mvt speed on the TS.

Actually it's not, if you use the RR buff you can sac yourself to a safe location, and the lamps can be nuked (or r.atk'ed) down without aggroing anything from max distance. I know I soloed that one to goal 2 on the test server. The only one that might be tricky is the one in the back.

[Zirael]

Cool, good info. how many people did you kill everything with? I am wondering whether it would be better to just run past the mobs after claiming them or if 2 DD + SCH can kill everything in 5mins.

We were SCH RDM(box) WHM(box) MNK THF. Mules were for the lulz and nothing aside cures/haste if needed. MNK+THF were destroying bats fast. Didn't take long to kill everything; if you've fought other Meeble mobs, those bats are similar difficulty. As you know, a single Meeble mob won't break past Regen5 ticks, so... Took longer than 5min, but no more than 10~ and we were cautious. If you really can't be bothered to kill stuff, Accession-Break/Gravity/Bind/Sleep/Sleep2 the waves. Only problem would be the last room and in the rush you might link something by accident there. Kill or train, up to you.

[pchan]

Actually it's not, if you use the RR buff you can sac yourself to a safe location, and the lamps can be nuked (or r.atk'ed) down without aggroing anything from max distance. I know I soloed that one to goal 2 on the test server. The only one that might be tricky is the one in the back.

It seems fairly hard to do all three, once you get a link you are dead, and double weakness makes BLM no desirable, so maybe on BST it's ok, is it possible to get a decent BST pet on the test server ? Actually maybe it works ok for SMN ? Anyone knows if the rank5 missions are soloable up to goal 3?

[Yugl]

You can pick up any magian or mog slip item on the test server. You can receive a good number of accessories.

[Shenrien]

It seems fairly hard to do all three, once you get a link you are dead, and double weakness makes BLM no desirable, so maybe on BST it's ok, is it possible to get a decent BST pet on the test server ? Actually maybe it works ok for SMN ? Anyone knows if the rank5 missions are soloable up to goal 3?

Level cap on those BCs are removed so I would certainly hope so.

[Guitarman]

Inc emergency maintenence on the MB areas, see if this actually fixes anything.

[Yugl]

Level cap on those BCs are removed so I would certainly hope so.

He's talking about Meebles. Each group (Instructor, Associate Researcher, etc.) is a Rank. Each Rank has 5 expeditions. I assume he meant Researcher since that's the "5th" rank.

[ccl]

It seems fairly hard to do all three, once you get a link you are dead, and double weakness makes BLM no desirable, so maybe on BST it's ok, is it possible to get a decent BST pet on the test server ? Actually maybe it works ok for SMN ? Anyone knows if the rank5 missions are soloable up to goal 3?

Researcher Expedition 5 goal 3 is not soloable.

[Slycer]

None of the Researcher ones would be soloable to rank 3. The first one is killing a lot of mobs, many of which are IT, and one of which needs to be fished up... second one is simultaneously killing pairs of two types of enemies which are separated by a good distance from one another, third one is killing a ton of goblins, many IT. And I'm guessing ccl is referring to #4 above, the NM one, which is also definitely not soloable to rank 3 because there are a ton of mobs (3 NMs with a lot of HP plus 8 meebles assisting the 3rd NM).

[ccl]

yeah my bad I meant expedition 2-4 of that rank at least.

[pchan]

Personally I won't be completeting rank 5 until friday, so I can't complete goal 3 on the test server until sunday (unless I miss some goal 3 for rank5). Also today should be when the first people complete the final boss, so info please.

[Jem]

I think I may have enough tags to access the boss tonight. Whether we get to do it is a different matter due to people being busy and I guess its possible we fail Samursk.

EDIT: Only have 3 tags on me, need 4 for megaboss. No idea when 4th refreshes as I thought I'd have it already. Was 15 hour cooldown after Sunday runs but can't remember when I did them.

[mdkuser]

if you can buy the Kis after killing it twice i will not bother with farming boons for the first kill personally (and probably not for the subsequent kills). Just spam till it drops.

[Jem]

For Researcher 3 just be aware of what you're up against. It isn't 15 kills required, it's 23.

Also the IT mobs (There's like 16-18 of them) can and will 2hr with plenty of THF mobs tossed in which is a huge timewaster.

We only got Goal 2 as we underestimated it as a result of wrong info so went in sub-optimal jobs thinking it would be easy. (I know it's different on test server so not blaming anyone)

[Slycer]

Did have verification flags on the numbers for the IT goblins because I noticed that there were significantly more in the monster tables that were mined. However, that was also the case for some other expeditions in which some of the monsters are not present, so I didn't make the modification to the page, I just threw on verification flags. I'll adjust now, though, and add the detail about the 2 hours. Does seem like a crazy jump in goals to go from 5 to 10 to 23 monsters, especially when the first five are like 10 levels lower than the other 18.

[Byrthnoth]

DNC+BRD+WHM
RDM
DRG+BRD

We trioed Researcher 3 (6 accounts) with only two DDs, so it's not *that* hard. Switch monsters when they PD or Invincible. Sleep the Black Mages or kill them fast.