Skirmish: Findings and Information

[Chimerawizard]

can the NM be carby pulled? might be worthwhile to have a mage /smn or possibly a main SMN for movement speed too.

[Slycer]

can the NM be carby pulled? might be worthwhile to have a mage /smn or possibly a main SMN for movement speed too.

Easy enough to sleep and kill the adds after the NM in most cases, not sure that it'd be worth it. The worst possible pull would only have 3 adds (monster group/NM rooms are three of one monster and one NM from the same family in the middle). Plus at least half of the NMs are just found alone in smaller dead end or intersection areas.

[Slycer]

I accept thanks in the form of gil or Skirmish parts.

Composite Map of Rala
http://www.bg-wiki.com/images/3/3f/Ralacomposite.jpg

Composite Markup with Map Numbers and Divisions. Yellow highlight rooms are two levels and appear on two maps depending on which direction you're heading (4 and 13).
http://www.bg-wiki.com/images/3/34/Ralamarkup.jpg

Worth noting that the normal Rala map is essentially 1/2/3/4/5 and 15 from this map. Rala (U) fills it in with 6-14. The numbering is from the dats, but you'll see it matches up with their placement in the "map puzzle."

[Byrthnoth]

In case people are wondering, all these rooms also exist in normal Rala's. Rooms that look suspiciously like taverns, for instance . . .

I'd be unsurprised if we end up unlocking Rala Waterways as sort of a city basement as the Adoulin storyline progresses.

[Jem]

That doesn't surprise me at all. Whilst running around Rala I though a lot of the deadends in the map were weird. They look like they should go somewhere but don't.

[Michelob]

Each person who does a Skirmish run (any run) receives one of those GEO spells on every run they do, so the market should saturate very fast.

This simply isn't true. I did three skirmish runs last night. Only the last run yielded a GEO spell, however, on that run everyone got a spell on their first loot announcement.

[dasva]

This simply isn't true. I did three skirmish runs last night. Only the last run yielded a GEO spell, however, on that run everyone got a spell on their first loot announcement.

I think he may be specifying when using the lvl 5 part

[Slycer]

I've done multiple runs with different combinations and have always gotten a scroll. Whenever a scroll loads for one person it loads for everyone, and it's been the first loaded item every time. Was jumping to a conclusion that it was guaranteed based on the runs I did. I doubt it's much less than 50/50 unless we're super lucky (maybe head tier plays into this). When a scroll didn't load for you, what was your first loaded item?

[Michelob]

I thought that at first but the way he specified "(any run)" made me think otherwise. Plus I may be mistaken but this is the only run I'm aware of that was reported as using a V piece so that seems like a miserably small sample size to be making claims of this sort. I believe the run that yielded a GEO spell to everyone in our party was a I I I (head body legs) simulacrum in Rala, for reference. The run before that was a I I II in Rala and that yielded no GEO spells. I don't remember what pieces we used for our Cierdas run but yeah, no GEO spells there.

Edit: @ Slycer Urunday log first time (I think it was I I I Cierdas but I could be wrong about the numbers on this one, I can verify later) and Ghastly Stone second run (I I II Rala). Third run was the run where everyone in the party got a GEO spell on their first load (I I I Rala).

[Toioiz]

Our group has done Cirdas I twice, and neither time did any of us get a GEO scroll, so it's not *any* run.

[Slycer]

Our group has done Cirdas I twice, and neither time did any of us get a GEO scroll, so it's not *any* run.

It's not run-specific either, though. Did Cirdas I/I/I last night after the Rala run and got scrolls.

[Darkmagi]

Semi-related rant, but why the hell can't we buy soul spectacles in stacks of 99? You would think they would learn from abyssea with forgotten keys......

[NynJa]

They've given up the fight against bots and figure everyone has some form of "spam enter" software?

[Vaantalus]

In case people are wondering, all these rooms also exist in normal Rala's. Rooms that look suspiciously like taverns, for instance . . .

I'd be unsurprised if we end up unlocking Rala Waterways as sort of a city basement as the Adoulin storyline progresses.

Yeah, definitely more to Rala than what we can access right now. Besides the big empty area in the middle of the map, there's a blocked exit southeast (with another path nearby that looks like it runs south/north).

[Slycer]

Confirmed from person who got the Faithful V body that it was from harvesting in Sih Gates. Random is random, yo.

Gonna work on a composite map of Cirdas (U), I'll post if I can piece it together.

[Brees]

Faithful Legs I

I used Arthars strat of camping Rala when its empty. I've only been fortunate enough to have this happen 3-4x over the last 3 days but each and every time the first pyre I saw was always "green" and the first few were lettuce and grain seeds. Today on first kill were the legs.

Cirdas Head III x2- Both were done logging in Ceizak with 3 tags on pioneer's "Procure Materials". Ive spent almost all my tags on this very run so I'm roughly 2/30 doing this (using 2 characters).

Hope this info helps.

[6souls]

Edit: @ Slycer Urunday log first time (I think it was I I I Cierdas but I could be wrong about the numbers on this one, I can verify later)

Did a run with that set-up last night and we also got a log and a bunch of nq stones.

[Prothescar]

Got Faithful Legs II from Patrol - Rala Waterways if that list is still being maintained. Honestly think it's all just complete randomness tho

[Brees]

Ok just finished run. Cirdas head 3, body 2, legs 1

Polearm x2
Bow x1

NQ stone x2
Stone +1 x1
random other shit like logs and philosopher stone

Completed Both objectives but no bonus weapon from 2nd completion. The original completion yielded all 3 weapons.

We went in as monk, thf, war, pld, brd, whm. Huge ass zone, mobs very much spread apart. Umbrils were bothersome at times. We had 40 mins to kill 66 mobs. We ended with 8 mins left. No deaths.

[Arthars]

Got Faithful Legs II from Patrol - Rala Waterways if that list is still being maintained. Honestly think it's all just complete randomness tho

70ish tags x2 ID and yet to see a bird drop ; ;