Skirmish 2: Event details

[Toth]

I traded in my KI after my first run but didn't get a new one on the following run. Weird....

[Karbuncle]

Its not 100% but its close.

[Squah]

So I'm gonna just throw this out there, because thats two "I had light arts up OMG" comments now: Nuking in Light Arts means you have increased cast time, increased recast time, and increased mp cost. Other than the lower macc due to the non-adjusted elemental skill from dark arts, your max damage potential will not be affects whatsoever, unless there is some gear mod that offers MAB to dark arts that I'm overlookin.

Thanks captain obvious. That was mainly to specify that I didn't have ebullience/klimaform/relevant weather effects up. I suppose it's partially my fault for wording it poorly, but it was late.

[Renzy]

We just did a really bugged out Skirmish.. the party leader crashed when we entered, the party then disbanded itself completely. We tried to reform the party but invites weren't working, so we spent the entire Skirmish run soloing our own mobs, which appeared red to other members but could not be attacked due to the target already being claimed.
The party leader is still getting "same character is logged in" 20 minutes after disconnecting.

[fantasticdan]

Thanks captain obvious. That was mainly to specify that I didn't have ebullience/klimaform/relevant weather effects up. I suppose it's partially my fault for wording it poorly, but it was late.

That's not poor wording, it's wrong wording. Klimaform and weather are not exclusive to dark arts.

We just did a really bugged out Skirmish.. the party leader crashed when we entered, the party then disbanded itself completely. We tried to reform the party but invites weren't working, so we spent the entire Skirmish run soloing our own mobs, which appeared red to other members but could not be attacked due to the target already being claimed.
The party leader is still getting "same character is logged in" 20 minutes after disconnecting.

I've had PoL crash twice while doing old skirmish a while back, and both times I was getting that message and was unable to login for a long time.

[Slycer]

The party leader is still getting "same character is logged in" 20 minutes after disconnecting.

3102 is infecting FFXI o god its spreading

SAVE US!!

[Slycer]

http://www.bg-wiki.com/images/a/ae/YorciaIIIMarkup.jpg

Working on map for II now. I and II are on one map, III is on two maps with the transition marked above (yellow line). Not sure about IV, V. The maps don't share parts in common (at least not I/II/III), unlike Rala/Cirdas. The map above should be missing 3 Ascension locations since we only did one run with tier 2 legs. I could probably make reasonably good guesses at all three, but I'll wait for reports. Also, the map makes it look a lot smaller than it really is... there's a decent bit of ground to cover to get from the camp to the farthest north den.

I has 3 dens, II has 4 dens, III has 5 dens, gonna go out on a limb and assume IV has 6 and V has 7. I and II are both 15/25 minutes primary/secondary, III is 25/35 primary/secondary.

[Aumaan_Kujata]

IV is also 25/35 primary/secondary.

[Slycer]

http://www.bg-wiki.com/images/d/db/YorciaIIMarkup.jpg

[Freazer]

i may have missed it, any idea of how to get the rank 2 coffers? got it once forgot what we did to get it tho

[urat]

i may have missed it, any idea of how to get the rank 2 coffers? got it once forgot what we did to get it tho

Well Ive only gotten the chest message on higher tier runs, which is when you unlock the ability to upgrade defense on the camp...

I always get map first then upgrade defense once, then bayld+obisidian and just whatever I feel like after.

I started getting the coffer upgrade message when I stopped getting map and got the defense upgrade for camp first. I wonder if maybe the message comes from keeping the camp at 100% hp for an set amount of time in the run?

[Helldemon]

Its not 100% but its close.

I must be really unlucky then cause I've only gotten KI once out of 4 runs ._.

[urat]

I must be really unlucky then cause I've only gotten KI once out of 4 runs ._.

In a group of 6 ppl, by the end of 4th run only 3 of us had KI

[ixander]

A quick post for the folks who haven't tried this yet and were wondering about difficulty.
We did a few T1 torso runs last night with this setup:
WARx2 MNK SAM COR WHM Everyone had Delve NM or better weapons.
For a T1 I can say that this setup is overkill.

The monsters come 2-3 at a time and are comparable in difficulty to the ones in Cirdas Skirmish, or the non NMs in Rala. Slightly higher Eva.
We sent the SAM out solo to kill the dens while the rest of us guarded the camp.
Most of the time we were just twiddling our thumbs waiting for the next wave.
After the first objective, the waves came faster and the monsters moved faster, but there was still plenty of time between waves.

There was no need to use the Ascension to build defenses.

Only mildly hectic spot was on a run where the whole party managed to get hit by sleep at the same time, but the tent can take a few hits, didn't drop below 90% before we managed to get back and kill the group that got by us.

If you are looking to lowman this, a T1 is definitely doable with 3DD and a healer, and the drop rate on wings is not unreasonable. I think even if all you have is Bayld weapons to start with, it's pretty manageable. This is definitely casual player friendly with decent rewards.

[Fake]

Is there any indication that the number of mobs killed relates in any way to the quality of drops (i.e. leaving dens up)?

Also you could easily trio a body 5 with 3 blu or something similar if you kill dens, shit is a complete joke.

[Darkmagi]

It is extremely easy to cap out on gear from this event, it's going to be an excruciating grind or gil sink to get actual good augments for most people. I'd say the actual content of this event is beyond pathetic, just a very annoying time sink/RNG with no challenge at all.

[Diomer]

It is extremely easy to cap out on gear from this event, it's going to be an excruciating grind or gil sink to get actual good augments for most people. I'd say the actual content of this event is beyond pathetic, just a very annoying time sink/RNG with no challenge at all.

Completely agree, and then this gear will be shit on in upcoming updates after the time and gil sink.

[Prothescar]

I didn't really mind the idea of upgrading my gear every couple of months when there was some semblance of challenge, but if this is how they're going to be doing it... let's just hope this is the black sheep. When I'm almost capped on gear on both myself and my mule 1 day after the event is launched there's a problem, and I haven't even played very much. I even have decent augments for most of it..

[fattrav]

A couple observations from the 6 runs I did today.

In one run we got the message about chest leveling up with the star icons. Only thing that stood out in that run was the tent never took damage. We erected a fence and that took some, but the tent itself did not.

In another run we sent 2 people to go out and kill the dens. I think we had 3/5 or 4/5 of the dens killed before the first evaluation, maybe second. That run a heartwing spawned. At the end of the run our dropped were buffed. A t3 torso was used but everyone got a +2 stone with a couple people getting 2 +2s.

[Darkmagi]

Tent taking no damage could be something, usually a stray AOE hits ours at least. Also my friend got arise from a run with a heartwing, but the eval that showed arise in the pool was before it was killed.