Skirmish 2: Event details

[JSHidaka]

Here is another "theory" related to the damage weakness.

Since Dens pop some mobs and if you destroy them they stop spawning, and supposing dens have same weakness as the mob they spawn, if you kill the dens with the correct weakness that might trigger the level up? I said this, coz I remember killing a Den as mnk(oat), and my damage was poor, never broke 1k damage, and yesterday that got the first Lvl UP msg, I killed a den as DRG(upu) and was doing 2-3k damage, IIRC that den was spawning the eyes(sadly not 100% sure coz wasn't paying attention), any idea if they are weak to piercing?

EDIT, btw, the "normal" mobs are Funguars, Flytraps, Treants, Beetles (those mobs don't have dens and will always pop in any tier), Bunnies, Opo, Sapplings these pops in addition the other 4 in T3+, haven't done many T4-5 so don't recall what others mob don't have dens.

[Cairthenn]

I've gotten the level up killing all dens and I've gotten the level up killing no dens at all.

[Fwahm]

Morbols and Belladonnas are the mobs weak to slashing.

[Toth]

Just to confirm but not killing dens did nothing but cause our first loss at the end. Rewards were unchanged. WAAAAY too many mobs at the end that we couldn't handle.

[Sechs]

Which tier Toth? Because I seriously doubt your group would have had problems without killing dens on a T1 run.

[Fake]

body 5 run is easy without killing dens if you have decent AOE jobs, at least not killing dens makes the last 10mins a little less soul crushingly boring even if it doesn't do anything else.

[Ophannus]

WAR BLM BLU DRG are all excellenet AOE jobs. With Upukirex I was virtually oneshotting mobs when I lined them up 4-6k sonic thrusts. The BLU in my group could take a good chunk of HP from several mobs with a Whirl of Rage while stunning them and allow the melee to pick em off. BLU can also cycle Temporal Shift/Frypan/Whirl of Rage/Tailslap and really crowd control. WAR's fellcleave is amazingly useful, can even MS at the end when shit gets crazy. BLM just indiscriminately casts random -ajas and -agas on the crowd. I'd recommend any combination of BLU WAR DRG BLM WHM and a RDM or BRD. Highly recommend getting up defensive walls first followed by defense+ buffs. Though the mobs have low HP, they actually hit pretty hard(getting hit for 180-250 from treants and marbols but when you get swarmed, it can kill you quite fast)

[kenshyn]

WAR BLM BLU DRG are all excellenet AOE jobs. With Upukirex I was virtually oneshotting mobs when I lined them up 4-6k sonic thrusts. The BLU in my group could take a good chunk of HP from several mobs with a Whirl of Rage while stunning them and allow the melee to pick em off. BLU can also cycle Temporal Shift/Frypan/Whirl of Rage/Tailslap and really crowd control. WAR's fellcleave is amazingly useful, can even MS at the end when shit gets crazy. BLM just indiscriminately casts random -ajas and -agas on the crowd. I'd recommend any combination of BLU WAR DRG BLM WHM and a RDM or BRD. Highly recommend getting up defensive walls first followed by defense+ buffs. Though the mobs have low HP, they actually hit pretty hard(getting hit for 180-250 from treants and marbols but when you get swarmed, it can kill you quite fast)

Curious of how many hp these puppies have and if using low tier ga spells would be effective with the new blm staffs or if Ja is required mp efficient damage would be great...

[Cream Soda]

Just coming back off a 4+ week hiatus. Is Skirmish II super expensive to do like Skirmish I when it fist came out?

[Seha]

Nah, pieces are easy to obtain and don't cost too much on ah either.

[Cream Soda]

Nice, I guess holding out and not dropping 90m on Tenryu+1 is finally going to pay off. I'll jump on this weekend.

[Karbuncle]

Curious of how many hp these puppies have and if using low tier ga spells would be effective with the new blm staffs or if Ja is required mp efficient damage would be great...

They have about 4k HP. Give or take a couple hundred. Certainly less than 4.4k

[kenshyn]

They have about 4k HP. Give or take a couple hundred. Certainly less than 4.4k

Guess I will try 2 blms war sch and geo and just sit at the tent and see how it goes lol.

[Karbuncle]

For what its worth, As RDM I could kill all of them comfortably in about 4-5 T1 Nukes lol. On Normal mobs Fire II did about 730 Damage, and on Magic weak about 1350.

[Toth]

Which tier Toth? Because I seriously doubt your group would have had problems without killing dens on a T1 run.

It was either a 4 or 5. We didn't have any heavy AOE jobs and underestimated the mob spammage. Won't happen again of course lol

[Asymptotic]

BLU is super nice since Whirl / Fry pan etc stop mobs in their tracks temporarily, I offhand Tamaxchi for the +90 Macc

[Slycer]

Updated/corrected maps 1 and 2, created map 4. Let me know if you see any missing ascension locations on any of them. II should have all ascensions marked, I is missing 3, and III and IV are missing 2 each.

https://www.bg-wiki.com/bg/Yorcia_Weald_(U)#Maps

http://www.bg-wiki.com/images/5/51/YorciaIMarkupr1.jpg

http://www.bg-wiki.com/images/9/93/YorciaIIMarkupr2.jpg

http://www.bg-wiki.com/images/d/da/Y...IIMarkupr1.jpg

http://www.bg-wiki.com/images/6/60/YorciaIVMarkupr1.jpg

[NynJa]

Map 1 has a NA in the little nook below the middle Den.

[Sechs]

Just coming back off a 4+ week hiatus. Is Skirmish II super expensive to do like Skirmish I when it fist came out?

Nope.
Not cheap as skirmish pieces were the day before patch either though.

[dasva]

BLU is super nice since Whirl / Fry pan etc stop mobs in their tracks temporarily, I offhand Tamaxchi for the +90 Macc

Out of curiousity how are the magic spells with all this new stat/mab gear? I'd imagine could probably one shot groups