All The Assaut Info I could find.

[Nayoz]

The best Strat for Excavation duty is bring atleast 3 NIN or MNK a Brd, a SMN and a RDM... There is no way to get around the first wall besides meleeing the fuck out of it. Have brd sing double march and just pound away. It should take about 10 minutes to kill. Once this is killed invis up and head down the path to the main room, with the ramp leading up with bombs on it. Camp in this room untill you get a bomb, the person who receives the bomb head north, engage the brittle wall, and drop the bomb. Smn should be pulling the rats on the northern side of the bombs (on the ramp) down to the bottom. continue killing and sending ppl off to blow up walls as bombs drop. After the last bomb needed distributes send 1 person back to the entrance (preferably nin if it is night time) and head eats of the entrance. This eventually becomes a dead end where the Portal to warp out, and get the win is. If a treasure box does pop, it will be beside this portal. Only 1 person has to hit the portal and all will be ported out.

[epigram]

A.)

After you have done one supply quest and have your ID tag, you may do up to 3 new assaults per 24 hour period. Once you have used the teleport at a staging area, you may teleport directly back to that staging area to start assault.

If you do not have the teleport for that specific area you may still do that area's assault. However, you will have to walk to that area to begin.

To start an assault one person in your group must pay 50 Imperial Standing points. The leader may get a bonus in assault points if you win the zone, that aspect is not clear yet. If you loose though everyone still gets 100 assault points.

After completing your mission or failing you will be returned to the staging area. From this point you may teleport back to whitewalls.

Other Notes:

-You loose exp in assault.
-You gain exp and normal items from killing monsters in assault.
-Monsters in assault seem to have very high HP compared to normal monsters.
-Most Assault missions require some sort of trick to complete
-Assault missions have a max time limit of 30min.
-The Assault leader may impose a level cap that will change the level of monster that you will encounter. It will also force you to level 60, so bring along appropriate gear.
-After using your first ID tag, you will not get a new ID tag set for 24 hours.
-Points gained very depending upon zone, and it appears the amount of time you take.
-I am not sure, but I believe that the points you get in a zone only apply to the items that you can purchase from that zone's assault NPC.
-Most items so far range from a few thousand to 20,000 assault points.
-If you loose every attempt (aka solo and sit in zone til timer runs out or attain an imediate loosing condition) for a month you can still get a level 72 armor item.
-There are a total of 5 staging area's and 5 npc's. There is one counter empty so there is most likely going to be a new one added in future updates.

[rahskala]

^^^^^^^ Useful post, thanks for the summary!

[Kaelin]

Epigram, you win Final Fantasy XI. Thanks for all the extremely useful information.

One FINAL question for you, though! I know you need to do Assault to flag the next mission after the supplies mission, but do you need to specifically win the assault match, or just.. do it?

Thanks again.

[Norelco]

hmmm is it possible my group got ported to another area because we had 3 people? all we had was 2 bombs and the rock to work with, couldnt touch Qiqi's till after the rock.

No, it's the same for more people. We tried it with 5 yesterday, and we saw two Bombs and the Brittle Rock.

I got a laugh out of my crew by provoking the rock every 30 seconds. :D

Basically, everyone has to suck it up and kill the first rock by hand I believe, it should take 8-10 minutes. DoT seems to work pretty well on the rocks in addition to melee.

Spirit's Within is not a workaround! I tried it with 300 tp at 1942HP and it did 20 damage.

The Q mobs have a ton of HP and evasion, but if you can manage to stick Light on it with a BLM mb'ing it you will take it down very quickly.

[epigram]

Does the rock have any evasion? If not, can you just stack all attack gear?

[Spur]

We finished the Excavation AM yesterday w/ all 75 2xMNK, THF, DRK, BST, RDM. Basically we just brute forced all the rocks. Everybody ate atk food and subbed war. RDM melee'd and hasted x6.

We cleared all 5 rocks i think w/ about 5min to spare. Treasure box had a ??? earring which became a shell earring, a remedy, and a hi-pot+3. We also recieved 999 AP because the recommended lvl is 50.

[Gregorio]

Does the rock have any evasion? If not, can you just stack all attack gear?

I kept missing it, but I was attacking it as a BRD with Joyeuse and minimal acc+ gear. Kinda sad, sitting there seeing myself swing a miss a non-moving-rock for 3/4 hits.

[BlackSkye]

MNK, NIN, WAR, RDM, BRD, BLM -> First rock took around 4 minutes.

March and Minuet, RDM hastes/nukes entire pool, as does BLM.

Min seemed to work good, hits always did 2 and sometimes 3 damage instead of 1 or 2.

Quiquirn drop Quiquirn mine... person that gets this engage wall and use mine, it blows up the walls.

DO NOT KILL ANY MORE QUIQUIRN UNTIL THE MINE HAS BEEN USED. First time we killed more when the PT had a mine in possesion, and none dropped more mines...

Second time we used mine asap, and got more mines down the way and kept doing it like that... so It seems to me only 1 mine max per PT at a time. We got 4 mines this time and won with 11 mins to spare (we sat at box for a while and saw 10m limit pass).

[Bigkillaz11]

I used my initial three tags, and i'm pretty sure you onlyi get one tag back a day. Anyone else?

[BlackSkye]

All 3 tags are recorded like ENM's

All 3 have different timers to when you get them back. (24 after thier individual use ofc)

[Benadar]

A note about using the mines. They're temp items dropped from the rat beastmen. You have to go up to a wall, engage, USE it, and let the counter reach 0 (we stayed next to it and engaged just to be safe). Once it hits 0 it uses a move and blows down the wal. AFAIK there is no way to get past the first wall other than just to zerg it.

[Toksyuryel]

For the mamool one do you need prisoners in the area to beable to win it?

no

[Bigkillaz11]

All 3 tags are recorded like ENM's

All 3 have different timers to when you get them back. (24 after thier individual use ofc)

I think you are mistaken. I used my frist mission at 2 am. The next day i used the other two, and got my next one recharged at 2 am 24 hour from first one. I just picked up the first recharged one and it said i have to wait til 2 am again. Can anyone else confirm?

And does anyone know which runic portal goes with Famad NPC (the assault for Yigit crackows).

[BRP]

Crap found on KI:

Imperial Agent Rescue

Here's the strat:

There is the entrance area that has about 4-5 Mamools on the bottom level, while you're on the top, avoid them. Go straight to the eastern part of the map. There are 6 'corridors' for lack of a better word. If memory serves me correctly, there are locked doors at the central north, western south, and eastern south passages. Your objective is to break down these doors and open the pot hatch behind each one until you find the NPC. He won't be detectable until AFTER you open the hatch, so don't try to tab like crazy trying to target him.

Now, if you to pull a Mamool WITH A WEAPON to one of these locked doors, with your tank's back to the door, so that the Mamool's attack goes past the tank on through the door. The WS you're looking for it to do is either Axe Throw or Staff Throw (or something to that effect), depending on which weapon they're holding. It is possible for Mamool's to lose their weapon before doing the WS, after which they are useless and should be killed ASAP. Also, note that after using the Throw move, they will lose their weapon, so kill them after that. A couple mamools we pulled didn't use the WS, and we didn't notice until later that they had either loss their weapon or never had one to begin with. This makes it imperative to get the position right asap so as not to waste a Mamool with a weapon.

IF for some reason they're being stingy, and you've ran out of mamools with weapon on the east side of the map, you'll have to kite some with weapons from the west entrance area. It's a pain, but do you want to win or not? ;D

So after rescuing the prisoner from either the 1st, 2nd, or 3rd door, you'll get about 20 seconds of dialogue, which will spawn some Runic something-or-other in the middle room with the pool in it. Next to it will be a chest. The person who opens the chest will get a ??? item, so you might want to decide beforehand who opens it (or maybe it's random, but our opener got the item). Also, it will drop some items. We got a hi potion+2 and reraiser in addition. Don't forget to have everyone lot or pass if you want them, because once you're out, the items are gone. When you're ready to exit, you must click on the Runic thingy to complete the mission and exit the map. If you do not click on it before the time is up, it'll end up in failure.

They make it seem you can just do it without spamming equip change or moving.

[BRP]

Going in Exc Duty in Lebros Cavern. Wish me luck. I heard the bombs don't aggro?

[BRP]

Mines are not dropping ><

EDIT: NVM

[zymurgy]

All 3 tags are recorded like ENM's

All 3 have different timers to when you get them back. (24 after thier individual use ofc)

I think you are mistaken. I used my frist mission at 2 am. The next day i used the other two, and got my next one recharged at 2 am 24 hour from first one. I just picked up the first recharged one and it said i have to wait til 2 am again. Can anyone else confirm?

It seems that you can hold a MAX of 3 at any given time, and they replentish at the rate of 1 per day at the time you used your first one. My group can only get it at 3:25pm pst tomorrow and we only used one today, used 3 yesterday.

[Ozoko]

Just beat Excavation point one, got a ??? earring and 1.2k going to see what it is now.

http://img182.imageshack.us/img182/9191/img00123no.jpg

[Eaglestrike]

All 3 tags are recorded like ENM's

All 3 have different timers to when you get them back. (24 after thier individual use ofc)

I think you are mistaken. I used my frist mission at 2 am. The next day i used the other two, and got my next one recharged at 2 am 24 hour from first one. I just picked up the first recharged one and it said i have to wait til 2 am again. Can anyone else confirm?

It seems that you can hold a MAX of 3 at any given time, and they replentish at the rate of 1 per day at the time you used your first one. My group can only get it at 3:25pm pst tomorrow and we only used one today, used 3 yesterday.

Yeah, that seems to be the case. But this is good, somewhat. 3 a day on top of other things in this game would be a bit much. As well, this lets the beastmen forces get stronger so we can have some Besieged action :D