PFC Assault Missions

[Darm]

Just checked, nothing. Maybe it can't be raining or something, running out of areas to check ;/.

[Slott]

can spawn in wajaom (maybe bhaflau) caedarva, mt zhayolm, and arrapago from what i know.

[Darkhelmet]

Christ.. just beat Lebros supplies in 23:15. Had plenty of time to spare, but I'd have to say that was luck more than anything else. The NPCs were being nice and getting full after minimal feedings.

First of all, we had:
3 NIN/THFs - so 3 people with +25% running speed.
1 PLD/THF - wyrmal legs +12%
2 others with Herald's Gaiters +12%
Not to mention as many powder boots as possible.

Even with that ridiculous amount of running speed, this mission is still pretty tough.

Here's what we did.
-Everyone concentrate on the southern NPCs.
-After all 4 south NPCs are full, we had one of our NINs train ALL of the crawlers in the area to the south where we just finished feeding.
-WHM raises NIN, tractors, whatever, and we basically have the remaining time to feed everyone else without worrying about aggro.

Here's our thoughts on the victory:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v5...19/assault.jpg

Seriously.. this mission fucking sucks.

[Ryko]

You should be happy to know the third lebros mission is stupid easy.... but gives shitty return ._.

[Darkhelmet]

How many of the tier 3's have you done, Ryko?

[Ryko]

3, Sagelord (barely won that but it was due to adds and that we only had 4), Extermination (easy enough) and Troll fugitives (really easy).

[NynJa]

Lebros Supplies is fucking gay...

30 minues of non stop running and sleeping crawlers = loss. How the fuck do you beat this one without FleeTool ??

[zymurgy]

We didn't sleep any crawlers...

[Ichthyos]

To clarify, zymurgy's strat (like Darkhelmet's) involved one person being in charge of training all the crawlers away so that the other 5 people could concentrate on delivering food.

[Chael]

Just did two of the Orichalcum-whatever missions in the Sanctum.
First, our group of 4 ran around to different mining points, killing worms and refreshing pickaxes diligently. No ore dropped the entire 30 minutes.
Second, more of the same until the last 30 seconds where our ninja "lucked out". Booted us a split-second after getting the "Rune of Release" message.
Please, SE, consider extending the time limit another minute once the objectives are fulfilled if you intend on making a group spend 29 minutes and 30 seconds to do so.

[Verix]

To further clarify the strat Darkhelmet (and someone else) mentioned, here's a quick map to show how I did it:

http://img230.imageshack.us/img230/1...assault8jm.jpg

This path worked pretty well. Was night time and I was on NIN/THF. The only remotely dangerous part is the loop after point 6 back to point 1, you have to run back through the aggro, but as long as you have flee on it shouldn't be a problem.

It's important to have everyone focus on clearing the south 4 NPCs first so you can die there, since training the crawlers anywhere else will likely end up with them aggroing your party towards the 20 minute mark.

[Garion]

Did it tonight and tried the Lebros supplies with 5 ppl. We got 10 clearned but could have won with 6.

Now my observation. Others have said that when they traded the last on, the NPC still said Boots but the chest poped. So that means that when you give them food and they say they guess they could have some more they were already ful.

My theory i need tested. Do they bow every time you give them food? or do they only bow when they are full. Its very easy to test. Just go in and see if the very first food you give them they bow. If they don't then you know to stop feeding them right when they bow. IF they bow every time then, ah well, it was a thought.

[Darkhelmet]

Garion, I was wondering the same thing myself. Surely they didn't make this mission so hard that nearly everyone in your party needs a speed bonus

[Janice]

I'm assuming the crawlers are true sight in Lebros supplies? Also, anyone have the positions of the NPCs?

edit: and about how many crawlers are we talking here? A few scattered around in each tunnel? Crawlers in the tunnel or lava sections? Groups of them? 10 total? 20? Just wondering so I could see that grabbing 6 sleepers and just sleeping everything and training them around wherever you go would be a viable option.

[Ryko]

Position of NPC is marked by the numbers on the map, and yes, true/whatever.

Edit: and maybe like 5/6

[NynJa]

Thats what my party did last night Janice: BLM BLM RDM RDM RDM BRD.

They build up a crazy amount of sleep resistance over time, to the point of:
Nynja starts casting Sleep II on the Crawler.
The Crawler is no longer asleep.
The Crawler recieves the effect of Sleep.



Even with heralds, its just not enough speed to get through the area. I'm certain that what Garion said actually means something, I'll try it out next time I do assault (though gotta wait till tomorrow night since one of my static members has work), assuming no one else tries before me.

[Xerlic]

In response to the bowing thing -

A friend and I were also throwing around another idea. You get several types of food. Off the top of my head - Jerky, bread, pea soup. There are 3 types of NPCs which you can tell by their shield - Gold trimmed shield, grey cross shield, spiked shield. It'd make sense that each type of NPC wants a certain type of food instead of having to feed the same NPC several times just to get him full.

I agree Nynja that it just seems unlikely that S-E would require people to bring in equipment with movement mods just to beat this assault especially considering all the other Assaults so far aren't exactly all that difficult.

[kearnsy]

This is so depressing, we can not find the warhorse hoofprints ANYWHERE. We checked everywhere in mount zhayolm, wajaom woodlands, bhaflau thickets, and caedarva mire. No where in those entire areas did we find it, this sucks so bad.

[Jamacian|God]

I'm assuming the crawlers are true sight in Lebros supplies? Also, anyone have the positions of the NPCs?

edit: and about how many crawlers are we talking here? A few scattered around in each tunnel? Crawlers in the tunnel or lava sections? Groups of them? 10 total? 20? Just wondering so I could see that grabbing 6 sleepers and just sleeping everything and training them around wherever you go would be a viable option.

They're mostly grouped, although there are a few scattered ones. There's roughly 2-4 in each path, so if you're just sleeping and running (and you should, fighting them takes WAY too much time) by the last path you'll have 10+ on you. Still, it isn't that bad to control. We won with 2 rdm/nin doing most of the sleeping/kiting with a blm helping out occasionally, no deaths or even near-deaths for the whole thing. They do build some resistance, blm will have trouble after a while but it's still pretty easy for rdm.

[kearnsy]

finally... found it...