Sergeant Major Assaults

[Kyreth]

I just had a strange thought.

Has anyone seen if the different appraisers have superior/inferior rates for items? IIRC, they do charge different amounts for appraisals.

[Kaylia]

Did the take increase magic damage as well?

No, however, blm can spam tier II aga to one shot everything (they have about 500hp). Blm/rdm with phalanx stoneskin wont take any dmg,


Just be careful with mamool, they dont have have high hp, but they hit with normal dmg (100-150dmg a hit) and have aga III. We wiped cause of that, but beside that, bc is kinda easy.

[Bakthi]

Well, we had a mixed day; cleared Periqia and Mamook easily, but ran out of time (timed out while selecting "Yes" on the rune) on Lebros, and as for Ilrusi...

I think it was bugged. Has anyone done Ilrusi lately? We scoured the entire place with the NPC in tow, killing all the mobs, and found no ??? spots for the first 25 minutes. At one point, the NIN (who had the NPC at the time) saw a ???, but it despawned the moment he targeted (not clicked) it. Another ??? appeared with about 2 minutes left; he clicked it and a crab spawned, which he killed. The NPC just said the same exact thing afterwards.

It also looked like the area to the north was blocked off; you could see a bridge going to it, but the bridge would disappear whenever you got close.

Anyone have any further info on this?

[Bakthi]

OK, so what the first post here didn't mention is that every ??? pop only happens when you talk to the NPC. This post (which I found on Alla ftw) lays it out pretty clearly:

Ilusri Atoll- Lost and Found
This is a game of "Hot and Cold" with the NPC you're escorting. Once you talk to the NPC she will follow you fairly closely, making escorting the easiest part of this assault. If one of your teammates talks to her, she will follow them instead.

Once you grab your NPC you can exit off either end of the ship. There are are a few krakens in the area but they have a very narrow sound aggro range. We were able to dodge them all with ease so I do not know their strength. When you talk to her, she'll pause for a moment and tell you whether she feels the ring is close or not. He messages come in varying degrees from "I don't think we'll find anything around here." to "Yes!... it's very very close." (or something very similar. My screenshots are on my other computer.) When you get the message, "It's very very close!" target around and try to find a ???. If you don't see it immediately, wait about a minute. The ???s appear and disappear VERY quickly, each ??? appearing for a shorter time than the previous.

The results from touching a ??? can be any of the following:

• The Eye of Zahak[/*:m:3f424]
• A hint. Footprints, Strand of Hair, etc. These are not items, just messages you get from the ???[/*:m:3f424]
• Seaweed (Weight effect)[/*:m:3f424]
• A crab. The crab is very weak, but hate is locked on whoever touches the ???[/*:m:3f424]

Every time you find a hint, your NPC will gain a new ability.

• 0 Hints- NPC gives you "Hot" and "Cold" messages.[/*:m:3f424]
• 1 Hint- NPC will tell you which member of your party is closest to the ring. Once you get this ability, use triangulation to find the next ???.[[/*:m:3f424]
• 2 Hints- NPC will give you exact directions (North, South, Northwest, etc.) where you can find the ring. At this point her "Hot/Cold" directions are actually misleading and you should focus on your #1 and #2 hint abilities.[/*:m:3f424]

The final ??? will appear for literally 2 seconds then disappear again, so you have to be FAST when clicking. The Rune will appear at the start point.

[NynJa]

the ???'s pop when you're in front of em, then when you get it up, you need to turn your camera around, and click it...its the stupidest thing ever.


I honestly dont know how its possible to beat that area without some kind of 3rd party monster radar.

[Eamane]

Lost and Found seems bugged to me also. My group's win on our 2nd attempt at this felt like a fluke; NPC said I was the one closest to the ring, so I checked around for a ??? point and one never popped anywhere close to where I was. Party leader brought NPC over to me and I clicked on her to talk, a second later the objective completed message came up. I'm not sure if that's all you have to do for the win but it worked for us!

[Vistani]

Bump

Did Wamoura Farm Raid and Azure Experiments tonight a couple of times each with rdm mnk war, narrowly lost first time we did each and won on second.

Wamoura Farm Raid:
http://img143.imageshack.us/img143/4...iedhm31at0.jpg
Pretty sure that map is accurate, although there may be one I'm forgetting at the T-intersection at H-8. Overall it was pretty easy, lost first time to wasting time checking those two little rooms at F-6/I-5, second time we won with a little over 5 minutes left for ~1150 points before bonuses.

Azure Experiments:
http://img142.imageshack.us/img142/7...ctum101lq9.jpg
First run through was really annoying, we lost because we made a mistake with the NPC and lost alot of time. Each time you talk to her, she'll give you a different graft, but this doesn't neccessarily mean mobs will spawn, you have to keep talking to her until she stops giving you grafts and she'll say "My...azure blood...is calling to me...throbbing... There is a monster somewhere...kill it...with the powers I've given you...", at which point the next set of Lamias will spawn. The Lamia don't hit particularly hard or fast, none of them have double attack, standard TP moves. Prosectors are blms, Bowyers are rangers and Sharpers seem to be pretty generic, possibly sam or something. They resisted sleep/silence and were partially resistant to dispel from what we saw, but susceptible to bind/grav. They were fairly easy to pull solo, just had to wait for the Lamias to turn their backs on each other. We recieved a flat 1k points before bonuses.

The grafts we recieved were:
Dragonfly - +Acc and halves your attack
Goobbue - Seems to be 200% slow or something, doubles your attack, absolutely horrible thing to get
Raptor - Halves your HP and gives you flee speed
Opo-opo - Halves your MP and gives you some amount of fast cast, I didn't notice it on utsu but wafik said all his spells were all firing off at 50%.

Thanks to Shuemue and Scarletmoon for help with the maps.

[Kaylia]

Those map are wrong kinda. Can still help people, but they are misleading. In azure experiment, they pop randomly. When I did it, they popped 3--> 4--> 1-->2 according to your order. It's probably one of those 4 spawn all the time, but not in order


About wamoura farming raid, you're wrong again Wamouracampa actually evolve into wamoura. I've seen one evolve with my own eyes, when I was about to pull in the northest part of the map (looks like a fusion skillchain). The few time we cleared north, there was 2-3 wamoura south, and when we cleared south, there was 2-3 north.

Your spawn point look similar to what we got for the south part, but they were different north. On west side, the wamouracampa that poped was much farther, almost close to the lava river. On east side, we got 1 wamoura in the empty dead end in 3 attempt (make me think there is a small chance there will be one in all 3 dead end). There was also 2 wamoura in central north room.

[Uzor]

Speaking of SM assault... What's the spawn conditions for the BLU mamool ja in Blietzkrieg? We've only managed to get him to pop once, and when he was killed he dropped a key.

Sadly, we were only 3 people and died at this point. Bastard Bad Breath'd us, and used 1000 needles and shit ; ;

His name was Bluehtunder Kaqool Ja.

[Kaylia]

Hmm, so it's the NM who drop the key? Can you tell me where on the map it popped, I will try getting it.

http://www.bluegartr.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=13369

[Uzor]

http://i80.photobucket.com/albums/j1...erKaqoolJa.jpg

If you walk straight up north from start possition, and drop right down in to the pit, we always fight there. We've only got him to pop once though, and that includes running all over the map before we kill them.

We've tried everything, from killing almost only Mamool Ja mobs, to killing things as fast as possible. When he popped for us, the first time we did it, he popped at the 170 mob warning.

Where was that NPC though? Our THF ran all over the place trying to find a place to use the key on before he died.

[Kaylia]

I think it was posted in the other blietzkrieg thing I linked. The cage pop between I-6/I-7 once the first wave is destroyed (after the 200th mobs). It will most likely triger a 2nd wave or something.


It's the first time I hear a mention about that NM. Gonna try a few thing next time we try blitzkrieg, but I've no idea how. Were you killing slow first time? Maybe it pop after 15 minutes?

[Uzor]

I think it was posted in the other blietzkrieg thing I linked. The cage pop between I-6/I-7 once the first wave is destroyed (after the 200th mobs). It will most likely triger a 2nd wave or something.


It's the first time I hear a mention about that NM. Gonna try a few thing next time we try blitzkrieg, but I've no idea how. Were you killing slow first time? Maybe it pop after 15 minutes?

I don't know what we did <.<; we've tried doing everything we remember doing at that point. Everything from killing fast, to killing slow, to killing only mamool ja's.

Well, we haven't tried avoiding mamool ja's.

We've done Blitzkrieg many times trying to figure out what makes him pop. What I do know was that he popped somewhere at the 150-70 mobs killed mark, in the little tunnel leading towards the center area. Although that might have been just him running towards us, so I'm not sure. He didn't aggro, if that helps any <.<;

Didn't really expect anything to pop since we hadn't read about it anywhere, so we didn't really think about what we were doing.

[Alistaire]

Ya.. Spinning attack always killed a bunch at a time.. It is just hard to engage a mob and not kill it before you get the weaponskill off.

Sounds like a job for Body Slam.

fixed.

[Makgen]

Me(WHM) and my static(PLD,WAR,BRD,BLM) just did Blietzkrieg. Around 120ish mobs defeated, the first NM (Bluethunder Kaqool JA) popped. We killed it and it randomly gave one of our members the temp key. Then after killing the other 80ish mobs ,we proceed to the pot and freed the captive girl.

She then talked to us about her background and asked us to bring her somewhere safe. Not sure how she determined who to follow but she started following me, as we headed back to the RoR more mobs began to pop and charge toward our group. We decide that me and the blm should just keep going while they killed the mobs. When we got to the RoR she thanked us and disappeared.

The mobs continued to pop even after she left. Around 285ish kills [another NM (Festive Firedrake, Huge Wyvern) popped but we ran out of time before killing it. It didnt have much HP our PLD/NIN did most of the damage to it since our WAR was weakend. ;; It did seem to hit quite hard though 350ish to the PLD. 983 Assault Points.

Not exactly sure how we popped the first or second NMs. I think our DD tried to focus on killing Mamool Ja at first til NM popped. We hadnt used any 2hr til after the first NM popped. I also didnt use any items til after first NM popped. Maybe you have to kill a certain amount of a mob type to pop a certain NM?

Edit: We just did a second time, this time we only engaged Mamool Ja mobs still using AoE WS to kill other mobs around them though, but sleeping the other types mainly. Again around 120ish Kills the BLU NM popped. So maybe killing 75 of a certain mob type pops the corsponding NM? We ran really low on time doing the first 200 again. It looks like whoever is closest to the Cage when opened is who she follows. Killed 265ish this time but no NM popped. 893 Assault Points. Going to do it a third time in a few.

Edit2: Third times a charm. ^^ Killed all 200 and poped the NM with in 15min. Key seem to be killing enough of the other mobs while focusing on killing Mamool Ja to make NM pop as close to 200 as possible. While your escorting the second wave of 100 pops. Around 285ish defeated the Wyvern NM pops. Once the second wave is completely killed. It give you a message about completely destroying their forces. Didnt get any item, but didnt have much time to check the zone for anything. 1227 Assault Points.

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[Kaylia]

Thanks a lot for the info. We tried aiming mamool first, but probably didnt kill enough when we did it. Gonna try again next time.

[Uzor]

Thanks for the info.

Hmm, we tried focusing on killing the Mamool Ja's before, but he never popped for us ; ; Perhaps we didn't kill enough >.<

[tornfleshofsoul]

Hot and Cold Ilrusi is the most confusing Assault ever.

Tried it 3 times. First time we got a hint right away, and her telling us who the ring was closest to led us into a corner, saying it was closest to the wall, but she kept saying that the ring was no where near there.

2nd time we got all hints and she gave us a direction, which led us in circles on the north side of the map. Sometimes saying it was close and to the east, but when we went east, she'd say it was no where near there.

Any conclusive hints on this?

[Kaylia]

I won last 4 hot and cold (only lost the first attempt). Bc isnt that hard unless you get unlucky with first hint ( Always go south of the entrance, I always find one there)

Tried it 3 times. First time we got a hint right away, and her telling us who the ring was closest to led us into a corner, saying it was closest to the wall, but she kept saying that the ring was no where near there.

The first message ("i feel something nearby") concerns clue/monsters/trap I believe. She will never tell you the ring is near (not sure what she says when you get 2 hints, but I know its useless to find the rings with only 1). The reason you were getting "It's nowhere" here was simply because you got out of a clue range, but not the ring

Once you get the first hint, uses only the "who is the closest" message to find it. The "???" for ring will pop when she stand right on top of the spot (dont need to scan or anything), and it's not always obvious to get her there. Last pop was on top of a rock that was kinda annoying to climb, close to a wall. We spent a good 10minutes trying to figure that one out.

[Jeryhn]

Can confirm that the only requirement to finding the ??? for the ring is to get her standing on top of it, or at least really fucking close. My assault team beat this one with 40ish seconds to spare simply because someone on our team was quick on the draw. We didn't find any clues or anything in the entire 30 minute period, nor did we get any messages as to who was closest.

We also found it on top of an annoying rock.