New Mercenary Ranks and Assault Missions (03/07/2007)

[Galkaporn]

Take the damn Golden Salvage crying to the Suggestion Box thread. Let's keep this about the update.

Also notice that this site has a Private Message feature. It works too!

[Toth]

Some assaults are just designed to be farmable.

[Ashira]

Hopefully at least one of them is fairly quick. I get really tired of spamming Lamia for Salvage.

[yrpaine]

While the linkshell may be a handy tool to tell your mamma that you need some new diapers, the whole network has more holes than your underwear.

heh

Yay..... new beastmen based minigame.... bet it'll be just as good as garrison or expeditionary force.

[sahearniitth]

"None" was a bit extreme for me to use I guess.

Here are the ones that I think are theoretically soloable
Leujaom Sanct
Oric Survey - Luck based win or lose
Counting Sheep - Somewhat Luck based, reduced points for not completing "fully"

Mamool Ja
Breaking Morale - Reduced points for not completing fully. Would have to be careful of not aggroing the ones that melee if on a low lvl job
Double Agent - Reduced points for guessing incorrectlly. Would have to be careful to not aggro puks if on a low lvl job.
Imperial Treasure recovery - Reduced points for fewer gems turned in.

Lebros
Apkallu Breeding - Reduced points for not completing fully.

Periqia
Saving Private Ryaaf - Could be soloed on a job that can do cyclone AND can avoid dying to chigoes while rounding them up.
Building Bridges - Theoretically soloable, but have fun trying.
Defuse the threat - Might be possible to solo but would need to be able to kill qurin. Also reduced points for bombs that blow up.

Illrusi Attol
Golden Salvage - Easy to solo due to a exploit.
Lamia 13 - Soloable by RDM I think but requires some level of skill/luck
Searat Salvation - Reduced points for not completing fully.
Apkallu Seizure - Reduced points for not completing fully. Would need to be able to kill pugils if they are in path
Lost and Found - Theoretically soloable as long as you can kill crabs. Will be rough doing it solo due to nature of clues however.


Anyway there are a fair number of assault missions that are "soloable" but most of them will give a very reduced reward and all of them will still take some level of skill to cover the distances in question alone or to kill off the mobs in question (Lamia 13) as opposed to golden salvage which offer a decent AP reward for very little effort and little to no skill.

[Tajin]

Well the guy hasnt post in a while, but GTFO with your "fix Golden Salvage" shit, i could care less if someone else gets "faster" (i fail to se how tho.) to a higher rank by spamming that one. Those kind of people are not doing anything to lower the fun i have trying to complete the rest of the assaults.

So yeah gtfo please with those kind of comments.


P.S. Yes i've spammed golden salvage at one point or another, i still fail to realize how spamming that particular assault will get me the rest of the yigit set :/

[NynJa]

Building Bridges - Theoretically soloable, but have fun trying.

I've cleared the West, North and East switches in less than 5 minutes. Its partially a degree of luck, but definately not worthy of "have fun trying" comments.

[Galkaporn]

Nice ninja edit Toth, real nice. Douche move.

[Sonomaa]

server shouldnt be going down unless there is a whole shit ton more traffic than we expect

consider this the popping of meowboxs cherry

[Jonel]

lol, why is everyone concerned about solo'able assaults? when the requirements clearly states a minimum of three members to attempt an assault.

"dis discushion ees a mute poynt."

[divisortheory]

This seems like a good opportunity to remind people (or tell people for the first time if they don't already know), that I have a thread tracking ??? statistics. I definitely want to start getting some results with regards to the new assault rank items. Also, this is a good opportunity to mention that even if you are still stuck on old assaults, get one person from your group to post your appraisal results in this thread. It's still going strong, I see no reason the stop the tracking any time soon.

[Kyreth]

Why does Al Zahbi/Whitegate AH charge in gil instead of imp.coin like guilds can do?

International trade. Imperial coin is local currency, Gil is everyone. After all, Windurst doesn't take beastcoins for purchases either.

And you can bet the Tenshodo made sure everyone has a nice moneychanging center available for the merchants...plus the AH for a gil-to-imperial exchange.

Also, imagine the nightmare if a Jeuno-linked AH charged in imperial coin. Moogles would be head-imploding by the dozens.