New Assault Missions and Mercenary Rank (08/07/2007)

[huckster]

In the upcoming version update, we will be adding a new promotion quest to unlock the next mercenary rank, as well as a series of exciting assault missions.

New Mercenary Rank
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The mercenary rank of "First Lieutenant" will be awarded to players who survive the grueling trials put forth by the hard-nosed drill sergeant, Rongelouts. Do you have what it takes, maggot?

New Assault Missions

Five new missions await players who have achieved the rank of First Lieutenant.
Here's a sneak preview of what lies in store:

Bloody Rondo
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Mission Orders: After years of quietly defying Imperial rule, the recluse Count Dracula has recently begun preparations for an assault on Al Zahbi. Infiltrate the Leujoam Sanctum, locate the count, and slay him before he can execute his plans.

The Susanoo Shuffle
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Mission Orders: In an attempt to strengthen their bonds with the Mamool Ja, an eastern nation has provided the beastmen with a new biologically engineered hydra hybrid known as Orochi. You are to infiltrate the training grounds and eliminate the new threat.

[Lyramion]

I foresee fun assaults and good appraises that are so rare the assaults wont be that fun anymore after you did them 20 times+

[Ziegus]

lol at Count Dracula.

[Jkun]

Awwww ickle baby Hydra <3

[Wintermute]

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I know far too many stoners that have this expression plastered on their faces all day long.

And wtf @ Count Dracula? SE really getting that lazy with NM Names?

[Valacirca]

And wtf @ Count Dracula? SE really getting that lazy with NM Names?

Well, SE does tend to name NMs after various mythical and religious things, and I doubt there are a whole lot of examples of vampires with specific names (that aren't from the past 50 years anyway).

Spike NM go go go!

[Lordwafik]

Cool, they're putting a dracula mob in the game that we'll be able to see on a reliable basis by 100% of the playerbase who get this assault rank! So they didn't waste the mob after all.

[Wintermute]

Cool, they're putting a dracula mob in the game that we'll be able to see on a reliable basis by 100% of the playerbase who get this assault rank! So they didn't waste the mob after all.

Can say the same thing for the Hydra Assault.

[LD]

No you can't, Hydra can at least be seen by the general population if they put in a token amount of effort. Vampyr is (was) tier 3 Einherjar only, one would only ever see it after weeks of Einherjar runs. This way, it wasn't as much of a waste making a completely new and reasonably cool mob, since it wont just be for one event some people might not even do. Now they just have to find another use for that chair demon.

[Lordwafik]

Cool, they're putting a dracula mob in the game that we'll be able to see on a reliable basis by 100% of the playerbase who get this assault rank! So they didn't waste the mob after all.

Can say the same thing for the Hydra Assault.

Nah, because unlike Einherjar, Hydra doesn't occasionally spawn as Marid/Morbol/Golem etc

[Spira]

lol at the Count Dracula thing indeed..

I'm glad they're reusing some mobs for the next tier of assaults, which seems to be the final one..

Orochi is pretty cool too because its steeped in japanese mythos.. (Yamata no Orochi is the giant 8 headed serpent from Japanese mythology, who can be slayed, and in one of his tails was the legendary sword that becomes one of the 3 Imperial treasures of Japan - the Amanomurakumo <-lol which is relic GKT so thats not possible, but maybe they make another uber GKT and name it as one of the other names the sword had... such as Kusanagi-no-Tsurugi or Tsumugari-no-Tachi

[tyraravenlocke]

I dunno.. they sorta specifically said next mercenary rank in there.

Which would imply that there are more.. which is not what was expected at all.

[BerenTebogo]

0/40+ Divisor ring
0/20+ Omicron ring
2/60+ (didnt win lots on either) Homam Feet for ninjar.

Something tells me I might just finally give in and start listening to Linkin Park after this update if they don't fix rates.

[Sagacious Sundi]

Count Dracula made me smile. But, yeah, I think October's update will feature the last rank + missions. With the missions maybe being related to the Serpent Generals (as mentioned in another thread), and maybe those can be the "Shadows of the Departed" for ToAU's AN. (Maybe a fight with Odin will be ToAU's "Storms of Fate", opening up a repeatable quest/battle that features Odin as a possible reward. >_>)

Awwww ickle baby Hydra <3

I can't tell, how big/small is that hydra?

EDIT: Maybe all of these Assault missions will feature a HNM fight?
Mamool Ja: Hydra
Lebros: Cerberus
Ilrusi: Khimaira
Sanctum: Vampyr
Periqia: Dvergr

Also note that all 5 of those are 5/6 of the wing 3 bosses (2 are confirmed, the others have obvious names like Gorgimera/Vampyr Jarl/Motsognir ("father of the dvergar")).

[BRP]

Tasty, as usual. As noted, Count Dracula showing up makes things amusing.

Perhaps all 5 assaults will be "boss" based if this is any indication. Cerberus, Hydra, Khamaira, Vampyr, and a Dyric or whatever they were called?

[Sagacious Sundi]

Damn, BRP beat me while I was editing my post.

[orson]

Tasty, as usual. As noted, Count Dracula showing up makes things amusing.

Perhaps all 5 assaults will be "boss" based if this is any indication. Cerberus, Hydra, Khamaira, Vampyr, and a Dyric or whatever they were called?

Kind of a neat idea but really the whole novelty of killing kings in nyzul wore off relatively fast. It'd be nice if they thought about adding some of Cerb's and Kham's drops to ??? items at a very low rate but to warrant that they'd have to make the assaults fairly tough.

[Reapz]

I would of thought this was last rank. The two assaults they have shown sound exciting though!

[Lordwafik]

Tasty, as usual. As noted, Count Dracula showing up makes things amusing.

Perhaps all 5 assaults will be "boss" based if this is any indication. Cerberus, Hydra, Khamaira, Vampyr, and a Dyric or whatever they were called?

Kind of a neat idea but really the whole novelty of killing kings in nyzul wore off relatively fast. It'd be nice if they thought about adding some of Cerb's and Kham's drops to ??? items at a very low rate but to warrant that they'd have to make the assaults fairly tough.

Be careful what you wish for. If you throw Khimera's drops into Assault, then nobody would camp Khimera.

If nobody camps Khimera, where oh where would beastmasters be able to get their JSE from!?

[Budonez]

Tasty, as usual. As noted, Count Dracula showing up makes things amusing.

Perhaps all 5 assaults will be "boss" based if this is any indication. Cerberus, Hydra, Khamaira, Vampyr, and a Dyric or whatever they were called?

Kind of a neat idea but really the whole novelty of killing kings in nyzul wore off relatively fast. It'd be nice if they thought about adding some of Cerb's and Kham's drops to ??? items at a very low rate but to warrant that they'd have to make the assaults fairly tough.

Be careful what you wish for. If you throw Khimera's drops into Assault, then nobody would camp Khimera.

If nobody camps Khimera, where oh where would beastmasters be able to get their JSE from!?

Can't forget about Hydra, I want my fking DRG JSE