Campaign Ops Discussion

[Jer]

Me and some other people were going to do Pit Spider since it was in the list right before we did Granite Rose. I was the first one back and started the Op, but it disappeared to them in the 10 seconds it took them to talk to the NPC.

[Tymon]

This is kind of weird.. I was camping out the OP guy a little while ago, I started just as a vana day started, and during the day time, I couldn't get any of uh.. off the top of my head

Pit spider
Smokescreens
Slaughterhouse
Streetsweepers
Hawk Eyes
Granite Rose
Brave Dawns
Crimson Domino

maybe a few more I didn't see

Anyway, I checked back just as night time had started (around 21:00) and I had all of them. I did Streetsweeper II, Slaughterhouse and Hawk Eye I, I was coming back to do Hawk Eye II and day time hit (6:00) and they were all gone again.

I'm going to bed now, so I really can't check again next vana night to see if they're back, but I'll make sure someone does

this is bastok on quetzalcoatl

[Shadowrunner]

Didn't someone post all the ops in the .dats currently somewhere? I can't find it...

It's the same missions, they just go up to tier 3.

Hmmm, I'm currently bringing us up to date with the .dats... do "Objective" never change despite rank... and... well, here's my progress so far:

http://wiki.bluegartr.com/User:BRP/Ops

Good?

You've accidently linked to the windurst Stock and Awe I, other than that it's good. If it's the correct Stock and Awe I, then it's description is a little off with it saying supplies to Bastok.

[Septimus]

I did several Vanguard missions. The NPC behavior seems to be random.

I've got two types of behavior before:

Chicken NPC: Keeps whining about his comrades back at the barracks.

Idiot Hero NPC: Keeps chasing imaginary mobs to kill.

Never got the NPC exemplified in the wiki that calls us slowpokes.

I got that guy twice now. He is awesome.

[Tomino]

my 2 cents on OPs avaiability
it could be that the various OPs are arranged in tiers : depending on your rank/nation some OPs are always avaiable (in case you need AN for anything) while "higher tiers" are locked for like 1 earth day after you complete one/two of them. this could be meant to avoid player with 7 tags to complete 7 fresh new, high tier, OPs in like 3 hours.

this comes from the fact me and a friend with same server, rank, nation, completed OPs and AN had different OPs avaiable for a whole day. only difference was I did a few OPs and he didnt for a whole week.
then, right after I got new tag (so 24h refresh) I got almost all avaiable OPs unlocked and got the same choices as my friend.

[Edrick]

I did several Vanguard missions. The NPC behavior seems to be random.

I've got two types of behavior before:

Chicken NPC: Keeps whining about his comrades back at the barracks.

Idiot Hero NPC: Keeps chasing imaginary mobs to kill.

Never got the NPC exemplified in the wiki that calls us slowpokes.

I got that guy twice now. He is awesome.

All of my Vanguard-X I (S) missions were with the slowpoke guy (about 4 of them?). The only Vanguard-X II (S) one gave me the Chicken NPC. The Idiot Hero one sounds fun, though. :D

[jibini]

Just got my Bronze Star §.

No new Campaign Ops, but, as you'd expect, I can now get the Star Allied Note items.

[Bakthi]

There's definitely a quota for Smokescreen II (and I thought I saw someone talking about this elsewhere, but I can't find it now). I went out to Meriphitaud (the only beastman-controlled area), joined the battle, and got 1185/664 at the end, but I didn't get the extra exp reward message I saw with Smokescreen I, so I assumed I wasn't done. I got 1725/862 from the next battle, and the "Objective Completed" message with an additional 210 exp. I can only hope the completion was from adding the two battles together, rather than having to get, say, 1500 in a single fight. 720 AN, btw.

Going to try and figure out WTF my wiki password was.

[Gilthas]

All of my Vanguard-X I (S) missions were with the slowpoke guy (about 4 of them?). The only Vanguard-X II (S) one gave me the Chicken NPC. The Idiot Hero one sounds fun, though. :D

Its really nothing special. Never really saw him attacking a mob. Instead of running back to the outpost he just runs in a wide circular arc.

[rath]

my 2 cents on OPs avaiability
it could be that the various OPs are arranged in tiers : depending on your rank/nation some OPs are always avaiable (in case you need AN for anything) while "higher tiers" are locked for like 1 earth day after you complete one/two of them. this could be meant to avoid player with 7 tags to complete 7 fresh new, high tier, OPs in like 3 hours.

this comes from the fact me and a friend with same server, rank, nation, completed OPs and AN had different OPs avaiable for a whole day. only difference was I did a few OPs and he didnt for a whole week.
then, right after I got new tag (so 24h refresh) I got almost all avaiable OPs unlocked and got the same choices as my friend.

I have never had any defensive/offensive/inteeligence, and a friend doing her OPs for the first time (same nation) has them available.

[ullquiorra]

aegis scream 2 @meriphataud mountains

joined 1st one that was ending when i reached there 64/65 ish... not done
2nd one 590/594 neither
3rd 725/726 mission completed

[Xanthe]

Been stuck on Stock and Awe II (W) for 3 days now because I can't get Yagudo Kote to drop. I've been killing mainly Yagudo Sentinels in West Sarutabaruta [S] and whatever other Yagudo inbetween. Nearly 10k exp worth and almost 20k in gil drops, but not a single kote... Can anyone else confirm what specific mobs drop Yagudo Kote? I'm sick of being stuck on this Op and about ready to give up.

[Meiyu]

Has anyone found out how many completed Ops are needed for rank ups? At work, so can't see much from here ;p

[Vedder]

There's definitely a quota for Smokescreen II (and I thought I saw someone talking about this elsewhere, but I can't find it now). I went out to Meriphitaud (the only beastman-controlled area), joined the battle, and got 1185/664 at the end, but I didn't get the extra exp reward message I saw with Smokescreen I, so I assumed I wasn't done. I got 1725/862 from the next battle, and the "Objective Completed" message with an additional 210 exp. I can only hope the completion was from adding the two battles together, rather than having to get, say, 1500 in a single fight. 720 AN, btw.

I feel strongly that it's a cumulative total. I got the Aegis Scream II Op and went to Meriphataud. I ended up getting in three small Campaigns over 2 days time. All 3 rewarded less than 700 XP & AN (something like ~400, ~300, ~650), but on the 3rd one I got the Op completion message from the NPC and the 210 bonus XP.

My recommendation to anyone that can't complete these the first time around is to keep the Op open and stay in a qualifying zone (Beastman or nation controlled, depending on which Op you chose) and keep doing Campaign battles until the NPC gives you the completion text and XP bonus.

[rath]

There's definitely a quota for Smokescreen II (and I thought I saw someone talking about this elsewhere, but I can't find it now). I went out to Meriphitaud (the only beastman-controlled area), joined the battle, and got 1185/664 at the end, but I didn't get the extra exp reward message I saw with Smokescreen I, so I assumed I wasn't done. I got 1725/862 from the next battle, and the "Objective Completed" message with an additional 210 exp. I can only hope the completion was from adding the two battles together, rather than having to get, say, 1500 in a single fight. 720 AN, btw.

I feel strongly that it's a cumulative total. I got the Aegis Scream II Op and went to Meriphataud. I ended up getting in three small Campaigns over 2 days time. All 3 rewarded less than 700 XP & AN (something like ~400, ~300, ~650), but on the 3rd one I got the Op completion message from the NPC and the 210 bonus XP.

My recommendation to anyone that can't complete these the first time around is to keep the Op open and stay in a qualifying zone (Beastman or nation controlled, depending on which Op you chose) and keep doing Campaign battles until the NPC gives you the completion text and XP bonus.

Go to a dungeon that your nation owns. Get instant rr and pull mobs away solo once they engage NPCs. Resources seem to regen in dungeons since you can not do the supply mission there. If you die, go back and get rr again. Shadow eye and shadowhand just lost to 10 npcs 1brd and 1blu in CN I got 2870/1860 for about 30 minutes.

[Bakthi]

aegis scream 2 @meriphataud mountains

joined 1st one that was ending when i reached there 64/65 ish... not done
2nd one 590/594 neither
3rd 725/726 mission completed

OK, so for your Aegis Scream 2:

654/659 = not enough
1379/1385 = enough

Combining that with my results, either Smokescreen II/AG II have different requirements, or the requirement for both is somewhere around 1200-1300 exp or 800-1300 AN (assuming it's cumulative, which seems sensible).

[Lucavi]

That's good about Aegis Scream: I just wanted to make sure that mine wasn't bugged or something -- I don't mind staying out there to hit a cap, it just felt odd to lose after winning everything else before.

[Mosh]

Little heads up about Aegis Scream 2..

I picked this up then went out to Fort KN before reading any info here about it. Did the fight, we won, got 3xx exp for the campaign itself but not the Op.

Went back to Windurst[s] to see if I could get more info from Emhi (Op NPC) and she gave me the "You failed" text. No option of giving up or any other options at all. Just went click -> fail.

[Epical]

For Aegis Scream II, do you have to stay in the zone? Or can you warp to different campaigns in controlled zones and it'll still count toward your tally?

[Vedder]

For Aegis Scream II, do you have to stay in the zone? Or can you warp to different campaigns in controlled zones and it'll still count toward your tally?

I went to different zones in between Campaign battles over a period of two days (did one first night, then logged and did two more the next day). However, I did all of my battles in the same zone... so I'm not sure if the cumulative total can be met in more than one nation controlled zone.

Good question though, I'm interested in the answer. :D