Campaign - 3/23/10 Update

[Gwynplaine]

Maybe it's just a formality for how the Campaign system works in general and the area just has to factor in to the morale/finances or something. Or maybe someday there will be a series of mini soloable Ops to use there. I dunno it makes no sense to me.

Frozen Flame :
Check the ??? at H9 in Beaucedine Glacier S to spawn Frost Bomb NM. Drag him at the Fortication without aggro. It will automatically use Hypothermal Combustion on the tower.

Thanks, saved me from wandering around that hellhole.

[Archain]

Since Glory Slash is physical, I tried it with Sneak Attack a few times. I can tell you that it does work and would indicate that Assassin's Charge and Warrior's Charge would work too.

I have not tried it with Souleater yet (I assume the effect would be the same as using Shockwave under Souleater w/ a Great Sword).

Here's Lex Talionis
http://archain.ultimals.com/images/Lex%20Talionis.jpg



The description
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A few Sandy enemies
http://archain.ultimals.com/images/G...sh%20Sandy.jpg



A few Bastok and Windy enemies
http://archain.ultimals.com/images/G...h%20Groups.jpg

I've tried a few times, but it looks as if you can't exploit Hide in an AoE sense by forcing Sneak Attack on all. I was hoping that I could go into a large group of them, hit Sneak Attack, Assassin's Charge, and Hide prior to performing Glory Slash with the intention of making every enemy suffer the effect of Sneak Attack + Glory Slash at once regardless of position. You can tell that it seems the focused enemy is the only enemy Sneak Attack would apply to.

I have not tried SA+Souleater, TA, Last Resort, Mighty Strikes, or Souleater alone.
I do not know what Building Flourish would do to this weaponskill or which stat it is based off of yet.

I have not been able to use modifiers like the Soldier's Drink yet, but I can try a /MNK multiboost to see if it has any effect.

Edit - Here's a MNK Multiboost. The difference isn't too great.

/MNK Multiboost
http://archain.ultimals.com/images/G...NK%20Boost.jpg

[Miraun]

Looks like Glory Slash absolutely demolishes Uriel Blade... I know which one I'll pick up first...

[LinktheDeme]

Has anyone found out how to get the allied ring yet?

[Rocl]

I was terribly wrong about the Throne Room capping. It was @500/700 when I went to bed and was the same when I woke up like 8 hours later, and I thought it might've capped.

[zakia]

Archain, what gears did you have to hit 1700s?

[Amedia]

looks like complaining worked.

[Current Known Issue]
- The damage caused by the weapon skill "Uriel Blade" is currently too low.

[ronin sparthos]

Davilles did not approve of the mockery that was Uriel Blade-1.

In other news, Shadowsoul oneshotting CB npcs with death is beyond cheap.... and GOD DAMN IT square.... move that fucking Amphiptere.

[Karbuncle]

Davilles did not approve of the mockery that was Uriel Blade-1.

In other news, Shadowsoul oneshotting CB npcs with death is beyond cheap.... and GOD DAMN IT square.... move that fucking Amphiptere.

the Frog Freelance is able to one-shot Enemy "Captains" and freelances with Death =0

[Gwynplaine]

In other news, Shadowsoul oneshotting CB npcs with death is beyond cheap.... and GOD DAMN IT square.... move that fucking Amphiptere.

I've got so many issues with Campaign I don't think I could even fit it all in one post. But mixing the damn regular enemies in with the Campaign mobs is just infuriating. But lolCampaign.

[takito09]

the Frog Freelance is able to one-shot Enemy "Captains" and freelances with Death =0

Zolku Azulku the lider of libran casters is able to one-shot 1 entire wave of enemies with death knell

Btw if u have the new tartarus torpor ws feeel free to do your report that it does no dmg >< I did and gms allready checking it.

[Khiinroye]

But he only uses it once he reaches low hp. After that...feel free to curespam him to full.

[Archain]

Archain, what gears did you have to hit 1700s?

Sneak Attack in Hecatomb as THF/NIN. I don't know what the modifier is as of yet though.

[Gwynplaine]

Some more in-depth info about Frozen Flame Ops. Can only be done in Glacier or Xarc. You need to check a ??? to spawn a Frost Bomb mob, then pull it to the fortification points where it will automatically explode and damage them. The Frost Bombs are very weak and pose little threat (hardly can even hit a 75 or break stoneskin).

Find the ??? in Glacier southeast down the ramp at H-9 in Glacier. It's where the red demon NM spawns at the Regal Footprints for Wings mission. This is a little dangerous to pull it back to the fort past the Gigas, Ahriman, and Taurs.

In Xarc the ??? that spawns the Frost Bomb is way south of the fort in a dead end. But it is a very safe pull there are no enemies in the way.

I'm not sure if it makes a difference but I noticed that when there's no Campaign Battle going on you just get a "stronghold has sustained considerable damage" message. But when a Battle is taking place you get a message saying "-> The fortification takes X amount of damage" message. It's pretty quick and easy to do. Here's my results so far:

1st Glacier:
422 Exp during no Battle, forgot amount of AN.

2nd Glacier:
2900 damage to fort
349 Exp 874 AN
fort dropped by 6 points but NPC Battle may have been part of that.

Xarc:
2450 damage to fort
295 Exp and 738 AN
fort dropped by 7 points but NPC Battle may have been part of that.

Xarc:
301 Exp lowered fort by 4

I tried to give it TP to see if it would grow larger like bombs in AU, hoping larger bombs would do more damage. But after it reached 5% HP it hadn't used a single TP attack so it probably doesn't work.

[SephYuyX]

http://archain.ultimals.com/images/G...h%20Groups.jpg

So.. use RR, /SAM + build TP, Use WS, cap on 15min battle xp in 1 second, die, evaluate, repeat. 1410 xp every 3minutes at minimum?

[TummieGaruda]

So.. use RR, /SAM + build TP, Use WS, cap on 15min battle xp in 1 second, die, evaluate, repeat. 1410 xp every 3minutes at minimum?

You'd have to wait the 15 minutes in between evaluations to get that amount of exp. So basically in theory, yes you can probably get that much exp in 1 second, but if you evaluate too early it will cut your exp based on how long you've had the tags on. It would be more like RR, meditate, WS, die, reraise up, AFK for ~15 minutes, get evaluation, repeat.

[Narol]

At the rate battles seem to end nowadays, the battle would just end 10 minutes later anyway and you'd be over-capped.

[takito09]

btw 818/818 atm in alex ^^


btw both castles in power on sandy btw

[Kegsay]

Just completed Kinslayer: Baileys thanks to Kriegsgott. Two BLUs were enough to do it, you need to kill one Shadowguard Demon (easiest ones are by the zoneline to the Keep(S), there's two there). Nothing special about them, they have a lot of HP though and are DRKs, they use Dread Spikes/Absorb-XXX. If you get links on the pull, zoning them will make the NM depop. Other than that, slow rapes it for blink tanking. Gave 723 EXP and 1809 Allied Notes (STARS: 1).

[takito09]

Sorry to make a new post but i wanted to ask if any server took this week also control of castle baileys and castle keep ?

In alex we took both castles but it seems .. you need all the 4 northland areas for shadow lord op to happen =/?

Anyone else has any info about this?