Sortie Release - Info

We went in RUN WAR COR BRD WHM, all had 2x KI for Leshonn, only had lightning up. All he did was a low damage AoE (Concussive Shock) that applied a potent Elegy, was kind of a cake walk. No stun, no heavy damage either. Avoided any SC on him and just spammed Savage Blade. Started off 50-70k SB, killed in about 2 minutes, was taking about 25-30k SB by the time he died.

Yeah, seems like Ill have to go after removing them. Getting him to 10% has been fine, but man when he boost by the 10% I'm just stonewalled. Damage is just trashed. Ill test all this stuff out tomorrow.

taking them down to 15% HP then finishing them up with WHM holy/holy II worked for us

Has anyone tried killing the Thunder and Wind elementals before doing Leshonn, they are both in the same room. Could affect him some how?

Can anyone confirm they got the Porxie chest of any color without performing an SC on the Porxie?

Yeah I am thinking about doing this tomorrow to see if it effects anything.

Tried various 10k Magic kills for Metal A. Tried all types of mobs, all elements, MB kills from 10%/20%/30% up to 50%, tried non-MN kills from 12% hp (more than 10k hp).

None of these worked, it's something else doing it.

Tried various 10k Magic kills for Metal A tonight. Tried all types of mobs, all elements, MB kills from 10%/20%/30% up to 50%, tried non-MB kills from 12% hp (more than 10k hp).

None of these worked, it's something else doing it.

You need to do 100% of the damage using magic (or something close to it). I got it easily today by simply spamming ninjutsu magic on 5 mobs and not meleeing it. Video on previous page goes over it.

My group has killed Wind/Thunder Elementals before Leshonn every time we've fought him (In fact, we usually full clear B and do boss in the last 10 mins), all 4 times he's just been a Savage Blade cake walk.

Yeah that's what I kept being told, but when you pull and get hit for 3500 melee rounds on pull, I feel like there is more too it lol.

My first run went well, but the buff absorbs made him super resistant. Second time, he just one shot me right off the rip. Attempted again, but he was using retaliation on me when I got hate [900-2k]. I honestly want to say the damage looked almost as if my WS were being guarded. The damage was fluctuating that much.

Zap puts debuffs lebron has onto you... do not helix him...

understood. I'll just cast Kaustra instead.

Just summon Dirk Nowitzki trust. LeBron can’t do ***against that.

Has anybody seen an NQ earring with more than the ACC/MACC/etc stat, or a +1 earring with attributes+ on it? I do not know where that idea came from, and I cannot seem to find any screenshots.

2x NQ today, both just acc/macc.

Why does it do Box -> ??? earring -> Earring NQ/+1/+2? Why not just Box -> Earring NQ/+1/+2?

PS. They NPC for about 4k

I haven't fully read all the last few pages so maybe I missed it, but has anyone so far encountered the two new status effects? Tainted, and haunted.

Our red chest in D came from something that was not a galka, the NM was a galka.

The big boss in area A does unremovable poison called Taint.

I have 6 NQ earrings - 2 SAM, 1 WAR, 1 DRK, 1 NIN, 1 PLD. All 6 only have Acc. and Mag Acc. and the values are the same. Three of the earrings are 7 Acc / 7 Macc, two are 6/6, one is 8/8.

After failing with BLU AOE spells last night, I went in as RDM and started with the Acuexes and did only Tier 3 and 4 nukes, mainly Fire and Blizzard. No melee, no physical damage, no engaging with trusts. Slow2, Para2, Blind2, to start meant I took barely any damage while I nuked down. Kill shot was Blizzard 3 on 4 of the Acuexes, and Fire 3 on 2 of the Acuexes. On the 6th Acuex I finally got Metal A for the first time, and proceeded to get 7/7 of the chests in A.

Just to be extra sure I killed all Leeches and Hecteyes like you did as well, and then went to Ghatjot. Super easy fight, barely lasted a few minutes. I tri-box with my DRK and BRD, so the DRK was the only one I sent in to Torcleaver -> Torcleaver while the RDM did a couple bursts. Clobbering wave did 1K damage to the DRK at one point, but that was the closest call of the fight. Dropped an Old Case for all.

While I feel like A is solved, I am now wondering if there might be extra rewards for "figuring out" the boss without use of the metal. Would be interested to see if the people who are getting sapphires and old cases +1 have metal in possession or not.

PS: Thank you Logical for documenting your success so I could replicate it.

I added up damage in the log where I earlier demonstrated that dealing melee damage doesn't prevent you from being able to get the #A shard. Prior to the 78070 damage Spectral Floe magic burst that killed the acuex which triggered the objective, I dealt:

physical:
22560 - melee damage (PUP, BLU, BRD, Valaineral)
28349 - Savage Blade (BLU)

magical:
365 - Enlight damage (Valaineral)
10455 - Blizzard V (automaton)
2542 - Barbed Crescent (Chain Affinity)
3418 - Skillchain: Distortion
78070 - Magic Burst: Spectral Floe (overkilled)

A neighboring acuex had approximately 131000HP and a similar exp result, so--though not entirely accounting for possible mob level difference--I was able to deal just under 40% of the acuex's HP as physical damage and still be able to get the #A shard.

Tonight's run:
Started looking for NM on map 1, wasn't there.
Teleported to I-5 via device to get the chest, Leech NM was in the hallway of I-5.
Cleared all hecteyes, got the blue 5 kill chest on the fifth hecteye.
Opened the door A3 to head towards ghatjot room and got the key chest that is normally at A1 door.
Pulled 5 acruex and aoe'd them down with GEO doing 100% of the dmg, for another chest.
Pulled all 15 leeches, then dropped down to get the 6 on the lower floor. AoE'd these down with a mix of aoe weaponskills.
Rested at the raised spot behind A1, for a box.

Went for Ghatjot with all leeches and hecteyes dead, plus metal from previous run, and he died in sub 1 min to a single gaxe warrior sub samurai 4 stepping light with chango and mighty strikes. WAR was buffed good with COR/GEO/BRD usual setup except that GEO stood out so only WAR was getting hit (so no indi-Fury). It was a completely different fight from the day before. WAR wasn't even being careful of WS during the bosses skills. Just Rush > Rush > Upheaval > Upheaval no cares in the world. WAR took two hits for about 1k dmg each time but that was nothing compared to the 5k+ it was the day before.

Edit: The last 20 mins of the run was just us messing around in B. Got 3 chests without really paying attention. SB kills on fire elementals, and got one after a leaden salute kill on a fire elemental. Proxie wandered in from behind a door in the fire elemental room and we got a box from it as well. WAR did all the dmg to it, Upheaval > Upheaval, last hit killed it from like 15%.

We confirmed a couple of objectives in Region D:
KOing 1 of each job type of Fomor gave us a chest.
- WHM, BLM, RDM, THF, MNK, WAR
KOing 1 job type but all 3 Equipment types also gave a chest.
- WHM in Artifact > WHM in Relic > WHM in Empyrean

No shard though. Not sure if Equipment type needs to be in that order either and nothing else was killed in between the 3 KOs.

For Bhoot we tried KOing with a Banish III Magic Burst and KOing with a Cure spell did not yield a chest.

There was a d/c when doing one of the Key objectives. Doing the reqs while the player was not there did not trigger it, but trying again when they came back did get the objective cleared.

Magic weapon skills do not seem to work on the two magic damage A objectives

no shard? what color was it? blue? red?

To add on, we found an AF/Relic/Emp Whm all together right next to the D-2 gate. Edit: Will have to see if that spot always has an AF/Relic/Emp Whm though.

Objectives 3/4 for A, will test later on tonight with mules, but part of me thinks it may be enfeebling effects that will get the proc rather than pure magic damage and/or kills. Since always got it on blu spells with enfeebling additional effects. I have no basis on this, but will try stuff out later tonight.

Sorry I was looking through my recording, it looks like I didn't catch the 2nd one :/
The all jobs one dropped a blue one though. I think the 2nd one dropped a red one, but all I know for sure is that it yielded just the 500 gallimaufry.