Sortie Release - Info

We've gotten x5 Starstones and far too many NQ Old Cases to count.
Agreed that the effort/reward ratio is way off kilter.

Yeah, the boss page is wrong. I copied it from Ghatjot, which was also wrong, just to have some info on the page. I have been slowly cleaning up the other sections as people add info but the NM part and NM pages are still a mess. I've been waiting for more info before I sink too much time into the cleanup because as more info gets added the entropy grows again. I've lost track of how many hours have been spent reorganizing and rewording the Hidden Objectives section as more info gets added.

You should consider yourself lucky then. My group is 0 Starstone from like 65 combined bosses/blue/red.

Has anyone seen confirmation of the claim that getting aggro while attempting to get Casket #G1 invalidates the objective? The claim seems very suspect and I haven't seen any confirmation since the original report.

Any chance we can get some extra confirmation on this? Not that I doubt you, Ruau, but that is not the order in WKR, RoE, or lore-distance from Adoulin; Yggdreant comes before Waktza in all cases. My group has not attempted the Naakuals in G yet, so I'd be really interested in seeing some video of this.

Edit: double post

I'm pretty sure I know the answer to this, but I will ask it just to be sure:
Do we all have to be in the same basement zone to get credit for objectives? Or could we send someone to E, someone to F, someone to G, at the same time, to do some things in parallel?

H chest is leaving and re-entering.

Do you mean G? (stand around) This can be done sneak/invis no problem.

we tested it, someone opened a chest in G, i was i E and got 0 reward (just saw the message in chat but no muffins)

Nope, denied.
Just tested and it worked when you're invisible and sneaked, the chest pops.

Also I tested Fetid Ixion with sneak and invi up, he didn't aggro me no matter how hard I tried.
Which implies he is not true sight/sound

Actually, my experience was the opposite. I perfect dodge tanked a dullahan while waiting out the timer, and the chest popped just fine. The thing is, you can't stop targeting the bitzer for the duration, and you can't move, both of which are really likely reactions to being aggroed...


My group has done bztavian > rockfin > gabbrath > waktza > yggdreant > cehuetzi two runs in a row now in hall G and gotten the chest smoothly from it. We try not to pull the next before the previous is dead, holding two at once might interfere? (We also use "buy seven donuts beside the cop" to help remember. Bee, shark, dino, bird, tree, cat.)

I hope u r wrong...about starstones :(

In G we tried: Bztavian > Gabbrath > Rockfin > Waktza > Yggdreant > Cehuetzi.
respawned.

Bztavian > Rockfin > Gabbrath > Waktza > Yggdreant > Cehuetzi.
Door opened + Red Chest.

On both groupings, we would sometimes pull before a previous one died to reduce the wait between mobs.

a friend's alt got a starstone on his alt run, but on our mains only runs, we have also yet to see a starstone drop. it's gotta be similar rarity as case+1 upstairs(A~D).

I get ~4 blue chest a run and 1 red chest a run. Seen one case +1 and no stones.

For you.
Im 3/66 and my static is 0/50+
Maybe not +1 case rarity, but very close

EDIT: and static is 2/50+ on +1 cases too

This event is ***

Should be able to trade sapphires in for a starstone. Could even be a big number if they wanted like 20 or something.

:)

For me the event itself is VERY good. Just Old case +1 drop sucks imo.

There is lots of different objectives, which is fun. People always want something else than simple Savage spam, then they cry about gimmicks :roll_eyes:

- Lots of various mobs suited for different damage
- Nuking and BLM is very relevant for E,F,G bosses at least. Ranged strategies are also good, white damage is more balanced with WS wall being a thing etc.
- Trash mobs arent a push over, which actually promote more balanced approach with crowd control and also defensive buffs/debuffs
- Solo players still have few "free" chests to look forward, so the slow, but steady progress is possible.
- Bosses are actually designed very well. They have gimmicks, but gimmicks that you can play with, but also gimmicks that cant be ignored, like Bumba's.

From the gameplay perspective it's one of the best if not THE best event in FFXI imo and daily/6 players is imo a good thing. It means it's easier to setup as PUG, especially that you can do a lot with not optimal setup still and also you are not pressured to be super optimal or not to risk any new tactics, like in Dynamis for example, because you can always go next day.

I don't have much experience but so far I share the same feeling.
That and the 100k Gallimaufry cap.

The rest I guess I could make a list of small complaints but it's such small things it's not worth the trouble, really.

Earrings though are a big fail if they're stayin like that.



Point still stands though that for the past 3+ years we haven't seen a single event that you can do with more than 6 people. I'm not blaming Sortie for that, I'm blaming SE.

Basically upgrading to +2 is quick / easy for most people, going to +3 is going to take much longer and you'll need to prioritize pieces. Maybe they'll lower cost or increase ways to get starstones something in the middle of next year. We can thank all those folks who went at it hard every day and upgraded everything, then complained they had nothing else to do.


Lol I think it'll be more like 500 needed, not 10K. I suspect we'll need to "deposit" 1,000,000 muffins though.