Sortie Release - Info

This might be why I was having trouble popping metal in A last night. I was probably getting them too low for the kills to count. Will try this tonight.

Crashed during the first 5min of a sortie run.......hour later still can't log back in...anyone dealt with this also?

Getting FFXI-3001 when I finally get to login

Half the people running this probably

This is how I got my first shard A. Shantotto MB kill at least 10-15 mobs before it dropped. I use double light SC in every mob. I tried to replicate this yesterday with no success.

Finally got Metal A after 4 runs. Killed 12 acuex and 6 leeches. All of them within 9-12% hp. Got low with subduction, then hit them with a BA big nuke.

Got +1 box out a random blue b chest gave dnc +2 earring , near max rolls +9 dex/agi 17 acc/macc and +6 stp

Wiped on Ghatjot. Too much damage from clobbering wave. Trusts ran out of MP.

I just tried this and it did not work. Killed the whole north pack without weapon skills and nothing.

I was however able to melee them down to 10% and finish them off with blizz V for credit.

We just finished a run where we killed all 4 bosses. Counting what we got from all other objectives too, we only got an Old Case for our rewards from the run.

Was hoping for some guaranteed drops for killing all 4 bosses, but we got literally nothing but gall. Bit unfortunate.

We've been having good luck in getting C shard on Corses, by spamming multi-step light (fusion -> Light x2), and MBing light spells (Dia, Banish, Lullaby) throughout.

D shard seems to be multi-stepping SCs on fomor, doing at least a 6-step worked for us. We did this on a couple times on fomors; we just did Jinpu spam and as Geo I did also just MB tier 1 Aero/Stone with each SC jic if it mattered. Got it pretty quickly though with this method.

D boss is like Perfidien. In order to proc blue, I was just nuking the opposite element of the TP moves it uses afterwards. Fire TP move -> Nuke Water blue proc, Thunder TP move -> Nuke Thunder blue proc. Was pretty weak. We did have a Distortion heal it (I'm thinking while it was doing water TP moves?), so we then tried to avoid SCs. It didn't seem to rage though and I proc'd blue quickly after anyways, if that matters.




All of the bosses seem really easy for the most, and Geo is quite nice. Just been doing Indi-Attune/Geo-Fury, Entrust Haste on all of them, Dia and just kill. Unsure if they have geomancy resist so just been using buffs. In particular, the C boss seems INCREDIBLY easy. Cruel Joke doesn't inflict any dmg but the unremovable curse crap or w/e, and it loves to spam it. Might be a good one for soloers.

Was pretty disappointing to kill all four bosses and not have some kind of aurum chest (like mini bosses) or reward for doing so other than gall. Maybe there are some factors that can affect drops (maybe completing all objs in all zones does something?), but TH doesn't seem to matter from our runs.



Pretty disappointed lol >.< Content seems insanely easy. Maybe they'll eventually add a method to increase the lvl of the event in order to improve drops and cp/ep, similar to Incursion.

Got some more details regarding the "kill with magic" objectives in A.

I did my run solo today on MNK/WAR. In area A, I killed 3 Hecteyes with auto-attacks only (no WS or damaging spells from myself or my Trusts) and got coffer 4/7 to pop on the 3rd kill. No magic damage whatsoever. Notably, I had already killed 5 Leeches for that coffer drop normally beforehand (WS skillchains and burst with Trusts).

Trusts used for auto-attack only kills: Cherukiki, Koru-Moru, Ulmia, Joachim.

I killed 3 more Hecteyes with just auto-attacks and did not get the next coffer to appear. However, I pulled a 4th and used Formless Strikes for all 100% of its HP bar with auto-attacks and got 5/7 completed. Same deal - no WS, no other damage.

So, the first coffer looks to simply be killing without a WS (maybe even just a physical one?), but the second is definitely related to magic damage to some degree. Tomorrow I'll simply try a "normal" kill with Formless Strikes on to see if that triggers it.

As far as trying stuff at Device D goes, I have tried a ton of stuff without any success at getting a plate coffer: using both SP abilities, eating food, using items (potions, etc), trading various items to the Device (gil, food, gear, seals, etc). No luck on getting anything so far.

Does not need to be Fire on C... I originally did it with Thunder, and we did it tonight with Holy.. so any Burst on Light SC looks like it works.

we found out you want to burst x2 on C ~3 mobs per chest for boss pop. D you just need to do a 4 step (without killing) on 3 mobs per chest.

Did anyone try dying near the plate yet? that would make me lol

We successfully got Plate #D by going next to the raised platform and pressing Up, Up, Down, Down, Left, Right, Left, Right, B, A. As soon as you press the second A, a brown chest will appear.

I’d say the above post is 100% sarcasm/trolling but after the /heal and /hurray objectives I’m not so sure.

There is no second A in this sequence.

The Konami code is precisely the thing they would add to this ambiguous event. But you can only use it while doomed from an Umbril while standing west facing a device in red HP.

12 hrs later still can't log in lol

Drop the Ra'kaznar butterflies for Plate D. I will confirm later today when I can enter. Credit to Shonuts.

I also did no WS (auto-attack only except for standard stuff like Flash/Dia II) and got the A Shard on my third kill. This was on the Acuexs east of the boss area, as I had used my Shard/Metal on boss and figured I'd try getting a new one.

This is good, as I don't usually bring magic DD with me, so having only one target for magic kills is fine for me. I had been using GEO and using Fira III to kill them (Lullaby/Aspir in between)

Confirmed. Just did it.