Soloable Assault Missions (can i have it?)

[Vladislav]

hello SE and everyone , i just thinking is anyone doing assault missions still? if not maybe XI devs team should think about to let us go solo assault missions and also remove lv. cap !!

[RAIST]

eh.. we 3-manned some Nyzul the other night for 20 floors...not too hard for the most part now with jobs 95+. Would imagine the other assaults would be on par with 3 also now if you set them with no level cap.....been a few years, but seem to recall the options were like 60, 70, or no cap? Although, it would be nice to be able to just go in and fart around with some of them solo/duo for a challenge I guess.

[Dragoy]

It would be convenient, perhaps, but they have mentioned that as the rewards are geared for 3-6 characters, they are not planning on removing the limit (whatever that means is beyond me, and I don't remember/know if they were talking about Nyzul Isle Investigation or all the Assaults).

But yeah, they are doable with 3 characters, at least if you use the no level limit option when entering.
I recently finished the last one of them, and there certainly are some missions that can go bad easily even for level 95 characters, as there are many missions that really have nothing to do with character levels (excluding some movement speed enhancing gear).

Lebros Supplies (http://ffxi.gamerescape.com/wiki/Lebros_Supplies) for example is possibly the most annoying and horrible mission I have done, and while it is very likely possible to do with just 3, I would not recommend it unless you are curious/adventurous enough. ^^;

[MarkovChain]

hello SE and everyone , i just thinking is anyone doing assault missions still? if not maybe XI devs team should think about to let us go solo assault missions and also remove lv. cap !!

There is no level cap in assault unless you manually choose too which has never ever served any purpose.

[Zarchery]

There is no level cap in assault unless you manually choose too which has never ever served any purpose.

I can't remember exactly why, but back in the 75 cap days the PSC Lebros Assault (the one where you break the walls) was somehow easier with a 60 cap. Something about it cutting the walls HP. I forget. It's been years. Besides that, back when it actually took time to get to the level cap, imposing a level cap was a nice way to do something with your lower level friends.

Those were limited applications then and completely useless now.

[Seriha]

Completely abolishing the tag system aside, it'd be nice if people could just help with an assault without needing a tag themselves.

[Dragoy]

Completely abolishing the tag system aside, it'd be nice if people could just help with an assault without needing a tag themselves.
Oh but imagine the congestion that could induce!
And think of the people 'abusing' the reward-system by using a Tag from one of the 3 assumed participants, and then from the second, and then the third, effectively doing a triple amount of runs instead of 1!

I guess they could simply remove any rewards for those without a Tag...

But yeah, I don't see that happening.
Just hoping they will, at least, lower the amount of time required for the accumulation of them Tags.

[Seriha]

Well, yeah, just helping wouldn't get you AP or rank up credit. It'd just cut down on those situations where people would help, but their tags are reserved for Nyzul, Salvage, or their own needed clears.

[Dragoy]

Well, yeah, just helping wouldn't get you AP or rank up credit. It'd just cut down on those situations where people would help, but their tags are reserved for Nyzul, Salvage, or their own needed clears.
Yer, it would be convenient fer sure.

Not that I've ever even obtained anything worth more than a few Gil from Assault, ever...

[Vladislav]

Ahh.. ic now i can enter w/o cap (thank you for info) , ok but at least maybe someday it gonna be allowed to enter solo assault missions. Cause i really no wonna /shout everytime when i going to do few missions .

[MarkovChain]

They have said previously that they had no intention to reduce it. They could change it when they ajust salvage since it requires AP to begin with. However you can be certain that if they allow you to enter solo in assault, the price per permit is going to skyrocket so I'm not sure if it is a good thing. What do people do need that for anyway ? Noone uses the warps anymore, you can craft a nashmau earring if you want to do the occasional einherjar, and alexadrite farming ; salvage requires 3 anyway so the guy that does salvage can easily get AP right before the runs with his group. Then there is the mythic upgraders but let's be honest those that do it probably all own serveral chars.

[Dragoy]

Well, some of us do want to complete every mission and quest at least once, for the completion or just for fun (some of do it at least twice), so that's one reason to do them.

And yeah, Salvage, but that requires at least three so yeah~

[DaBackpack]

One of the big problems is that we need 100% of assault missions for Mythic Weapons. The 'three-person minimum' is outdated and I think it should be removed.
Some missions will still REQUIRE three people, due to their difficulty, but some of them are also soloable. I don't see why the minimum number of people for non-Nyzul assaults should be there anymore. It just makes it even harder to get people to do already outdated content...

[Tile]

we have a thread in the test server that went over all of this.

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxi/threads/18611-dev1048-Please-make-Tags-Stockpile?p=249351&viewfull=1#post249351

[MarkovChain]

One of the big problems is that we need 100% of assault missions for Mythic Weapons. The 'three-person minimum' is outdated and I think it should be removed.
Some missions will still REQUIRE three people, due to their difficulty, but some of them are also soloable. I don't see why the minimum number of people for non-Nyzul assaults should be there anymore. It just makes it even harder to get people to do already outdated content...

Idk If I where to do a mythic the first thing I'd do is buy 2 chars for like 1 month to spam the assaults. Like I said there are salvage ajustements/expansion in the future so I'd rather them not require you 5k AP to enter the new salavge which will happen if AP rains from everywhere.

[Duzell]

Imperial agent rescue has given me nothing but nightmares, no matter what setup i have they wont break the darn doors.