Sortie Ra'Kaznar Starstone farming strategy?

[Tarmarkvar]

I need 8 starstones for various pieces I want to upgrade to +3. My current solo strategy gets me 3300 galimaufry a day, and about a 2% chance of getting a starstone from doing caskets #F1 and #G1. It's a decent strategy I guess, but it's going to take me 169 to 388 runs to get all the starstones and galimaufry I need.

So I'm trying to figure out a good way to team up with people to farm starstones faster. I guess there are two general strategies:

1) Do basement objectives to increase chances at getting direct starstone drops.
2) Farm galimaufry faster so that I can buy the stones for 90k each.

For number 1 I planned out this route, which I feel is easier for a pickup group because it involves killing regular monsters and minibosses, but no sector bosses.


Casket E1: Vanquish 12 Esurient foes in square with the bitzer
Casket E2: Vanquish 15 Esurient flan
Coffer E: Vanquish 6 mini Naakuals

Casket F1: Click Bitzer with empyrean gear lockstyled.
Casket F2: Vanquish all Fetid Veela
Coffer F: Leave sector F, return, vanquish all mini Naakuals

Casket G1: Stand close to bitzer while targeting for 30 seconds
Casket G2: Vanquish all 17 Gyvewrapped Dullahan


Number 2 seems harder because I have had bad luck with sector bosses with pickup groups. Also, I don't really know how much galimaufry I could expect out of that. Maybe 3000 from killing all the ground level mini bosses and maybe 5000 if I get a sector boss. Feels like this might also be less forgiving on party setups. You never really know what you're going to get with a pickup group, in terms of both jobs and quality of player.

Thoughts?

[Sp1cyryan]

Best strategy would be not soloing a 6 person endgame event that directly rewards you proportionally to how much you can do. Which without players or buffs is diddly. Getting 3k Galli, even as far as soloing it goes. Is a terrible result of an hour spent and waste of time.

[Tarmarkvar]

Best strategy would be not soloing a 6 person endgame event that directly rewards you proportionally to how much you can do. Which without players or buffs is diddly. Getting 3k Galli, even as far as soloing it goes. Is a terrible result of an hour spent and waste of time.

Well, duh. That's what I just said. Which is why I'm trying to figure out a better way to do it. Hence the entire point of this thread.

[Alhanelem]

Best strategy would be not soloing a 6 person endgame event that directly rewards you proportionally to how much you can do. Which without players or buffs is diddly. Getting 3k Galli, even as far as soloing it goes. Is a terrible result of an hour spent and waste of time.

That depends on if doing it any other way was an option or not. Sometimes you just can't get help to do something, in which case it's still better to do something than do nothing.

[Tarmarkvar]

That depends on if doing it any other way was an option or not. Sometimes you just can't get help to do something, in which case it's still better to do something than do nothing.

I already +3'd two pieces (BRD body and WHM legs). 7 of the 8 that I have left I don't really care about a huge deal. I still have fun doing Sortie solo and if that stops being true, I'll stop doing it. Just like I did with Master Levels.

[Alhanelem]

I already +3'd two pieces (BRD body and WHM legs). 7 of the 8 that I have left I don't really care about a huge deal. I still have fun doing Sortie solo and if that stops being true, I'll stop doing it. Just like I did with Master Levels.
I do too. But it's fair to say you can't expect the same kind of results or be able to do everything.

[Tarmarkvar]

I do too. But it's fair to say you can't expect the same kind of results or be able to do everything.

I feel like we're all talking in circles here. I already acknowledged that. The entire point of this thread is that I am trying to find a good group strategy.

[Sp1cyryan]

That depends on if doing it any other way was an option or not. Sometimes you just can't get help to do something, in which case it's still better to do something than do nothing.

It's always an option. Be like saying people solo Sheol C because there ain't another option in their lives. Lol

People spend more effort avoiding doing something in a far more ideal fashion than just doing it.

[VoiceMemo]

If you're trying to get a good group strategy, do the magic burst way. Party setup rune, blm, geo, and either 2 sch and 1 cor, or 1 sch and 2 cor. Do CGBFAE, depending on cor widcard reset for order. Each run will yield between 40-47k gallamufry. It will likely take you a few runs to get the bugs worked out, so best to from a static with the same people on the same jobs.

Also TH all bosses, since drops come directly from them and not from a box, TH should apply. I TH4 all of them when im on sch and finished 54 empy to +3 so far.

The best options is to form a static, as sortie much like odyssey is 6 man content with 20h KI limitation, this basically is designed for a static.

[Tarmarkvar]

If you're trying to get a good group strategy, do the magic burst way. Party setup rune, blm, geo, and either 2 sch and 1 cor, or 1 sch and 2 cor. Do CGBFAE, depending on cor widcard reset for order. Each run will yield between 40-47k gallamufry. It will likely take you a few runs to get the bugs worked out, so best to from a static with the same people on the same jobs.

Also TH all bosses, since drops come directly from them and not from a box, TH should apply. I TH4 all of them when im on sch and finished 54 empy to +3 so far.

The best options is to form a static, as sortie much like odyssey is 6 man content with 20h KI limitation, this basically is designed for a static.

Thanks for being the first guy who actually answered my question. I'm not sure I'll do your exact setup, because that's pretty restrictive and I'm not sure I can get and maintain that strict a setup. The lingo confuses me a bit. What does "do CGBFAE" mean? I see this in the yells all the time. Does that mean "do the sector bosses of these sectors, in this order?"

How do you manage Treasure Hunter without a THF?

[Dragoy]

How do you manage Treasure Hunter without a THF?

Can get up to level 4 on any job via various equipment, such as those augmented with Dark Matter, for which I think it's a maximum of 2 per item.

Think most G-points I got solo, as a samurai, was around 7-9k. Was definitely glad to find
them starstones in them boxes. ^^;

[Voidstorm]

People use treasure hunter in sortie? I was of the understanding since it's items that fall directly in your inventory instead of a treasure pool that Treasure hunter did nothing.


CGBFAE would be 'boss' order. Personally in my static do FEABCG that way we get to SP F & G bosses. We do the ABC shard/metal objectives by splitting up and doing at the same time. all upstairs roaming NMs & E NM also get killed for ez points.

[VoiceMemo]

On the corner bosses, the drops come from the mob and not the box. Yes they fall directly in your inventory but since they're not from box, TH can't hurt. It's a better safe than sorry situation, better to have TH on than not. And since I posted I now have 55 empy at +3 so I've gotten at least 55 starstones from 2nd floor, and I've always TH'd bosses, yes it's anecdotal evidence, but it's been working so I keep THing.

As others have stated CGBFAE indicates boss order, we do C boss first then G boss, then if wildcard reset we do B then F, if wildcard does not reset, we cutting cards the SCH, then we do A then E, by the time this is done tabla rasa should be ready again for G boss, unless you get a cutting cards of 1 or 2.

[Alhanelem]

On the corner bosses, the drops come from the mob and not the box. Yes they fall directly in your inventory but since they're not from box, TH can't hurt. If it doesn't go in the treasure pool when in a group, it's not a monster drop.

[VoiceMemo]

That maybe, but I'll still keep TH4ing them, it's gotten me 55+ empy to +3. It only takes a second to put TH on so why not, it's not. It's been working for me, and until SE states that TH doesn't affect these drops I'll keep doing it as I plan to make all 110 empy.