Assault for solo players are broken

As a returning player interested in completing content from my youth, I've been trying to complete all 50 assaults to make a Mythic weapon.

Orichalcum Survey is uniquely frustrating because it should be very simple to make this Assault soloable (just increase the drop rate of the Orichalcum).

The only other Assaults I have not found soloable are:

Lebros Supplies - There isn't enough time to feed all the soldiers even with Pom Pom Fruits and Thief. Simple solution could be to increase rate of stewpot.

Seagull Grounded - Someone controlling the NPC while another runs ahead and kills the monsters seems like the most viable way to do this one.

I am able to complete Azure Ailments using /BST, stripping off gear and melee with a 1 damage weapon to feed TP.

TLDR - Please increase drop rate of Orichalcum Ore in Orichalcum Survey to make the Assault soloable.

For what it's worth, thief is a terrible choice for Lebros Supplies; Flee is a lot of movement speed but it's sorely lacking in duration. Bard, dancer, summoner, and especially corsair are the big winners with their long-lasting quickening effects; dancer and summoner are at a bit of a disadvantage because they don't have a good +18% movement speed gear option, but they can still get it done. Corsair with carmine cuisses +1 and bolter's roll, though... you can spend nearly the whole mission running with flee speed with just a bit of gear investment.

And yeah, I know, that's setting up a whole job just for assaults, but this isn't 2010; picking one favorite job and sticking with it just isn't a luxury we can count on any more.

If they just adjust one assault every couple of months it would be a huge improvement, they don't need to do them all at once.

The only real option for Lebros Supplies is COR.
With bolters roll with roll+5 or better gear and carmine legs you can reliably solo the assault within the time limit.
you will be running at approximately flee speed the entire time.

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Originally Posted by Voidstorm

The only real option for Lebros Supplies is COR.
With bolters roll with roll+5 or better gear and carmine legs you can reliably solo the assault within the time limit.
you will be running at approximately flee speed the entire time.

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Will you run any faster if you sub THF and also use flee?

depends on your roll+ & what you rolled i guess.
https://www.bg-wiki.com/ffxi/Bolter%27s_Roll

if you're at the movement speed cap, no.

You can't force win some of these if you do them solo, it's luck. Lebros Supplies, if you get too many white loaves you'll lose. The one where you mine, the win condition is based on number of successful mines and if you get too many worms you'll lose.

The biggest problem is as we all know, a lot of people don't do the assaults properly and cheat. Because of that the people who do them legit can't get help usually.