Was Ambuscade too popular?

[detlef]

Pretty much you should be focusing on Escha gear. Especially with the extra drops campaign this month, that's probably something you should prioritize.

Question: do you have friends in-game? 2-3 people can get so much done.

[Olor]

Pretty much you should be focusing on Escha gear. Especially with the extra drops campaign this month, that's probably something you should prioritize.

Question: do you have friends in-game? 2-3 people can get so much done.

No, unfortunately everyone I used to play with has quit. They are either playing single player games or FFXIV. One friend will come back during the free play time to help me out with finding my way to a couple of homepoints but other than that I am on my own.

I used to have a half decent LS but I had to move and I came back to an empty linkshell.

Escha NMs are not soloable by someone in my gear, I don't feel comfortable leading on content I've never done (even after reading the wikis I am not even sure how to pop Escha NMs) and I don't have the playtime to sit in town for 3 hours shouting for a group, regardless.

Ambuscade was perfect. I could solo it. I could do a couple runs in the morning before work, and a couple before bed and make progress. The gear was actually good.

They didn't need to ruin it.

[Diavolo]

Escha NMs are not soloable by someone in my gear

Actually, many of them are. If your item level is 119 and you have spent at least a minimum amount of time getting merit/job points and completing quests/missions to unlock vorseals you'll have have an easy time with Tier 1 NMs in Escha Zitah using a balanced party of trusts, especially now that their stats appear to have been given a significant boost post-update (I just spent an hour soloing Apex mobs with trusts and they had higher accuracy than I did before food). You can get some decent, augmentable gear there and then use that to work your way up to Ru'Aunn NMs.

[Olor]

Actually, many of them are. If your item level is 119 and you have spent at least a minimum amount of time getting merit/job points and completing quests/missions to unlock vorseals you'll have have an easy time with Tier 1 NMs in Escha Zitah using a balanced party of trusts, especially now that their stats appear to have been given a significant boost post-update (I just spent an hour soloing Apex mobs with trusts and they had higher accuracy than I did before food). You can get some decent, augmentable gear there and then use that to work your way up to Ru'Aunn NMs.

Not on my jobs. I've read up on them. I only have BLU/THF/BRD no PLD and no BLM... I have BST but I don't play it since they ruined it.

None of the NMs that drop anything useful for me look soloable on my jobs with my gear and my trusts.

I've read the BG threads - if folks there with trusts like August are struggling to solo things like Vidala my BLU is not going to cut it.

[Diavolo]

Not on my jobs. I've read up on them. I only have BLU/THF/BRD no PLD and no BLM... I have BST but I don't play it since they ruined it.

There isn't much to lose except a few minutes and a few hundred sparks. I solo'd a lot of those Tier 1 NMs in Zitah on several jobs when I was looking to get back into the game last year, one of which was THF with gear likely worse than what you described above. Use August, Amchuchu or Gessho as tank, Apururu or Yoran as WHM (or Kupipi if you aren't in their unities), Koru-Moru as RDM, Iroha II and Shantotto II as damage dealers. I guarantee you'll find that some of those NMs are not as difficult as you may have been led to believe, including Vidala which you can pop after using a Mirror's Tonic to negate the Petrify he uses to open the fight.

[Jin_Uzuki]

Not on my jobs. I've read up on them. I only have BLU/THF/BRD no PLD and no BLM... I have BST but I don't play it since they ruined it.

What did they do to BST? Didn't they just reworked the command radius? I still bring BST to Escha without problems.

[Jile]

What did they do to BST? Didn't they just reworked the command radius? I still bring BST to Escha without problems.

Ugh
..Pandora's box was opened..

SE profoundly negatively impacted how BST plays, thereby ruining how many of us have played the job for a decade. The job abilities are hit or miss and I find myself having to run around my pet hitting my my macros several times 'hoping' they will fire... An idiotic adjustment that further shows SE makes brash adjustments to please mob mentality while disregarding the actual players of the jobs they damage.

/closes Pandora's box

Back to ambuscade. The points per completion need bumped up for smaller groups especially since less people (on Phoenix) seem interested in doing runs this month, at least so far lol.

[Pixela]

Aren't there supposed to be a lot of people on Asura? A lot of those T1s in Zi'tah drop very solid gear and the only real strat is nuke the right element and don't die. The triggers can be bought from Curio Moogles..

There are a lot of people on Asura but as with most other servers, they don't want anyone they deem beneath them to join. They will complain in party that some scrub asked to join, or complain on their linkshell that some upstart in awful gear bothered them. They even shout higher Ilevel/JP requirements in shouts as standard (that are known to be pure nonsense by the chosen people) just so the unworthy masses don't send them a tell to bother them.

Actually, many of them are. If your item level is 119 and you have spent at least a minimum amount of time getting merit/job points and completing quests/missions to unlock vorseals you'll have have an easy time with Tier 1 NMs in Escha Zitah using a balanced party of trusts, especially now that their stats appear to have been given a significant boost post-update (I just spent an hour soloing Apex mobs with trusts and they had higher accuracy than I did before food). You can get some decent, augmentable gear there and then use that to work your way up to Ru'Aunn NMs.

Good luck with the Caturae, or doing anything with basic 119 aluvion gear. Vorseals do help but I think the main problem is people seem to judge others by their own playing skills / knowledge / gear / JPs. I can tell you that the difference going form higher tier 119 gear from basic stuff is crazy. They only have to look at you and you'll drop dead.

Those trusts buffs will be gone tomorow with the emergency maint, enjoy them while you can.