Bastion - Epic Fail SE

[Auriga]

Maybe a ton of threads exist on this by now.. I just discovered it.

My rating.. worst thing ever.

Essentially if your not with an entire pack of others, or a high lvl powerful blm you can't hope to get any points from this.

What was the idea here SE? I don't like what I see..

Campaign battle works just fine, this crap comes out later an its like the pre-alpha failure idea that might've spawned campaign.

So far.. only blm & war can achieve anything here. Oh an pld.

I give this system 2 thumbs down, not user friendly at all, worst idea ever.

[Kaisha]

Do Misareaux Coast. PDT set, sub RDM. Spam diaga to grab target hate before they near the mantello, and then kill what weaker targets you can, since you only get credit on the kills.

It's been this way for a year.

[Mirage]

We've tried to bring this to SE's attention several times, but apparently, they don't care.

At the very least, they should remove the once a day limit on the resistance quests now that so few people do it, then you can at least spam the trap/martelloHP/whateverthelastthingwas quests when there's just a few people around.

I'm not sure if that would be enough, though.

[Reiterpallasch]

Pretty much any jobs can kill any of the mobs with ease provided they're set up for it. The real issue with the system is those damn BLM NPCs that stand on the martello and constantly try to drag the mobs on top of it.

[Mirage]

Yeah, the issue is that the martello usually doesn't survive long enough for people to actually deal a significant amount of damage.

[Demon6324236]

We've tried to bring this to SE's attention several times, but apparently, they don't care.

At the very least, they should remove the once a day limit on the resistance quests now that so few people do it, then you can at least spam the trap/martelloHP/whateverthelastthingwas quests when there's just a few people around.

I'm not sure if that would be enough, though.

Or better yet, do the same as Heroes has with Dom Notes, make NMs give credits too!

[Calatilla]

BLU is actually a pretty good job for this, but as previously stated the main problem is the Martello that constantly sits at 1% HP and the bastion NPC`s that pull all the mobs towards it. One aoe from a random mob and its all over. If you want a quick fix for Bastion SE, give the Martello at least 50% HP so it stands half a chance of surviving 3 seconds.

[Elexia]

The point: SE figured players would actively work on the bastion status, you know cuz it's a community based effort.

The problem: SE keeps underestimating the fact most people who currently play XI doesn't give two shits about anyone but themselves.

[Mirage]

The system worked fine when there was always a lot of people doing the quests and fighting the mobs (meaning: when those abyssea zones were reasonably new), but now that more and more people have what they need from resistance credits, it will be more and more hard to find people to team up with.

The fact that you can't even do enough quests to keep the Martello HP at a decent level without half a dozen people constantly doing the quests doesn't make things easier either. Even if you wanted to do the quests to increase the HP by a significant amount, the game won't let you.

[Calatilla]

Even so, there is no reason a martello should be at 1% HP 99.9% of the time. Even if you do the martello quests once a game day for a whole day you won't see a big improvement.