Bastion battles should be more frequent, or we need inter-Abyssea fluxes for Bastion

[Edyth]

Bastion enemies advance very sluggishly. To go from 90% to 100% took nearly 20 minutes today (had about a minute left on Call Wyvern). Also, when it's at 100%, there's still maybe a minute's delay before the sergeant declares the battle has started.

After I participated in that fight, the other Bastion battles for Misareaux weren't even 50% ready, so if 10% preparations = 20 minutes (rounded up), that'd be about 100 minutes till the next Bastion.....

So, could we just have the enemies' attack preparation % go up faster? Like 1% = 1 minute? Or better yet, could we have new veridical confluxes for the Bastion zones to warp between Abyssea - Vunkerl/Misareaux/Attohwa? I wouldn't mind having to get my atma and cruor buffs again; I just don't want to have to go maw to maw. Bastion isn't lucrative enough to be worth the time and effort of maw-hopping, considering the battles can end in 5 seconds.

Thank you for the consideration.
Edyth

[RAIST]

eh.. after I do them for a bit, would get a "feel" for how long to wait outside the maw based on the percentages. Then it's just a matter of checking with the prefect or his sergeant (at base camp where you first enter the maw) for the status of each of the attack vectors---if none are near a % for advancement, just exit and wait. If you are in the city, can get the state of the resistance in a similar fashion from the teleport NPC's to know if they are about to get attacked as well before warping out there.

[Seriha]

System just needs a greater overhaul to better resemble Campaign in participation potential. Ideally, 20 of every 30 minutes should have some form of combat going in a given zone instead of players waiting longer for mobs to show up than it does for them to obliterate 1% martellos with no ward defenses to speak of.

[Tagrineth]

Campaign can take forever for attacks too. I think the rate of Bastion attacks is dependent on how your win ratio is though. If you lose a lot, the attacks take longer to arrive. So the mechanism is already there, just that it's not done enough to matter.

They should probably buff the NPCs again.

[RAIST]

you can get your clone wards and/or buff the martello or NPC's a little by simply running an op once per game day. Sometimes that is the deciding factor for a solo win, and it only takes a couple minutes to run some of those ops. You can also /mage and buff them with prot/shell/haste (or even just shining ruby) as well. Buffing them has the added benefit of a boost to your xp/credits on the first kill as well.

[svengalis]

Bastion is totally random from what I have seen. It doesn't always take 20 minutes for every 10%.

[Alhanelem]

It is not random.

Bastion advances as players kill normal monsters in the area. You'll ifnd that when there are EXP groups in the area, the battles come much faster.

[Daniel_Hatcher]

You can make Bastion's not last 5 seconds if you 'ga all the enemies before they reach the Martello, I do it all the time on RDM. The NPC's run out to you that way.