Fate "Surprise" in Upper La Noscea needs to be nerfed

I am required to complete this FATE for an animus book as a summoner, this FATE is literally impossible to solo. The bodyguards have barely any health to last longer than a minute if nobody is there within 30 to 45 seconds after it spawns, even if you are on it when it spawns there's no possible way for the supply troops to live long even with a tank EGI, due to the amount of cone AOE the kobolds spam. Even when you get the enemies off the bodyguards you get overwhelmed at the last part where 12 spawn at once even on solo.

All this needs is a supply troop health buff and reduced enemy spawn count, instead of the usual 6 and 12 that show up on solo. I would get help but nobody is doing the FATE when I'm around and it spawns. I've done this 4 times now and the supply troops always die from the Kobolds cone slam move being done nonstop or I'll die when I get them on me.

Wait til you get Four Winds

Soloed Surprise with BLM and SCH and had no problems with either.

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Originally Posted by Rosy

Soloed Surprise with BLM and SCH and had no problems with either.

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It's easy as pie once you have at least one other person helping you. Soloing it like I said is impossible due to the low health the supply troops have.

I am currently camping this FATE again which is really annoying as fate had 14 minutes and when I got thee it came up FATE failed, you literally have to be at that spot to be able to win this so even for people who aren't doing books and doing the zone for exp, it's really harsh for those who are exping / book fating as really impossible to do so, the supply need more hp to be able on do as a solo player.

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Originally Posted by Sounders

Wait til you get Four Winds

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That comment kinda unjustified to be honest since four wind got nerfed in previous update

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Originally Posted by LukeStuz

you literally have to be at that spot to be able to win this.

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camp it then


tag them all, throw some aoe down, run around a bit, don't eat cone aoes.. and remember the next waves don't spawn until the previous one is completely wiped, so you can leave 1 alive while you prepare for the next onslaught

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Originally Posted by Rosy

Soloed Surprise with BLM and SCH and had no problems with either.

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that's not solo, that's duo'ing >.>

I duo'd this as bard with another bard, it definitely needs 2 people to win at the moment.

I think they meant that's the classes they used.

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Originally Posted by MilesSaintboroguh

I think they meant that's the classes they used.

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ah maybe if it said 'as' BLM and SCH it would have read better my bad! :D

I solo'd this as a scholar, after failing it twice, I also realized I needed to camp it to win. On the third try, instead of trying to kill the mobs faster than the NPCs died, I just healed the NPCs. That quickly earned me the ire of all the kobolds, but it was enough that I was able to kill them gradually and keep the 2 NPCs out of harms way to win it.

I beat 4 winds fate with whm and blm and of course the birds lol

Thankfully the repop timer on this FATE is pretty forgiving considering it's circumstances. As a bard, I'm pretty hard pressed to actually finish this FATE while soloing. Haev to do your best to grab aggro on both sides and position yourself so that the npcs aren't standing in the AoEs. There is also a precursor to the FATE at the front before they enter the tunnels, so you can call it out pretty reasonably (and it's a fast one to go through, ATMA hunters are more than likely to help out.)

I just did it, soloing. It was very hard but my trick was: summon your companion and get the aggro of the mobs as fast as possible and then make them face away from the supply troops. Kill them as fast and possible and then move to the other group of mobs, rinse and repeat.

Be a healer main and heal the npcs. EZ.

This is a nine-year-old post. Six years since last posted in.

Everytime I had to do this fate for a book I had to literally camp it and scramble around to get the aggro off of the NPCs, I did this on BRD, SMN, WAR and I had my chocobo out healing me....it's a really annoying fate that you need to camp....idk if they'd fix it considering it's been what? 10 years?

Oh damn necro post lmao