Skirmish: how?

I'm curious how do you enter skirmish fights? Are there any pre reqs?

No pre-reqs and you can get to it by the Fisherman's guild in LL on the bottom docks 5,7.

Thank you good sir.

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Got a Bow! Tradeable, non-unique, and meldable. Weird shit.

We just failed at the final boss the Great Elm he uses this attack that switches hate it was nuts had him down to less than 1/4 health as well but ran out of time.Gotta say though pretty damn fun.

Definitely PUGable but tough for people that never experience the NMs. Combination of classes required because some have resistance towards melee.

Yea the Great Elm was a pain!

Anyone know what kind of rewards there are? Except for weapons, I guess. :x

Does Skirmish need a party of 7/8 or can it be done with like 4 or less people?

It's timed so you are going to want a full party Ninten. Think we had 6 minutes left or so on our successful run.

I see, did you use a "standard" team build of 1 tank 2 WHM 5 DPS?

We used 2 tanks, 2 WHM, and 3 DRG, and 1 BLM. So sort of unconventional, but it's what we had online lol.

Nice to see those DRG getting some spotlight, lol. Later on I'll see what I can pull up (maybe tomorrow)

We just got a Longsword and Staff drop off our win

Skirmish is fun. Got the golem to half health before we ran out of time.

Stone Golem boss spams some sort of hate reset below 70% that doesn't show in logs. Regen and kite is so fun, thx SE

We ran with 7 ppl, had golem down to 70% by ~17 minutes left then it takes forever to kill: use binds and heavy to manage damage if your WHM can't keep up.

bring MNK for Stone Golem, we just let MNK take hate and tank it during reset

Just did turtle island. Fought buffalo, ureaus, chimera, coincounter, and then the lost mob was stone golem, who seems to have random hate. We all wiped at golem 25%

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bring MNK for Stone Golem, we just let MNK take hate and tank it during reset

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Yeah I thought about MNK exploiting its Vuln but we didn't have one in the set up at that time.

Just cleared with 7 people with Great Elm at the end. 3x DRG 1x MNK 1x PLD 2xWHM

Got a Greataxe as the drop

Redoing the Golem 2nd time much easier. 2x WHM, WAR, BRD, 2x BLM made it easy

Golem is weak to Stone, and also Aero. (Stone does most damage to golem who knew) We just kited in circles as hate swapped and kept regen up.

So just the weapons drop? No seals T_T?

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So just the weapons drop? No seals T_T?

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Seems like it.

Got the CNJ can first try but I rolled a 1 for it .===.

Got fists from Great Elm chest.

I got a trident.

Seems like there's only one drop per run, though. Wish the rest of the party got seals for the effort at least.

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how do you beat the elm? we did 3 war 3 blm 2 whm and timed out with 10 mins in, kept hate reset.

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how do you beat the elm? we did 3 war 3 blm 2 whm and timed out with 10 mins in, kept hate reset.

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Just did him with.

2mnk 2whm 1pld 1brd 2blm

Hate is a bit of a issue but with 2 whm's it's pretty easy to live through the eventual smackdown he will lay on everyone. hit him with 12 min left and had 4 or so when we finished.

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Oh yeah got bow~ Personally I don't think it will be very long before these weapons are sitting on the AH at a decent price considering they are not Rare/EX at all. Although them being meldable might effect the price from going too far down.

We beat the elm 2/2 with 2 WHM, 1 WAR, 1 PLD, 1 MNK, 2 BLM and 1 BRD. WHMs just need to cure everyone awake and when hate resets, move but don't move it TOO much else his other moves will hit everyone. Both times we started the elm with about 10 minutes left, beat him in about 6 minutes.

Sword dropped both times.

I'm guessing there's some sort of gear-check involved for this. Any word on whether it costs anything (stones, totems) to do these fights? Thinking of ending my hiatus to give skirmish a try.

No gear-check really, it's very simple and straight forwarded content, but you do need to know mechanic of the NMs to do the fight well such as where do you moves if Chimera uses this, etc

There is no cost, just speak to NPC and enter.

It's one drop per win so far. We won two and got a weapon each time. There are no totems or nuts or tapers or anything involved. Go in, beat them, and win a weapon.

Really fun content that makes sure you know what to do, what to avoid, and how to use abilities at the right time. Stun locking is so fun on the peiste, chimera, and cyclops xD And it also seems that class/job stacking isn't the best since each type of mob has different weaknesses.

I'm just happy that there isn't a speed run involved for a drop. But maybe I'm speaking too soon since there is the gladiator gear set for war and magic classes that I don't know where to get from.

We got 2 weapons on one of them. We killed both pretty fast with 15 minutes left so maybe a speed trigger.

how did u get the one with chimera? i wonder if its random? we got the one with tree all 3 times.


tree one mobs were

1 ogre
some floating eyes
a catuar bug and hog
and some goats

i wonder how to go to the other one.

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how did u get the one with chimera? i wonder if its random? we got the one with tree all 3 times.


tree one mobs were

1 ogre
some floating eyes
a catuar bug and hog
and some goats

i wonder how to go to the other one.

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Turtleback Island has:
Buffalo, Pieste, Chimera, cyclops, and Golem. All about defense.

Don't know about the other place but that one has a priority on attack instead.

Did you enter with less than 8? I have only gotten the one with Chimera, granted i have only did it twice. But i am assuming light party would get lesser mobs, because Chimera path has NMs mostly

Did a turtle island with with 1 pld, 2 whms, and 5 blms. Won with 1 minute on the clock. Got a longsword drop

For golem, whoever had hate ran in a circle around blms while they nuked and casted blizzard for the gravity.

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Did you enter with less than 8? I have only gotten the one with Chimera, granted i have only did it twice. But i am assuming light party would get lesser mobs, because Chimera path has NMs mostly

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I think we are talking about two different places lol

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Originally Posted by Duelle

I'm guessing there's some sort of gear-check involved for this. Any word on whether it costs anything (stones, totems) to do these fights? Thinking of ending my hiatus to give skirmish a try.

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Costs nothing, and I rock full AF and a mog-axe while the group I ran with was pretty much the same no crazy melded gear.

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I think we are talking about two different places lol

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Was referring to Lordbraska's post since he got Goats and cactuar mobs.