Expeditionary Force: resultsFollow

Well a lot of you people most likely saw that us brave Windurstians have decided to regain most of the lands surrounding our beautiful nation.

In itself (result wise) we lost, we ate dirt, we got stabbed and we had a taste of Astral Flow from a Yagudo Summoner. (which wiped out most of the Alliance)

But all in all it was not in vain, we learned a lot and many of us took notes regarding this EF. I started taking heavy notes right at the start seeing that EFs were not particularly discussed on a lot of english based sites (even mysterytour lacks info)

So I present to you the results and a general history of our EF

Round 1: 10 people or so we werent sure if only 5 people could do it or many 5 person party in a alliance could do it. We quickly saw the alliance worked. Someone triggered the banner and goblins popped amidst us, it was a short and very gruesome battle, we got wiped out.

Round 2: We gather 3 more brave warriors and head back to the dreaded Buburimu Peninsula. We still dont know where the flags(banners) are, bu we have high hopes. We find the banner on near the secret beach and Tzipporah proceeds to activate it while the party stands back. I AOE sleep and one of the mages stonegaed... Thats when the battle got messy, we were doing good until the Yagudo Summoner decided to Astral Flow using his newborn elemental. Mistakes were made and 13 raises later we were back in action.


Round 2-1: We are raised and unweakened, we decide to go Banner hunting again. We find this one in a moutainous region. Same tactic and we decide to attack only one foe at a time. Tzi again goes for activation and I AOE sleep (Lullaby). Alas the Goblin Red Mage and Tzi targets the Goblin Warrior. Unfortunately some decided to attack the White mage and others the black mage, which ended up in a massive fray. We managed to win but barely, with 4 members left standing.

Round2-2: Well we did this one for kicks, only 10 of us left anyway. We found it in the northern reaches of Bubu. It spawned 4 yags: Bard, White Mage, Samurai and Black Mage. I slept them and most of us ran for zone.

Now unto the strategy part

Being the only one with AOE sleep wasnt a problem, black mages can help sleep the stray monsters. Our battle plan was fine but not great. Battles were often fought against every monster, while it should have been one or 2 at a time.

What we lacked: maybe a ranger and a ninja to complete the 15 warriors maximum capacity for the fight. Discipline was almost non existant once the beasts spawned. Hell broke loose early.

General Strategies: Have a puller activate the banner and have your bard(s) ready Horde Lullaby. If there is a red mage that spawns among the group, target him first have him brought back to the "camp" a few ways from the banner.

If no red mage spawns I would recommend atacking the summoner, if there are no summoners go for the warrior and move into the ranks bit by bit. If theres a WHM keep it slept or go for him early (unless theres a RDM)

The trick is maintaining sleep and making sure everyone grabs a correct target.

Ill post some pictures below. (and yes thats Tanta laughing but not at my face in the dirt)



Special thanks to, (in no particular order)
Spot
Mango
Johnmex
Solarus
Rotor
Hellsingk
Steini
Chocolathunder
Temca
Angita
Tzipporah.

And now what we really came to see: PICTURES!
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Edited, Mon Oct 25 09:03:22 2004 by shykre

Well, I just want to say that even though we didn't win this time (GO WINDY!!), it was the most fun I've ever had. I think we had a good group and can't wait to try it again. Everyone be ready for the next one!!

/rate up to both you guys for the info and the great job^^

Windy! Windy! Rah, Rah Rah!! <(^.^)>

I wanted to go ;_; Johnmex was tellin me all about it but I'm bastokan so don't even think I can go.... ::cry:: why can't bastok every do an epeditionary force /cry
Kudos for trying it and hope u have better luck next time ^_^

I'll have Pld up to 30 for next time hopefully, though I was lagging so much that it made it hard to tank properly anyway...

Anyway, it was fun =) Nice to do something different, and something not many people have actually seen.

And at least now we know what to do, and how to do it. Hopefully next time we'll do better.

If it could be planned for a saturday night instead of sunday I could come ^^ hint hint :D... if it was level 30 cap I have a few jobs that I could choose from...

Actually I was quite high, but all that sleep made those goblins cranky as hell.

And yes they can be soloed or grouped. Thats why splitting them up is always nice as we wanted to do. Mages should be easy to solo for melee classes since you can stop their casting quickly.