Bastion

According to Wiki, Bastion is much like campaign in which you and your allies must protect an area from incoming enemy attacks. Unlike Campaign, you receive experience points when a mob dies instead of at the end of the skirmish, but I was wondering if anyone has tried this and what your experience in it was. How many people you did it with, If you can attack other peoples mobs, etc. and all that jazz?

And also first impressions? :)
Thanks~

I did it last night and we killed like two things.
I got 1300 for one and 1600 for the other one. So it was interesting, but only last like a minute because there was no one there.

I have been going on/off throughout the day today. It's really short fights atm, because the dumpsters are not fully charged. Most of the time the enemies destroy it before ppl know what's going on.

But, i have gotten a good deal of exp/cruor per kill and yes u can target other ppl's mobs.

Basically the idea is to keep the mobs off the mordello. So if all the npcs attack the same mob, you should pull the other mobs away from their target. We're gonna have to build up "resources" to make the fights last longer. Oh and the successful run i was on lasted a couple waves of mobs and i've gotten almost 20k exp just from doing these haha.

So how does the Bastion thing work exactly, if anyone has any info on it yet?

Are the battled randomly initiated like campaign? Any messages hinting at the start of one? Certain position that they always take place at?

Aye, my very first one the battle lasted 4 minutes, and I got a total of 7870 exp.

You don't even seem to have to do anything to get exp at all, if other people kill a mob, even if you didn't so much as touch it, you get exp. The weakest mobs (detectors, ~2k HP) give like, 1200-2k exp. It's seriously ridiculously fast exp. The battle may only last 4-5 minutes for now, but they happen fairly often, and as Zman says, they'll probably last longer once we get the resources up.

You also get 20% of your exp in cruor, and 10% of your exp in Resistance Credits (or the other way round maybe). After 2 4-5 minute battles, I had enough to buy both my AF legs (1k credits each) as well as some temp items (Lucid potion/ether III, lucid elixir II, Mana Mist (gives 300MP to EVERYONE in range, not just party members). These items stay with you just like they do with other abyssea temp items, they're not a bastion only item.

All in all, this event kicks arse. There don't seem to be any items from them, but I think we only managed to repel one attack while I was there. It doesn't look like there will be any items though regardless.

They're always at the same position. The three new zones have an extra conflux (#00) which is automatically unlocked for you. Warping to conflux 0 cost nothing, and it takes you right to where the battles take place. You get about 2 minutes of warnings that there's an incoming battle, you speak to the dude, get your pennant (tags) and run 50 yalms to where the battle is.

Do you lose your regular abyssea time with this event and if you die do you lose xp?

Simply being in an abyssea zone takes away your time, this is no exception, and no, no exp loss on death.

Are you restricted from gaining skillups like in campaign too?

sounds like Campaign just got completely replaced

No idea, I'm at 1/5 crests, so all my skills were capped :p

i wonder if a lvl 30 char joined in would get full exp ;o

that would be hawt lol.

said chars below 59 would have xp reduced i think

whoa, so my 60 something blm would get full exp? O_o

I just got this tonight

On that last one, it got cut off, I got the killshot. i dont know if that also plays in to the amount of exp.

Anyone happen to know how often you can do this? I was told once per zone for a certain amount of time but just want to verify if anyone else has experienced this and if so how long was the wait per zone?

I set my HP in port jueno and wait for 95% invasion probabilty before i head out prolly could wait even to 97 and stil have plenty of time. and spam it like campaign, just look for the invasion percentages.

Wow... it just gets better!

Definitely beats the ***outta campaign. Assuming you have the stones/time for it.

Yeahm i /blm and Warp asap back to jeuno. 1 battle takes about 15 minues off my time accrued. and with new Key item from new zones, can get an additional Traverse Stone for a max of 4 at one time.

No one has been there when i did them so the fight pretty much lasts 20 seconds when i do it lol.

By chance, did the stones Joachim is holding reset after the maint? I've not been able to pay this month so far and I've not spent any for 8 days or so before I had to leave, so I'm expecting a decent number of stones >_>;

Will I be out of luck?!


Also, you guys suck for discussing all this! Makes me want to playyyyy ; ;

I have 32 stones so I doubt it

Whoo! XD Ty <3

some guy in ls had 72 stones...................

i now hate him.. :(

Is there a way to buff up the pulse martello? I just did my first battle and it lasted all of 15 seconds because the pulse martello was already at 1%.

I'm not on game right now so this may be a stupid question but where do you find the invasion probability?

How does one find out invasion probability?

Horst tells you.