Sortie Release - Info

we had 6 players: I used blu spells on >5 mobs, lowest dmg was just over 25k (entomb) and did not proc.
Next set of mobs I used blu spells again on 12 mobs this time. highest dmg was under 25k. First group to die dropped shard, 2nd group dropped metal two nukes later.

PLD BLU SCH COR SMN RDM
Got 7/7 in A, but we spent almost the entire run hunting the #A Metal (Magic Damage condition). Tried everything we could think of. Magic bursting, burning packs of mobs with Blue Magic AoEs, high damage, low damage, nukes of every element, the works. Ran out of mobs and repopped the whole set. BLU averaged between 15 and 22k according to parse.

Managed to get the 7th chest with 2 minutes remaining on a mob that died to Luminohelix II.

I suspect that condition is tied to a random element that gets chosen at the start of the run. Possibly total magic damage done of that element as Luminohelix was only cast on 2 mobs near the end. Entered on Windsday, Luminohelix deaths were on Iceday. I don't think the days had any effect (like they did in Abyssea for example).

No idea how to determine if that's the case or we just got unlucky, but thought I'd throw it out there.

Went straight to Leshonn without killing any elementals, got my *** whooped not even close, and some point Leshonn had both wind and lightning power in each hand lmao

got thunder/aero hands as well. killed a couple fire elementals on the way there. whooped us so bad lol

Did my first run on BRD/NIN with Cornelia, Zeid1, Uka Totlihn, Qultada, Monberaux, no food.
Songs were HM, Minuet5, Minuet4, Minuet3, Herculean Etude2.
No food.

I fought a mixture of Acuex, Leeches and Thousand Eyes (some where casting spells, some where directly coming to melee, I guess... different jobs?)

Mordant Rime avg with Carn=> >30k
Rudra's Storm avg with Twash/Cento => ~40k
Savage Blade avg with Naegling/Cento => ~45k?

Savage provided the highest number and the highest spike I saw was something like 58k.
Rudra's numbers with Twash were smaller but acceptable. Rudra would've won with constant Darkness SC but Zeid, Uka and Qultada were messing it up for me.

I came out of the run with a bit less than 3k Gallimaufry despite me taking my goddamn time, afking a couple of times etc.



Also one thing I noticed on BG-wiki
"The Shiny Ra'Kaznarian plate Key Item will recharge every twenty hours after your previous run."

Are we sure about this? Because right after I completed my run Ruspix said I had to wait 18 hours to get a new shiny instead of 19.
Wouldn't this imply that the time I queued is considered as start time instead of the time I entered? (over 45mins of wait in line before I managed to enter)

Also if someone wants to update the wiki, I'm not sure about Thousand Eyes and Acuex, but at least the Leeches do link.
I pulled one with Elegy and a whole group came to me all together. If I wasn't on BRD (with Lullaby) I would've been dead there lmao

Timer starts when you enter and as the event is a hour long it would be at the 18:59:00 mins remaining range when you go to check so that sounds right

Makes me wonder if it’s like Putraxia where you need to kill elementals to prevent certain moves/modes. I went in with 4 and got smashed. Had monk tanking and was just getting countered to death lol

I suspect this is the case. First day we killed all of B before we fought him and he dropped in under 2 minutes and was practically a kitten. Yesterday we cleared 2 packs of elementals and then fought him and he was an ***. Did the whole thunder/wind hand stuff, huge AOE’s etc.

Might be a coincidence but considering vagary mechanics could be a thing.

We had this exact thing. did a darkness skillchain and damage went back up to normal. Also did the NM twice. first time got no drop. 2nd time tagged TH and got Sapphire but not sure if that's related.

I just realised we don’t have any new open world content since resinjima. Am going to enter solo this time and make sure i check the bg wiki map!

Some people reporting killing Leshonn with no problem at all, others reporting getting their *** handed.

Light SC definitely seems like something to avoid based on anecdotes.


Was this with or without metal B?

3rd run - got a chest with earring from resting at the spot suggested.

Killed every mob apart from the group of light/ice elementals that require you to drop off the ledge before the B boss. Got A & B all shard/metal/keys.

We also did the /hurray at device b, enhancing magic etc etc. all worked.

Didn't see a Porxie or any NM's in the zone.

Did the B boss for the third time. It wrecked us (first time was super easy tank and spank. 2nd time wrecked us until we did a darkness skillchain).

This 3rd time we opened with a darkness skillchain (CDC>Leaden) and it went apeshit. There was just 2 of us multiboxing today so didn't have a chance to pay attention to what the boss was doing/hand elements etc.

Not sure if killing those last few elementals would have made a difference.

We have mostly just been going in and killing things. Yesterday we each got a Sapphire off the Porxie. Killed Lesshon with metal afterwards, no drop.

I am a bit sad about how bad Monk is for the first few monster types. Got my Empy+2 legs, though!

Edit: We used GEO, BRD, MNK, SAM, COR, WHM last night. Geomancy does not seemed to be nerfed against normal monsters.

We got it after killing an entire group of mobs in one of the rooms on the right side of the map. Maybe the Umbrils

https://twitter.com/Taiyakihakirai/status/1560180842508349440

This player's saying they got a chest from doing /hurray at Device #B, which gave Plate B.

edit: shoulda f5'd, i see this was mentioned already

So- expectations that SE will release Porter Moogle Slips for +2/+3 Empyrean gear? Or did they just assume everyone is gonna stop using that system when they added the extra Wardrobes?


As someone who very much still uses the Porter Moogle, I'm seriously hoping its just not released yet- because it would make zero sense to me not to have slips for them.

The release usually trails by a bit, I'd be shocked if they didn't add them. They're extremely simple to add.

My memory is not great at the moment but I obtained rewards killing hecteys, dark/earth elementals, fire, aero/thunder. Especially in a smaller 3 exit room, I think it may be a random mob that holds the chest.

I walked away with b shard b plate b key

Seems likely that they just ran out of time, considering how Sortie barely made the update and has some pretty obvious bugs (localization missing, maps that don't display, etc.)

I think I got b key in my very first day, but I can't confirm because I'm stuck on vacation until 23rd. I was killing only elementals in the first map and was using BLU Tenebral Crush as normal and magic bursted, also self SC with req> exp and exp>leaden.

I know this isn't the first report of it. Did Sortie last night and 4 people had very LONG "dc's" at different times throughout the run. Tells and party invites wouldn't go through. Two couldn't log back in. One eventually did and as of this morning the last still gets told his character is already logged in...9 hours after dc.



I think so as well. I was soloing a fire elemental because I could not get back in the party after DC. Our BLU was working on the other 4. He got a chest to pop while he still had fire elementals alive and I the one I was killing was still alive.

Sorry I didn't make note of what objectives gave what item. Killing the earth/dark elementals gave us the B Metal, and I thought the /hurray gave us the item to use Gadget B but perhaps it gave us the key. Tomorrow I will note down how we achieve item drops