Sortie Release - Info

We warped to A to get Blizer.

The door in the middle should open when you go near it (did for us) maybe it doesnt when you are sneak/invis?
We did not kill any mobs apart from NM when we went through

The door is also where the coffer spawns when you kill Mini Nms

I was able to get Dhartok to 5% before timing out, I figured out his mechanic late.

Damage seemed fine at first 60k-70k WS, and then all of the sudden WS damage dropped to 5k then I get clobbered 1 shot. After clobber move, his damage resistance seemed to go back to normal for a few seconds before getting resisted again.

I figured out that damage resistance get reset when using WS of different weapon, so I went like this
savage blade 2x, judgment 2x, impulse drive 2x, upheaval 2x, resolution 2x over and over and that seems to work out fine with no resist, got timed out at 5%

This seemed like a very extreme version of dynamis WS penalty, after doing savage blade until resisted, switched to judgment no resist, switched back to savage blade right after, still got resist

magic burst damage didn't get resisted over time

edit: did WF > WF darkness on dhartok, darkness healed him for 10k and insta wipe the party with 20k+ damage aoe noyade

I didn't see this posted, but I did 2 runs on the same char for slot unlocks/exploration. The device back down seems to move randomly from run to run, but the warp to what will be the next bosses stays in place it seems. I'll find out later with my static on my other char with the blitzer back down.

Thanks for those details. Good to know you can indeed warp to A. So I just did my second run and again I could not get that door to open. Approached it with sneak/invis up right after killing bolutus nm, did not open. Dropped sneak/invis, did not open. Ran out of room, ran back through room up to door without sneak/invis. Could not get it to open. I also couldn't get back to Zone A so I was trapped in that first part of Zone E for my entire run. Was able to kill 5 of the 6 delve nm's in that room, timed out on killing bee again. They are rather challenging for a soloer and each seem to have a specific way damage should be dealt, most other forms do little. I had to keep alternating between differnt sc's and mbs to find what worked on each. Killing all 6 in 1 run solo should be possible with some time remaining but it's going to eat up a ton of time for sure.

got a blue casket in E by killing all flans near the room u can port back to A. Also got coffer in E after killing all 5 narkul that spawns after killing a slug then going to thru the door that closed (killing slug might have triggered this). I also killed the mini boss in that room as well not sure if this had anything to do with the coffer.

I confirmed the cap is still 100k. Thankfully it only cost me one last mob at the end.

I did notice that I couldn't get the A Shard/Metal from doing Abject mobs with only Auto-attacks and Dia II. First time in a month I didn't get the Chest A3/A4. I tried a lot of mobs, more than twice as many as I usually clear, before I moved on.

It took me more kills in A to get chest maybe they increased the amount of kills needed.

Nuked down 6 A mobs today got 3 chests, no additional needed.

Once you go into E(FGH? idk didnt get there), you can't return until you get to a return device. So you can't just pop your head in for a sec, for people who are planning runs.

I just did Botolus and 6 Naakuls - did not get a coffer.

JK it spawned in the middle of the room not at the mob

I had to let Shantotto get the kill shots instead of just having her nuke to get a3 yesterday, also. Had just been punching them down while she nuked and worked fine before patch.

Blue Chest from Killing all of the Flans at the end of Sector E around the Return Bitzer

Does going into any of the new areas, E, F, G, or H, unlock upgrading all the slots for +3?

I wonder then, why they said it wouldn't be possible to solo +3, because this very much feels soloable.

That targeting bug actually has happened to me several times in Mireu fights and Dynamis. It seems to happen if you lag out while changing targets.

A fresh 99 could do +3 solo, even it would take a long time.

I'm used to things like Omen, Odyssey, and Dyna-D, where the ability to unlock higher tier things is/was functionally impossible unless you are strong enough. You used to not be able to unlock +3 without killing the statue, an impossibility for a solo-non-multi-box player. There is no way someone solos the Omen bosses for scales without multi-boxing. You aren't clearing the dragon solo-non-multi-box either.

This? Again, it's slow, but you CAN accumulate points to eventually unlock this stuff. It's a change in the pattern, and one I welcome.

Did G area. I respawned C mobs for the G device but when another party member touched the G device nothing happened, when I touched it brown chest spawned.

Killed Naraka but doesn't seem like any additional mobs spawned even in the hidden areas. We decided to pick a mob type and clear it out so we did vampires but no chests.

Went to boss and had same experience as the E one. It uses special attack and damage from torcleaver/savage blade was fluctuating throughout the fight. We thought afterwards that maybe each use of special attack causes it's damage weakness to rotate. Not sure otherwise.

It raged after 3 min and we got it to 65%. Lots of bind and curse and fetters too though they seemed less dangerous than E.

Edit: also noticed under the zone timer a pink bar for Ra'kaznarMetal#G which i dont remember seeing before. maybe filled it up because we killed mobs in the area?

Second run - killed all the flans at the end, no chest. killed all the mobs around the Bitzer, which was in one of the quadrant areas. Blue chest popped - so confirmed. Kill every mob in the section around the bitzer

Uh oh...did they finally implement the Savage Blade (repeat phys ws) nerf? BLM reborn?

Is there any good light based multistep SC with a mix of slashing/blunt/piercing?

impulse > savage > realmrazer > fudo? not sure how good is realmrazer

Yes, lots.

Because you are talking about damage types and not combat skill types, there are way to many combos to list out.

A simple 4 step would something like: Stardiver -> Savage Blade -> Shijin Spiral -> Chant du Cygne\Victory Smite\Camlann's Torment

Realmrazer is trash but Hexa is decent from a WAR with Beryllium Mace.

Ascetic's Fury and Mandalic stab are decent non slashing fusion but are mnk and thf exclusive.

anyone else have an issue popping A3 chest for the shard to enter boss? able to get on sam consistently until today when i tried my usual solo farm.

Yes we had to kill more mobs than usual today to get it. We’ve done the same strat 20x, we usually get it on acuex with blu, today we had to kill a few extra leeches.