Ambuscade Findings

For you guys who are at work right now, here's a list of what we found yet about the new event.


To participate, you have to flag the RoE quest Ambuscade under the tutorial category.

Then, speak to Gorpa-Masorpa (Mhaura G-9)

he'll give you the first KI (Volume 2) for free.

The event consist of 2 different battles. (Vomule 1, the harder one, and volume 2)

You don't lose your KI if you fail the battle.

2 new quests will be then available under the "content" category of RoE.

You'll have to kill 1 orc (even Too-weak) to get volume 1 ki
and 1 puk / dragon to get volume 2 ki.

These are non-repeatable, subsequent quests require 10 kill of xp-yielding orcs / dragons (There's a typo in Quest #4 which tells you to get 10 orcs kills. It's in fact puk / dragons)

The most convenient area to kill orcs and dragons are escha-zitha HP2 and Dynamis-Sandoria for orcs. (Monastic cavern works too, but is a bit of a walk).
note : Dynamis zones confirmed to work.
(got Dragon KI in dynamis-Xarcabard)




THE BATTLES :
/!\ trusts can be used

Volume 2 -

you'll fight vs 1 Sombra Dragon
He has only 1 TP move (special attack) which can do different things. [must be battlemod not getting the moves. Me not stupid!]
Will use Damage spike asap when claimed.
Can use :
Paralyse
Damage spike (spams it a lot, don't bother dispelling it.)
full dispel (including food) @25%
Petrification

Everything was getting resisted with BoG Vex alone appart from full dispel.

it's a 3 minutes fight on VD with BLU BLU RUN GEO GEO SCH

Remember you can use all your JAs during the fight, there's a nomad moogle just outside where you can reset everything.

You get 300 points on VD
probably 200 points on D?
100 points on Normal
75 points on easy


Volume 1 -

you'll fight against 6 Orcs (run, bst, blm and can't remember the other 3.)

They can all be slept except main NM and the hecteye PET.

Main NM does a lot of hate reset, and must be killed first.

BST NM and Main NM can both charm. So be prepared.

It's a much harder fight (with the setup we had)

15 minutes for 600 points total.
400 points on D

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Rewards :

JSE Capes/mantle are 500 points each (so x2 VD Fight volume 2)

Ragnarok.Slyshen said: »
Dynamis single currencies: 20 hallmarks
Dynamis 100's: 2000 hallmarks
Alexandrite: 15 hallmarks
Heavy Metal: 200 hallmarks
Riftdross/Riftcinder: 1500 hallmarks
Pluton/Beitetsu/Riftborn: 50 hallmarks
High-Purity Bayld: 35 hallmarks
Umbral Marrow: 30,000 hallmarks
Mulcibar Scorcia: 50,000 hallmarks
JSE Mantles/Capes: 500 hallmarks
Abdhaljs thread: 100 hallmarks
Abdhaljs dust: 100 hallmarks
Abdhaljs sap: 200 hallmarks


You also get rewards based on your total points. (points are not spent) but probably can only get 1 of each type / month.
Sweet tea, beastly shank etc... + some gear :

Ty lina :

NQ:
Feet: 130HM
Legs: 620HM
Hands: 220HM
Body: 1050HM
Head: 370HM

HQ:
Feet: 1800HM
Legs: 8500HM
Hands: 3000HM
Body: 14500HM
Head: 5000HM







Augmenting the JSE Capes :

3 items can be purchased to unlock and upgrade 3 differents augments.
Trade any of those items along with the cape of your choice to Gorpa-Masorpa (Mhaura G-9)

To get full augments on a cape, you'll need 6000 Hallmarks (10 runs volume 1 VD or 20 runs Volume 2 VD) + 500 Hallmarks for the cape.
Spool of Abdhaljs Thread (100 Hallmarks) Can use 20
(+20 to base stat .eq)
- Base STAT +
- HP+
- MP+
- Pet: acc/r.acc att/r.att
- Pet: M.acc /M.dmg +

Pinch of Abdhaljs dust (100 Hallmarks)
Can use 20 (+20 to one of those:)
- Acc/atk+
- R.Acc /R.atk +
- M.Acc / M.Dmg
- Eva. /M.Eva +

Bottle of Abdhaljs SAP (200 Hallmarks) :
Can use 10 (+10 to one those :)
- Weapon skill damage
- Critical Hit rate +
- Store TP
- Double Attack
- Haste
- Dual Wield
- Emnity +
- Emnity -
- Snapshot +
- Magic attack bonus
- Fast cast
- Cure potency
- Waltz Potency
- Pet: Regen
- Pet: Haste

there's a lot more I can't remember.

Sorry for the bad formating, I just throw everything I found.

We saw petroeyes(hate reset), voidsong, bodyslam on VD with PLD, RNG, SCH, WHM

On normal, we had 3 orcs, BLM, WAR and PLD. PLD was the boss, other 2 were easy kills. Boss continually charmed me and was not a fun fight.

Thank you for the Data

Escha-camps which were already overcrowded just got more overcrowded, yay!

Any other good spots for orcs/puks/dragons. Do abyssea versions work?

Can you call trusts?

yes im soloing the dragon on WHM as i type.

We called Apu and Arciela

Easy Primer 2 (Aka Sombra dragon) game 75 Hallmarks.
And no you cannot be a jammy so and so by using the unity quest to get a free book after it dies.
As the book is consumed once you leave the battlefield.

is hpb available for purchase with points as well?

100 Hall marks for Normal on Sombra Dragon.

Yes

Taken from the Version Update Thread:

So considering dynamis currency as ~5k gil each, to SE this is the market value the following items should have:


Dynamis 100's: 500k mil
Alexandrite: 3750 gil
Heavy Metal: 50k gil
Riftdross/Riftcinder: 375k gil
Pluton/Beitetsu/Riftborn: 12.5k gil
High-Purity Bayld: 8750 gil
Umbral Marrow: 7.5 mils gil
Mulcibar Scorcia: 12.5 mils


Uhm... yeah SE, yeah :P

This is currently wrong.
Ambuscade Primer Vol.2 is to kill Dragons, and it gives Ambuscade primer Volumne 2.
The right is the Japanese.

Can this be spammed? Or can you only do each volume once per game day?

Spammed.

EDIT: Yes, can be spammed

double post sorry

Well then! Things just got very interesting! 315k Hallmarks to finish my Idris. Too bad I'm at work atm.

So you can do the fight multiple times if you win, just no points? Was told it is only 1 per earth day

Yes you can, in RoE you can unlock books indefinantly by killing 10 orcs or 10 dragons. Scroll up and you will see the In-game error on English localisation.

According to a friend in my ls there is cap of the amount of currency you can purchase per month regardless of the hallmarks you posses. I haven't confirmed this myself but he said the following :

100 HMP
350 HP-Bayld
1750 alex.

If anyone else can confirm or deny this information, please post findings.

In one sense, yes, but you can't buy unlimited amounts of those items either so gil/hallmark isn't the only applicable measure. Plus I wouldn't consider currency the base for such a measurement either because currency is not what people will be spending their hallmarks on. Though they'll likely be spending it all on capes/augment mats for now once that is completed they'll probably dump it into HMP/HPB. Which would point to those being the best barometers of value for hallmarks imo.

Currency is a clear outlier given it's very low ceiling on the amount that can be purchased and the fact that currency/hr of Ambuscade pales in comparison to currency/hr of Dynamis. It's basically only there because there's no reason for it not to be - nobody is going to be buying much of it though except for cases of "***I need 124 more bronze pieces to finish this thing but there's none available. Oh well I'll burn some Hallmarks."

There's definitely a limit but when I checked it out last night I thought it was 200 HMP and 750 HPB - I didn't check alex. Could be a typo or sleepiness. Unless the limits are dynamically set per server or character in some way - but that seems quite unlikely.

The easiest way to find out for yourself is just talk to the taru > rewards > purchase something (you need to have completed one Ambuscade and/or have some Hallmarks first) and he'll reply with "I can offer you a total of X [item]." which represents the limit of that item you can purchase this month/until the next Ambuscade 'cycle'.

thanks a bundle frenchy, great thread!

I can't wait to kill me some dragons...anything to get out of farming dynamis....hoofah.

I managed to get the dragon temporarily locked into thorn song. Arciela kept dispelling and it would put it right back up and they stayed in that loop for several seconds until a skill chain went off and she went back to magic bursting.

Agreed, absolutely.
I used Dynamis currency simply to make a silly example and because it was the first voice in the list.
I could've used the 100k value for HMP and the final resulting numbers would've been exactly the double as the current ones.

Dynamis 100's: 1 mil
Alexandrite: 7k gil
Heavy Metal: 100k gil
Riftdross/Riftcinder: 700k gil
Pluton/Beitetsu/Riftborn: 35k gil
High-Purity Bayld: 17k gil
Umbral Marrow: 15 mils gil
Mulcibar Scorcia: 25 mils


Still very very different values from the current market ones :P
Not saying SE should've considered the current market values when deciding the hallmarks:gil ratio because that would be utopistic and frankly quite stupid, but I'm sure at the same time they could've created better numbers than the current ones.
The Riftdross/Beitetsu/Riftborn values in particular are very very very far from where they should be.

Guess this is what SE meant when they said they were adding another way to get HMPs and VW stuff.

How easy is the currency to get? Then again I guess it doesn't matter if there is a cap on the # of items you can get a month.