Assaults: Haphazard Progress

I haven't been doing many assaults, other than a small flurry when Salvage was added and we had a few ClanBEB runs, helping some people start moving up in assault ranks. Last night I was visiting Jarbit and Frostwitch in TimeOut and they invited me to join them and Reefermadness on three runs of Golden Salvage. I'd only done this assault once before, and was aware of the way Summoners could easily avoid Mimic aggro and get the correct chest, but had only vaguely heard about how people could identify Mimics. Apparently if you're close enough to get the message "You have to move closer to the chest to open it", your cursor will stay on the chest if it's a mimic, but will lose focus if it's the treasure chest.

I'm sure SE will come up with a way to get rid of this easy way to win the mission, but in the meantime, it sure does make it easy. Frostwitch and Jarbit had to sleep a couple of the pugils on the three runs, and Reefermadness learned the hard way that mimics aggro if you get too close to them, but I kept the Mimic busy while Reefer ran off and found the right chest and Jarbit or Frostwitch hit the Rune of Release before I was dead. We quickly finished up our three runs, adding about 3000 points to my Ilrusi Atoll total.

I went to talk with Naja's slave boy afterwards to see if I'm ready to rank up to Lance Corporal, but I'm still a bit short still. Since I've only done one of the Superior Private assaults (Saving Private Ryaaf 6 times), it's taking a lot of repeats to get enough points for ranking up. I haven't been keeping track about how many I've done either, so I don't know how many more I have to go.