Missions: Legacy of the Lost (ToAU 35)

The update two weeks ago added, amongst other things, the continuation of the Treasures of Aht Urhgan mission series (Missions 33-38). Once again, the missions were mostly cutscenes, but there was one rather annoying BC fight for Mission 35 (Legacy of the Lost). ClanBEB decided to tackle it en masse that Saturday. We ended up with 8 people, so we did it in two bunches.

This BC takes place in Talacca Cove, but you get warped right there from a cutscene at the cutter for the Black Coffin, which was a bit of a surprise. It's not like Square-Enix to give us a short cut when they could make us walk through zones infested with true sight monsters instead.

We've been set up to fight our old ally, Ghesso, and he's got a few annoying tricks up his sleeve, and it took us awhile to work out a strategy to defeat him. Our first crew had Kiki (PLD), Goto (WHM), Ryken (MNK), Diasuke (RDM), Yobun (MNK, and Lucrezia (THF). I don't know how many times we fought him before we finally won, 4 or 5 I'd guess, but what finally worked for us was to completely ignore his shadows, and have them all hitting me, since with Phalanx II from Diasuke, they were hitting me for less than 10 damage each. We also disengaged from attacking him to keep from feeding him TP for his TP moves, since each of his shadows would do one at the same time.

On our other attempts, various things went wrong, like Goto getting hate from all the shadows when they popped and quickly being defeated (I guess Goto had hit me with a Cure IV just as Ghesso was activating them). Mijin Gakure was also a big pain, especially when his shadows were out.

After our win, we got our cutscene and ran back to the starting point. We swapped out Yobun for Anastasia's BLM, and Diasuke for Ranzz's BRD, but two runs with this group didn't work so well, so we swapped Lucrezia out to get Diasuke back in - Phalanx II really seemed to make a big difference. That worked, and we were done for the day.

One of the things that was different with Ana in the group was that Ghesso warped around as hate shifted. With an all-melee group for the first rounds, he hadn't done that at all. It took us by surprise the first time that it happened, and led to our first failure with the second group.

We headed back to Whitegate for a final cutscene with Naja, and now we wait again until the next update for more missions!

New titles: Salaheem's Risk Assessor, Treasure Trove Tender, Ghesso's Mercy, Emissary of the Empress