Operation—Black Pearl

Objective: Defend the princess and her servant! If either gets hit by a mob, you lose.

Recruitment: Lv.70, 3-6 mercenaries

Time Limit: 30:00

Come Prepared With: A big can of whoop-arse.

Assault Points: Variable

Rune of Release: (G-7)

Notes: (Kanah)

I think this was one of the more fun Assault missions that we've done. The mission is another one of those defend-something-while-endless-waves-of-mobs-crash-down-upon-you scenarios with a little twist - if the NPCs you are defending get hit, even once, you lose the mission. You start near a central room with the NPCs, there are three "guard" NPCs located at the entrance to each tunnel that runs into the room. These "guard" NPCs will alert you if mobs are coming down the tunnel that they are standing in front of. The princess' servant stands in the middle of the room. Don't let the mobs touch him or you lose.

We split our party into 2 groups of 3; I think we split as: NIN/WAR, MNK/WAR, RDM/WHM and BRD/WHM, THF/NIN, SAM/DNC, each group taking a tunnel that was under attack. We ended up fighting the incoming mobs in the middle/towards the far ends of the tunnels to minimize risk to the NPCs. The waves of mobs seemed to follow the pattern of: Wamouracampa (wimpy), Eruca (wimpy), Bombs (wimpy), Troll (moderate challenge). This pattern was repeated a number of times down 2 of the tunnels. Eventually a Troll NM (fairly tough) popped as well. This NM had some nasty TP moves, including a petrify move that interrupted our MNK's Hundred Fists. Grr. Once we took out the NM, the remaining mobs despawned and the mission was completed.