• Saturday Dec. 10th @ 6pm Eastern (5PM Central, 4pm Mountain, 3pm Pacific)

Where? Buburimu Peninsula & Valkurm Dunes

Level Cap? 30

How long will it take? Minimum of 2 hours, Maximum of 8 or more (depending on how long people stay)

What are the rewards? Items and gil.

What do you need?

• Sand'Orians need Galka Fang Sack (drops from 30-40 level gobs in Ordelles)
• Bastokians need Mithra Fang Sack (drops from 30-40 level gobs in east side Maze of Shakhrami)
• You do not need an item to participate, but we will need a minimum number of items (3) out of the whole group in order to start.

This week we will be doing another Garrison event. However, this time we will be trying something different. This week we are starting earlier to try and prevent these events from dragging out so late (4am Garrison? {No thanks!}) ... Read on for the details.

I will quote what I wrote for the previous Garrisons.


A Garrison is a level capped event where you defend an outpost from several waves of attacking hordes. Each wave has several normal enemies, and one boss-type enemy (who is stronger in some way than the normal enemies).



Fighting alongside of you in the Garrison are a number of NPCs. These NPCs must be kept alive. If the NPCs die, then the Garrison is over and you lose.



In between waves, you have a very short time to regroup. If you intend on resting (to get more MP, for example) then you will have to do it during the battle, or bring food to help you out.



There are two ways we can do these Garrisons: Kite or All-out-warfare.



Kite is where we have two or more parties (so an alliance of 12 or more). One party has a Ninja (or another tank with high evasion or defense) who is willing to take the boss from each wave and run around the field (dragging them like a 'kite') while the rest of the team kills the enemies.



All-out-warfare is really only possible if you have three full parties or 18 players in an alliance. If you have 18 people, then kiting is no longer necesary as you can just pummel the enemies to death quite efficiently.



Generally speaking, we kite our garrisons and fall back on "all-out-warfare" if things go badly. Come prepared for both :-)

Pool and item distribution

There are three different types of items that drop during and after Garrison:

• Mannequin legs and feet
• Dragon Chronicles
• Military weapons (for 30-capped Garrison)

Generally speaking, by the end of the night everyone will have gotten at least one Mannequin item. Often, everyone leaves with both legs and feet. Because of this, I have to stress that you come to Garrison with NO FEET OR LEGS either on your person or in your MH. If you currently have feet or legs, give them to a mule or sell them before the event. We have actually lost Mannequin parts in the past because people came to the Garrison with them in their posession.



So, to repeat myself for those who may not heed this warning:

If you have Mannequin feet OR legs now, trade them to a mule or sell them before the Garrison!!!!


If we lose Mannequin parts because of you, people will be pissed.



The Dragon Chronicles are items that give you a random amount of EXP. These we will lot on. No worries about people lotting unfairly on these, if you already have one and win another lot, the system will not let you have this item.



The Military items are generally the source of conflict and contention. This is because this is really where the money is at in Garrison. Thus, we will strictly adhere to the following system:

• IF the Garrison item was your item, THEN you get to pick ONE (1) of the Military items that drop during the Garrison resulting from your item trade.
• All other Military items go into a community pool. This pool will be sold off and the profits will be distributed evenly amongst those who participated in the Garrison.

In a nutshell, this means that you cannot get any of these Military items for yourself unless you either purchase them from the pool at a fair market value, or supply a Garrison item and obtain one of the Military drops from your run. (This is the incentive to farm and bring Garrison items).

On outpost warping

One bit of advice beforehand, if you haven't already done outpost runs to either of these areas, I'd recommend strongly doing them now. There is a 15-20 minute cool down between battles that you could use to outpost warp to your home country and send items to mules (if needs be).



One warning, however, DO NOT BE LATE FOR THE NEXT GARRISON! Return within the alotted time, and do not keep people waiting.



Usually these events are a "first-come, first-serve" basis with a waiting list of people wanting to join. If you delay people too much, you might be kicked and someone else will be given your place.