[Henisha]

http://www.playonline.com/ff11us/topics/060324.html

from FINAL FANTASY XI Development Team
Assault

(03/24/2006)

The Treasures of Aht Urhgan expansion disc will introduce an entirely new way to play FINAL

FANTASY XI--“Assault” missions!

The FINAL FANTASY XI development team created the "Assault" system to

provide a means of casual enjoyment for high-level players--the main target audience of the Treasures of Aht

Urhgan expansion disc. Assault allows for parties of three to six members to enjoy gameplay that does not last a

long period of time and requires little recruitment effort. Players can choose the location, decide whether or not

to impose a level restriction, and select the type of Assault mission to fit with their objectives and party

organization.

Players who often participate in Assault missions will earn "Imperial Standing" credits,

which can be traded for items in the various Assault locations. In addition, players who succeed in an Assault

mission have the possibility of obtaining a mysterious item. After receiving an appraisal in town, the mysterious

item will then be displayed as a normal item.

Repeat success in Assault will also raise your mercenary

rank, which will even further increase the number and variety of available Assault missions!

[Isiolia]

If the

rewards are decent, endgame-level things...has a ton of potential.

Could also just be ENMs version 2, but

it seems like a cross between that and something like Limbus.

[Boss Rockius]

Henisha :
..

Players who often participate in Assault missions will earn "Imperial

Standing" credits, which can be traded for items in the various Assault locations. In addition, players who

succeed in an Assault mission have the possibility of obtaining a mysterious item. After receiving an appraisal in

town, the mysterious item will then be displayed as a normal item.

..

This sounds eeriely

familiar to what used to happen in PSO. You fight a mob and a ??? Saber or something drops. You take it to an

appraiser in town and he appraises it for you. Then you have a +1 something or another. Sounds interesting. This

expansion is sounding better and better by the day.

[Shipa]

Anyone

knows if you will get XP in Assult too?

[Marcus]

you guys

think this will be anything like the raids in WoW? Though not on as large a scale. Just wondering.

[Cinaumorille]

The

Treasures of Aht Urhgan expansion disc will introduce an entirely new way to play FINAL FANTASY XI-

-“Assault” missions!

Sounds to me like you and some friends can just team up and try different missions all

day long if you wish?

[Linny]

I hope you

can do this with npc

[Lithiani]

Isiolia :
If the rewards are decent, endgame-level things...has a ton of potential.

Could

also just be ENMs version 2, but it seems like a cross between that and something like Limbus.

I suspect the rewards will be related to the level cap you chose when setting the assult up. Hopefully

there will be XP too, and hopefully the XP won't be gimped for high levels in lower caps.

I'd guess there

will be some limitations on how often you can do this. Maybe once per game day like Garrison? Hope it isn't any

longer between, that would kinda suck.

[JayD]

Gasp*

Dungeon crawling in FFXI, perhaps?

Anyway if you want some info on the NPC that you bring the

mysterious item to click here.
=P

[ringthree]

Lithiani :

Isiolia :
If the rewards are decent, endgame-level things...has a

ton of potential.

Could also just be ENMs version 2, but it seems like a cross between that and something

like Limbus.

I suspect the rewards will be related to the level cap you chose when setting the

assult up. Hopefully there will be XP too, and hopefully the XP won't be gimped for high levels in lower

caps.

I'd guess there will be some limitations on how often you can do this. Maybe once per game day like

Garrison? Hope it isn't any longer between, that would kinda suck.

You can do Garrison more than once

per day.

[Isiolia]

As a

group you can, an individual person can't initiate garrison over and over again though.

[Guenmo]

so

that's mean there's this tavern where we will hang out and look for member & Mission for this thing? O.o lol

[Chronic]

glad

they're treating the high lvl people better now, usually we need 70+ people to get something done.

[Ifrit]

I hate

level restrictions though. Other than that, sounds fun.