Garrison is a type of battle content where adventurers defend outposts from oncoming waves of attacking beastmen. Upon finding an encoded beastman message, an adventurer can trade it to an Outpost Guard to initiate the defense against the surprise attack by beastmen. The number of allied NPCs and enemies is determined based on the number of players in the initiating party/alliance. Enemies attack in four waves, starting small, leading up to a final wave with a boss. A Garrison battle ends when all enemies, or all NPC defenders, or all party members are defeated, or after the 30 minutes time limit expires.

Overview

• Any Trusts will be dismissed as soon as the Garrison is initiated, and cannot be re-summoned while under the Level restriction.
  • Similarly, it is not possible to make use of the Adventuring Fellow.
• If a party member is KO'd during the Garrison, they will no longer be able to participate, as the Level Restriction will be lost.
• Characters outside of the Level Restriction cannot interact with other players that are under the Level Restriction effect, such as curing, etc. They can, however, raise KO'd party members that have lost the restriction.
• A Garrison cannot occur in the same area a Ballista has been initiated; this includes all three in-game days of entries, the match itself, and the closing of the event.
• A player can only trade the item to start a Garrison once per Conquest Tally, regardless of zone.
• The allegiance of the player must match the Outpost guard in order to trade the item.
• There is a 30 minute cool-down period between Garrisons in the same zone.
• Participants have 30 minutes to complete a Garrison, or it will end in failure and enemies will retreat.
• Enemies will automatically be aggressive to friendly NPCs, and will immediately begin attacking them upon initiation of the Garrison event. If all NPCs are slain, the Garrison is deemed a failure.
• Any buffs will not wear off when the Garrison commences.

Rewards

• Number of rewards increases based on number of NPCs alive after defeating all enemy waves.
• The player who initiated the Garrison must talk to the Outpost guard after all enemies are defeated to collect the rewards.
• All Garrison battles will reward Miratete's Mem. or Dragon Chronicles and up to 10,000 gil, in addition to equipment listed in the table below.
• In addition to the equipment rewarded for successful completion, garrison enemies at any level cap have direct drops including Mannequin Legs and Mannequin Feet.

Level Cap	Outpost Zone	Enemies	Trigger Item	Reward List
20	North Gustaberg	Quadav	Dst. Engraving	Garrison Sallet Garrison Tunica Garrison Gloves Garrison Hose Garrison Boots
20	West Ronfaure	Orc	Red Cryptex
20	West Sarutabaruta	Yagudo	7-Knot Quipu
30	Buburimu Peninsula	Goblin	Mithra Fang Sack	Military Axe Military Gun Military Harp Military Pick Military Pole Military Spear
30	Jugner Forest	Orc	Jade Cryptex
30	Meriphataud Mountains	Yagudo	13-Knot Quipu
30	Pashhow Marshlands	Quadav	Silver Engraving
30	Qufim Island	Gigas	R. Leather Missive
30	Valkurm Dunes	Goblin	Galka Fang Sack
40	Beaucedine Glacier	Gigas	T. Leather Missive	Variable Cape Variable Mantle Variable Ring Protean Ring Mecurial Earring
40	The Sanctuary of Zi'Tah	Goblin	Hound Fang Sack
40	Yuhtunga Jungle	Sahagin	S. Leather Missive
50	Eastern Altepa Desert	Antica	D. Leather Missive	Amorph Earring Aquan Earring Arcana Earring Beast Earring Bird Earring Demon Earring Dragon Earring Lizard Earring Undead Earring Refresh Earring Accurate Earring
50	Xarcabard	Demon	B. Leather Missive
50	Yhoator Jungle	Tonberry	C. Leather Missive
Uncapped	Cape Teriggan	Goblin	Bunny Fang Sack	Mighty Axe Mighty Bow Mighty Cudgel Mighty Knife Mighty Lance Mighty Patas Mighty Pick Mighty Zaghnal Nukemaru Rai Kunimitsu

Solo Strategies

• The main reason to solo these is to defeat enemies that drop the Mannequin Legs and Mannequin Feet.
  • You can earn the Mannequin parts without winning the Garrison battle itself.
• The Cape Teriggan Garrison does not have a level restriction and pits you against level 75 enemies. If the Kuzotz region is under your nation's control, this is the easiest route for any job.
• Access to Cure or Waltz is recommended for keeping Garrison NPCs alive.
• Buffs used before the Garrison starts will be retained.
  • Defensively: Protect/Shell V, Phalanx, and Regen will make you effectively invincible at lower levels for their duration.
    • King of Hearts can apply Phalanx II with a +50% duration.
  • Offensively: Enspells (Tier I) are recommended for their damage which snapshots to your skill level when you applied them. Also recommend Haste II.
• Destrier Beret will be active while level capped at 20 or 30, and provides a movement speed bonus
• Any ilvl equipment tends to scale well under Level Sync due to the increase on all base stats.
  • For capes/accessories: Most secondary stats are not retained. See Version Update (09/08/2008)/Level Sync#Regarding Equipment for details.
  • Automatons retain use of all of their attachments while level synced, so any level 80+ attachments are an extra advantage.
• Strategy for PUP
  • Similar to level 30 BCNMs: grab aggro and kite using your destrier beret while commanding your tank automaton to focus on defeating individual beastmen.
• Strategy for RDM
  • You may need up to 20 minutes to finish all waves, extend your buff durations as much as possible.
  • Tank everything with Phalanx and Cure the npcs.
  • Once the beastmen are attacking you, melee them down with enspell damage.

Related Links

• April 2004 Version Update