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Sortie Strategies
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Strategies
Starting Out
Sortie is meant to be endgame content. It's a catch-22 situation where you want to earn Gallimaufry, 
Ra'Kaznar Sapphires, 
Ra'Kaz. Starstones,
Eikondrites, 
Old Cases and 
Old Case +1 containing JSE Earrings to get upgraded armor, gear, and weapons. However, you still need to have enough accuracy and damage in existing gear to get meaningful rewards.
Suggestion here is to first unlock access to various areas in the upper floor and basements from A,B,C. Basement from D access we will cover later below.
Assuming you're relatively well geared and you got some master levels in you and can hit higher level Locus mobs without any issues. Make sure you eat food relative to your job.
I started with killing mobs in section A, just to get a feel for the area and the mobs. Abdellas are good for melee focused parties, and Acuexes are good for mage focused parties. You'll want to try and get fragments and metals for each section so that you can debuff the bosses and access the basement bosses in the future.
Sector A Objectives
- Defeat 3 Abject foes with single target magic
- Suggest killing Abject Acuex
- Tank wields sword, does burning blade WS
- Support such as COR or BRD does flat blade to make Fusion skillchain
- Mages spam Fire V to kill, Whm can spam Holy II
- If not dead, try Fusion Skillchain again with Fire IV and Holy until dead
- Defeat 3 more Abject foes with single target magic
- Repeat the above
- If you complete these two objectives, you can also complete casket A1 objective (Kill 5 Abject foes)
- Find and kill Abject Obdella
- This NM has a set route in sector A.
- Should have no problems killing this NM
- You can complete the other hidden objectives if there's time or you need the temporary item. I'm going to focus on getting the items that you'll need to unlock the sector bosses and weaken their moves.
Sector B Objectives
Sector C Objectives
- Perform a magic burst on 3 Cachaemic foes before defeating them
- I usually pull Cachemic skeletons (the ones with Shields) close to the C Boss teleport area.
- Be wary of blood aggro, I usually pull them to the entrance of corridors until they thin out
- Here I repeat Tank wielding sword doing burning blade
- BRD doing flat blade to make Fusion Skillchain
- RDM do DIA III to burst
- COR doing Savage Blade to make Light Skillchain to kill
- I usually pull Cachemic skeletons (the ones with Shields) close to the C Boss teleport area.
- Perform a magic burst on 3 more Cachemic foes before defeating them
- If you got this down, repeat.
- Defeat Cachaemic Bhoot within 5 minutes of it's spawn
- It's nice to have if you can find Bhoot and you can pull them into a safe spot to kill.
Sector D Objectives
Why going in specific sector order matters
Most of the time, your Sortie leader will call out the order to do objectives. Things like HDCBAEFG. The reason why is you typically spend most of your time in Sortie running between sectors and objectives. So being efficient in routes will help to carve out time to kill bosses (which is what earns you the most Gallimaufry and rewards)
Beginner Route (aka Casual Runs)
- Do A objectives
- kill A boss
- run back to Start
- warp to C
- run to the Skeletons complete C objectives
- kill C boss
- do other hidden objectives based on time
Intermediate Route
- Do A and C Boss, go back to A blitzer and warp to basement and kill E boss
- There's a lot of different combos here you can do and explore depending on your group. Try and optimize and get more content in as you gear up and can defeat and accomplish objectives faster
Normal Routes (8 boss)
- I've seen folks do HDCBAEFG if they already have farmed the metal and fragment for H access the run before. Doing this will ensure you can use your 2HRs on the two most difficult Bosses (before Aminon)
- Otherwise, can do DABC, then GEFH
- The reason to do DABC, then GEFH is you want to do your 2HRs on the most difficult bosses. So if you do D (Degei) first, you should have Soul Voice, etc back to do Aita (H Boss)
Killing A Boss
Killing B Boss
Killing C Boss
Killing D Boss
Getting H Basement Access
- Chest D5 is what you need to receive Ra'Kaznar Sheet D, to activate the Bitzer #D
- This requires killing all Demisang foes
- Most groups will want to go in and spend their Sortie run just to do this objective
- Suggested party setup (there's other combos that work, these are just the ones I've done):
- Combo A: Sam, Blu, Cor, Rdm, Geo, Whm
- Everyone melee and do light skillchains, burst where possible for fast kills
- Blu does Entomb to do crowd control, Rdm can help with Break, Fomors can't be slept
- Geo does Entrust Fend on whoever is Tanking, Frailty on mob, Fury on self
- Rdm does Dia III, Cor follow with Light Shot
- Rdm keeps everyone hasted, refreshed, and phalanx II'd
- Whm need to be spot on with cures and -na spells
- Combo B: Run, Blu, Cor, Brd, Geo, Whm
- Everyone melee and do light skillchains, burst where possible for fast kills
- Blu does Entomb to do crowd control, Fomors can't be slept
- Geo does Entrust Fend on whoever is Tanking, Frailty on mob, Fury on self, Bolster in Big rooms
- Brd keeps songs up
- Whm need to be spot on with cures and -na spells
- Combo A: Sam, Blu, Cor, Rdm, Geo, Whm
Maps
https://www.bg-wiki.com/images/3/3d/Sortie_Composite_top_floor_v1.jpg
References and links
- Good guide for Beginners from Velnik
- Mage strat:
- The Idiot's Guide to Sortie!: https://www.ffxiah.com/node/469
- Solo strat thread
- 8 boss melee strat:
- Velnir also has a good set of sortie videos on his youtube channel
- Soloing basement bosses
