Assault Mission - Saving Private Ryaaf

## Enemies

* *Strong to:*
* *Weak to:* Critical Hits, Offensive Job Abilities, Weapon Skills
 Experimental Undead (Fomor)
* *Strong to:*
* *Weak to:*

## Walkthrough

Find the three missing NPC's.

* You start at (I-7).
* Each of the 5 rooms marked in blue on the map contains:
	+ A hunched-over figure that is either one of the 3 NPCs that you need to rescue or a Fomor.
	+ 3 Cursed Chigoes.
* There are also true seeing Fomors wandering in the tunnels.
	+ The roaming fomors move according to which rooms are the NPCs. If a fomor is in the way of North room, likely the NPC is in Center and vice-versa.
	+ These are completely avoidable.
	+ It is easy to simply have one person run by a fomor and continue running until hate is lost. Just make sure you don't run into another fomor but as long as you don't stop or run into a deadend, the fomor will never catch you.
		- A WHM/BLM with NO +running speed gear can lose aggro on all types of fomor just by running. I have personally had 4 chasing me at once as whm/blm and lost aggro successfully.
		- A SMN or /SMN can use a pet to attack any fomor in the way and run away.
		- Bind + running away works perfectly.
			* Note: a 75BLM/WHM could not land Bind, even with Elemental Seal.
			* Note: a 75 MNK/NIN ran for 5 mins and did not lose aggro or gain any ground on the fomor.
		- If you are in melee range before you try to run away, you will not be able to outrun them.
* Enter one of the five rooms and approach the hunched-over figure. It will turn into a fomor or an NPC.
	+ If you mistakenly pick a fomor instead of a NPC you can outrun them just as the other fomor. They seem to be a bit faster but I had no problem as a whm.
		- Be careful when they deaggro; the fake NPC does not run back but instead it hunches-over once again and slides back to its prison on its behind. They can be very hard to see depending on the lighting in the area and your monitor/TV.
	+ You will need to deal with the chigoes in the room.
		- A popular strategy for this is to have a SAM/THF, THF/SAM, or some other job combination with SAM and another job that can use the Dagger Weapon Skill Cyclone. Since Cyclone is a magical, AoE weaponskill, it is guaranteed to hit all chigoes in range, killing them instantly. Using a SAM or /SAM frees you from meleeing for TP.
		- A PUP's automaton can one shot chigoes by using flash or provoke on the mob.
		- There is a chance for the weapon skill Circle Blade to miss the additional Cursed Chigoes.
	+ There are exactly 5 possible patterns of NPC positions. If you visit the North and West rooms first you are guaranteed to encounter no more than one fake prisoner.

* Additionally, the direction in which the hunched-over figures are facing in each room is different; depending on whether they are NPCs or Fomors.
	+ The only exception to this is the East room, in which both NPC and Fomor will face Eastwards regardless.
	+ Put weight on these directions!!
	+ Check either North or Center hunched-over figures first. DON'T check East first!

 Fomor

* When you have found all three NPCs the Rune of Release appears at (I-7).

## Notes

* Can be easily trioed by any person with Cyclone and Meditate (thf/sam, or sam/thf are nice), a healer and a random other person.
* Elemental Seal + Sleepga on the Experimental Undead does not last very long.
* Cursed Chigoes have very high evasion, which makes scoring critical hits and building TP difficult.
* Cursed Chigoes also have large amounts of HP, which renders BLM -ga spell useless. -ga3 hit for around 500 on each, but only took away roughly 20% of their HP
* Experimental Undead Agro to Job abilities. Confirmed to agro Meditate, Puppet Master Maneuver's, Activate, and Trick Attack.