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561 weeks ago

The PvP encounter Borderland Ruins (Slaughter) has been added to Frontline.
Players who have yet to unlock Frontline can do so by accepting one of the following quests corresponding to their Grand Company:

Maelstrom
Quest Required Level and Location
Like Civilized Men and Women (Maelstrom) Disciple of War or Magic level 50
Limsa Lominsa – Upper Decks (X:12 Y:12)
NPC: Trachraet
Players must first complete the quest "A Pup No Longer" for any of the three Grand Companies.

Order of the Twin Adder
Quest Required Level and Location
Like Civilized Men and Women (Twin Adder) Disciple of War or Magic level 50
New Gridania (X:9 Y:11)
NPC: Scarlet
Players must first complete the quest "A Pup No Longer" for any of the three Grand Companies.

Immortal Flame
Quest Required Level and Location
Like Civilized Men and Women (Immortal Flames) Disciple of War or Magic level 50
Ul'dah – Steps of Nald (X:8 Y:9)
NPC: Mimio Mio
Players must first complete the quest "A Pup No Longer" for any of the three Grand Companies.

Upon unlocking Frontline, players can speak with one of the following NPCs to gain access to the Borderland Ruins (Slaughter).

Maelstrom
Limsa Lominsa – Upper Decks
Airship Landing (X:10 Y:11)    NPC: Foreign Levy Flyer
Maelstrom Command (X:12 Y:12)    NPC: Foreign Levy Flyer

Order of the Twin Adder
New Gridania
Airship Landing (X:11 Y:13)    NPC: Yellow Serpent Flyer
The Adders' Nest (X:9 Y:11)    NPC: Yellow Serpent Flyer

Immortal Flames
Ul'dah – The Steps of Nald
Airship Landing (X:10 Y:11)    NPC: Free Brigade Flyer
Hall of Flames (X:8 Y:9)    NPC: Free Brigade Flyer

Requirements
Time Limit 15 minutes
Level Requirement Disciple of War or Magic level 50
Item Level Sync Item level 80

The Say, Shout, Yell, Party, and Allliance chat channels can be used during Frontline. However, players can only see messages from comrades of their own Grand Company.

* When undertaking a duty utilizing item level sync, the item level of any gear exceeding the maximum item level will be adjusted accordingly. Unlike character level sync, however, gear parameters will not be subject to further reduction beyond that brought about by the item level decrease. Furthermore, materia bonuses will be ignored during PvP encounters, regardless of the item level of gear affixed with materia.
* Players who abandon a Frontline campaign (not including players who join a match in progress or are vote kicked) will receive a penalty. Players so penalized will be unable to register for Frontline campaigns or the Wolves' Den for 30 minutes.
* When participating in a Frontline campaign, players can receive but not send messages via free company and linkshell chat.

Participating in the Borderland Ruins (Slaughter)
Players can queue to enter Frontline campaigns alone, or in a party of up to eight players. Although there are no role restrictions when queuing as a party, all party members must be affiliated with the same Grand Company.

To improve matching efficiency, 72 (three teams of 24) or 24 (three teams of eight) combatants may be matched together depending on the number of available participants.

Role Requirements
When participating in Frontline campaigns, there are no role requirements or restrictions for parties. Moreover, players can freely change jobs or classes at their Grand Company's landing.
* As with the three main cities, the recast time of skills will not be reset when changing classes or jobs.

Actions
The effects of certain non-PvP player actions have been restricted in Frontline campaigns.

Rules of Engagement
Players can increase their team's tactical rating by defeating players from opposing teams and enemies spawning on the field. The first team to accumulate the required number of tactical points will be declared the winner, and the remaining teams ranked according to their respective tactical ratings.

Teleporters
Teleporters have been placed at key locations, allowing players to cross great distances instantaneously. Please be aware teleporters cannot be used to return to a previous location.



Adrenaline Rush
Adrenaline rush will replace the limit break action in the Borderland Ruins (Slaughter). Unlike the limit break, adrenaline rush is unnafected by the actions of party members, and can be used by single players after filling the adrenaline rush gauge. It can then be activated using Limit Break located under the General tab of the Actions & Traits interface. The adrenaline rush action performed will depend on your role.


Action Role Effect
Aegis Boon Tank Temporarily reduces damage taken by all party members by 50%.
Raw Destruction Melee DPS Delivers an attack to a single target.
Cometeor Ranged Magic DPS Deals unaspected damage to all enemies near point of impact.
Empyrean Rain Healer
Ranged Physical DPS Restores 50% of own HP and the HP of all nearby party members, as well as cure all status effects.

Combat rank bonuses will now affect the rate at which the adrenaline gauge fills.

Rank Bonus to Adrenaline
1st None
2nd Fills 1.25 times faster
3rd Fills 1.5 times faste

Battle High and Battle Fever
Battle High and Battle Fever are buffs awarded for a certain number of consecutive KOs. However, changing classes, logging out, or being defeated yourself will reset the counter towards acquiring either buff.

Status Requirement Effect
Battle High Defeat four players consecutively. Damage dealt increases by 20%, and the adrenaline gauge fills 1.5 times faster.
Battle Fever Defeat eight players consecutively. Damage dealt increases by 40%, and the adrenaline gauge fills two times faster.

The following will display on screen when either battle high or battle fever are active:


The following icon will appear next to the name of players under the effect of battle high or battle fever:


Furthermore, players from opposing teams experiencing battle high or battle fever will appear on the map and minimap when nearby.

Defeating Monsters
Monsters will appear on the field periodically. Slaying them will grant you stat and adrenaline gauge bonuses. The bonus granted will vary depending on the monster slain.

Status Affected Player Effect
Haste The party that defeats the monster. Reduces weaponskill and spell recast times, as well as auto-attack delay.
HP Boost

MP Boost The party that defeats the monster. Increases maximum HP and MP.
Increased Damage The team that deals the most damage. Damage dealt is increased by 10%.

Additionally, tactical points will be awarded to all teams based upon the damage they dealt to defeat a monster.

Retaliation
Incapacitated players will be returned to their Grand Company's landing, where they will be allowed to rejoin combat after a short delay. This will not incur a weakness penalty, but the delay before you can rejoin the battle will lengthen each time you fall.

Furthermore, players will be temporarily invulnerable when leaving their Grand Company's landing in the Borderland Ruins (Slaughter),.

Mounts
Players are free to use mounts on the Frontline. However, players taking damage while mounted will be inflicted with the Heavy status effect.

Rewards
All players will receive PvP EXP and Wolf Marks, as well as Allagan tomestones of soldiery and Allagan tomestones of philosophy based on their performance.

PvP EXP
Accumulating PvP EXP raises PvP rank, and rewards players with actions points that can be used to enhance PvP-exclusive actions and traits.

Wolf Marks
Wolf Marks can be exchanged for gear and other useful battle items by speaking with one of the Maelstrom soldiers stationed at the Wolves' Den.

With the addition of Borderland Ruins (Slaughter), The Carteneau Flats: Borderland Ruins has been renamed Borderland Ruins (Secure).
To reduce wait times when queueing for Frontline campaigns, the Duty Finder will no longer match together players in groups of 48 (three teams of 16).
When attacking monsters during Frontline campaigns, weaponskills with direction requirements will grant combo bonuses from any position.
Two-passenger mounts can no longer be used during Frontline campaigns.
Players can no longer block or parry limit break attacks.

Silianaux Mad Adders replied

561 weeks ago

I need it. We need to build a superiorly awesome killer team and just SLAUGHTER all of the things. I honestly can say I didn't expect the new frontline to be like this. So the rule is very basic then, and easy to understand. Stay in a group, go to where a similar group of enemies is. SLAUGHTER.

Leerow Mad Adders replied

561 weeks ago

I'm nervous about bringing BRD to something like this. Seems like a DRG/NIN's game when it comes to DPS, depending on how potent that adrenaline LB is.

Silianaux Mad Adders replied

560 weeks ago

I have an idea for how to get the upper hand in the battle in Slaughter mode. (It relies upon having a tank).
All go to mid like usual, then like usual, bait out some enemies while simultaneously not getting baited, then when everyone's adrenaline guage fills up, this is what we do…
Everyone run into the big group all at once, the tank uses their LB, negating all damage we will take when running in the big group for a few seconds, while everyone uses their binds on a certain section of enemies, and the casters use their LBs on the bound folks, then if the tank LB runs out before we've killed some people, bards and healers cast their LBs and melee single targed pwns some healers or whatever. Then once all those cooldowns are used we run back out again and wait for it to charge and rinse repeat. What do you think? XD
I want to try it :B

Silianaux Mad Adders replied

560 weeks ago

Ideal party makeup for slaughter is actually 1 tank (2 is ok), 2 healers (1 if your 1 healer is really good and the party actually stays out of AOE), and the rest is DPS. Casters are the best here. But melee is good if the healers are fast enough to heal the melee dps.

Silianaux Mad Adders replied

560 weeks ago

So a Flames premade (of fuggin course) figured out the most broken as heck strategy ever in Slaughter. I shoulda figured it out myself, but you know, options!
Just like, bring your party of nearly all casters, and bind groups of enemies and spam LB (adrenaline) to pieces. Yep that's it that's the strategy. Spam caster LB. SOOOO BROKEN. |D


last edited 560 weeks ago by Silianaux
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