Expeditionary Force?

I tried one at lv30 with a full alliance. We got owned, badly. When your group is ready to go, everyone goes to the Gate Guard and gets a free tele to the outpost of the region you choose. You run around the map looking for the Beastman Banner. Assemble your team, buff up, and prepare for a garrison-style battle involving several waves of mobs, each one progressively harder (I *think* there are waves, in all honesty we didn't even get to kill a single dude in the first wave before alliance wiped).

If anything, it's a great way to get a free tele back to the town you're starting this in. They give you a Gate Glyph (rare/exc) before you warp to the outpost, which works very similar to Instant Warp but instead returns you to your home nation instead of your home point.
 
After you're "done"(You can stop at any time,) if your country takes control of the region at the server tally, you get a huge CP boost.

Allegedly, you can complete these. After the last flag, supposedly an armoury crate pops after all the beastmen are killed.
 
Awhile back I did this with a party of 5 or 6. Went to Pashow which is Lv30 and did our first fight which we killed 2 of the 5 NMs and then died. After that we did 3 or 4 more and beat all of those. Bastok didn't end up taking the area at the conquest tally so we didn't get anything for doing that. I'm not sure what you get if your nation ends up owning the area after tally.

Oh and the fights aren't waves. Its a pt of NMs and after you kill them all thats it. Go find anothing banner and it will be another pt of NMs. The ones in Pashow can either be Gobs or Quads.
 
the 'huge CP' is actually 3K CP for the first region you participate in that gains control next tally, then an additional 1K CP for each region you also control after the tally (after doing the EF run in).
 
If your nation is in first, that can be a huge increase.
 
I remember eating a lot of dirt that day :)
 
Expenditionary Force is tough but, it isn't as bad as people will make it out to be. It is great when you win and it sucks to lose. You and your team just have to know what you are doing. I really sudjest taking a bard for horde lullebye and have someone that is good at kiteing mobs.

Far as alliances are concern, if your country is going to win that area anyway then take an alliance and get the cp. But, if you want to take control the area via expenditionary force your best bet will be with a very good single party or a full party with a small kite party(about 3 members). I have found it is easier to move the conquest bar with a single party than with a full alliance.

At least that has been my personal experience with it. I've won some and I lost a lot. The one thing that I have learned is that one screw up can ruin the whole experience and that is why most people do not do EF's. If you want to know more you can look at the PrideofBastok.com (sp) they have lot of info on EF's.
 
what are the rewards like tho? just CP's? or do u get exp or equipment maybe? like the garrison? that would be pretty cool.
 
i've never done an expeditionary force thing before but i have done garrisons and it sounds like some of y'all are talking about garrisons not EF
 
I did one EF before in Valkurm Dunes. It was just a pick up party and no one knew what to expect. So we get to dunes and fan out to find the Beastmen Banner. I found it and alerted the party. So I'm waiting for them all to get there and the first guy that arrives clicks it and triggers the battle.

The remaining party members arrive to find us dead and some angry Gobs heading their way.

Rule 1. Don't touch the Beastmen Banner until everyone is ready.
 
I have been on one before. And we honestly thought we knew what we were doing. We went to Qufim which is either 30 or 35 i cant remeber exactly. After we touched the 1st beastmen banner the level cap was applied and 4 Giants Spawned or 5 Gobs appeared and we proceeded to kill them all. After they were dead we got a message that "Bastok has Gained influence within the Region" so everyone started healing still under the level cap. I found out you could remove your Level cap by touching the banner agian.

After we were all healed up we went looking for more beastmen banners. After we found another one everyone gathered buffed then we spawned the NMs agian. We proceeded to woop them. then we got the same message. "Bastok has gained influence within the region" and after about 2 hours of fighting and healing. Everyone got pissed that we only kept getting the message "Bastok has gained influence within the region" and we ended up disbanding with Bastok not haveing any more influence in Qufim than when we started.

With that all said im wondering do you have to find the next beastman banner before your level cap wears off? Or where we doing somthing wrong?

I just remeber being very mad that day.

I hope my exsperiance helps anyone
 
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