Excavation Mission Basics - Phobos Tactical Alert Vid

[Janzer]

Learn the basics of excavation missions with me on Phobos during the Shifting Sands Tactical Alert. I ran into multiple PUGs that had some players that knew exactly how to run these, and others (up to rank 9) that either didn't know how to do the mission or just didn't care?!?

 

Edited October 11, 2014 by Janzer

[Eggzodiya]

Huh... an Oberon...

 

My method was a Trinity + Excalibur. Trinity gives infinite energy, while Excalibur spams radial blind. One person kills the grineer, then helps the other person who is killing the desert skates after the grineer are all gone. If they spawn again, then he goes back on clone duty. None of us used any ultimates, mostly because we forgot to pack them or it pushed our conclave rating too high.

[AandOE]

I was Trinity, with these teammates: Loki Prime, Nyx Prime, and Saryn. We did exceedingly well, but folks kept popping in the +20 pills after it was all set for the remaining time the drills needed. My 4 'frame suggestions are to, A) Bring a healer (Trinity/Oberon), B) Bring an AoE specialist (pick one), C) Bring a CC frame (Nyx, Loki, Booben, etc), and D) Bring a barrier type (Volt, Frost, etc). As you can see, with such a low conclave mission, almost every 'frame is good to be played as, especially if folks plan it out ahead of time. That being said, this Tactical Alert was fun! The '1' on the Stratos patch has turned into a '>' looking thingy, too. >:3

[Gylukios]

First easy method I found was Ember Prime. Accelerant stuns the Grineer and the skates, letting World on Fire kill them. A bit more active than the second method.

 

Second easy method was Banshee Sound Quake. Stuns and kills everything in one package, and you don't even need to kill them if you don't have the mods to really amp up Quake. Quake will permastun (at least as far as I saw, my Banshee has intensify/blindrage so Quake killed them before long). Just sat in place at each extractor leveling buddies' stuff out to the 2k points.

 

Both of these methods chew energy like crazy though. I was dropping medium energy restores for myself, and I used about 20-25 for each run.

[JDP04]

Frost and good guns do the trick

[Virdigo]

I would say Obi for the skates, double dribble will keep everything around the digger stun locked.  Overextended ash for the hellions cause it's pretty easy to setup a 500cc bladestorm ash.  Then a nekros for lootwhoring and a trinity cause the obi will have energy troubles pretty quick.  Ran a pug on my ash pulled 1000 kills for a 2k cryotic run the obi pulled down about 800.  Unfortuanately he was burning energy pads cause we had no trinity or nekros, sniff sniff all that lost loot.