Mining Base

Mining base emergency quest places ARKS defending towers against serveral waves of Darker, infected tower, A.I.S Exodas (Demise), infected ARKS campship and bosses requiring teamwork and co-operation. There are crystal spawned across the maps which are used to raise points which can be spent to heal or activate barrier on the towers and defensive pad to make use of Photon Canon or turrets which disappears after use. A.I.S can be activated in Despair and Demise from defensive pad. The missions is completed when ARKS have successfully defended all or remaining towers left against all waves or can be failed when all towers are destroyed.

Mining Base Emergency Quests

Mining Base Defense: Invasion

Emergency broadcast! Numerous Darkers are approaching the outlying regions of Lillipa's primary mining base!

—ARKS Ship Announcement

This map has 3 towers and is smaller than other mining bases map.

Mining Base Defense: Intrusion

Emergency broadcast! Numerous Darkers are approaching the outlying regions of Lillipa's secondary mining base!

—ARKS Ship Announcement

This map has 5 towers and have defensive wall to hold darkers but it will eventually break down.

Mining Base Defense: Despair

Emergency broadcast! Numerous Darkers are approaching the outlying regions of Lillipa's tertitary mining base!

—ARKS Ship Announcement

This map is more difficult than MBD 1 and MBD 2. There are 4 towers spread further out but there are catapults to launch you quickly and introduction of A.I.S will make it more manageable.

Necky's Challenge

Note: This quest is unique to the Famitsu collaboration in 2016.

This quest uses the same map as Mining Base Defense: Invasion, but has much stronger enemies (including enemies from Ultimate Quests), and unlike MBD3&4, players have no access to A.I.S.

Points and Contributions

Defensive Pad

These pad are spread across the maps and used to spawn turrets, photon canon and AIS. These pad can be infected by Sorza Brahda which can be clear by spending points but if left alone, it will eventually spawn an Infected Tower and begins to charge then fire photon beam at the tower depleting the health quickly.

Turrets

Spawns turrets with 4 bars of machine gun ammo, disappears when all the ammos are used up. On higher difficulty, turrets are not very effective as mobs and bosses have more health and defense.

Photon Canon

Spawns a canon that will take several seconds to charge Photons and fires a powerful beam dealing high amount of damage. Single use.

A.I.S

Can summon and pilot A.I.S in MB 3 and MB 4, can ride up to 1 minutes and 30 seconds. Equiped with Assault Rifle, Sword and missiles launcher that fires 3 rounds and homes onto target. Photon Blaster like Photon Canon used but has long cooldown which is same as ride time.

Quest Rank Reward

Upon completing the quest, ARKS will be reward with Pleidas Stone in any Mining Base Defense EQ. Torana Stones can be obtained from Demise and Necky's Challenge, they are dropped upon breaking the crystal after quest is completed.

S Rank

2 Pleidas Stone

A Rank

1 Pleidas Stone

B Rank

No rewards

C Rank

No rewards

Advice

• After a wave is over, any remaining Goldrahdas including ones with broken back will run towards tower and self-destruct. This can be interrupted and delayed with barrier burst which will freeze them, allowing MPA to finish them off.
• Try to take down infected ARKS Campship, they will target towers or ramdom MPAs with machine guns and missiles.
• Vibrace will create a bomb and throw it towards a random tower. If this is not destroyed, the explosion can easily kill MPA that is close and destroy the tower.