Pioneer Merchant Rank Tests

February 15, 2013

Pioneer Merchant Rank Tests

For basic introduction on the pioneering system, see Pioneer Merchants. These missions are required to promote to a higher rank. A high rank increase the daily point limit, and unlock more items in the shops (provided your Favor Rate is also high enough).

Mission Information
Location: Pioneer Merchant in Auch, Coimbra, or Reboldoeux
Entry Cost: Pioneer Rank [D/C/B/A/S] Test Application x1
Participant: 1 (MCC3)
Duration: 60 minutes

Pioneer Rank Test Application can be acquired from Pioneer Merchant shops for a certain amount of (Shop) Points and Lv.9 Pioneer Seals. For the item to be available in the shops, you must meet the minimum requirement Favor Rate. For example, Rank D Test Application becomes available in the shop at 1,000 Favor Rate, and costs 500 (Shop) Points and 50 Lv.9 Pioneer Seals. See the first table here for details.

The Test Application item sold by all 3 merchants are the same, thus it does not need to come from the specific merchant for whom you want to take the test.

Currently, because T3Fun servers often have mission issues ("Cannot create mission room. Try again later.") during the 2nd half of the maintenance week, you are advised to do the tests within 2 or 3 days after maintenance. Otherwise, the item will be consumed, but the mission will fail to start. See the forum topic here.

Vent Rank D Test
The objective is to defeat Esmero Advisor. However, the advisor won't be attackable at the start. First, you need to deal with the first wave of 8 Reboldoeux Soldiers. After that, a second wave will attack you. Finally, the third wave will attack, along with Esmero Advisor. You do not need to kill the soldiers of the third wave.

Reboldoeux Soldier • Lv.100 Human • Soft Armor • None • Medium
HP 211,200 • ATK Rating 50 • ATK 4,860 • DEF Rating 50 • DEF 72
Penetration 0 • Specific Penetration - Fire 0, Ice 0, Lightning 0, Mental 0
Immunity 0 • RES - Fire 10, Ice 10, Lightning 10, Mental 10

Esmero Advisor • Lv.110 Human • Soft Armor • None • Medium
HP 1,512,000 • ATK Rating 60 • ATK 10,530 • DEF Rating 55 • DEF 97
Penetration 0 • Specific Penetration - Fire 0, Ice 0, Lightning 0, Mental 0
Immunity 0 • RES - Fire 70, Ice 70, Lightning 70, Mental 70

Rank C/B/A Tests are essentially the same. There may be more soldiers and/or tougher enemies, however.

Magia Rank D Test
Collect 5 Crystals by clicking on the crystals. Similar to mining in Castilla Mine mission, clicking on a crystal will lock your selected character while loading a green gauge bar.

If you try to collect crystals while the Crystal Frogfish is still alive, there is a chance that the collection will fail. (This is true even if you lure and tank the monster away from your other characters.) Therefore, it is advisable to kill it first. The monster can spawn eggs, which load green gauge bars. Once the bars are full, the eggs will spawn Minions.

Crystal Frogfish • Lv.100 Wildlife • Light Armor • None • Large
HP 1,848,000 • ATK Rating 52 • ATK 8,748 • DEF Rating 52 • DEF 162
Penetration 0 • Specific Penetration - Fire 0, Ice 0, Lightning 0, Mental 0
Immunity 0 • RES - Fire 30, Ice 30, Lightning 30, Mental 30

Minion • Lv.90 Wildlife • Soft Armor • None • Small
HP 45,600 • ATK Rating 45 • ATK 2,029 • DEF Rating 45 • DEF 66
Penetration 0 • Specific Penetration - Fire 0, Ice 0, Lightning 0, Mental 0
Immunity 0 • RES - Fire 15, Ice 15, Lightning 15, Mental 11

Once the Crystal Frogfish is dead, simply click on the crystals to finish collection.

Rank C/B/A Tests are similar, except that the Crystal Frogfish is more powerful, and the number of crystals required are 10/15/20 respectively.

Tempestar Rank D Test
There are 3 colors of Corridor Ceckos - red, blue, and white. The objective is to kill 100 Corridor Ceckos of a specified color (announced at the start of the mission). If you kill a monster of the wrong color, the kill count will reduce by 1 instead. So do not use weapons/stances with splash damage (e.g. shotgun).

Corridor Ceckos • Lv.100 Wildlife • Soft Armor • None • Small
HP 7,022 • ATK Rating 50 • ATK 1,131 • DEF Rating 50 • DEF 78
Penetration 0 • Specific Penetration - Fire 0, Ice 0, Lightning 0, Mental 0
Immunity 0 • RES - Fire 23, Ice 23, Lightning 23, Mental 15

If the monsters begin to cluster too closely, you may click on the Beacon (orb-like structure) to stop their attacks and scatter the monsters in all directions.