Category:Meeble Burrows

Enslaved by the moblins to dig a series of tunnels, the meebles want no business with humans. Meebles generally only allow their moblin masters into the burrows; however, researchers have come up with a solution. Taking advantage of meebles' notoriously poor vision, a carefully crafted concoction of moblin pheromones will trick the guardian meeble, Vrednev, into thinking players are moblins, allowing them to enter the burrows and take part in expeditions within.

Meeble Burrows is a reserved battlefield event within Ghoyu's Reverie, Ruhotz Silvermines, and Everbloom Hollow, very similar to Assault in the Aht Urhgan areas, divided into separate missions known as "expeditions." Each expedition has a very different goal, many of which do not directly involve defeating enemies. Expeditions are split across five ranks (plus one bonus expedition after completing all five ranks), and each rank has five levels of expeditions culminating in a boss fight against one of several unique Notorious Monsters. This code and information has been copied verbatim from the BlueGartr Wiki.

Requirements
The requirements to participate in expeditions are:
 * Wings of the Goddess expansion pack installed
 * 3-6 party members
 * Grimoire for recording progress
 * Grimoires can be purchased from the Burrow Investigator or Burrow Researcher for 2,000 gil or 200 Research Marks.
 * Moblin pheromone sack
 * A moblin pheromone sack is required for each participating player and they regenerate at a rate of one per 20 hours Earth time. One can be held by the player, and up to four more stashed by the NPCs.

There is no level requirement to enter Meeble Burrows, and all Meeble Burrows expeditions have a time restriction of 15 minutes.

How to participate
The entrance into Meeble Burrows areas is located in Sauromugue Champaign at (J-8). The NPC Burrow Investigator in Upper Jeuno (I-8) can transport players to the burrows at no cost by choosing the option "Head to the burrows."

In order to choose a Meeble Burrows expedition and record completion progress, players in the group must purchase a Grimoire for recording progress (currently, only the Avidity Grimoire and Diligence Grimoire are available, though Gallantry Grimoire, Militance Grimoire, and Sanctity Grimoire may be made available in the future). Players may use different Grimoires for different missions if they wish to record progress separately.

The Burrow Investigator in Upper Jeuno and the Burrow Researcher in Sauromugue Champaign serve some of the same functions:
 * Purchase a Grimoire for 2,000 gil or 200 Research Marks.
 * Purchase a selection of items for varying amounts of Research Marks.
 * Check moblin pheromones stock.
 * Ask questions about the rules of Meeble Burrows.

After purchasing a grimoire, it can be traded to the Burrow Researcher in return for a Moblin pheromone sack, if one is available and not already in possession, and a Grimoire page. The researcher retains the grimoire and will add your progress recorded to the Grimoire page at the end of the expedition prior to returning the grimoire.

Once the Grimoire page has been obtained, the Burrow Researcher takes on additional functions:
 * Choose an expedition to take part in.
 * Check expedition eligibility (this option also allows you to check expedition goals).
 * Retrieve the grimoire item.

Expedition #1 in each of the first five expedition ranks is immediately available, but expeditions within each rank must be cleared in order. Expeditions #1 through #4 of any rank can be cleared repeatedly, if desired, but once expedition #5 of any rank is cleared, all accumulated progress on that grimoire will be reset. Clearing expeditions higher than #1 will open that level of expedition in lower ranks, but all expeditions from level #1 through #4 of one rank must be completed to unlock the 5th expedition. For example, clearing Assistant Expedition 2 will unlock Adjunct Expedition 2 without having to first complete Adjunct Expedition 1. This feature can be used to obtain specific status boons from individual expeditions of other ranks prior to embarking on a level 5 expedition. This code and information has been copied verbatim from the BlueGartr Wiki.

When an expedition is cleared successfully (at any goal level), its completion will be recorded in the grimoire and a status buff associated with that expedition will also be recorded in the player's grimoire for future expeditions. Repeating the same expedition will increase the level of that status buff for future runs, up to level 3 maximum after three completions.

Once the group has settled on an expedition, the party leader alone must choose the expedition in which to take part. As such, only the party leader needs to meet the prerequisites for entering a particular expedition.

For level 5 expeditions, however, all party members must meet the prerequisites (completed the first four expeditions of that rank) and choose to participate at the Burrow Researcher, as completing the level 5 expedition requires forfeiting your current grimoire and losing all recorded progress and status buffs (whether or not the level 5 expedition is completed successfully, the grimoire will be lost). A new, blank grimoire will be provided automatically by the Burrow Researcher after the expedition has ended.

Successfully completing a level 5 expedition:
 * Clears all grimoire progress on the grimoire held by the Burrow Researcher.
 * Rewards potential drops associated with the boss of that expedition rank.
 * Unlocks access to new items purchaseable with Research Marks.
 * Rewards a key item unique to that expedition rank
 * Once all five of these key items are obtained, the final expedition (Researcher Emeritus 1) may be attempted.

After choosing an expedition, the leader should speak to the nearby Meeble Vrednev to enter the burrows. All party members will be brought into the area simultaneously as long as the area is not occupied by another group.

Expedition Information
Upon entry into an expedition, the Moblin pheromone sack will be expended immediately. Once inside the expedition area, the goals will be displayed for all players, and a Speleological Handbook will be present allowing players to re-check the goals of the current expedition as well as to check any boons currently being bestowed to them by their party leader's grimoire based on past progress (Note: for level 5 expeditions, since all grimoires are consumed, all boons from each player's grimoire will be given to every player in the party). Each expedition has three goals of increasing difficulty and completing higher goals within an expedition yields more research marks; however, the status boon will be rewarded for future runs as long as the first goal is completed. If a player already has a particular status boon recorded to their grimoire and successfully repeats an expedition, the level of that status boon will be increased by one, up to a maximum of level 3 (the levels of Auto-Reraise and "Bonus to spoils" cannot be increased past level 1).

Upon entering the zone, players will be given the temporary item Hiatus Whistle which can be used to exit the user from the area at any time during the run. When any goal is completed, it will be announced immediately in the chat log. At this point, players will receive a Terminus Whistle which can be used to end the expedition and remove the entire party from the area, although they may choose to continue the expedition to attempt to complete more goals. This code and information has been copied verbatim from the BlueGartr Wiki.

To end an expedition successfully, players must use one of the two whistles to exit the area; the completion of goals and award of Research Marks are recorded as soon as a whistle is used, just before exiting the zone. Timing out or leaving in any other manner (Warping, home pointing, etc.) will count as failure.

During many expeditions, players will find a Soothing Strongbox which restores the HP and MP of all party members.

Note that aggressive monsters in Meeble Burrows are true aggro, so Sneak and Invisible will have no effect.

Guide Maps
The Meeble Burrows guide maps below are intended to complement the information on the individual expedition pages and may not contain all information necessary to fully understand a particular expedition.

Rewards
In addition to items which may drop from enemies defeated within Meeble Burrows, players are also rewarded with Research Marks at the end of any successful expedition. Research Marks can be redeemed for a variety of items and unique equipment at either the Burrow Researcher or Burrow Investigator NPCs.

Research Marks
The numbers in the table below represent the sum reward of Research Marks to a group of players at the end of an expedition.

The total reward from the table below is divided by the number of party members and distributed evenly to each participant (rounded down to the nearest whole number). For example, completing an Instructor expedition at goal 3 with 6 party members will yield 1333 research marks each (8000/6).

Equipment
The following table shows the equipment rewards unique to Meeble Burrows. More than half of the available equipment drops from bosses in level 5 expeditions, and the remainder is purchaseable with research marks from the Burrow Researcher or Burrow Investigator after completing the associated rank of Meeble Burrows expeditions:

''Note: The table below is incomplete; the locations of some Meeble Burrows rewards have not yet been identified. See Meeble Burrows/Rewards for a detailed list of equipment rewards, including stats and drop locations.''