Daed gaem, empty Ship 4 base game, so lets try soloing Ultra Hard Cradle! Me as a main Etoile using only Soaring Blades, getting S Ranked Cradle solo. Baize was still intact at around 5:35, destroyed and spawned Zeshraider.
"Captions" added at the starting of the vid until start of the quest and at the end of the quest until the end of the video as some form of explanation as to what's happening; including my reasons (and/or proofs) for saying the game's dead and the amount of Excubes I got from the quest. Also should have added in the vid that I'll type the rest of the "captions" about the solo in the description here.
Anyway, I completely underestimated the amount of effort to bring down all the bosses, especially Zeshraider. Took me almost 4 minutes to defeat Zeshraider (starting at around 6:33), around 5 minutes more or less to defeat duo Dark Ragne/Gwanada (starting at around 12:24) and another 5 minutes to defeat duo Persona the Masked/Falz Arm (starting at around 17:43). So that's about 19 minutes of boss fights in about 23 minutes total quest time. Moreover, the "helicopter" in Area 2 was super annoying when soloing this quest, will have to consider that for future Cradle solos.
Still, I don't know the total "average" Excubes that I could technically obtain from soloing them with a full random UQ duration, but I'll say for now I think I can obtain more Excubes from Cradle solos than Drawn to Darkness solos...but we'll see if I can do more of these solos sometime in the future as base PSO2 continues being dead...
Kr1ze
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Timeline:
0:00 Dead game evidences
1:13 Quest start!
6:33 Zeshraider
10:06 the rest of Area 1
11:06 Area 2
12:24 Dark Ragne Gwanada duo
17:24 first duo bosses defeated
17:43 Persona Falz Arm duo
22:40 second duo bosses defeated
23:39 Quest clear!
23:53 Scoreboard, stats and equipment check
25:17 Excubes explained