Take the Pain out of Campaign!

Ohohohoho! Why do I cast without warning?
I love the smell of Flare II in the morning!
- Shantotto, Apocalypse Now-taru

Love it or hate it, you need to keep campaigning in the Shadowreign era. Whether it's to maintain your shiny Wings of Honor or to get that next promotion, sometimes fighting the good fight gets tedious. From what I've read on how promotions work, it's partly based on how much Allied Notes you accrue during your evaluation period.

So how can you maximize the amount of Allied Notes you get with minimal effort?

1. Save all your Campaign Ops tags and wait until the next Conquest tally update.
   
2. Once JP midnight hits on Sunday (8AM for PST, 11AM for EST), get a Retrace.
   
3. Since it's the beginning of the week, you will notice that almost all the Campaign Ops missions are worth 4-5 stars! These soloable missions yield lots of exp and notes! And the higher your rank, the more you get!
   
4. Stick to the quests that require minimal time and no fighting. This means stay away from Offensive/Defensive operations, Stock and Awe, Military training, Deep Cover, etc.
   
5. Use up all your 7 Campaign Ops tags all the 4-5 star missions as soon as possible!

This really isn't a big secret. It's almost like camping your favorite crafting guild to buy the good stuff. Show up early and do those missions while they're still worth 5 stars!

If you are in the higher ranks, I recommend doing Slaughterhouse III. Here's what I do:

1. The night before, go to the homepoint of your nation [s] and set HP (usually it's a shorter walk than the mog house). Change to BLM sub or main.
   
2. Slap on a pair of Sprinter Shoes and use them for the quickening effect.
   
3. Grab the mission and teleport to a beastmen controlled region.
   
4. Find the correct ??? on the fortification, plant the bomb and wait till it explodes.
   
5. Click the ??? again to get your exp and complete the mission.
   
6. Warp and do it all over again.

If conditions are right, you can use up all your tags within 20-30 minutes. And when the mission is worth 5 stars, you can get just over 500 exp and just under 1,500 allied notes per run. That means 7 runs will net you around 3,500 exp and 10,000 Allied Notes! Eek, I hope my math is right.

If you weren't eligible for a promotion after those 7 runs, a couple of campaign battles should do the trick. And if for any reason the beastmen don't control any of the accessible regions to plant bombs at, I go for Steel Resolve II/III. For me, it's the next quickest mission, but it involves some memorization and quickness.