Finding Faults  

Soloed the Troll task as a 75BST/37NIN.
Any Mountain Clot will make this PUP NM a joke, even my DC slime was hitting it
for 100s and taking 10-20 damage in return. It got slightly more complicated when it summoned its pet and the automaton managed to steal hate by hitting ~40s. I would suggest letting your pet get hate at this point and assist it when you can do so safely. You may wish to avoid this at night, I believe ghosts spawn in the area nearby.
Soloed the Lamia task as a 75BST/37WHM.
Charm a T-VT fly and familiar. Once again it should be a piece of cake, the spawn area is nearby some treants and you may need to have sneak or silent oils to be able to reach the Peculiar Plants. I've also done this via 3~4 Oil Slicks if one's 2hr is down.

Soloed the Mamool Ja task as a 75BST/37NIN
This part was more troublesome of the 3 as you have to run through Mamook to get to E-13 in Wajoam Woodlands. I went in through the E-12 entrance in Wajoam which starts you off at M-9 in Mamook. Be wary as you cross from L-9 to K-9 as there are two True sight NMs there guarding an Archaic Mirror that don't really stop much. Your goal is to reach the exit at L-10 to get to the ???.

The NM itself is also slightly more annoying than the others since it is a BLU type. I used familiar on a nearby Woodland Runner upon exiting Mamook and meleed with it. The mob has shown the following moves in its ******* when I fought it:

1000 Needles
Awful Eye
Claw Cyclone
Cocoon
Feather Tickle
Filamented Hold
Forceful Blow
Hydro Shot
Infrasonics
Jet Stream
MP Drainkiss
Pinecone Bomb
Radiant Breath (Did 1.5k to pet)
Sandspray
Sandspin
Screwdriver
Sickle Slash
Soporific
Sound Blast
Sprout Smack
Terror Touch
Voracious Trunk
Wild Oats
Yawn


As for the weakness part, all 3 I more or less had to guess on- it was relatively difficult to do much with my pet tanking and generally my subjob was needed to get to the destination. I think the Landing, Low Str or Sluggish Movement one is generally a good choice if you don't know- I'm 1/2 at best on these.

*EDIT* I think you have to be 2/2 on both weaknesses for all 3 beastmen types to be able to open Art of War, I'm currently 1/2 on all 3 and can't flag it but I will try again later.

*EDIT* Ignore the last bit on the guessing, it's more or less random on which choices are correct. As a side note, if you can test the "elements" via magic be careful NOT to use a WS of the same element (and very careful that your mob isn't using an elemental type move via Sic) as it will also intimidate but under the category "A certain Element" instead of a WS.

*EDIT* There seem to be a LOT of spawn points for a certain irritants, I'm not sure if some have the same message.

*EDIT* Just cleared all 3 quests 2/2 on weaknesses and I still can't flag "The Art of War" after the conquest tally...

*EDIT* Several months later.. I'm finally able to flag the next quest after being promoted to Superior Private

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