This mission is, indeed, a lot of fun.
Basically you have to find Sagelord Mamool Ja without getting aggro and/or too many links from his Mamool Ja soldiers, causing you to spend unneeded time eliminating them as well, thus running out of time.
Sagelord is randomly placed in the beginning on the map, and having a Ranger or Beastmaster with widescan/scan would save a lot of time tracking him initially down, although it's not needed (we didn't have one). A BLM, RDM, or BRD is also recommended since it can possibly get mucky with surrounding Mamool Ja's that link to Sagelord. The Mamool Ja adds would probably check as VTs if they were not classified as Assault NMs since their resistance and fighting abilities are comparative to VT mobs at lvl 75. They also have relatively high evasion as well as hit quite hard.
This mission is not all that hard, and it's a lot of fun. I think it could most definitely be triod, however I'd recommend a comfortable setup would be 4 people: composed of 1 tank, 1 voker DD, a healer, and a Sleeper.
Defeating Sagelord spawns Rune & Chest.
Edited, Jan 17th 2007 10:23pm by Hotpeppa