Where is the current prime level 38MNK party spot to get decent EXP parties? I have just been wandering around rolanberry and khazam soloing but I am in the mood for partys
thanks
Where is the current prime level 38MNK party spot to get decent EXP parties? I have just been wandering around rolanberry and khazam soloing but I am in the mood for partys
thanks
Book burn crawler's nest, or if you don't mind gimping your skills, level sync under 20 book burn gusgen mines.
Originally Posted by Kincard
Ok I have been gone a long time from the game, book burn?
Spose I figured it out, since I went from 38 to 59 in less then an hour in crawlers O_o now I must quest for higher levels!
Last edited by Spre; 12-25-2011 at 04:41 PM.
Ok, If you havent already done so, start the quests for abyssea and get your first traverser stone key item.
Now, with that key item, go back and finish leveling your monk to 78 in crawler's nest.
Next, at 78, goto the auction house and buy the full aurore set. then, make sure you level dnc sub, and in the future ninja sub (it's more expensive so start with /dnc first)
Take your 78 mnk/dnc to cape terrigan, and skill up. You should hit 220 in skills fast, it starts slowing down after that. you can also try the boyahda tree, too. Once you hit about 220 in your h2h skill, try teaming up on mobs that are decent challenge or better to you at 78. If you can find and solo decent challenge at 78, then good for you. You may need some help because your gear and skill is a starter set.
Now, 78mnk/dnc, skilled up to around 250+ in h2h, go find any abyssea shout party in jueno that is in the following three zones: la thiene, konschtat, tahrongi, the reason for these three is because mobs are going to be closer to your skill at 250+ h2h then the heroes zones will be. And with mobs closer to your skill, you will hit them more and actually do damage instead of totally missing.
Below is a list of advice i've compossed from my own thoughts and otehr players. read it, hiope it helps, good luck, enjoy the game, and I hope you stay.
Originally Posted by Kincard
White mage is probly your best bet if you want to get into an abyssea pt w/o a veteran's help or a 75+ job. The spells are somewhat cheap compared to other mage jobs and you dont have to process weakness as much in a empyrean amor pt, plus you only need a few spells to start out for xp. You can do this at around 41/42 when White mage gets cure 4(attempt abyssea leeching without knowing someone). Granted not everyone will let you in but some leaders won't mind so long as you can cure 4 from time to time. Remember to read ahead about your 50+ caps and quests, and purchase cure 5 before you can use it, because if your in abyssea and level you and your party will want you to have that.
Beastman seals, Kindred Crests, High kindred crests, and kindred crests: when I first started playing, I tossed about 50 of these away because I was running out of storage space quick and nobody offered to explain to me what they did, or what they were worth. These are used from various things like level break quests to certain battles called BCNM, KCNM, etc, basically, head to port jueno and trade all of these seals that you have to the npc there named shami. He will store all of them for you, and you many retrieve any number of the storaged ones back from him at any time in the future by speaking with him. Also, he will convert them into different orbs which are then used at certain burning circles to enter these battlefields which drop a variety of decent gear, spells, and Auctionable Loot.
Field of Valor “Elite Training” NM: Now adays, this is worthless because the new cap has outdated it, and SE has yet to adjust or fix this system. But, when I joined it took me awhile, again because nobody would help me, to figure out what this was. You may purchase with your tabs (that you earn by completing FOV or GOV pages) these key items, you then go to a specific ??? In certain zones and trade gear, gil, or beastman seals in exchange for gil or augmented items. I don’t suggest using this now, because gear gets outdated so fast and you cant sell augmented gear to other people and have to either drop it or accept the shity rates the npc’s will pay to buy it off you. But, FYI, you trade the item to the ??? And you lose the key item and it pops a NM that you fight and upon winning drops a chest with the reward in it.
If in the future they make it so that the rewards are always positive (currently you can get some pretty crappy augments that are permeant) like the abyssea augmented gear in chests and gear from dominion op notes/trophies, and the ability to erase the augment if you don’t like it like you can with SKY augmented synergy gear, than yea, totally worth doing but as of Dec 20, 2011, don’t bother with this but it’s a little game trivia for you to know.
Happy hunting ^.-
Originally Posted by Kincard
heh I typod that I ment 49, then I hit 50 not to long after that I still need to do the quests to go higher then 50, I won't be able to do abysea untill next week when i can buy it, my local gamestop doesn;t have anything for it, so i have to wait untill I get money on my card to buy it online.
Hopefully Valkurm and khazam are still good exp party spots from 10-about 35 I think untill I can get some help with the level quests I will level my (in the first order( LV1 NIN, LVL14 DRK, LV8 RDM,)) I have a 11WHM and a 10BLM but those are on my mule that I mainly use for crafting and selling in jueno.
What sucks is everyone I knew that played FFXI quit and don't plan on playing again, I have a huge friends list I will need to delete.
Last edited by Spre; 12-26-2011 at 11:34 AM.
theres really no parties in the old camps anymore, its all book burning in crawlers nest and gusgen mines, or abyssea leeching. if u cant find anyone, come to bismarck
Originally Posted by Kincard
I found some, It just makes me wonder how newbs learn their jobs, for end game fights.
If you cant figure out the basics of your job after by lv 30(level varies but really the jobs aren't rocket science and you can get your role by lv 10 on most tbh) then it's just a case of being monumentally stupid. The same idiot who cant figure out how to engage, ws cure, etc by level 30 is stupid enough to not figure it out by lv 99 even if they exp the old way.
Oh and there are alot of abyssea shouts for leeches due to the 99 cap so now would be the best time to sneak in and gain free levels. Provided you're competent at mnk which tbh consists of engage , punch, and ws mostly the basic idea of wtf to do wont be harder to figure out if you leveled up faster.
WARNING: the following is more of a series of long term plans that just so happen to be fairly easy to get done despite looking hard once you are up there in levels.
Skillup your staff club and h2h when you're a decently high job level. get dmg one weapons from events if you can. you can still get a dmg1 club from the Christmas event right now i believe. There are fortilaces in castle Z in the wotg zones . you can engage with a dmg 1 weapon and afk there attacking it for hours while asleep ro whatever to skillup staff and club(and a little h2h but h2h hits harder) so long as you stand in a spot where you wont get aggro. By having these skilled up you can "proc" "blue" during abyssea blunt times for better drops. The fortilaces skill you up to somewhere between lv 70 and 80 skill caps.It's high enough to get the rest done on your own just via playing so its "good enough"
Full aurore is generally the sign of a complete noob so i'd avoid wearing it. Get your brown belt quested, save up your kindred seals because SE made your black belt near impossible to get.
The following is some tp gear suggestions.
Buy some fuma kyahan since 3% haste is better than the 2% on aurore feet.
Get a brisk mask since you presumably cant get a walmart turban. it drops off glaviod which you're going to want dead for abyssea boss kills anyway and can be easily done if you manage to find competent friends.
Neck is gonna be a rancor collar once you can afford it. Ziel charm should cover you for neck and you can go duo it with a whm while proccing blue for a decent shot at it. If you've done cop by this point as you should since it's easy as hell now you can also try for a faith torque.
Thew bomblet is cheap and you can buy or kill the NM for it.
Work on limbus kills for beastcoins to buy a brutal if you dont wish to buy them with gil. Bcnm drops raised in price by huge amounts so you could sell off utsu ni for a mil or whatever for your gil to buy AH items. kill omega for the atma you can get in abyssea which can tide you over until you have apoc atma.
Body options are a bit hard for you to obtain off the bat I suppose so I guess you can slum it with pink aurore body. It beats most of the old options anyway. Provided you got your atma Loki's kaftan should be semi easy to kill the NM for and will destroy aurore body. Ok.. it's probably harder at lower levels but provided you have a competent whm, those blue procs i told you about before and enough patience you can just kill the NM over again until it drops via duo.
Aurore hands are tolerable until you have better gear with more haste.
ring 1 should be rajas. seriously just stomp COP and get it.I'll let you figure out ring2 to use for now until you obtain an epona's ring from rani.
Best back is altheling for now but get a good DD back until then.Belt is duh and hope you get lucky on ks99.
Legs can be b haidate since its really easy to kills/farm now but you can get tantra legs now too. levels make a ton fo difference. if you have a ls by then you can drag 2~3 people(assuming competence which si a rare commodity) and just kill the gods within seconds. http://wiki.bluegartr.com/bg/Synergy is some motivation to give them for coming if nothing else. You can also take advantage of the synergy augments to old sky/kings gear so unlock it for yourself too.
Work on your nyzul isle climbing because ascetics fury is your best bet inside abyssea where you will spend alot of time until you get victory smite. While on that note work on your empy weapon asap unless you plan to solo in dynamis for relic knuckles. It's still faster to do vereth imo so I personally think you should just do that then you can work on relic knuckles if you're bored or like dynamis.If nothing else it'll be a source of gil to you if you get the hand of solo/lowmanning in there. There are various other h2h that can tide you over until then. Oh right don't forget to flag voidwatch stone collection. It sucks and is horrible because it went back to SE's old methods of 1% drop rates combined with people whom already got the drop getting the drop over and over again while not being able to even give it to anyone else. You're going to hate it and tbh if you aren't using it for the drops to sell mnk can luckily unlike everyone else generally ignore it as far as having an amazing drop you want but cant get goes. It's an easy source of cruor so you can at least use it for that.
Oh and dont forget your empy+2 gear for mnk since itll destroy most of the other stuff for tp.
There's also(physical damage taken) pdt and (magical damage taken)mdt gear. in short you wear pdt gear when not punching or when something hits REALLY hard and you dont want to die before being cured. mdt gear is for when you're gonna be hit with something magical.If you get enough of it you can actually cap haste while meleeing in mdt gear vs something that spams alot of magic damge on you. the caps are 50% in damage taken. shell V is 25~26% ish mdt mdt which means you only need about 24% to get the maximum reduction in damage. That leaves more room for DD gear.
Last edited by Khajit; 12-29-2011 at 12:00 PM.
They dont alot of the time lol. I have been in a pt with a 95 pup who didnt know what an attachment was, a 90 smn with only carby, a 95 thf who had no clue what th was and any newb thf couldnt tell u what sata is for 10m gil. And forget about sch knowing what the heck to do with weather or stratagems. That being said endgame doesnt really take much skill nowadays anyway. CoP has no lvl caps anymore and you can burn thru most content with a handful of ppl. And not ALL newbs are this bad but they are more abundant then you would think.
Just need to forget the xi of old and try to enjoy it in its new incarnation
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