Recently returned but having trouble getting into post 99 content, please advise ...

Hi all,

I recently returned from a semi long hiatus. I currently have a lvl 99 RDM, DRG, MNK, and WAR.

I know two people who still play the game regularly on a different server, and they had mentioned the game has changed a lot. Things apparently are much more casual than before, and gearing up / getting through content has become more doable.

I have found some of this to be true, but at times many of the same barriers that FFXI had before -- barriers that largely influenced the degree to which I enjoyed this game -- still remain.

Earlier today I was in Juno trying to figure out how to gear up my characters given where I am, and where the game is currently (I have completed Rhapsodies and have my RDM at Reforged AF+1). I shouted for 30 min and spoke with both my LSs but received no response to my question regarding how to obtain some kind of upgrade to the gear I currently have. After about an hour someone responded and told me to do this new content called Ambuscade.

So I decided to get my only decently geared job (RDM) and shout for groups. I come to find out that RDM doesn't appear to be used in Ambuscade groups -- hello job exclusion my old friend -- and that I likely will need to level a WHM or PLD in order to participate.

One of the reasons why this game has been very difficult for me to get into, and why I've only ever been in "end game" once since starting the game in 2004 is the fact that I simply haven't been able to just play the jobs I want to play. It seems like every time I come back (with the rare exception when Monk was actually a boss in Abyssea content) I have had a very hard time getting the jobs I want to play to participate in post 99 content.

I've been in school since I originally began playing this game, and usually only have the winter break and maybe a month in the summer to play. I started this game in my senior year of high school in 2004, and am now in my 2nd year of doctoral studies. I don't really have ample time to level new jobs at this point, and I was hoping that I could take advantage of my winter break to gear up and enjoy playing some of my favorite jobs (i.e., RDM / DRG / MNK).

At this point my question is, will I be able to participate / join groups to do some of the post 99 content with the jobs I currently have leveled (assuming all except RDM have sparks gear at best)?

Other than leveling new jobs, is there anything you all would recommend I do to increase my chances of participating in post 99 content? Would making my own parties (as I did during the bad old "drg hate" days of 04) yield more positive results in terms of Ambuscade groups, or would most people likely not want to play with the classes I currently have at 99?

Lastly, is this game perhaps just not something that I should be playing at this point? For those of you who have played FFXIV, would I be better off giving that a try if I'm looking for a more straightforward Final Fantasy MMO experience that I can jump in and out of during winter and summer breaks?

Thanks!

The more things change, the more they stay the same. You can do Ambuscade alone if no one lets you join, but I feel there are a few other things that can be done for gear. Sinister Reign, Skirmish, and Delve have decent gear, but aren't really "On par" with stuff they released recently. But I'm sure if you can get a good MB set for your RDM you should be about to join most things that require magical DMG. Starting next week is an EXP Campaign so you should be able to level another job quickly if you so choose to. (WHM, BLM, SCH, PLD, RUN, GEO seem to be the flavors of the game currently) With all the extra trusts they have for Login and coming up next week, you'll be in a good spot with those. There's also a DRG in my LS that goes to events and does extremely well damage wise, of course he is a Master DRG. I've been soloing stuff on my SMN, with a handful of things I join in my LS (Though I have a tread lately to screw those up).

But most of the things require gear, but when I went through, I followed the flow pattern as it came out:

1.) Sparks Gear
2.) Reforged AF
3.) Skirmish
4.) Reforged Relic
5.) Delve/Alluvion Skirmish
6.) Unity
7.) Reforged Emp 109
8.) Sinister Reign
9.) Vagary
10.) Reforges Emp 119
11.) Escha NMs
12.) Ambuscade
13.) Omen

Some of these will require other players to get things done, but you can get good stuff that can be extremely useful. Omen should be your goal, even though it's not really my favorite right now. But reforging Relic, and Emp should be another goal, because I feel they are also going to get reforged to +2 and +3 like the AF.

Others might offer better advice, but I just do the stepping stones for the most part.

As for 14, I started it and then left and found myself struggling to catch up again when I came back. Very similar to FFXI, but their Cross Server party finder does come in handy when you're looking for help and can't find it.

Sparks gear is completely unusuable garbage, get rid of it asap.

RDM is very hard to gear up because this months ambu doesn't give gear for it and psycloth gear is awful for mages, the only usable mage gear doesn't exist until merlinc which is at the end of the tier of progression you'll be doing inside of reisen. (you missed jhakri ambu month so you're screwed for months, nice design SE)

You'll want to get despair set from t1 escha-zitah(https://www.bg-wiki.com/bg/Category:...a_-_Zi.27Tah_4) for melee RDM and eventually try to work on augmented taeon gear with triple attack from alluvion skirmish or some carmine abjuration set from escha-ruan(https://www.bg-wiki.com/bg/Carmine_Armor_Set), most notably the pants. I recommend either RDM/NIN or RDM/WAR(fencer bonus + berserk). /WAR might be your best option simply because RDM's attack is obscenely low without outside support and savage blade hits hard with fencer(even only rank1 fencer) Melee is RDM's best role atm and should be the preferred/proper way to play in a lot of situations, melee while doing supporty things like haste2/refresh/dia3/distract/addle and only casting para on darkness magic bursts and curing in emergency situations ONLY.

Most of these enemies aren't very hard to kill but I don't think you can solo them as RDM even with trusts, I suggest making friends or finding 1 or 2 other people(you shouldn't need more than 2 more people) to tackle these NMs:

https://www.bg-wiki.com/bg/Angrboda :
This guy is kind of tricky. He's basically a DPS race so keep up barfire and stoneskin and try zerg him down asap once he gets sub 50%, and especially sub 50%. He starts to spam a high AOE fire based attack called volcanic wrath which gives you max HP down, and at 10%(I think, or 5%) he'll use it and it will have a VERY VERY long cast time(I think there's some mechanic of casting water nukes reduces the damage of this, but I have no idea) and it'll basically 1 shot all trusts + nearly 1 shot all players, so he has to die asap after using this because he'll continue to spam it. He also has crystal rain which is single target fire damage and hurts bad, as well as heavy strike which he will combo with mighty strikes(100% crit rate) and can 1 shot un-prepared players.

Personally I did him as DRK/SAM + WHM/SCH and 4 trusts(koru, seltheus, shantotto, ulmnia) and with arcane circle(4:30 uptime on 5 minute cooldown) and arcane crest plus keeping up seigan + thirdeye for heavy strikes the entire time and swapping to PDT gear for heavy strikes and MDT gear for crytal weapon/volcanic wrath he was easily(but stressfully) doable in full reforged af+1 DRK gear. I would save arcane crest for sub 50%(when he starts to use volcanic wrath) and arcane circle around 80% or so, making his attacks very managably cured by a WHM player. I did not try him with apururu or yoran so I'm not sure if they're capable of healing it. The body this guy drops is worth augmenting to max ASAP.

https://www.bg-wiki.com/bg/Ferrodon

I have no idea how to fight this guy and had a vajra thief 1 shot him for me. He wasn't very scary I suggest trying to dispel his boiling blood and zerging him down asap, perhaps try to spam water nukes backline with a staff to remove his stacks and proc him or MB a high tier water nuke on him.

https://www.bg-wiki.com/bg/Gestalt

This guy is super annoying. Even with a vajra thief 2 shotting him he was annoying, I suggest subbing rune,keeping up stoneskin and running away whenever he chainspells(80/60/40/20% hp) and spam curing the tank until it fades. Turn away when he cast dread spikes IMMEDIATELY or you will die asap and watch out for curse + impact combo which can 1 shot the tank, especially during chainspell. The easiest way to kill him is to zerg him down, notice the trend? These mobs are super scary but killing them asap is the best tool for dealing with them, imo.

https://www.bg-wiki.com/bg/Cunnast
Fought this guy with a vajra thief as well, but he wasn't that bad. He can randomly conal 1 shot with breaths and has an AOE paralyze. Might want to RDM/SCH for this guy and help paralyna. Not too bad to deal with if your tank has a decent amount of -DT or -breath damage taken gear and rune subjob. Keep the tank topped off and keep paralyna off anyone in range of it. Simple.

https://www.bg-wiki.com/bg/Revetaur
Haven't fought. Good luck. I assume using a trust to tank him while you zerg him down might be the best option.

For caster gear you'll want vanya legs(until you can get psycloth legs and augment them), psycloth body, psycloth gloves and reforge +1 RDM hat as well as relic +1 boots(kinda expensive). I'm not sure what a better option for boots are. Get 2x shiva rings for nuking and leviathan/aquasoul/Mediator's Ring for enfeebles. Try to get this staff asap as it's the best you'll be using for a WHILE:
https://www.bg-wiki.com/bg/Marin_Staff it drops from https://www.bg-wiki.com/bg/Vedrfolnir which is pretty annoying to fight TBH:

He spams stormwind(wind damage?) a bunch of times then ends the combo with a deadly dive which is 1.2k+ damage + stun on a single target(conal?) but the most annoying part is he casts feather barrier which gives him OBSCENE evasion and you won't be removing this without a blue mage or bard with light dispel. I personally don't even know if their dispels work because I didn't try but normal dispel/darkness dispel is completely unreliable. Shield/full break causes his feather barrier to have "no effect" but since he's wind based it's unreliable to stick the debuff for any extended amount of time. He is also basically immune to distract since it's wind based. A RDM/BLM using elemental seal to remove feather barrier is a reliable way to remove feather barrier but it has a long cooldown and he might recast it again after. Weapon skills seem to proc him and freeze him but it's random and not reliable. Best way to deal with him is just to zerg him down asap and I duod him NIN + WAR with trusts.

If you have problems getting marin staff from him use your https://www.bg-wiki.com/bg/Kupon_W-SRW to pick up https://www.bg-wiki.com/bg/Lehbrailg_%2B2.

Cure potency gear is easy, buy a Nefer Kalasiris off the AH for cheap, get a roundel earring off AH(can try to find someone selling these via /yell) and a https://www.bg-wiki.com/bg/Mendi._Earring off https://www.bg-wiki.com/bg/Tangata_Manu which is a joke of a boss that doesn't really do anything scary and proccing it with Blizzard nukes/magic bursts seems to disable the scary status effects on it's harpy TP moves. I personally tanked it on DRK/SAM and duod it with a WHM + trusts. Strong to light skillchains, use darkness. Then pick up a Chatoyant Staff off the AH as well as a Tempered Cape, a sirona's ring and Ephedra Ring. You can also use your reforge AF1+1 pants for cure potency(BIS).

This should be enough gear to get you started. Don't listen to people who say you can't play X job, and need to be Y. Play what you like and what you want. RDM isn't the best job in the game but it's WORKABLE and PLAYABLE and if you put in the effort(get good at melee rdm!) it's a very useful job to have and is very helpful to have around. Play the strengths of RDM and know when to melee and when to /SCH backline.

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I also forgot. Make sure you to do ambuscade(can do it with a few pieces of despair on normal/easy for volume 2) to get your JSE cape every month. Get a redmage cape asap and put 20 acc/20 attk, 10% double attack and 20 DEX on it.

I suggest you remove the colons from those monster links.

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Originally Posted by Shiyo

Sparks gear is completely unusuable garbage, get rid of it asap.

RDM is very hard to gear up because this months ambu doesn't give gear for it and psycloth gear is awful for mages, the only usable mage gear doesn't exist until merlinc which is at the end of the tier of progression you'll be doing inside of reisen. (you missed jhakri ambu month so you're screwed for months, nice design SE)

You'll want to get despair set from t1 escha-zitah(https://www.bg-wiki.com/bg/Category:...a_-_Zi.27Tah_4) for melee RDM and eventually try to work on augmented taeon gear with triple attack from alluvion skirmish or some carmine abjuration set from escha-ruan(https://www.bg-wiki.com/bg/Carmine_Armor_Set), most notably the pants. I recommend either RDM/NIN or RDM/WAR(fencer bonus + berserk). /WAR might be your best option simply because RDM's attack is obscenely low without outside support and savage blade hits hard with fencer(even only rank1 fencer) Melee is RDM's best role atm and should be the preferred/proper way to play in a lot of situations, melee while doing supporty things like haste2/refresh/dia3/distract/addle and only casting para on darkness magic bursts and curing in emergency situations ONLY.

Most of these enemies aren't very hard to kill but I don't think you can solo them as RDM even with trusts, I suggest making friends or finding 1 or 2 other people(you shouldn't need more than 2 more people) to tackle these NMs:

https://www.bg-wiki.com/bg/Angrboda:
This guy is kind of tricky. He's basically a DPS race so keep up barfire and stoneskin and try zerg him down asap once he gets sub 50%, and especially sub 50%. He starts to spam a high AOE fire based attack called volcanic wrath which gives you max HP down, and at 10%(I think, or 5%) he'll use it and it will have a VERY VERY long cast time(I think there's some mechanic of casting water nukes reduces the damage of this, but I have no idea) and it'll basically 1 shot all trusts + nearly 1 shot all players, so he has to die asap after using this because he'll continue to spam it. He also has crystal rain which is single target fire damage and hurts bad, as well as heavy strike which he will combo with mighty strikes(100% crit rate) and can 1 shot un-prepared players.

Personally I did him as DRK/SAM + WHM/SCH and 4 trusts(koru, seltheus, shantotto, ulmnia) and with arcane circle(4:30 uptime on 5 minute cooldown) and arcane crest plus keeping up seigan + thirdeye for heavy strikes the entire time and swapping to PDT gear for heavy strikes and MDT gear for crytal weapon/volcanic wrath he was easily(but stressfully) doable in full reforged af+1 DRK gear. I would save arcane crest for sub 50%(when he starts to use volcanic wrath) and arcane circle around 80% or so, making his attacks very managably cured by a WHM player. I did not try him with apururu or yoran so I'm not sure if they're capable of healing it. The body this guy drops is worth augmenting to max ASAP.

https://www.bg-wiki.com/bg/Ferrodon:

I have no idea how to fight this guy and had a vajra thief 1 shot him for me. He wasn't very scary I suggest trying to dispel his boiling blood and zerging him down asap, perhaps try to spam water nukes backline with a staff to remove his stacks and proc him or MB a high tier water nuke on him.

https://www.bg-wiki.com/bg/Gestalt:

This guy is super annoying. Even with a vajra thief 2 shotting him he was annoying, I suggest subbing rune,keeping up stoneskin and running away whenever he chainspells(80/60/40/20% hp) and spam curing the tank until it fades. Turn away when he cast dread spikes IMMEDIATELY or you will die asap and watch out for curse + impact combo which can 1 shot the tank, especially during chainspell. The easiest way to kill him is to zerg him down, notice the trend? These mobs are super scary but killing them asap is the best tool for dealing with them, imo.

https://www.bg-wiki.com/bg/Cunnast:
Fought this guy with a vajra thief as well, but he wasn't that bad. He can randomly conal 1 shot with breaths and has an AOE paralyze. Might want to RDM/SCH for this guy and help paralyna. Not too bad to deal with if your tank has a decent amount of -DT or -breath damage taken gear and rune subjob. Keep the tank topped off and keep paralyna off anyone in range of it. Simple.

https://www.bg-wiki.com/bg/Revetaur:
Haven't fought. Good luck. I assume using a trust to tank him while you zerg him down might be the best option.

For caster gear you'll want vanya legs(until you can get psycloth legs and augment them), psycloth body, psycloth gloves and reforge +1 RDM hat as well as relic +1 boots(kinda expensive). I'm not sure what a better option for boots are. Get 2x shiva rings for nuking and leviathan/aquasoul/Mediator's Ring for enfeebles. Try to get this staff asap as it's the best you'll be using for a WHILE:
https://www.bg-wiki.com/bg/Marin_Staff it drops from https://www.bg-wiki.com/bg/Vedrfolnir which is pretty annoying to fight TBH:

He spams stormwind(wind damage?) a bunch of times then ends the combo with a deadly dive which is 1.2k+ damage + stun on a single target(conal?) but the most annoying part is he casts feather barrier which gives him OBSCENE evasion and you won't be removing this without a blue mage or bard with light dispel. I personally don't even know if their dispels work because I didn't try but normal dispel/darkness dispel is completely unreliable. Shield/full break causes his feather barrier to have "no effect" but since he's wind based it's unreliable to stick the debuff for any extended amount of time. He is also basically immune to distract since it's wind based. A RDM/BLM using elemental seal to remove feather barrier is a reliable way to remove feather barrier but it has a long cooldown and he might recast it again after. Weapon skills seem to proc him and freeze him but it's random and not reliable. Best way to deal with him is just to zerg him down asap and I duod him NIN + WAR with trusts.

If you have problems getting marin staff from him use your https://www.bg-wiki.com/bg/Kupon_W-SRW to pick up https://www.bg-wiki.com/bg/Lehbrailg_%2B2.

Cure potency gear is easy, buy a Nefer Kalasiris off the AH for cheap, get a roundel earring off AH(can try to find someone selling these via /yell) and a https://www.bg-wiki.com/bg/Mendi._Earring off https://www.bg-wiki.com/bg/Tangata_Manu which is a joke of a boss that doesn't really do anything scary and proccing it with Blizzard nukes/magic bursts seems to disable the scary status effects on it's harpy TP moves. I personally tanked it on DRK/SAM and duod it with a WHM + trusts. Strong to light skillchains, use darkness. Then pick up a Chatoyant Staff off the AH as well as a Tempered Cape, a sirona's ring and Ephedra Ring. You can also use your reforge AF1+1 pants for cure potency(BIS).

This should be enough gear to get you started. Don't listen to people who say you can't play X job, and need to be Y. Play what you like and what you want. RDM isn't the best job in the game but it's WORKABLE and PLAYABLE and if you put in the effort(get good at melee rdm!) it's a very useful job to have and is very helpful to have around. Play the strengths of RDM and know when to melee and when to /SCH backline.

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Hi there,

Thank you very much for such a fantastic and informative reply! I am just wondering at this point what the order of things I should do is. Is the order you put these at the order I Should aim to go by doing them? So first dispair set from Zi Tah, then the abjuration set, etc.?

Second, I'm not entirely sure what augmenting is ... is that basically turning it to +1?

I think giving you a bit more detail regarding my gear would help as well.

I have the full +1 RDM atrophy set right now (no gear to swap with just this set and sparks) as well as the Niburu Blade and some pre Rhapsodies accessories.

That RDM is currently my best geared job. Of the above things you mentioned, can I do the despair or abjuration set solo with NPCs? I don't really know anyone that would be willing to spend a lot of time helping me get this gear if needed. I have a rl friend who is playing alongside me but he is only a lvl 80 DRK currently.

Thanks so much!

Help your RL friend get up to level 99, you'll have a way easier time duoing stuff than soloing it, just gotta find the right set up with trusts that work for you both - but trust DPS sucks so having a RL player to help you with DPS is going to be really key to getting anything done. Try to get your friend up ASAP - power level them in escha zitah if you can and they are willing - and then do some escha NMs during the trust 50% +MP +HP campaign as that will increase your chances. Even if your friend has awful gear it's going to be better than a trust DPS.

You both should check out if there are any unity NMs that drop half decent accessories and stuff for your characters - there is a good accuracy back that isn't too hard to get for example. Also ambuscade has job specific capes that can be augmented with whatever you need, so it's worth doing even if that month's gear set isn't something you need ASAP.

Also be sure to do alluvion skirmish there is really good stuff there and the upcoming campaign will make it pretty easy to get pick ups because the stones are worth quite a bit still. Worth using your copper vouchers to get obsidian fragments or w/e and buying the pops and offering free pops while doing the book. I've found it not too hard to find people to join up if you pay for the pop set. If you're on book your gear doesn't matter. My advice is if things start to look even a tiny bit bad KEY - better to stop a run too soon and still get stuff then to lose everything. In my experience that will ruin a run the fastest... hopefully you have a lot of vouchers cause running book on [A] skirmish will eat your fragments up real quick, but it's a great way to get some good gear drops - especially since most people who will join your run will probably have the base gear and be looking for stones. Though Taeon (which you need) tends to be the most popular (because it's the best of the sets).

Really though if you can work with a friend you're going to have a way easier time. Unfortunately pick ups are the least friendly for returning folks that I've ever seen them - and LSes don't tend to invest in members really. So, you're best bet is to try to find other folks in the same situation and work together to advance. Good luck!

You should be getting escha-zitah gear first thing, then work on carmine gear and taeon.
I do not think you can solo the NM's, you will need at least 1 and perhaps 2 other people.
I'm not sure what you're offhanding but this is a good offhand: https://www.bg-wiki.com/bg/Demersal_Degen
It drops from this guy:
https://www.bg-wiki.com/bg/Bakunawa
He is pretty annoying to deal with and can actually 1 shot even paladin tanks because his aura makes you incapable of blocking until you light skillchain and remove it. I personally tanked him and had a vajra thief 2 shot him with TA + WS and SA + WS doing 100% of it's HP. It's probably mandatory that you want some type of tank job for him(preferably paladin) because him and his adds attack so fast and can attack many times in a row(8?) as well as cross-strike for 500-1k+ damage. A decently geared(ochain + 35%+ PDT) paladin and some DD job should be able to duo him with trusts reliably. Barwater + stoneskin + blink will help you survive maelstrom(it's aoe attack). Make sure the paladin pops it so the adds + boss aggros him over you and to not stay by the paladin on pop because it always opens with maelstrom. Maelstrom causes it to resummon adds so its best to ignore them.


Augmenting is going to norg, talking to nolan and trading him the armor you want to augment(one at a time) then trading him x number of eschalixirs to fully augment it.

https://www.bg-wiki.com/bg/Nolan

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I also forgot. Make sure you to do ambuscade(can do it with a few pieces of despair on normal/easy for volume 2) to get your JSE cape every month. Get a redmage cape asap and put 20 acc/20 attk, 10% double attack and 20 DEX on it.

Your goal after getting some despair and a JSE cape with nice augments should be to try to get JP(job points). RDM needs JP REALLY REALLY badly. 100 JP gives you t5 nukes which will help tremendously for dealing damage via nukes, 550 gives you distract3 and addle2(as well as frazzle3) which will help your supporting and 1200 gives you temper3 + which makes you really good at meleeing as well as refresh3 which is alright but not that great.

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Originally Posted by Shiyo

You should be getting escha-zitah gear first thing, then work on carmine gear and taeon.
I do not think you can solo the NM's, you will need at least 1 and perhaps 2 other people.
I'm not sure what you're offhanding but this is a good offhand: https://www.bg-wiki.com/bg/Demersal_Degen
It drops from this guy:
https://www.bg-wiki.com/bg/Bakunawa
He is pretty annoying to deal with and can actually 1 shot even paladin tanks because his aura makes you incapable of blocking until you light skillchain and remove it. I personally tanked him and had a vajra thief 2 shot him with TA + WS and SA + WS doing 100% of it's HP. It's probably mandatory that you want some type of tank job for him(preferably paladin) because him and his adds attack so fast and can attack many times in a row(8?) as well as cross-strike for 500-1k+ damage. A decently geared(ochain + 35%+ PDT) paladin and some DD job should be able to duo him with trusts reliably. Barwater + stoneskin + blink will help you survive maelstrom(it's aoe attack). Make sure the paladin pops it so the adds + boss aggros him over you and to not stay by the paladin on pop because it always opens with maelstrom. Maelstrom causes it to resummon adds so its best to ignore them.


Augmenting is going to norg, talking to nolan and trading him the armor you want to augment(one at a time) then trading him x number of eschalixirs to fully augment it.

https://www.bg-wiki.com/bg/Nolan

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I also forgot. Make sure you to do ambuscade(can do it with a few pieces of despair on normal/easy for volume 2) to get your JSE cape every month. Get a redmage cape asap and put 20 acc/20 attk, 10% double attack and 20 DEX on it.

Your goal after getting some despair and a JSE cape with nice augments should be to try to get JP(job points). RDM needs JP REALLY REALLY badly. 100 JP gives you t5 nukes which will help tremendously for dealing damage via nukes, 550 gives you distract3 and addle2(as well as frazzle3) which will help your supporting and 1200 gives you temper3 + which makes you really good at meleeing as well as refresh3 which is alright but not that great.

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Hi there,

Thanks for all of the great info! I have a much more clear idea of what I need to be doing with my RDM now. The only issue I can see coming up is perhaps finding folks to help me do the NMs in Escha-Zitah. Do you have any tips for getting folks to help out with this?

I would love to ask you just a few more things as well :)

1. I notice that I have a lot of trouble killing even basic mobs in Reisenjima, is that due to lack of gear, zone buffs, or both?

2. Zone buffs can be obtained only after killing the NMs in the zone correct?

3. Should I even be stepping foot inside Reisenjima given where my gear is at this time?

4. Is the RDM JSE cape available in Ambuscade right now, or is that something that is cyclical and just has to come up for availability again?

5. Don't I need to kill NMs in order to get the points (currency) I need to buy the Eschalixers+2? - I know the reason I didn't upgrade my sword is because I lack those items, and I can't get those without killing mobs in those high lvl zones (i.e., Reisenjima) and I can't kill those mobs without the gear .... lol. It all goes back to me needing people and not being able to really do it alone huh? >.<

1:
Lack of gear, 100% accuracy I'm guessing. I can kill reisen mobs in 2 weapon skills.
2:
Vorseals can be obtained from a lot of stuff. I don't know if you know how they work(I didn't at first either!) but once you UNLOCK it with silt you get the buff AT ALL TIMES(needs to be refreshed every hour by zoning out of escha/reisen and back in).
Here's a list of how to obtain all of them:
https://www.bg-wiki.com/index.php?ti...ct=no#Vorseals

3:
You should not be doing reisen at all. Once you get 1k accuracy you can comfortably do the normal enemies(and might have problems with ascended mobs if you get links so buy molifier when grinding if you can't take on the ascended mobs but they're worth killing for money).

4:
Cape is available 24/7 but you can buy one cape PER JOB a month and fully augment two a month so you should at least get 500 hallmarks this month to get a cape.

5:
Buy the eschalixir +2's or farm escha t1 NMs for NQ/+1's as well as gear.


I have no idea how to find people to help you. Talk to the linkshell NPC in adoulin or /yell looking for a social linkshell or something. I made a friend who's helped me a lot and the way I did it was talking to them after buying an item from them, just be nice and social to people? People are pretty friendly and help out a lot in this game(unless you're on asura).

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People are pretty friendly and help out a lot in this game(unless you're on asura).

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Which Asura player peed in your Fruit Loops? I'd wager you'll have a far easier time finding help on Asura than any other server, unless your first language happens to be Japanese.