Monstrosity levelling: level grind on EP-VT mobs or use records of eminence?

[Mefuki]

Go to Buburimu and set RoE:

*Vanquish Multiple Enemies I
*Deal 500+ Damage
*Mons.: Total Monsters Vanquished
*Spoils (Fire Crystal)
*Spoils (Water Crystal)
*Spoils (Earth Crystal)
and optionally for the occasional undead kill
*Spoils (Ice Crystal)

I routinely hit for 500+ damage with Stone II using BLM mobs with:

Black Mage
Manticore II
Eft I
Eft II
Coeurl III
Scorpion I
Treant II
Treant III
Rafflesia II
Antlion II
Tarutaru II

This is 79 points which is no problem if you're keeping your Infamy in the 20K+ range and using Belligerency. Whenever you cap your Infamy, go and get the 3K Infamy Dedication to help bolster your EXP gain. I get about 90-100~K/hour on BLM monipulators with this build. This set-up is enough to one shot every monster in Buburimu mobs except for Goblin Leechers, Bogy and Pugil. Also, if your base INT is low (26~), you'll have a harder time breaking that 500 damage threshold and one shotting mobs.


As for melee-type Monipulators, it's more of a slough. Even with capped instinct Haste, you aren't going to get 90K/hour and in the case of some particularly terrible mobs to level, like Apkallu, you'll be lucky to get 35K/hour. Best way I've found to level them is, while sticking to Buburimu with Belligerency on, cap your Haste and fill out the rest with Triple Attack and Double Attack. I then made a macro so I could engage monsters while barely paying attention because melee mobs are generally a lot more tedious to level IMO. The macro is:

/targetnpc
/wait1
/a

This was the best I could find for a solution to "automating" fighting mobs and because you'll be fighting EP mobs and Monipulators are robust, you won't have to worry about anything killing you in Buburimu. Then just wander around with autorun on and just pay a modicum amount of attention to make sure you're running towards some mobs and repeat.