Strats for New & Returning Players (L.B. & Lvl ideas)

[Logandor]

Honest, open, and true. I got tired of reading 3 forum threads about this fight and leveling all dealing with people fighting with each other instead of giving ideas on the fight for new & returning players. They were originally to give them an idea of what they are about to go into on this Limit Break and some ideas of where you like to level and skill up at as a 99.
I wanted to make this thread to do just that. HELP people who are the 25%. Please if you are 96+ in levels and willing to actually help others post a helpful tip for these guys that actually means something.


My tip for L.B.:
I did this fight as 91whm/blm with 4 95 blms and a 95bst w/ hippo pet. I casted pro & shellra V, barfira, boost- mnd, aspice, reraise III, Stoneskin, blink, aquaveil, and hasted a few of the blms. Healed mp to full. We went in. Bst summoned his pet. We had two weakness tails (or the he lost his marbles tail) Once we were all at the edge of the circle leading to the taru we had bst sic his pet onto the taru. No sooner did the pet hit him did we use the first tail, I used stun, and the blms 2 hour'd nuking him into the ground. Tail lasts 30 seconds. They were using their high level nukes. I do recall one being Blizzard V. After 30 seconds the tail wore and he was at 30% we poped the second tail and continued nuking him down. This time it seemed the tail didn't last the full 30 seconds because at 5% it wore off him and if it wasn't for the fact a few of us cast stun to pause him just for the last two nukes to go off we might of had an issue so as a safety measure I suggest 3 tails. Whm (my job) didn't have to cast cures except on the few blms who used convert and only once had to do devotion to give some mp to one of the blms. Took us roughly 3 minutes in total.
To level:
A place outside abyssea I would suggest sense those are hog-tied full is the boyda tree page 8. Those were giving a party of four 300+ per a mob and over 2k a page. Not including a few decent places to sit in there and fight without crowding others.
To skill up:
As for skill ups as a 99 once you reached that goal would be to probably go out to misurex coast and do birds or out to mount Zhaylom.

Those are my suggestions and I hope it helps you new & returning players. Have fun and hope to see you in FFXI.
If you wish to contribute your ideas and suggestions to actually help people that would be great.

[Meyi]

...The other two threads are loaded with tons of suggestions.

The best strategy I've done myself thus far is:

2+ BLMs
2+ tails
Other 4 slots may be any jobs, but black mages, red mages, and scholars are the best choice. DD will not be able to whack the taru effectively with tails up as using the tail item makes Atori-Tutori run around the BCNM.

Go in, buff up, black mages use Manawall and Manafont. Run into the center of the BCNM. First person uses tail right at the start of the fight. Nuke the tarutaru down with your highest nukes (Thundaja, Blizzaja, Blizzard V, Thunder V, Firaja, Aeroja). Recycle nukes once timers are up. As soon as the first tail wears pop the second tail. Continue nuking until dead.

The first time I did this was with BLM BLM BST THF(?) MNK WHM. We did well and only used about 5 seconds on the second tail to finish him off. Unfortunately, the second time I went in with BLM BLM RDM RDM MNK WHM, we used both tails and almost ran out of time on the second tail. The third time I went in we went BLM BLM BLM RDM RDM SCH and used both tails, the second one only being used for two nukes. This set up is easy to win with, but the more nukes you have, the better. Take in INT potions and Cream Puffs.

To level up:
Beginner area (Gustaberg/Ronfaure/Sarutabaruta) until 15+.
Gusgen mines until 34+.
Crawler's Nest 34+ OR Abyssea 30+.

Skill ups:
There's a wall somewhere that lets you skill up... can even go AFK and let your character whack on it overnight. Can't recall where it is at the moment but I'm sure someone else will know.

[Tsukino_Kaji]

1.) Find a friend willing to PL your whm to 30.
2.) Burn it to 50 in abyssea.
3.) Do the limit break.
4.) Repeat 2 and 3 until you're 99.
5.) Do everything else.

[Logandor]

Yes the other forums did have great suggestions. I just thought people wouldn't want to have to read through 6 pages of fights to get to the those suggestions. Anyways...

For the weakness item quest:
Helped another batch of people out on getting items for the L.B. almost no one on Carbuncle Server goes to Wardi any more for stones and fangs so best place to hit for those. Fangs & stones practically drop like candy canes there. Then for the bone we went and grabbed pg8 @ the B. tree and spammed that page while collecting bones. More stones dropped there too. Think a lot of us walked out of there with about 2 levels/merits and 3 stones each plus a bone.