Quote Originally Posted by Luvbunny View Post
Are you wearing accuracy gears? Is your axe skill capped and fully merited? Do you use accuracy food? SoA mobs are brutal for people who speed level their jobs in Abyssea. You won't be able to survive for long if you have skills around 150-275s. Those mobs will resist your ninjutsu or enfeeble fairly easy. They also strip your shadows very fast and render evasion gear somewhat moot. On a bright note, Defense is a big factor now - you get high defense, those mobs will hit you in the low 20-50s.
Pearl except head and legs, no not capped, BST is a utility job for me, so I didn't merit axes.