How fast is fast?

[Daemon]

Yeah, those gobs in the ruins outside of windy dropped them like water. lol
That reminds me, I have 19 stacks of onions I need to use. >.>

Oh I left a few out. I'm still 0/37 on trying to steal from Maat. I even went back at 75 with full steal gear less the dagger and tried 3 times.

Wow you really do have horrible luck. If you were on my server, people tend to get things they want when I'm around. One of my friends tried to get ABJ from Kirin for Blood Cuisses. After 22 times, he asked me to help. Got it to drop twice after doing Kirin twice back to back.

Other friends too for things they've tried hard to get.

[Tsukino_Kaji]

That's right, I still dont' have those legs either...
Thanks...

[Demon6324236]

Its luck. I have not gotten myself Twilight Mail because I never cared enough to get it. At the same time, I got my friend a full set in a matter of his first 2 kills back to back, got my GF the Mail in 4 kills, Helm was on the 6th, went out about a week ago and got 2 of my friends Mails in 4 kills, 1 on the first, 1 on the 4th. In all of this, I never got my own, but I have tried probably 10~15 kills. Its all luck based, stupidly, but it is.

[Daemon]

Its luck. I have not gotten myself Twilight Mail because I never cared enough to get it. At the same time, I got my friend a full set in a matter of his first 2 kills back to back, got my GF the Mail in 4 kills, Helm was on the 6th, went out about a week ago and got 2 of my friends Mails in 4 kills, 1 on the first, 1 on the 4th. In all of this, I never got my own, but I have tried probably 10~15 kills. Its all luck based, stupidly, but it is.

Lol... As I said before, I'm the guy that always get the items people don't want or need... I've yet to get cloak and mail as most shouts have it locked, or your brew your drops. And I wasn't going to waste a brew on a gimp WHM at the time.

[Babekeke]

I forgot to mention that SMN was the job that I levelled as my first job to 75 after having quit and given 13 mil away to a friend. When I returned, I used THF for a little farming, but emp pin and leaping boots went r/e and I couldn't get gil any more. SMN required almost nothing in gear to be adequate (and back then even smn skill counted for nothing) so the only hard bit was actually getting exp. I already had garuda too, which helped. All others I got from lvl 20 fights bar Titan after going 0/7 I gave up, but if you leech to 99 these days you could easily solo the primes, even with just carby and maybe a cheap spirit.

[Hawklaser]

For 1-99, since when I returned I tried to get a friend to join as well so started a fresh character. Without using my old character to support it, was able to get to 99 in about a week avoiding Gusgen Mines GoV parties, and Abyssea pre-75.

I'd recommend starting in Bastok if doing a fresh run. For a few reasons, several GoV locations near town, easy town to get around in, decent enemy drops in the area as well. Beehive chips, Wild Onions for gil, and zinc ore to start working on Tenshodo fame early. Have done this route on multiple jobs, if have problems in some spots, upgrade your weapon and spells first as they will make the largest difference.

1-9 South Gustaberg: Do the worm, bee or goblin FoV pages, staring near the town exit at first, then going up on Vomp Hill around level 6ish and make sure to open any brown caskets you come across for chances at free level 9-10ish gear like the Scale armor set.

9-23 Dangruf Wadi: Do the goblin page till around 16 or 17, then jump to the leech/bunny page til about 22-23. Keep opening those brown caskets, they can have level 70ish gear in them which NPC for about 6-10k on average, and some of the crafting materials that show up are 20k+.

23-43 Korroloka Tunnel: Start with the bat/worm pages which can be a little rough starting out depending on job and what most of the enemies are checking as they would be a DC-T range starting out, they last till 33ish, when can swap to the Leech page that can get you to 43. Still keep at the caskets, more 70ish gear and crafting items, but also the Rare Brachyura Earring which can be AH'ed for about 100k(Price on Siren), or kept for later as its effect can be handy.

After 43, can stay in Korroloka for Gigas till 50, but better to go to Upper Delkfuts tower as the Gigas there are the same level range, and more numerous, just need to be careful of Elementals spawning. If going to Delkfuts, work on getting your nation missions done before heading there, as there is one that has you going to the same place.

50-57 Garlaige Citadel: The Beetle and Siege Bat page is your friend, if you can camp by the Banishing Gate, will need sneak/invis to get there if want to avoid agro. The tri-bats and skeletons agro sound, beetles agro Sight, and the Seige Bats do link. Can also stay near the entrance. For the mages, one key thing to do is Aspir the beetles to help reduce downtime.

After 57, there are lots of options but not all work well for every job, so have to find one that works well for your job. Try and keep to GoV page areas though for fastest leveling. Crawler's Nest, Boyahda Tree, Sea Serpent Groto, Bostaunieux Oubliette, Gustav Tunnel, Kuftal Tunnel, and Quicksand Caves are likely your best options.

Now if you happen to get to know someone who is willing to burn pages on BST for you, I highly recommend the Antica page in Quicksand caves and go in the Western Altepa J-9 entrance. Stay at the bottom of the entrance, while they pull the Antica, alternating between the South and North sides. The mobs are barely EP to a 99 so they die really quick and there are lots of them. It is not uncommon to complete 4-5 pages per pull, and can pull almost non-stop.

[FrankReynolds]

The mobs are barely EP to a 99 so they die really quick and there are lots of them. It is not uncommon to complete 4-5 pages per pull, and can pull almost non-stop.

Never tried this, is the XP better than say an altep dominion ops party?

[Hawklaser]

Never tried this, is the XP better than say an altep dominion ops party?

I'd prefer it over that, more due to how disruptive a Doll's Meltdown can be, and don't have to worry about running back and forth to turn in. Caps out at 2960 per page on XP. Times I have done it, average about 12-15k XP a pull easily when pages are capped, able to get up to around 25k pull if get both sides, easier to alternate sides to avoid depops and have less downtime for the BST pet and repops. Downtime had was more when the person pulling was experimenting with how to best optimize the pulls, or when the pet decided to go into the walls and we had to just wait. At low levels, just have to beware of the BLM's if they decide to -Ga a lot.

And it definitely beats some other common GoV burn locations if just going for XP, as fairly easy to round up the mobs on top of them being very numerous.

[FrankReynolds]

I'd prefer it over that, more due to how disruptive a Doll's Meltdown can be, and don't have to worry about running back and forth to turn in. Caps out at 2960 per page on XP. Times I have done it, average about 12-15k XP a pull easily when pages are capped, able to get up to around 25k pull if get both sides, easier to alternate sides to avoid depops and have less downtime for the BST pet and repops. Downtime had was more when the person pulling was experimenting with how to best optimize the pulls, or when the pet decided to go into the walls and we had to just wait. At low levels, just have to beware of the BLM's if they decide to -Ga a lot.

And it definitely beats some other common GoV burn locations if just going for XP, as fairly easy to round up the mobs on top of them being very numerous.

Yeah, the reason I ask is because I'm leveling a few new jobs on my mule and generally just messing around while I wait to see what happens with the devs.

I messed around in altep on sam and was able to get up to about 135,000 xp/hr for my mule. There was no point in doing the ops on my sam seeing as I capped out in the first couple hours on EXP / Merits. I just kept pulling the mobs close to the sergeant on my sam while I ran back and forth on my mule.

I probably could have actually gotten a lot better exp if I had changed merits / jobs / gear a little. I was very lazy about it.

I don't mind the running around killing stuff part, but the turning in pages thing was really tedious.

Hopefully they set a plan in stone some day so that I can set goals again. At the moment, no piece of gear is safe. No point building sand castles when the tide is coming in ya know?

[Hawklaser]

I messed around in altep on sam and was able to get up to about 135,000 xp/hr for my mule. There was no point in doing the ops on my sam seeing as I capped out in the first couple hours on EXP / Merits. I just kept pulling the mobs close to the sergeant on my sam while I ran back and forth on my mule.

I probably could have actually gotten a lot better exp if I had changed merits / jobs / gear a little. I was very lazy about it.

Just gonna estimate XP per hour based off of repop times and page xp for you if get in a good groove. At 5min repops for the antica, could get 12 pulls from one side if did it perfectly, so if get good on the timing with alternating up to 24 pulls in an hour at best. Figure 18 pulls per hour is more realistic results for most people, so 18*12,000, would come out around 216k xp an hour with capped pages. As I know once me and my friend got the hang of the place, the mobs would begin repopping just about the time got back to the where started the pulls.

Hopefully they set a plan in stone some day so that I can set goals again. At the moment, no piece of gear is safe. No point building sand castles when the tide is coming in ya know?

I hear you on that, part of why been a bit disinterested of late.