1,200 Job Points is too much!

[Zarchery]

I don't think you understand how the capacity point gifts work. The first one is 5% the second one is 7%, the second gift didn't give you 2% on that 5% it gave you another 7% for a total of 13%. So by the end of this one before they increase the cap to 20 you have an additional 285% from gifts.

I don't think that's true. I went hard at the BLM job points a few months ago because I wanted Aspir III. Every time I passed a new CP bonus threshold, my CP per kill was roughly the same. I didn't see jumps of 10+ percent each time.

[Singforu]

I like job points. The more you do, the more you get. And you can increase your CP gain rate through many different avenues:

-Mission completion (Rhapsody KI)
-Mog Garden (cheers)
-RoE objectives (lair/colonization/wildskeeper reives)
-Gear (Capacity Ring, Trizek Ring, Aptitude/Mec... something mantle)

Not to mention you earn bonuses through the gift system that earn you even more CP as you progress. You'll earn much more CP after you've put some effort into it than you would have as a fresh level 99 player.

To the OP, it sounds like you haven't really tried optimizing your CP farming. If you still care to, maybe consider doing some of the side work to make your efforts more worthwhile. I don't know, I really like the system. That said, it won't stop me from complaining every time double XP ends.

Don't forget corsairs roll and the kupofried trust for more CP gain rate.

[Crevox]

That was fun.

On a selfish note ;-) - any basic tips for a smn who hasn't got many JPs yet?

Thanks

Art.

Just be prepared to play your job to the fullest and you can get into any party.

Summoner can solo heal a CP party, provide haste and other powerful buffs, and also do tons of damage and kill faster than a lot of other jobs. Doing all at once makes you invaluable in a party, and even if you can't do all at once, being able to fulfill any one of those roles allows you to fit in anywhere. You just need to be prepared, geared, and knowledgeable enough to do them.

[Zarchery]

One place where I've been having trouble with job points is on WHM. WHM is not a strong soloer. At least mine isn't. I've got about 120 on WHM which at least gives me Reraise IV, a very nice spell. It might be nice to have the cool but wildly impractical FullCure.

[Alhanelem]

WHM can solo decent if you gear for it. and since you have plenty of healing capability, you can use more DPS trust.

[Zarchery]

WHM can solo decent if you gear for it. and since you have plenty of healing capability, you can use more DPS trust.

Decent soloing will get me what, 150,000 CP per hour at best? It's not encouraging. I'll give it a try at some later date, but right now my priorities are MNK then BLM in that order.

[Alhanelem]

Decent soloing will get me what, 150,000 CP per hour at best? It's not encouraging. I'll give it a try at some later date, but right now my priorities are MNK then BLM in that order.

I wish I was getting 150k CP an hour. Iunno what I'm doing wrong, but you're doing better than I am, so your complaint means nothing to me.

[Zarchery]

I wish I was getting 150k CP an hour. Iunno what I'm doing wrong, but you're doing better than I am, so your complaint means nothing to me.

Well I have a crapload of bonuses stacked. 39% from Mecistopins Mantle, about 27% from Gifts, everything from ROE (I dunno what that adds up to). But also I have 8 Trizek Rings so I'm always at +150% Get 3500 to 8000 per kill and something near 600,000 per hour on MNK while pounding stuff in Esca'Ruan.

[Ethereal]

Well I have a crapload of bonuses stacked. 39% from Mecistopins Mantle, about 27% from Gifts, everything from ROE (I dunno what that adds up to). But also I have 8 Trizek Rings so I'm always at +150% Get 3500 to 8000 per kill and something near 600,000 per hour on MNK while pounding stuff in Esca'Ruan.

How do you have multiple trizek rings on one character? Did I miss something?

[Ulth]

Basically you get them with mules and then mail them to the character you want. They are rare so you have to hold the others in your delivery box.