Tactics/advice thread

[Glamdring]

I'm my own 1st customer, joy!

OK, on to the questions. As everyone knows, lower-level parties are almost impossible to find. Consequently, unless you just wanna leech in Abby you better get ready to solo. OK, NP, I went 1-75 as a bst/brd solo, I can grind with the best of them. The problem is all the solo guides I can find are primarily for the red or whm frames, with only a few specific exceptions. The standing advice for skilling sharpshot and valoredge was just to use when you get parties. Well, if anyone is paying attention to this post I'm not getting parties.

The other posts I've been reading say it takes FOREVER to skill those 2 frames if they are lagging much by the time you reach end-game. But solo, my pup/war is losing ALOT of SS/VE autos, and occasionally I'm dropping dead too. I have access to /nin, dnc, whm, rdm, thf, bst and brd if I need, and I know the 1st 4 can work but aren't as reccommended due to the difficulty getting hate off the auto. Nonetheless, I'd like to be able to at least connect on VE and SS when I hit 75 and can Abyssea. Obviously, mage frames are easy to skill, even leeching (whm pup, put in tank pt please, pup on steady diet of ice/light/dark with mage atmas). I'm ready for 75+anyway with some sweet pet gear from ACP/MKT/ASA (I used for beast), but as I said, I gotta cover 64-75 1st.

Any advice you guys can give so I can be a PUPPETmaster, not a PAPERWEIGHTmaster?