Abyssea and returning BST

[Glamdring]

Kill speed combined with ruby lights (open azure chests) will do the trick for BST. You're obviously not going to build lights as fast as jobs who can get native Azure kills, but it can work. Magic kills aren't the only way to build Azure lights.

This is a gamble, and it doesn't always work, which is why I never list it as a given the way it is for Blue, Red and Pup (with a red or black frame). Chest drops are random, so it CAN work, but it's not something to depend on.

Also BLM. For the reasons mentioned above. Except you want to be opening every Ruby chest with pearl instead of Azure.

Yeah, the reason I didn't list blm (or scholar for that matter) in the above list is because their melee is so weak. When the mobs you fight all have several thousand HP it's very hard to tell if that little sliver on their health bar indicates 30 HP or 350, so targeting it with a specific damage type is hard. Granted, I would think a blm could-when they see that sliver-use exclusively break|Stun|Sleep to allow them to run in and melee the mob down, but woe be them if they get interrupted.

A player mentioned Ninja being able to do this (like a blm in reverse) meleeing it down and then getting Ninjitsu kills. I didn't list them for the same reason I didn't list blm; that health bar is hard to read. Couple that with how few nin I've met have botherred with the :San ninjitsu to get the highest damage from their ninjitsu and taking off that last little bit of Mob HP can be hard to target. But yes, in both cases it's possible.

Using ruby chests, it's theoretically possible for any job that can solo to get the light balance to start gettign TE chests (or gold for that matter), but it requires fast, steady kills and a hell of alot of luck. I wouldn't bother unless I had stones to burn. MUCH safer to join a party for a bit and help get their lights maxed, or even form a group of people who intend to solo but between them can get the lights. You can also /tell the mage soloers going after NMs and offer to help them max the physical lights while farming pop items, some of them will be willing to go for that, and it's good karma.

[Pikel]

A player mentioned Ninja being able to do this (like a blm in reverse) meleeing it down and then getting Ninjitsu kills. I didn't list them for the same reason I didn't list blm; that health bar is hard to read. Couple that with how few nin I've met have botherred with the :San ninjitsu to get the highest damage from their ninjitsu and taking off that last little bit of Mob HP can be hard to target. But yes, in both cases it's possible.

By this theory Rdm, Blu and Pup Can't solo TE's either. Rdm's require people to buy spells off AH. Blu's Require people to learn spells threw farming. Pup's require people to buy attachments and quest frames. To make matters worse all these jobs require the appropriate skills to be leveled up.

I agree black mage can be hard to do physical kills with but Nin can kill 3 eph Murex's quite easily for max or close to azure. It only takes about 15 min depending on how many others are doing this and then you can focus on melee kills. To scratch a job off the list of possibilities because some of the player base may be gimp or lazy doesn't mean it shouldn't be recommended or brought up for discussion. I personally let all my friends leech up their subs while i solo farm dark rings with Nin/dnc.

[Charismatic]

I'd like to mention that DRG/BLU can also get Azure very easily on ephemerals. Take em down to 5~10% ish, turn your back/disengage(if you think wyvern is going to kill) and spam physical spells. BST/BLU could do the same but I don't know how much utility you'd get from /BLU overall, dunno if it'd be enough to say that's worth doing. It's a different story for DRG due to the healing breaths though.

If all else fails though, ask someone to help you for a bit and keep soloing after they leave?

[Glamdring]

By this theory Rdm, Blu and Pup Can't solo TE's either. Rdm's require people to buy spells off AH. Blu's Require people to learn spells threw farming. Pup's require people to buy attachments and quest frames. To make matters worse all these jobs require the appropriate skills to be leveled up.

I agree black mage can be hard to do physical kills with but Nin can kill 3 eph Murex's quite easily for max or close to azure. It only takes about 15 min depending on how many others are doing this and then you can focus on melee kills. To scratch a job off the list of possibilities because some of the player base may be gimp or lazy doesn't mean it shouldn't be recommended or brought up for discussion. I personally let all my friends leech up their subs while i solo farm dark rings with Nin/dnc.

The mention on nin was simply that the : San line does more damage than the : Ni line of ninjitsu. It was simply that San-doing more damage-is more likely to take off that last sliver than Ni. Obviously, you can keep spamming either until that last sliver of HP is gone. That's one good thing I've seen out of Abyssea. Prior to it and !! processing, rare was the ninja I ever saw who ever used anything but Utsu and the stealth spells, and so when aby 1st showed, so did the lack of ninjitsu skill. Most have closed that gap nicely now. As you can tell, I'm kind of a skill snob.

[blowfin]

Kill speed combined with ruby lights (open azure chests) will do the trick for BST. You're obviously not going to build lights as fast as jobs who can get native Azure kills, but it can work. Magic kills aren't the only way to build Azure lights.

This is a gamble, and it doesn't always work, which is why I never list it as a given the way it is for Blue, Red and Pup (with a red or black frame). Chest drops are random, so it CAN work, but it's not something to depend on.

It does though. Not many reasons you shouldn't be able to get TE's rolling in on BST. This is especially true in the last expansion.

Yeah, the reason I didn't list blm (or scholar for that matter) in the above list is because their melee is so weak. When the mobs you fight all have several thousand HP it's very hard to tell if that little sliver on their health bar indicates 30 HP or 350, so targeting it with a specific damage type is hard. Granted, I would think a blm could-when they see that sliver-use exclusively break|Stun|Sleep to allow them to run in and melee the mob down, but woe be them if they get interrupted.

Once again, you don`t need to melee kill things to get pearl lights.

A player mentioned Ninja being able to do this (like a blm in reverse) meleeing it down and then getting Ninjitsu kills. I didn't list them for the same reason I didn't list blm; that health bar is hard to read. Couple that with how few nin I've met have botherred with the :San ninjitsu to get the highest damage from their ninjitsu and taking off that last little bit of Mob HP can be hard to target. But yes, in both cases it's possible.

Any ninja who isn`t poorly geared or gimped on spells is capable of it.

Using ruby chests, it's theoretically possible for any job that can solo to get the light balance to start gettign TE chests

Totally correct, unfortunately I had to take it out of context though.