The Art of Behest

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Originally Posted by Peregrine

Ideally a party that forms up for behest should only do behest once, then go make better use of their time elsewhere. In terms of sp per hour, it's grossly inferior to field camps of that level range. People who dink around solo, then party up in behest, then go back to dinking around solo are wasting their time.

Behest is ideally not a way to level. It is a way to meet people to level with, then to go do that in a superior fashion. It is best used as a hub to meet a pickup sp party, not a place to squat some sp at.

You join a behest with 4 players. You form up. You do the behest. You launch off to field sp. 4 more players join behest. They form up. They do the behest. They launch off to field sp.

As it is, it's just a way for a bunch of people to get mediocre sp at the expense of each other, depending on who'se the quickest fingers. Such a waste of time, really.

Considering that the only time you should really do behest for efficiency is pre-rank 23 (the 20s behest mobs are capped at rank 33), the SP/hour is far better than anything you could duo or trio. If the PT is optimal (no one higher than 23) and you're rank 18~, you can get around 700 SP a mob ⅹ 16~ mobs ⅹ 2 times an hour is well over 20,000SP an hour. You simply wont beat that outside of behest. Even in a suboptimal party with a couple people out of your range, you should be getting 450~600SP a kill, which is still about 20,000SP an hour.

From there, you can dabble in 30 behest at Nanawa, and duo Puks, but at this point you should really trying to be forming leve-cancelling groups for only Corpus Adamance, Adamantine Wills, The Devilet Inside, and Levinshower. Those 4 leves will take you to Broken Water really fast, and I think most people are familiar with that situation.

You should then be doing the big 3 at BW, mixed with those 4 (you can stop doing The Devilet Inside at rank 35 since those mobs cap at rank 45 on 5 stars) every reset, with 6 man Raptors at 40~ (Regimens are a must on these pre 48~).

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