Silly question about SP

Solo'ing/duo'ing leves is great for SP now. I get about 15k at each of the 40s camps and will pop in a behest in-between leves if we come across the battlewarden. Combine that with dungeon runs and it's excellent SP.

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Originally Posted by Tezz_Xivectro

How fast were you killing (1 per minute, 2 per minute?), how are the respawns? What did you make per hour (20k - 40k/hr) ?

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I've seen R35s solo them in about 30 seconds flat, and they take about as long to respawn (and 4 of them respawn).

Party grinding is flat-out the best way to get SP.

For solo play, levequests and sidequests combined will get you a good amount of SP.

And only some of the levequests give bad SP now, while some of them are pretty easy sauce (the R20 Gridania one with the Foraging Doe's and the Swarm of Bees comes to mind, I could solo both of those on 3 Stars once I got used to CON changes). The bees die in two or three spells and give 180+ SP each and there's a lot of 'em, the Foraging Doe's gave 200+ and there were at least 4 of them.

EDIT: SP/hour may have been reduced for solo play, but if you play 2-3 hours after that and do some party grinding/questing, you will notice that you are getting more SP than pre-patch.

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Originally Posted by alexi14

I do play it. The only way to get a party is to A. Use the fail party search system with what.. 3% success rate? Or, shout in Ul'dah with what.. 4% success rate? Or prey others in your Ls are the same rank, on the same time, and interested in ranking that class with you... 10% success IF your LS is the same rank as you.... which mine isn't.

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Hahaha. So accurate.

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Originally Posted by Tezz_Xivectro

How fast were you killing (1 per minute, 2 per minute?), how are the respawns? What did you make per hour (20k - 40k/hr) ?

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id say its about 20k an hour(varies depending on your rank) cuz they dont respawn fast enough, add in that alot of people are crowding some of the camps

and before anyone says thats slow....getting a rank in 3-4 hours is never slow for an mmo
getting a rank in 1 hour is actualy extremely fast for mmo standards(for all mmos, especialy near endgame) which is what we had before

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Originally Posted by giftforce

Hahaha. So accurate.

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Depends. If Alexi had a better linkshell her success rate there would be much higher.

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Originally Posted by AarosLunos

Depends. If Alexi had a better linkshell her success rate there would be much higher.

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Basically this.

All depends on what the ls does.

If they are a social which mainly just talks chances are it will be semi hard to get partys.

If you have a ls that is focused more on a planned event structure everyone knows when to be on and the chances for a party are near 100%. (I know this for a fact since this is how my ls operates).

If you form a static with people you meet and get a small LS for that, chances of partying assuming you all plan when to do it is near 100% as well. (several people in my ls are doing this on some jobs before my LS's event times)

While is suck the community as a whole is being stubborn about forming party like we did in XI, party so is by far the best way to go by a large margin. I am hoping after enough time passes and people realize how hard it is to solo compared to Group the partying will pick up again. Search is different then XI but it does work... as Alexi said it works like 3% of the time because like 0.5% of the community uses it. Get 50% of the community using it a party will take like 30secs to form in prime times.

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Originally Posted by Tezz_Xivectro

How fast were you killing (1 per minute, 2 per minute?), how are the respawns? What did you make per hour (20k - 40k/hr) ?

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sorry for the late respond, we were killing pretty fast, like 30-40 seconds per mob, the respawn rate was pretty good as well, but sometimes you have a little downtime if you kill too fast. sorry i didnt really check what the sp/hr was i usually just take what i get, but i think 25k+/hr should be possible, im not much of a number cruncher. also it was alot of fun ^~^

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Originally Posted by alexi14

There is no good way to get SP mate. 1.18 killed it.

DOH and DOL is basicly all that's left!

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I'm sorry, i have to burst your bubbles! I have accumulated 170k SP in two days for my Lancer(Saturday & Sunday). with just leves, 1/2 way Toto Rak Dungoen x 2(i DC'ed in 2 attempt) and mostly Beastmen Grind. BUT the most shine from all of this are GUILDLEVES SOLOs. i have confirm we are able to put in 3 Star+++ to gain 4k-5k (5k being 5 star) on certain leves to achieve highest skill bonus return added.

For Beastmen we kill single mob around 10-20 seconds and netting around 210-390 sp per kill.

Thanks for the replies.

I've been grinding mostly and need to get back into doing leves. I tried a level 15 behest solo with my level 13 pug. The SP per kill was good (300) but I couldn't beat the last two deer foes who were linked.

Damn click n buy i was gonna log onto and try to grind random beastmen, but we have maintenance on a payment system for a game we don't pay for yet, 4 days after the patch came out >.< Not really bitching, just frustrated haha I actually wanted to play for the first time in months and grind random mobs.