Summoner & Fates

Wait for Miasma II, then spam away for Gold Achievement on every FATE for maximum EXP. :) Until then, join up a party and Ruin / Ruin II everything.

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Originally Posted by jruu

- Summoners have one set of skills that none of the other classes do not have. A summon egi. Take advantage of it.
My carbuncle/ifrit/titan do fairly well in grabbing mobs first and doing damage. For all you summoners out there,
LEARN how to use your egi summons. There is a reason why there's a steady, guard, sic, heel and so forth. It's
your "2nd half" of your job.

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Tagging and enmity is what seems to matter most for participation. If you haven't noticed, mobs don't actually get tagged to you when just your Egi attacks it until you attack it yourself. Contrary to popular belief, damage done doesn't seem all that important for participation scores.

I have virtually no issues, ever, getting gold in FATES unless I show up late. Even then, I can usually muster a silver in 10-15s.

Ruin II spam. Bio + Bane. Energy Drain. For boss FATES, you can also generate participation by healing the person tanking the boss.

It's not hard.

Tab - bio - tab -bio. Especially if you get a newly spawned one.

Titan can effectively tank most solo boss fates.

I've only had a problem getting gold as SMN when I either got there late or the fate was being zerged by mulitple parties and I wasn't in one.

I can do fates where I hardly ever get the xp from the monster kill but still get gold.

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Originally Posted by Seraphi

Tagging and enmity is what seems to matter most for participation. If you haven't noticed, mobs don't actually get tagged to you when just your Egi attacks it until you attack it yourself. Contrary to popular belief, damage done doesn't seem all that important for participation scores.

I have virtually no issues, ever, getting gold in FATES unless I show up late. Even then, I can usually muster a silver in 10-15s.

Ruin II spam. Bio + Bane. Energy Drain. For boss FATES, you can also generate participation by healing the person tanking the boss.

It's not hard.

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not for healers, at least in the hate generation part

I'm a summoner and originally had problems with this. However, I figured a couple things out that helped out:

1) Boss monster Fates are the best for us for obvious reasons.
2) Spam BIO to claim on multi-mob fates. This isn't as hard as it sounds. Keep your tab cycling, and hit bio when you rest on an orange/yellow named fate monster. You don't even need to claim that many mobs to get full gold.
3) Don't worry about DPS'ing the mobs...just focus on claiming. IF you claim, you get full credit.
4) Keep Emerald out. When you DO get the chance to DPS (i.e. all the mobs are claimed and you just gotta do your thing), Emerald is the most efficient since he can cast from where he is and doesn't waste time walking to the target.
5) BIO BIO BIO BIO: It's your friend. Even when you're dps'ing, bio is faster as damage procs relatively quickly after it's [instant] cast. I can easily get gold even if I have trouble claiming just by spamming bio.

i just spam bio 1 and get full xp. and if mobs dont appear on my screen cause so many ppl i just spam miasma 2

Spam Miasma 2 and pray.

Or energy drain or Aero.