Paths to L70+ Aetherytes

Thanalan's = Reachable, blocked by drakes, eyes and gnats but they have space to move.
Gridania's = Next to impossible due to narrow passages...and boars + drakes.
LL's unknown.

Any chance Grid's can be opened up a little? Perhaps have at least 1 path that a lvl 50 can possibly have a chance of running through?

Sight-only mobs instead of sound ones...3 x Raptors is doable...3 x drakes in the same area is not.

Path to Alder Springs can be used as an example. Sound mobs in clearings and sight mobs in narrow passages.
Edit: Snakemolt, Ruins north of Moss and the ones north and south of Crimson Bark are quite impossible to reach. The rest are ok.


If anyone is asking why...its for the achievements before the cataclysm called 2.0.

why you should reach something unsused and than will be removed ?

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Originally Posted by yukikaze_yanagi

why you should reach something unsused and than will be removed ?

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Achievements

I've soloed every last aetherite in the game, it is possible.

Ultimately its done by stacking defense and abilities, and exploiting the tethering of monsters every chance you can.

Rule 1: Best defense possible. If in a group, heavily armored Gladiator is preferable to lead the way, with a potent Conjurer in tow for buffs..

Lead can use: Stoneskin II, Shock Spikes II, Protect II, Shell II, Defender II, Rampart II, Sentinel, Deflection (optional), Quickstride (optional)

Your main task is to look for safe zones where monsters dont follow any further, and you are not gaining aggro from stuff ahead. Obviously a good time to wait on cool-downs and rebuff.

Sometimes, however, this alone is not enough. There may too long of a path, full of stuff that can one-shot you. The solution here is to exploit the tether. Gather and train as many monsters as possible, as far down the path as you can go, till you die. Rinse and repeat. Within 2-3 deaths, you should notice that the monsters will be hanging out near the edge of their own roaming area, so when you run past them, they have the potential of only hitting you one, even zero times, thus allowing you to progress further without dying.

Raptors, Hogs, Efts, Gnats, Drakes: Best results occur (minimum hits dealt to you) when the monster is facing away from you as you run toward/past it. I know some aggro to sound, but my observation stands.

Eyes... ugh, eyes. I like to pop my defensive skills, use emulate/quickstride, and race to the safe zone by the aetherite.

I believe, in 1.20, they will redistribute the monsters to clear those paths a bit.
Which achievement is it?

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Raptors, Hogs, Efts, Gnats, Drakes: Best results occur (minimum hits dealt to you) when the monster is facing away from you as you run toward/past it. I know some aggro to sound, but my observation stands.

Eyes... ugh, eyes. I like to pop my defensive skills, use emulate/quickstride, and race to the safe zone by the aetherite.

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Raptors and eyes are sight only. You can run behind them easily. Heck, you can even stand on top of their ass if you want.
Efts and Morbols are sound but have a delay in response so you can chocobo past them.
Gnats, Hogs and Drakes are both sight and sound, and hit me for 4k damage in 1 hit...Record is a 9k critical.

CON and THM is soft...can't help it - Can't use the training strategy there because I die immediately...lol

And yeah I did think of leveling melee jobs to get the defensive abilities but this is all I have at the moment.

So ends my 3 day solo round-the-world tour as a pure mage on my trusty chocobo.
I couldn't reach the following:
Camp Emerald Moss: Lasthold
Camp Crimson Bark: Lichenweed, Turning Leaf
Camp Tranquil: Snakemolt

Camp Bald Knoll: The Isles of Umbra

Lynxpelt Patch
Larkscall
Turning Leaf

These ones I cant reach :(

Wish i did more before they changed the way mobs agro and put more in ; ;

I have all of them, I find that a team of dedicated 3 will get the 80mobs area done.

Stuck here at Lichenweed in the 5th hour waiting on 2 drakes and 1 pig to move to the right place...guess its a good thing I have movies to watch.

Edit*: Lol after I posted this complaint, all 3 moved to 1 corner... Lichenweed off the list!