Leveling Conjurer

Is there some sort of trick to leveling Conjurer solo before you can easily pick up partys? I've tried spamming leves but compared to doing them with a melee class they just lack the stopping power and every little fight turns into a battle of attrition and i end up just spamming much lower level leves to get slightly faster XP.

You should get THM to at least 10 to use Thunder and Fire alongside Aero and Stone if you plan to solo

Second wind helps too. and featherfoot. Perhaps find a fellow lowbie DoW to help you

Been using fire, thunder, featherfoot and second wind, to little help generally heh.

Guess I should just make a decent PT

Try doing leves in a different area. Some leves have long stretches of enemies that resist specific elements you can use. Once you can get Gnats in leves or can kill wolves in random camps you can murder them with stone quite easily.

Also make sure you have cleric stance up at all times.

Well I guess it's off to Nophica's Wells with me then

Yeah, generally you'll want to fight monsters that are lightning based (use earth), fire based (use aero), or water based (use lightning from THM). You do NOT want to fight monsters that are earth based (they resist both earth and lightning), or wind based (they resist aero). You CAN use fire against ice-based mobs, but make sure not to get yourself killed with the AoE.

That's not to say you CAN'T kill monsters that resist these, but they're going to lower your DPS options and/or put a bigger drain on your resources. On that note, feel free to pull out your weapon, especially if using a wand and shield. Shield blocks don't stop you from casting, and in either case it's a little bit more DPS. Just a little, but DPS is DPS is DPS. It does stop you from regenerating MP, but I'm pretty sure that doesn't happen if you've got enmity anyway. Just put it away between fights.

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Yep, pull out your weapon when soloing for random blocks and parries. You can use any shield abilities or Foresight from other classes to help out.

When should you transition to party play?

I'm about 17CNJ, and i can solo fairly easy, it's just boring. i'd like to play with some peeps rather than just cast stone at things all day.

There's no "transition level" in this game like there is in FF11. If you can find anyone to group with at any level, go ahead and do it.

I have a question for the seasoned White Mages. It involved leveling conjurer, so instead of making a new thread, I'll resurrect this one.

Here's the scoop. I'm currently in a leve duo leveling my conjurer with a bard. It's quite effective, as we are 35 and gaining about 1.5 levels per leve cycle. Now, I have unlocked the White Mage job, but I'm confused on whether or not it's worth equipping as I level. Doing leves in Thanalan, rocks fall, everything dies. So, is it better to nuke as a Conjurer or go ahead and equip the job stone? My battle strategy doesn't change either way, I just lose Thunder and Fire as backup nukes when they're useful. Do I gain any benefit from White Mage to counter the losses?

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Originally Posted by BlaiseLallaise

I have a question for the seasoned White Mages. It involved leveling conjurer, so instead of making a new thread, I'll resurrect this one.

Here's the scoop. I'm currently in a leve duo leveling my conjurer with a bard. It's quite effective, as we are 35 and gaining about 1.5 levels per leve cycle. Now, I have unlocked the White Mage job, but I'm confused on whether or not it's worth equipping as I level. Doing leves in Thanalan, rocks fall, everything dies. So, is it better to nuke as a Conjurer or go ahead and equip the job stone? My battle strategy doesn't change either way, I just lose Thunder and Fire as backup nukes when they're useful. Do I gain any benefit from White Mage to counter the losses?

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in my experience thunder/fire don't do as much damage on CNJ as they do on THM. not to mention that aero/stone are very powerful as they are. a lot of mobs are weak to these two elements. it might be better to switch locations and do a small amount of research on the mob spawns and select things weak to these elements. your BRD will be doing the same damage either way.

PoM at 30 isn't that useful. but 35, when you get regen, it's indispensable. Regen and Stoneskin are your two spells that are worth the most. pat 35 you should never be on CNJ due to the power of this spell. if you haven't been, put your points in MND/VIT. for the extra enhancing. when you transition to PT play you shoudl be relying mostly on SS/Regen and only curing in emergencies.

if you do need more damage, your BRD should stay ARC. you shouldn't need ballad between how fast levels go and blissful mind.

If you can do the job quest to get Regen I think you won't look back on CNJ too much. That was my plan anyway. I've found soloing to be pretty easy as long as you find leves with mobs that are weak to your primary spells, as someone above pointed out.

In short, I think anything that you lose by playing WHM will be outweighed by Regen.

Thank you for the input. I believe I have my answer in one single word: regen. As soon as I do the lv 35 quest (coming up next session), I won't be looking back.