What ever happened to the old Valkurm *groan*

Undine · Post by **Undine** » Tue Apr 04, 2006 1:11 am

COming soon to the dunes near you. MadnessTanks, Whms, Blms, Rdms are no where to be found. All you see are pups, cors, and blus. how will you live therw this nightmare that is coming? Find out on the 19th when TOA comes out and everything hits the fan.

Pheonixhawk · Post by **Pheonixhawk** » Tue Apr 04, 2006 2:34 am

Undine wrote:COming soon to the dunes near you. MadnessTanks, Whms, Blms, Rdms are no where to be found. All you see are pups, cors, and blus. how will you live therw this nightmare that is coming? Find out on the 19th when TOA comes out and everything hits the fan.

oh goodness no I sure hope not. I think Ill hire Chuck norris to exterminate all the noobs in valkurm.

Post by **Alya Mizar (Tsybil)** » Tue Apr 04, 2006 1:49 pm

Pheonixhawk wrote:I finnaly decided to Rdm all the way. going as RDM / BLM I just hope the rumors arnt true.

What rumors?

Oh... found them. Don't worry. You can go RDM/BLM to 75 and never level another sub.

Keavy · Post by **Keavy** » Tue Apr 04, 2006 5:41 pm

Undine wrote:COming soon to the dunes near you. MadnessTanks, Whms, Blms, Rdms are no where to be found. All you see are pups, cors, and blus. how will you live therw this nightmare that is coming? Find out on the 19th when TOA comes out and everything hits the fan.

I imagine a lot of people will level their WAR's, Monks, SAM's, Ninja's, and Paladin's at that time along with mages. People will take full advantage of the situation.

Pheonixhawk · Post by **Pheonixhawk** » Wed Apr 05, 2006 3:03 am

why is that keavy? so the noobs can have better tanks?

Keavy · Post by **Keavy** » Wed Apr 05, 2006 5:30 am

Pheonixhawk wrote:why is that keavy? so the noobs can have better tanks?

I just mean that if there is a glut of PUP's, BLU's and COR's in the dunes that the people like me who have a job like Paladin they want to level will take said job there to cash in on the madness and get some experience.

Pheonixhawk · Post by **Pheonixhawk** » Wed Apr 05, 2006 6:20 am

ok I get it now

Post by **Alya Mizar (Tsybil)** » Wed Apr 05, 2006 4:30 pm

For instance I am unsure about how to run SMN despite the FAQs and guides out there. But with all the PUPs, CORs, and BLUs who have no guides for their jobs ****ing up all over the place, no one should notice if I **** up too.

Keavy · Post by **Keavy** » Wed Apr 05, 2006 4:34 pm

Tsybil wrote:For instance I am unsure about how to run SMN despite the FAQs and guides out there. But with all the PUPs, CORs, and BLUs who have no guides for their jobs ****ing up all over the place, no one should notice if I **** up too.

For the most part, SMN heals and uses Bloodpacts. As for the new jobs, just sub NIN, Dual wield, and Blink tank.

Post by **Alya Mizar (Tsybil)** » Wed Apr 05, 2006 4:49 pm

Keavy wrote: For the most part, SMN heals and uses Bloodpacts.

For the most part.... That is just not good enough for me. I do not want to be just someone else getting SMN to X level for Y purpouse. I want to KNOW the job inside and out. Including solo Skillchaining and Magicbursting.

Pheonixhawk · Post by **Pheonixhawk** » Fri Apr 07, 2006 6:56 am

Btw I had a evil plan last night. Since all the ppl are going to buy the new expansion thats coming out, Im lvling ALL off my jobs to 10 over this weekend. Then when they rush to the dunes, I shall appear Mwuhahahahahaha. I cant wait. Not to mention im gonna be synthing tons of mithkabobs and cloth such as tunics etc etc, for alll the noob. Profit? you bet. Plus Im rushing at the speed of chocobo to get my RDM to lvl 38 so I can finnaly raise. PPl. Looks like Im gonna be busy for a while

Keavy · Post by **Keavy** » Fri Apr 07, 2006 4:16 pm

Tsybil wrote:
Keavy wrote: For the most part, SMN heals and uses Bloodpacts.
For the most part.... That is just not good enough for me. I do not want to be just someone else getting SMN to X level for Y purpouse. I want to KNOW the job inside and out. Including solo Skillchaining and Magicbursting.

Yeah, what I listed above is what you'll be doing for a LONG time as Summoner in a party.

For MBing I think you do it like a regular MB and issue the command through a Macro at the start of the second weapon skill animation. For Skillchaining I think the avatar starts it. Very effective while soloing.

Post by **Shirai** » Fri Apr 07, 2006 6:34 pm

Tsybil wrote:For instance I am unsure about how to run SMN despite the FAQs and guides out there. But with all the PUPs, CORs, and BLUs who have no guides for their jobs ****ing up all over the place, no one should notice if I **** up too.

Summoner... I wish I had a simple explaination for what the job means and what it's role in parties is.
Unfortunately and fortunately Summoner is very very divers depending on the situation you're in.

In most parties you end up healing, healing and healing.
This does not mean you have no time to summon and do Blood pacts but that's probably how it's gonna end.
Frustrating to say the least but hang in there because it's just exp.

In some parties a red mage or white mage is doing the healing,
In this case you can slow down on the healing, but keep an eye out to the party and help the healer where you can.
In these parties you can get out your avatars and start doing Blood pacts as you like.
Depending on setup you can be healer, puller, Magic burster, party buffer, damage dealer, monster debuffer the options are endless.
Every party situation is different and your role differs in each, summoner is one of the most adaptive jobs in this game, either you like the job or hate it.

Next to that, after level 51 if you have carbuncl mitts and a light staff summoner becomes an awesome soloing job.

To give a starting summoner some advise:

http://summoner.info/

This is the place I got most of the advice I used to level up and gear up my smn.

Post by **Alya Mizar (Tsybil)** » Sat Apr 08, 2006 4:49 pm

Shirai wrote: Summoner... I wish I had a simple explaination for what the job means and what it's role in parties is.

Depending on setup you can be healer, puller, Magic burster, party buffer, damage dealer, monster debuffer the options are endless.
Every party situation is different and your role differs in each, summoner is one of the most adaptive jobs in this game, either you like the job or hate it.

Exactly. RDM is diverse and somewhat situational but SMN is far more so. I know RDM, I don't know SMN.

Euro · Post by **Euro** » Mon Apr 10, 2006 5:19 am

Pheonixhawk wrote:
oh goodness no I sure hope not. I think Ill hire Chuck norris to exterminate all the noobs in valkurm.

Why hire Chuck, gobs do the job with flying colors, hell I heard of people quiting cause of gobs @.@
You dont even get in trouble cause its in the programing

Undine · Post by **Undine** » Mon Apr 10, 2006 6:16 am

Euro wrote:
Pheonixhawk wrote:
oh goodness no I sure hope not. I think Ill hire Chuck norris to exterminate all the noobs in valkurm.
Why hire Chuck, gobs do the job with flying colors, hell I heard of people quiting cause of gobs @.@
You dont even get in trouble cause its in the programing

Ya why hire chuck? Jackiechan is much better

Post by **Sugami** » Mon Apr 10, 2006 11:04 am

Undine wrote:Ya why hire chuck? Jackiechan is much better

I agree

Post by **Alya Mizar (Tsybil)** » Mon Apr 10, 2006 4:29 pm

Undine wrote: Ya why hire chuck? Jackiechan is much better

Cause Chuckie DESERVES Valk.

Pheonixhawk · Post by **Pheonixhawk** » Mon Apr 17, 2006 2:21 am

Anyone notice how strong the bogey's are in the dunes? Even my lvl 41 rdm has trouble killing those things.

Post by **Alya Mizar (Tsybil)** » Mon Apr 17, 2006 5:46 am

You are joking I hope.

Debuff, Enfire, either Spike, Silence, Dispell, Haste, and shields up first. Then they are little problem. On Ghost types I like a dagger for the speed but get a Buzard Tuck for those at that level.

Blink will usually get you the time to recast Stoneskin, and then Phlanx is no problem.

I used to get levels on healing skill Cureing those to death. Of course my Healing skill has always lagged.

/WHM and Banish?

Pheonixhawk · Post by **Pheonixhawk** » Mon Apr 17, 2006 6:03 am

No no no you got me wrong. Of course I can Sluaghter them. But I sure have to burn alot of mp to do it. Thats why I say they give me trouble

Keavy · Post by **Keavy** » Mon Apr 17, 2006 6:14 am

Pheonixhawk wrote:No no no you got me wrong. Of course I can Sluaghter them. But I sure have to burn alot of mp to do it. Thats why I say they give me trouble

That is the world of the RDM my friend.

Pheonixhawk · Post by **Pheonixhawk** » Mon Apr 17, 2006 6:18 am

WHOA WAIT A SEC. YOU CAN CURE THEM? HOW?

Keavy · Post by **Keavy** » Mon Apr 17, 2006 6:51 am

Pheonixhawk wrote:WHOA WAIT A SEC. YOU CAN CURE THEM? HOW?

Cast a Cure spell on the undead and it deals damage.

The damage isn't that much but it is a fun way to skill up Healing Magic.

Undine · Post by **Undine** » Mon Apr 17, 2006 6:52 am

/ma "Cure IV" <t>

Bogy takes 150 damage

me:

Post by **Shirai** » Mon Apr 17, 2006 8:27 am

Banish is way more fun on undead tho, next to that Banish lowers the Defence of undead mobs for a bit.

"Shirai casts Banish III, The Lemures takes 492 points of damage."

*Monks /dance because their damage has been doubled.*

Post by **Alya Mizar (Tsybil)** » Mon Apr 17, 2006 4:23 pm

Undine wrote:/ma "Cure IV" <t>

Ummmm... you have to tab around a bit to target the bogey THEN:

Undine wrote:Bogy takes 150 damage

me:

I suppose /ma "Cure II" <bt> would work, never tried it though.

Post by **Sugami** » Mon Apr 17, 2006 4:56 pm

I still hate <bt> for macros.
Anyways if you're engaged the <t> macro works fine, you can even type it out manually, I find you can leave out the <t> if you want to cast the spell on what you have targeted.

Euro · Post by **Euro** » Mon Apr 17, 2006 7:02 pm

Tsybil wrote:
I suppose /ma "Cure II" <bt> would work, never tried it though.

Sadly Cure II does nothing really good for damage, hell Cure V only does like 300+ damage

Post by **Alya Mizar (Tsybil)** » Mon Apr 17, 2006 9:31 pm

Euro wrote:Sadly Cure II does nothing really good for damage, hell Cure V only does like 300+ damage

Not good damage but better healing skillups than PLing. I put PLing right up there with watching paint dry anyway.

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What ever happened to the old Valkurm groan