Soloing to 20

Keavy · Post by **Keavy** » Sun Feb 19, 2006 2:47 pm

I found this great guide that shows you how to solo to 20 on any job in any starter area. Share the wealth, I always say!

Here you go.

Kailea · Post by **Kailea** » Sun Feb 19, 2006 2:52 pm

oh cool, I got a friend soloing right now, this will be great for him ^.^

thanks for the find :p

Post by **Sugami** » Sun Feb 19, 2006 5:04 pm

The poor kittens! We must save them all!

Bitneko · Post by **Bitneko** » Sun Feb 19, 2006 5:59 pm

Useful and disturbing...

Kahvi · Post by **Kahvi** » Sun Feb 19, 2006 11:36 pm

nice, now all we need is a thread on how to power level your NPC buddy.

I only got my buddy to level 32 so far T_T ya.. sad, i know.

Mon Feb 20, 2006 12:44 am

Kahvi wrote:nice, now all we need is a thread on how to power level your NPC buddy.

Check here:

http://wiki.ffxiclopedia.org/index.php/ ... llow_Guide

Post by **Sugami** » Mon Feb 20, 2006 11:41 am

I'd usually take my NPC farming with me, she leveled a fair bit in the desert killing lesser manticores. Then they allowed them inside dungeons and I'd take her into Crawler's Nest when I was skilling Staff and the Tree for skilling on robbers or farming silk. Think she was 36 or 37 when I stopped playing around with her.

Keavy · Post by **Keavy** » Mon Feb 20, 2006 3:25 pm

As a WHM I find it difficult at best to level my NPC buddy. I'd take her farming with me, but I normally farm bees and shrooms so they don't give her enough experience. When I go for my Marble for Teleport-Yhoat at 50 I'll take her along for that and hopefully she'll get some experience and i'll get my Marble.

As for this guide, keep in mind that you hay have to go to Bastok or Sandy if Giddeus is full of necklace farmers. I plan on trying this out on DRG, BST, and SAM after I unlock it.

Sylphine · Post by **Sylphine** » Mon Feb 20, 2006 5:40 pm

I normally get to lv 15 and then go straight to party. ^^"

(Level to 20 isn't bad but I'm not patient enough

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Ho-hem..........I used to lvl my NPC recently before pausing my playing.

These are some of the points I found while lvling my NPC.

- If we call the NPC in the exp party, other player and the npc will recieve 100% exp according to their lv. But we, the npc owner, will get only 70% from our normal exp.

- To make the NPC's exp gpes up fastest, kill the mobs that are at least 5 lv higher than the NPC. He/She will get 200 exp each kill, and will lv up very quickly.

- Mobs that are recommended are mobs that doesn't hit hard and has no AOE if possible.

- If the NPC is shield-typed and is low lv, it's best to draw the hate on to ourselves.

- If you're a white mage or red mage, make sure you have stoneskin on, it'll help a lot. If you're a red mage, having phalanx on will also cut the damade down a lot. (A black mage? Not much problem, make sure your drain spells (Drain, Aspir) are not interrupted. Stun them, if neccessery)

Post by **Alya Mizar (Tsybil)** » Mon Feb 20, 2006 5:41 pm

The basic thing to remember when leveling your NPC buddy is that she will get EXPs off things killed relevant to her level, not yours.

So if you go necklace hunting in Giddeus, where the beastmen top out at less than L 25 your NPC will get few, if any EXPs. Qufim is a waste for them EXP wise, and hunting Tigers in Battilla Downs will give them small EXPs till they level a few times.

I have mostly leveled Clearite, my NPC, hunting Spiders in the Western Desert, and Goobbles in the Sanctuary. Next time I practice Archery, perhaps against Worms in Atawah Chasam, I will bring her allong.

Post by **Sugami** » Mon Feb 20, 2006 6:22 pm

It's very easy to level your NPC if you have a moderately high level job (60+) I believe most people leveled in Eastern Altepa Desert and Zi'tah before they opened it up to dungeons.
Basically you slay all the stuff that would be IT to your buddy and Too Weak to you so you get through a lot of mobs quickly. I leveled mine on RDM (and kept hate on myself) so I never needed to rest, just kept my defenses up and Refresh on

Kahvi · Post by **Kahvi** » Mon Feb 20, 2006 7:11 pm

I'm taking my NPC buddy with me on excursions deep into Delkfutt's Tower when I farm lightning crystals. so far that seems to be working.

TY for the info, now to get the NPC to use some of that adaman stuff.

Mollina · Post by **Mollina** » Mon Feb 20, 2006 11:57 pm

I solo'd to 17

Whoohoo · Post by **Whoohoo** » Wed Feb 22, 2006 1:16 am

Due to my time restriction for playing long periods of time, I have pretty much solo'd everything.

I am currently working on my 2nd to last job getting to 20 (currently LVL 18 BRD and only level 15 THF after that) otherwise all of them are 20, 21 or 25 (except for my RDM which I solo'd to 43 so far)

The only things I have not solo'd so far is the NIN, SAM, and DRG quests, Rank 3 Dragon, Rank 4 Dekfult run, and the NM Skeleton for the 2nd part of the NPC quest.

I solo'd the NPC Dragon as a level 33 RDM

hopefully when my spring break come, I will be able to get on for a while and hopefully get the Promy runs done since there is not a possible way for me to log on that long any other time....

I am mostly up to date in my sig. and all of that has been solo'd

Kahvi · Post by **Kahvi** » Wed Feb 22, 2006 6:04 am

Promy is fun... Oh wait.. i was thinking of ENM runs.. nvm

Keavy · Post by **Keavy** » Wed Feb 22, 2006 4:32 pm

Kahvi wrote:Promy is fun... Oh wait.. i was thinking of ENM runs.. nvm

/laugh

Yeah, I need Promy's but everyone only wants Ranger or Summoner. Why can't they need a WHM or RDM?

Post by **Sugami** » Wed Feb 22, 2006 5:00 pm

WHM yes, every run needs a WHM as they're the only raisers at that level. RDM is a waste, at 30 they can't really do anything useful.

Kahvi · Post by **Kahvi** » Wed Feb 22, 2006 6:43 pm

actually RDM are useless in CoP until they get to a spot with a lv 50 cap or a monster that needs to be kited with gravity and bind, /then/ RDM are useful.

CoP is long... really long... I so cant wait to finish this and start with Zilart Missions again... I really hate Mammets now...

Promy runs... I think the first thing they look for is a WHM, then look for everything else. My guess is if they can't get a WHM at the start, they scrap the run idea.

Sylphine · Post by **Sylphine** » Wed Feb 22, 2006 6:46 pm

Promy which caps at 30 make RDM useless, that's right.

I'm a RDM as main job...

Kahvi · Post by **Kahvi** » Wed Feb 22, 2006 7:03 pm

RDM WHM and SMN for now.. so promy has been cake getting parties. but I wont be able to really shine until either the level cap goes up so i can play RDM again, or till i get WHM and SMN all the way and just conveniantly forget RDM for a time...

ScarlettPheonix · Post by **ScarlettPheonix** » Wed Feb 22, 2006 9:21 pm

actually RDM are useless in CoP until they get to a spot with a lv 50 cap or a monster that needs to be kited with gravity and bind, /then/ RDM are useful.

You take that back!

After the 3 starter promy's Red mages are very useful. 2-3 and 2-5 are 40 cap so Red Mages get Raise, Convert, and most of our enfeebles. The only major spells we're missing are Refresh, Haste, Cure IV and the higher protects/shells, which hardly makes us useless . 3-3 is uncapped and 3-5 is one fight where rdms really shine. Diablos needs to be silenced, enfeebled and dispelled. I only like phalanx when I'm using it

Zilart missions? Meh, too easy to get through since they aren't level capped. No real challenge at all until after you get sky access. I like the challenge of CoP and having to remember how to play at level 40, or 50. The enms you get access to as you go along are fun and easy exp as well^^

Kahvi · Post by **Kahvi** » Wed Feb 22, 2006 11:22 pm

ScarlettPheonix wrote:
actually RDM are useless in CoP until they get to a spot with a lv 50 cap or a monster that needs to be kited with gravity and bind, /then/ RDM are useful.
You take that back!

After the 3 starter promy's Red mages are very useful. 2-3 and 2-5 are 40 cap so Red Mages get Raise, Convert, and most of our enfeebles. The only major spells we're missing are Refresh, Haste, Cure IV and the higher protects/shells, which hardly makes us useless . 3-3 is uncapped and 3-5 is one fight where rdms really shine. Diablos needs to be silenced, enfeebled and dispelled. I only like phalanx when I'm using it

Zilart missions? Meh, too easy to get through since they aren't level capped. No real challenge at all until after you get sky access. I like the challenge of CoP and having to remember how to play at level 40, or 50. The enms you get access to as you go along are fun and easy exp as well^^

Um no i wont take it back. RDM was the first person dead in 2-3. 2-5 we had an rdm kiting the mammet with grav.(rdm kite clause) I'll ignore your comment on 3-3 seeing that it falls on (rdm have refresh) hidden clause refered to in lv cap 50 remark. The text is so small that its a copywrite infringment just to look at it. 3-5 will be the only one i take back.

Oh and by the way. I'm a card carrying paragon of red mage excellence as well. thank you have a nice day.

Keavy · Post by **Keavy** » Wed Feb 22, 2006 11:40 pm

What I mean is I see shouts for Promy's in Jeuno or an LS will hold an event for Promy and the first spot filled EVERY TIME is WHM and has been said before, RDM doesn't offer enough to be useful (But I can use it to solo farm Anima fixin's

) so it puts me in a bind because I want to get my RDM to 40 so I can do Royal Jelly with my friends and I desperately wanna get my WHM to 51 so I can have Keavy to where my old character was. I had my old Mithra at WHM51 and never got to enjoy it before I lost her.

Not to mention that the time I get is limited and its reached the point now where pre 40 you can only get parties on the weekends.

Post by **Sugami** » Wed Feb 22, 2006 11:41 pm

Yeah sadly RDM are pretty useless for prommy runs. No Raise, not enough MP for main healing and nukes are pretty worthless. Best use a BLM instead.

Post by **Alya Mizar (Tsybil)** » Thu Feb 23, 2006 3:11 am

Only time I got in as a RDM it was as RDM/WHM and main healer.

Farming Anima solo? RDM all the way. But for the Craig Promies, no one wants us.

I have gotten since, as WHM or BLM, but the demend jobs are WHM, SMN, & RNG. And they only want one WHM. No one seems to want BRDs, THFs or DRGs either.

Post by **Sugami** » Thu Feb 23, 2006 11:35 am

BLM are also nice in absense of SMN or RNG.
THF don't have the DoT needed for prommy bosses, which usually run around a lot making it hard for melees (such as DRG, DRK, MNK etc.) to hit making them somewhat useless aswell. Hence RNG and BLM are liked since they have no trouble hitting moving targets and SMN for their 2hr

ScarlettPheonix · Post by **ScarlettPheonix** » Thu Feb 23, 2006 3:26 pm

I simply went through my CoP experiences as far as I've completed them to illusterate my point that Red Mages are far far from useless in the missions. Sorry if you feel I overlooked your exact wording.

After the first promys, Red-Mages are useful and even needed. I've had friends go through Dem, Mea and Holla as Red Mages and do well in those fights even without the abilities and spells we get later on.

2-3 is a pain and sucks to do period, whatever job you are. Our alliance had 3 deaths from its tp move. Two were warrior and one was a ninja. Not a red-mage death did we have.^^

Just curious though, why is being needed to kite at times a bad thing or a mark against you being a red mage? There are many fights where we' have to deal with a link through either sleeping or kiting it. We have some excellent tools for kiting and sometimes its needed.