KS Farming

[Vhess]

I'm wondering what mobs are best for farming KS. I have DRG and BLU at 75 so I can farm most mobs easily, I'm just not sure what the best target would be as I've never specifically tried to farm seals before. Ideally the mobs would be plentiful and as low level as possible to still drop KS while also dropping some other sellable items. The KS are the priority though.

Any suggestions?

[Credos]

Kuftal from what I know is pretty decent.

[Bkbahamut]

robber crabs ftw

[Fng]

LOO Tomora (Damn I wrote tomorrow lol) vs everything thats EP.

[solsovly]

I used to dual box two chars. A BST outside of the party that would fight karakul vs karakul and a solo BLM t3 nuking chigoes that popped. In the average karakul vs karakul fight, 3 chigoes would pop. Release before the karakul you are fighting dies and disengage, BLM would clean up that too. So per fight would average 4 chances for Kindred Seals. I was mostly going for xp at mid level (beating out goblin pets). But I ended up with alot of seals as well.

You could probably just engange karakuls and oneshot chigoes that pop. Alternately , you can mow down crabs/spiders in Kuftal like people have suggested.

[Celebrindor]

I remember getting great streaks on Cockatrices in the Labyrinth of Onzozo while camping for a moldavite Earring. Meat fluctuates too making it generally not that bad.

But Kuftal has been kind to me as well.

[Kimiko]

For myself, being a black mage, Wamoura Princes have always been good in terms of seal drops. On a good days worth of meriting I'll come away with bout 10-12 seals.

[Bluedemon]

Back when spider webs were descent gil, I'd farm B.Tree spiders which had pretty descent drop rates.

Now a days I hit up Perytons in VOS mostly just because I need those feathers for crafting.

I guess my point is, find a mob that suites you, if you want to farm other stuff while you farm KS, then my suggestion would be to do mobs that have stackable crafting items that sell for maybe 10-20k a stack. That way there won't be too many people also farming the mob, and you can still pull in a few hundred K easily. If you just want the KS then find a mob that's particularily weak to piercing damage (DRG) or BLU magic.

[evilpaul]

Get Sanction Refresh, switch to DRG/WHM, and pop your Olduum Ring. Slaughter the Lesser Colibri for hours.

[Septimus]

I love to solo. After 75 levels of RDM, 34 of those being treated like a total ho, nothing gives me greater satisfaction that going out and smacking mobs around that would eat most other jobs for lunch. From my experience, the type of mob or even the level doesn't affect Kindred Seal drops, it is all a matter of quantity.

I am not a huge fan of crabs, their natural defense up traits are too pesky for a Red Mage and it slows down kills. Crawlers are a nice target, fairly squishy, no horrible TP moves (except for the Fire Crawlers in ToAU zones), although their double attack would be bad if you are blink tanking and defense boost would be bad for non-dispelling jobs.

Find the lowest level EP mobs you can and just plow through them to maximize your number of kills. Leveling an adventuring fellow is also nice for Kindred Seal drops since they help to speed up kills once they are a high enough level.

[Not Kuno]

Get Sanction Refresh, switch to DRG/WHM, and pop your Olduum Ring. Slaughter the Lesser Colibri for hours.

And piss off all xping parties.

[Vhess]

Get Sanction Refresh, switch to DRG/WHM, and pop your Olduum Ring. Slaughter the Lesser Colibri for hours.

I've done this before and I have to say, it's so boring it borders on masochistic. Though these are EP and not hard at all to kill, they are mostly the highest range of EP which means they still take a little while to kill. I'd prefer to plow through 3 easier mobs in the same amount of time.

LoO does sound promising. Coeurl + Cockatrice = the farming I used to do two years ago in Sauromogue for cockatrice meat, giant bird feathers, coeurl meat and coeurl whiskers. Though, based on the level range pt xp off of these mobs, these would be even higher lvl EP than colibiris. Hmm.

Thanks for the feedback so far.

[solsovly]

Get Sanction Refresh, switch to DRG/WHM, and pop your Olduum Ring. Slaughter the Lesser Colibri for hours.

I've done this before and I have to say, it's so boring it borders on masochistic. Though these are EP and not hard at all to kill, they are mostly the highest range of EP which means they still take a little while to kill. I'd prefer to plow through 3 easier mobs in the same amount of time.

LoO does sound promising. Coeurl + Cockatrice = the farming I used to do two years ago in Sauromogue for cockatrice meat, giant bird feathers, coeurl meat and coeurl whiskers. Though, based on the level range pt xp off of these mobs, these would be even higher lvl EP than colibiris. Hmm.

Thanks for the feedback so far.

I almost exclusively level my NPC char in LoO. Lots of EP stuff that dies relatively quickly (goblins, scorps,mantas,doomtoads). I havn't done this for a while, I thought all the cockatrice were too weak? Couerl would probably suck for farming KS as I think they spawn 72-74. But they make great pets.

I guess you could also try some lower level coffer mobs if you are in the helping mood. Garliage coffer mobs are usually empty, but you could make more money farming Yagudo or even SSG for drops + seals. Mobs are just more of a pain.

Crawlers nest is often overlooked as well, tons and tons of EP mobs at 75. I'd probably avoid the xp camps though so you don't piss off too many parties.

[evilpaul]

Get Sanction Refresh, switch to DRG/WHM, and pop your Olduum Ring. Slaughter the Lesser Colibri for hours.

And piss off all xping parties.

If there's more than one party there the EXP probably already sucks. It's not always taken 24/7, on Hades at least, anyway.

Crawlers nest is often overlooked as well, tons and tons of EP mobs at 75. I'd probably avoid the xp camps though so you don't piss off too many parties.

The rumble crawlers and nest beetles would have the added benefit of decent selling drops as well in addition to seals.

[SamanosukeShiva]

does TH affect KS/BS drop rate?

[Vhess]

does TH affect KS/BS drop rate?

I also have this question. For me, DRG/whm is actually better to farm with than BLU because with BLU eventually I need to stop and rest mp; and if I am conserving mp that means the kills are going slower. However, I can go BLU/thf wheras I need to sub /whm or /blu if I am going as DRG. If TH affects the droprate of KS then this will change my playstyle.

CN is a good idea. I often have gone there to level my NPC or work on latent. If you go to the back where the Demonic Tiphia spawns you can find a lot of low ep Rumble Crawlers, Wespes and Flies.

[Panella]

Get Sanction Refresh, switch to DRG/WHM, and pop your Olduum Ring. Slaughter the Lesser Colibri for hours.

I've done this before and I have to say, it's so boring it borders on masochistic. Though these are EP and not hard at all to kill, they are mostly the highest range of EP which means they still take a little while to kill. I'd prefer to plow through 3 easier mobs in the same amount of time.

LoO does sound promising. Coeurl + Cockatrice = the farming I used to do two years ago in Sauromogue for cockatrice meat, giant bird feathers, coeurl meat and coeurl whiskers. Though, based on the level range pt xp off of these mobs, these would be even higher lvl EP than colibiris. Hmm.

Thanks for the feedback so far.

I almost exclusively level my NPC char in LoO. Lots of EP stuff that dies relatively quickly (goblins, scorps,mantas,doomtoads). I havn't done this for a while, I thought all the cockatrice were too weak? Couerl would probably suck for farming KS as I think they spawn 72-74. But they make great pets.

Yeah, they check too weak to 75 and I just recently exped 45-48 or so off of them... not a single KS so I don't really think those drop them ._.

[Vhess]

Get Sanction Refresh, switch to DRG/WHM, and pop your Olduum Ring. Slaughter the Lesser Colibri for hours.

And piss off all xping parties.

There are plenty of places to solo colibiri without interfering with xp pt. If there's only one xp pt there, you can move east to the tunnel mouth near where the Amertats are; xp pt usually have too many mobs to get that far even if they are roaming a little. There's also a small clearing just south of the Amertats that has 4 spawns; this is daytime only though as a bhoot spawns there at night. Between these two places, though, you can usually kill plenty of colibiri without getting in anyone's way.

[RKenshin]

Best bet IMO is to just go for a mob that there are a lot of, that you can kill fast, and doesn't cause much down time.

I honestly think that KS/BS drop rates are about the same on all mobs regardless of their type, just because it doesn't really make much sense to have every single mob have a specific drop rate... So with that in mind, what it really comes down to is how many of a certain mob you can kill in an hour. More mobs you can kill in an hour, the higher chances you have of getting the most seals.

Evidence of the above being true is even in this post, all the mobs recommended so far fit the first line in this post pretty well.

[Ichthyos]

does TH affect KS/BS drop rate?

I don't think anyone has definitive data, but there's no reason to believe TH doesn't affect seal drop rate.

Just from personal experience, I believe it does.