Sea Merit Parties

[Maxxthepenguin]

Well, I've heard about good merits from Sea, so I was wondering just how and where. I havent seen a great camp for anything but a manaburn. What kind of non-manaburn setup can be done in sea and where? I'm not looking for 12k+ exp/hour, my minimum is 4k xp/hour before exp bands.

[XxSlusherxx]

http://www.theorderls.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=7967


http://www.theorderls.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=7941


http://www.theorderls.com/phpBB2/search.php

have a nice day.

[Maxxthepenguin]

That thread has almost no info whatsoever. Simply that Ix'Drg camp is good until its not and roaming 1st floor could work.

[XxSlusherxx]

well hate to break it, but Roaming Ix'drg is it for xp in sea, hope your not disapointed... In other news, it's actually a good camp, and it's usually open.

[Eaglestrike]

My exp parties there have been at the Ix'Drk (Sheer animosity) spawn. Camp in the SW of the room, pull those Aern's, the Ghrah to the west and the room of Aern's to the south. With reraise's and such can get a nice and easy 6k/hour there. I haven't done roaming or had the privilege of getting a nice tp burn pt there (been exping with other thf's not merited or geared like me, or rng's, etc.) so can't say much more. We just used nin tank, rdm, brd, and a few DD's, used blm's sometimes too, whatever. Just whoever we could get really, sea was new to most of us still.

[Kaylia]

You won't get 12k per hour anywhere in sea. Well, I don't think it's possible.

You could get close to 8-10k on first floor running around, but I was never able to get more. Avoid mnk/nin aern if possible.

[Lordwafik]

You won't get 12k per hour anywhere in sea. Well, I don't think it's possible.

You could get close to 8-10k on first floor running around, but I was never able to get more. Avoid mnk/nin aern if possible.

We were gettomg 10k/hr in Grand Palace without even focusing (we were killing euvhi's in the path, later on ignored them, DC's having more defence than a VT aern is silly), 6 man rampage pt. Works really well, Aerns have no HP, nor Defence, the only annoying ones are Thieves. It requires less effort to heal than KRT pt's, but it needs mages with a clue, as these spam WS's that have add effects depending on which weapon is drawn, aswell as the stunga and silence moves.


How we did it :

Start at the room you enter in to the right, kill all aerns, prey the easy ones reraise, go past the Ghrah, if it aggros, kill it, otherwise just keep running to the next room. When you hit the last room, go all the way back to the start, otherwise you mess up chains and repop timers (would be nice if these were on 5mins timers, but they're on 16mins timers). Really really fun.

[Okgo!]

You won't get 12k per hour anywhere in sea. Well, I don't think it's possible.

You could get close to 8-10k on first floor running around, but I was never able to get more. Avoid mnk/nin aern if possible.

We were gettomg 10k/hr in Grand Palace without even focusing (we were killing euvhi's in the path, later on ignored them, DC's having more defence than a VT aern is silly), 6 man rampage pt. Works really well, Aerns have no HP, nor Defence, the only annoying ones are Thieves. It requires less effort to heal than KRT pt's, but it needs mages with a clue, as these spam WS's that have add effects depending on which weapon is drawn, aswell as the stunga and silence moves.


How we did it :

Start at the room you enter in to the right, kill all aerns, prey the easy ones reraise, go past the Ghrah, if it aggros, kill it, otherwise just keep running to the next room. When you hit the last room, go all the way back to the start, otherwise you mess up chains and repop timers (would be nice if these were on 5mins timers, but they're on 16mins timers). Really really fun.

This is what I usually do when I xp in sea, ws spam pts anyway. Thinking about going to a floor 2 tower in the garden and just running the circle killing everything, I'm curious if anyone has done this? It would mostly be for organ farming, but would the xp be ok? We haven't had a day to try it yet.

[Isildur]

the problem with roaming the lower floor in Grand Palace is that most of the rooms with aerns are seperated by doors from escort, you'd have to enter the west side and go down to the 2nd floor and roam backwards from the escort area and there's no way to open the doors from the other side unless you finish all 4 escorts beforehand.

[Okgo!]

the problem with roaming the lower floor in Grand Palace is that most of the rooms with aerns are seperated by doors from escort, you'd have to enter the west side and go down to the 2nd floor and roam backwards from the escort area and there's no way to open the doors from the other side unless you finish all 4 escorts beforehand.

No, you go the east door and roam the 4 rooms that connect.

http://ffxi-atlas.com/nav/?act=show&id= ... 89c2d2e59b

Start in (I-10) finish in (I-6/7). Run back, repeat.

[Kaylia]

We were gettomg 10k/hr in Grand Palace without even focusing (we were killing euvhi's in the path, later on ignored them, DC's having more defence than a VT aern is silly), 6 man rampage pt. Works really well, Aerns have no HP, nor Defence, the only annoying ones are Thieves. It requires less effort to heal than KRT pt's, but it needs mages with a clue, as these spam WS's that have add effects depending on which weapon is drawn, aswell as the stunga and silence moves.

10k per hour still sound a lot for someone who wasnt focussing in sea :D but I guess it's possible.

It sucks there is no way to loop in that place, because you always waste a lot of time running around. Same thing happen around Drg'Ix

[Okgo!]

We were gettomg 10k/hr in Grand Palace without even focusing (we were killing euvhi's in the path, later on ignored them, DC's having more defence than a VT aern is silly), 6 man rampage pt. Works really well, Aerns have no HP, nor Defence, the only annoying ones are Thieves. It requires less effort to heal than KRT pt's, but it needs mages with a clue, as these spam WS's that have add effects depending on which weapon is drawn, aswell as the stunga and silence moves.

10k per hour still sound a lot for someone who wasnt focussing in sea :D but I guess it's possible.

It sucks there is no way to loop in that place, because you always waste a lot of time running around. Same thing happen around Drg'Ix

That's why I was wondering how good the xp would be on the second floor of a tower in the garden.

http://ffxi-atlas.com/maps_normal2/0...t-garden_2.jpg

Just a loop on any one, not sure if theres enough mobs though. Guess I'll find out soon enough. Edit-I think one of the levels has Aerns too, is it the second one? I've only been there for the mission.

[Eaglestrike]

I haven't even gone around that loop on 2nd floor of Garden. There are 3 Aern's in the NE and NW rooms and 3 Aern's in the path between them. 9 Aern's with reraises can usually keep one busy. Especially because they link fairly well and that takes extra mp from mages... (brd can't sleep them)

[Suci]

Ive had great exp in sea..im a blm though and do manaburns. Theres 2 place you can go 2nd floor of garden and ga the groups wait to reraise and repeat. Good for aleast 1k in 2 mins. Not high chains but good exp bursts to make up for it.

The other spot is first floor of garden. when entering the zone take the 2nd right and follow it around till you hit the big hallway with aerns. Setup camp and fight away. Should beable to get c6+ then go north through door and kill the discoball(c7+) and make a right. Kill the ones in there(c12+ if done right) then go back and run straight across and theres 2 more aerns(c15+ if done right). If you know the route you can make a total circle.

[Delekii]

Grrr! Leave the second floor to the BLMS!

[Eaglestrike]

Grrr! Leave the second floor to the BLMS!

There are 5 "Second floors", you can deal. You guys own the rest of sea anyway.

[Flarega]

BLM duo Om'phuabos at rubious crystal near Jailer of Prudence. We easily get chain 4 and like 4~5kxp/hr. Not bad for duo.

[Suiram]

Grrr! Leave the second floor to the BLMS!

There are 5 "Second floors", you can deal. You guys own the rest of sea anyway.

There are 6 "Second floors" but I believe Delekii was referring to the only one of them that has aerns. 10~11k/h exp in manaburn if people aren't slow.

[Maxxthepenguin]

Grrr! Leave the second floor to the BLMS!

Because DRK has such an easier time getting exp right?