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    I soloed decorative weapons in sky to skill up my parry. I got ~25 skills from 180ish to 208 in about 130k xp soloed in like 4 months. It is just ridiculously boring to do so though. I can make around 3-3.5k/hr soloing there and I think my parry can get a lot higher had I continued doing it. But just way too boring for any regular people.

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    NIN/RDM or /WHM... go up to steelshells dualwielding parry knives, use parrying torque, the CP +5 parrying gloves.. whatever you can get. Just use utsusemi and don't do any enfeebling, cure yourself and use the MP drain WS to refill mp, i've heard of people getting a consistent(decent skillup each time they try) skillup rate doing this. like... 1 full parry skill from 250 > 251 in about an hour of nonstop crab killing. (try to choose the T to 75 steelshells and not the DC) It will take a real long time to kill 1 crab using shitty daggers, but that just makes it better.

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    That and the T will take you to cap and the DC won't, so if you're using so many +skill items, you'd get less skillups when you got close to the cap.

    I have a full RDM and WHM sub, so I'll prob try doing this with RDM sub at some point after I skill my weapons some more.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Sekkite
    There is a level 60 cap Pso'xja tower.
    Oh nice. I might go there soon if there are soloable mobs then.

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    A lot of Gobs, and I think there's also some pots there.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Farshaw
    any thoughts on -eva vs. +parrying skill, thinking specifically of haub vs. yasha

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    251 parry skill without any real solo work for it...a few skills from messing with Ul'hpemdes / Om'hpemdes for merits / see WS damage, but that's not where I got my skills. I played PLD first and capped at 225, because flash gives a high chance of parry, and then moved to ninja and was capped all the way until level 66. Then I just went on from there and got it in exp and hnms.

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    Eww gobs and pots...I'm looking around and can't get an accurate list of 60cap mobs, about to start digging at Elemen but since I can't read Japanese that's a slow, annoying, last ditch measure.

    Too bad somepage doesn't note which area each mob spawns at like they do for bibiki/purgonurgo.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Ankiseth
    That and the T will take you to cap and the DC won't, so if you're using so many +skill items, you'd get less skillups when you got close to the cap.

    I have a full RDM and WHM sub, so I'll prob try doing this with RDM sub at some point after I skill my weapons some more.
    thats false...
    Skill+ items in no way hinder your ability to skillup.

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    I got a ton less skill ups lvling up blm's elemental magic with full elemental gear then without.

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    Skill up on parry, you should go and just stand infront of the mob doing nothing just cast Uts.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Armani
    Skill up on parry, you should go and just stand infront of the mob doing nothing just cast Uts.
    Have to engage to parry.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Not Kuno
    I got a ton less skill ups lvling up blm's elemental magic with full elemental gear then without.
    Yes and I've gotten info from other NINs who say that gear will hinder the skillup of parry if your parry is near cap of what the mob can give.

    So I don't know, it's skeptical is all, but eh, I like superstition sometimes.

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    If you want 269 parrying go farm Ghrah M Chips with a RDM or WHM partner. Don't buy bullshit like +parrying or +AGI gear, you don't need it. Just tank, a lot.

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    Aggressor is your friend:D After 215 if you have another job like nin or thief...well, suck to be you and have fun leveling it.

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    Nin/pld for flash is nice. Flash will drops its acc huge for the next few swings allowing a easy evade or if your lucky parry (obvious -evasion +agi stuff helps here).

    Im 242 atm and was getting almost an entire point each Om'ufo I was tanking last organ run. Sometimes you just get lucky, other times you can go forever without a 0.1 XD

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    Nin/pld for flash is nice. Flash will drops its acc huge for the next few swings allowing a easy evade or if your lucky parry (obvious -evasion +agi stuff helps here).

    Im 242 atm and was getting almost an entire point each Om'ufo I was tanking last organ run. Sometimes you just get lucky, other times you can go forever without a 0.1 XD
    Ummm why Flash? Flash makes a mob pretty much have a guaranteed miss on a NIN, and evasion checks before Parry. Evasion >> Parry> Utsusemi. So if you flash a mob it's actually worse, pretty much throwing away any chance you have of the mob contacting with you.

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    actually i did go and lvl parry, went from 205 > 240 in 3 days in monastic cavern, about 8hrs a day.

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    what method plz

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    Quote Originally Posted by chrysta
    actually i did go and lvl parry, went from 205 > 240 in 3 days in monastic cavern, about 8hrs a day.
    That would drive most people insane.....

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