Adventuring Fellow

[layoneil]

all you have to do is run to a ??? spot on the first floor of any Crag Promyvion and click it. at most there are like 5 mobs around it that don't link.

best plan is to set your NPC to Shield and go on a healer job.

your NPC will get XP for mobs you kill and you can also go up and find ??? on higher floors for more XP, but going up would require killing Memory Receptacles, doing it solo is impossible.

imo, it's really generally not even worthwhile to do for the XP. just do the quest and get the Tactics Pearl.

[Byrd]

imo, it's really generally not even worthwhile to do for the XP. just do the quest and get the Tactics Pearl.

The additional XP for the NPC is pretty negligble for going up floors in Promyvion. If you happen to run into a party that's going up, you'd want to catch a ride for sure, but going to the effort of getting up a couple of levels seems not nearly worth the effort.

If you're on limits, you get some semi-decent limit points fighting mobs on the first level of Promyvion. You have 45 minutes to find and touch the ???, I've gotten close to 1000 XP in that time personally, plus whatever you get for your NPC. That's obviously not good in the grand scheme of things, but if you've got nothing better to do, it doesn't hurt. It's hard to find good ways to XP both yourself and your NPC -- this is the only time you can summon an NPC in a level-capped environment that I know of.

Also, if you're into maps, there's an Even Match Spire boss-type mob on the first floor of each of the Promys that you can get that might drop the Memosphere.

But if you're just in a hurry to get the Tactics Pearl, you can finish this quest in 5-10 min, fighting somewhere between 0 and 5 mobs.

[Shindoraemon]

Cool, I dont have to go to all the floors and looking for ???. Sweet.
now after I get tatics, lving would be more better. Since I can call her out more often. If I read the guide correctly after I use the 4 charges I throw the tactics out and get a new one (after each conquest tally).
Now do I need to talk to the NPC at the Rev point and wait till she gets her empty stomach call and then go out and repeat the steps?
or just go?
Also any other Whm main out there lving NPC? If so how did you manage to lv the NPC? and do the NPC quest killing the NMs (I guess I need a PT..)

[Janice]

As long as you have hexa strike, you can solo any of the NM's really easily. I just lvled the NPC to 40 in Xarcabard and then to 50 at revelation rock solo.

RDM sub helps a lot with phalanx.

[layoneil]

Now do I need to talk to the NPC at the Rev point and wait till she gets her empty stomach call and then go out and repeat the steps?
or just go?

yeah you need to reflag the quest at the beginning of each week.

[Nirokun!]

get 74, get nin sub and melee gears, pretend you're a rdm or something, not too bad

i prefer smn for all my soloing needs though

[Septimus]

So far I have done Lv 2 Weapon and Lv 1 Head Gear. and chatted with Nanako and she mentioned about the empty. few days later when I talked to her she doesnt mention about the empty anymore. I wonder if I lost the chance or its just open.

Either way my main question is Can a Lv 72 Whm solo through Prov. Holla / Dem / Mea? by himself?
Or I actually have to find a PT, and go to each floor and check the ???
(or just check 1 ???)
Wait a sec.... my Lv is capped, so my Lv isnt an issue.

Come to think of it.. Can a Lv 72 Whm + Attacker NPC able to Solo?
so Far Nanako is lv 35 and at West Desert with Spiders. I really am worried about later lvls if I can handle it....or need to lvl a new Main job..

I usually do the the Prommie quest as WHM and have Zoldof set to Attacker or Fierce Attacker, and have not even had a close call. As long as you can pull the mobs one at a time and keep your MP up, you're in no danger. He/she will only offer the quest once a week, but it is a standing invitation to do it anytime. If you die/fail, you can go back to the Rondezvous Point after JP midnight to try agian.

You should be able to solo your NPC to at least to 55 as a 72 WHM, from there you will probably need to party. From 60 on everyone needs to party if they want to get maximum XP, and it is just more efficient that way.

[Lordwafik]

From 60 on everyone needs to party if they want to get maximum XP, and it is just more efficient that way.

<3 BST

[Shindoraemon]

thx for the tips, \(^_^)/
btw, Happy New Years. (If I miss the chance, mine as well say it early).

[Ankiseth]

I do the promy quest in Holla, go to 2nd floor and near the ??? there are 2 MRs (Strays are <33333 for the quest) and a decent amount of other mobs to kill. I do it as THF/NIN with Zenji on Soothing Healer, could do it on any job but it's just safer that way. It's really nice though because of the major evasion and bloody bolts. And a WHM with a GAX takes hate so I can just SA as soon as he does for some good damage and to tank the fight. Gotten 2100 exp the last two times in 25 minutes.

[Helpoemer]

got my NPC in this and locked it straight away =3 now i need to get something that looks good with that for hands or legs

http://img428.imageshack.us/img428/2826/npc0nw.jpg

now to get him from lvl 60 to lvl 65 ._.

i saw mountain worms in uleguerand range 66-70, might try those with a couple of friends tomorrow

[BRP]

Mine had a green justacopes(murdered) right after the last update. I believe they raised the 'regional armor' limit. Too bad I lost it once I stop caring what armor they wore. (PS, this was from leveling in Beastmen area).

[Khamsin]

This has been annoying me. I've been levelling in beastman controlled areas for a long time now, from like level 33 to 45, and my NPC has worn level 1 RSE, doublet, scale, beetle/bronze harness, chocobo gear, and back to RSE, scale, more RSE, etc. and doesn't seem to be going "up" the chain of armors I'm supposed to get in beastmen areas.

In fact, he's gone back down to level 1 RSE more than a few times, and I've never left beastman controlled areas.

Is it really just this random, or am I missing something?

[Janice]

This has been annoying me. I've been levelling in beastman controlled areas for a long time now, from like level 33 to 45, and my NPC has worn level 1 RSE, doublet, scale, beetle/bronze harness, chocobo gear, and back to RSE, scale, more RSE, etc. and doesn't seem to be going "up" the chain of armors I'm supposed to get in beastmen areas.

In fact, he's gone back down to level 1 RSE more than a few times, and I've never left beastman controlled areas.

Is it really just this random, or am I missing something?

It's happening to me too. Trying to lvl the bastok armor. Wearing chainmail and fighting in a Bastok controlled area. Next time I look, NPC is wearing scale mail (which is lvl 1 Sandy). How the hell does she get a sandy piece from a Bastok controlled area, and Bastok was leading in the area too at the time I brought out my NPC.

[Khamsin]

What really sucks is that the only two zones that are beastmen controlled this week on Pandy are Qufim and Movalpolos. My NPC is 45. So I'm levelling on stuff that is EP-DC to me for my level 45 NPC, just for the sake of levelling in beastmen controlled areas. Gauldeval better have something to show for this other than more RSE, doublets, scale, and chocobo outfits.

[Janice]

What really sucks is that the only two zones that are beastmen controlled this week on Pandy are Qufim and Movalpolos. My NPC is 45. So I'm levelling on stuff that is EP-DC to me for my level 45 NPC, just for the sake of levelling in beastmen controlled areas. Gauldeval better have something to show for this other than more RSE, doublets, scale, and chocobo outfits.

Upper Delkfutt's tower?

[Khamsin]

Yeah. As SMN, its not hard to kill the stuff there, just time consuming due to all the resting. Ramuh and Titan can kill pots easily, and the bats aren't that hard, but then I have to rest 300-400 MP between fights (or 600-800 MP every couple fights).

I've levelled in Newton before, too, and that's just as bad, having to carby pull everything first. I can't get to the bats as easily in Newton as I can in Delkfutt's, though, so I like Delkfutt's better.

Ordinarily, in most other beastman controlled territories, I could still be using Carbuncle to tank and not have to rest at all. Last week, Fauregandi was beastman controlled, and I just went to the basement of Fei'Yin and went from one side to the other killing all the bats on the way with just Carby.

[Nirokun!]

Wear more -enmity gear, engage with carby, macro in all your -bp gear, bp (poison nails scores 180-250 :D i like it :3), then all your -perp/+acc/-enmity gear, all that, and engage. You'll need to do spirit takers to compensate for your next BP. If your carby isnt lasting long enough, do healing ruby II and he'll heal himself, and you can spirit taker the mp back. I was fighting bark spiders solo in boyahda tree up until LS NPC PTs in terrigan/VoS, and i got to the point where it wasnt me pulling hate from my carby, it was my npc lol >.> Keep up the solo :3

[Khamsin]

Enmity isn't an issue, Carby can still tank well enough. Its just that he dies faster than the mob does (to which I can just HRII to fix), and if I waste BPs just to heal carby, I may as well just use Fenrir (next cheapest alternative) and Eclipse Bite it a couple times and be done with it.

So its either melee with Carby and HRII him occasionally to keep him alive and not have to rest between fights, or use Fenrir to Eclipse Bite twice (or once and some melee), then rest every couple fights.

Either way, its time consuming and I barely have enough time to get all his fights in.

On a completely unrelated note, concerning Carby and HRII, last time I did Crawler's Nest escort quest, I said "screw it" and just had carby train the entire zone. Just have carby attack a scorpion, crawler, exoray, and beetle, then link all the rest you meet on the way, and you're set. Of course, toward the end I was having to HRII every minute, but it got the job done. Thinking back on it, I could have put up stoneskin/blink, then released carby to cause all the links to disappear leaving me with only 4 mobs, then resummon carby and get them back on him again... but this was much more fun. :D

[Septimus]

My personal working hypothesis for NPC armor is when the week starts armor upgrades are mostly affected by who is in control of the region, but as the week goes on the country that has the most regional infleuence will determine upgrades. (And sometimes down grades.)

Last week when I was doing NPC parties in Cape Terrigan, Zoldof was wearing cloth-type armor since Windy controled the zone, but towards Wednesday and Thursday he started wearing low scale and plate armors since Sandy was taking over.

And Khamsin, if you are just going for armor, go to Behemoth's Dominion and fight Weapons, Skeletons, Couerls, Ghosts, and Elementals. You won't get a full 200XP per kill for your, but the fights will be a whole lot faster and still give him/her DC-T XP.