Adventuring Fellow

[Khamsin]

Does this mean that, if at some point in the week, the beastmen are dominant in an area currently controlled by (say) San d'Oria, I should go level in that area even if its controlled by San d'Oria? And aim for beastman dominant areas, rather than areas that were captured by the beastman at the tally?

[Janice]

But it isnt always like that.

I got sandy armor in a bastok controlled zone with bastok in the lead. So who know what the heck is going on. Maybe it has to do with the peoples nation in your party too. I keep getting on this sandy crap cycle every few times. And I have a rank 10 sandy citizen in my party now.

[Septimus]

Actually, I was wrong about Sandy taking control of Volbol, Bastok took it this week. (But I did check the regional control when I was leveling, Sandy was in first on Saturday when I leveled, Bastok was just really close and mist have pulled ahead.)

It would really suck if it were more complicated like whoever is gaining the most power while you are leveling determines how armor progresses. My NPC tells me that he is very sensitive to regional control though... >_<

[Sonomaa]

and beatrice is colorblind, that doesnt help at all

[Khamsin]

I tried levelling in a San d'Orian region that was beastmen-dominant last night, with a San d'Orian party member.

My NPC came back wearing lizard.

[Shindoraemon]

I handed in my Lv 5 Great Katana and sometime this week or next I'll be able to open up the Chameleon Capers quest.

From the web sites that give the information, do you think a whm 72 and a Attacker NPC handle the "Illusory Pot" NM?

The site is saying
"NPC does 140-170 a hit to it at level 58. Total NM's HP is ~1800"
But my NPC is only Lv40 so Im sure Nanako will not be able to dish out that much damage. Or should I change to Shield NPC and slowly nickle and Dime the NM?

[Byrd]

From the web sites that give the information, do you think a whm 72 and a Attacker NPC handle the "Illusory Pot" NM?

The illusory pot NM was very simple for me at 75 RDM (NPC was ~47, Fierce Attacker), I can't imagine you would have any problems with it, regardless of your NPC's level. RDM's are better at soloing, obviously, but I think it's simple enough you don't need to worry about it.

[layoneil]

From the web sites that give the information, do you think a whm 72 and a Attacker NPC handle the "Illusory Pot" NM?

a Lv 75 SMN can kill it with 1 BP. i killed it with 2 WS on SAM.

[Shindoraemon]

Cool thx for the reply. I'll try it out when I get the quest open

[Septimus]

I handed in my Lv 5 Great Katana and sometime this week or next I'll be able to open up the Chameleon Capers quest.

From the web sites that give the information, do you think a whm 72 and a Attacker NPC handle the "Illusory Pot" NM?

The site is saying
"NPC does 140-170 a hit to it at level 58. Total NM's HP is ~1800"
But my NPC is only Lv40 so Im sure Nanako will not be able to dish out that much damage. Or should I change to Shield NPC and slowly nickle and Dime the NM?

The pot would con "Too weak" to you, don't worry about your NPC's damage. People have soloed it at level 55, so take a club and Hexa-Strike the living crap out of it. Keep stoneskin up, and if you have RDM sub, use it for Phalanx. (I doubt that it will break your stoneskin without Phalanx anyway.)

[layoneil]

oh, i was SAM/WHM and it didn't break my Stoneskin.

[Shindoraemon]

orz no hex... and no Rdm sub.....

[Septimus]

orz no hex... and no Rdm sub.....

Blunt damage will still be good against it even if you don't have Hexa, and Phalanx is optional.

[NynJa]

orz no hex... and no Rdm sub.....

what ?? You dont melee in xp pt's as whm ??

[Shindoraemon]

just Sub blm, thats it. All I do is cure, buff, erase.
Never bother to lvl Smn or Rdm

[Pyrena]

The way I understand it, your friend has to be level 50 to start certain quests right? I'm leveling my healer along with my BST (NPC37, BST42), so it's going slow but enjoyable. I still want to get all the quests I can though since my bond is growing quickly even though her levels are not.

And thanks for the link to the Alla guide. FFXI Encyclopedia has pretty much the same thing and is easier to read, but Alla has the nice guide about how to level their gear. I think it's a new addition.

[Septimus]

The way I understand it, your friend has to be level 50 to start certain quests right? I'm leveling my healer along with my BST (NPC37, BST42), so it's going slow but enjoyable. I still want to get all the quests I can though since my bond is growing quickly even though her levels are not.

And thanks for the link to the Alla guide. FFXI Encyclopedia has pretty much the same thing and is easier to read, but Alla has the nice guide about how to level their gear. I think it's a new addition.

Your NPC has to be at level 50 to do Genkai 1, but beyond Genkais, none of the quests are level based. (Although it is a detriment to be under level 50 for the Mirror Images BC fight.)

The FFXI Encyclopedia thread is good, but for the most part it is just stuff that was posted already in the Allakazham thread. Generally the Allakazham thread has the latest information.

[Ankiseth]

Yeah but it gets moved to the encyclopedia thing which has a nicer looking layout imo >.>

The BC50 was incredibly easy. I was expecting it to be tough so I went on NIN/WHM and borrowed and Astral Ring and Astral Earring and brought 2 Yagudo Drinks. In all reality I probably didn't even have to cure once cause I did a portion of the tanking from damage, and Zenji Cure IV'd himself twice. But yeah, it was nothing. A lot of fun though.

[layoneil]

i was planning to do it on NIN/WHM with Astral Rings :D

[Ankiseth]

I couldn't borrow my girlfriend's Tamas so I just used an Astral and an Electurm. But yeah I did like 2 C3s and was taking too much hate so I just stopped. Then he Cure IVd himself twice and the guy was dead. It was honestly soooo incredibly easy >.>