Accounts Banned (Feb. 21)

[Wizerd]

As a first job MNK and long time NIN, I'm gonna have to agree with Aurik on this one. Although MNK can't reliably solo a Very Tough+ like a NIN can, the effect on their ability to solo anything lower is pretty well the same as the effect on a NIN. The only advantage NIN really has over MNK [for mobs of this class, Tough and lower] is that NINs have 2 things that help them solo mage type mobs: Paralyze and the ability to sub another job (in this case, DRK for Stun). The mob's family has little to do with it.

Where the mob family comes into play is when you start taking a peeker at the VT+ mobs. A NIN can still solo most mob classes that are VT, whereas a MNK stands no chance against a good portion of them. Something such as a Mamool Ja, for example, gives both jobs a hard time. Whereas a VT spider might rape a MNK for all its worth as soon as it gets Slow off, while I NIN will just laugh and evade all its hits, even if they can't Erase the Slow. The spider is a bad example, because even on MNK I evade them regularly at that level, but you get the idea.

For a class which "isn't good at solo", mnk can still solo serket, alkyoneus, and pre-rage-patch behemoth (though I'd love to give post-rage-patch behemoth a try someday to see if I can beat the clock). Also can do all the beastmen RNMs without a problem, and can solo as high as deco.weapons (78+) and eo'zdeis (76-78), though that's getting close to the edge of our ability.

Aurik: Yesterday, I got Behemoth to 59% in about 16 minutes before my Bard arrived. That would have added up to a ~35 minute kill solo. Obviously MNK/NIN does more damage more regularly than a NIN/WAR, so I have no doubt you can solo Behemoth after patch. However, I've been told many many times that Behemoth's rage timer is still 60 minutes, regardless of being NQ. Not 30min like Adamantoise. Does anyone have proof or first-hand experience with either? Currently it seems to all be heresay.

[Demetrius*]

can anyone confirm that someone was banned for a claim bot?

[Khamsin]

can anyone confirm that someone was banned for a claim bot?

I'm guessing 1900 claimbotters were banned, but its hard to confirm it, as I doubt any of them are going to admit to it and post here about it. They'd just say "I got banned for Windower" and make people feel sorry for them.

[Ploid]

Whats wrong with claim bots?

I hate small text, and I'm joking. Ban them all.

[Zeph]

GS are still around on midgard

[Twcblaze]

yeah, I saw a few of the GGs just now in the tree on the way to faf, so those freaks are still around on leviathan

[Kaylia]

War are awesome soloer too, dont diss them!
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v520/ ... rSolo4.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v520/ ... rSolo4.jpg
(Except not really, they are still the worse, after brd)


Dunno why people are saying Mnk isn't great for soloing. It's not the best job in overall, but it's pretty close to the best one. It's possibly the best one when paired with a healer too.

[Shuvo]

Now all SE needs to do is make farming a bit easier and were on our way.

Someday killing an Easy Prey won't involve coming to within an inch of dying on the majority of jobs.

That was once true, but today I think a lot more jobs can solo EP and higher.

These are the jobs I think can solo EP+ fairly reliably:
THF
WHM
RDM
BLM
SMN
PLD
DRG
NIN
BST
PUP
BLU

These are the jobs that cannot:
WAR
MNK
BRD
RNG
DRK
SAM
COR

My SAM friend can easilly solo T marids, fyi. Seigan is incredibly powerful.

[Zeph]

war,brd,mnk can all solo EP with ninja sub

[Celeras]

anything can all solo EP with ninja sub

^

[izembo]

DRK has sleep, with the right gear, they can do EM, it just takes FOREVER.

[Koyangi]

DRK has sleep, with the right gear, they can do EM, it just takes FOREVER.

bloody bolts ftw

[Orph]

I used to solo the second tier sharks in sea all the time on drk. I would just sleep and drain them to death throwing in the occasional absorb tp and ws. It took forever but i hate exping drk so it was how i got my buffer and farmed organs.

[Mala]

war,brd,mnk can all solo EP with ninja sub

I'm a brd and i can solo EP-DC(low end DC) mobs with whm sub with ease

[Pawky]

SE obviously did not do good enough because an Alliance of them just POS'd Overlord and killed it rofl

[Delekii]

I solo'ed ose to 50% on brd/whm before I got bored and teleported

In terms of survivability, bard is one of the best soloers.. just hope you have a good 5 hours to kill anything hard. Double march and full haste gear almost caps recast timers, and if you ever run out of shadows, most things can just be slept while you recover.

[.Dave]

any job can solo.. as long as you dont suck

[Koga]

any job can solo.. as long as you dont suck

qft.

[Medivac]

things will be better when they nail the rmt craft bots. although shihei will increase alot =/

[Kross]

anyone from Siste get banned?

Rumours are flyin'.