level 50 soloing as SMN

[Nenlear]

any good ideas as to where and what to fight?

**note no carby mitts**

but a couple MP off his cost while impacting in a way isn't that bad i guess. so anyone?

[skylar]

The reason smn can solo easily is due mostly to carby mitts, so you'll want to get those. In one level, with light staff, carby mitts, and your austere robe you will have free carby. This allows you to kite around bombs indefinitely until they self-destruct onto carby. People go to u.range, IC, or garliage. Without carby mitts, you will most likely have difficulty getting much exp, because your chances of chaining go way down since you will have to rest up MP. The mitts aren't hard to obtain, really. So, good luck!

Here's a decent guide about smn solo exp: http://www.killingifrit.com/forums.php?m=posts&q=28803

[Nenlear]

what if i told ya i have no people to help me get carby mitts

also im at work so KI is cockblocked. but yeah i can't wait to finally get them and try and do something by myself without resting after every 2 fights on a easy prey mob. already sport the austere gear and working out how to get the needed gil for HQ lightstaff. anyone wants to help me get closer to carby mitts it would be appreciated. my LS is about a bunch of jerks. (crying if someone is late to say promy-holla by 2 minutes)or some other random stuff.

[safer]

maybe make some new friends? you should really get carby mitts =<
what server are you on?

i went pretty much 50-60ish on bombs trio/duo/solo in ifrits cauldron... 50 can be a bit hard, but trio'ing made it easy and fun...

[Darkblood]

Carby mitts can be duo'd by a ninja and a mage of any sort.

[Nenlear]

i be on the bahamut server FTW!!!

currently stationed at whitegate resorting to the lowest thing possible

/sh

to try and get some help with the battle several members of my linkshell where there so it was pretty funny to have them tell me no. bleh oh well i still look forward to smacking bombs around solo or duoed or whatever

[Tajin]

If would be a lot of help to you (more like boost instead of help) if you could get by yourself the item to pop the carby mitts NM, a stack of invis and sneak and some form of warp. Since is a 2hr between pops for the ??? to get the item.



P.S. maybe i skimmed the posts, didnt notice if you have or not the item >.>

[Intense]

Isnt Light/Apollos Staff pretty much required as well?

[Sagacious Sundi]

Mitts > Staff > Robe, priority-wise

If I remember correctly, the mitts do -50%, rounded up if it has a .5, and calculates it based on pre-Auto Refresh cost, so it's a huge requirement.

[Nenlear]

yeah i can go get the item easy enough. not sure 100% of the location but sneak/invis take care of that dont they? i was there the other day but got a party invite so just sorta warped out and didn't bother. i doubt i'll have much time until friday maybe thursday morning to actually go back though. but either way i WILL HAVE THEM lol before the weekend is up.

but 1 question carby free with the NQ staff or does it gotta be HQ staff?

[Sefier]

NQ does the job. Also might need to be higher lvl to get it solo since you gotta get trough Bonzes door and all the mobs there aggro to 75s (minus dolls which aggro to magic) Bring lotsa Powders.

[Nenlear]

but thats to actually get to the NM that drops em though correct? to get to the offering itself its just inside the zone isn't it?

[Nirokun!]

but thats to actually get to the NM that drops em though correct? to get to the offering itself its just inside the zone isn't it?

its in these disgusting little rooms that have doors... and tonberries inside lol

i remember doing my best to sneak in there on my (probably) 60~ish whm with stoneskin/blink/shock spikes to check each room before running my aggroed ass to the zone with a train of tonberries (nins casting shit like poison, and tonberry's elementals casting nasty spells :XXX) but it was a good experience in the end when you finally have that nasty rotting meat :D

[Alastaire]

Getting the offering means getting past a lot of dangerous mobs. I was level 40-something when I did it, and went as RDM, aggroed as soon as I got the thing, had to Chainspell-Warp to escape. Ended up dying as I was warping, and dead just outside MH >.>

[Nenlear]

eh its only xp right? i have one friend who MAY be willing to help. hopefully he is on when i go to do it. maybe he'll be able to help with the mitts as well but we will see i geuss. i still gotta screw around with maat wanting some items also.

/sigh

so much to do. so little time to do it lol.

[defiant]

I started at lv 50 without the staff but already had the mitts.

It takes a little longer as you need to rest for mp but it's not to bad.

[Demitrius]

Failing all else, Mitts tend to be a merc favorite. Me and two others used to do them (including the offering) for 500k. This was before inflation and deflation, no idea what the going rate is now.

[safer]

you can try keeping invis up and line yourself up to some of the doors.. sometimes you can tab through the doors to see it the ??? is up....

tonberrys will agro you through doors if invis is not up btw

[Tajin]

Yeah as i said, bring powders and oils, and you can reach 4 pop spots of the offering if you travel thru the Den of rancor, which is quite easy as long as you keep invis/sneak up

http://www.ffxi-atlas.com/maps/uggalepi ... e/general/


P.S. you might want to go there at some odd time, so the chances of the offering being up are higher.

[Rikus]

bombs bombs & more bombs

Light staff & carby mits are a huge+ but you don't "have" to use em (but you should def try to obtain em)

As for a HQ light staff it's not worth it at your lv as the perpetuation cost isn't so high yet you really don't "need" HQ staves till like 70+ the other avatars sure it helps a lil bit but on carby it does nothing if you have carby mits

Grad another smn or 2 or 3 & go to ifrits, lv range is totaly irrelvant you can go there as a lv51 smn w/ a lv58 in your party & still get 200+ a kill as the mobs are so high lv. If you do manage to get everyone in the same lv range you can easily get 300 base exp w/ ring on & chains I was breaking 500 a kill

Ifrits dies off about 60'ish after that go to Uleguerand Range at the lake past jorm & that camp is good till lv75

I can pretty much count on one hand the "normal" parties I had on smn 50-75

The only thing you need to know is to stagger your assaults so when one carby dies there is still other carbies on while you resummon/assault

feel free to pm me if you have any ?'s

oh & btw bring some pickaxes as you will run into mining points XD