Campaign Compensation

[Riker]

So this morning I log on with nothing but my 2xp buffer on RDM. So I say, Hey! What a wonderfull kind of day! erm I mean Why not campaign some buffer? When I actually try on RDM/BLU I pull a mob off to the side solo him down, Bam 2500-3000 xp for 1 fight. Good Buffer stuff there. To my Discontent after 1 campaign battle that started, yielded 2 mobs, than ended, ad 5 battles after that which were about 20minutes but yielded a max of 250 xp I was disgusted. The reason this happened is because there are WAY too many people in campaign now, and not enough mobs.

I feel like right now at this point in time SE leaves us with no other option but to rapidly trade tags for ~150 spamming buffs every few minutes. Maybe its our fault for dominating the beastmen that they dont yield much XP But common; isn't that what were supposed to do?
Now that SE is taking buff spamming away from us, they NEED to compensate with a new way to get campaign XP... Because it just sucks at the moment.

thoughts?

[Ryphen]

I'll wager if you go to one of the less popular zones like the dungeons or beastmen strongholds, you'll have so many mobs you won't know what to do with them all.

Even in the outdoor zones, I've seen plenty of 3 wave battles where there weren't enough NPCs or PCs to handle the load and the bad guys run off victorious after beating the fortifications down for a half hour.

If your nation's intel isn't atrocious, the Intel NPC will tell you how many waves are expected at a battle, not counting the Dark Kindred. They just kind of show up whenever it suits them.

It's not really a lack of mobs, it's just where people distribute themselves.

[terranova]

Basically..if you campaign in the early US morning, you're gonna be hard pressed for xp in campaign. Every JP player known to man crowds campaign areas lol. Many times I'd get my tags and boom..

CAMPAIGN BATTLE ENDED
SUBLIMATION: Activated wears off
0 EXPERIENCE POINTS EARNED
0 ALLIED NOTES EARNED

>_>

[Kabbalah]

You're fighting in the wrong areas, man.

[Skjie]

Spend some time outside Jugner/Meriphautad.

[Atlasion]

How do you get 2500-3000 for one fight?

I've been campaigning lots recently to rank up in time for update, but I only get about 1000 per battle. I am on 64NIN/20DNC though..

[Wolfknight]

How do you get 2500-3000 for one fight?

I've been campaigning lots recently to rank up in time for update, but I only get about 1000 per battle. I am on 64NIN/20DNC though..

tanking/soloing mobs on drg/whm, sam/dnc, and mnk/dnc all 75 though and sometimes hitting wall some if bst area, I tend to batallia or vunkerl ususally, since they less people most of the time.

[wolffsrain]

I'm still getting about 2k~3k xp per campaign battle. I mainly fight in Sandy and get a new tag every time a new wave of mobs comes in. So I get about 1k+ xp per wave. As soon as the battle ends I check the other areas and warp right to them.

I just try to stick to areas where the warp NPC is close to the battle, like West Saruta or Jugner Forest, so you don't spend about a minute or more running to the place just to see it end as you get there.

[LinktheDeme]

tanking/soloing mobs on drg/whm, sam/dnc, and mnk/dnc all 75 though and sometimes hitting wall some if bst area, I tend to batallia or vunkerl ususally, since they less people most of the time.

you also have to wait about 30-50 minutes to let the cap raise that high. It's not worth it though because you'll reach the caps within 25 minutes. Best to refresh then and get new tags.

[Weeks]

Campaign rewards in general need to be reexamined. Concentrate on the one area your job excels at, and you hit the cap for that action in a few minutes. Consequently, you've got all the RDMs and WHMs in the zone feeding mobs TP and all the melee who know what they're doing subbing WHM or DNC and trying to get damaged. The system is broken, and until they fix that it makes no sense to do anything but exploit it however you can.

[Riker]

some good points made, If a solo pull can be made in eldeim it would probably be good... About the 2.5-3k xp / fight rdm/blu is great to pull a mob and solo it. You can cap damage given, magic damage given with en spells, do some buffs on yourself obviously, debuffs, and if you have an avalon shield use it to cap your dmg taken. Because phalanxe + cocoon = 0 damage, so just take the shield off and have those up and you can heal up quick. +6mp/tic refresh keeps MP ... fresh