Alternativ Merit Camps

[Damane]

Since most of the times all ToAU merit camps are full (at least on Odin) I would like to start a Topic with alternate merit camps you use and like to use. I would appreciate if People would post alternativ merit camps with pros and cons and what type of setup they recommend.



Garden of Ru'hmet:

Exp-Yield: up to 12k exp per hour
Setup recommended: 1x whm or sch, 1x rdm, 1x brd, 2x melee, 1x war/nin or nin/war.
Camp Type: Moveing (KRT type)
Pros:
- typically free with no interruptions, since you dont aim for the rooms of Ix'DRK
- Organ farming as a nice sideeffect
- HQ organ, oder Grah M chips as a nice side effect
- fast accesable with tavnazian ring
Cons:
- needs a storng setup, basicly 1 slacker (gear wise or play wise) and you will loose your chain, this is also meant for the mages, be up on your toes.
- needs strong focus of mages
- harder pulling place for brds, Aern tend to resist lullaby alot
- there is usually no time for ballad casting, ecxept in the 3 main rooms where 4 aernx reside.

Pulling/movement route:

[Aro]

- Organ farming as a nice sideeffect
- HQ organ, oder Grah M chips as a nice side effect

Best part.

[drwaffles]

I'm pretty sure HQ organs don't drop from those Aerns.

[Avarice]

I'm pretty sure HQ organs don't drop from those Aerns.

Since when do Aerns 'ever' drop HQ organs?

[Shadowhusky]

Campsitarus-- The guide to FFXI xp camps! ^^

Bottom of the page.

[Hyriu]

I'm pretty sure HQ organs don't drop from those Aerns.

Correct.

[Aurara]

maybe he meant faith pops?

[drwaffles]

Pretty sure Aerns don't drop HQ Euvhi organs either.

[Damane]

Pretty sure Aerns don't drop HQ Euvhi organs either.

They drop of euvhi and since euvhi are on the route they drop there.

[drwaffles]

Didn't click at first that it's a map of the first floor, I thought you were talking about Ix'DRG rooms upstairs.

[Shinryuu]

NO BEASTKINDRED SEALS

GAWD

[Mifaco]

rest in peace, smn aern manaburn ;_;

[Zez]

This thread is going places.

[WraithLakshmi]

Up to 12k per hour? If I'm going to merit, am I going to go somewhere where I can get "up to" 12k, or go to birds and get 25-35k? This is not a good alternative merit spot, I personally wouldn't even waste my time for 12k/hour

[Aurara]

alright, so if you check every single camp and they're all full...you are gonna try to shove your way in and ruin xp?

[Marcicus]

alright, so if you check every single camp and they're all full...you are gonna try to shove your way in and ruin xp?

I personally wouldn't even waste my time for 12k/hour

i'd rather be synthing or playing something on the zsnes then get mediocre exp.

[Sylvrdragon]

Up to 12k per hour? If I'm going to merit, am I going to go somewhere where I can get "up to" 12k, or go to birds and get 25-35k? This is not a good alternative merit spot, I personally wouldn't even waste my time for 12k/hour

My fucking god. I swear that if I see one more person exaggerate their XP/HR on birds, I'm gonna fucking kill everything that moves. Repeat after me: It is NOT FUCKING POSSIBLE to get over ~23k/hr on birds. Ever. No, I don't fucking care what your setup is. Even 23k/hr is with Corsair's Roll and Rukenshin. The birds literally do not pop fast enough to maintain anything CLOSE to 35k/hr. Even IF you could actually kill them fast enough to THINK of getting 35k/hr, you would lose chain every single cycle. And no, Anniversary Ring doesn't count.

[Aurara]

you kill wivres too i think

[Liquidedust]

you kill wivres too i think

Yeah you usually stay in middle kill everything including Wivres and still have to fill up with 2-4 pops from below to maintain chain.

Its not as high as 35k/hr, but you hit around 28-30k/hr with Corsairs Roll, and can probably be pushed up to 32k~/hr before you hit the wall and its not possible to squeeze out more exp/hr.

[FailureMidgard]

My fucking god. I swear that if I see one more person exaggerate their XP/HR on birds, I'm gonna fucking kill everything that moves. Repeat after me: It is NOT FUCKING POSSIBLE to get over ~23k/hr on birds. Ever. No, I don't fucking care what your setup is. Even 23k/hr is with Corsair's Roll and Rukenshin. The birds literally do not pop fast enough to maintain anything CLOSE to 35k/hr. Even IF you could actually kill them fast enough to THINK of getting 35k/hr, you would lose chain every single cycle. And no, Anniversary Ring doesn't count.

umm, 23k with cor roll isn't even hard to get...But I assume you are in groups that refuse to pull Wivres, and that's why you think this. 35k is pretty hard to maintain, ~28k isn't that hard to come by, assuming cor roll.