New Merit Camps?

[Loziel]

So.. Anyone found anything with potential? I havent had a chance to go hunting yet because of work

[Drai]

cointeach, nuff said

[Rocl]

cointeach, nuff said

Oh? Where at? I haven't been in Xarcabard much, was doing missions in Beaucedine, but the Skulls by Nue Tower gave like 93 exp for a 5 person PT. VT, etc.

[Vail]

nue tower in BCD has close to 15-18 of those VT undead sperms, heard they have low HP and seem to have no TP moves, but the magic they cast can hurt so stuns would be highly recommeneded.

northeast part of Xarcabard[S] has a bunch of wallrus but they don't seem to friendly to merit against.

[Drai]

Oh? Where at? I haven't been in Xarcabard much, was doing missions in Beaucedine, but the Skulls by Nue Tower gave like 93 exp for a 5 person PT. VT, etc.

the ones in Xarc I was able to duo pretty easy as DRG/BLU x2, they have like, 2-2.5k HP at most and weren't hitting too hard, was getting chain 5's nicely and they're VT also

EDIT: oh, and no they don't have any TP moves at all, but with 2 of us the spells weren't a problem at all cause they usually died before getting any off.

[ronin sparthos]

Nue area also has about 3-4 imps along with the Cointeaches.

[Sifer]

nue tower in BCD has close to 15-18 of those VT undead sperms, heard they have low HP and seem to have no TP moves, but the magic they cast can hurt so stuns would be highly recommeneded.

northeast part of Xarcabard[S] has a bunch of wallrus but they don't seem to friendly to merit against.

except that blms own them (about 3 nukes to kill. possibly 40% HP per T4)

EDIT: based on xarcabard ones.

[Soa]

Yeah the whole area from the ramp by the Xarcabard zone to Nue's tower is choc full of VT floating skulls and Imps, so they may be a possibility, but it does sound like exp/kill is really low.

Thats pretty much all I saw in my exploration that would seem worthwhile. The Walruses apparently aren't merit friendly, and the pockets of Gigas don't seem to have enough mobs to sustain good chaining. Don't know how rough Gargoyles are so they may be feasible.

There are also tons and tons of Gigas Tigers that conned EM-T to 75 in Glacier, but there are also regular VT Tigers around most of them too. I did see a set of 2 in Xarc with nothing else around them so that might be a good alternative to Vunkerl.

[Deemos]

Nue area also has about 3-4 imps along with the Cointeaches.

Cointeaches spammed Ice Spikes when i soloed them and unless your RDM is very fast, they might just be boring and boring

[Drex]

The gargoyles have some kinda painful magic aoes, including one that is aoe damage + grav. Seems like it'd be like meriting on flies in Caedarva - XP/kill is ok but the aoe damage racks up too fast for healer MP imo.

Cointeaches might be a good xp camp for low 70s? XP/kill was low for a party of 75s, even with the kill-speed - would probably kill too fast for respawns, or if you compensate by spacing out kills to keep chain then the xp/hour wouldn't be too good.

[Drai]

The gargoyles have some kinda painful magic aoes, including one that is aoe damage + grav. Seems like it'd be like meriting on flies in Caedarva - XP/kill is ok but the aoe damage racks up too fast for healer MP imo.

Cointeaches might be a good xp camp for low 70s? XP/kill was low for a party of 75s, even with the kill-speed - would probably kill too fast for respawns, or if you compensate by spacing out kills to keep chain then the xp/hour wouldn't be too good.

yeah but as far as duoing/trioing goes it's better than birds because there's no TP moves to worry about and so far it seems competition will be low, plus you can solo/duo/trio them pretty much with any job combinations

[Julian]

What about all the IT/VT demons/tauri outside the castle? Looked to easily be Uleguerand Range+1

[Damane]

what about the coeurls before the entrance to uleguerande range, there seem to be plenty of them, and only of them (ok occasional ice ele pop)?

[Belgaer]

Why would you merit on something capable of using Doom (Mortal Ray) on you? :/ You can spam all the holy water you want, but it'll eventually catch up to you.

The cointeach's seem more like solo/lowman manaburn fodder. I could even see BLUs and BLMs joining up on them. Might be fun... too bad there's only 1/2 camps for it.

[rithridan]

Where are my Tundra Colibri? :<

[Julian]

Why would you merit on something capable of using Doom (Mortal Ray) on you? :/ You can spam all the holy water you want, but it'll eventually catch up to you.

The cointeach's seem more like solo/lowman manaburn fodder. I could even see BLUs and BLMs joining up on them. Might be fun... too bad there's only 1/2 camps for it.

Uleguerand range was the best exp/h pre-toau. And it's not hard to avoid doom.

[Kaylia]

Why would you merit on something capable of using Doom (Mortal Ray) on you? :/ You can spam all the holy water you want, but it'll eventually catch up to you.

The cointeach's seem more like solo/lowman manaburn fodder. I could even see BLUs and BLMs joining up on them. Might be fun... too bad there's only 1/2 camps for it.

#1 Because it's easily avoidable
#2 Because it's always funny when someone get hit with doom
#3 It used to be the best xp camp before (top of the mountain in uleguerand) for 12-14k/h

Hell, we were eating dragonsteak at that xp camp to increase the stress level.

[Julian]

#1 Because it's easily avoidable
#2 Because it's always funny when someone get hit with doom
#3 It used to be the best xp camp before (top of the mountain in uleguerand) for 12-14k/h

Hell, we were eating dragonsteak at that xp camp to increase the stress level.

That camp could easily break 20k, I think highest was around 22k/h? pre-cor, etc

[byte]

At the entrance of Xarcabard there's a ton of VT gigas along with tiger pets. Depends whether they provide any sort of EXP bonus.

[Nattack]

i dont know if they pop that way but there are two gigas bst's with tiger pets by the OP in xarcabard, may be good for pre-75 manaburn camp. though the one on the south side can wander off, 3 blms would probably lay waste to them for some good exp per hour, and death wouldnt be much a problem because of how easy it is to get to camp.