Dunes at 10?

[Pwnagraphic]

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Soon as I hit 10 I went to the dunes.. Had my armor ready and everything..

But it's easier to do the dunes if you have a subjob cause your stats are a little improved.

[Verranicus]

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Unrelated question.. would a duo of a 20WHM and 20WAR be able to do the sub-job quest?

[Takelli]

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I wouldn't advise it. Maybe with one other job it would be possible. Ot atleast have a level 30 (Preferrible thf or /thf) with you to help with the quest.

[Nuriko]

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2 level 20s can probably manage to get the crab and fly items ... but I really wouldn't want to try the skull.

[Aylmer]

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I helped a level 18 WAR with my DNC(synced to 18) get support job quest items today, so it could be possible including the Ghoul. Just build up the WHM for def and use a decent hammer with club capped. You should be fine. As WAR use Sheild Break whenever possible to help land hits.

[Losrase]

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You do not have to wait until night fall to get the Magik Skull. The Magik Skull drops from Ghouls in Gusgen Mines. It may also drop from Skeletal Warriors in Gusgen Mines but it has been awhile since I tried to farm some. I remember I use to from them from the Skeletal Warrior but I am not 100% on the Skeletal Warriors dropping the Magik Skull anymore.

If the Skeletal Warriors still drop the Magik Skull then a level 20 Warrior and a level 20 WHM can easily the items needed for the subjob quest.

Dont forget there is alternative subjob quest in Buburimu Peninsula.

[TheGrandMom]

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I've never seen a skull drop from a skeleton warrior in Gusgen and I've done/helped with the sub job quest a LOT. So don't bother with them, go for the Ghouls that are known to drop the skulls.

[Takelli]

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I've never seen a skull drop from a skeleton warrior in Gusgen and I've done/helped with the sub job quest a LOT. So don't bother with them, go for the Ghouls that are known to drop the skulls.

The Skeletal Warriors do not drop the skull. So do just as TGM says.

The skulls from teh ghouls though can take some time. I've been in there upwards of 3 hours trying to get a single skull. So, if you plan on doing it with just two level 20s... Prepare for a long day

[odjnlinus]

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To be honest, I didn't know about the dunes when I first started playing. I soloed BLM to 20 got my subjob in Buburimu, then went to Qufim Island. When I told people that I had soloed BLM to 20 they was like

Party Member #1: Why didn't you just go to the dunes?
me: Dunes? what's the dunes?
Party Member #4 lol you didn't know about the dunes, what a noob
me: noob....uh duh I just started playing the game like a week ago
Party Member #6: well if you soloed blm to 20 I don't see why you had to go to the dunes, good job
Party Member #1: yeah you don't see a lot of blm's soloing in those lvls
me : yeah I just grabbed a pole and started whacking things with the constant nukes before I pulled
Party Member #4: >.> the dunes is where everyone goes to lvl 10-20
me: well guess not everyone goes there if I didn't even know about it
Party Member #4: lemme guess your from Windy
me: yessir
Party Member #4 eh that would explain it, well hope you pull your weight in this pt, I want max exp/hr
Party Member #1, 3, 4, 5, 6 : o.o;;

2 hours later
Party Member #4: eh you did better than I expected
me: didn't know i was here to get your approval >.>
me: I'm outta here, hope you find a blm worthy of your trust ya egotistical maniac

/tell me: what was that suppose to be???
me: /blacklist add "Party Member #4

[Elwynn]

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I think you were being a bit too critical there. He was just like "HUH?" and you were treating him like a total jerk?

My first xp party, the BLM bitched about having to help cure... and I thought I was keeping up pretty well, so he must have been overcuring. Bitching about having to backup heal in dunes with a WHM that has no subjob? Now that's worthy of a blist. Too bad I was too worn out to even remember who it was, and I didn't know about blist back then.

EDIT: Yeah, "hope you pull your weight" was a bit uncalled for.

[Durahansolo]

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Party Member #4 eh that would explain it, well hope you pull your weight in this pt, I want max exp/hr

Ahh Yes! Because everybody knows that you get max xp every single time everywhere, especially in Qufim. Why in the hell would you even say something like that out loud? Even if you pull your weight, it would've been his luck if he was the one screwing up or somebody else in the party. It sounds like he may not have been a noob but his people skills are fail. I don't think he was worthy of a Blist, but he wasn't worthy of a linkshell invite or a friendlist add either.

Hell, if I hadn't been in a linkshell when I started, I probably wouldn't have known anything about the dunes either. I remember doing some crazy shite when I first started Warrior. I got into a party with a BLM8 and a WHM9 with me as WAR7, and we went to La Theine in a trio party to fight Akbabas LMFAO. Can you imagine 3 n00bs with no subjob trying to fight a Akbaba at that level? The Damn thing looked like a flying dragon!!! Ended up killing all of us.

Party Member #4: eh you did better than I expected

You needed to have your parser up so you could look at what he's been doing since he's so great...

[TheGrandMom]

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Ya what you did was pretty jerkish too so I imagine you're on his blist now also. He was surprised that you soloed that high on a mage job because mages are squishy. Saying he wanted max exp/hr was silly but it was what everyone strives for in this game and he just said it out loud. Be careful that your attitude doesn't get you a reputation for being difficult.

[Durahansolo]

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Ya what you did was pretty jerkish too.

True.

Odjnlinus, was the party disbanding or did you just leave in a huff while you guys were taking a break? Something that popped into my head, he wasn't the leader was he? I mean seriously if it had been me I usually would've meh'd it off, most likely would've said something like "You aren't so bad yourself ."

Kinda like TGM said about being difficult: You also have to remember that depending on your job alot of times you make impressions on people and then they end up generalizing your job because they met X person who was horrible or Y person who was epix... For example: how did DRG and DRK become "loljobs"? It was because some of them who did not know or care how to manage hate decided that since they put up big numbers it shouldn't matter how much of a MP sponge they are. Because of that DRG and DRK and a few other jobs are "lolish" or have tendencies to be because they put up big numbers, but when they are in the hands of the wrong people it becomes mayhem.

So when you can show off and do a good job of it you can expect to be commended (Even if the words don't sound like commendation you might have to take what you can get sometimes ), but when you fail you can be expected to be either tossed from party or people will leave.

[odjnlinus]

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Ya what you did was pretty jerkish too so I imagine you're on his blist now also. He was surprised that you soloed that high on a mage job because mages are squishy. Saying he wanted max exp/hr was silly but it was what everyone strives for in this game and he just said it out loud. Be careful that your attitude doesn't get you a reputation for being difficult.

Yeah maybe I was being a bit overcritical but that was when I just started and after watching a friend play this game, a couple of years ago, I kinda knew that these kind of people existed, so in a sense I was prepared.

Although now since it's been a while and I have more knowledge and experience, I normally brush things off to the side, I rarely get angry anymore or even have to walk away from the computer.

Bleh I'll explain more when I get back on, gotta report to work.

(EDIT) The party did disband, bc the tank had to go and we couldn't find a rep in time so everyone just left. As for reputation now, I guess it's pretty good well when it comes to my LS at least, I'm revered as a Reliable character with more than average knowledge of the game. It made me feel really good one day when I found out that our old LS LDR was trying to bad mouth me when I wasn't on saying how I hated him bc I thought he was better than me or something to that extent, I don't know the full details but more than half of the LS was sticking up for me saying I did more than he ever did for the LS and such.

They nominated me to be LDR of the new LS but bc I don't have as much time to play as the rest of them, I gave up the slot to someone who is always on and just as helpful as me.

[ItazuraNhomango]

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This thread reminded me that I didn't know people were suppose to group together for experience points when I started; my sister told me about "partying" in "dunes" and wanted me to go try it--I frowned at her for her effort. It was such a pain getting Valkurm Dunes from Windurst, too.

The way parties keep replacing, reforming, and breaking was frustrating from the start. It wasn't until later did I realize not all players accepted the constantly churning parties, and the JP population see replacements as the aberration rather than the norm.