Solo 1-?

[DeathFromAbove]

I just recently started lvling a BLM ( to sub for RDM ) on Odin. I am a Taru, and even with great equip and mothkabobs, i am sometimes fallgint to DC stuff, am i doing something wrong ( i am lvl 7 btw) any suggestions for places near sandy that is good for a BLM, please, help me.


PS i also would like to know when it is a good time to stop solo lvling!

[aegina]

Re: Solo 1-?

mages should concentrate on easy prey until you start to party.

you should start to party around level 10 or so

mothkabobs

moth kabobs? lol i think you mean mythkabobs

[DeathFromAbove]

Re: Solo 1-?

god it takes too long, i might go try worms soon

[aegina]

Re: Solo 1-?

i found mass destruction of all the easy prey in east ronfaure to be a pretty good way to xp with my blm. each mob gives a small ammount of xp, but they die fast.

drink juice and selbina milk. it will reduce downtime.

[Omni]

Re: Solo 1-?

moth kabobs? lol i think you mean mythkabobs

lol i think you both mean mithkabobs.

but regarding the question: yea aegina is right, drink some cheap selbina milk and some pineapple juice. at that level, start off with stone for your first spell. that should take off a nice chunk of hp then time your spells right so you dont get interrupted. 1 more should kill the ep or 2 more should kill a dc.

[aegina]

Re: Solo 1-?

lol yeah, what he said^^

[Armando]

Re: Solo 1-?

The key to soloing mage jobs is to think like a melee. Use a high-DMG weapon, and high defense armor. +INT means very little, as you're not too likely to get resists on things lower than you. Save all MP for curing. Use Meat Jerky, costs 120g off of NPCs, STR+3 INT-1 Attack+27%. Slightly more attack than Meat Mithkabobs, less -INT, a bit less STR but hey, it costs much less. Mass-kill EP mobs. This leads to less downtime, more drops, and more Beastmen's Seals, which leads to a better gil/EXP ratio as well as a better EXP/hour ratio :3 Milk is fine in conjunction with Juice but it's never as powerful, since 1 MP point is far more valuable than 1 HP point. Pineapple juice is a bit overkill since it recovers 80 MP total, unless you target slightly stronger mobs and can burn your MP often enough so that none goes to waste. Evasion gear helps plenty too (Compound Eye Circlet comes to mind.)

[DeathFromAbove]

Re: Solo 1-?

lol, money is no issue, i was given 1mil to start with by my lvl 75 nin friend, and i have mostly low lvl +1 items now, but its like its easy to kill stuff, or i cant kill it, kinda wierd really

[aegina]

Re: Solo 1-?

enguage a mog from outside of melee range, pull it to you with stone. you can one-shot easy prey and not get hit. bring juice and you have no downtime.

or sub white mage and think like a melee, highest-damage weopon, highest defence armor, and saving all mp for cures

or, sub monk and play monk-style (bare-fisted, that works pretty well) with selbina milk and meat jerky, those last few levels should go by pretty fast.

these seem to be the three best ways to level a mage 1-10. some work better than others, but each works well. pick the one you like the most^^

[DeathFromAbove]

Re: Solo 1-?

that is the prob, i have no sub, its a starting char, so i have no sub, and therefor cannot heal and have less HP, lol

[Omni]

Re: Solo 1-?

blm using staff or club is really sad imo. you will kill things faster if you just stone them to death. you can bind too, and nuke the poor rabbit to death while its bound.

[DeathFromAbove]

Re: Solo 1-?

well, although it might be safer, its not any faster to nuke it to death, many mobs have resist to the low lvl spells like water and stone.

[Armando]

Re: Solo 1-?

It's not as bad as you'd think. Bare-fisted, huh?

Anyways if you're subless, you're left with one option...nukes for the win, Pineapple juice to kill off downtime. That or go melee anyways, Milk to regen HP.

[aegina]

Re: Solo 1-?

i had no problem with levels 1-10 with my blm. i've levelled all jobs to 10+ on two characters.

i don't know how big a difference no subjob has on black mage, but you should be able to kill easy prey just fine.

i always stuck to easy prey for all my jobs levels 8-10. it's the best xp at those levels without a pl. decent challenges add too much downtime and are NOT better xp/hr

[Omni]

Re: Solo 1-?

i leveled up in w.ron for my blm then in ghelsba outpost.
nukes werent really resisted too often. i fired on orcs, beetles, rabbits, bats, sheep, goobies and funguars. with the xp change on ep/dc mobs and the xp rings, 1-10 should be a breeze!