Ugh, I'm Leveling Friggin DNC...

[Omgwtfbbqkitten]

Re: Ugh, I'm Leveling Friggin DNC...

actually there are better camps than the ones ripped from the Wiki Solo Guide.

Skip qufim, its ruined simply by the fact that there are so many PTs there, stick with Korrokola Tunnel to 27 and move on to Diving Beetles at 27-29 in Sauromunge. Its a little slower there, but no competition more often than not. After that do 29-32 in Fort Karugo-Narugo (S) against saplings and Vorpal Bunnies. Sub /NIN here, their DEF is weak, but they hit hard.

Finish off 32-37 in Grauberg (S) on the worms near North Gustaberg (S) zone. If taken, move up to the cottage by the waterfall there, This gets you out of the way of the Gobline Pioneer that patrols the zone. The worms here - unlike in Attowah Chasm of the same level - do not link.

Finishing off in WotG areas makes things a bit easier, plus you get all the perks of Sigil.

[Malacite]

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Am I the only one who resents the title of this thread? DNC is awesome >:O


Also /PUP is freaking awesome as a sub early on if you have it. On the matter of CHR, each point you add pumps Curing Waltz by 1 HP. Don't worry about CHR, focus on accuracy and attack/STR.

Once you hit 15 and get Curing Waltz and Evasion Bonus you can pretty well solo most mobs with a good evasion set up and the right food (either Jacks or Mutton)

[Callisto]

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The ugh wasn't so much at DNC itself, but at leveling another subjob, lol. I'm very bad with low-level jobs lately for some reason, it took weeks to get SCH to 19 and it has been stuck there for awhile, 10 DNC took well over twice as long as getting jobs to 10 normally takes me, and don't even get me started on my foray into BlU...

I'm sure it's going to be a super useful subjob, I'm just dreading actually leveling it.

[Malevolent]

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When you hit about lvl 18 you can fight the sheep, or rabbits, avoid snips as steelshell and metallic body will only hinder you. Stick with these until about lvl 22.

I digress, my galka dnc/mnk triumphed over snips 15-21 using H2H. When Metallic Body was used I still managed to hit for 1 dmg. I'm guessing because of the blunt dmg you get from using cesti? not 100% sure on that.

On a whole different note DNC's great solo ability kind of worries me a lil bit. Coupled with more eva+ and agi+ gear notably Emp. Hairpin, Bounding Boots and Jack'o'Lanterns I'm nearly impossible to hit...being galka it suprises me...worries but suprises me. The higher I lvl the less and less I'm finding myself casting my waltzs'. Also the more I party I'm finding that even with 1-2 quicksteps my Animated Flourish is better than Provoke.

I love the job its great to farm and grind at the same time with. My observation Dancer with /nin, /blu, /rdm is on par if not better with RDM's solo ability.

[Armando]

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Legionnaire's Knuckles will serve you better than R.A. Cesti (as a matter of fact, the Cesti are the weakest of the three national Lv.10 H2H weapons.) 2K/hour sounds about right for the average melee soloer mowing down EP mobs. And no, crabs don't have any weaknesses or resistances, they're neutral to all damage types.

[Callisto]

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Ok, well I *almost* hit 11 as DNC/WHM out on worms in LT, then died to one. I really am not sure how I am this bad at leveling a low level job, but I think I'm going to go back to /BST on Easy Preys in W.Ron. :/
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2K/hour sounds about right for the average melee soloer mowing down EP mobs.

You just shit on my heart, Armando.

Edit: Unfortunately the R.A. Cesti have to get me by for a few, I CP'd them b/c I'm down to 15k gil until i get time to farm, lol. I have a Bilbo+1 hanging around that I intend to switch to when I hit 13.

[Malevolent]

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Ok, well I *almost* hit 11 as DNC/WHM out on worms in LT, then died to one. I really am not sure how I am this bad at leveling a low level job, but I think I'm going to go back to /BST on Easy Preys in W.Ron. :/

If you have Mnk lvled enough to sub do it. Martial Arts will pay off in the end. If you find yourself dying alot grab a few Au Laits or I hate to even mention it Selbina Milk if your tight on gil. Head out to one of the starting [S] zones and test the waters there.

Maybe instead of grinding...find your areas. Go out and test the mobs of other areas that are availible to you. I did that while lvling BLU I had hard times lvling from 10-20+ due to lack of players to form parties and also invites. So I started camping out places to solo. I found my lvling route and now it takes around 3 days to go from 10-26 with XP bands and the occasional /whm cure bombing in campain for a measly 300-800xp.

[Callisto]

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Unfortunately despite having 15 friggin jobs I could sub for this, the 3 I don't have are the 3 everyone says are the useful ones, lol.

[Malevolent]

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2K/hour sounds about right for the average melee soloer mowing down EP mobs. And no, crabs don't have any weaknesses or resistances, they're neutral to all damage types.

I'm pretty sure they're weak to blunt dmg and Ice.
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Unfortunately despite having 15 friggin jobs I could sub for this, the 3 I don't have are the 3 everyone says are the useful ones, lol.

HAHA! thats awesome.

[Armando]

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I said average melee soloer, I expect a DNC to do better simply because of Drain Samba. Not taking EXP bands into account either or any possible pets (/BST or Adventuring Fellow.)

Also, H2H without /MNK is bad. Get yourself a Bilbo at Lv.13 if you're not going to use /MNK for soloing.

Edit: I meant physical weaknesses/resistances. Trust me, they're neutral.

[Callisto]

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I said average melee soloer, I expect a DNC to do better simply because of Drain Samba. Not taking EXP bands into account either or any possible pets (/BST or Adventuring Fellow.)

Also, H2H without /MNK is bad. Get yourself a Bilbo at Lv.13 if you're not going to use /MNK for soloing.

Edit: I meant physical weaknesses/resistances. Trust me, they're neutral.

Lol, yeah, I was hoping I was just missing something easy and could adjust and start making 5k/hr though.

I came back out to LT as /BST and it's going a bit better now, got a DC rabbit to help take down worms.
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Ok, nvm, pet uncharmed and wouldn't recharm, dead again when I was 100 til 11.

This job blows goats, I'm not even looking at a mob higher than EP til I hit 15.

[MrMageo]

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I digress, my galka dnc/mnk triumphed over snips 15-21 using H2H. When Metallic Body was used I still managed to hit for 1 dmg. I'm guessing because of the blunt dmg you get from using cesti? not 100% sure on that.

Racist im a taru i severly lack strength i was hiting them for garbage amounts without defense boosts

[Callisto]

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I was able to press on through to 13 last night so that I can at least equip my Bilbo+1 now, H2H without Martial Arts is so slow I several times though I was hitting R0 in between attack rounds, lol. 2 more crap levels til I can start cruising, I have a lot of good gear to ding into from 14-16, I'm sure that combined with Curing Waltz will make a big impact on my opinion of DNC's level of goat-blowing.

[Armando]

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Considering /WHM makes a big difference in soloing simply because being able to Cure reduces downtime a lot no matter how piddly your MP pool is, I'd assume having a practically unlimited supply of healing would do wonders for you even if you kill slower.

Also, have you tried Zerg Rushing EM and low T mobs with a pet and your NPC? Now that the pet doesn't cut into your EXP I think it'd be quite reasonable since you could feasably EXP chain that way.

Also, are you using juices? They're critical, I don't solo without 'em. They generally balance out the DoT I take such that I rarely have to take a knee. And I hope you're eating meats.

[Callisto]

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Also, have you tried Zerg Rushing EM and low T mobs with a pet and your NPC? Now that the pet doesn't cut into your EXP I think it'd be quite reasonable since you could feasably EXP chain that way.

Yes, and twice my DC pet came uncharmed and wouldn't recharm, obviously those didn't go well, lol.

Also, are you using juices? They're critical, I don't solo without 'em. They generally balance out the DoT I take such that I rarely have to take a knee. And I hope you're eating meats.

I just picked up my last HQ Staff this week so I'm down to about 15k lol, so I wasn't buying juices so far. I'm going to try and carry some oranges/water crystals on me next time I head out. I was planning on moving to East Ron S tonight to do worms there, so that Sigil can balance out my juice usage a bit. And yeah, using Grilled Hare so far, as soon as I get some gil back I'll be moving to Navarin.