/sigh Another 9 hour day with no PT...

[Zalius]

Originally posted by Rivero
Has anyone ever had a slow leveling in Yhoator Jungle?
I'ma 31 MNK with +14 STR..+5 DEX.. Mercs gear and impact knuckles when I hit 32. So anyways I was wondering why such slow invites? I left my seek PT up for an hour, while there was 5 WAR's a BLM and two DRG's seeking. By 30 minutes the WAR's and the BLM left. I can understand. but then 10 minutes later both DRG's get invited and 20 minutes later some DRK and DRG puts invite and get invited. What are so seducing about having your job be an advanced one? I'd prefer a 30 THF over a 30 SAM/DRK/NIN/DRG any day... You seen 250's with SATA and Viper Bite? >_> Literally amazing. While an DRG hits 30's and the wyvern dies from no defense/hp at all. People should learn that we atttack fast and hit good damage. And while a WAR hits once with a Great Axe/Sword we hit four times or so with more damage. Less aggro too, since we do it in waves.

Actually my lv 31 war/nin can hit for 40 dmg/attack can also Triple/Quad attack to at 40 dmg/hit... add it up heh... Nothing like a quad attack -> Raging axe and denting almost 20-30% of the mobs hp all by yourself. 35+55+32+39+150(raging axe, Total dmg: 311) was a string of attacks I pulled off on a IT gob in yhoatar jungle. But anyway I dunno what ppls probs with monk's are, I personally love lving my monk, and I always try to get a monk in party as my 52 pld for dmg. They make a go SATA subtank as well with their massive hp's. The problem with ALL melee in this game is, No matter what ya are No mithkabob's=Bad dmg. Without mithkabobs my war/nin hits for 10-20 insted of 30-40 for an example.

[Sakrafyce]

I have hit the jackpot guys. After a stressful week of slow leveling and waiting LFG. I was invited into a Static Party w/ a PLD, DRK, RDM, WHM and BLM. I'm level 49 now, and have until friday to finish Genkai 1 and hit at least level 51. Wish me luck!

Hang in there my fellow Monks.

[METDeath]

Ah yes, was about to mention a bit about putting exceptional gear in your search comment, jumps up the invites a bit, I stopped putting the whole (Japanese)(Party) O in my comment, and started doing (Jujitsu Gi)(Fuma Khayan) O instead... seems bragging about your equip is a faster invite... which hey, 9 times out of 10 if i see someone that has spent a lot of gil on gear, it shows that they care about the job

[Sakrafyce]

I tried that when I bought my Kote, didn't help as much. I'm gonna give up on the Japanese/English party OK! thing though...

[Thark601]

Originally posted by METDeath
Ah yes, was about to mention a bit about putting exceptional gear in your search comment, jumps up the invites a bit, I stopped putting the whole (Japanese)(Party) O in my comment, and started doing (Jujitsu Gi)(Fuma Khayan) O instead... seems bragging about your equip is a faster invite... which hey, 9 times out of 10 if i see someone that has spent a lot of gil on gear, it shows that they care about the job

is kinda funny... my invites improved a bit after putting
11%Haste +19STR +14ACC
Brown Belt 2 Snipers AF body head hand

in my search comment

[Dano]

funny, i put +40 atk, +32 acc, +1 str, +3 dex BUT no one would believe me....

[Drael]

Not getting invited is becoming a thorn in my side...
After my third day without an invite, it's getting old farming / NM camping / questing while i seek...

I've farmed enough to be set till 40 and i can't get my freaking level there because I don't get invited. I'm seriously ready to xp off easy preys.... :sweat:

PLEASE can someone help me get an invite...
This is my search comment:

@<xptnl> Looking for party Meat Mithkabob
+11 dex +8 str Ochiudo's Kote
Japanese Party Yes, Please

Is this search comment like not good? Any help would be very appreciated

[navpops]

level your sub a bit if you cant find an invite. you have to anyway, its beettter then sitting around. generally, my comments consist of expesnive gear, my TNL, and my food.


usually i lie, like going to AH, looking up a Meat Chiefkabob, and then using it in my comment, instead of my meat mithakabob

@3000 ~> 41
(Ochidue's Kote) (Weapons)
+X STR +X DEX +X attack


(include stats the food give )


shrug.. im a BLM and a RNG.. i dont know

[FattMusiek]

Advice: Start your own parties if you can't find one. And no, it only gets better as a MNK. MNKs are probably the most desired melee class 65+.

[Kronikle66]

It's gotten to the point where I only party when my ranger friend is on. When he signs on I always spend about an hour making a party consisting of:

MNK
RNG
PLD
BLM
RDM
BRD

Probably one of the best combinations you can possibly make. If somehow I can't get BRD, I'll put WHM in it's place. Usually we can rake in 3.5k-4k an hour.

I absolutely HATE the "some exp is better than no exp" mentality. Espescially when I was leveling my sub. Let's see, we have WAR, WAR, PLD, PLD, WHM... let's invite a Ninja because "they're damage dealers". He kept trying to argue that Ninjas can't tank at all. When I finally convinced him he gave me the whole "some exp is better than no exp" arguement. No it's not! Stop inviting the only person with a seek tag up and start LOOKING!

-Kronikle

[WildWinds]

I hear I'm a lvl 45 monk I've gain 1000 exp in the past week... I've sold my gi to get some mining gear and start to mining the mines of the world for awhile... I've also started to lvl my brd abit for some fun...but yeah is blows... >_>

[Redlimit]

MNK 30-60 is unfortuneately the no mans land of PT invites. Its sad but true.

My advice is find something to do while on seek. Take up fishing, farming, NM hunting, whatever. Just be sure that if you are far from Jeuno that you carry an IW scroll and make sure this is in your comment.

Its tough but you can make it. Past 60 you should be ok for invites, no job really gets left out in the dust at this point, and especially for MNK - 60 is the level where you really start to go "holy hell, did I just do that?", and your PT members just might say the same.

Past 70+, its likely people will invite you to PT's first based off the fact that you are MNK alone. My first ever invites to EXP PT without having seek up were at 70, and still continue to this day.

[Roldarin]

So does changing your search comment really helped you?

I would imagine that party availability during your logged in time and skillchain compatibility would be the biggest factors in getting a group.

As a thief I have trouble getting invites, and I don't think telling them how awesome my dex or ACC gear is would help that. Or telling them what food I use (at 56 I think its assumed I use food).

I guess if you were competing against other monks would it would be a big help if they knew you were a decent monk. But is that usually the issue?

The whole concept of no pt for weeks just sucks, so I thought i'd ask a few questions.

[Spider-Dan]

Originally posted by Drael
@<xptnl> Looking for party Meat Mithkabob
+11 dex +8 str Ochiudo's Kote
Japanese Party Yes, Please

Is this search comment like not good? Any help would be very appreciated

My search comment for RNG was as follows:

2214/7500, GC: D/H/M/A, HP: |Jeuno|
RACC+42 RATK+20 AGI+20
|Japanese| / |English| |Party| OK!

I don't like using @xxxx (unless I need the space or it's late night and only JP available) because it's rather misleading. I just state my exp/total and avoid @ or TNL. And I actually have GC: ALL, but I wanted to give an example.

If I am away from Jeuno, I'll usually put |Instant Warp| on the last line instead. If I'm not using an exping sub, I'll work in 25|Ninja| somewhere too.