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Ok, so maybe I'm weird because I just love those sneaky little bugs. Here's what I did for a few hours this Saturday in Caederva Mire:
RDM75/BLM37
I was using a Joytoy/Tariqah and generally high def/attack melee gear. First off, Phalanx pwns Chigoes. It drops their dmg to mostly 0, except for crits. They tend to spawn in groups of 3, in a few places near tunnels, and of course will drop off the sheep and also marids. So I found a spawn spot and picked up 1 or 2 chigoes for practice. I engaged a nearby Caederva Leech, but kept back so I never attacked it (this often meant disengaging when it moved close to me), while getting the chigoes to face me. Maintain the following buffs: Stoneskin/Phalanx/Aquaveil/Regen/Protect IV/Refresh. It helps if your enhancing magic is capped for interrput purposes. The most dangerous thing is to lose Phalanx so I recast it pretty much every other stonesking and aquaveil every 3rd or 4th stoneskin. /war could give defender, and I suppose you could use +vit gear and eat tacos, but I didn't need to. /blm gave me sleepga which was like insurance for when I needed to Convert. These buggers don't miss, so -eva gear is not necessary for good skillup rate.
Anybody who knows chigoes, knows they attack VERY fast. They don't seem to have a TP move, although there are times they seem to go into hyper mode and do a flurry of attacks faster than normal. Well after practicing on one, then two, I moved on to three. I raised my Shield skill from 98 to 171 and my parry from 97 to 134 in just a few hours. People passing thru often stopped to help the crazy red mage being beat on by 3 chigoes, but they respawned pretty quick so I was back up and going in no time even if good samaritans killed my skillup mobs. Guess seeing me in a more or less constant block/parry animation freaked some people out lol.
Next on the agenda is to gear up some +agi and come back with an earth staff and my chevoit cape/jelly ring. That should get parry caught up to shield in no time. And after that play with korrigans in the boyahda tree and spiders in dragon's aery to hopefully get these skills even close to the cap.
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Oh and btw, the stretch from 165-171 on sheild was pretty slow so I seem to have hit the skill cap for what chigoes have to offer.
RDM75/BLM37
I was using a Joytoy/Tariqah and generally high def/attack melee gear. First off, Phalanx pwns Chigoes. It drops their dmg to mostly 0, except for crits. They tend to spawn in groups of 3, in a few places near tunnels, and of course will drop off the sheep and also marids. So I found a spawn spot and picked up 1 or 2 chigoes for practice. I engaged a nearby Caederva Leech, but kept back so I never attacked it (this often meant disengaging when it moved close to me), while getting the chigoes to face me. Maintain the following buffs: Stoneskin/Phalanx/Aquaveil/Regen/Protect IV/Refresh. It helps if your enhancing magic is capped for interrput purposes. The most dangerous thing is to lose Phalanx so I recast it pretty much every other stonesking and aquaveil every 3rd or 4th stoneskin. /war could give defender, and I suppose you could use +vit gear and eat tacos, but I didn't need to. /blm gave me sleepga which was like insurance for when I needed to Convert. These buggers don't miss, so -eva gear is not necessary for good skillup rate.
Anybody who knows chigoes, knows they attack VERY fast. They don't seem to have a TP move, although there are times they seem to go into hyper mode and do a flurry of attacks faster than normal. Well after practicing on one, then two, I moved on to three. I raised my Shield skill from 98 to 171 and my parry from 97 to 134 in just a few hours. People passing thru often stopped to help the crazy red mage being beat on by 3 chigoes, but they respawned pretty quick so I was back up and going in no time even if good samaritans killed my skillup mobs. Guess seeing me in a more or less constant block/parry animation freaked some people out lol.
Next on the agenda is to gear up some +agi and come back with an earth staff and my chevoit cape/jelly ring. That should get parry caught up to shield in no time. And after that play with korrigans in the boyahda tree and spiders in dragon's aery to hopefully get these skills even close to the cap.
Double Post Edited:
Oh and btw, the stretch from 165-171 on sheild was pretty slow so I seem to have hit the skill cap for what chigoes have to offer.
currently at 164. anyhow, great info!
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