MAN....SMN is hard to level

[Asura_Ireland]

Hey all, I am just a little pissed off so here I am venting

So i got my whm all the way to 70+, got fenrir, made a ton of gil and then decided it was a good time to level smn, which i Always wanted to do.
Right now I am lvl 54:
-Fenrir (stat bonus and acc & eva boost)
-Pluto staff
-Austere hat
-AF hands
-AF pants
-Austere feet
-Austere body
-steepe stone
-astral ring
-serket ring
-and good back gear and earrings.
I am loaded to bear, my only problem is I can NEVER get pts.
:mad: :mad: :mad:

If I seek for pt, I wait all day, If i make pts, the people dont believe we can level without a whm.
I understand people want raise2 and all, but thats not till lvl 56, and plus I am a very experienced player, I doubt many deaths with me and a good rdm....

:dead: I have my vermillion cloak ready at 59 too:mad: :mad: At the rate I am leveling I should get to put it on around......fall:p

[Gryff]

take a whm.

WHM+SMN+RDM and some high damage melees like a ranger can be a very efficient exp party, in fact one of my best post-60 parties was with that setup.

you dont have to heal so much, so you two people to control status effects and you can control post-fight downtime with curaga instead of a whm, or you can heal the last 30s of a fight to allow the whm to heal more, if you play smn right you can exp with no downtime whatsoever, and even if the kills are a little slower you can still exp faster because of the zero downtime.

Nice equipment btw, I have pluto + apollo, but I dont feel the need to boost my mp more because its never an issue ( as a skilled taru player ).

[Asura_Ireland]

Your right, I dont think I need that serkit ring. It lowers my HP too much. Plus I could use the million gil its worth for a apollo staff

[maytrix]

Re: MAN....SMN is hard to level

Originally posted by Asura_Ireland
If I seek for pt, I wait all day, If i make pts, the people dont believe we can level without a whm.
I understand people want raise2 and all, but thats not till lvl 56, and plus I am a very experienced player, I doubt many deaths with me and a good rdm....

Guess there's a lot of stupid people on Asura. Of course i could probably say the same about every other server too.

[maytrix]

Oh yeah. What the hell's good back gear and earrings for summoner anyway?

[SlottyM]

Your right, I dont think I need that serkit ring. It lowers my HP too much. Plus I could use the million gil its worth for a apollo staff

You can never have enough MP as a summoner. I have 1250 and still want more Skill has nothing to do with the overpriced avatar MP costs.

Make groups, get bards, not redmages if possible, lowering monsters evade and bard increasing accuracy makes for short work of monsters. You can play either damage dealer or healer with fenrir really, just keep him out to do dmg and he does quite well (esp w/ mp regen)

Good earrings? anything with MP, they go from the 4-5 mp earrings, eventually end up with death earrings (10)

Back, use bluecape+1 when you can (40 mp) til then just use aurora? (10 mp i think)

Ninja is your best friend if you're playing healer, pld kinda suck if you're stuck with cure 3 at higher lvls.

If you're playing main healer, get carbuncle mitts and apollo staff, you can keep carbuncle out, retain +1 mp regen standing, and use healing ruby (heals for like 150 for 6 mp, he'll do a bit of damage, and since you're not healing, you get no hate from that)
You also have to avoid places that need stona, kind of a pain, but doable.
I hated grouping with whitemages, there just isn't enough to do if you aren't fulltime healer. With the right gear, you can be both fulltime healer and use avatar abilities.

at 70+ mountain buster will be your best friend in ro maeve and king ranps. If you're decked out in that gear, you're capable of using mountain buster, tossin titan and goin on as a healer. And it does up to 1300 dmg on IT's

[Navia]

Re: MAN....SMN is hard to level

Originally posted by Asura_Ireland
I am loaded to bear, my only problem is I can NEVER get pts.
:mad: :mad: :mad:

If I seek for pt, I wait all day, If i make pts, the people dont believe we can level without a whm.
I understand people want raise2 and all, but thats not till lvl 56, and plus I am a very experienced player, I doubt many deaths with me and a good rdm....

The reason you aren't getting many pt is because most of Asura's non JP population wants whm and pld in pt which does make SMN excess baggage.
I suggest trying a Ninja tank if you make your own pt - they give SMN the most room to do what they really want (use SMN abilities instead of curing and blinkga), pick two of the following: (rdm,blm,brd) then just add some melee jobs and have fun :spin:

WHM are so overrated, i even job change to whm to teleport party to altepa and switch jobs back at rabao. Then we can go to terrigan or wherever on that side of the world so we aren't limited in hunting areas.

[Asura_Ireland]

I had a GREAT pt this morning:
Pld smn thf rng rdm brd
We never had any downtime and gained around 9k exp in alittle over 2 hours.

Parties like this make me feel good about my job. That being said watch me get no other pts today lol