My 1st successful SMN Duo Party

[hongman]

So, I headed to the dunes last night aftert lvling my WHM sub to lvl10, to start lvling my Summoner.

Only person lfp around my lvl was a 15SMN/WHM (I was 14SMN/WHM)...

We duo'ed Lizzy's, and we kicked ass!

The XP we got was compareable to some xp parties and we had a really good "unspoken" tactic going - whilst one fought with both weapon and avatar, the other rested up MP and when the attacker got low on HP/MP he would rest and the other kicked in.

We didnt really manage any chains above 3 but downtime was minoimal and we had people gathering round to have a look at a 2 person party when some were struggling with 6!

Of course as both us us were subbing WHM we took turns healing. The other guy was a TaruTaru, and with a rolanberry had over 300MP alone!

We both got 2 lvls, especially with the help of a PL later on we could tackle IT+ Gobs for 300XP with band.

This is why I love summoner, and Iv only scratched the surface! The Taru had all avatars, i only had Carby.

Hit difference on Ifrit and Carby were minimal...

[Shirai]

Re: My 1st successful SMN Duo Party

it is doable, however later on it will really slow down, say level 20ish.
From then it will be more viable to get exp parties again.

The melee difference is indeed minimal on lower levels except for Fenrir which has a tad more strength although on lower levels not really noticable.

Level 51 it will most likely be the level where you can start duoing, with the right gear you will have a free Carbuncle and you can start duoing self destructing mobs like bombs.
at level 51 those are around IT++ and can net you with 250+ exp per kill if they explode fast.

[hongman]

Re: My 1st successful SMN Duo Party

Yeah, I prefer XP parties for XP obviously but there was nothing going so duo was better than solo in LaTheine or Konschtat.

Still, makes me love Smn even more!

[Gwynn]

Re: My 1st successful SMN Duo Party

I recently went from 52-56 in SMN over Thanksgiving break exclusively on bombs in parties ranging from 2 SMNs to 5 SMNs. I have to admit, this was by far some of the most fun EXP I've done. Me and another friend decided to static our SMNs together so we never have to do normal EXP again (hoping to convince one of the SMNs we were partying with to join the static... three seems to be the sweet number for bombs, at least from my experience). When we had five SMNs we were forced to go deeper into Ifrit's Cauldron to keep the EXP up. Nevertheless, SMNs have some very interesting options available when it comes to EXPing, one of the things that makes it so fun to play.

[tdh]

Re: My 1st successful SMN Duo Party

I've seen SMN/Garuda Burns in the Mire before. 4~6 SMNs who basically just Predator Clawed anything in range. Since 2 or 3 good P.C.s could kill most anything in the Mire, I believe this set up could probably net pretty good EXP. But I don't think this becomes viable until Lv.70 BPs and you start EXP'n in the Mire. Imps and Flys have so little HP they're great for this.

I've duo'd with a SMN friend of mine. I'd nuke & Sleep it while he would BP for damage. We couldn't really EXP Chain, but we could kill just about anything we ran into. After a week of soloing the Ruby Quadav for my RDM Test and no drop, he came to help me kill a little faster. We could clear that room of all the NMs with no problems at all, we didn't even bother to avoid links. I could Sleepga, keep the add slept while we killed the original pull. Too bad Lv.70 BPs can't Skillchain, closing a Lv.2 Skillchain with a 1200+ Predator Claw would be nice. ^^