You have to be on the mission for Promy Vahzl to enter. And I think Magic Accuracy was messed with again.

Been doing vahzl for a while now with pretty optimum gear AND elemental merits.
Im seeing a large amount of resists even on the T wanderers.

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Make friends with one other like minded BLM, go kill IT's. This is not rocket science. Lv 1-64 currently w/o ever being in a melee party.

damn. ginger cookies wins again

All makes sense now, BLMs flooded the market with ginger cookies to inspire a revolution.

Maybe I missed the point, is this just a thread for BLM's to complain in? Is there a different food I should try for HMp?

I struggled with Blm too, magacc seemed off at times, but if the discussion is just levelling it then you just need to be more creative. As previously mentioned, BLM may have a hard time finding a party, but they don’t actually need 5 other people, and I’ve read through and there is so much lazy, assumptous or incorrect information, because from 50+ a duo or trio can comfortably hit chain 4 or 5 for adequate xp, and if you level a support alt then one more blm is perfectly fine. Clockwork 2x AM sleep 2x AM then finish!

Me and the missus who was/is a complete ffxi noob trio-d all the way blm, blm, brd and the only trick was to find the right mobs and the right camps (quick spawning custom mobs like melee). Bats and flies were pretty much exclusive targets all the way, nice low resist rates and those 350-400xp screen shots were typical. With trial and error we found some great camps, and brd pulling and sleeping we rarely had trouble. I’ll try remember our camps, should prob add it to the blm forum.

Flies and Bats for the win!

50-51 Dancing Jewel flies in Crawlers basement was good around 50 for a lvl or two.

52-54 Fortilice Bats in Garlaige I found a camp on the stairs near gate 3 (found 5 bats near the doomed), then moved and added in beetles in the basement when xp dropped off (beetles were not fun)

54-58 Ogre Bats in KRT camped on hall the cemetery cherry (3 bats to avoid the xp parties) and as gear got better and ballad 2 was available we mixed in beetles and stuff (scorpions too for a few comedy deaths!).

58-63 Attohah chasm the big opening past Xoltol but before boneyard gully was good for the ogreflies, vtough and itough for quite a few levels and xp was amazing, although levels were really grinding by this point.

63-71 Boyhada tree first camp was the custom xp camp, Snaggletooth seapuks rarely resisted for great xp if it wasn’t busy, then moved upstairs to the big tree for the Skimmers for a level or two, then back down the waterfall for the Darters for a level or two.

71-73 we struggled with no higher flies or bats, so did catoblepas and often invited another blm or two for a party of 4 or 5 bouncing them around. They slept and died very easy though, and errant, weskit, 72 rings all greatly improved damage output, xp was good. There wasn’t always an xp party there but birds were to weak to xp on.

73+ pygmytouse were really tough at first but you have enough sleeps and lullaby’s when they fail, may have took 6xAM to kill but we were inviting another BLM here as well so didn’t matter, resting and ballad were keeping us ticking. This may be a perfectly viable BLM merit camp, but I never tried it as blm went on hiatus right after 75!

Edit: forgot to say we were very average geared, mostly af, black capes, nq staves, nq rings, only AM was freeze and burst, didn’t even use parfait til a guy who joined us mid 60’s told us about them lol.

The "problem" (In quotations because we're playing a video game, nothing is really a problem) is that a lot of the strategies people use to get even semi-respectable XP is relying on convincing an in-demand job such as a BRD to come with two people that aren't invited at all to get less XP then they'd get with an invite that they can easily get if they seek.

And really, I think the point of the thread was just to complain that Nas still has macc basically ruined.

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to be exact tier 2 magic on blm is so bad you may as well cast thunder blizzard. The macc and dmg is barely worth the mana with bis gear.

What race are you both? My Manapool is lacking as elvaan, and I have a few MP merits as well.

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