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So far, we've unlocked the following:

Day 3: You can change her jobs after this.

Day 6: You can change her weapons after this.

I gave my NPC a great sword just for kicks, and it's pretty funny watching her walk around with a giant black sword. I may change this to great katana or great axe just for kicks though. I may even give her an axe.

Confirmed info: Apparently fighting mobs higher level than her gives her more XP, no matter what your level is. My NPC hit LV31 two days leveling with my SAM after 4 days leveling with my NIN.

I imagine depending on what you fight, she levels up much quicker. This is great for people who have multiple high-level jobs. You could farm higher level mobs all day (say, LV50-60) and you would level her far more quickly.

HEy, turtlelin. What are you fighting? EPs DCs EMs?
I took my NPC out today, twice. Fighting EPs DC and a VT...
No level up...wondering what your secret is..

question to the NPC experts:

ive done about 4 sessions with my NPC already and we have been leveling off of crabs and giants in qufim island for about 20-38 exp each monster

im level 34 the NPC is still level 30, can anyone think of a reason why he didnt level yet?

thanks in advance!

Ochibi-- do you have a higher level job? As a 73 I've done4 sessions on too weaks in altepa with my taru buddy, and he's already level 32. I'm fairly certain that it's good to fight mobs higher than the NPC.

On another note.. Xclint-- unless something has specifically told you that your NPC is a whitemage/redmage, I wouldn't go claiming something like that in your original post. Right now it's my understanding that we know nothing about the NPC's "job," only thier tactic. I'm thinking it's very possible that these NPCs don't follow the same job rules that everything else in the game does. People will say it has Ubdead Killer so it's a PLD, people will say it's a WHM because it casts -na spells.. but we really don't know at all.

Edited, Sat Jul 23 20:03:23 2005 by Shiinpu

Completely untrue. You are thinking inside the box and trying to make your NPC fit the definition of jobs SE has given us. In the context of the story though, the 15 jobs we get are hardly all the jobs that exist in the game world.

Remember, from your character's perspective things are alot different. Alot of things that we take as being common are unique in your character's eyes. Things like artifact armor, rare/ex items, and even battles are a one-time thing. Jobs have this also. The way you became a Bard is not the way other people in the game world became bards. It takes alot of suspension of disbelief for this to work but it's an MMORPG, what can you do really..

The NPC is a job that is not defined to us. This allows the NPC to surprise us. You really don't know what it's going to learn next.

misread a post ><

Edited, Sat Jul 23 21:21:35 2005 by Runespider

WE HAVE A WINNER!.. i changed it on the front page of the post so people dont read too hard into what i say.

ok this is getting so annoying, for the last time YES YOU CAN GO ON A HIGH LEVEL JOB AND KILL TOO WEAK AND YOUR NPC WILL LEVEL!!!

my mpc just got 32 from too weak in altep desert every other post asks "can i fight too weak and level my npc?" YES now stop asking if the mob will check as Easy prey or more you can fight kill and level your npc from it no matter what level you are, so for the last time YES-YOU-CAN-LEVEL-NPC-ON-TOO WEAK-OVER 30

Edited, Sat Jul 23 22:00:22 2005 by Inuakurei

Inuakurei take a chill pill man lol, hes just making sure its possible... i would be confirming my every action too if i can only use him a few times a day.

im very sorry djbenny... there is no telling right now.

they start at level 30 is all we know, just grab your highest level and start slaughtering Too Weak stuff thats past level 30... he will probably level at your 2nd or 3rd calling if you do so each time

did you happen to change her style?

It seems from all the reports that alot of NPC's have been converting into mage armor possibly because people have been switching them from shield/attack into healing.

My guess is that they will wear whatever fits their job description the best.

I just wanted to say that this is an awesome thread...lots of great info here. Keep up the good work documenting the progress of the NPC buddies.

I do have one question though. On the first post it now says you can do the dropping the Signal Pearl thing once per in game week and the week ends on Darksday. I logged on this morning and got a new Signal Pearl because I dropped mine the night before. I called my NPC and we killed some Tabar Beaks trying to get Deadly Dodo to pop (he didn't). She left after a while and said she was tired. When I got back to Jeuno I talked to her and she had some new armor yay!. I dropped my pearl and it was Lightningsday. I logged for dinner and when I came back on it was Darksday so I waited. As soon as the clock said 0:00 Firesday I tried to get a new pearl and she says "I just gave you one, I'm sorry you'll have to wait." ;;

Shouldn't I be able to get another one now or did I just misunderstand that. Just wondering. Thanks.

PS I tried a few more times just to be sure and she still won't give me a new one.

I had a similar problem, i got a new pearl this morning then dropped it. I came back like 9hours later and darkday had passed but I didn't get a new pearl. Anyone know what I did wrong?