Ama's leveling guide
Solo to level 9 near your home town. If you are from San'Doria you can solo worms near the lakes in La Theine for nice exp.
If you are from Bastok you can solo worms in konschtat for nice exp. Some jobs like DRK, RNG or PLD can solo to much higher
levels 15ish.
BST can solo till 75.
For everyone else... party of..
10-11
Kill crabs, worms, funguars, goblin fishers at hidden lake in latheine (near valkurm zone)
11-13
Kill worms in Shakrami Maze (near windurst in tahrongi -- full party)
Watch out for stonega, try to silence them if possible.
11-13
kill lizards in valkurm (near konschtat zone)
watch out for poison, make sure you have someone who has poisona or antidotes.
13-15
kill lower level goblin in valkurm (tinkerer, butcher, ambusher) - aggro sight
watch out for goblin bomb toss, does AOE fire damage. Barfira will help, stunning them helps even more.
15-18
kill snippers and damselflies in valkurm
Snippers have Scissor Guard and Metallic Body. Metallic body is stoneskin, will absorb the next few attacks. Scissor Guard
is a defense up, and at this level u can't do anything but tell the BLM to kill it. Damselflies have line of sight poison as
well as AOE attack cursed sphere. Baraera will help.
14-18
kill worms in korroloka tunnel (near bastok mines)
Watch out for stonega, try to silence them if possible.
16-17
kill higher level goblins in valkurm near gustav zone (D4) (Leecher, Gambler, Mugger)
watch out for goblin bomb toss, does AOE fire damage. Barfira will help, stunning them helps even more.
18-20
kill beach pugils in valkurm at any beach (or secret beach near gustav zone).
Watch out for Screwdriver, does incredible damage to 1 target. Keep main tank's health high.
Barwatera may help.
19-22
Kill diving beetles in sauromugue (in the valley near the white dragon bones)
Watch out for power attack, stuns and does a fair bit of damage to the tank. Bring a BLM who can cast Blizzard.
19-21
kill worms in qufim
Watch out for stonega, try to silence them if possible.
20-22
kill clippers in qufim
Clippers have Scissor Guard and Metallic Body. Metallic body is stoneskin, will absorb the next few attacks. Scissor Guard
is a defense up, and at this level u can't do anything but tell the BLM to kill it.
22-24
kill goblins in Lower Delkfutt's Tower. (Goblin Gambler, Goblin Leecher, Goblin Mugger)
watch out for goblin bomb toss, does AOE fire damage. Barfira will help, stunning them helps even more.
22-24
kill pugils and giants in qufim
Watch out for Screwdriver, does incredible damage to 1 target. Keep main tank's health high.
Barwatera may help. Pugils at this level have double attack as well.
24-26
kill sabertooth tigers in batallia
The camps for these are the zones into Eldieme necropolis.
watch out for their claw attack, does a LOT of damage. Tigers have double attack, and AOE paralyze. Also be careful when pulling,
tigers run very fast.
26-28
Kill goblins in batallia (Goblin Furrier, Goblin Pathfinder, Goblin Shaman, Goblin Smithy)
The camps for these are the zones into Eldieme necropolis. You can also camp goblins near the zone to jugner.
watch out for goblin bomb toss, does AOE fire damage. Barfira will help, stunning them helps even more. Smithy is WAR class
and has double attack, so be careful with those. Furrier is RNG class so make sure you pull him far in before engaging. Shaman
is BLM class so make sure you silence him. Pathfinder is BST class so will most likely have a pet. Sleep the pet while you kill the
Goblin.
24-28
kill yuhtungha mandoragoras in yuhtungha (kazham)
Watch out for AOE sleep. But these things are so easy its laughable. Actually you don't have to watch out for these mobs,
but rather the Mass of goblin smithy trains by nooblars.
29-33
kill yhoator mandoragoras in yhoator (kazham)
Watch out for AOE sleep. But these things are so easy its laughable. Actually you don't have to watch out for these mobs,
but rather the Mass of goblin smithy trains by nooblars.
30-33
Kill Evil Weapons in sauromugue (same camp as diving beetles)
Watch out for AOE Whirling Rage attack. It is AOE damage and Stun. Try to keep silence on him. It is a RDM class.
32-35
Kill Beetles in Altepa Desert by the Outpost Guard (near zone)
34-36
Kill Dhalmels in Altepa Desert by the outpost guard (near zone)
Dhalmels occasionally double attack, so NIN tanks be wary.
34-37
kill seige bats(stay away from wingrats) and borer beetles in Garliage Citadel (in sauromugue bottom left on map) Be careful when pulling bats near the openings because they will link the wingrats. Also do not fall in the holes or you will be sad.
You can either camp by the zone in (on the stairs) or by the first banishing gate (hard to describe where that is). If you
have a mage you can fight Borer beetles as well. Borer beetles have a defense up ability so if your red mage does not have dispel, or your bard doesn't have Magic Finale, you will need magic to defeat them.
35-39
Kill worker crawlers in Crawler's nest (Rolanberry, bottom left corner on map)
Watch out for line of sight poison and sticky thread = slow.
40-43
kill bats flies and goblins in Gustav Tunnel (zone is by the hidden beach in Valkurm)
watch out for goblin bomb toss, does AOE fire damage. Barfira will help, stunning them helps even more.
39-42
kill Helm beetles in Crawler's nest
Helm beetles have a defense up ability so if your red mage doesn't have dispel, you will need magic to defeat them.
42-44
kill soldier crawlers in Crawler's nest
Watch out for line of sight poison and sticky thread = slow.
45-47
kill hornflies in crawler's nest
watch out for AOE cursed sphere.
47-50
exorays in crawler's nest
watch out for dark spore, does a lot of damage to tank and blinds him. also has silence gas which silences tank and does damage.
46 (mages) 47 (melee) until 50 - Yhoator Jungle by Ifrit's cauldron zone.. kill gobs
watch out for goblin bomb toss, does AOE fire damage. Barfira will help, stunning them helps even more.
Bring a DRK w/ the spell Stun, BLM can also cast this.
49-52 - Garliage Citadel kill beetles
Need a dispeller either brd or rdm.
52-54 - Crawler's Nest kill beetles past the rumble crawlers (need dispeller and BLM or RNG)
Need a dispeller either brd or rdm.
51-53 - Quicksand Caves kill Anticans
(nice drops -- watch out for petrify, makes your tank lose all hate, also there is silence-ga, keep the mages away from the ant)
52-54 Spider's in Boyahda tree.
Watch out for Sickle Slash. (does a nice sum of damage)
52-54 Robber Crabs, Kuftal Tunnel.
Need dispeller. Crabs are weak to ice and lightning, so plan accordingly.
54-57 Robber Crabs, Crawler in middle room of Boyahda tree.
Watch out for Aquarius (NM) he's aggro and very difficult (party of 65+ to beat him).
You can also do mandy's but they link like crazy. Crab's aggro sound, crawler's aggro sound,
crabs don't link, crawler link.
Need dispeller. Crabs are weak to ice and lightning, so plan accordingly.
56-58 Robber Crabs, Cape Terrigan TIRED OF CRABS YET??
Need dispeller. Crabs are weak to ice and lightning, so plan accordingly.
57-60 (By far the best ever 3 levels in my career) Goblins, Gustav Tunnel. Gobs link by sight, so be careful. You need a stunner to stop the goblin bomb.
Nice drops like Reraise 3, Shellra IV, Regen III, etc.
59-62 Raptor in Valley of Sorrow. at the higher end u can chain Raptor for TP and then hit up a Big *** bird thing for 200xp.
61-64 Torama (Coeurl) in Onzozo (zone is in buburimu)
Watch out for Paralyze and silence attacks (which hurt both PLD and NIN tanks).
63-65 Skimmer and Steelshell in Boyahda Tree (2nd floor by the waterfall (zone to Cloister))
Recommended PT: PLD RNG RNG WHM RDM BRD because Arrows deal more damage against flying creatures.
64-65 Processionaires (crawler type) in Boyahda Tree (2nd floor)
Nothing much to say except haste the tank (slow) and poisona.
EDIT: Added more content.
Edited, Wed Jun 9 21:15:36 2004 by Amaterasu