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8th outing

Area: West Altepa Desert
Mob: 13 Desert Spider & 1 Earth Element
SC: 5 Impaction, 6 Detonation, 4 Reverberation
I used Cyclone for all, thus no SC when she uses Blade Rin.
Time: 45min
Max: 23 damage
Max Crit: 40 damage
Ding lvl32 on 10th Desert Spider ^^

Nothing special, expect Henrietta doing more Blade: Rin >.< and since I like to SC with her I got to do Shadowstitch which is low damage... and the Earth Element took too long to fight thus I couldn't get to fight the 15th mob.

Same thing, New armour set ^^ or rather just changed the gloves.

9th outing

Same place same mob. 15 Desert Spider dead XD
SC: 6 Detonation, 6 Impaction, 7 Reverberation.
Time: 40mins
Max Crit: 43 damage

Henrietta sure likes to do Blade: Rin -.-; nothing special, the usual New armour set ^^ this time, only changed the feet to RSE lvl1 ^^; and gloves.

Yup, it's me again.

Day 2

Lemme tell you something: NPC + GKT = bliss. I did so many skillchains with Nanako it isn't even funny. Dunno if she leveled or not, but I'll find out tomorow, won't I?

Skillchains included Fusion, Distortion, Impaction, Liquefaction, and Detonation.

Current level: 31
Weapon: Uchigatana
Gear: Hume F Vest, Lizard gloves, vagabond's leggings, and solea.
Style: Attacker
Location: Eastern Altepa Desert
Mobs: Spiders and Beetles and Dhamels (Oh my!)

Heh - it seems that only turtlein updates his NPC fights. :) Xclint stopped updating...

has any 1 got their npc to put on shinobi gear? thats what i really want mine in that, if u do can u put a picture of it on the forum

Awwww, sorry he jumped out of the way... Looks like he got out of there just in the nick of time though. Looks rough inside the SC. LOL

This has grown by a couple of pages since I last posted here... Here's what I've observed over the last few calls (FINALLY Dinged 31, btw).

Sorry if this has been posted previously.

1. The NPC AI is smart enough to save its TP if a mob is nearly dead. Or so it seemed to me. Its tough to time roughly when he'll be ready (They need to put a <fttpp> reporting function in the game). So I just let my TP build until he gave me the 'Ready when you are!' signal and opens the SC. At one point my TP was well over 200% but the mob we were fighting was very close to dead.

I figured I'd either missed his signal and WS, or he was saving it for a fresh mob. Sure enough, he opened with Tachi:Enpi on the next mob we fought.

2. I know this has been said 100x, but I'm now convinced... Altep is pretty much the ideal spot for levelling these guys early on (Just avoid the Antican Pallies ><). As a 57 WHM, I was able to manage the fights against Spideys, Anticans and Beetles without problem. Unfortunately, the fights tended to drag on due to cruddy damage, and he left at the 45 min mark, not after 15 kills (I'm guessing we were on or around #14-15 when he split).

3. On NPC Lag: I dont have a screen of this because it happened very quickly, but after one fight last night I checked him to see if he needed to rest. He'd taken a few hits in the fight and I'd only given him 1 Cure II, so I figured he'd have about 20% of his HP missing.

To my surprize, he was 100% full. About 3 seconds later I got the Ding message and animation.

It was kindof like when youre in a pt and someone levels, you see their health and MP bars go to full... then a split second later the XP/Ding/Drop message comes up and you get the animation. But the delay seems more exagerated in this case.

Ive noticed other timing issues where the XP is concerned... mine, when reaching kill 15, has regularly given me the warning that he's going to leave just before the hit that kills the mob. It goes "Well, that should about do it!" -> Mob dies -> "I'm going. Later!" -> De-spawn.

Its the same thing I observed when fighting the NM Skelly... he told me he was leaving just as the killing blow was being dealt. Its a little thing, but a little bothersome.

Sorry for the long post.

Edited, Fri Jul 29 13:01:58 2005 by soobooboo

Dinged 36 today. No changes when I checked. Seems like it happens at level 37. Nice.

Finished calls # 19 and 20 today.

Got the headband option after 19th calling. She only comes out in a blue headband though no matter how many times I tell her to change. If you tell her to change with a headband on, she will come back without a headband. Tell her to change that and she'll come out with the same blue headband. Hopefully more will be added soon. Also, hit level 39 during 20th calling. Nothing new from Luto. Other things I've noticed:

1. In fights against monsters with pets, the pets don't seem to count towards xp or kill limit. I killed 16 monsters in one session when one of them was a gob with it's spider pet even though the spider gave me xp.

2. I've pulled links off higher levels who had either slept or did whatever to the monster that gave me 0 xp even though they were EP. Those don't seem to count as a kill also. I killed 17 monsters in one trip which included one for no xp and a monster with a pet.

3. I actually died on the 14th monster on one of my session. Cupapa still XP'd after the 33rd fight (which seems to be the trend for me since level 36). So I assume there's no penalty to NPC if you die...havn't confirmed if there's a penalty if npc dies though.

4. Cupapa now uses Protect II, Shell II, and Dia II. She has yet to learn a new spell nor so I'm thinking she might not learn completely new spells at all >.< I've yet to test the higher level status removing spells (Viruna and Stona), but I'm not expecting Haste at level 40 either, though I can definately dream^^. Also,

5. I thought i'd get a list of spells she uses started up and see if everyone's got the same spells for their Healer type NPC.

Spells: Cure III, Protect II, Shell II, Dia II, Silence, Paralyze, Slow, Stoneskin, Blink, Blinda, Poisona, Silena

Weapon Skills: Hard Slash, Power Slash, Frostbite, Freezebite.

That's all for now.^^

Wow this thread is getting long. I got my npc to 35 today and decided to try giving it a new weapon. I decided to trade luto the bronze axe. What is interesting is that after talking to luto again, my npc was already asking for an upgrade. So I tried various axes (light, bone, brass). The Brass Axe ended up being the one that was accepted.

From this we can conclude that the npc does not necessarily need to "skill up" using the weapon. It seems that the level of weapon accepted is based solely on the npc's current level. I guess this means that I can switch to another weapon type and immediately upgrade it to match the current npc level.

It also would be nice if the OP started listing the possible upgrade weapons. This way future people wouldn't need to waste AH space reselling the weapons that didn't work.

I have a question. If I wanted to get my NPC all the kills it can handle at once, could I make a huge train in a low level area, summon her, then cast a big AOE spell? Thanks in advance. ^^

Wouldnt do you or your NPC much good, I'm fairly certain.

Any AOE of consequence would require a level too high for the NPC to gain any kind of experience in a low level area.

Hey I'm not sure if anyone's mentioned this but I was lvling my npc with a whm friend and both NPC's left at 20:00 saying that it was late. Also I didnt see anyone bring up whether you can have 5 party members with 5 npc's out at once. Everyone I've seen has treated them like the took up a party spot.

Edited, Fri Jul 29 19:43:02 2005 by Arsanosss