why dont people lvl up in buburimu peninsulaFollow

let's compare monsters:

Valkurm Dunes:
Hill Lizard lvl 15-18
Goblin Ambusher, Tinkerer and Butcher lvl 17-20
Snipper lvl 18-22
Damselfly lvl 20-23
Goblin Gambler, Leecher and Mugger lvl 22-25
Beach Pugil lvl 23-26
Bogy lvl 28-30

Buburimu Peninsula:
Sylvestre lvl 15-18
Goblin Ambusher, Tinkerer and Butcher lvl 17-20
Snipper lvl 18-23
Bull Dhalmel lvl 20-23
Goblin Gambler, Leecher and Mugger lvl 22-25
Shoal Pugil lvl 24-28
Bogy lvl 23-25


Hill Lizard vs Sylvestre
Sylvestres are mandragoras. The same mandragoras that people like to kill in the jungles. They dont have AoE attack and they dont petrify people. Easier to kill than lizards.

Valkurm Snippers vs Buburimu Snippers
Buburimu Snippers are 1 lvl higher but that shouldnt be a problem. That even helps because people can lvl off snippers longer.

Damselfly vs Bull Dhalmel
Bull Dhalmels hit hard but they dont have AoE attack. With 2 blink tanks they are easy. Even with WAR or PLD tank they are more managable than Damselflies

Beach Pugil vs Shoal Pugil
Shoal Pugils are higher lvl. That means people can stay there until lvl 20 before going to Jeuno. They can outpost warp from there to home city and they can start chocobo quest right away when they get to jeuno

Valkurm Bogy vs Buburimu Bogy
Buburimu Bogy are much lower lvl and they can actually be killed by xp party there. Even if they decided to run away from bogies they have high chance of survive unlike valkurm bogy.

So Buburimu Peninsula offer safer and better place to lvl up compared to valkurm dunes.

I'm afraid to say both the Maze of Shakhrami and Buburimu were levelling zones. Then amny sites including this one told everyone that levelling is done in Vlakurm dunes, thats where everyone goes. So that's where everyone went, Bubu and Shakhrami are now ghost zones, no one there.

So if you want to party there you either need a co-operative useful group in Valkurm that will move or a set of player you know to level with. Other bonus with Bubu is you never get Marshaluke (how ever its spelt) rampaging round killing everyone in sight either.

Well, don't forget that getting to Buburimu isn't exactly easy from where the majority of tanks come from; Sandy and Bastok. At least for new players anyway...

Yeah, I would say access is why most people don't level there. Valkurm is pretty accessible for sandy and bastok. Most people leveling 10-20 don't form parties in Jeuno and go to Bubu like in later levels. Also, getting to Bubu is pretty dangerous compared to Valk. Konschtat Highlands, La Theine Plateau, Ronafure, Gustaberg, those are all lowish level zones with avoidable aggro, and even if you do get aggro, you can usually make a run for the zone and get there.

However, in sauromague (sp?), those raptors and gobs will eat you alive if you get aggro.

But Jeuno > Windy > E. Saru > Tahrongi is pretty damn safe >.> It's easier to get there than to dune from one of the other major cities

You really expect level 12-14 newbs with no subjob to walk to jeuno then walk all the way to bubrimu peninsula? It aint worth it. In all my time leveling in the maze, I only seen ONE bastokian that actually went to level there cause he heard about it.

The maze and bubu is geared more toward windurstians. Sandy and bastok have the dunes and bubu is for windy.

Parties prefer Valkurm Dunes because they've grown accustomed to it. It's easier when you have 1 zone at that level to find members, and many lower-level players don't consider throwing their seek flag up until they're either in the zone they want to exp. in or they're one zone away. Since Valkurm Dunes has become the de facto exp. party zone from 11 - 19, newer players who never had the opportunity to try Buburimu Peninsula look at it as a goblin-infested zone of death, and rarely venture past their comfort zone.

Which, in a very selfish way, was fine with me as BST, since it gave me a massive, competition-free zone to exp. in!

{Hmmmm}. Its not as easy as it would be for them to party in Valkurm, fair enough. And I appreciate that there's no point fighting against the human urge to take the course of least resistance (why make life more difficult than it has to be, and for 2/3 of players Valkurm is "easier").

But while its easier for Sandorians and Bastokans to get to Valkurm I wouldn't say it was really not easy for them to get to Buburimu ... its no more difficult than it was for me as a new player to make my way from Windurst to Valkurm for the first time. If it was that difficult I'd still be a level 10 WHM with no sub.

Ah witch! Burn him!!!11one

I have never had the pleasure to camp in those places you mention. Might be awsome there though, nice change of scenery {Yes, Please}, I almost threw up when i went to Cape Terrigan(Dunes!! ahh!).

After i get to Jeuno i make a pt with level 19-20 people and go to the place with beetles, awsome camp chain 4 and 5 for 250-300exp. The newbie WHM said to me "Wow this is the best party ive ever been in".

Just need a alternative to the jungles! Here is a good post on alla i use as a reference to find camps.



http://ffxi.allakhazam.com/forum.html?forum=10&mid=1096838303937842675&num=195



Have fun! Darn link wont show

Edited, Sat Oct 15 20:26:07 2005 by Tsutsui

Purgonurgo Isle: The alternative to Yuhtunga Jungle that nobody knows about.

Avoid the jungles using battilia Downs or skip over to Altepa and kill spiders. I never really used COP expansion so my knowledge is limited to the first two packs. Before Zilart came out there wasn't a Jungle to level in.

I vividly remember the days of leveling in the Maze and Bub. Man, those places were packed.

Being from Windy, the access isn't that good, but for Bastok and Sandy they are, so you naturally you'll get more people. I think that, combined with the fact that there are more connected zones and more places to set your homepoint (since one nation or another has control) was what attracted me.