Best job for soloing/low manning pre-Abyssea content Follow

Is the 95 cap fight soloable by BST now with the tail? Only time I have done the fight is the first week it was released, pre-tail. I'm leveling a new character now, and if BST can solo it that is good news.

Not with one tail, but I bet it could be done with multiples.

You wouldn't want to be some run of the mill ghetto BST though; you'd actually have to give a sh*t if you want to push out enough damage in time.

Important thing to note: make sure you do attacks on him from the back while he's frozen to maximize your damage. He can still guard attacks while frozen, somehow.



You'll have the taru frozen most of the time; you should be busting out a tiger or something for better damage instead of that rabbit.

Edited, Feb 20th 2013 9:31am by Fynlar

FTFY.

I understand crabs, but slimes last longer, don't hit any harder really, and can heal themselves prolonging a fight. They're the perfect monster for skilling up melee weapons. Sauromugue Champaign (any monster, but ***** last the longest) to about 75/80, then head inside Garlaige and beat on the Acid Greases until 175 (or level 50~52 equivalent). Then head to Caedarva Mire and beat on the Oil Slicks there until about 225 (or 64~66 equivalent). From there you can either head to Mount Zhayolm and beat on a few Mountain Clots to get to 275 (or 72~75 requivalent) or simply head on to abyssea and beat on crabs ad infinitum (sadly no slimes in Abyssea). Since slimes take such little damage you only really need 2 mobs (3 at the absolute most).

The leveling:skilling:time ratio yes, I agree with. It's rather foolish now to try to "keep skills capped" while you level because it slows you down dramatically. I don't think a lot of people understand how much it slows them down until they finally push through a job and then go back to skilling up.

Being in abyssea doesn't change the length of the attack animation and therefore the number of uses you'd get out of the SP2.

And in my experience foot kick does consistently better damage than razor fang regardless. I'll admit I don't have a parse to back it up but my experience is that while the tiger is a strong DD in terms of it's auto attack it's damaging TP moves are lackluster (Roar can be super awesome though)

Going off the graph here http://ffxi.allakhazam.com/forum.html?forum=262&mid=1345305251285988942&h=50&p=1#21 Foot kick did 44% more damage than Razor fang per use. With 2 extra uses. If you multiply the dmg & uses foot kick did twice as much damage in 1 minute. After SP2 is over you can use leave and call what ever pet you like for the rest of the fight.

SP2 resets the recast on call beast if its not already on cooldown. So if you're pressed for time you could SP2 > Call beast > Spam TP moves > Leave > Call Beast.

When DO we get those, anyway? Any word?

Edit: Also, can anyone play on the test server provided they have all the expansions, or is it only for people who signed up for it early on?

Edited, Feb 21st 2013 7:08am by Diamondis

Wow, I just installed the game on my laptop now I'm back in Japan and it only took less than an hour to update here, compared to 12 hours before. I guess the smaller ping makes it much faster to download all the little files.

I'm level 91 BST at the moment... took some time to get my NIN and DNC up to 50 too. Still need to get round to doing the cap quest...

Edited, Feb 27th 2013 10:29pm by Dizmo