For what it's worth, you could never skill up "in campaign" with tags on. You could only do it with tags off, which had some risk if you took hate. So the question is, will they allow it with tags on, now that it's irrelevant because mob levels are too low to cap skills at 99?
You basically had to watch your hate and have reraise ready. My first job was WHM and I leveled it mostly in campaign because healing a lolibri party would have bored me to
death sleep. I was able to skill up my Divine magic so that I could repose Maat for G5. I was also able to determine that the "grunt" mobs in campaign were level 65 by when the skill-ups stopped. And then I beat on walls to 75 before SE nerfed that, too.
At least it taught me a lot about hate transfer that applies today in stuff like Delve fractures. Oh the fun when someone with NM hate still on him decided to rest up next to the weakened people. Two minutes later, the NM comes to whack him, then sees all the fresh meat and whacks them too while he's there.
The northlands mobs were added later, so I don't know what level they are, but I doubt they would be useful with all of my important skills already over 300. And that's the real problem.
TheBarrister wrote:
This thread will be relevant when, as Szabo says, it's permitted in Reives. In other words, who cares about 4 years ago of content that no one has cared about for 3 years?
At least you can get skill-ups in Delve fractures. Still, my preference is flux #5 in Uglyrand Range, worms or bluffalo depending on what you're doing. They can go up to level 100 or so if you beat on them fast enough. I usually start there at 325-350 on whatever job has the highest skill rank. (I have them all at 99 and atma means I can survive with gimp gear.) From 250-350 or so, it's mandies in Tahrongi.
Skilling up in campaign has been completely irrelevant since level cap 85 or so. As long as the level cap stays at 99, Abyssea is the place to go. Still, campaign could be useful to get to 250.
EDIT: As for reives, the difference between those vs campaign (and even Besieged) for why skill-ups should be allowed is that reives have no NPCs to hold hate for you. When I was skilling up in campaign, I was doing it
solo, on non-NMs that already had hate firmly on an NPC. Then I would just spam Dia, Bio, Banish, whatever, in complete safety.
I can only solo a reive at all because pets don't aggro mobs, and Morimar colonization reives have a safe place to stand while Alternator Sharpshot kicks some ***. I'm currently trying to get that Sih Gates I-8 reive for Vegetable Vegetable Revolution, got the first root last night, second root tonight, and will do the third root in the morning. Good thing they don't regenerate dead roots until you clear it.
Edited, Jun 1st 2013 12:24am by Elwynbelwyn