How do I get to 75?Follow

Do campaign, just run around curing people. You'll get 1-3k exp per battle usually

find a bst or drg and duo with him/her.

bst will offen duo with other pet jobs/normal jobs. it works quite well and its pritty good exp.

imo duoing with a bst is way better then siting in town waiting 5 hours to get a party invite then party for 3 hours and as friggin main heal, thats almost a hole day right there.

wih a drg it can be slower then a bst but i always had alot of fun.

if you like to solo you should do the Djinn in Xarcabard [S] camp in the watchful Pixie camp area. i use the hole wall side to to the back if the pixie to kite and the walrus dont get close to the wall either tho some times a ice ele will get kinda close so watch out

i make about 10k+ exp at 75 with no exp band in just 2 game days Ice/Thunder.

Any form of elemental damage attack corresponding to the current day will feed the Djinn TP and its next TP move could be Nocturnal Combustion



The best days to fight Djinn are Thundersday and Iceday, when you are able to use Ramuh and Shiva with their respective spikes wards.

Fighting Djinn can be MP intensive as you are using avatars other than Carbuncle. Always start fights with sufficient MP and switch to Carbuncle as a last resort


Nocturnal Combustion is a very punishing TP move. If you get hit by it, you're almost certain to die SO KEEP RR UP AT ALL TIMES.

There are 2 important points to take note of when you solo Djinn. Firstly, you do not want hate, and secondly, you do not want to be near the Djinn. Having as much Enmity reduction gear helps this alot.

Note day changes. If day changes in the middle of a battle, change your avatar accordingly. The elemental damage needed will have to change as well. (Ramuh and Shiva)




just my opinion

Thanks for all the advice!

It's good hear that the wiki is wrong about campaign because it looked like anything else I could do with my avatar wouldn't get me jack squat. I'll give that a go later tonight.

Also thanks for the info on the Djinn's, if I'm on at the right day I'll give that a go otherwise I'll just wait until this weekend.

Hopefully I'll also be able to find a buddy with a pet and try that out too. ^^

Well, you start at level 1, and real casual-like, level up 74 times.


At level 72, you can either solo in Sea, solo in Uleguerand Range, or solo in Campaign. Parties at this level suck for Summoner anyway.

The nice thing about Campaign is that you get points for damage your avatar deals and takes. Summoner is one of the easier jobs to get points on in Campaign.

Wait, SE did something right? I was recently thinking it would be great if it worked this way, but doubted SE would have had the intelligence to code it. Maybe I should try and carby kite stuff more often for some more damage taken. Or just start off with huge damage to rip some hate.

Still is very tricky to get the kill on mobs though, since BPs are a bit delayed. Not sure it gives more exp, but it seems like 1 kill = 1 drop in chest.

Do yourself a favor and steer clear of these. Getting Smn to 75 will require trivial effort when compared to capping out your summoning magic @75 when your current current skill level stops @12.

Soloing bombs/djinns and doing campaign are your best bets when a pet pt isn't available. Campaign seems like it was made for smn. Use healing ruby II whenever it's up (find the large concentrations of npcs to maximize it's efficiency) and melee along side your avatar. Personally one of the biggest advantages I've found to using smn in campaign is that we can continue to accumulate exp while weakened by having carby attack while you stand at a safe distance.

Salvation
75 Whm / 75 Blm / 75 Brd / 75 Smn

Luckily my SMN is already like 2 or 3 points from cap so don't have to worry about that being gimped. ;-)

Yeah, I have nothing against SMN burn for the most part as long as the person is decently leveled and knows how to play their job, I just don't want to set one up.

I know SMN 1-72SMN pretty well (except of course things like campaign I have done) and don't think skipping 73 and 74 would hurt me too much. :-p

If I happen to fall into one and get an invite, awesome, otherwise, I'm too lazy to organize that (I hate making parties, I've threatened to quit groups for passing me the leader). xD

I think I had a LS friend ready to yell at me because he almost though I SMN-burned SCH since I got it to 36 in a few days (as he should have if I had done that :-p). Nope, I just partied in Qufim with some fantastic people over about 3 days, of course now I've never really gotten a chance to use my 25-36 abilities which I suppose it just about as bad... >_>

I blame level synch. :-p

Edited, Aug 13th 2009 1:27pm by DrObvious

DrObvious, I believe Acturus was meaninging taking 2-6 Summoners to the Mire and killing imps fast like, not Astral Burns in the tunnle.

I also would advise the mire over anything else. It preps you for solo and duoing NMs in the furture and is more fun than cure... cure... hastega... cure.. cure... I took my summoner from 70 to 75 on them, and even though they can be a pain in the ass at times, they teach you valuable lessons about hate management and kiting.

Just ask a fellow summoner if they'd like to duo up there, or you could possibly get a party of 3-5 together and take on the dreaded soulflayers.

I thought it was because of our physical, magical and healing pacts. Now I know it is because we can take a beating without getting hurt too.

If you don't want to do Campaign or Tired of waiting around for Party Invite you can put your flag up and just solo in Ro'Maaeve (I think that is how you spell it). Get the FoV page 1 in the book and just solo the weapons. An easy guide is on the Dancing Weapon just pop Predator Claws and then summon carby and melee beside it until dead. This is were sch comes in handy and you have either Light or Dark Arts up for Regen or Drain and Aspir. Then once dead go attack an Omnious Weapon with carby to take off his Stoneskin and Blink and Dispel all his other buffs he has on when he spawns. Then you can pop Predator Claws on him and summon carby once again and melee him. I went from 72-74 there while camping for my Yin Yang Robe.