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I was in an Abyssea party as SMN and also another SMN. We traded off using Odin, and thus traded off getting the restore chests. Getting about three kills per Odin summon seemed to make things move a lot quicker. If anything I hadn't had this much fun playing as SMN in a long time.

The best? Unlikely. Can pull their own weight and contribute a lot to an Abyssea party? Absolutely. But almost every job in the game falls into that second grouping which is a major factor in Abyssea exp being as friendly and awesome as it is.

But almost every job in the game is not capable of producing spike magical damage AND spike physical weaponskill damage. In fact, I'm fairly certain SMN stands alone in this respect. COR is the only other job I can think of, being able to do weaponskills with decent damage as well as Quick Draw which I believe does respectable magic damage, but I doubt it compares to SMN.

And yes, I understand that with an alliance of 18, having one person being able to do both types of killshot is not necessarily a huge deal. However, coordinating your desired kill style among a couple of SMNs is a lot easier than doing so among an entire alliance of DD's and mages. One or two SMN go a long way toward ensuring you get the desired kill types, in addition to contributing a lot to the overall output like, as you pointed out, most jobs can do. That was my point. SMN seems best-suited out of all jobs in the game for this particular task.

In Abyssea, however, ALL blu magic counts as magical damage.

For the Abyssea run where I went from 77 to capped 80 + 5 merits, I did the first half as general DD SMN, meleeing for spirit taker and BPing when I could. For whatever reason the ally lead didn't bother putting me in a mage or melee buffing role so I was left to my own devices. About half way through, the THF that had been pulling switched to a different job, so I took over pulling, just sic'ing Carby on a mandie and retreating back to camp and let the mandie beat on Carby until the ally grabbed it, then ran off to get another. Was able to keep up a nice steady flow and Carby lasted about 3 mandies before I'd have to resummon. I'd use Holy Mist for ~700 damage on the parked mandie while waiting for the ally to grab it.

In an earlier, less successful party, (where I went 76 to 77), I was on refresh duty with Diabolos and main box person. Being on box duty is @#%%ing annoying. /tries to open box: tab through targets since ally doesn't move between kills, stacking the mobs and boxes on top of each other. Yay! Targeted the box, let's see now... <mandie does Scream> Event Skipped @#$%!

Odin seems to give Azure light, at least on frogs he does.

Makes me almost want to start playing again.

Wow that's very strange to hear, I figured if one counted as magic kill they all would. Thunderstorm was definitely giving me azure lights, though. In fact, the Thunderstorm kills resulted in about half of the Time Extension chests my group got that night. So I assume if that counts as magic damage, at the very least all 6 merit BPs likely do. If Night Terror & Nether Blast don't count... is it safe to assume Lunar Bay & Holy Mist also will result in pearlescent? What about Meteorite? Seems to warrant some testing... sadly I am capped exp and capped merits already so I won't be doing any Abyssea exp for some time... That would be kind of lame if you need merit BPs to get azure lights! Anything that's magic damage should be treated the same! This might actually be a bug. I just hope it's a bug that Diab's BPs don't count as azure, not a bug that the merit BPs do!

I know what you're all gonna say ("OMG, Admin bumping a topic") but this is quite relevant and important to the topic at hand. I can confirm conclusively that Nether Blast counts as a Pearlescent light kill, and that despite what Toioiz's experience was suggesting, Odin's Zantetsuken can count as a Pearlescent light kill as well.

And just to add further confusion, I am partying in Abyssea right now on Ypotryll and Odin and the 75 pacts have been giving pearl lights. Lunar Bay and Predator Claws have also been giving the occasional pearl light.

Coeurls in Tahrongi. Starting to wonder if I was hallucinating... I know that about 60-70% of our TE chests came from merit BP kills, but I know that doesn't necessarily mean it was azure light. At the time, I thought TE only came from azure light kills but I know better now. It's possible that I just saw all the blue chests from my merit BP kills and assumed... but I very clearly remember double checking several times throughout the party and seeing azure light after a BP kill. Again, maybe I was just hallucinating...

Must be nice to have tonberries. Not "popped" yet on Phoenix. Wish there was a clear condition for it, but the only thing I can guess is "kill main boss" and that nobody has been interested in doing so yet in Konstat or something.

Still don't get why SE puts magian upgrade items for SMN on the last to pop mobs in the zone. I guess they love abusing the job.

As I showed in the the screenshot above, even Zantetsuken can count as a pearlescent light kill.

Reposting for convenience.

was in Konchat on my smn and Pred claws and Wind blade were both giving Azure on kill shots. Was very confused. Was fighting Ypotryll

That's quite interesting and I did not know it, this could also explain why I was getting azure in my party with BP killshots. Pretty much every mob I didn't get a killshot on, one of the mages did. So we probably had really strong azure and medium strength pearl. I might not be crazy/blind after all!

In the several alliances I've run thus far, I always use the same system: 25 Azure => 30 Pearl. If the "dominant" Azure light can be over powered by 1 single mob kill after we switch to auto-attack kills then I'll eat my hat. Also, I want the effect of Pearl 26 at Pearl 1, if somehow my first pearl kill is stronger than 25 Azure kills.

Unrelated: Personal experience for me is Azure 25 => Pearl 30 => free up kills and repeat Azure x10 whenever you get an uncapped blue box is enough to keep a perpetual alliance going if everyone's following directions. "Free-for-all" tends to get the alliance a mix of azure and the occasional pearl, but lots of boxes on the ground.