/RDM how well does it work 60+?Follow

You'll need it if you want to XP in ToAU areas.

Chances are you'll be main-healing on Imps and Silena is (needed).

If you manaburn your way to 72 or so, though, you should be able to /RDM main-heal on Colibri.

no matter what tank(Meat/blink) you got for the pt, silena still a must at Caedarva Mire(I hate Imps). Echo Drops easily run out if you don't careful. Sometimes, even DD ask for it as well.
Yes, it is easy for those melee to get the drops for themselves, yet, they are cheap that can't afford 800gil per-drop when mages use 1~5 stack(s) each pt at Mire.

Ok thanks, yeah i'll use the echo drops, RDM seems to be an awesome sub as far as SCH is concerned b/c it increases both sides of sch's powers. Not to mention rdm gets blink stoneskin and phalanx + gravity so I'll deal with the whole silena thing myself I shouldnt really be concerned if weather other ppl have it or not i'll be sure to remind them to pick some up lol.

Level White Mage. Sub White Mage in the Mire if you're main healing. If I was your PLD/NIN tank and you told me you weren't going to Silena me, I would find a new healer. The majority of my time on Scholar in the Mire was spent using Silena. Good players won't need a ton of cures, but to keep them performing the do need Silena.

Level Red Mage. Sub Red Mage when you're XPing on Colibri. AoE Phalanx and Stoneskin are awesome to have. I main healed Colibri parties with only Sanction refresh and there was no downtime caused by me resting (downtime caused by a sh*tty bard, though).

Level Blac...well, I suppose. I don't like losing the ability to Stoneskin, Paralyze, and Slow. For some endgame things, sure, but for XPing, meh.

If you're main healing something where status effect removal is necessary or the monster uses powerful AoE/sleep spells, sub White Mage. I had a party refuse to let me sub Red Mage to a Colibri camp. I didn't use Divine Seal at all, Curaga, etc at all. Phalanx+Stoneskin is nice (and hopefully we get some more charges in the update) for those Pecking Flurries.

Thanks so much for all your useful information you guys. I am going to lvl whm but at a slow pace same for blm. I refuse to lvl fast just b/c of the mire only b/c I really hate those jobs lol lvling them to 37 is going to be a big huge pain in my butt :P so I'm going sch/rdm till i feel like lvling them, I mean /rdm is actually nice phalanxga and enspells being used on whole pt's are really nice.

71 SCH, almost 72, and let me say Silena is a must in the mire. I hate that place with a passion. But ask the pt ldr what they want /whm /rdm? I always ask where and what my role will be in apt, all though I know 9 out of 10 times I am main healer lol.

Im not in a static.

Oh lol that pt was there cause Mire had a sh*t load of people, and that place actually worked out great.

There were 100+ people in the mire that night. We had a tank, as well as a COR and BRD so I had like limitless MP. And whats wrong Xpn in the old areas? just as good as new ones. Remember Moon and Bibiki Bay, were the only spot to merit before all of this ToAU.

Because, 9/10 times, if you have a party that can actually get to an oldworld camp without ending up dead, you could've raped through any of ToAU's squishy mobs and already have 5-10k in XP.

I'm all for the "ToAU isn't the only place" train of thought, but when a sh*t party in a ToAU area can match an excellent party in the oldworld, it isn't worth my time to go to an old camp and hope.




I never said anything was wrong with it, just amazed that someone actually agreed to go there.

I tried to find the word Mire in my text somewhere, but I couldn't. :x

You've got Lesser Colibri (squishy), Puks (squishy), Colibri (squishy), FireBreathingCrawlersOfDeath (squishy...but less so), Imps (squishy), Greater Colibri (squishy) as the new "normal" that players take. Sure, you've got Marsh Murres, Defoliator and Aydeewa Diremites in the Subterrane, and those Ziz in Mamook. The normal player isn't going to go to these camps (other than Defoliators) unless they're forced to. It isn't completely illogical either: why spend 20 minutes getting to a camp when you can spend 5? Do I like the fact that the camps I "grew up" on aren't used anymore? Yes and no. I like getting the faster XP, but I do wish they would buff Signet in a manner that would make the old camps equip to the new camps. Even then, I'd fear going to them, because I see how often people join a party only to leave 10 minutes later because they know a replacement is only 3 minutes away.

I hate Mouny Zhayolm. I don't have it because I can't get around it. I don't hate it because the mobs scare me. I hate it because chances are someone is going to die because they're too accustomed to the other ToAU mobs that have virtually no ability to kill you unless your mages go AFK. Which, I'm fairly certain they do. Let's face it, whenever I Silena two people before the Red Mage even realizes anyone is silenced, there's something wrong. I've tried getting people to go to Onzozo at 63ish just to try to force some mages to not suck.

Of course, even fighting mobs with status effects doesn't seem to help. Flytraps in Aydeewa along with the Crawlers has shown me that. Mages failing to stay out of AoE range (but they learn when they have to pay for Echo Drops in the Mire!), mages failing to Paralyna/Erase-Haste the tank/melees. Part of the reason I can't stand XPing on not ToAU mobs is the fact I'm disgusted by the performance of my party members. But hey, how can I judge them, they get 10k an hour on Colibri!