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so in an effort to prepare for the coming lvl cap increase, I want to get my BLM's exp buffer to 44k.

I tried to do this with campaign but I found myself getting surprisngly low exp rewards from each battle... what does a BLM do to get good, (or preferably exceptional) exp in campaign?

thanks for any comments tips and suggestions

I bought that lvl72 staff that NPCs for slightly less than it costs to buy and just meleed in the best DD gear my blm could equip and then between dark arts, parsimony, sublimation, spirit taker, and aspirs I could fairly frequently cast tier 3s and parsimony'd -ga 3.

While horde aga'ing can be good, it didn't actually seem better than meleeing/single-nuking.

...if you're not trying to suicide -aga careful about -gaing in general cause there is always people kiting mobs they can't solo that you can easily hit as they run by...which will then immediately kill you and make you waste your melee food you just popped.

The staff's base damage makes a decent difference in your spirit taker damage. The 72 one had slightly better DPS than Kirin's Pole, but you should have Kirin's Pole anyways so you could just use it. Jupiter's would be your next best option so you can rack in extra points from critical hits.

All campaign mobs are aspirable except ones that are Undead (e.g. fomors).

Edit: and Shadowfang Voids. Since they are dark based, they might as well be immune to aspir.

Edited, May 24th 2010 5:37pm by svlyons

My BLM campaign setup:

/DNC, DD gear, get yourself a nice DPS dagger (I use Blau Dolch) or Staff and melee/heal/magic damage your way to exceptional XP.

Mp Drain WS: Energy Drain or Spirit Taker. Allows you to keep meleeing and gain back mp through WS

Aspir Samba: Allows you to keep in the fray instead of resting.

Waltzes: To heal yourself and gain xp for damage taken/damage cured.

Essentially this strategy requires you to play BLM like a melee DD: Melee/WS/Aspir MP==> Gear swap (except for weapon) to nuke set like a melee would do for WS, T4 Nuke, gear swap to DD set.

This strategy is the best xp I've been able to achieve in campaign on BLM. You will also find as you get comfortable with this that you can solo tank any non boss mob.

Huh? This is the first I've heard of this. Anyone else care to confirm this?

The only thing I see pertains to the BRD botting nerf. I'm not buying your assertion regarding nukes unless you provide additional evidence.

Accord to the Experience Point Calculation Guide on FFXI Wiki there is a hard cap of 500 xp per battle assessment for only doing magical damage. So even if you did enough damage to receive 3000 xp you would only receive 500 xp, unless you constantly went back to the NPC for assessments and new tags.

Edited, May 27th 2010 4:21pm by Shaowstrike

Shaowstrike is full of it. I just went out to a battle on RDM. Got Tags. Nuked a mob for 543. Turned in tags a minute later, got 35 xp, 18 AN. Got new tags, engaged a mob, nuked him for 543, disengaged. Turned in tags a minute later, got 35/18 again. Didn't perform any other actions or take any damage either time.

It's worth noting that I'm not getting the 10% of damage as advertised on the wiki, but being engaged or not has nothing to do with it. Also, I currently have a Dawnlight Medal, if anyone is curious.