Experience points with petFollow

Leveling has changed. You can do it old style, but that doesn't necessarily mean you use higher level pets than you.
You can spend 2 or 3 pets for each mob you kill if you want to take down VT or IT mobs. Its probably going to be slow to do that solo though.

I suggest going after EM~VT and not too many VT most the time. if you chain kill that way you get alot of xp solo. The exception would be bombs, snoll or Djinn type mobs. send a pet to hold them until they explode, while you keep your safe distance. Djinn are best for this, because you can encourage them to explode w/ elemental magic.

However, you can also make plenty by killing ep and dc mobs now, or doing training pages from the field's of valor or grounds of valor pages.

if you want to do it old style, then most the old camps are still good, and you will have no trouble w/ competition.

Its all a matter of preference and play style. Sometimes its fun to slowly level solo. I did my drg from 21 to 39 solo in about 4 hours and it ws fun and relaxing. I think solo vs T+ mobs will give you a much stronger grasp of the job, and you pay more attention when you risk DEATH so much.

Sometimes, though I want to get the job leveled up and equipped as quickly as possible because I want that job for a specific purpose.

or sometimes you get stuck in a hole. you level to a certain point and you don't feel like playing that pacew/ the job. or yo ustop and do quests or maybe not.

Frankly, I highly recommend doing Djinn in Vunkerl Inlet S around level 63+.
It was most fun duo, imo, but solo works also.

Its high-risk, high-reward xp. send the crab or fish to tank the djinn, and you sit at max casting range spamming the weakest elemental magic you can. /rdm and /sch work best. when you hit them w/ elemental magic matching the day of the week, they get 100% TP and they are likely to explode. if you take hate, they will chase you and blow you up, if you walk the line just right, you cash in on xp.

for bombs I would keep a /mage for melee in other camps I would go /dnc when higher than level 30. below level 30, I loved /blu best
but most don't take the time to get /blu prepared for it.

Edited, Sep 7th 2012 10:46am by Xilk

I would recommend the opposite - going slow to level 60, then burning from there to 80s or so, then doing some skill ups, then burning to the end.

Not sure if you realize, but SE really improved the power of pet jugs available at level 76+. You can viably use them now to exp with, especially if you are fighting EP mobs doing GoV pages. There's really no reason to charm anything 76+, but you certainly can if you like.

The issue is exp per level needed to advance. I did BST old school all the way to 75 before the cap was raised (and before FoV or GoV were introduced), and it was really painful. People say they want to do it the old way, but I'm not sure you realize what kind of time commitment that is. Even if you are getting 200xp per kill on an EM mob (I only got 100, and that was IF I released my pet before the final blow) it will take forever to get to 99. I'm not saying to leech in Abyssea, because I firmly believe your first job to 99 should be earned, but don't frustrate yourself doing it "old school" either. It's not going to be as fun as you remember, trust me. At least make use of GoV book reraise regardless of what you do.