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Took him out today. Did not cast erase on me and he's level 39. He's gymped.

Anyway. He stayed out for 55 minutes. And as a healer, I have to say he's slowing me down cause he asks to rest. I'm wondering if I'll get penalized for not resting so I can fight more mobs.

I doubt SE did much, if anything to this particular aspect of their behavior. Mine acted the exact same way before and after the update. It seems random.

NPCs cannot be summoned in any area that requires you to clear another area before beating. i.e. Sky, Sea, Lufaise Meadows, etc.

I dropped my pearl immediately after the last patch and lost the "appearances" option, which I had had for a couple days. Today, after three more sessions, I got it back. This makes me think that requesting a new pearl will cost you between five and ten leveling sessions worth of relationship points. I would say seven or eight.

It's a doublet >_>

Those look like chain hose
I think

Edited, Sat Aug 6 00:10:51 2005 by Rilly

At level 41 NPC will cast Cure IV instead of Cure III :))

look:

http://gnu.univ.gda.pl/~huckster/ff11/yoli_cure4.jpg

That's pretty cool. I'm glad to see that the Healer types get some nice firepower, so to speak, to make up for the lack of damage and weaponskill use of the Fighter type.

Does anyone know if the Shield mode NPCs are worth it at all? Do they get anything besides Provoke, and probably better defense?

Mine got to level 32 today (3rd fight of 5th session). I've only used the pearl-drop trick once, and that was before the update. What I'm finding odd is that on the fourth session (yesterday) she only stayed for 13 fights, and today only for 12 fights (about 20-25 minutes). Fighting spiders, beetles, anticans and dhalmels in East Altepa. I keep her cured, I try to rest periodicly, etc, just not sure what I'm doing wrong. When she leaves, she says, "Wow! I'm exhausted! I gotta go now! Bye!"

She's currently in attacker mode. While I've got her set to let me know when she has TP ready, the only time she's ever said anything is the one time she got to 100% before I did. Seems to instead just use the weaponskill when ready and I follow it up to close the skillchain.

And finally, checking her again at the Rendezvous Point, she doesn't seem to have changed any of her armor. Mercenary Captain's Doublet is the only piece I recognize.

Can anyone offer any advice?

Anyone else had problems with Hide while leveling your NPC?

I took mine out to Altepa since she hit 35 and Evil Weapons in Sauromouge Champain are getting a little low. Had a gob link with the one we were fighting and I didn't want to fight it without resting since as THF50/NIN25 they're not all that easy. I used Hide and got rid of the second gob but my NPC wandered around like she was lost or something. She wouldn't rest when I did and just looked rather confused. Eventually she wandered off with the gob that had linked and I had to go run over near her and attack something else to get her to come back.

Don't know if anyone else has seen this or maybe it was just a glitch and I'm unlucky.

Yes my NPC seems to change into whatever armor she feels like wearing at the time. She hasn't died since the second time I called her which was a long time ago. She just hit 35 and she's wearing scale armor again. I don't think the armor really does anything for them other than for appearance because she does't seem to take any more or less damage no matter what she's wearing.

Want to keep this bumped, I'm eager to find out more... like if eventually they stay out for more than 20 kills, or what new options may open up yet. I love this feature, makes casual play much more rewarding. ^_^
I have mostly been playing with my Samurai which is level 17 now, hoping that since Pimy was level capped with me she would still get some xp too... I'll stick to this for a while and let you know if she still eventually levels. I have seen her change from scale to level 40 plate, then back to lizard, but I feel its all for looks too, she still takes hits all the same. Figure the weapons you trade in are the same in essense... just a way of guiding her in what type of weapon to use.

I noticed switching my npc to a healer type leveled her much faster. Before hand when she dinged 31 she had been shield/attacker. Took a couple days to reach 31. Then I switched her to healer and in two sessions she reaches 32.

I dinged level 42 on my npc. Leveling happens every other outing, after about 40 fights.


Althepa is the place to be. I changed him from healer to attacker because we had to stop for him to get mp and that slowed us down. As long as I can keep hate (always if I cast a high spell on mob) the attacker will not get hate at all and we can keep going and going for the 55 minutes.

Since my staff has hp drain and I have Spirit taker for mp, I don't need to rest at all and its just a matter of quickly going from one mob to the next.