Which jobs has the best exp/an output in campaign?Follow

Just about any job that can take damage, self heal, and deal damage will all get about the same amount of xp. Why? Because there is an xp cap.

i love pup/dnc or /nin in campaign, as long as the mobs you fight dont have an AE bigger than 10 yalms, its pretty impossible to die. i do fairly well against gargoyles in beaucadine campaign, i dont even want to try pld there with dark orb spam.

The cap is the same as the amount of exp cap, but the rate of gaining AN in campaign battles is half of that of exp.

If the amount of AN you get > half of exp you get, you know you have your exp capped in the campaign battles.

Edited, Apr 4th 2010 8:35am by AretasMana

You just brought up my two favorite campaign jobs.

Overall I prefer dnc/nin to anything else for campaign though. If you already have the job then I don't need to mention it, but it's incredibly self sufficient. There's not much they can throw at you that you're not prepared to deal with. Violent flourish (stun) for casters, Healing Waltz to remove debuffs, instant self cures, etc. You can easily solo regular campaign mobs without utsusemi, and probably should since taking damage and healing yourself is worth more exp than damage mitigation from shadows, but it's nice to have as an option for the tough situations you might need it (NMs, or tanking multiple mobs for example).

EXP is granted from a variety of actions (curing/taking damage/dealing damage/enfeebling/enhancing/etc) so using a job which can do most of these is recommended (e.g. /dnc).

There are caps on each category as well as a "hard cap" which cannot be exceeded. This hard cap is determined by your Medal Rank, and increases every minute. http://wiki.ffxiclopedia.org/wiki/Campaign:_Experience_Point_Calculation_Guide#Time_and_Medal_Total_Caps

For example, a 3 minute battle as Sterling Star (70xp/min) grants a maximum of 210exp. Allied Notes is half of this, so 105. However, if you were to exceed this cap, all isn't lost yet, since your Allied Notes will still increase but your EXP will not, this can be easily seen if your Allied Notes is greater than half of your EXP (e.g. 210exp and 160AN). The maximum cap for Allied Notes is EXP+4 (e.g. 210exp and 214AN).

As for choosing the best job, I advise you just go out there and kill stuff, bearing in mind the caps for categories, and see if your AN at the end is greater than half of your EXP. If it is, you're doing it right.

The best way to get allied notes though is by Campaign Ops (1k-2k per go if you choose your op/star ranking correctly).

Whm was probably my best job for hitting the exp/an cap easily every fight.

With Mystic Boon I'd just drag a mob off to the side to solo away indefinitely.

You get points from taking a whole lot of damage and then for curing yourself for every bit of it, for dealing physical damage building tp and using Boon and for dealing magic damage tossing out a boosted Holy on occasion, and then for the occasional buffs and keeping debuffs up as well.

I only gave up whm in favor for Rdm after a while because it can be pretty demanding. You more or less have to spam cures depending on the mob you're fighting and having a yagudo remove a weapon can put a strain on the mp pool since I was totally dependent on Boon keeping my mp full.

nin/dnc is my favorite.

nin/dnc has equal or better survivability than dnc/nin. dnc has more healing power but most of the time it isnt needed. nin has better enfeebles, higher evasion, more shadows, better dmg, more haste gear available, and can even get magic dmg if you wanted too.

A lot of jobs can do this...

I can link a bunch of orcs on me on drg (19% PDT) and spam blu Healing Breaths for the same effect.

Of course I die when I run out of MP, but that doesn't matter as I've easilly capped exp and can afford to do nothing for 5mins (weakened)without hurting my exp.


The whole question about which is the best campaign job is pretty meh anyway as EXP caps so quick for any job that can tank > take/cure damage. No one job is better than the others. People will reply, as they have, spouting reasons why they think their favourite combo is the best, but it's still not the one single best because there isn't one.

Any job that can take hits and cure it's self (whilst doing some form of DD) will get good exp. Luckilly, that's most jobs that don't get regular merit invites, except blm who can fight puddings, and Rng, who are just generally screwed.

RDM/anything in general tends to get exp poured down it's throat in campaign. There's a reason you see so many there. I go /nin with a straight melee build, and barely any gear swaps and cap on exp early. If i am switching tags, i can walk away from some of the longer battles with a merit, merit and a half easy

Any job at 75 can hit the EXP/minute cap just through damage (it's hard not to do 940 damage in a minute if you're even halfway trying). The only advantage to different jobs is how much fun you have in Campaign, and how much extra reward you can bank for a lengthy afk while the Campaign continues.

this. spam abilities too. i tend to have a step and animated flourish all in 1 macro. healing waltz gets rid of just about every thing. 2 curing waltzes for when your mp runs low.

I've never had a problem with a wyvern dying in campaign, though I usually do windy areas if that means anything.

That was the impression I was always under, seeing as you always see Provoke, Flash, Sentinel, Animated Flourish, high enmity spells, conveniently timed weaponskills, curing those who can cure themselves (before they get the chance to!), Sleeping mobs you don't actually care to have Asleep, etc. being thrown around quite a lot.

I'm guilty of quite a lot of the above. Tanking is how you get EXP fast in Campaign.

On BST the other die, a BLM died right over me with 2 mobs, they began hitting me and I forced CourierCarrie to use Bubble Shower to get all the mobs off me. Died relatively early in the Campaign because of people who can't just die somewhere out-of-the-way, but still in sight (and he was a BLM, he could've just casted Sleep on them). But even from only doing 3 Weaponskills, got about 1500 EXP from being dead most of it simply because pet was taking damage off 3 mobs and living for some 2 minutes with a Shepard's Drink. Being the target of damage is how you get the best EXP.