Do smn solo or mostly party?Follow

I'm wondering if it's possible to solo like a bst as a smn. I'm guessing the answer is probably "no", but I really have no idea. Any smn want to chime in?

Edited, Thu Sep 23 05:21:41 2004 by theomakos

Inless you are a Taru, have maxed smn skill and spend millions for the best of everything, then no, you won't be soloing anything past 30 really. Smn's don't regain the power to solo stuff till after 70.

I solo about as much as I party and i am a 55 smn. Carbuncle's mitt's and a light staff are a must. You will often find me in Garlaige Citadel killing bombs well waiting for a party. Just remember 1 Small Meteo = Bomb go boom and +250 exp, and yes I often make a chain 3 before I need to rest.

Edited, Thu Sep 23 18:26:19 2004 by burdenwolf

At 51 when a light staff and carbuncle mitts means free-carbuncle, then smn can solo ok, but acs dont do a lot of damage. On an even match, expect to burn through a dozen carbuncles and to take close to 1/2 hour. Not very good xp. most smns solo by finding a bomb thats not too it and sending carbs till it blows up and leaves you 200+xp

Your not a SMN and have every tried to raise it have you?

Yeah, but partying gives your skills a regular workout. As a BLM I capped my skill 2/3 into every level without even trying.

Keeping your SMN skill capped can take HOURS per level, and incidentally seems to level faster when you're a couple of levels behind. Not only that, but many high level SMN can't even agree on what it really helps. We all assume it helps SOMETHING, but there have been like 10 different theories, and for any one of them, loads of people will disagree. Does it help damage? Maybe. Does it help Avatar durability? It might. Does it help blood pact effectiveness? Who knows?

So, unlike Elemental Skill of Enfeebling Skill, which can have a noticable difference from level to level, the usefulness of SMN magic skill is unclear - and since it's unclear, I really can think of better things to do with a whole saturday than stand outside jeuno emptying out my mp over and over and over until my brain turns to oatmeal.

I am not sure if solo can get "chain". I party in regular pt mostly until lv65. after lv65 (all with fenrir)I managed a perm pt with 5 smn + brd and it workes great till lv75. Can Chain 8 if enough mobs (lv70 blood pack)

If you can manage to join a SMN LS (mostly will be formed by JPN) will be easy to make smn pt.

I guess SMN pt with BSTs will also be fun too.

Nice Sixtail, =P, I've almost capped my skill just from doing avatar battles over and over again ;_;

aye i agree ma brains turned into gruel of oatmeals while lvling it for hrs and hrs and hrs ands on and on....0.o i become regulat fixture outside windy keeping ma skill capped for every lvl

my way to combat it is find me a nice nail polish and pepsi and popcorn and go at it ^^

As so many people have said above are you stupid? Maybe do some research before posting. Do you even have a basic undersatnding of how leveling summoning magic even works? Here is a little example... from 2 hours spent leveling my summons the other day (and only sitting there summoning and unsummoning and resting for MP repeatedly outside of Jeuno) I only gained 5 levels... in 2 HOURS! (and that was probably not to bad, I've heard of worse) That's barely enough to cover 1 level. As a whm or blm you just get a party and level your magic skills and while yes I do agree that it is time consuming and even difficult to level the 4 for black mages and white mages, in comparison, it is pathetic to what it takes to level your summoning skill.

The higher the lvl, the harder it is to raise summon skill as well. My skill is currently 14 levels behind. It was 30 levels behind, but I spent (I timed it out of sheer annoyance) 46 hours doing cast/release through all 900 mp, then resting to full (with dark staff) to get 16 skill levels. One time it took 6 hours to get a single skill level.

I'm usually hardore anti-bot, but if I find one to level summon skill for me, I will probably use it.

Well i soloed from levels 24-26 and at lv 36 i could solo ochu in rolanberry, but that was b/c i had carb mitts.....


Getting them the old fashion way~
Carb, Shiva, Garuda, Titan
carb mitts - complete AF1:done
Norg:lv7 Windy:lv5
MP:747
SMN42/BLM21
Shumi
Fenrir

I've heard people commenting about the only thing Summoners can solo are Bombs because they blow themselves up, saving you the trouble of taking the time and MP to kill them. Instant easy xp.

But Bombs aren't the only critters that blow themselves up for you. Has anyone tried soloing Goblins using the same strategy? Carby Poison Nails Goblin, Goblin Throws Bomb?