Life of a Newb (Day 11)Follow

You'll do less damage with your wand against higher level opponents like you fight in parties. You'll also do less damage compared to the mob's hit points as you level up.



I've usually found that you actually get more xp/hour fighting easy prey opponents than more difficult opponents. You get much less per kill but kill much faster.



I'm not sure what you mean by mission 3. They are usually numbered by <current rank>-<mission within rank>. You'll eventually be able to complete missions up to 2-3 solo. You probably won't be able to complete 2-3 mission solo as the final fight is a level 25 cap and generally requires 3-4 people.



Eventually you'll probably want to party for better xp. A great party can get 4k xp/hour or higher, although that generally means good players and a power leveler. A good party can get 2.5-3k xp/hour. Bad parties can get anywhere from 0-2k xp/hour. These rates are for around your level. XP rates for parties increase at some of the higher levels. The proportion of bad parties tends to go down as you increase in level.



The fastest way to get fame for gobbie bags is to feed the sheep for the guy in Selbina. If you use millioncorn or cabbage, it is very cheap. It's also fairly boring though. 30 stacks of corn get you about 1-2 fame levels. I think it's fame level 3 for the first gobbie bag quest.

Worms drop almost nothing of value. Occasionally they'll drop various ores, but ores do not stack and most aren't worth very much.

You will get conquest points (CP) for getting experience in any zone that shows up on your region map as long as you have signet active. That's probably every zone you've ever seen. You cannot get CP in Treasures of Aht Uhrgan areas (generally level 55+) or Wings of the Goddess areas (set in the past, have [S] in name).



At low levels, it helps a lot to have your flag up in the zone that people at your level get xp, or at least a closely neighboring zone. For level 13, that means Valkurm Dunes preferably or Konstat Highlands or La Theine Plateau at the least. It can take 30+ minutes to travel from Tahrongi to Dunes by foot and most people don't want to wait that long. Alternatively, you can get the outpost warp done for Valkurm Dunes and put in your search comment (see Search->Edit Comment from the main menu) that you have the outpost warp. It won't be as effective as being in the zone though. Wait times are variable. You can probably expect it to take 0-2 hours, most likely towards the lower end of that range.

Fighting weak monsters is the best thing you can do at your level and without a sub job really. I usually kill monsters giving me between 25-50 XP until I hit level 12. At that level it should head out to the dunes.

I highly recommend having an experienced player escort or help you out a bit for that. From what I know you started in Windurst which is the worst place to get to the dunes from :P

People won't invite you in a party if you are not near enough of the camp (Zulkheim region is the most used lvl 10-20). So to get there you need to go in East Sarutabaruta > Targhoni canyon > Buburimu Peninsula > Mhaura. From mhaura you can take the boat to Selbina for something like 200 gils. (The diffucult part is not getting aggro in Buburimu peninsula by those nasty goblins)

Once you are in Selbina you can put your flag up and wait or go solo monsters in La Theine Plateau or Konschat highlands (Those map are connected to Valkurm dunes and have the same level range monsters as the Canyon).

Ok since you are mostlikely not used to party's I'll explain a bit the concept. You are a BLM so you do a lot of damage and you do NOT melee the monsters. But there is one important thing, the more damage you deal the more "hate" you produce on the monster. If you have the most hate on the monster it will attack you and you'll be dead in no time.

You will have to learn when to slow down on nuking and when you can nuke this is very important. You should save your homepoint in Selbina also because yes everyones dies a lot in the dunes, even experienced people.


For your Conquest point question you get points in any zone you are in beside (Aht Urghan areas and WoG areas) So you do not need to worry about that. People mentionned to you to kill worms in the maze of shakrami I highly doubt it's a good idea for an unexperienced person without a subjob (You will WHM sub for cure). Also you get the items required for your Sub job quest in Selbina. If one drops ask if you can Cast Lot on it, usually nobody should say no =P.

Items are : Crab Apron, Damelsfly Worm, Ghoul Skull. You will only need help by an higher level to get Ghoul Skull but theres a whole bunch of nice people out there.

On that note good luck! and don't be shy asking questions.

Thanks for the information and directions. I have 12 chocobo passes would this be a good time to use one of those? You wont be attacked while on a chocobo right? Thanks for the information about the sub job quest, and what is the name of that quest? I was thinking about trying to solo to 18 in west saru and then in the canyon. But if I have to go to Selbina to get the subjob quest I might as well level there. I probably wont want to head that way until one of those outposts are under Windy control and I do a quest that allows me to get the teleport thing, otherwise that would be quite the waste of walking!

Anyhow, I suppose I get to 14 tonight and try to find my way over there... Is there an outpost near Selbina that I could get to solo? If I ride a chocobo I should be able to make it there solo right?

Thanks,
Twadd

Hmm...trying to think what he can craft. He is from Windurst, so the stuff he will find are:

2-leafed Mandragora bud - Junk
Insect wing - Junk
Beehive chips - 3 chips + 1 distillate water + fire crystal = beewax. (You actually makes more gil juts selling the chips in stacks, but if you need space, you can synth them to wax)
Yagudo necklace - Sell on AH for 5-700gil each or collect 4 for Tenshido Fame. If you need space, 1 necklace + lightning crystal = 1 copper ingot, or 1 necklace + wind crystal = 3 grass thread.
Yagudo Feather - Junk
Crawler silk - Save and sell on AH
Crawler calculus - I would junk it since it doesn't stack
Bird feather - Save and sell on AH
Bird egg - Junk or save
Treant bud - Junk or save
Misc Seeds - Save and sell on AH

I think that's pretty much it for him at the moment.

Unfortunally you CAN'T ride a chocobo until you get your license (which is a lvl 20 quest in Jeuno). I'm not too sure but I think your chocobo pass if for chocobo racing in the town. There is also lvl restriction on riding a chocobo, in beginning town, you can only ride a chocobo at lvl 15 or above (lvl 15-20 you get reduce time, 15mins I think. And at 20 or above your time limit is 30mins). Btw...you won't get attack when you are on a Chocobo.

There is a outpost very close to Selbina, that's the outpost for the Zulkriem region. Like I said, the npc that gives you the quest is the same npc that gives you signet in town. There is an option somewhere for supply quest.

Oooh...once you hit canyon, make sure you get the Mea crystal from the crag (The crag will show on your map, it's white, it's weird looking, and it's big). You will find a teleport crystal close to it (The intact one, not the shattered one). Just click it and you will get the crystal.

The idea of junking the bud and calculus has very little to do with gil and quest, but it gives you extra inventory space so you can stay out longer to beat on mobs and collect something more valuable. But that's from someone who doesn't really need the 200gil and fame so take it with a lick of salt :) What we said here are all suggestion, take what you feel that works for you and have fun :)

Yes, that number is including the use of the Empress Band. I do however spend a lot of time running back to town and then running all around town turning in quests. I almost never junk any items either so that combination might explain a bit of why I'm slower... But I don't know. Maybe I just don't have an excuse. I found I do level faster if I am meleeing, than when I just use spells. Bind on EP is a waste because they rarely hit for more than 3 anyhow and I'll still run out of MP well before I run out of HP.