Pineapple Juice  

Everyone says this is great for mage jobs, but it's actually even better for low-level DD jobs who solo /WHM. I've soloed WAR, THF and NIN up to level 37 this way. Here's how:

#1: Try to maximize the total amount of MP you have. If you're rich, get yourself one or two astral rings. Anything to bring your MP pool close to the amount restored by a drink. Being a Mithra, I used RSE gear (+48) a lot when I hit lv. ~ 30.

#2: Get your cooking up to level 25. Juices are great for cooking skill-ups, as you can use them as you level up a job as well. Orange up to level 10, Apple up to level 20, Pineapple up to 30, Melon up to 40 (See a pattern? :) You'll have to do one or two other recipes between gaps to skill up closer. See the cooking recipes.

#3: Get a few inventory quests done, as increased space means you'll be holding more synthesis materials out in the field. See the gobbie bag quests.

#4: Get some MND+ equipment to swap in & out to maximize Cures' effectiness. The Justice badge quest is free and +3 MND at level 7, for example. You can also buy it for cheap at the auction house. Add more MND until Cure cures for 30, Cure II for 90. Example Cure macro: /equip Neck "Justice Badge", /magic Cure <me>, /wait 8, /equip Neck "Spike Necklace".

#5: Farm water clusters. Pashow marshlands is a good spot for those.

#6: Buy your materials at regional vendors, for Pete's sake.

#7: Go for Easy Prey. You heard me, Easy Prey. Four 25 EXP mobs in a row non-stop are better than a 100 EXP mob that you almost die from and have to rest afterwards. With Easy Prey, you cure yourself in-between fights, pop a juice when your MP is low, and continue. The EXP numbers will seem low but consider that you'll never have to wait for a PT, never die, go AFK when you like, log-in & log-out while in the field and pick up right from where you stopped, and you'll only have to deal with one moron, not five. (^,^)


With Pineapple juice as WAR/WHM, for example, I never stopped, as 15 juices kept me refreshed for a full hour. You can skill-up cooking while you level-up a DD job. How great is that?

Edited, May 19th 2007 10:52pm by Yomiko

what's nice about this item is if you are lvl'ing cooking from 25-30 and have a lvl 25 mage you are lvl'ing you can make these while you party and lvl cooking while you lvl your mage. ^^

(Something similar has probably been posted but, meh, i'm too tired to read all of it ~lol~)

/em drinks the pinapple juice!Mmmmmmmm..........

(/wave)

man, crystals on my server are screwed up. Im on bismarck, and prices are going up like crazy! Ok, fore me 12 water is like 3,000. Fire crystals are 5,000...earth round 2000...

Anyways...i probably will buy this, due to the big amout of:

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Edited, Fri Mar 11 08:05:31 2005

What is the minimum lvl you need to make this?

It is 80mp over time...240 seconds divided by 3 seconds is 80...1mp per every 3 seconds... a total of 80 mp in 240 seconds.

Can't get anymore simpler than that...If I have confused you even more then, I am sorry :o)

Pineapple juice caps at 30. It will sell at the cooking guild for 112 gil, so if you buy your pineapples in kazham for 54 gil ea. you only need to pay (or harvest) water crystals (300 gil for a stack) to finance this.

Edited, Sat Mar 6 16:53:47 2004

This stuff is not the *best* juice, but it's the easiest to create on the fly. I carry around pineapples and water crystals to make juice for the mages in case their don't carry their own.

How much do these go for? Do people buy enough that they can just constantly be drinking them? Seems expensive...

Im still gaining level on making this when Im lvl 29 on cooking. cuz this is trivial at lvl 30+

Edited, Mon Feb 2 12:11:04 2004

I have this list of food stats. I noticed that pineapple juice is 1/3mp regen for 240seconds. It doesn't mention 80mp. Don't know if this is true, but the list has been correct on other foods.

I was informed this is lvl 28, not 26.