NPC-y day (FFXI)

[thistlechaser]

Sundays are nice days. I have half the day free and do non-FFXI stuff, then Team Buffalo Soldiers goes out NPCing/farming. (Happy Des? Think of some other name for us! :P )

In the tactics pearl quest, we got to the third floor! Yay! Things got a little tricky up there and NIN Des had to very unselfishly go BOOM on a couple mobs. The NPCs made almost 2K XP that way.

After that we spent a couple hours buffalo farming/XPing NPCs. Got some hides (yay money), some kindred seals (*kisses them*), and some meat for Ead/Dani. I lost track of the NPCs, but they all leveled up at least once. Gunnar hit 57! Woo! (Also, I reached and passed the halfway point to 75! I think I may seek a party on DRK to hurry things along, but... I'm not totally sure. The idea of days spent seeking with no invites make me want to cut myself. So angsty!)

Before the tactic pearl questing/XPing I ran off to do the final limit break for my NPC. The story was sweet, but the food item you got as a gift (not to mention your title!) were sweeter:



The food gift you get surprised me, I thought it would be just some normal food item. Even though the image is small (just the item description box) I'll link it so as not to spoil anyone. I have no idea what to do with it, I wish I could display it in my bazaar! I don't want to eat it, but I don't really have room to hold onto it. :(

The limit break quest itself was annoying, but wouldn't be so bad if you have any sort of sense of direction. (I have none.) Luckily someone was killing the Ruby Quad, so I didn't have to sneak by it. (You had to tag the same ??? as you do in G3 for the Quad Crest).

So all in all a nice relaxing day!

Comments

npc tactics xp

[genomeffxi.livejournal.com]

My npc has been 65 for months so i don't bother killing mobs anymore for the tactics pearl quest, i go right for the ??? target.
However one trick i found out is that for npc xp the level of mobs doesn't matter, just the number of mobs. The stray mobs created by the receptacle can be killed in 1 or 2 swings and are best for this. You can quickly and safely max your npc xp killing up to 30 of these fast (you might need to attack the receptactle every now and then to make it produce strays faster). That will give you 1500 xp really fast, then the difference between the floors is only about 200-250 more per floor, which is like less than 1 kill when you xp npc.
Of course maybe you go up floors for fun with your friends or for normal xp on yourself, but this is an alternative to save you time.

Re: npc tactics xp

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Hmm, thanks for the info! We had been using the strays idea (our NIN can one-shot them with a ranged attack), but yeah, the floor/XP thing isn't really worth it.

It is kind of fun to go higher, but the risk is much larger as well.

[linmayu.livejournal.com]

O.o;;; I FEAR the day Nauthima starts trying to cook for me. Elvaan girls have no talent in the kitchen. >_>;;;

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Or anywhere else. ;)

*runs!*

[linmayu.livejournal.com]

Like you'd know! ^_~

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Well, you could teach me better~