Originally Posted by The Mauva Syndicate  |
Gear with strong elemental affinities is helpful, and knowing the mobs you are fighting's elemental weaknesses ahead of time and equipping appropriately can help a lot. Like most Rarabs, Sand Hares are weak against Lightning, Dark and Water. While not especially weak against fire, they have no resistance to it, or any other element.
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Oh, and for some reason I always seem to get best damage flow with Bind>Water>Shock>Bio>Fire>Water - Rinse and Repeat - if it's still not working out for you, then ES at the beginning to stick the Bind and then nuke for glory Bio and Schock stack, well at least they wont overwrite each other like Bio/Dia, and both produce DoT, you can throw a Rasp in there, but it's a longer cast time, and it will overwrite Schock; the tier I elementals are all pretty quick
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Also as a BLM, keep hi-potions handy, but you know that already ^_^ I go through them pretty quickly when I solo BLM (and juice too for that matter). |
Mostly good advice for a newbie, but these particular parts caught my interest.
1) Equipment that has Elemental+ Stats on it will not help your damage in any way, shape or form. What these symbols actually stand for is elemental resistance. What this means, is if you have Earth +10, Earth-Based attacks have a chance of doing less damage to you.
2) DoT spells are very, very MP-effective, and a good way to get some extra damage out. However, that cast order seems a little off. I would go with Shock -> Poison -> Bio, then start nuking. Without any good Evasion, Blind won't really help you in particular much(Though don't neglect to use it in parties.)
3) Juice. Juice is good. Yummy Juice. Nonetheless, potions and juice can be expencive for a new player. Rather then base a solo strat. around needing them, these should be more of a Last-Resort item.
As for actual targets, look at Worms in the Maze. They go a few levels higher then you, but are stationary so you don't need to cast Bind or anything like that. You may need juice for these, if you can afford it, but you should be okay without it. Just watch out for Goblins. You can probably solo them normally, but watch out for a suprise attack in the middle of a worm