Additional Alla quotes:
~~~
Aiantes @ Sylph
"Gob targets that are good here are, in descending order:
Gob Mercenary
Gob Tamer (the beastmaster)
Gob Alchemist
Gob Thief (try to avoid having to xp off this guy.
The Mercenary is a plain warrior, so only thing you have to worry about is his double attack skill.
The BST Gob has no skills whatsoever, but beware his pet. Kill the pet first with your pet. That pet rabbit of the gobs will link other rabbits in the vicinity, so let your pet pound the rabbit until it's dead, then do leave to reset aggro. Recharm then go to town on the gob. He drops the BST Testimony, so now is a good time to get yours and keep it for your Maat fight. Best way to fight this gob is to keep an eye out for it spawning. You will have about 20seconds from the time it spaws to the time it does Call Beast. If you catch him with his pants down, easy XP from there.
Alchemist is just a money mob. Takes me 1 pet swap to take him down, but drops WHM scrolls which sell for some gil (I usually take down a few of these so I have enough scrolls to sell which will cover my OP teleportation costs as well as other expenses during my session). Very difficult however due to him casting cures and -ga spells like Diaga II and Banishga III. One option here is to bring a silence dagger just for this guy. Crap damage, I know, but a silent WHM is a dead WHM. At 65, try to obtain Garuda's Dagger, I can't stress enough how much I love this dagger.
The THF gob is just plain difficult due to his high evasion. Has triple attack as well so he charges TP like mad and will gob rush or gob bomb you like crazy. Took me anywhere between 2-3 pet swaps to take him down."
~~~
Suji @ Phoenix
"Extremely good exp for Lv62-64.
One thing that you will learn very fast (and hopefully not the hard way) about this place is that the goblins respawn EXTREMELY fast. So if you think you can clear out a nice little camp and then keep it clear, think again. Especially with the Goblin Bandits. Being THF, the Bandits have insane evasion. They are far harder than the other enemies due to this fact. The large number of misses your pet does also makes it very easy to pull hate.
Though I haven't died there, I was brought down to 12HP by a 900~ damage bomb toss and Bullet actually got brought down to TWO HP one time! Take those bombs seriously. You can also fight the undead which spawn at night. These guys drop an item that is fairly valuable and needed for a quest, the Cold Bone. I never saw one myself but we've seen people hunting them.
At Lv62, you can expect an average of 200-300 exp per kill solo. Duo it goes down to about 150-300. Going past 300 isn't that hard solo since chain #1 on a VT is usually enough. We also fought some raptors and robber crabs when we felt like it, and of course rabbits and lizards when pet conversion was necessary.
Be sure to kill a goblin shepherd's pet FIRST before you pull him, or you will end up with a legion of rabbits chasing you. You can leave far off but they don't break the chain and die in about 5 hits from an EM pet, so they are worth just killing with Invis up before you pull the goblin itself.
Past the outpost is a little valley with a ledge near you and a raptor above. A goblin will spawn there and if it isn't already spawned somewhere else, a raptor will as well. Kill the raptor and you'll be in a pretty safe spot so long as you're alert to goblin spawns and Heel appropriately. Managed to convert all indigenous pets in that area to EM and had a really amazing zoo to play around with. Stuck it out until 63 when I decided to take a break and haven't been back since, though I'm sure it will still be excellent exp.
Funniest thing I've seen there so far was a high level group doing the Terrigan Garrison.
"
"Just want to add a little more here... Bullet and I teamed up with another BST on our server when we were all Lv63-64. We headed down towards the Sand Cockatrices and trio'd them. Using lizard pets, these things went down pretty quickly but the area was fairly dangerous so I wanted to mention a few things about it.
~The cockatrices' petrification attack can be very frustrating because your lizards will eventually all lose hate and begin to have less balanced hate so that their HP goes down disproportionally to each other. This never was really a big problem but it was kind of annoying.
~There were full exp parties there at the same level as us killing these mobs. They were killing them much faster, but it was interesting to note that three BST were killing the same thing as a full party and at the same level.
~You probably don't want to fight the raptors because as was previously mentioned, they will disease your pets and make them unusable for potentially a very long time.
~Find a good camp because spawns can be very thick. We were in a valley near the center of H-7, but even there, an occasional Goblin Alchemist would spawn and annoy us a bit.
~BOMBS SPAWN HERE TOO. At first I thought they only spawned during Firesday there because when firesday rolled around, all of a sudden a ton of bombs spawned around us. This was not a particularly good thing because we were busy fighting a Cockatrice. Later I went back and it turns out that they seem to spawn during foggy weather. One time we were fighting a cockatrice, then magic-aggrod a bomb, then the goblin alchemist spawned and aggrod us, then one of us ran around kiting the alchemist and aggrod a mercenary. It was insane but none of us died.
That's about it. I know I paint a pretty grim picture, but to be honest, I think a 5 person BST party would dominate that place. We were just never fortunate enough to see that many BSTs on in the right level range."
~~~
Lokkii @ Shiva
"I am currently leveling here and this place is absolutely great. The respawn times for the gobs is insane, so the place will hold a few BST (I have been there when 4 BST are there and never missed a beat).
I have found that the best campsite is in between the Kuftal Zone and the Outpost. There is one Mercenary that spawns between the outpost and the zone and if you get into a rythm, you pull the Gob Shepard (BST Gobbie and make sure you take the pet first like Aiantes states) and/or Mercenary from the main area near outpost, use a pet and a half (actually closer to 3/4) solo, then take down the Mercenary. Rinse and repeat. Like all good gobbies, they like to suicide. I have gotten several 350 EXP chains here.
By the time you finish one gob off, there is another one that spawned. FYI, I gave up on soloing the Alchemist and Bandit as the Alchemist will spam -ga and Cure IV spell and the Bandit took me 5 pet swaps to kill (not worth the time for the EXP, IMO). However, in a duo you can kill these things quick and easy. Also, if you want, you can take a lizard in between as well. If there are plenty of EM rabbits and not enough EM lizards, I will fight a lizard then the Mercenary for good chains (I like having a wide selection of pets, makes me feel warm and fuzzy ^_^)
When soling, I blink, stoneskin, and Barfira with every gob. The gob bombs there are nasty and can take away a ton of HP. However, with the buffs my HP stays up for the most part and I rarely have any downtime as I can Cure/Regen and then rest MP/HP while my first pet hacks away. I am usually buffed up with 100%HP/MP when I join the battle.
The only problem I have found with this spot is if you are using lizzies as pets exclusively. Parties will come in occasionally and EXP off of Lizzies. Also, unlike some zones (Ulegrand comes to mind) you pretty much have to convert your pets for your zoo everytime, expecially at 62.
Also, do not make the mistakes I did. 1) I figured I would set my HP there and teleport back and forth. Wrong! found out later that this is a level 65 outpost warp, so I ended up having to hoof it back. I have set my HP in Bastok now and use a warp scroll 2) Done this twice, once I shoulda learned my lesson but nope, took me twice to figure it out. When you hit Kuftal Tunnel, hit and check your widescan often. Guivre has taken my head twice. First time, I turned the corner and it was right there in front of me. Bam, dead in 3 hits. Second time, I hit widescan and targeted it, but had no idea it roamed the tunnel, FAST. Again, 3 hits and dead. I did get Raise 2 from the gil sellers....err I mean helpful people that are always there camping Amemet."
Linear Mode
