God Loves Me (Good Valkrum group)

[Frarinalga]

Holy crap. After 2 days of getting plain shitty groups in valkrum, I almost gave up. Then, when I logged in today, I grouped with a mithra ranger. I stayed in that group for 10 hours. Went from level 13 to 19. Wow. Two of the people in the group were leveling their subjobs, one's main was a 55 paladin and the other was a 61 ninja. We proceeded to gusgen after a bit and raped some ghouls and got our group 4 skulls within 30 minutes.
Thank you god. Now I just need enough money for mercenary armor :spin:

[Dark Aphalite]

I don't believe in God but that is a good achievement.
Damn... 6 levels in 10 hours eh?
That is awesome.
I finished PTing in the Dunes after I reached level 20 and I am now in Qufim and leveled straight to 22 in quite a short time.
We were getting 150+ exp per enemy. =)
I love getting into a good group. Especially the one in Qufim where we had 4 White Mages!
But two of them were BLM but had WHM subbed so it was more balanced.
I did some unbelievable tanking and was Provoking every single 30 seconds so that our Thief could Sneak Attack the mobs to death.
It was so much fun and we were all doing our jobs so well that nobody even came close to dieing.

[Hibiki]

your group could've moved to korroloka and done 14-19 in about 5 hours =)

[Aeynrieus]

Just got done playing with a fantastic party in Valkurm. The last hour we were together we racked up 4000xp. That's pretty freaking good for a bunch of level 16-18s. We would chain three or four Tough or Very Tough Snippers into a Beach Pugil and then rest up after the last fight. Too bad we didn't have ten hours to stay together or we would've gone straight to 20.

The kicker to this is that the party composition wasn't even that good. We had a Hume PLD/WAR, an Elvaan MNK/WAR a Mithra THF (later replaced by a DRG/WAR) a Hume BRD/WHM, an Elvaan BLM/WHM and an Elvaan WHM. You'd figure with Elvaan mages the party would be resting too much chain reliably, but we did. I can only imagine if the party had been completely optimal. We'd have easily been getting the 5k/hr that level 30+ parties crave.

[Frarinalga]

My party was
Me (Monk)
Mithra Ranger/Warrior (she was the leader, and a damn good one at that)
Hume War (He wasn't a great tank when we formed, but he learned a lot in 10 hours and he held it pretty tight near the end)
Elvaan Whitemage/Black Mage (he pulled aggro a lot, never died, always had enough mp)
Last spot was a taru black mage. He died 4 times, because he was overnuking. Left group in frustration, we picked up an elvaan black mage/red mage, and she kicked ass. She pulled aggro a lot, and survived.
I have a lot of respect for elvaan mages now. All the taru mages I group with always pull aggro and get one hitted.

[Thark601]

i just got out of a valkurm group lvling my sub...
we where fighting pugils and by the 2nd time i died i asked if it would be ok if we started taking easier monsters?
lvl 17 red mage rank 1 with no sub says to me but we're doing fine...

i ask the rest of the pt if they agree that my dieing is a valid sacrafice for allowing the rest of the pt to lvl? they all of course said no...
i blisted the lvl 17 rank 1 rdm with no sub and proceeded to tell her that never pt'ing with her again would be a pleasure :)
bid the rest of the pt good day and logged

[Sinzer]

[/quote]Hume PLD/WAR, an Elvaan MNK/WAR a Mithra THF (later replaced by a DRG/WAR) a Hume BRD/WHM, an Elvaan BLM/WHM and an Elvaan WHM.[/quote]

LOL that is pretty much optimal! Tank, 2 melee damage, 3 good support.

The reason why your xp is so quick is that Bard does that. I am levelling up my WHM sub and hate all the downtime, none of that with Bard :p

4K an hour is generally standard for a good bard at that level.