How to raise your NPC buddy

[disa]

Re: How to raise your NPC buddy

What did you do? Does it have to do with this whole Promy thing? Was your NPC already at the 50 cap?

[Keagan]

Re: How to raise your NPC buddy

Ugh. I don't expect to solo (duo with my taru warrior princess) the promy mobs around the "???". Do you think you could just run in and hit the "???" to trigger?

And has anyone tried killing slimes in Ordelle's, Korkoloka(sp?), and Ranguemont pass to get the "special metal" early?

[Hyrist]

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My Poor NPC is still leve 36, so I havent gotten the trigger for the second new quest yet, nor any promivon activations. I'm back to leveling her daily now though, knowing there are things to look foward to now.

[Tythera]

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Not sure if this is true or not but I've read this in a few places. I'll give it a try after the maint:

Fellowship limit break quest starts after speaking to Diederik NPC in Selbina, along the coast. If he doesn't give you quest - you might want first to cap your NPC level to 50.99 and also complete quest with finding ??? for your NPC in Promyvions, as discussed earlier.

Then he presumably lets you choose on of the two:
1) Go to Angelica in Windurst Waters second floor of Rarab Tail cottage or what was that house called.
2) Go to Umberto in Bastok Markets.

For now someone tried the way going to Umberto first.
After talking to him, get pickaxes and go using it on mining points in Koroloka Tunnel untill you dig "the shell of the val shellfish". Hand it to Umberto.
After that visit Diederik in Selbina.
Now we go to Castle Oztroja east courtyard, through some door to ???, inspecting which spawns Black Yagudo to fight. After killing it we inspect ??? again.
Report to Umberto (and Angelica?).
Fellow NPC now should be able to reach lvl55, congratulations!

Edit: on the way through Ranguemont Pass for something I stayed around for 3 pops of the 4 slimes and all I got was 2 slime oils with TH4. Might not be a big enough sample or it might not be gettable yet.

[Keagan]

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This is so exciting! We're finally getting some action! (My taru princess can take the heat)

[Mohazeris]

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Tythera's quest is right. I had done this yesterday (surprized no one else thought to go there, all I had to do was look at mysterytour and saw a listing for a new quest in selbina).

It's pretty simple. Whether you go to the old man in Bastok or Angelica in Windurst doesn't seem to matter. It's simply a matter of aesthetics in terms of which cutscenes you see in which order and which character (you or your npc) is in them. The quest remains the same either way (I did the angelica path).

If there's a large amount of people able to do the quest at the same time, I'm not looking forward to what Oztroja will look like tonight and tomorrow.

Oh, and Woohoo!

[nohopeless]

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Anyword on the new combat styles that this patch brings?

[Tythera]

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I know my NPC is capped at 50 and I did the Tactics Pearl quest before the maint but Diederick doesn't give me anything other than two lines of text about waiting for a painting from Angelica. I wish I knew what I was missing, I've been waiting almost 2 months now to actually level my NPC

[Cythe]

Re: How to raise your NPC buddy

Tythera's quest is right. I had done this yesterday (surprized no one else thought to go there, all I had to do was look at mysterytour and saw a listing for a new quest in selbina).

It's pretty simple. Whether you go to the old man in Bastok or Angelica in Windurst doesn't seem to matter. It's simply a matter of aesthetics in terms of which cutscenes you see in which order and which character (you or your npc) is in them. The quest remains the same either way (I did the angelica path).

If there's a large amount of people able to do the quest at the same time, I'm not looking forward to what Oztroja will look like tonight and tomorrow.

Oh, and Woohoo!

This worked for you? I could not trigger the quest, even after finishing the emptiness side quest...None of the NPC's tied to the quests are giving me anything...Could you maybe explain what you did prior to going to Selbina?

[Tythera]

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I figured it out. You must do the quest that Angelica gives you before you can accept the quest from Diederik. She'll say she wants you to pose but you need to switch into something like a Robe, Leather Vest, etc. I forget the quest name offhand. After I did this I went back to Diederik and he gave me the quest.

[Tythera]

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Oops, figured out what I said here but I don't see the option to delete my post.

[Raqua]

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my NPC has been lvl 38 for awhile now, want to try to get my lvl up first lol

[Faust]

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I've been wondering how you guys leveled up your NPCs so fast... Mine's still 30.

Of course, I just now realized most of you also have high lvl jobs... <.<;;;

I finally just hit 32 myself and was wondering if anyone had any suggestions on what I should be taking on with my npc. She tanks well, and I'm looking to take on things as fast as possible as opposed to large xp, wait, large xp, wait... Think high volume low risk.

Also, I probably missed this somewhere, is the amount of XP needed equal to what we normally would need to lvl? In other words, would my npc need the same amount of xp as I did when I was 30? And also, does she lose XP when she dies?

[Tythera]

Re: How to raise your NPC buddy

I'd advise against Volume over Quality because you can only kill a certain number of mobs before your NPC leaves (15 mobs until a good number of callings). As for what XP is needed, if you're fighting stuff 5+ levels above your NPC it levels every other summoning like clockwork, sometimes even more (start of 1st summon, end of 2nd summon kind of thing). Above 50 looks the same as 2 callings took me to 52 (it dinged 51 after first kill and then 52 near the end of the 2nd call).

As for losing XP when they die I'm not entirely certain; I've yet to have mine die (but I've had some pretty close calls).

Being as you're level 32 I'm not entirely certain what would be good for you to fight and get decent XP for your NPC. A good option would be to team up with 1 or 2 friends and take on harder stuff than you could normally with just you and your NPC. For max XP at that level I believe you need the mob to be 4 levels over the level of your NPC. That probably isn't doable unless you level it with friends. The options are a lot more open now then when I did 30-50 because you can summon them in dungeons. The best idea I can think of is to go to somepage and do mob level searches at about what you think you can handle in a timely fashion.

[Faust]

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Thanks Tythera for your input! ^^

I did have another question...

Seeing as they don't appear under you as a "Party Member," do they obtain the same amount of MP as if they were soloing? Or is it dependant on what you're making?

Example. If a buddy of mine decided to take me and his 75th lvl up the top of Delkfutts, I know I wouldn't gain much, if any XP, but would my npc?