cant get past Lv7

[C&D]

im a taru blm and i cant seem to get past lv 7 i would like some advice on how to do that and what spells should i have by now

[Yuanlung]

Try eventually buy all your spells. The beginning ones aren't expansive at all. If you are short on gils, get the single-target elemental damage spells first. They are the bread-and-butter spells you will be using the most. Blind, Bind, and Bio are good low level debuffs, get them as soon as you can use them.


Not really a lot to it. The lowbie levels are actually very easy once you get the dynamics of the game down.

Here are some pre-teen level BLM tricks:

- start casting right before the monster start to hit you. Thi swill give you max uninterrupted casting time.
- Use a dagger or a pole for good melee damage .
- blind the enemy. at low level you can actually dodge them very well when they are blinded.
- do repeatable quests frequently. They will finance your scrolls and gears in lower levels. As a bonus, you can get good fame, which lowers the store scroll prices.
- find a WHM or RDM your level and level as a duo. Full parties aren't benificial at that level, but duos can work wonders. This may also give you some insight on how hate works.

[Rico]

You can get bind now, it's a very good spell for black mages. While it's on Bind start of doing Poison then start nuking away, when you see the monster running toward you you cast blind so it's fully on when you start because it's no point if you casting it when it's bind and it's not hitting you :sweat:.

[Tetsura]

oh and here's a little tip if your short on cash for spells. GO STRAIGHT TO THE SOURCE!

Ever wonder where everyone got these spells for the auction house? well look around your city map and you'll find a magic store (may be called scroll store), go there to buy your spells. Check the diference in price! i bought cure from auction house out of laziness today for 300 gil, then i checked the magic shop and it's there for only 70!

Just check out the NPC store before auction house if you can, alot of people add a "service charge" or delivery right to the auction house with a mark up of (in this case) about 400%

oh and stick to Decent challenge's and easy prey unless your totally sure you can handle the monster... i've lost too much exp thinking i was hot shit this way after getting a new spell :sweat:

[Quezi]

i do 6-10 in the northwestern horototo *horutoto?* ruins.(set HP at the outpost by talking to the W.W.) Everything in there gives exp untill 10. Do the main room untill 8 or 9, and then do the right-hand room to 10. You can get tons of fire and wind crystals, aswell as wild onions, all which can sell fairly well.

Go after only easy prey, dieing is bad for exp, and once you are level 8 or so stop bothering to melee them, you should be able to kill 4+ things on a full bar of MP, just start at max range, cast a spell, then once its done start running away for a second or two, then stop and cast another. Stick with stone, as water doesnt have as good a mp-damage ratio.

9-10 was kinda long, i just sat in the right-hand tunnel faceing the room in there. Once you break the spawn so that things only spawn one or two at a time, you can just pull straight out of there with magic, but when its crowded (blade bats and goblins are all agro and link) you have to body-pull. Then i just sat there killing things as they spawned, occasionaly getting something out of the main room when it was slow.

Im glad i did this. I probibly could have leveld a little faster elsewhere. But i didint die once 9-10 *the first time.. eheh=P* and i walked out of there with about 6 stacks of fire and wind crystals, which got me about 9k. aswell as a stack of wild onions i sold for 4k and some random low level equipment that sold from 80-400g each. If you die its no big deal as the outpost is basicly right there.

[Tetsura]

If you start in sandoria you can go to la theine for lvl 9-11 on worms. Basically when you get aero go down into Southwestern la theine by the gorge and there's usually a good number of Rock Eaters. You cast aero, run out of their casting range and wait for the cooldown, then run back in and cast some more aero.

You can get some nice safe fast exp this way, though the drops suck for the most part :sweat: did this to get these 2 lvls in just over an hour and a half.