Originally posted by Yygdrasil
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Re: Solo Grind
Thickshells are so horrible. I took on a yellow one, barely out of orange, and went at it. He didn't hit me at all (I upgraded a lot of different things and moved away from a heavy defense/hp build to a more moderate one with more evasion and so I end up taking less damage overall) but I couldn't put a dent into his health. It took me almost 2 minutes before I killed him and he only gave me 130 sp. I was like ... WTF man. Rank 23 GLA here. I'm getting very annoyed with the whole SP system and hope it's not basing off the Physical rank to award me SP. If it is, then I'm pissed as hell, because it should be solely off your class rank. -
Re: Solo Grind
Other than Lead Coblyns, all I can think of around R20-25 are Thickshells. The problem with them is the "Defensive" move they pull. If you're a mage, blast away... but solo melee? They get rough there. I watched a R23 Pugalist fighting them along-side me today. I killed 3 while he tried to finish off 1. Don't get me wrong, he was appropriately geared and was hardly taking much damage... but he couldn't kill the damn things. I on the other hand... nuked the crap out of them. When they drop into their shell I pop Profundity, hit them with SLOW and Bio and whack them with whatever my highest damage spell is until they drop. I usually get around 270 SP for each kill and it takes me less than a minute each. It's not great... but it works.Originally posted by Aeni View PostCouldn't find any so someone either is farming them or have the same ideas as you.
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Solo Grind
I'm trying to figure out what is wrong with my GLA and why grinding has screeched to a halt after I hit 20 (Actually, maybe since I hit 21 the glass ceiling seems to have been far lower than I expected it to be)
It's very odd because I went with a build that sort of proportioned my attributes with STR, VIT and DEX and added a bit to MND for Cure and Second Wind (assuming MND affects it, I haven't paid attention) Right now, I have the following gear, appropriate for rank (Rank 22 GLA)
FINAL FANTASY XIV, The Lodestone
-Brass Dagger
-Bronze Pelta
-Sentinel's Chainmail +1
-Brass Circlet (Sunstone)
-Leather Toolbelt
-Hempen Trousers
-Dodoskin Leggings
-Reinforced Bronze Mitt Gauntlets
-Brass Wristlet (x2)
-Brass Ring (x3)
My stats (I'm at Work, these are off Lodestone)
78 Str 75 Vit 79 Dex 14 Int 37 Mnd 17 Pie
Health (with gear) is around 1,200 and defense is around 205 or so.
I tried to grind off of (Operating word here is "tried") Does and Arbor Squirrels in the South Forest of the Black Shroud. The does are nasty and quite evasive even for a blue dot and yield 80-90 sp on average. The fight tends to last up to 90s if things don't go my way (I guess the roll of the dice still determines a landing of an attack or not) The squirrels are much faster but least abundant and yield only 40-50 sp in comparison. This fact is complicated when JP players are out farming them for their pelts (both does and squirrels)
I looked at Thickshells, tried one, got it to maybe 40% health and ran off when it went iinto shell mode with 5% of my health intact after spamming nothing but Cures for the last 20s of the fight cause my defenses could not keep up with the incoming damage (and my offense seems to be piss-poor on that very, very high armored mob) These guys are still yellowish ... does can run green and yellow but if they're any indication, thickshells won't reward much sp.
Anyway, I'm getting frustrated, but haven't quite yet given up the prospects of solo grinding. Maybe I'm just looking at all the wrong areas or I'm not quite ready yet to take on anything without getting an ability or two from other classes. Please help me if you can.
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