Hello!

Welcome to a short but sweet (maybe long and savoury...) guide on learning how to solo monsters for EXP and fun on your Black Mage! I'm writing this guide with the aim to give first timers and novice Black Mages insight into how to play their job effectively in a solo (or duo) situation.

If you're a seasoned pro at soloing, this guide probably isn't for you. However, you may find it interesting to compare your methods of solo play with mine, and please don't hesitate to point something out that I might have missed, or a better technique to further enhance your playing style & fun.

So, let us begin...

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Coming to a livejournal near you...

Very soon.

Here is my Black Mage gear for anyone interested! Wiccaan did it, so I'ma do it to!

( Black Mage Gear )

Other stuff throughout the week? Well, we did Dynamis-San d'Oria on Monday, congratulations to everyone who obtained AF, bad luck to those who didn't!

Cheers,
Blabj

As per usual I've been up to not alot, I recently upgraded my PC so I've been busy getting everything back to how I'm used to it. You'll notice this post wont include much pictures, thats because my computer currently lacks Photoshop and Fireworks, so I can't really do much except post some huge 1200x1024 screenshots!

Ingame, I haven't been up to alot. I had an awesome merit party with Boondocksaint (among others!) we kicked the shit out of some Colibris and bugards and I ended up with capped EXP on my RDM and about 3 merits to boot! Very fun!

I also did two runs of dynamis, as usual, on monday there wasn't many drops and then we wiped during the dragon kiting part right at the end (we were on Beaucedine) on Thursday we also did Beaucedine for the win, we got a couple of 100 coins, and some AF (lolDRG, DRK and WHM are the peices I remember, not quite sure what else...)

Yeah...
Bye!

 Not alot to report, did some AU missions with my new Assault/Salvage static, the ToAU missions are really cool. They're easy and mainly cutscene based, which means they have alot more story considering they're as easy as doing normal quests.

Gotta fight Khimaira 13 soon, which is gonna be fun, I'll have screenshots of that.

Ciao

What an interesting weekend!

After being inspired to do a little bit of meleeing with Rashyyyk (See 'Kraken Club Fun' post) I decided it was once again time for me to upgrade my sword to something a little better (although, Mensur Epee still kicks complete ass)

I've always wanted a Joyeuse, ever since seeing videos of RDM/NINs playing with them (I didn't even have RDM leveled when I saw those videos, I just knew I wanted one badly!) So, I got my facts straight on about Charybdis and headed down to Sea Serpent's Grotto to obtain a ToD. Thankfully, I wont bore you with millions of screenshots of other people killing place holders, as I never saw Charybdis spawn that night. I had heard Acts was also camping for his Joyeuse, and when he came down to the grotto later that night, I teamed up with him for a bit, to hopefully claim charybdis, but like I said, we had no luck on that part. He said he'd keep me informed with a ToD via Erindil, and true to his word when I logged on in the morning there was a message from Athilorian, passed on from Erindil telling me that Chary was due to spawn sometime that morning.

So, after hanging around and watching some more JPs kill place holders, he eventually spawned. After a rock start, they eventually killed him and I got my ToD I needed for later that evening.

So, once the time had passed, I assembled a rag-tag posse of friends and foes (Akron!!) to head down in hopes of having some luck spawning Chary.

Hours passed when all of a sudden he spawns, and with no competition we get the claim and beat him into submission!!!

As promised to Hmkiroko, a video of me soloing an Aura Statue.

Now, any more suggestions? :D

I said on QCDN, I'd rather not solo anything level capped just yet, as my capped gear and macros are rather lack luster.

Also, if you'd like a copy of my macros feel free to pm me on qcdn, or add me to msn, or email me, or leave a comment with your email address. They're pretty spiffy windower macros.

First in a series of BLM soloing how-to's, more coming soon! (And more tougher stuff - Give me some suggestions?)

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So, here is my terrible live journal thing, I gotta try and work out how to make it look better soon...

keep ya posted ^^

~Blabj