The red marked camp is the suggested one, no extra mobs or potential aggro - just you and your beetles (which do link, so beware). The blue marked area is a stretch of beetles that could make an alternative camp, but I'm pretty sure a goblin wanders that area (also there could possibly be a sprite that occasionally comes by). I stuck with the red camp.
My trusty soloing guide warned that these hit hard at 44 so I made sure to bring some tacos (fish mithkabobs would have worked just as well at this level) which combined with cocoon made for safer fights (there were a few close calls, but no deaths thanks to the hi-potions I had from earlier Lamia 13 runs). Kills are getting slower now, but soloing is still a worthwhile activity. I hit 45, eventually tired of the slow kills so called my NPC, ate meat and blitzkrieged the bastards until my exp ring wore off.
I might try Ronfaure [S] for ladybugs and colibri, but pecking flurry looks pretty dangerous, no food will make me more vulnerable due to lower defence/kill speed and ladybugs get pretty nasty during the day. Let's hope I get a party.
I did later get a (pretty poor) party, but it was just a desperate person who didn't want to waste time seeking. Considering the circumstances (no tanks/healers) the party was ok, we at least got some exp (I got level 46) and it was better than being sat around in Jeuno staring at my moogle.
Xarp, Flam and myself went back to our 30's jobs (MNK, DNC, THF) and tried beetles in Altepa (bad) then moved to Mandies/Goblins in Yhoator Jungle (good). THF was pretty enjoyable, and did some surprising damage with SATA viper bite. But my damage sucked whenever I screwed up SATA.
I hit level 34, they both got 33. Not long to go until I finish that sub~!
Then I get to start /SAM ._.
ISLS attempted our first Kirin TP burn instead of the usual kite/skillchain/magic burst method. It took all of two minutes to go down, compared to the usual 35~50 mins.
A white mage disconnected just before we were about to pop, so I was thrown into her place. Our intention was to use Benediction on all the melee just after Kirin's Astral Flow - I, of course, didn't have Benediction, so ended up hitting Chainspell & Curaga II spam to keep people alive.
It was a great success, however by the time we had got everyone to change jobs/prepare we could have just done it the normal way, I'm sure if we try it in the future it won't take everyone as much time to prepare. The only problem is that we can't do two back to back with this method as we'll have to wait for melee's 2-hours to recharge. Much more exciting though :0
Salvage again, 5th floor Madame went alot smoother than usual, alot less charmga spam for some reason - maybe we got lucky, maybe it was because we had less DDs on her than before. We also tried coping differently with charm this time, instead of DoTing and hoping for the best, Xarp stayed out of range and kited everyone when we got charmed.
Still no drop, Salvage is a whore.
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