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i try my day 1 in rolanbery and get aound 300XP before she left.
check agin she has new groves(white leather look.)
I will try agian today.
just my openion, when ahe lv up, she may stay with us longer.
I'm not sure the way to gain XP is has to be the same lv or not.
If we use high lv and dou she may not get XP. the same way that if we use low lv. That's why SE ask you to be Rank4(not sure or 5) to get the quest.
(my Blm lv33 when i dou with my dude)
anyone that get your noc up to lv31, please fill information taht what lv you dou with your npc.
Cheer,
^^

My NPC is still level 30, but I got the job option on third day.

I'm trying him out as a melee. HOpefully he wont take as much hate as me.

Has anybody noticed any difference in the HP or MP pool of the different races of the NPCs?

I'm asking because I took a Galka, but now that I know you can effectively change their jobs, I'd like to have a healer. At the same time, I really like having a huge Galka following me around, and don't really want to change that. I'm not even sure if I can, as I already have the earring.

Could anybody shed some light on this?

I finally got mine today, Elvaan female.

She and I went out to Battalia Downs (I was 41 Black Mage at the time) and killed clippers until she left. Im not sure about exact time, but it was quite a while.

I go back to Ru'lude, and she's got all the same equip, except level 1 rse bodypiece! She didn't die or anything, got low health once, nothing a few cures didn't fix, so I don't understand this downgrade of equipment.

I'll try to level her again tomorrow, hopefully her equipment will get a bit of an upgrade at that point.

Yes, it seems that neither one of our NPCs had very good days ^^;

Oh well, tomorrow's another day, perhaps we'll have better results then. Good luck!

Day 3: I can change Fighting style, thats it for me at least, heres my galka after 3 days of leveling.
Day 1: Got him, summoned as a 7 blm leveling. Killed one tough, click on him and bye bye. No armro changes.

Day 2: Fight as SMN lv 5-7 he leaves in 9 minutes 47 seconds.
Armor change;
Pants: Lizard pants
Body: Looks liek Breastplate
Feet: Gaiters
Head: Unknown
Sword: Onion Sword (looks like)

Day 3: I level with SMN from 7-8, he dies and i die VS a VT, ran outa mp. I return, pic below is what i see. Now I am able to chnage fighting style.


--Day 3 Infomation--
Name: Zoldof
Race: Galka
Combat Style: Attacker
Level: 30
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v156/Gergi/changejobs.jpg


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What he talks about:

Day 1: The dragon at the outpost

Day 2: If the girl is ok.

Day 3: Again the dragon at the outpost.


BTW: My name is Konohamaru on Kujata, my screen name here is different.

Edited, Fri Jul 22 01:00:23 2005 by Lavacool

I honestly don't expect a great weapon. But I can hope! =P

Also i found the NPC stays longer and fights longer if you have him cured alot. the 2nd day, i never cured him, and he left in about 10 mins. 3rd day i kept his at at full all the time, he stayed for 30 minutes, untill he died, discuss

You can change it as much as you want. I change from healer, to attacker, to shield, to healer, to attacker today.

Got mine yesterday, chose Hume Female Beatrice.

Started off with generic Scale Mail.

Day 1 : First Frolic through Rolanberry

I was excited to obtain my npc, but I had been researching into it, and found that she was apparently level 30, so I decided taking her somewhere with my 72 RDM was not a bright Idea. I changed to 43 Black Mage, and we set off. I called her just outside of Lower Jeuno in Rolanberry.

We proceeded to fight a variety of too weak bees, and easy prey goblins, quadavs and malboros. After about 20 minutes I accidently sent her away. /sigh-_-) When I checked the rendevouz point she had switched her feet to gaiters and her hands to mythril gauntlets.

Day 2 : Second Attempt, exp in the Green Grass

Having researched more into it, and gotten once again excited about the NPC deal, despite the annoyance of all the inital upsets with the 20 hr recast etc. I changed to 32 samurai, got my friend (26 whm) and went to Rolan. I called the NPC just outside, and we spent roughly 40 minutes fighting ep wasps, dc goblins and quadavs, and em quadavs and goobues. I was getting about 20-46 exp a kill, and my whm friend 30-60 (she didnt have the exp reduction from the npc). My friend left after a fight. Upon checking the Rendevouz point, I was a little upset to see that only her legs had changed to Plate Leggings. >_<) Her outfit dosent match at all Scale Mail, Mythril Gauntlets, Plate Leggings, Gaiters. Anyways... No level 31, I'm not quite sure how far it is but I hope to get it tommorow!

As for her AI, its definatly intellegent. She repetadly made use of flat blade to stun bomb toss and various spells. She voked at critical moments when my hp was low, or when the white mage got hate. And she also closed a few skillchains. Overall, We got about 1-1.5k exp a little less for me because of the exp reduction.

And on another note, has anyone noticed a signifigant difference between, Exping at a level under 30, where the npc is capped. Exping roughly around 30, where it would be good for an exp pt. and Exping where the npc is fighting stuff much higher than itself. I'd like to try exping on some of my lower jobs with her at my side, but I dont want to if its going to give less exp ^^; I want her to get 31, and some un-ugly armor.

Also, the feature to chat with the npc, and the ability to ask luto if any new jobs have come up. I'm thinking that as the NPC progresses, new quests with Luto might open up. Perhaps NPC can be changed even further, gain more "Stamina" to assist you longer, and possibly even be upgraded to have a smaller cooldown or an ability to enter more areas through quests, it definatly looks like they'd be able to help on more than 1 quest, or why bother making a chat option when only 2 lines will ever be uttered by the npc.

Also, I've noticed from reading all of these posts, and my own experience, that if the npcs is fighting monsters below or around its level, it will stay longer, whereas if they are far higher than the npc, it will be a more strenious fight,and they will run out of energy sooner. So if you want them to stay around fight something they are a match for, not a level 60 mob with a 30 npc, it may stay alive and hit it, but the battle will be tough and it will be weary quickly. I wanted to race and try to get my npc up, and I will every day, but it looks like I'm already far behind ^^) So lets level our npcs and see what happens when we choose all different ways!

Edited, Fri Jul 22 01:43:08 2005 by RamseySylph

oh oh oh!

I almost wasn't ganna post till I saw that, but you can summon them in carpenters landing. I saw other areas like, no misreaux coast. I think if the area is beyond chocobo reach and storyline the NPC cant make it there. Do we have confirmed that you can summon NPCs in jungles yet? I think I saw someone say yes to there. Which sort of makes sense for a lv 30 right? They have access to kazham, but not sky. I wonder if the northern regions are a no no? Story wise it makes sense that tavanzia is off limits for the NPC.

I have a galka, he was hitting for mor DMG than me. I was using a 13 DMG axe. I was leveling BST 19 in carpenters landing and summoned my NPC and used a pet with familiar. Stuck around for 20 mins and 1k exp. I cured him alot as he was tanking, along with my pet.

Day #2 - When everything goes wrong.
Jin and I went back to yutunga for more NPC partying action. We got a total of 629exp from 9 mobs. Full rest we decided to try our luck at an IT gob. I stoneskined, juiced and dia'd to pull. We had our weapons drawn and it was then I noticed the r0 icon by Jin's head... Oh boy, I thought.

Sure enough Jin DC'd and his npc followed. Well my npc and I stuck it out in hopes of a victory that was not to come. We were doing ok until my mp hit 0. So I decide to disengange and run for Kazham. Gob in tow, we run past a RDM who tryed to dia the gob but he got interupted. He got the spell off just in time for the gob to deliver the finishing blow to my npc.
A single tear fell from my eye, and I figured "time to RP and see the dammages." Heres the results: sword, chainmail body, lizzard hands, scale legs/feet. No jobs/lvl up's.
Jins results: sword/shield, liz. body, scale legs/hands, NO feet. I beilve jin cried more than I did. lol

I'm forming two theorys, 1- your npc lvl's by the number of mob's you kill. or 2- your npc lvl's by being productive and staying out for as much time as possable. (everyone seems to be in the same place when you review days, disregarding armor)
In anycase I plan to test the mass-mob one out tomorrow by making the biggest gd train I can, summoning npc then nuking em all at once. cya then! ~Aet
Edit: Yhoat->yutunga I always get them confused

Edited, Fri Jul 22 02:06:44 2005 by jklotros