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I've only noticed 1 works ata time I use the tell me when your MP is low option. I tried both but did not get any input either way. so i believe selecting one is the answer. Now mine says his MP is low and when hes ready to go.

what happened if relationship of your char and the NPC is less? Will this affect anything?

It is dependant on which race/face you chose.

Small piece of info to add.

My NPC healer recently hit level 36 and started casting Dia II instead of her regular Dia I.


Now if I can find a way to make her cast Haste at 40 I'll be set =D

I knew that I had seen this written somewhere...

It was in Xclint's thread @
http://ffxi.allakhazam.com/forum.html?forum=10&mid=1121928226671332198&page=11

as you can see, it was Turtlein who wrote that piece of information, though.

Just a small point of interest that I am not sure if anyone has mentioned; I have found that you can only summon your NPC in areas that have an OUTPOST (i.e. and NPC that will cast signet on you). Outside areas such as dangruff wadi and davoi don't have outposts in them and your NPC CANT be summoned there, however Xabard and Becudine Glacier (please forgive the spelling mistakes) are are areas that you CAN summon your NPC. It also appears that this works for East and West portions of an outside area as well such as the East and West Altep and and East and West sabutaru.... whatever its called outside of windurst lol ^^. Anyway, this is what I have personally seen for my NPC.

Peace!

My appologies, I should have been a bit clearer. Dangruf and Davoi "seem" like outside areas, however they aren't. It has also been said, and again proven true, that if you are a blm and CAN'T <escape> the area then you should be able to summon your NPC. However for those that don't have escape and would like to know how to tell if they can summon thier NPC in an area or not; if it doesn't have an outpost or chocobo NPC, then you won't be able to summon your NPC. If I am wrong please correct me ^^


Peace!

This is not always true.

Lufais Meadows is an outdoor area. It has Outpost and can't be escaped, but no NPC.

Ok, I have a HYPOTHESIS, and if something similar has been posted here, please forgive me I have not noticed it:

It sounds (and appears) as though the fellowship NPCs are effected by some type of “reputation” system, and that some actions give us reputation points, and some take them away. I believe each job has specific things you can do or that can be done to positively/negatively affect your reputation points with your NPC. HOWEVER, each job is different, in that what positively affects reputation with one job won’t necessarily positively affect your reputation with your NPC in another job.

So far we KNOW that if you drop your “signal pearl” or if your NPC dies it will affect your reputation negatively (i.e. armor down-grades or certain options like the “headgear” option are unusable till reputation increases). So now that we have an idea what will decrease reputation, we need to know what will INCREASE reputation, thus allowing our NPCs to get better armor, open more options, and stay out longer.

My THEORY for each style is as follows;

“THEORY of Attacker Style”

When in the “Attacker” style your NPC will do something it doesn’t do in any other job, and that is tell you when it’s TP is ready. Your NPC will also wait till your TP is at 100 and then begin its weapon skill. No other job setting will make your NPC do this. Because of this setting it makes it easier to do skillchains with your NPC. I believe that in order to positively affect your NPCs “reputation” you need to do as many skillchains as possible with your NPC. I also believe that if you miss skillchains skillchains with your NPC or if another member in your party skillchains off YOUR NPCs weapon skill your reputation with your NPC will be negatively affected as YOU are not working with/helping your NPC directly. I am not sure, but I think that resting while you have your NPC out and in attacker job you will also negatively effect the reputation you have with your NPC.

“THEORY of Healer Style”

When in the “Healer Style”, your NPC will cast enhancing magics when it is first summoned as well as heal you through out battle. Your NPC will also use weaponskills during battle however, not as often as the “attacker” or “shield” style, and with no warning. I believe that in order to positively affect your NPCs “reputation” in this style you need to allow it to heal you as often as possible, and that the more it heals you the more reputation you will get for it. I think that if you let your NPC get hit it will negatively effect your “reputation”. Also, if you run your NPC dry of MP and keep fighting with them, I think that will negatively affect your reputation as well.

“THEORY of Shield Style”

When in the “Shield Style” your NPC will cast Provoke at the beginning of each fight, I believe that in order to positively affect your “reputation” with your NPC you need to let it hold hate/ take the most damage during each fight. I think that the more hate it holds and the more damage it takes in this style the more positively it will affect your “reputation” with your NPC. I believe that if you do all the tanking for your NPC while in this style/ you take the most damage it will negatively affect your “reputation”.

Again, THIS IS JUST A THEORY / HYPOTHESIS, NONE OF THIS HAS BEEN PROVEN!!

However, like every good THEORY it does need to be tested. Please post any experiences that you have had, with any job, where you have, for example;


1) MISSED ALL Skillchains with the NPC in “Attacker” style – and the effect it had on its armor(s).

2) HIT ALL Skillchains with the NPC in “Attacker” style – and the effect it had on its armor(s).

3) NPC takes LARGE AMOUNTS of damage as a “Healer” style or if you run your NPC DRY OF MP - and the effect it had on its armor(s).

4) NPC takes ZERO damage as a “Healer” style and you ALWAYS REST WHEN MP IS LOW - and the effect it had on its armor(s).

5) Your NPC NEVER GETS OR KEEPS HATE FOR EVERY FIGHT as a “Shield” style – and the effect it had on its armor(s).

6) Your NPC ALWAY GETS AND KEEPS HATE FOR EVERY FIGHT as a “Shield” style – and the effect it had on its armor(s).

PLEASE POST ANY RESULTS YOU HAVE FROM THESE TESTS! And lest crack the mystery that is the “reputation” system!

Peace!

I think it's pretty safe to say that this is B.S. because A) it's second-hand information, and B) no one has been able to reproduce it. The guy who originally reported this didn't even see the person's NPC who claimed to got it to dual wield, not to mention the story just sounds far-fetched.

Here's my theory: The weapon you give your NPC is for visualization only. Your NPC will upgrade their weapon's stats appropriately for their level, but the graphic for the weapon will be what you handed them. My NPC is doing damage against mobs 25 levels higher than her. If NPCs truly wielded the weapon you handed them, they would be doing 0 damage.

One other thing I noticed: the "Healer" mode appears to be based on White Mage. My NPC was casting Dia during battle when I first changed her to Healer mode. She hit Lv36 last night and is now casting Dia II. Dia II is Lv31 for RDM and Lv36 for WHM. She does not cast Dispel, Phalanx, En- spells, etc., so I believe the "Healer" mode only chooses from WHM-only spells.

While fighting Demons in Xarcabard, she also casts Blindna when hit with Hecatomb Wave and Silena when fighting Antica in Western Altepa Desert (interestingly enough, her Silence from Jamming Wave always wore off much faster than mine).

I am still confused about armor choice, however. My NPC tends to stick with scale mail and her starting gear, yet she's been in Healer mode for over 10 calls now. I see other people's NPCs sporting Seer's and Trader's gear, yet mine keeps choosing melee gear (I also have her sporting a hammer and Quadav shield). I have only killed my NPC once (on call #2 while I was levelling RNG at Lv5) and lost my NPC once (on call #5) due to a connection lost. Every other time (I've lost count, I believe I'm on call #13 or #14 now) she has been out for the maximum number of fights.

I have tested this as much as I can with my own NPC (Zoldof-Gualka) who is currently in level 37. Using the methods I mentioned in my THEORY post I was able to increase my “reputation” points high enough to have him get the “Merc. Cpt. Doublet” (level 30 body armor) in “Shield” style until I dropped my pearl, at which point my “reputation” decreased and his gear dropped down to lizard armor (level 17 armor). Shortly after I switched to “Attacker” style and followed the skillchain method and was able to increase my “reputation” with him and get his armor as high as the “Noct Tunic” (level 30 armor) while in attacker style. I have since dropped my pearl and he is now back in the level 1 RSE.

I found that my NPC made the biggest armor jump when 2 friends and I beat a NM (Impossible to Guage) out in Xarcabard (the “floating eye” NM by the castle) during an NPC leveling session. During the ENTIRE session I and my NPC were the only ones who did skillchains together, the other 2 had not worked out what WS to use to link with their NPCs (each NPC was in “Attacker” style). Following the session we all went back to Jeuno, my NPC was the only one who increased in appearance and he went from a “Chocobo Riding Tunic” to the “Noct Tunic” which was a SIGNIFICANT improvement in appearance (level 1 armor -> level 30 armor). As I was the only one who was doing skillchains with my NPC and mine was the only one who saw and increase in armor appearance, it would stand to reason that there may be a correlation between the skillchain usage and armor appearance with the “Attacker” style. If it was based on a per kill statistic we all should have seen a significant armor increase since we all would have received the same reputation points for beating the NM. However, mine was the only NPC that saw any change the other two didn’t see any change in armors… hence my THEORY post.

Also, for the record the previous THEORY post was NOT about how to level your NPC, but how to increase your “REPUTATION” with it, so that you can increase the armor/ improve the look of your NPC. It would be nice if people actually read a post before they decide to respond to it.

Peace!

Another interesting fact if not already mentioned.... your NPC still retains TP even when resting.

Upgrading the weapon/shield? If you could include alittle explanatory note ("hey, you can upgrade XXX after YYY summons. Upgrading accomplishes ZZZ and AAA.")

From reading, I guess you only change the weapons to affect damage and available weapon skills?