Cleric AOE grinding

Nice; Next time, shoot the gathering part, too. I find it the hardest

I found after a while that instead of flying in circles, if you drop and run around them it gathers them much quicker and easier too. For a long time I was flying around them which made it impossible to gather them. Thanx for the video.

To StreamElf, you need to stop once in a while to allow them to hit you or you'll lose aggro.

Notice that on the second vid you get lot more drops than on the other two because you put the mobs really close together before killing. Yeah took you a while but still worth it.

Nulify poison can help with that. Its pretty good skill if you are going for drops.

Nice job, keep it up.

A little advice. When rounding up the mobs from the ground, you should sort of pull away from them, giving a little distance. It should take half to maybe 1 full circle around them (if their really being stubborn) to get them together. I think in your last video you were too close to the mobs which is why it took longer to get them close together.

I usually go around to pick them up, and once I have the amount I want I drop and run usually half to maybe a full circle around them and that is usually all I need. I would make a video to give an example but I'm too lazy to right now, too much work :P.

Still nice videos, and answers a lot of questions. Good Quality too, you can actually see whats going on.

Edit: Ah I didn't watch your last video, much better rounding up. I just saw your second video and seemed like you were having problems rounding them up. I take back my advice ^^. Well done, nice job!

Here are are some tips for AOE grinding for the OP.

1) get more mobs ( ie. 15-25)
2) use less ironheart, more wellspring, and purify
3) there's a causeway near village of lost;pull the mobs into the causeway that way you don't have to pull the mobs into a circle.
4) use tempest
5) get cloud eruption

Meh eh eh, my favorite hobby as a cleric :P

Some tips for cleric aoe grinding:

* get nulify poison on your genie, it s cheap to get and use/ you might like cloud eruption for chi too.

* to gather the mob :
1- just run/fly towards them wait till they aggro you run to another group, don t run too fast, let them hit you from time to time, if they don t hit u they ll reset.

2- once you got enough they ll most likely be all around not well gathered enough to do an efficient aoe, just look where are the most of them try to stand close of this group while being out of range of the one you want to gather with them. This way the group won t move and the other will come into the group to be able to attack you.

* don t spam too many IH and puri, usualy 3 spammed IH max is way enough, you can gather a lot of mobs so don t be shy take the whole map b:laugh

* Try not to use siren's kiss if it s not at a decent lvl, it ll use up your chi and you need it for puri, so another piece of advice is to sometimes take a look at your chi.

* puri when poison realy start to stack not before (around 1k dmg usualy), and after each aoe in general except if u have good channeling gear or low hp.

* to save repair bill you can try to find gear with high wood resist and many +% duration/endurance, you can get that for cheap as you don t even need the other mag res.

Now a last piece of advice, if you just start with aoe grinding start with low amount of mobs, and when you feel at ease start to take more and more. The best aoe spot for petali (70 one i think) is on south of dreaming cloud / south east of tusk town by the edge of the continent.

Last word i can say is enjoy, you can pm me on forum if you want to know about higher lvl mob to grind on etc b:bye

Arawin - Raging Tide wrote: »

How exactly do you gather up flying mobs? Mobility seems so much less and harder to control while flying, so I don't really see how to go about it.

Yes, you are slower, but so are the mobs. Vipions seem perfect for arial grinding. I tried Foxwings, but they lost interest quickly. Maybe i wasn't hitting them properly, or often enough.

To me, the slow-motion scenario is perfect for practicing and training. Also, IIRC there is 2X bonus to kills in the air? It is the cleric way.

Clerics do it in the air.

Hm were threads on this before.
However, here's a vid:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cYZeyF73iW8

It's old but still qualifies.

haha thx guys now i'm pro at aoe grinding b:victory i can actually teach other now xD

And a few other tips:

-Healing while gathering mobs will get you very firm aggro (mobs will generally follow you everywhere after 4-5 IH).

-If you have hyper stones, activate them just before you start your killing blow. It only costs you 5 seconds of time and gets you 1-2% a round at 8X, resulting in 10-20% a day. A good alternative for hyper FF.

-Gathering mobs while makes it a little faster. Even with +3.2 ms wings you won't lose aggro if you periodically heal yourself.

-Mobs generally form a long wall in front of you when you gathered them all up, usually spreading outside of you AOE range. Running around them to the other side usually rolls them up in a nice pack.

-Doing a combo of ''razor > purify > 2-3 IH >purify > repeat'' is generally the safest and won't even let your charm tick if you have decent mag res (didn't even need a wood res set myself).

-KEEP TRACK OF YOUR M. DEF BUFF. Since it doesn't overwrite you will have to note when you last buffed yourself. Having it run out in the middle of 25 mobs isn't exactly nice.

-Gathering while mounted is a bad idea. You can't heal yourself so mobs won't follow you very far + you move so fast that they will reset often.

-Lure mobs to a quiet place. This will help when gathering drops. 9 out of 10 times you will be left with a few increased life mobs you need to finish off, leaving you with no time to gather drops before they respawn.

-Don't panic when you get hit for a huge poison tick. The damage from multiple poison mobs is very irregular and a big poison hit is almost always followed by a small one (still make sure too purify, though).

Doing it like this requires nothing more than equipment and a full MP bar. Before AoEing started to give rather dissappointing rewards for me I could do rounds of the lvl 85 cadevils with just full sparks and only rarely using an mp potion.

I was kinda puzzled too b:thanks I'm a noob and was confused on how a cleric could aoe with low vit