Best lvl to make money with herc?

Your main options are:

Aoe grinding - you may have slightly better luck with the high 7x cats north of lost rather than the mid 8x stuff.

OHT - most stuff here that's worth killing is a real PITA to kill with a herc 'cause it kites. A ranged pet is usually faster there. Good money though.

TT - heck yes you can solo in here. All of TT1x, most of TT21 and some of TT22. TT23 would be more of a risk, but you can probably do the first boss at least.

Whether the time/money is worth it for you is another matter. Frankly, I was spending so long trying to find others to open the doors with me that I gave up. Others have more luck (or more bots)

Single mode TT is rarely worth the effort (Exception: if you want to get some mats that drop in it, and aren't hercable at your level yet in squad, like forshura's stuff.)

Probably more detail than you want, but I'm tired of "When can I do X TT with my herc?" threads. -.-

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Which bosses you can do will be a factor mainly dependant on your magic attack and your -channel, although defenses will come into play on a couple bosses.

General tips:
- Max Pet Heal. Duh.
- Herc is at your level. Duh.
- If you're going sage, get Soul Degeneration. I'm demon and I'd kill for it.
- Bring a friend if you can - soloing is boring as hell. Clerics, other venos, and sins make great farming buddies.
- Amp if you can. If you're stuck spam healing, at least try to throw out a Myriad Rainbow or two.
- Toothpicks/Dimes/Rocks/Folded paper are your friends. Same with macros if the boss is weak. Bring a book if you're truely soloing. If you have a friend coming with you, try to use Skype/Vent/Teamspeak/etc. You won't be able to type much.

Genie Skills:
- Absolute Domain
- Extreme Poison/Tangling Mire
- Tree of Protection/Second Wind
- Lightning Chaser - ranged interrupt
- Earthquake - close up interrupt (easier to spam than Lightning Chaser, but you have to be in the boss' face)
- Weakness - attack debuff
- Adrennaline Surge - sleep immunity
- Holy Path ** I don't particularly find this useful for soloing bosses so much as getting between them or the omgwtfrunaway moments. The latter of which shouldn't be happening.

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Numbers used are all unbuffed and the magic attack is the lower bound. Obviously, get buffs and higher values if you can.

Here's where I remember starting to do some of the TTs (YMMV*):

1-2: All bosses: level 77+ (because of the AOEs); 3.5k+ hp; 3.8k+ m.attack; -30% channel
Notes: Fight Drummer and Soul Banisher in fox form for the free p.def. BB helps a lot if done at early levels. Try to position things so that the cleric is out of range of the AoE (tricky, but doable. Basically everyone is at max range. If it's just you and the cleric and you can survive without BB, your cleric can be down the winding hall a bit and won't get hit at all.) Pull Vipenalt out unless you like playing in exploading hands. Pull Dimentora to a corner unless you want to have an AOE party on the herc...which doesn't work too well...

1-3: All bosses: level 83+; 4.1k+ hp; 4.1k+ m.attack; -30% channel
Notes: See 2-1, but take extra care with Drummer and especially with Soul Banisher. They hurt. Quite a bit.

2-1: Fatalique, Cosmo, Feng, Soulripper: level 80+; 3.9k+ hp; 3.9k+ m.attack; -30% channel
Notes: BB on Feng if you don't have great defense. In 2-1 he's weak and the aoe only really tickles. It gets progressively harder to keep the herc alive tho, because of the hp debuff + attack + aoe.
- Wurlord: level 85+; 4.3k+ hp; 4.6k+ m.attack; -33% channel
Note: see 2-2/2-3

2-2: level 90+; 5.2k hp; 5.9k+ m.attack; -55% channel
2-3: level 95+; 5.4k hp; 7k+ m.attack; -55% channel
Notes:
- Fatalique: Macro afk ftw!
- Wurlord: RB if you've got some levels and channel on you (sin's rib strike is very helpful) or BB and just range tank him yourself. 2-3 I'd wait awhile to do unless you've got some damn fine gear. It's more worth it to fight him in solo mode since it goes fairly quickly, even if the drops are nerfed. (1 drop in 4 runs is better profit than giving up after trying him for the same amount of time and failing.)
- Feng: Same as before but BB is more of a necessity. If the fight goes on too long, the herc might go down, but fear not! He can be range tanked! It's slightly painful, but not as bad as Wurlord. Bubble helps.
- Cosmo: both versions can 1-shot a level 100 normal herc close to the end (blessed hercs can get by tho). Purge is your friend, but even demon purge can't keep up. Bring another veno or friends with purging weapons if you can. Skipping is advisable, but he's doable with some luck and skill. RB, Rib Strike, and Weakness help heaps.
- Soulripper: Easy to kill. Start the timer and wait. DO NOT hit the invisible "chi mob" or the boss won't spawn. I've been told that you can't duel either, but I ended up dueling an archer while waiting once and the boss still spawned. Not sure if it's always safe or what the deal is there. Pull him to the corner so you don't have to deal with the adds.
- Astralwalker: Easiest is to put the herc on halt just to the left of the NPC after you cross over. Run up the chain to where the mobs can't hit you. Leave Reflect off for this one. Wait for the boss to come over to the herc before aggroing him. Adds will spawn between where the chains attach to the platform. Keep him in that corner and the first few spawns won't aggro. As soon as one of the adds aggros, all of them will. Sit and heal your herc and ignore the adds. They'll aggro on the herc, hit him, then aggro on to you from the heal. Since they won't be able to hit you, they'll reset. Hold down the heal button and giggle at the ping pong. You can also have a cleric BB on the raised area where the chain attaches. This is the general set up for when you have melees in your squad anyway.
- Ancient Evil: Skip him unless you can already do the rest of the bosses. I'll leave tactics to you for this one.

3-1: level 80+; 3.9k+ hp; 3.9k+ m.attack; -30% channel
Notes:
- Coredash: Easy but has a short range physical AOE so watch when you run in. When he dies, the door behind you shuts, so you either have to pull him out or run through. I like to run through as there are a bunch of little mobs that are easy to kill (great for getting kill count). [Must be killed to unlock the door to other bosses.]
- Neemen: Lightest hitting of the bosses, excluding Core. Do this one first to see if you can do the others. Nothing special here. You can shoot Djin through the wall for free buffs if you choose (clerics/archers have the best range). He'll reset as long as you aren't on top of the wall, but I've seen him attack people through the wall before. Run towards the middle of the room a little to reset him and you're fine. Like the mq bosses, his magic attack actually does some damage.
- Djin: Timed boss. Wait until you're higher level or get help. He gets progressively harder to kill as his hp goes down. As you run into the room, he'll fill everyone's chi (as long as their in range) and give you spark buffs. DO NOT SPARK during this time as you'll overwrite the buffs with shorter duration buffs. Once the spark buffs run out, then start your own sparking. He only does 1 damage per hit if melee "tanked", so a herc isn't needed here - just use whatever highest damage dealing pet you have (for most venos, this is still their herc, but w/e). [Opens the door to Deathflow]
- Deathflow: Hardest hitting of the bosses worth doing. If you had trouble with the Neemen, odds are you'll die on this one. Pull him out of the room because he'll spawn adds that patrol around the room and will run up to you physically headbut you while you're trying to keep the herc alive. He's got a hard hitting magic attack, so watch for that and cancel it if you can.
- Don't bother with the other bosses. Regardless of it they're possible, the effort put in to doing so generally exceeds the profit margin.

3-2/3-3: Similar to 3-1, especially now that things have changed. I generally don't go past Neemen in either of them. You're better off going with a squad for these since you'll want to do the hard bosses if you're going in here. Djin becomes less soloable because he has more hp and the time to kill him gets shorter. The rest is about the same.


* Disclaimer: This is by no means a "you can't do x boss until level y" guide. It's only going off what I remember. Also, much of 2-X I didn't attempt until later since I didn't really have a need to, so it's very likely that some of the bosses are tankable before when I've got listed.

** Second disclaimer: This is not a "do x boss for a profit" guide. It's left as an exercise to the reader to determine what bosses/drops are worth the effort to them.

*** Third disclaimer: There are other tactics that can be applied. What's listed here is just one or two connonly used methods.

b:laugh Yea..XD channling is impornant w u gona heal pet...<.< i know 2 peps w 59-60% chan
Or u can make, faster chan pots^^