SSR

Recently I've been playing with the idea of BLU solo SSR farm alex. BLU has the ability to solo SSR alex farm, the zone with highest alex gain rate. If you solo, it has avg 60ish alex a run without pouch drop from boss, and obviously higher if boss dropped pouch. That's almost nearly as good gil/hr as dyna. And below are some of the tips and tricks I found.

The hardest part of SSR solo is to deal enough dmg in limited time, since you need to kill a lot of shit to  reach boss.

The ideal SJ IMO, is /RDM, due to convert every 10 min. Theoretically other SJ such as /THF /DNC works too, just need to bring a bit more hi-elixir vile elixir for MP recover, but I'm a cheap ass ._. You also need to bring echo drops if you're not subbing DNC.

Personally I'm able to clear 4x 100% pouch NM completely cheap(no echo/elixir used and /DNC) However, boss needs extra 7~10 min which needs more items, at least for me. Still debating whether spending extra gil on med/echo is worth it or not since boss has such low pouch drop rate.......

You need to kill A LOT of mobs to reach 4x 100% pouch NM and boss, thus killing speed is important.    The best way to achieve this is to burn MP like hell, and recover MP with temp item and med, with no hesitation to use the item.

The most useful temps are MP/HP recover temps, hi/mega elixir, wing, fanatic. So it's a bit luck dependent too, the more of those items you get, the faster you kill. Don't hesitate to use them if you see 2nd dropped. Just use and get a new one.

AoE spells such as Whirl of Rage, B.typhoon, Empty thrash, Charged whisker, Gate of Hades(note that if you GoH, you better make sure you don't need to AoE sleep them afterward) are useful to kill multiple mobs at once, since there are really A LOT of mobs need to be killed. If there's Fanatic up, use it and that allow you to play Dynasty Warrior with AoE burn without chance of getting swarmed and die for a while. You should try to AoE burn mobs as much as possible, it's key to kill fast enough to clear SSR.

Anything after 2nd floor hits quite hard and quite dangerous if you AoE burn, so fanatic helps killing speed.


Other tips and tricks are just usual dyna solo stuff, such as regen spell for efficient cure, Sanguine blade(although sanguine is a lot weaker outside of dyna....) for HP recover if CA not up and so on.



1st Floor: Head to Hammerblow pop area while killing everything on the way to unlock stat, but no need to unlock all things since the mobs that pops the NM and 2nd floor will drop a lot of extra cells too.

You have to kill 6 mobs at once to pop Hammerblow, those 6 mobs doesn't hit too hard and not all that dangerous, so Whirl of Rage, Gate of hades, Empty thrash until they die.

Hammberblow isn't anything special, SC and etc until it dies. After Hammberblow, sneak/invis and go up.


2nd Floor: Head to Powderkeg spawn room and kill everything. It's quite dangerous to link/aggro more than 3 at once, so avoid to aggro more than 3. But less than 3 is manageable with AoE. Convert every 10 min when recast is up, use elixir if you find them in chest/brought it.

Powderkeg is nothing special too, although a bit stronger than 1st floor boss. Kill it with SC etc.

3rd Floor: Set both sheep song and dream flower on 3+ floor just in case.

Head to Gyroscopic room and kill all gears with piercing spells and SC. Gears hits harder than previous fodder, so be careful if you want to AoE burn a lot of them at once. Although they're usually safe with 2x sleep spells.

Again, AoE sleeps x2, shadows from Occu and fanatic if you have extra(try to save 1 for 4th floor though) are best friend for AoE burn.

Gyroscopic isn't much different from previous NM. SC and spell spam until it dies. But this NM hits a lot harder than previous NM, especially TP move, without some defensive spells up it can become MP sponge. Don't let HP drop below 1k and pop shadows. Can also pop harden shell to lower the dmg taken.

You need to defeat the correct rampart to open the door, the correct one is the one that "try to move but can't move". Another way is to run around and aggro/link all and run away. Sleep them all, kill the one that can't move, log out to lose aggro or just go to next floor before they wake up.

4th floor: This is where you have to deal with A LOT of gears at once since they're easily linked, especially if gear train come when you pulled multiple gears/rampart(that happened to me several times ;D). If fanatic is up(you should save one if you see one), pop them and play dynasty warrior with all the AoE spell you got. Drink Elixir when MP gone, and spam MORE AoE spell. The more target you can hit at once, the faster you can clear everything. Sleep/AoE flash when you feel it's about to wear. Or you can sleep right after a Whirl of Rage. Harden shell/Occu shadows are nice to keep you alive too. It's quite dangerous to deal with this many gears via AoE burn solo, but if you managed to do it, you will feel a sense of satisfaction due to how OP BLU is in salvage(BLU is truly OP in salvage...for real) XD....it's not something every job can do XD

Boss: This boss charms every 25%, so you must try to keep some form of DoT up on it to avoid it regen back it's health if you still want to kill it quickly.

It seems that 1 SC+ 1~2 big spell can deal 25% of dmg, so watch it's HP, when it's about to hit 75% 50% 25%, use Disseverment, BioII(from /RDM), cold wave and so on on it, make sure you cure HP to full or have SS up too. Note that I found poison can't overwrite themselves, so it may be a good idea to separate the DoTs. Would be kinda lame if all DoT were gone during charm.

And special thanks to Sekundes for the boss tips XD