By Sylfeya 2013-04-17 19:11:49
If he doesn't mind leaving his system running, he can make some progress on Ukon by logging in before he has to go to work (or sleep), join party with friends, and AFK in the area where his NM pops. Friend kills NM... as long as he's within xp range, he gets credit. He comes back from work (or wakes up), runs to Jeuno, turns in trial, starts next. Play Meebles or w/e for some hours, then AFK in the area for the next NM once RL calls. Repeat.
Admittedly, you have to have some nice friends willing to basically hold your hand and do the camping for you for that, but I've done it for some friends before, and if you're willing to post here for help for your friend, you might be willing to do something along those lines. It's even theoretically possible to get him his VNMs in this way too, but I would recommend having him actually participate on that one (remember, you can CFH to prevent your abyssite from changing whenever you accidentally pop the wrong NM!), as you can make a little game of it hopping from zone to zone and you can knock them all out in one session.
As long as he's got all his weapons skilled up enough to handle red procs and Fell Cleave, he'll be invaluable in Abyssea for farming KI pop sets... so Ukon really isn't all *that* far out of reach, even for a casual player like him. Would generally recommend grabbing an GAxe off AH in the meantime (gotta have something to Fell Cleave with, after all).
(Btw, I had to laugh a little at the name "Itzabigbug". Honestly never heard that one before)