Efficient Ways To Farm Sparks

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Efficient ways to farm Sparks
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By Sylph.Peldin 2013-12-18 14:20:25
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Phoenix.Dramatica said: »
I'm just not giving my personal spot, you can spend a few minutes looking at the eminence log and find excellent camps that surpass anything in abyssea.
The fact that you even mentioned it here - all someone has to do is /sea all dramatica when you are farming and it wouldn't take them long to find your camp. I think you know that though, so by saying you can "quite easily" farm sparks faster than another method is really just puffing your chest.

I started this thread with the intention of sharing good ways to farm sparks, not a brag thread about who can farm sparks the fastest.

Leviathan.Comeatmebro said: »
When a camp only supports one person and their mules, it's not in their advantage to share the specifics of the camp. 600 people or 3000, it only takes 1-3 people stupid enough to think sharing a good camp is still good to ruin it for you.

You can trivialize it all you'd like, keeping it to himself is not the least bit inappropriate, though it would have been better not to mention it at all if secrecy was the goal.
I agree that it only takes one other person to ruin a good camp, but I don't see how that applies to farming sparks. Even if you're only setting the 500+ one in Abyssea, there are way too many camps where you can accomplish this.

Anything outside Abyssea, it would only be advantageous to add people to your party. The amount of crystals that drop per mob increases with more players in the party. The amount of mobs you can kill for Vanquish and for zone-specific spark quests will increase by adding active players to the party. The only thing that might drop ever so slightly is the amount of credits you are getting toward dealing 500+ damage if you are sharing the camp, but that should more than be made up for by the additional help you're getting. Only exception being if you are farming a camp so small that you are waiting on respawn... and if that's the case, then it probably isn't a good camp anyway.

Again, I assumed this was common sense. So to be unwilling to share your "super duper spark farming secrets" is not only silly, but really just detrimental to yourself.
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By Leviathan.Comeatmebro 2013-12-18 14:26:49
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Sylph.Peldin said: »
Only exception being if you are farming a camp so small that you are waiting on respawn... and if that's the case, then it probably isn't a good camp anyway.
i'm relatively sure there's no camp in the game where i don't wait on respawn, but feel free to enlighten me
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By Sylph.Peldin 2013-12-18 15:08:17
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Sylph.Peldin said: »
Run the following route along Rala Waterways:
Zone in to Rala Waterways from Western Adoulin I-12
Travel to D9. Kill Funguar and Toads. Sneak is helpful for getting around the pugils/slimes.
Respawn is 5 minutes. Impossible to solo clear all the toads/funguars before they respawn.

Maybe our definition of the word "camp" is different as there are multiple small camps of toads and funguar. I just don't choose to sit around and wait on them to respawn when I know I can run over and kill other "camps" while I wait. Maybe I should've used the word "route" instead. I highly doubt the most efficient ways to farm sparks involves waiting on respawn unless you AoE everything.

And again, if you are AoEing everything, then adding someone to the party would only benefit you (more crystals drop).
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By Leviathan.Syagin 2013-12-18 15:48:42
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Phoenix.Dramatica said: »
Angierus said: »
Leviathan.Lodie said: »
Abyssea is actually not very good for sparks, you do not get any kill quests , crystals or mob type kill quests here. Aby is only good for the damage quests.
3k sparks every 5 minutes and you can full time chainspell isn't efficient? okay. Please inform me then how you're getting more than 36,000 sparks an hour.
Quite easily, but I'm not about to kill my methods by telling the entire public.

Need a ruler to measure that brah?
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By Leviathan.Andret 2013-12-18 16:00:10
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It's not that much of a secret. You need an original expansion zone with a lot of sound aggro/link mobs at roughly lv63-69 (e.g. leeches in Sandy sewer). Just go in and aggro everything by running pass them and aga.

You can get crystals, kills, damage and zone kills in 1 package.

Other possible zones: Necropolis and crawlers' nest
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By Leviathan.Syagin 2013-12-18 16:00:28
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Phoenix.Suji said: »
Phoenix.Dramatica said: »
It's not some secret camp, there are many that work. I'm just not giving my personal spot, you can spend a few minutes looking at the eminence log and find excellent camps that surpass anything in abyssea.
Your secret is out.
With logging onto the forum saying what you have said... exposing your epeen... why would it not be hard for ppl to do this until they see your location and just hunt you down and expose the informatiion for you out of spite?
 
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By Leviathan.Draylo 2013-12-18 16:29:59
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Sparks are serious business. Brb hiring a private investigator to send to Phoenix server.
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By Bismarck.Llewelyn 2013-12-18 16:41:33
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I just farm sparks when my AA group is asleep or not around. :3
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By Ravenn42 2013-12-18 16:47:24
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I just got back from a few months off... are the sparks just for upgrading AF pieces?
 
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By Valefor.Sehachan 2013-12-18 17:16:19
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I have an amazing secret that makes me do incredible things, but I can't tell you or it won't be as awesome anymore.
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By Ragnarok.Slyshen 2013-12-18 17:28:21
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Smallest e-peen award goes to......!! (And no, it's not me, I'm runner up.)
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By Bahamut.Dannyl 2013-12-18 17:33:50
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I see no one read my original post.

GG guys. GG
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By Cerberus.Anjisnu 2013-12-18 17:47:27
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Bismarck.Josiahkf said: »
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Didn't happen to check what total sparks for that was though as I was more focused on pluton cases
so vanquish II gives a pluton case?

sorry Jos yeah vanquish II is pluton case ive farmed 15 of em so far just dickin around getting mules ready for 10 hour salvage days
 
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By Phoenix.Dramatica 2013-12-18 17:55:40
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Seriously, y'all are getting pretty damn butthurt. protip: it involves crystals and pretty much any camp in the game will net better sparks than solo abyssea if you're not a bad. It also has the benefit of being multipurpose and getting your AA pops very quickly while doing this.
 
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By Bahamut.Greyfawkz 2013-12-18 18:28:53
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Can just go RDM to Kuftal or something with a ton of mobs, train the whole zone and Stonega II them to death.. did my Vanquishing II in about an hour usually about 40-60 mobs per pull depending on despawns. with Adoulin gear they hit for 0 as long as you have Phalanx and Protect up. Composure refresh II and a refresh set is the same as MM Atma.
 
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By Xodia 2013-12-18 20:52:54
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well more people might not be a bad thing if lets say ye party up? id imagine a fully alli cud get tons of sparks. that is once the mules are 10-15+? idk well whatever lvl they need to be to get exp.
lets bring back GOV Burns! but now we can have GOVROE! lol
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By Asura.Calatilla 2013-12-18 20:58:37
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I noticed that unless it states "experience-yielding" mobs, you don't need to get exp off the mobs to get credit for the kills.

I killed a bunch of mobs outside of windy as a lv99 sch and still got credit for it.
 
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By Cerberus.Anjisnu 2013-12-18 21:43:24
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Josiahkf said: »
Cerberus.Anjisnu said: »
Bismarck.Josiahkf said: »
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Didn't happen to check what total sparks for that was though as I was more focused on pluton cases
so vanquish II gives a pluton case?

sorry Jos yeah vanquish II is pluton case ive farmed 15 of em so far just dickin around getting mules ready for 10 hour salvage days
You just make a mule then go take it to lvl 90+ mobs and slaughter 700 of them for a pluton case then move to a new mule?

Nah most only hit about 33ish in level I already have 10 or so mules with delve weapons etc just getting them perle version 4 gear to be able to solo AR II mythics don't make themselves ya know lol
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By Lakshmi.Zerowone 2013-12-18 23:13:50
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Bismarck.Josiahkf said: »
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I noticed that unless it states "experience-yielding" mobs, you don't need to get exp off the mobs to get credit for the kills.

I killed a bunch of mobs outside of windy as a lv99 sch and still got credit for it.
What all quests don't say exping that you found? Odd ***lol


every single one of the Combat in the Original Areas objectives do not require exp mobs.
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By Leviathan.Kincard 2013-12-19 00:43:49
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Maybe I'm missing something here, but farming tons and tons of sparks all day (at least with the specific intent of just getting sparks instead of just getting them while doing other stuff) seems kinda pointless to me when the AFv2+1 (AF+3? wat are we calling them gaiz) are bottlenecked by drops from the AAs anyway.

I've just met quite a few people that didn't check what you needed other than the Chapters so just thought I'd throw that out.

Given their track record the things will probably start dropping off normal enemies in the next update though
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By Cerberus.Anjisnu 2013-12-19 00:56:42
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Meh I'm goin with it dual purpose style grinding gears etc for alts/mules just so I don't have to go to abyssea
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By Cerberus.Anjisnu 2013-12-19 01:00:00
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Also just gonna throw this out here qutrubs+hornet needle/bee stinger lol