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 Carbuncle.Zantestuken
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By Carbuncle.Zantestuken 2014-05-07 16:05:28
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Hi all,

Was curious on how to farm Sparks efficiently. I just came back to the game and looking forward to upgrade my Artifact Armors to ilvl 100+

Any tips or tricks would be awesome, thanks!
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By Ravenn42 2014-05-07 16:32:04
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It is faster to just make parties to get the REM pages they are super easy. I also find that dynamism runs build sparks at a decent rate and get you gil at same time. You will need a lot of gil if want to upgrade a lot of jobs. Just turn on the the right quests for ROE like enemies killed and damage dealt and fly through dyna. You can also go to boy tree and fell cleave or blue burn....

When i came back i tried to spark farm and it seemed slow. Change your focus join shouts and solo events and the sparks will come.
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By cadaver 2014-05-07 16:35:39
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Abyssea tahrongi. Nin/war. Stack as much delay reduction and multi hit gear you can. I always had a whm mule and used vv/rr/gh atma. If you don't have mule you could sub some regen atma.

I would also use whm to haste and build lights for high lvl blue chests.

Basic I would spam kill bog body (flux 8)without weapon skills collecting 1000 sparks every 5-8 min. Every hit gets 500+dmg.

I did this for 2 weeks strait and got 4/5 af1 and 2 +1. Also farmed other areas for Gil to buy mats to upgrade.

Edit: I also jump on the chance for a quick 1k sparks for time trial quests.
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By Carbuncle.Zantestuken 2014-05-07 16:36:05
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Thanks for the tips, very much appreciated.
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By Pantafernando 2014-05-07 16:46:18
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The best i did was exp party in aby while under quest "gain exp". With exp capped, just dualboxing (one char pulling and the other nuking), I managed 30k sparks in the quest time (3hrs). When they add others spark quests in aby, suposing its something related to mass killing and its repeatable, i guess aby will be even greater. Others can have more efficient way to farm spark, but doing exp, allow even afk mules to get good spark rate.
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By Bismarck.Snprphnx 2014-05-10 19:55:57
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blm/rdm. go to kuftal tunnel. adjust your gear so that when you pull 10+ mobs, you do just over 500 dmg. buff with pro, phalanx, stoneskin. aggro/link 20-30 mobs, stonega 1 them to death. a single pile takes 1-2 mins to pull, and will get you 150-200 dmg credits, completing a full quest. you can also complete the following regular RoE quests, Water Crystals (crabs), Earth Crystals (Spiders), geodes/-ites, and the following timed challenges, XP, vermin (spiders) aquans (crabs) plantoids (cactars), spoils: seals)
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By Odin.Jassik 2014-05-10 20:13:41
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Bismarck.Snprphnx said: »
blm/rdm. go to kuftal tunnel. adjust your gear so that when you pull 10+ mobs, you do just over 500 dmg. buff with pro, phalanx, stoneskin. aggro/link 20-30 mobs, stonega 1 them to death. a single pile takes 1-2 mins to pull, and will get you 150-200 dmg credits, completing a full quest. you can also complete the following regular RoE quests, Water Crystals (crabs), Earth Crystals (Spiders), geodes/-ites, and the following timed challenges, XP, vermin (spiders) aquans (crabs) plantoids (cactars), spoils: seals)

i use the same strat on blu and use low dmg magical aoe's to avoid the accuracy check on physical spells, rdm/blm and even whm/rdm can do it as effectively.
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By Shiva.Xenorex 2014-05-12 19:41:06
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Same strats on Bst, use lulush or droopy, pull half a zone and whirl claws everything in site, just get all the relevant REM qsts up to take full advantage.
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By Siren.Kenesu 2014-05-12 20:27:36
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Fastest way I have found is to go RDM/BLM. Full fast/PDT. No need to even gear change. MM MM Ultimate any aby zone with lots of mobs. takes like 1-2 hour's to max 50k sparks depending on how fast and focused you are.
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By Chyula 2014-05-12 20:42:25
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blm/rdm or any nukejob/blm to use aoe. 500+ dmg quest and find the type of mob the game currently requested, then just run to abys and aggro the whole goddamn camp. stonega 1 spam rinse repeat. will be cap in no time. if you don't have mage job, use pld and spam aoleon edge whatever that ws called.
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