Best places to do Magian Trails

[Duffman]

I started my Magian trial with a BST axe. I'm currently on my last trial [319] of that series. I found this guy's guide soon after the Magian Trials were released: http://ffxi.allakhazam.com/forum.html?fjob=8&mid=126934920528777292&num=30&page=1

I don't know about any of you, but I had a hell of a time finding the right places to do these trials. This can be a sort of loose guide if you want. Simply post some of the mind bogglers and how you solved them. For me, I just used Alla and wiki to find both Family Type of a certain level 60-69 ish and looked up locations they were found; if they had the proper weather. Sometimes the results were less than stellar.


Well, here are the trials for the BST Accuracy+ axe as outlined by Rhukha's post on Alla:

Trial 296: Kill 100 crabs under any weather, with the axe equipped.
(Vunkerl Inlet. Waste Crabs near the Campaign tower)

Trial 297: Kill 100 evil weapons under fire, wind, thunder or light weather.
(Ro'meave sp?. This was a bitch as we had to wait for weather. Hours w/no weather. Then a battery of days that spammed Thunder)

Trial 314: Kill 100 of any family on thunder day or during thunder weather.
(Vunkerl Inlet again, anywhere Thunder weather is prevalent. This is an easy task as it's pretty much any mob)

Trial 315: Kill 100 birds on thunder day or during thunder weather.
(Idiot me... learned that Bats count. Top of DuckFart Tower. This was sort of slow going but there are something like 14 bats to rotate.)

Trial 318: Pet must land killing blow on 100 undead on thunder day or during thunder weather.
(/sigh this was a PAIN. Just waited for thundersday and went to Eldeime necropolos sp? Killed about 30-35 skeletons each thundersday. Crabs w/blunt damage FTW.)
(PET must land killing blow. I accidentally killed one and thundersday ended with 1 remaining. So I went to the top of Duckfart tower to kill a DC ghost.)

Trial 319: Pet must land killing blow on 150 imps, on thunder day or during thunder weather.
(I'm on this one now and sorta stuck again. I found x2 orderly imps on the western part of C.Mire. Cons DC to me with pets avail. Problem is there are only 2 of them. Better Ideas?)

 

[LadyKiKi]

Damn those are tricky. I'm strapped for time lately so I avoided the magian stuff.

But for the imps one, you might want to arm yourself with a Fendoir/Temperance Axe Offhand in C.Mire, charm a VT fly and familiar it, and then kill as many imps as possible in 30 minutes. The idea is to create enough TP to stun their possibly devastating spells. Might be able to blow through 10 (I may be overestimating) with pet food.

 

[Duffman]

wow you are alive. This is a sidebar to the main topic but I was asked by Turindas (he's back as Valorsomething) to get you into a new pet shell. I told him either you transferred or quit because I haven't seen you around.


Keep the mob hunt tips going. I have Swords(x6), Axes(x2 more maybe) and a few GKs to collect. Any information here will help the other trials and other people.

 

[LadyKiKi]

wow you are alive. This is a sidebar to the main topic but I was asked by Turindas (he's back as Valorsomething) to get you into a new pet shell. I told him either you transferred or quit because I haven't seen you around.


Keep the mob hunt tips going. I have Swords(x6), Axes(x2 more maybe) and a few GKs to collect. Any information here will help the other trials and other people.

Timezone differences =p -- I'm pearled now so see you there.

No other ideas for the hunts, you seem to have it well covered. The B.Tree usually has thunder weather in there, so I guess on the ones where you kill any weather you should charm a Korrigan (DC, or EM+Charm Gear) and ride all the mobs on the lower floor, it'll make short work of them.

 

[Espio]

Skeggiold Pet: Phys dmg-5%:
296: 100 crabs any weather
330:100 bees ice earth water dark weather
339: 100 anything, earth or earthsday.
340:100 lizard, earth or earthsday
341:100 amorph, earth or earthsday
342(final):200 bomb earth or earthsday

 

[cesaria-midg]

Crabs, weather - Vunkerl more reliable than anywhere else in terms of it peeing down
Bees in any darkness based weather - Roh did by level syncing to my 20PUP in Pashow (woo I get free levels outta this)
Anything earthsday/weather - Attowha seems popular, abuse level sync and destroy Taronghi Canyon
Lizards - again, abuse a friend with bribes of free exp - Gustaberg, or Attowha (loadsa NINs there doing one of their trials so teamup chances)
Amorphs - worms possibly your best bet, lots of them about
Bombs earth weather I think is tricky since self destructs don't count - Mount Z gets earth weather a fair bit but don't know how good that would be. Ifrits, Garbage Citadel basement gets earth weather but don't be an ass to BSTs trying to level there.

Roh's been doing a few of these but generally if you want to cheaparse any - abuse a level sync target and just destroy the lowest level of the mob type you can find.