Efficient Ways To Farm Sparks

Quoting someone from another thread. I thought I'd bring this up and see if you guys have timed any runs or anything like that.

I haven't timed any runs myself but I've heard a couple different strategies.

1) Set Quest - Deal 500+ Damage = 1000 sparks
Go to Abyssea with toned down gear and aoe for 500 damage. Whether you aoe with aga spells, fell cleave, aeolian edge, etc... the idea is you want to tone down your weapons/gear so that you hit as close to 500 as possible without going under. You also want to be able to survive a crowd of mobs hitting on you as well.
Gathering up 20+ mobs and dealing 500+ damage each time can net you 1000 sparks every 2 pulls.

2) Set Quest - Deal 500+ Damage = 1000 sparks
Set Quest - Vanquish Multiple Enemies I = 1000 sparks
Set Quest - Spoils (Water Crystal) = 200 sparks
Set Quest - Spoils (Lightning Crystal) = 200 sparks
Set Quest - Conflict: Rala Waterways I = 100 sparks
Set Quest - Conflict: Rala Waterways II = 100 sparks

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.

This will work better with more people, but the idea is you can farm mobs in a small area while getting credit for 6 different eminent quests.

Anyway, I haven't personally timed either one, but I was wondering if you guys had some results to post... like X sparks per hour doing one of these or some other strat?

*Edit* Adding in some other strats I thought were competitive

3) RDM/BLM castinga tier 2 aga nukes and being able to keep chainspell up with capped azure lights. (For 500+ damage spam)

4) Dualbox - WAR + RDM in Boyahda Tree. Set appropriate crystal quests, boyahda I and II, 500+ damage, and Vanquish Monsters

5) NIN or DNC in Abyssea - for 500+ damage spam, but relying on fast swings on single targets rather than aoe. Will try this one myself to see if crits are necessary to hit over 500. If only crits are hitting over 500, then I don't see it being nearly as competitive.

or if dualboxing fell cleave the boyahda tree lol

Try some lower level zone like The Boyahda Tree, sewer and Kuftal Tunnel. Sch or Blm with lv113+ equips then aga them.

wonder would RUN with that new Eminence GA be able to solo FC in the tree lol.

I found monstrosity to be extremely effective for farming sparks. You can get the kill 200 enemies, deal 500+ damage (level 40+ for some monsters with ws's), 100 kills in monstrosity and crystal drop quests done (if you're in bellingery) all at once.
I had to buy a lot of equipment because I was getting close to cap twice now since RoE was released.

it can indeed but not the entire tree like my war+rdm lol

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.

THF or NIN in Abyssea - anything. Apoc, Razed Ruins, Sanguine Scythe, gear for crits/crit damage if you don't have at least an 110+dagger/katana. Crits doing 500 all day long, literally takes less than 5 minutes to finish the 500 damage quest if you're fighting constantly.

I can do the 100 monstrosity kills + the 500 damage one in about 10-15 minutes or so on a level 90+ Couerl I've found.

I doubt it's the fastest of the fastest ways.
But it's efficient in that it doesn't really matter what you kill providing you can 1-shot it with either a Fire II spell or Firaga II for packs of mobs if you see them. (My Firaga I was just failing to hit for 500 about 1/2 of the time)

So you get 2 sets of the monstrosity 100 kills for the 1 set of 500+
Meaning 3 completions per 200 mobs. 1k Sparks each.

It's been working ok for me so far. Like I said hardly the uber quick fest.
But if you're annoying someone trying to xp with their 3 trust NPC's + their fellow out (ooh er..) you can easily move somewhere else at a minutes notice.

Doing this as we speak. Works great and the worm party loves me.

Editting my OP to include some other ones I thought would be good. I didn't add monstrosity because I just couldn't see it being as competitive.

Anjisnu could you time your run some time and tell me how many sparks per hour you get? If you don't normally run for a full hour, then a 20 min or 30 min test would probably be just as good.

Snapshot, I'd be really interested in your sparks/hour rate as well.

I'm extremely interested in seeing exactly how many sparks you get per hour. 1 to 1.5 hours is a pretty big gap though. That's about the same difference as 30k to 50k sparks per hour, lol.

12-13k /per hour but playing with different atma right now.

Full pdt 5/5 cizin you can FC /dnc solo or use trust NPC for cures & go /sam. Pretty nice pulls there to about 30ish or more every pull w/o losing agg. You can 1shot most of the pull and 2nd cleave cleans house.

In the first few days after this being released, there was a limited time challenge to Kill Aquans - I went to Kuftal Tunnel BLU/RDM & was killing one at a time until I realized I got credit on 500+ damage multiple times when I cast Whirl of Rage... so I pulled 1/2 the crabs in the zone, whirl of rage > dream flower > whirl of rage. approx 30 kills with 2 casts, 60 ticks for 500+ damage in one pull

As Vujan mentioned, BLU WoR+dream+WoR seems to be a great way to advance in the 500+ damage quest. There is obvious benefits doing this outside abyssea since you can tack on multiple quests. But last I checked the topic read Efficient, not Best of the Best. Everyone has their own playstyle and end-goal. No need to start throwing ***around

Good thread if we can avoid that.

Quite easily, but I'm not about to kill my methods by telling the entire public.

Well I just pulled the entire tree all the way to the aery and went from 0 to 341 kills on vanquish 2 each ws was giving me 1k sparks it seemed lol

Didn't happen to check what total sparks for that was though as I was more focused on pluton cases

^^ Roosters love to puff their feathers, lol. The paranoia cracks me up. I dunno, maybe I'm wrong and Phoenix still has 3000+ active players on each day. Then I could understand the need for secrecy. On Sylph, I haven't had competition for anything in months except for T2 VNMs in Abyssea.

You can't even really sell anything you get from sparks, jeez.

I can attest to this chainspell idea.. pop Phalanx pro and a taco, grab all the mobs pop chainspell and agaII all of the things! finish the 500+dmg in one pull :D

But muh secret club, muh secret technique, muh advantage over the plebeians that are the rest of the community in my eyes.

Almost 2014 and people still act as if it was 2008, it's sad indeed.

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.

Anyone with half a brain can figure out better farming methods, I'm just not going to personally make them public and hurt my sparks/hour. It's not really a secret, you can put two and two together and find much better camps than abyssea.

Bingo.

If you have an edge, you keep it to yourself completely and avoid teasing others. If you don't have this kind of humility/intelligence, you will be made fun of.

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.