Fellow Leveling Guide

Leveling your Adventuring Fellow
Once you obtain your signal pearl, it is now time to level your fellow. On your Signal Pearl, you will notice it has a 20 hour recast. In addition, you will notice that your fellow will only remain out for an limited time, either NPCLevel*1.5 or 15 mobs, which condition happens first.

You will find that your fellow can take damage like any pet, and once it dies you have to wait for the recast timer on signal pearl to return to 0 before you can resummon it. Therefore, you will have to find mobs that do not have AOE that does damage, and/or mobs that do not have -ga spells.

When it comes down to mobs, these mobs are the best targets for your NPC fellow:


 * Beetles
 * Big Bats
 * Dhalmel
 * Cockatrice
 * Coeurl

There are other mobs with frontal breath attacks that are otherwise fine to level on, but you must turn these mobs around where your npc is behind it at all times so your NPC does not get hit:


 * Raptor
 * Spider
 * Crawler
 * Funguar
 * Wolf

When it comes down to the mob selection, just about every one that I listed have been used in XP party setup at one point or another.

Where to Level NPC
Your goal is to find the mobs that give max. experience to your NPC while at the same time do not cause long periods of downtime. The higher level your main job is, the easier it will be to level your NPC. Eventually, at some point of time, you will need a small party to finish your NPC leveling, but this likely will not happen until your NPC has gone past level 50.


 * Level 30-33: Sauromunge Champaign (Tabar Beak)
 * Level 30-35: Eastern Altepa Desert (Beetle/Dhalmel)
 * Level 31-35: Fei Yin (Vampire Bat)
 * Level 31-35: Behemoth's Dominion (Bat)
 * Level 32-37: Garliage Citadel (Bat/Beetle towards Gate 1)
 * Level 35-40: Western Altepa Desert (Dhalmel/Spider)
 * Level 35-38: Gustav Tunnel (Hell Bat)
 * Level 35-39: Behemoth's Dominion (Coeurl)
 * Level 39-42: Crawler's Nest (Solider Crawler)
 * Level 40-44: Western Altepa Desert (Beetle)
 * Level 43-47: Crawler's Nest (Rumble Crawler, Blazer Beetle, and Exoray)
 * Level 44-49: Labyrinth of Onzozo (Cockatrice)
 * Level 44-51: Quicksand Caves (Helm Beetle - note level difference by which zone you enter)
 * Level 45-51: Temple of Ugg (Torama/Rumble Crawler - only if you don't get tonberry aggro)
 * Level 47-52: Garliage Citadel (Chamber Beetle)
 * Level 49-54: Crawler's Nest (Helm Beetle)
 * Level 49-55: King Ranperre Tomb (Dire Bat)
 * Level 49-55: Eldime Necropolis (Tomb Wolf)
 * Level 50-55: Ule. Range (Esbat)
 * Level 52-57: Boyahda Tree (Bark Spider/Death Cap/Knight Crawler)
 * Level 54-60: Den of Rancor/Upper Delkfult's Tower (Dire Bat)

Note that after your NPC hits level 50, your main mob will likely be a bat-type mob. At this point it might be very wise to use a 3 person party (tank + healer + DD) to kill these mobs with minimal downtime (and this also allows them to call their NPC). This, however, will depend on your main job level. Also, as soon as you can, you should set your NPC to attacker role. Right now the highest your NPC can go is 60.