Talk:Elemental farming guide

You were questioning bard soloing elementals. Bard is actually excellent at it, the best 3 jobs for elemental farming will be bard, red mage and blue mage, and all for the same reason, dispel. Any soloer would be advised to have some form of dispel, some type of AoE (diaga, lullaby, etc) for stripping shadows, a means of healing and some way to cure silence; the ability to LAND silence is also extremely nice. The other mage jobs can certainly solo elementals well, but having dispel on your main job is hardly ever resisted. I would assume scholar would be very good as well, using their storms to simulate weather the elemental is weak to, but have never seen it in practice personally. I usually /ninja unless I need a different sub to provide me with healing, AoE or dispel. Note that bard is not FAST at killing elementals, just has great survivability and effectiveness against them (in 8 years I don't think an elemental has EVER resisted one of my songs).

Elementals do most of their damage via spellcasting, their physical attacks are generally pretty weak, although they may pack a potent Enspell of their element. They are highly resistant to physical damage as well. Shadows are handy against all single-target spells, but stripped by -aga type. Bar element spells are nice. I would reccommend NOT wasting time on Carols solo as damage WILL get through and your time will be better spent healing and boosting your attack (the faster the elemental dies the sooner it will stop doing damage). Weapons/enspells that inflict damage the elemental is weak to are also strongly advised (elemental staves work nicely here). Don't expect much out of drain samba on dark elementals and dispel ANYTHING on any elemental ASAP.--Deadmeataru 21:13, February 7, 2011 (UTC)