NPC Buddies: Getting Harder to Level

We've been trying to find different areas to take our NPC buddies, hoping to get them some more interesting armor, and thought it might be fun to go fight some stuff in Pso'Xja. Unfortunately, we couldn't summon them there, so we headed to Fei'Yin instead. That place is a lot less scary than it once was, and there were plenty of bats to fight. Bats are good prey when fighting with the NPC buddies, since they don't have damaging AOE attacks.

We've also had them helping us trying to get coffer keys in Toraimarai Canal (needed for the Wild Card quest), and in the Labyrinth of Onzozo when we were trying to get chest keys (for the quest A Test of True Love). They're levelling more and more slowly as they get higher, but they really do help kill things a lot faster than we would otherwise.

When our buddies got to level 50, we had to complete a limit break quest with them, which mostly involved a lot of running around. We had to dig up a Bal Shell in Korroloka Tunnel and fight a spawned Yagudo in Castle Oztroja, which wasn't too hard to do.

For their Limit Break 2, which would allow them to level to 60, we had to fight a spawned giant in Qufim - in the caves that lead to the Misereaux Coast vortex and Behemoths Dominion. We had to fight it twice, once for Balu-Falu and once for Wagwei, but the fights weren't terribly challenging. The second time we fought it, Grym tanked with her THF65/NIN32 and double Mambo from Elboron. She only took one hit, from a special attack, and it did less than 50 damage.

We also ran around with Elboron as he completed Blighted Gloom with Siegward. He had to fight his slime in Ordelle's Caves, so we've fought in all three of the possible places for this quest now.