how to xp chain 10 or more and get 6.5k xp/hour

Being a mage lets me get invited to NA and JP parties. I want to share with you a Japanese Party Tactic that is not often utilized by many NA players. I wish that we did this tactic more often. More people will get to party and less down time. Therefore less people in LFG and more people getting XP. The faster we get to 75 the more people we can help.

***Misconception about alliances: Sure alliances do have some xp penalty but not much. A party of 6 can take down an IT mob in 1 minute and 15 seconds for 200xp. Unfortunately during that 1 minute and 15 seconds the mob has hit the paladin enough times that your mages are low on MP and your paladin will also have to refresh himself also. Now with a properly developed alliance, you can take that IT mob in 40-60 seconds for 160xp. In return your mages will still have 2/3s of their MP allowing you to chain another IT for chain 1 ~ 200xp. So with a party of 8 you would have gotten 360xp in 1 minute 30 seconds.

Lets start out with the basics
Current Scenario is Quicksand Caves. Lvl 47-48 party!
6 People in party and 2 people in an alliance.

1st party
Pld/war lvl 48 Tank/Hate Control
mnk/war lvl 48 Tank/Damage
drg/war lvl 47 Damage
rdm/blm lvl 48 Refresh, Cure, and Elemental Seal/Slow
whm/blm lvl 47 Haste, Cure and Elemental Seal/Slow
brd/whm lvl 48 Party Buffs and mob Debuffs (Battlefield Elegy is extremely important)

2nd alliance party
thf/nin lvl 48 Sneak/Trick, Viper bite of the paladin
thf/war lvl 47 Sneak/Trick, Fudiama of the monk.

(Thieves are great to be allianced because they never get hit, the hate always goes to the tanks, and you only have to regen them once in a while)

At lvl 48 Beetles in quicksand caves now range from Tough - IT. Quicksand Caves is also not as crowded due to more people want to level at crawlers nest for Genkai item (Exoray Mold). So basically you will get alot of mobs to choose from. You can get the beetles ranging from T - IT, spiders VT-IT, and Anticans IT at lvl 48.

Battle Scenario
Party Buffs ~ Food ~ Reraise etc.
Once you are ready and spread out the thf pulls an Incredibly Tough beetle. (Incoming)
Bard does Mages Ballad and Logical etude on Mages. By the time the beetle gets near the party bard should be done with both songs
Bard does BattleField Elegy to stack with slow
Red Mage will do Elemental Seal / Slow
White Mage will do Paralyze
Bard runs to party and does Sword Madrigal and Valor Minuet IV.
Monk Provokes
Thief/War does Sneak and Trick of the Paladin
Paladin Provokes and Flash (Hate is now on Paladin)
Puller Thief/Nin gets behing Monk and does Sneak and Trick
Drg does Jump, then high jump and runs behind Paladin for Cover.
Hate is now on Paladin
Rdm Refresh Paladin
Rdm, brd and whm cure 1s
Bard starts stacking Paeons 3 and 4
Battle over – Ready for Chain
Rdm Refresh whm
Brd does ballad and logical etude again
Save TP for next mob.
Total Time 48 seconds for 165xp.

Thief/nin pulls another mob and do the same as above but this time Whm will do Elemental Seal/Slow, rdm will to paralyze, and you work in your Skill Chains. Another IT Dead Total Time 45 Seconds
Mages will continuously have their MP at half at all times. With Refresh and ballad properly distributed you will rarely get low MP, especially, with 3 cure casters.

Now the trick to chain up to 12 or more. With a party of 6 the most I ever did was Xp chain# 6. But with party of 8 we did xp chain# 10. Unfortunately, we lost chain because we ran out of mobs.

**** Middle of the Battle
After the puller (Thf) does sneak, trick and viper they disengage and starts scouting for potential mobs that we can chain properly. They Gauge the mages MP and they factor in refresh and ballad build up. They also figure out the TP of each player to see how fast we can kill the next prey. With that in mind they scout to find either T – VT – IT.

Lvl 48 Puller
1 IT – Elemental Seal/Slow
2 IT - Elemental Seal/Slow – Skill Chain
3 T - TP Builder
4 IT – Skill Chain
5 T – TP Builder
6 T – TP Builder
7 VT – Skill Chain
8 VT – TP Builder
9 IT – Skill Chain
10 T – TP Builder
11 etc..

Good Luck to all of you!