The Adventures of Savul-Kivul and me!

So were out camping Dark Ixion, I decide to see how my old friend, Savul-Kivul is doing. I pop him out and sure enough, he is ready to do battle immediately, so we set to work, stripping the landscape of the Rafflesia population.

I suppose I should explain a little about Savul-Kivul, you see he is my Adventuring Fellow! You do a few quests in Upper Jeuno with someone called Luto Mewrilah and eventually she will give you a Signal Pearl. This acts like a mobile phone for your Adventuring Fellow (a.k.a NPC) and allows you to call them in the field. They come in all shapes and sizes, and depending on how you answer her questions, will affect your final result as far as race, face and name go. One thing to bear in mind is racial stats are irrevelant for NPC's, so for example, a Galka healer type will have the same MP as a Tarutaru healer type. After reading up on the options, I decided to pay homage to Clarkeyboy by making my NPC his old character model, and thus, Savul-Kivul was born!

The NPC levels up alot quicker than a normal player, and starts off basically useless with little to no point to it, but as it gets stronger, you quickly see how useful it can become, and now that they have raised the cap to 70 they are becoming extremely potent. With A+ in every skill too there is no reason not to level one for soloing. Imagine a THF with a Healing type NPC soloing things like Charybdis! Thats the power your starting to get hold of with these things.

So here we are, still camping the Pony and my NPC gains a level up too! He is now level 48 and nothing can stop him! I have to admit I do love the idea of them too, its something to do when your waiting for other stuff to happen, and they are great fun to Skillchain and MB with. They work very much like a Dragoon's Wyvern in battle (as in you dont have much control but they attack what you attack) but are in my opinion far more useful :D. Also I resummoned my NPC after his battle cap was reached and he had seen fit to change clothes! Maybe they were dirty from the last run...

Coming up soon is my NPC 50 cap fight in Fei'Yin, which from what I remember on Clarkey was NOT an easy battle. Although according to Wikipedia if I go as Paladin and put my NPC on Soothing Healer it is supposed to be a breeze, so fingers crossed this wont be another RDM Maat fight for me...