What's the trick to leveling Absolute Dance?!

[Egg99]

I admit that as a techer I've had my fair share of complaints as to how long it takes to level certain nukes, but jesus christ. I just bought Absolute Dance and after non-stop spammage for three hours it's only level 4.

Is there a trick to leveling this thing? A specific map that's good? Anything? =|

[-Tidus_415-]

I did unsafe passage S to get it to lv11. Didnt really take that long. Once it gets to 11 you can use it normally in any run since the 2nd part does more hits.

[XIIBlades]

ok, this is what I did, worked well for me and hopefully this will help you out as well:

Buy a Light Doublesaber with the highest % possible, dont worry, this is only for training purposes so it doesn't have to be anything special.

Head to White Beast A. (also, a poison / resist may prove usefull here). Go into a mission, I preffer A rank since S enemies seem to be much more bothersome unless your at a higher level. Now, the trick is to get a map that has "Kakwane" aka. (Frogs) as the first spawn, there are two maps with these spawns giving you a 2/4 chance of getting the desired map layout.

The reason of using Kakwane as your training mob, is that they tend to group together alot, which is what you want in order to hit as many enemies as possible with your PA. Also, their attacks are fairly mild. Unlike in VOC, in which Vandas tend to be a bit more agressive (Diga), as well as being prone to spread out more often.

There should be 5 spawns of kakwane with this map, after the last spawn, restart and repeat the process.

You may find a better method, one which you would preffer over this. This particular method worked well for me in leveling, for example: Absolute dance, Renga-....(the AOI ultimate twin Dagger PA), Cross Hurricane, as well as Gizonde, which I managed to get from lvl 0-21 in about 5 hours roughly.

Anyway, Hope this helps. Good luck.




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[Shiryuu]

Go to linear line A (least annoying/moving monsters in the game), bring high % dark double sabers and just spam it to death. Solid / Hit S also helps to lessen damage and compensate for low ATA.

[Noblewine]

Go to a place where their are lot of mobs, or creatures with alot of hit spots. Linear Line is a good spot but try lab recovery or somewhere in Raffon Meadows.

[-Ryuki-]

I'll share with you something very simple.

The trick to lvling up Absolute Dance is..

Spamming it.

[pionear]

On 2008-01-29 00:29, RyukiZero wrote:
I'll share with you something very simple.

The trick to lvling up Absolute Dance is..

Spamming it.



XD...

But one question, for it to level, do it have to hit a mob? Or can you spam it in the open with no enemies around?

[RikaPSOW]

Get a high persentage fire double saber. Go fight deragan (you know the fire dragon). Spam the art for a bit. Then let it kill you. Go back he has full HP again. Repeat till you have desired level. It does have a tendency to fly a lot, so maybe ragnus is a better option (it no fly as much). Do this on the rank you want, preferably the highest, it is

[Darkly]

from my durega levelling days... perservence is essential lol.

[Midicronica]

I leveled it in Sakura Blast. Most of the enemies spawn in a batch, so it was pretty easy to level. Too bad the PA ain't that good.

[Hrith]

None, it's just that bad to level up >_>

Lv33 here, I gave up for now.

[NNEONateDogg]

On 2008-01-29 01:28, pionear wrote:
But one question, for it to level, do it have to hit a mob? Or can you spam it in the open with no enemies around?

To get experience to level any skill, you have to hit the enemy for at least 1 damage.

[-Crokar-]

only double saber art i have that aint 40. its only 5. pain in the ass to level

[Micro]

Been leveling mine at Sakura Blast with ice/ground doubles. Works pretty well there since the spawns are mostly in groups of 4 or more. Got it to 30 last night, which took forever. >.>

[Reginaldo]

I did Sakura Blast S until it was 31, now from normal use it's at 38.

[Sha Sha]

Mines only lvl 6 it is a PAIN IN THE ARSE!
I been doing Protecters runs and just spamming it during big monsters like bosses and large monsters in the runs like Kol nodds (spelling?) the one 300 robot map is good too of all the runs i have done getting that map it has leveled

[Kairi_Li]

It took me a while to level mine to lvl 11. But I wasn't playing it as religiously as I did before.

It takes time, but not THAT long, just longer that most others PAs like the dagger ones. Just kept spamming it on Linear Line A.

Once its lvl 11, just go do normal runs and let it lvl naturally. The 2nd combo does several hits and does good crowd control.

[Chuck_Norris]

lol @ the fighgunners whinning about a hard to level PA. This thing ain't got shit on dugrega. AD can hit 3 enemies with it's first hit http://www.pso-world.com/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/icon_rolleyes.gif

[Reginaldo]

Well genius, Dugrega doesn't have shit on leveling something like killer shot. What's your point?

[Icespike]

On 2008-01-30 01:05, Reginaldo wrote:
Well genius, Dugrega doesn't have shit on leveling something like killer shot. What's your point?

[Eleina]

Easiest way to lvl abs dance is...disk the pa, go to npc shop and sell it! It's finished you no longer have to use that worthless pa <.<

[Nai_Calus]

On 2008-01-30 02:20, Eleina wrote:
Easiest way to lvl abs dance is...disk the pa, go to npc shop and sell it! It's finished you no longer have to use that worthless pa <.<



Quoted for absolute, utter truth.

[Silver_Wyrm]

On 2008-01-30 02:33, Ian-KunX wrote:
On 2008-01-30 02:20, Eleina wrote:
Easiest way to lvl abs dance is...disk the pa, go to npc shop and sell it! It's finished you no longer have to use that worthless pa <.<



Quoted for absolute, utter truth.


except the worthless part is hopelessly wrong >.>

[ljkkjlcm9]

level 39 PA here...(needs to get 40)
Hardly worthless, I've never seen enemies fall so hard. Especially big enemies with say, a gunner using Boma Maga

On top of that, using just attack on bosses, each hit of the second part does 2k damage. That's each individual hit. So considering each swing hits 4 parts... that's 8k a swing, and I think it goes 4 times?

Absolute dance is amazing, and worth every second of leveling.

THE JACKEL

[Hrith]

On 2008-01-29 22:31, Chuck_Norris wrote:
lol @ the fighgunners whinning about a hard to level PA. This thing ain't got shit on dugrega. AD can hit 3 enemies with it's first hitActually, Absolute Dance is as slow to level up as Anga Dugrega, taking into account the hits.

Even with the 12 hits of the second part, Absolute Dance remains as slow as Anga Dugrega, which means that Absolute Dance gains a lot less exp per hit than Anga Dugrega, which makes Anga Dugrega easier to level up, if not faster.

[Quebe_Lae]

Aaah. So PA's level on a per hit basis, and not a per use that does damage basis? I was never sure of this. Or of whether to get the next pat of the chain, (aka to level to 21) you could only do the first part of the chain, or if you needed to do the two part combo.

[Alisha]

it hits 2 targets on the first part so i did sleeping warriors a lot.

[Reginaldo]

On 2008-01-30 12:51, Alisha wrote:
it hits 2 targets on the first part so i did sleeping warriors a lot.



For one it hits 3 targets with the first hit, also, yes I do like this PA alot and I use it the most now. However, Spiral Dance + Just Attack + the overall faster speed is more effective then Absolute Dance.

Does that matter to me? Not at all. I prefer using what I like and what looks better to me over speed and numbers. Nothing is faster then Chikki with slicers anyway.

I also wouldn't recommend using Absolute on any boss other then something retardedly slow like one of the many Ragan re-skins. This pa is alot of fun to me personally, but it is stupidly slow. You can almost do an entire combo of spiral twice in the time absolute finishes.

I tend to use weapons that aren't double sabers personally against bosses. Spear + twin handgun wrecks them.



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[Reginaldo]

On 2008-01-30 06:27, ljkkjlcm9 wrote:
level 39 PA here...(needs to get 40)
Hardly worthless, I've never seen enemies fall so hard. Especially big enemies with say, a gunner using Boma Maga

On top of that, using just attack on bosses, each hit of the second part does 2k damage. That's each individual hit. So considering each swing hits 4 parts... that's 8k a swing, and I think it goes 4 times?

Absolute dance is amazing, and worth every second of leveling.

THE JACKEL



Also, no it hits 3 targets 4 times on the second part of the combo.

Enemies can and will fall "harder" if you used Chikki or Majarra. Quicker as well.

[Talise]

On 2008-01-30 13:32, Reginaldo wrote:
On 2008-01-30 06:27, ljkkjlcm9 wrote:
level 39 PA here...(needs to get 40)
Hardly worthless, I've never seen enemies fall so hard. Especially big enemies with say, a gunner using Boma Maga

On top of that, using just attack on bosses, each hit of the second part does 2k damage. That's each individual hit. So considering each swing hits 4 parts... that's 8k a swing, and I think it goes 4 times?

Absolute dance is amazing, and worth every second of leveling.

THE JACKEL



Also, no it hits 3 targets 4 times on the second part of the combo.

Enemies can and will fall "harder" if you used Chikki or Majarra. Quicker as well.



lol, ljk was just trying to make a point though- that it's not a worthless DOUBESABER PA. I pretty much think that all the Doublesaber PAs aren't that great though but I haven't got Absolute Dance yet though so I dun really have any idea whether it's worth it or not =D

[MrNomad]

On 2008-01-30 18:32, Talise wrote:
On 2008-01-30 13:32, Reginaldo wrote:
On 2008-01-30 06:27, ljkkjlcm9 wrote:
level 39 PA here...(needs to get 40)
Hardly worthless, I've never seen enemies fall so hard. Especially big enemies with say, a gunner using Boma Maga

On top of that, using just attack on bosses, each hit of the second part does 2k damage. That's each individual hit. So considering each swing hits 4 parts... that's 8k a swing, and I think it goes 4 times?

Absolute dance is amazing, and worth every second of leveling.

THE JACKEL



Also, no it hits 3 targets 4 times on the second part of the combo.

Enemies can and will fall "harder" if you used Chikki or Majarra. Quicker as well.



lol, ljk was just trying to make a point though- that it's not a worthless DOUBESABER PA. I pretty much think that all the Doublesaber PAs aren't that great though...

I shall throw you on the steak later infidel, but for now, drinks http://www.pso-world.com/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/icon_razz.gif

[Mystil]

Of the skill PA's, bogga danga is definitely the S L O W E S T. Buten goes like a snail past 31. So you know..when people brag about getting it to 30, it is a big deal to them.

A sure way to get lvls is to never miss, so you have to either hit them from behind, or use the ATA up items and hope for the best. Otherwise..all you can do is try to hit the PA on an as many enemies as possible.



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[Reginaldo]

On 2008-01-30 18:32, Talise wrote:
On 2008-01-30 13:32, Reginaldo wrote:
On 2008-01-30 06:27, ljkkjlcm9 wrote:
level 39 PA here...(needs to get 40)
Hardly worthless, I've never seen enemies fall so hard. Especially big enemies with say, a gunner using Boma Maga

On top of that, using just attack on bosses, each hit of the second part does 2k damage. That's each individual hit. So considering each swing hits 4 parts... that's 8k a swing, and I think it goes 4 times?

Absolute dance is amazing, and worth every second of leveling.

THE JACKEL



Also, no it hits 3 targets 4 times on the second part of the combo.

Enemies can and will fall "harder" if you used Chikki or Majarra. Quicker as well.



lol, ljk was just trying to make a point though- that it's not a worthless DOUBESABER PA. I pretty much think that all the Doublesaber PAs aren't that great though but I haven't got Absolute Dance yet though so I dun really have any idea whether it's worth it or not =D



I know it isn't worthless. Read my previous post. I said I use Absolute the most.