I remember when I first started the game, and me and Xean were just creating TheBrotherhood our social LS, I would go out to West Ronfaure and look for new players and PL them a little and help them out. I'd invite them into our LS, and from there help teach them the ropes of the game. Sadly though, as time went by it became very rare to actually find "new" players. Most of the lvl 1-10 players in West Ronfaure were often mules or just veteran players lvling a new job. There wasn't really much help I could provide other than PLing, and so I eventually stopped looking for new recruits to our shell this way.
But the point of this story is that I reaaaaaally liked having my WHM at lvl 30 at that time. I liked healing, and keeping people alive and helping them that way. I sometimes would go out and help PL linkshell members if they had a bad party setup and needed a little backup healing. I honestly WANTED to get my WHM to 75, so that I would be more helpful to my LS members.
But ever since I started joining endgame and having people always request my WHM, i've found that i've started cringing whenever I hear "Pls bring WHM". I really don't like sitting in the back and just tossing out hastes and cures. I don't mind when we fight gods and other mobs that require me to be quick with other spells (erase, bar spells etc) but for the most part, I would much rather be in on the action, doing something TO the mob rather than just keeping my pt members alive. Plus I really miss the battle music, in a lot of the zones where I end up, there's never any music... stupid SE -_-
So yeah, i'm really hoping that once I finish with my 2 DD jobs: SAM & WAR, that maybe my event shells will allow me to bring something other than WHM. The only downside to all this is that I can't rely on my RR3, and often endgame events get expensive for melees because of the meds you have to bring >_<. Oh well, if I can at least take a small break i'll be happy.
So speaking of my DD jobs, i've managed to get WAR to 72. I was hoping that i'd have it at 75 before I fly down to spend christmas with Xean (next thursday) but because of the US holiday this week (thanksgiving) most of my static is going to be away and busy so we won't be lvling this thursday or saturday. And then next thursday, well i'm flying out. But hopefully i'll have it at 75 in the two weeks that follow, our static generally gets one lvl per session.
And for my SAM, well thats been a bit of a challenge to get invites on. I'm adequately geared, but I just never seem to be seeking when others around my lvl range are. And considering that most people just merit these days, usually there's maybe only 1-2 parties lvling anyways so waiting to be invited as a replacement isn't the most reliable way to get a party invite. Oh well, my SAM is almost at 64 and i'm sure i'll get it to 75 eventually. I definitely have found SAM to be more enjoyable to play than my WAR, mainly because there's more to do on the job. I like keeping busy.
As for regular updates, I finished getting 8/8 on my enfeebling for my RDM. I was going to get 8/8 for elemental magic, but because of how long it takes I decided to put that on the backburner for a while and work on my WHM merits. Started working on my Cure Recast time, and now i'm down to the last upgrade for that.
Unfortunately my crafting has kinda been slow. I started to pick up clothcraft a few weeks back, but because of the cost of gear upgrades me and Xean have needed (got him his Blau Dolch recently with the gil we had been saving up for the last couple of months on my mule) I've decided i'd wait for a bit. I really do want to get all my crafts to 60 one day, but I know the cost to put into that will add up. Usually i'm pretty good with cutting down the cost by a lot though, because I try to farm up my ingredients when i'm crafting. I really can't put more than 50k into crafting without seeing it come back. And though i'm sure I could make some gil crafting lower lvl items, I often find that farming will get me more gil per hr than crafting would. There's a lot of time you have to put into crafting for gil >_<
Other than that, I decided to quit my Sea linkshell Prowess. There were some good players in the LS, and I was mainly there to help my friend get some gear but the shell itself has been deteriorating. 2 of our last JoL's were completely wasted because we had two people call for help during the fights. I was never able to stay until the end because I have limbus (and for some reason people take over an hour to gather together even though the start time is always listed in the ls msg -_-) I think that the moral of the LS really dropped, because our last session we didn't even have 12 people show up. I really can't see the LS continueing, its only a matter of time before it breaks with so many people leaving and I think I would rather be doing something else more productive and enjoyable. I told my friend of course that if they ever need me for something really big, that he can always call on me and i'll help out. But I just don't want to put in the time for an event that i'm not having fun with. Sea seems more like a headache to progress in, than any other endgame event i've tried. Maybe it was just the LS, the people in the LS... i'm not sure but for now Sea won't be one of my focuses.
On a good note though, I got to play PLD on Kirin with KeitaroAeon. They were a little short on PLDs and asked me to come up and tank, which was fun... except that Suzaku seems to really enjoy one shotting me. Whether i'm fighting him as a mini, or as a god I always seem to get killed by the stupid bird (and no, i'm not wearing Bomb Queen Ring). But its all good, as long as we get through the fight in the end I'm not too worried about my deaths. Plus when I was kiting Kirin on our last run, I think I had the longest "kite" time and stayed alive, hehe. I think that time Xean had come as WHM (lol) and thats probably the reason why. He's always on top of things and keeping me healed.
Last thing I can think to write about is that i've decided to get my SMN to lvl 40. A lot of our LS members in TBH are wanting to setup CoP statics, and i'd really like to help out when I can. I know that for some fights, SMN is a great job to have for the BCNMs so I managed to get together some LS members and we lvled in Crawler's Nest. I got my SMN to 38, so only 2 more lvls to go and then it'll be ready.
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