Mage of All Trades

June?  Good month for salvage.  And I thought May was the good month!  I started June with Morrigan’s Robe and Morrigan’s Slops, both of which were upgraded in January of 2010.  As of June 17th 2010? 5/5 Morrigan’s!!

(Above screenshot was taken Weds, the night my Macha’s Pigaches dropped! Oh, the irony <3)

Last week was just a good week in general for salvage.  Saturday we decided we were sick of Arrapago, so we would do SSR then and Zhayolm on Monday.  We finished Star’s Morrigan’s Cuffs on Saturday with the 25 dropping from the boss.  Monday’s Zhayolm dropped a pair of 35 Usu gloves, which went to B.  Tuesday we did Arrapago again, and finished not only Wig’s Skadi shoes with the 35 but also Omni’s Marduk’s Tiara when the 25 dropped.  It also dropped the 25 Usu gloves, which went to Wig.  Wednesday’s run was Zhayolm again, which dropped ANOTHER Usu 35 gloves, which Wig quite happily lotted so he could upgrade them.  That said, I wasn’t holding my breath too much when we got to the 6th floor frog…

But I was quite pleasantly surprised!!  That’s 5 completed salvage pieces in four runs…pretty darn sexy :]  And of course, salvage is never dull with Marduckies8U!  Gotta love B’s sexy gear, and his even sexier subjob!  …how many times can I use the word sexy!?

I got a spiffy new title as well one night after salvage!  Aneu’s poked me a few times about helping with Oupire, the vampyre NM in the undersea ruins.  I’ve always been busy, or we couldn’t get people, or the NM wasn’t up…but as I was running back to Ahty, I took a wrong turn and found people fighting him! And it was Aneu! :]  I cured him for a bit, and then got invited to party and was able to help the group finish him ^^b  We got the magic def. katana for one of the tanks (Aneu had just gotten his a few nights before), as well as 3 100k synth mats! Very nice ^^  He said I was a big help but it was pretty easy from what I saw…didn’t look TOO stressful though I wasn’t tanking either!

(…I really should have blurred out what Aneu said…not sure why I didn’t.  Ooops!  Don’t worry Aneu, we wont hold it against you!! <3)

Other than salvage?  Been busy with dynamis, as always!  Had a bit of drama over the last few runs (lame!).  Ended up losing a member, which, sad that she left but tbh with the reason she did?  Hard to care too much.  She was a nice person but meh.  Another really good friend left for the same reason and it all but destroyed our friendship so…eh.  Glad B saw reason and didn’t leave!  Anyways.  Really good last few Xarc runs — one we got 3 AF and 2 hundred pieces, the other we got 7 AF and 1 hundred piece.  Not too shabby :]  I’ve also been exping and meriting!

I promised Omni I’d help get his COR to 75, so for a while we synced with my NIN (now happily at 67).

We had a quite fun party with Wig — Marduckies fun carries over into exp quite nicely!

And then let him join our merit parties a few levels early…since why does it matter with COR!?  I’ve also found a few amusing seacoms while looking for people to party with….

Jenksy you may recognize from the screenshot above of my merit party with Nommers — he’s a friend who abused the glitch when job changing and made a silly seacom to go with it :]

And that should be it for the week or two before the update came out! I started this entry during maintenance, but it finished before I could post this… I’m sitting at about halfway tnl on my RDM, at lvl 76 currently :]  Nearly all merit zones are a freaking ZOO, it’s insane.  It’s too bad I’m busy this week — work all day tomorrow, have friends visiting from out of town on Weds, and my mom’s leaving the country on Thurs so I’ll be busy with family in the morning.  Thursday afternoon I can level a bit, and then Friday I work all day again . . .  Hmm!  It’ll be interesting to see how long it takes me to get 80 on RDM WHM and BLM :]

SO.  I debated doing one of these, but I looked back and it was fun to see what I remembered most about 2008, and how far I got on goals, so I’ll do it again!  Below are the biggest things that happened game wise in 2009 for me, in no particular order.

1. Dynamis linkshells!  Divine Might broke (May), and I joined Consumed (May)…which also broke (Nov)!  Star then created his own dynamis linkshell, and we reused an old linkshell I had created a while back titled TheGreatPerhaps.  All’s going well now, and we still have several people from Divine Might and are very happy with how things are going :) Fantastic group, and now that I think attendance/members has stedied out we should be a-ok to shoot for Xarc!

2. Dynamis GEAR! January saw me completing my Duelist’s armor when my tabard dropped in Beau., and then in September I netted FIVE Xarc relics: WHM, BLM, SMN, SCH, COR.

3. I started doing Salvage!  I’ve wanted to do salvage ever since before I dinged 75 on my red mage; a Morri Robe has been on my wish list for as long as I can remember.  In August we started doing salvage, 2x/week, and ended up working our way up to four times a week.  HOWEVER, most weeks we do more: last week, for instance, we ended up doing 3 extra runs!

4. Salvage gear! I haven’t been able to upgrade anything yet :< But I’m 2/3 on 3 pieces of Morri gear: robe, pants, and gloves.  Once the bosses start putting out, the Morri gear will just start flooding in!

5. Limbus — WE KILLED PROTO-ULTIMA!  Proto – Omega has never been a big issue in my linkshell, but Ultima has given us SO many problems.  I joined this linkshell ONLY to get Nashira Seraweels, and it was so frustrating that we didn’t have the numbers, and then when we did have the numbers to watch us time out with Ultima at less than 5%.  However, we’ve killed Ultima at LEAST 5 times this year, probably more, and each time he’s gotten easier :) We’ve made so much progress and I’m so proud of the linkshell I’m in.  Also: getting Nashira Seraweels at the end of the year was most certainly a good night ;)

6. New 75s!  I got Scholar to 75 in January (though I don’t think that should really count since it was like 71-73 at the end of the year!), and Summoner to 75 by the end of summer — and I AB’d all of 5k of it!  I also spent a good chunk of time leveling Paladin, but needed a break once I dinged 65 this spring.  It’s now sitting pretty at 71 :)

7. New friends!  To name a few: Lz, Saytay, Aneu, Barbar, and SO many more that I’ve not mentioned.  It’s also great to do more stuff with old friends again, like Wiggles!

8. Becoming an end game gal…ugh at mentioning it, but I suppose swapping from a social ls to full timing my dynamis linkshell pearl was a fairly big change.

9. Not -in- game, persay, but meeting so many ffxi people irl — Kaaley, Ruhiel, Despain to name a few new people, and then of course Mazken, Venser, and Cerealkiller who I’ve met before.

10. Merits!  I completely capped out RDM, WHM, and BLM merits this year! :) Magic is capped out, INT is capped out, MP is capped out, and I’m working on the Misc category now — Spell Inturruption down and then I think Critical Hits Taken -% but we’ll see!

Like I said, no particular order, but those are the big things of 2009!  As for goals…

1. Get Corsair to 75 :) Possibly BLU, but we’ll see, I think trying to level just one job next year would be plenty!

2. Finish Bonecrafting to 100 .___. Had this as a goal last year but I only got to 74, and I can’t even recall what I was at at the start of the year.  Oh well!

3. Finish capping out merits!

4. 5/5 Morri. gear! This one I actually have very little control over, as it depends on the drops in salvage.  I’m already going 4x a week at the least, and I can pretty much fund it all at this point besides the hat, which I can do Royal Ramble to fund!

5. Finish more story lines! Right now I need to complete: ACP (on final fight), COP (beat 8-4), RoZ (beat Bah. v1), ToAU (on Puppet in Peril), WotG (on one of the very first ones…), and Windurst (on 8-2).  Lets say…finish at least 4 of them next year!

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Other than that!  Star and I played with synergy quite a bit after it came out, which I forgot to post about in my last entry.  We both have shiny new bodies now — for his monk, and my paladin — and I’ve gotten the PLD head as well..  Needless to say, it didn’t take me long to get PLD to 71 so I could equip it :)  Right now mine doesn’t have any evoliths on it because I’m not entirely sure what I want…really bummed out that most effects is VS.  Oh well, maybe they’ll put new ones out! Star got +Atk and +Acc vs undead, which works really nice in salvage :)  We’re not sure but think it might be glitched out atm because he’s doing double the dmg of what our other MNK is doing (say, 100-150 normal hit vs 300 or so on a normal hit, if I remember right), but it’s pretty darn nifty :)

Synergy is really fun, it’s a lot more envolved than other crafts.  Star and I both upgraded our crafting bodies, though I don’t really use the special ability much — it gets to be expensive!  If you’ve not tried it, you really should :)  It’s nice that you cannot lose materials with it, and that multiple people can work on the same synth together — you can even get skill ups after helping others! I’m sure this is a really belated post and that most people know this by now…the joys of taking forever to update!

As I’m on vacation, I’ve not been online a TON…though a coldspell in Mexico atm has me inside much more than I thought I’d be!  I made half of a salvage run the other night — Star logged me in for the start and lotted some cells for me, and I got on in time to help cure for the boss.  It was our first real SSR attempt, as Seite has decided our first one doesn’t count ;)  We got it to 20% before wiping, but we all died a lot :<  I was on WHM and all but useless since I didn’t have /SCH (no SJ cell and Star dragged me as I was, and so I wasn’t even /SCH if I had one) or a Spiss cell.  I had a body cell, but no refresh body :<  We had done RvB right before salvage, and so I swapped to WHM/BLM to R3 Star when he died in a freak accident, and went to salvage with 62/65 inventory slots full of BLM gear!  I think we’d do a lot better with our regular healers though — typically Lz and I rock the healing but he was busy with his son, and I was super gimp, so we had two different healers.

I also logged in today to see I had 2 new staves…Star synthed an HQ Terra’s Staff and Jupiter’s Staff for me!  Granted, I already had 8/8 HQ staves, but I’m super excited to have signed ones now! :)  To end this entry, a quote from Seite!  We were talking about having lists of people we don’t want to merit with, etc… due to bad experiences in the past, and apparently I made his :<

As if sensing the presence of the protocrystal, the tuning fork begins to softly resonate…

…Who interrupts my slumber?
Was I dreaming for but an instant,
or an eternity?
The radiance that illuminates all, lost…
Which is the real world, and which is
the dream?
Am I…?
But enough…
Wager your life to prove your skill.
Let us see if you can provide me
with a moment of amusement.
Are you ready, you who is one yet many?

We sleep in a time that is neither
an instant, nor an eternity.
Is this world a dream,
or is the dreamworld an illusion…?
Very well, child of Vana’diel.
I will grant you a fragment of my power
to bring order to this chaos.

Over the last few days, I explored the nooks and crannies of Vana’diel with a handful of friends in tow.  A good friend of mine recently rejoined good ol’ xi, and as a summoner it was easy to convine him to accompany us.  With my summoner at 65 presently, and my paladin static!buddy on vacation for the week, I decided it’d be a great time to work on the last few pieces of gear I need for my summoner.  Other than Ying Yang Robe (which, conviently the maintenance that’s occuring as I write this will reset Mr. Shiki’s ToD — and the honey and I logged out so we’ll hopefully have a shot at getting claim in a few hours!) and Evoker’s Ring, I’m pretty much set on gear.  Thus — our fun adventures poking various avatars recently.  Star needs a few more avatars — even though he doesn’t have summoner leveled he wanted to nab them while he had a chance for when he eventually decides to.

We started our trip with myself, Star, Uddles, and Usmc, a friend from our old linkshell.  The avatars were no issue really, though their Astral Flow damage was very unpredictible.  For every Astral Flow, we had buffs up — blink or utsusemi, stoneskin, bar-element, shellra v, etc…  The first avatar we did was Garuda, and her Astral Flow killed me through all 3 buffs, when I was at full health.  Star, who was kindly taking on his THF, took close to zero damage, while Uddles and Usmc went down to about half HP.

The next few fights, people would either take small doses or moderate amounts of damage, but no deaths.  Then, randomly we had Usmc and Uddles both die, but I remained at full HP — my SS didn’t even wear.  It was really odd.  Later on, we had two other friends — Omni (BLU) and Nego (DRK) — tag along.  Omni threw up an AoE Saline Coat for an additional Magic Def. Bonus +50, and of course, just to prove the randomness of damage, Omni was the sole person to die.

Anyways, odd damages aside, we had a pretty easy time with the avatars.   On Saturday, we poked all six original avatars, as well as Diabolos.  Uddles and Star both had a few whispers already, so they both missed out on a few fights.  For all that we got the wins rather easy, we did have a few mishaps on getting people wins.  Our last avatar of the night was Levi, and just as we got to his home, Usmc’s internet went down for maintenance.  We had no way to get ahold of him though, and so after waiting for ~30 min we went ahead and did the fight without him.  It was late and we all wanted to head to bed, and we jumped the gun on engaging Levi — Omni accidently got left outside :<

As such, on Sunday we repeated Levi for Omni and Usmc right after JP midnight ^^  The point of all of this was to get me my Evoker’s Ring items and to be able to fight Fenrir as well for my last item and to get a few people the purple puppy as a summon.  As Omni joined us halfway through our Avatar-killing spree, he wasn’t 6/6 on whispers.  After Star and Usmc turned in their whispers to get their Moon Bauble for Fenrir, we all grabbed another Tuning Fork of Wind to get Omni the last whisper he needed.

It was an absolute blast to travel Vanad’iel with friends over the last few days to poke the avatars.  For all that summoner isn’t my favorite job, I really love the avatars in this game.  The script the avatars say is really nifty, and being able to do these fights with my friends make it even more enjoyable.  These fights are something I looked forward to doing ever since I started playing, and even thuogh I already have all the avatars, these fights still make me smile.

We actually got to meet and help someone who joined our old social linkshell since we left as well — on Sunday Uddles was helping her get Shiva, and the two of them tagged along to get her Garuda as well.  It’s been weird, doing things with people from my old shell — which I left on bad terms.  I’m very glad that Uddles is back in the game though, and if it means  I get to do things with him I don’t mind so much.  It’s not that I really dislike anyone from the shell, but I’m not on good terms with one or two members and previously made pretty much a complete break from the shell, which is no longer complete.

When we finally went to fight Fenrir Sunday afternoon, it was a bit of a dissapointment.  Right as we got to Windurst the first Mog Tablet was found, so of course people were off and checking zones to try their luck — my honey was actually lucky enough to find one.  We checked two zones to try and find one for me but didn’t manage to, and he checked a fourth as well and missed just one section of it due to everyone being ready for Fenrir…and shortly after someone found a Mog Tablet there.  Bummer!  Anyways, our final party for Fenrir was myself (SCH), Star (BLM), Uddles (SMN), Usmc (RDM), Omni (BLU), and Eni (PLD).

The fight ended up as a total disaster :(  With the Mog Tablets happening, there was a good hour or so of dinking about before the fight, which, people started to afk, have other things they needed to do, etc… so I think everyone was a smidge distracted.

Eni got slapped with a double attack, one of which was a critical hit for 540+ damage, and went down very quick at about 60%.  It didn’t take long for the rest of us to wipe after that.  Then, to make matters worse, Omni had to leave due to some rl-stuff going on.  Due to the fact that I wasn’t really sure what we could do differently and that we had promised Star’s brother we’d visit him and Omni’s leaving we decided to just call it.  Usmc and Uddles also both had things they needed to do irl, and as much as it sucked to walk away defeated I think it was the best call.  It just means we need a rematch with the purple puppy soon!

When I got him as a summon I went with a party of 4 summoners, so I’m thinking if worse comes to worse that’s what I’ll try later this month.  I’ll wait until I ding 70 SMN for the new bloodpacts, and then beg Stoters and Uddles to come out on SMN and try to hunt down a 4th and possibly a 5th and kill him that way.  We’d be able to leech a few people through that way so that Star, Omni, and Usmc could also get the summon.

Another interesting stragety I found on wiki involves a manaburn party, which is certainly an option as well.  One idea would be to have a RDM and two BLMs, which Star and I could try with Stoters next week, or to have 4-6 BLMs which would be a bit harder to put together but still do-able.  It’d be great if Star, Stoters, and I could trio it — I almost want to try just to see if we can.  It’d be a blast to do.  I know another friend with both RDM and BLM leveled who says he can duo Fenrir so I may poke him for advice as well.

Anyways, it’s just been a rather nice weekend — doing things with old friends is always enjoyable.  Star and I had planned on doing a few things this week that Stoters’ is gone on vacation, and I’m glad I’m so close to my last two pieces of summoner gear that I need.  I’m 6/7 on Evoker’s Ring items — I’ve turned in 3 of them, have two in inventory, and need to snag one from Kazham yet.  I’ve also turned in my second whisper from Garuda for 10,000gil, and will need to turn in my second Garuda whisper as well for another 10,000gil.  After that I’ll be able to collect tuning forks again and be ready whenever to do avatar fights again!  Fenrir will be taken care of within the next week or two, and I’ll hopefully have my YY Robe tonight, or at least within the next few weeks.  Ooh, speaking of gear for my summoner — this isn’t anything to quest for or camp, but I’ve been watching the Auction House over the last week or two to try and snag a Blue Cape +1.  This will be my main back piece for summoner, and I’ll also get some use on it on red mage, white mage, and scholar — possibly even black mage as a HP down piece of gear if I ever decide to get rid of my Dark Grip or Star Necklace.  I finally managed to get one today, and I think the 200k pricetag is fairly decent for the 40 mp as well as how much use I’ll get out of it.

Anyways, seeing how long this post is — I’ll leave my Diabolos experience and screenshots for another day, and talk about how limbus and dyna have been recently in that post.  I’ll end this post with a fun quote and screenshot:

We were talking about which jobs we wanted to level next, and I lol’d fairly hard at Uddoro’s response to my saying I wanted to level corsair.  When I originally said I wanted to level corsair, blue mage, or ranger, he said I should level corsair due to the fun hat — he’s got a hat fetish.  And apparently he likes their guns as well!

As for the screenshot, this is from when we were waiting on Usmc to kill Levi the first time.  Omni found the deepest patch of water and sat down in it.  Wearing his Homan hat, he proclaimed he was a shark.  Here’s me panicking at the visible “shark fin” showing through the water, hehe.

Star and I, as has been normal as of late, have been playing in the Gardens of Sea.  Last night, we had two seperate people from our dynamis linkshell join us, and it was a blast!  Xxak joined us on BLM at first (Star BLM, myself RDM), and after he had to leave for Sky the two of us duo’d for a while.  Several hours in, I made a comment about being sad that I wasn’t on BLM, and Star, being the sweetheart he is, had a RDM to come join us within a few minutes: Skuba.  It’s amusing, sometimes, how little things can make a big deal, but I was stupidly happy that he came out.  See, I used to do Sky with him, and the two of us were always the Red Mages who wanted the “big” stuff.  We both showed up 95% of the time–if not more–and the two of us lead Sky together once or twice when all of the other leaders were AWOL.

We waited patiently in line together for our Crimson Cuisses–we always said Kirin would drop two Abj. for us in one go!  Same thing in Dyna, the two of us have always worked our way up in the lists for Duelist gear, and it’s been fun to do events with him.  After the Sky linkshell broke, and I was no longer on good terms with a handful of people (I still really don’t understand WHY people have a problem with me, but so goes life!), I’m so glad I was able to spend a few relaxing hours farming with Star and Skub last night.  It really made my night.

After six hours or so, I decided I was tired of the white walls of the garden and so the three of us escaped to the beautiful blue, green, and purple world that is Sea.  Skuba had told us earlier that he needed 3 shark organs, and I knew Eclypse had needed 4 or so, and so we spent the next hour or so farming those for them ^__^;;  Star also needed 2 squid organs, so we nabbed those as well.  It was a ton of fun, running around in such a beautiful zone blowing things up, and just enjoying helping my friends.

After having way too many people tell me that I’m stuck up and I never help anyone, I certainly don’t want to go out of my way to prove them wrong–I no longer talk to them and they’re never going to be happy with me–but I really do enjoy helping my friends.  FFXI is a game, it’s supposed to be fun.  No point in dropping what I’m doing to help people every time they ask…but I do make it a point to help my friends–I cherish our relationships and it’s such a nice feeling when someone says “oh? you don’t need it? you did it for me?!”  Hehe, I’ve always been that way though–I’d much rather help people who don’t expect it than the people who nag and gripe and feel entitled to it.

Anyways! My shiny!!!  I was a bit naughty–this was supposed to be a present after I had achived something.  However…I decided that I really didn’t like the Auction House price of 1,250,000-1,300,000 gil, and that I wanted to keep my eyes open for a good deal.  Last night, I saw someone selling it for 1,200,000, and decided to ask if they were willing to lower the price at all.  So…despite the fact that this was supposed to be my way of treating myself after finishing my Black Mage merits (though, out of 173 merits needed, I only have 56 left!), I am now the proud new owner of a Sorcerer’s Ring!

The really nice thing, is I did my math, and I don’ t have to buy ANYTHING to make my Sorc. Ring proc!  Of course…I did.  But that’s besides the point!  In my regular nuking gear, sans any Convert HP –> MP, my HP is 958.  This means I need to drop down 240 HP, down to 718, to make my ring proc.  Right now, I’m using the following gear: Zenith Crown (50HP), Zenith Mitts (50HP), Serket Ring (50HP), Rostrum Pumps (30HP), Ether Ring (30HP), Star Necklace (15HP), and Dark Grip (20HP), of which the Dark Grip is the only thing I bought–and only for 17k.  Hehe, something I should have had anyways…  Anyways, this set up allows me to nuke with less than 75% HP, but because I use my Zenith Mitts to nuke in, I’m still in the white!  Very nice–no worries about undead aggro here!

I’m very pleased with my purchase–now just to finish off my merits!  I’m working on Bio III atm (…yes, I realize that I got sidetracked) so that Star and I can duo Ix’Aerns easier, and need another 8 merits to fully cap it.  Then I’ll go back to working on INT–I’m at 2/5 merits at the moment, so I’ll need another 18 merits to fully cap that.  After this, I’ll finish meriting Burst II and Freeze II.  For all that those were the first things I upgraded after getting Black Mage at 75, they’re still both at 1/5.  Each upgrade only gives +3 Magic Burst, which I rarely do, and +5 Magic Accuracy, which isn’t really a concern to me.  I so rarely get resisted that if I’m not at the max 95% accuracy, I’m darn close.

When I started this blog, I had 3 75′s: Red Mage had been 75 for barely over a year, White Mage had been for 6-7 months, and Bard was my baby. I liked the phrase “Jack of All Trades” in regards to Red Mage, which I’ve always considered my main, but I had more than just RDM leveled! Thus, Mage of All Trades. Over the last few months, that name has become even more true with the additions of 75 Black Mage and 75 Scholar.

But now what?

I really, REALLY want to focus more on meriting right now. I’ve got nearly a million limit points into merits at the moment, and all of my buffers (save Scholar) are capped, so I’ve certainly done a nice chunk of exp’ing after 75…but with so many jobs, those merits seem like hardly anything. I’ve got MP full maxed out, and ditto to Enfeebling Magic…Elemental needs literary 1,000 more exp to be fully merited. Red Mage, Black Mage, and White Mage all have 5-15 merits thrown into them as well, so I do have stuff merited…there’s just so much more to get! So that’s my hope for the near future, to work more on that…

But what about after that? While thinking about what jobs I want to level, and the name of my blog, I remembered something, a goal I had ages ago. When I first started playing, when my Red Mage was level 30 or so, I was broke and always so disappointed I wasn’t always up to date on my spells. I decided that one day, I wanted to have every spell in ffxi. I never wanted to scroll through the Auction House again and see anything listed under Magic at the Auction House that I didn’t have. Considering the way things have been going recently, that may very well be possible and realistic, which is kind of odd for me to think about.

Here are the jobs that have magic to get:

• Bard – presently at 75. There are some songs I don’t have, but none are super expensive and they’re relatively easy to obtain.
• Black Mage - presently at 75. I think the only scroll I still need is Blizzaga III, because I’ve been too cheap to buy it. Easy enough to obtain though.
• Blue Mage – presently locked. I always said I would never level it because I hated the idea of hunting for spells, and technically they’re not at the Auction House anyways, but this would be me being thorough. Plus, the job looks fun…if I don’t include the hunting for spells bit. I blame Uddoro for getting the idea of being a “Rainbow Mage” in my head.
• Corsair – presently at level 5. I do want to level this job; I almost kind of sort of wish I would have leveled this over bard as far as endgame goes. However, it’s expensive and I didn’t have the gil, and was happier to be back line and healing on bard than to be DDing on COR. Unfortunately, as far as meriting goes on BRD I have to pull too often ): Good reason not to if I have COR leveled!
• Dark Knight – presently at level 40. This will be the last of these jobs that I take to 70+. I don’t really care for the job, the only reason it’s at 40 is for RDM/DRK and DRK in BCNM type fights. I leveled a handful of melee jobs all at once, and DRK was my least favorite of the jobs. However, Drain II (or is it Dread Spikes?) is level 71, so I’ll either take it to 72 and get an Octave Club methinks or maybe just to 75 eventually, we’ll see.
• Ninja – presently level 54. I really enjoy ninja! Stopped because I hated colibri once I hit Ahty levels. I always did intend to get back to it at some point though.
• Paladin - presently at level 1. After kiting/tanking on Red Mage in campaign I am really intrigued by Paladin x: Am really surprised by my sudden interest in it, but it looks so fun! I enjoy doing it on RDM, so I really want to get PLD a go. Plus, Star and I can NEVER find tanks, so I figure it should be easy enough to level.
• Red Mage – presently at 75! Pretty sure I’ve got all scrolls for it atm, if I’m missing something it’s just a little bar- spell or something probably.
• Scholar – presently at 75! I’ve got all of the Scholar-specific spells, and I’m pretty sure I’ve got all of the spells Scholar can use naturally as well.
• Summoner – presently at 28. Technically, I don’t need this at 75 to have all of the spells for it–all of the AH spells are for level 1, and I have all of the quested avatars from my other 75s. If not 75, I would like to see it higher though–30 for prommys, 40 for a few level capped areas, ie Carmine Dobsonflies, and then 50/60 for some harder promy fights such as Mithra BCNM which are super easy with SMN and also so I can get full use out of my nearly completely set of HQ staves. I like that it’s similar to SCH, I think I’ll be able to better enjoy it after leveling that…possibly a 75 one day, but certainly higher than it is now. Am missing ~half of my elemental spirits atm.
• White Mage – presently at75. Pretty sure I’ve got all of the spells, if I’m missing anything it’s something small I can pick up.

So anyways. That’s where I’m kind of at right now. I also am interested in leveling Warrior and Ranger because Ranger looks fun (and cute!), and Warrior has been a blast so far (at 37 now). But we’ll see, I think I’ll work on my “mage” jobs for the time being.

I think the magic-using jobs provide a nice balance for me though! It’s mostly pure mage jobs, which is great, since that’s what I’ve done for so long and really enjoy, but it also allows me to tank as needed via Paladin and Ninja, and allows me to be support via Corsair and Bard, and to even DD a bit through Dark Knight and Blue Mage. Not quite sure where I’ll start first though! TBH, I’ll probably just work on getting a handful of jobs up to 40: THF, RNG, PLD, BLU, WAR (am only 3 levels off, need to finish it!), SMN, and COR. That way I’ll have subjobs for everything I’m leaning towards leveling (though, DRK needs SAM and DRG? or maybe it’s just SAM. Either way, DRK is LAST, so I can wait a bit to work on those :3)

A bit late, but here’s my 2008′s Top 10 (in no particular order):

1. Joined a Dynamis linkshell–DMLS, have been a member for 11 months! (February)
2. Joined a Sky linkshell–which later crashed and burned, but the 9 months or so it ran was a blast. (February)
3. Got Sea access. (May)
4. Did Limbus randomly–duoing, trioing, and with my Sky and Dyna linkshells before finally settling down with an actual Limbus linkshell–SeaMonkiesLS. (November)
5. Got White Mage to 75! (February)
6. Got Bard to 75! (August)
7. Got Black Mage to 75! (November)
8. Got Salvage access, and did Salvage with my social linkshell and had a blast, though we didn’t get much for drops. (Summer)
9. Started dating Staren in game, meeting him in real life (:  (August)
10. Chaperoning Vidrie’s and Pikel’s wedding (November)

Goals for 2009:

• Join a Salvage linkshell that does events 2-3x/week; make some progress on obtaining Morrigan’s/Marduk’s gear.
• Get a runic disc at floor 100; obtain 3 (feet, hands, body) if not 5 (hat, pants) Goli. Saio pieces.
• Captain ranking for assaults.
• Work more on meriting, and less on leveling! …while still getting a few more jobs to 37~40 for subjobs/level capped events.
• Bonecrafting to 100!  And 2-3 subs to 60.

Late, but better than never (:

Star and I have been leveling quite a bit–wee for BLM+SCH duoing.  He’s been BLM/NIN while I’ve been going SCH/RDM…except the one day I managed to go SCH/BLM.  He pulls, I sleep, we both nuke, and the pet is dead (:  For as much as /BLM sucks for SCH because of no defense at all, the way we do it I may as well always be /BLM tbh.  I’ve got blink as /RDM, which really doesn’t do a whole lot, and I’m used to sleeping/nuking between getting mauled from leveling black mage.  The elemental seal would be really nice too–I’ve been AoE’ing my Sleep II’s for when Star links the beastmaster, which rarely sticks on the gigas so have ES would be pretty nice all things considering.

Yesterday the two of us managed to both ding 68–or, to be honest, in the 1-2k before I dinged Star managed to die twice…so when I dinged he was 3k tnl and we were both ready to quit.  He finished up his level via campaign ops this morning though, so we’re still both just 300 exp apart which isn’t bad at all.

We didn’t do limbus really this week–we went on Monday but had to leave early, and didn’t make it at all on Friday.  Likewise, we didn’t make einherjar on Tuesday, and then dynamis was canceled on Wednesday, so it’s been a pretty wonky week.  Nyzul tonight though, I’m excited!  Time to get cracking on those goals for 2009! (: