User:Propitiation

first off i will start out with the jobs i love, and why i love them. i have come to realize how to classify the jobs on FFXI. on the one hand you have the party jobs, meaning jobs that really shine in a party but kinda suck alone (e.g. war, brd). and on the other hand you have the non party jobs, meaning they can handle themselves alone and in a party, generally speaking these jobs are so versetile they are desirable in and out of a party (e.g. blu rdm pld). i tend to like jobs that can handle fighting things w/o resting or with very little resting. thus my first two 75s were rdm and blu, and i say first 2 because they were nearly both 75 at the same time. over the years i have learned that traditional subjobs are only useful in extremely limited situations if more useful at all. Thus i have lvl'd every subjob (w/the exception of rdm/sch and rdm/smn) that i could. so now if you see me meriting i will either be testing out new gear on my pld/war or really going at it with my rdm/dnc. i personally believe that SE made dnc for rdm to sub so rdm could finally melee in a party. because we all know when you merit on birds you dont need silena, warp, escape, and so on. as /dnc you get erase heals using tp, aspir samba, drain samba, and of all things... voke! yes i have tried pld/dnc and it actually works, the hate wasnt a problem since i was spaming curaga to heal the party and what not, however it was alot of work so ima stick with pld/war till sky :p i tanked byakko as pld/dnc and outlasted my pld/war friend who had way better gear than me. ok so onto rdm. maat was really fun as rdm. i solod my tests and with a friends advice on massive int i won in 5 tries, then at 75 killed him w/o ethers just for fun. i began to lose faith in rdm up to the point i got my joyeuse, at which point i was in love all over again. i bought a bunch of -dmg% gear and went /pld (before dnc was out) i was able to pull birds in merit parties and let them hit me till the previous one died lol. also able to melee. blu was really great pre joyeuse. i didnt even have all my spells and i was getting compliments from jp players during assaults and stuff. head butt didnt work on gods which pissed me off (even fully merited). once dnc came out i got that to 37 asap, then i realized how cool it would be to have 75dnc so i set out for it. i am currently soloing in wajoam woods as i type... with my flag up as 69dnc (i want 70 so bad;;). when i get 75 ima pull out my joy toy and some sushi and attempt a solo with charybdis. of course i will have some drooling rdm at my side but he dont count :p