[The Mauva Syndicate]

HA! A question I feel qualified to answer, that's a first! Most everyone on here is so high level!

BLM is tough to solo low levels (at least it was for me BLM was my first job!). BLM is just TOO squishy for soloing EM and above, IMHO, a DC is about the highest I would take on safely unless I was using melee food and feelin frisky (or wanted to pop my 2hr or catch a link). An EM will kill ya quick as a solo BLM. You should really be able to nuke just about any rarab to death pretty quickly (you're running with Blaze Spikes up at all times, Right? it doesn't do a lot of damage but take what you can get) if ya do it right. Gear with strong elemental affinities is helpful, and knowing the mobs you are fighting's elemental weaknesses ahead of time and equipping appropriately can help a lot. Like most Rarabs, Sand Hares are weak against Lightning, Dark and Water. While not especially weak against fire, they have no resistance to it, or any other element. One thing I learned from RDM that helped me in BLM-land is ALWAYS have some sort of DoT going on. Bio/Poison whatever you choose, but keep that mob losing hp WITHOUT hitting it. Bind is a solo BLM's friend, use it a lot. I should repeat that. Try to avoid hitting the mob if possible at all. I realize without your weapon in attack mode you cannot parry, and if you've got a capped parry skill, you might consider it, but as a BLM solo you need to avoid even letting the mob get close enough to hit you - just like in a party. Mob with TP equals squisht BLM. Thats easier said than done, but if you want to take on anything more than EP, you have to work A LOT harder than pretty much every job in the game.

It's funny, a lot of folks I talk to don't even remember what it's like to be down here at these levels, learning a jobs +/-'s and what not to do if you want to live. I've leveled all 6 beginner jobs, mostly solo (RDM is my favorite) tho, my husband and I built a static as time has passed and were really starting to move now, but if you ask on here, I'm sure most people don't remember what it's even like to level a job WITHOUT a subjob (tho clearly, that's not the issue you face!).

Oh, and for some reason I always seem to get best damage flow with Bind>Water>Shock>Bio>Fire>Water - Rinse and Repeat - if it's still not working out for you, then ES at the beginning to stick the Bind and then nuke for glory Bio and Schock stack, well at least they wont overwrite each other like Bio/Dia, and both produce DoT, you can throw a Rasp in there, but it's a longer cast time, and it will overwrite Schock; the tier I elementals are all pretty quick

Also as a BLM, keep hi-potions handy, but you know that already ^_^ I go through them pretty quickly when I solo BLM (and juice too for that matter).