[Kirsteena]

If you are 65, and have access to ToAU area, head down to the blue mage room and solo off Qiqirn Enterprisers - it is what I did. There are 5 in that room. Great thing about them - they are true ranger mobs, so stand back and shoot at you from their sweet spot. Ranged attack doesn't interrupt you. Work from your highest tier III spell down, drain every time it is up, if you run out of mp, sleep them, pop a cookie and rest up till you have enough mp to finish em off. They don't resist much.

Just make sure you pull them away from their buddies or they may go and run for them and link them. I think from 63 to 67 (when I moved up to their big brothers) I had one death, and that was due to a DC. If you get a link, just warp out. It doesn't take long to run back.

[framerate]

Originally Posted by Andvari

Y'see the problem on my server when finding a manaburn at my level is.. (anyone on Unicorn should agree) the RMT taru's.. We had an influx of RMT BLM taru's and when you make a manaburn these are the guys you don't want and well they are usually the only BLMs online.
The reputation thing makes sense. I get tired of seeing BLMs at my level (BLM65) wearing seer's stuff when fighting. I got the best gear I can at this level and actually read up on BLM like: I really didn't understand the elemental enfeebs so i came on here and asked around.. and now i do great on them now i know the order they can be used. But then i see a BLM in this party i was in the other day (2xBLM) she opened up with BlizzardIII and took hate.
I think along with the new areas BLMs get given a bad name because its one of those jobs that noobs ride through if that makes sense?
Rank 7, good gear and technique.. someone pick me up for a static please lol
actually, if you are on Unicorn looking to start a static.. /tell Priet
i would be interested.. it's ok if you're at lv1 BLM because i'll still be seeking when you hit 65 lol

Preit! I didn't realize this was you until I got like all the way through the post hah (this is Nitsuj). My WHM is 61, that's pretty close to you... I wouldn't mind helping set up a party sometime perhaps.

[Divi]

I also had a problem, I don't remember exact levels, but I think at 63 people are exping off of Colbri which do reflect so you cannot cast on them. I tagged along with some friends and was backup healing.

After that blm is great in Mount Zyhlom on the crawlers there. A good camp is zone into halvung, escape to Mount Zyhlom, take ur 2nd path to the left, follow down and when you see the crawlers theres your camps. If that is taken continue to the right and there are other spots. You can also do manaburns on these, but you won't kill them in 1 spell till your a little higher with 5 blms.

69-70 was kinda tough because exp got bad in Mount Zyhlom and caedavia mire was just a little outta reach, but just tough threw it. GL

[DrivenTooFar]

Originally Posted by Divi

I also had a problem, I don't remember exact levels, but I think at 63 people are exping off of Colbri which do reflect so you cannot cast on them. I tagged along with some friends and was backup healing.

Yeah I would think this is a big reason. Blm is one of my preferred party members but I won't invite one if all of their spells will reflect on me.

[Neomage]

Just yesterday I threw up my flag and got an invite within 5 seconds.

Then I got booted because they thought I was a BRD when they invited me >.>

I can't help but feel BLMs are in a boat similar to THFs and PLDs now... I mean, I'm sure they have it worse, I've never heard of a PLD-burn, but it seems to me that the general mentality nowadays is mememememe. No-one is interested in helping others, not in the 2-3 Dragons, not in any mission for that matter... I've been stuck on Promyvion Vhazl for 2 months and ZM5 for 1, just because I can't get anyone to help me kill the NMs. The boss fight is the easiest part of vhazl to, and it takes like 30 min(thats the part I'm on) yet no-one who is farther in CoP will go back there.

Dispite this unwillingness to help others, many people seem to think that they deserve twice the help they didn't give. I can't help but feel 60+ generally follows the guidelines of "Paladins and Black Mages? Don't invite them, they suck at everythign but HNMs and Dynamis..." Well how are we supposed to DO HNMs and Dynamis if we can't level?

[Eauijhkuu]

Originally Posted by Onionsoilder

I can't help but feel BLMs are in a boat similar to THFs and PLDs now... I mean,

The FFXI society has always been this way.
It's something you love about people when they consider a class to be 'inefficient'.