A White Mage's job route

[TyHalcyon]

I am planning to become a Bard/White Mage and sometime after that a Dragoon/White Mage. But for now I'll start off as a Mithra White Mage of an undecided Kingdom.

The question I have is which would be a better path to reach level 30? Start as a White Mage and once I reach level 18-20 make Red Mage for my subclass to raise my MP and MND stats (But if I plan on Red Mage as my sub-job, how far do I level in that job before switching back to White Mage and reaching level 30)? Or should I start as a Red Mage (with my race being Mithra, I should of no trouble with the combat aspect) and once I reach level 18 switch to White Mage full time until level 30?

Thanks in advance.

[Star Sibyl]

Originally posted by TyHalcyon
I am planning to become a Bard/White Mage and sometime after that a Dragoon/White Mage. But for now I'll start off as a Mithra White Mage of an undecided Kingdom.

The question I have is which would be a better path to reach level 30? Start as a White Mage and once I reach level 18-20 make Red Mage for my subclass to raise my MP and MND stats (But if I plan on Red Mage as my sub-job, how far do I level in that job before switching back to White Mage and reaching level 30)? Or should I start as a Red Mage (with my race being Mithra, I should of no trouble with the combat aspect) and once I reach level 18 switch to White Mage full time until level 30?

Thanks in advance.

First off I'm gonna mention that any type of melee job in combination with a mage job is worthless in FFXI so I suggest you give up your future dreams of being a DRG/WHM. Second to answer your question, RDM as a sub does not give as much of a boost as you may think. If you're looking for an MP boost go with BLM as your sub.

As for how much you can level your sub it is always gonna be half of what your main job level is. For example, If you are a lv 30 WHM and you want to sub BLM. You can level your BLM job as much as you want but once you set it as your sub job, you will only have access to 15 levels of it since your main job of WHM is lv 30. It will show up in your menu as lv 30 WHM/lv 15 BLM.