The Legacy of Muffin: A hard taru decision

[Omgwtfbbqkitten]

I've returned to playing my original character much of late, a little Tarutaru named Foobar. He's the character I made the most mistakes with and I'm struggling to redefine him and balance him against what I play on Kitten.

I suppose you could say he's actually the breadwinner of the two characters, he's the main crafter and I consider his main BST, which really helps with moneymaking on its own merits as well as being a fun job. I enjoy SCH as well, probably the first mage job aside from BLU that really turns my crank.

Which brings me to a hard decision, I really like DRG, too. Got it all the way to 60 before shelving it. Big problem is that all the subjobs DRG needs I've levelled more of on Kitten and I've decided to put Kitten down the path of PLD, BLU and DNC anyway. I think you can see where this is going, particularly considering Kitten is already 37 BLU and I don't really have and interest levelling BLU on Foobar. Visions of Homam dancing in my head and all that. The Legacy of Muffin the Wyvern looks to be moving to Kitten.

There there is BRD at 75 and RDM at 65. I think we know how I feel about these, while I enjoyed them for a time, I've come to hate playing both with ever fiber of my being. I feel these roles chain me up quite a bit in EXP and endgame. Plus while RDM does have solo cabablity, it just doesn't match the fun of BST for me. RDM just plays it too safe, BST lives in danger.

I would like a "merit" variety of job for Foobar, however, not to mention something that helps me get what I want for BST. And then I got to thinking about my crafting goals and looked at NIN. Foobar's a cook, pretty katana wait at 57 for +3 cooking skill. Not only that, the God Gear from Sky is mostly what I'd like for BST and NIN can use it.

NIN I already do need to finish as a BST sub and I did enjoy levelling it on Kitten. Its an expensive job, but then, I've already levelled the most expensive ones so I think I can stomach this one.

It takes Foobar out of the endgame mix a bit longer, but I feel its better than punishing myself by levelling something I don't like. Additionally, I lose one soloable job, but gain another while giving a Kitten a 2nd soloable job I have considerable experience with, adding more freedom to Kitten.

Good plan?

[LadyKiKi]

What's your time available for FFXI like?

[Omgwtfbbqkitten]

Lots of time separated by adequate amounts of time.

[IfritnoItazura]

Well, keep in minds the merits you'd want; don't cram too many jobs needing different merits in same category onto one character.

PLD: Sword, Shield, Critical Hit received-, and ... um... SIR-?! Parrying? (lol every bit helps, I suppose.)
BST: Axe, Critical Hit+, maybe Scythe?
DRG: Polearm, Critical Hit+, and whatever...
COR: Sword, Marksmanship, etc. (You'd know better than me.)
SCH: Nothing physical! (Yay!) Elemental Magic, Enfeebling Magic.

So, you can pretty much level SCH without worry, but may want to be more careful about how to allocate other jobs. (Or, you can just put everything on Kitten, and hope S-E will raise the combat skill and misc. category limits soon.)

[little ninja]

How did you ever find the time to level all those jobs on 3 different chars? I know I did some leveling on my mules so they could travel. But I never saw myself go as far as you have.

[Omgwtfbbqkitten]

Kitten is 8/8 Marksmanship, 8/8 Sword, 4/4 Dagger. I'm currently reconsidering dagger for archery since I don't think I'll need Dagger merits so badly and RNG is #2. Sword covers PLD and BLU well enough. DRG I'll just have to live without polearm merits, but I'm still working toward max STR and Critical Hit Rate merits. Sheild merits I'd have to go without, but again, PLD and DRG are more for fun than main mains for me. This also would leave magic merits open wide for BLU and PLD.

Foobar's combat merits are undefined as of yet, I can go 8/8 axe for now, SCH can consume all the magic merits. NIN, being for fun, can have some katana merits, but I'd let the Ninjutsu skill stand.

Where do I find the time, well, I don't know if I have all the time for that immediately, I'm just thinking of the future and an attack plan. I've been playing for a long time now, I'd like to start seeing just a little more closure on levelling stuff.

[TheGrandMom]

How did you ever find the time to level all those jobs on 3 different chars? I know I did some leveling on my mules so they could travel. But I never saw myself go as far as you have.

I think once you get one character to 75, its a heck of a lot easier to do it again with another. You know what you're doing and know the ins and outs of the game. I've had up to 8 characters with at least one job to 75 and some on different servers. The biggest pain for me was missions.

[LilithAngel]

Well, I'll have to say, as a Mithra Dragoon, you'll have a lot of fun indeed. The two-hand update gave Mithra an edge in that job over other races, and it's easily noticeable when we can convert 75% of our DEX (the highest in the game) directly into Accuracy, leaving open plenty of slots to load up STR and Attack all along the level curve. Additional Accuracy Bonus traits and natural Accuracy+ in gear a Dragoon would want and could equip anyways also helps. Mithra almost have it a bit too easy in this job...

I find myself running into many of the same questions and concerns you are on Kitten as I level Paladin (52 as of this post) and Dancer (50, waiting on DNC AF). While I don't already have as many merits as you do, I still have the decisions to make over which ones to go after, and which to not waste time with.

I find it rather eerie, actually. With the exception of BST, RDM, and BRD, we're starting to share the same jobs, Kitten. Stop scanning my mind. :wtf:

[Akashimo]

Tossing this out as a random bit, but, maybe go for Monk on Foobar, nothing more satisfying than h2h with the "lesser" races as elvaans and galka put it.

For kitten, could do the same, or maybe toss it up with thf, which would make future use of homam for a pld and blu char.

[Omgwtfbbqkitten]

I'd do MNK if I could actually stomach the questing for the belts. I really passionately hate NMs on the 21-24 hour cycle and that's what most of them NMs rely on. Plus I'd really just prefer to wait and see if SE ever bothers to add some brains to the job, I never found it all that fun when I levelled it

[Nataka]

lol I feel your pain. I have a taru and a galka, and I'm seriously considering level Paladin at the moment but I dont know which to do it on.

Taru is farther in the game, has more fame, quests done, rank 5, past promyvion in CoP, etc. Has a bunch of stuff past level 37 to sub with...except warrior. :E It's at 19. Taru also has an added bonus for awesomeness. Loses a few points for being named Nataka, a name I really dont like that much anymore. XD But again gains points for having so many of the 'standard' sub jobs for various other jobs leveled up, such as ninja, white mage, black mage, red mage, etc.

Galka has warrior at 37 and samurai at 38 (though that wouldnt matter for paladin), but doesnt have ninja and is still at rank 2. Galka has added bonus of less racism and a better name.

Oh decisions :(

[Raitox]

Ninja is all kinds of awesome. And since have you have so many jobs, and money most likely, there's no reason not to level it. :)

[Sevv]

Tossing this out as a random bit, but, maybe go for Monk on Foobar, nothing more satisfying than h2h with the "lesser" races as elvaans and galka put it.

For kitten, could do the same, or maybe toss it up with thf, which would make future use of homam for a pld and blu char.

You lied... Nothing is more satisfying then backflips

[Omgwtfbbqkitten]

While backflips are nice and all, I'd still like to wait and see if MNK ever gets some abilities that make players put an actual conscious effort into the job. I know its asking a lot, but the job needs a some brains put in it badly, AFK MNKs are the norm these days for a reason.

[Yellow Mage]

Possibly those brains could be added with the kick adjustments S-E said there would be?

/shrug

/gil 2

[Sevv]

While backflips are nice and all, I'd still like to wait and see if MNK ever gets some abilities that make players put an actual conscious effort into the job. I know its asking a lot, but the job needs a some brains put in it badly, AFK MNKs are the norm these days for a reason.

Hey mnk is nice for merits you can /autoattack and just alt-1 every so often

[Omgwtfbbqkitten]

Its a great plan until the mob moves and everyone sees you're not hitting it :P

[Sevv]

Its a great plan until the mob moves and everyone sees you're not hitting it :P

Auto-run

[Akashimo]

Auto-run
*snacks with newspaper* No. Bad. No biscuit for you. How many times we got to say it, "Don't auto-run"
<_<;

Anyways....
Just mnk/pld <_< you'll have a kick out of using Sentinel and then WS right after.

[Omgwtfbbqkitten]

Well, I've recently gone back over my goals for both characters and I think DRG is inevitably going to fall to Kitten now. There's really just no priority for me to level Thief and Samurai subjobs on Foobar, especially when Kitten already has one of them done and could possibly use THF sub for three other jobs.

And while I've not been enamored with RDM in the past, I can't deny that that patterning Foobar after Kitten's success would be pleasing to me (job and gear overlapped really well for Kitten's jobs, RNG helped COR, COR and RNG working out for DNC now). I really, really, really like SCH and if I'm gonna merit heavily in SCH's favor, I should have a second job that benefits directly from those merits as well. Seeing as my BRD skill merits have been completely gutted, this spares me room for full Elemental and Enfeebling merits, great for both SCH and RDM.

Why RDM? Well, its 65 and it has all the subjobs ready, sans NIN and DRK, but then, that gives me even more incentive to push forward on them as BST and SCH could benefit from thier use. SCH accessories totally overlap, too. And if I'm going to level SCH out of static, I want to maintain my dignity to those I staticed SCH with and leave them a job to pick up with that's comprable and self-sufficient, which RDM totally is.

Its also compliments BST for my soloist desires. I'm not the "zomglookatmesoroing" kinda guy. I just solo, its not a big deal, but having both BST and RDM done to 75, in time, would afford me a ton of opportunities to persue things independantly. I just gotta find it within myself to camp another Joytoy (ugh, ugh, ugh), but I think I can live with that.

So, scoff me if you must, but I'm gonna take RDM back up instead of pushing NIN to 75 for no good reason. 56 is as far as NIN would ever need to go anyway.