What Sub for levels 1-10?

[Macht]

Originally posted by Gman
I'm curious... why sub nin on brd from level 5-10? Seems kinda useless to me. Why not war or mnk if you want a melee sub? Does nin get any worthwhile bonuses at /5?

I did NIN mostly because of the stat changes it did. NIN was the only sub at those lower levels that gave a decent amount to STR but also increased DEX/AGI a good amount. The increase was enough that I noticed my parry to activate much more frequently on average I was negating more damage with parry at that point then what any other job would of helped with.

It was good enough at that low a level that it gave /WHM a good run for it's money, especially since Army Paeon seems very effective at those levels. Then again though each time I started leveling a job after I got my subjob quest done I always had 30k to blow on raising another job from lv. 1 so I did go for a lot of the HQ items :sweat:

EDIT:

I should correct my statement. When I said it gave /WHM a good run I ment in terms of enduring each fight, otherwise with /NIN the damage difference was compairable to /WAR with evasion close to that of /THF.

At the levels 5-10 the two subs I personally think to be the most flexible in a majority of the situations was either /NIN or /BRD. The only ones that had extended conditions was BLM, WHM, RDM, SMN those ones were somewhat switchable with eachother at that level and still worked equally well with eachother.

[modnar]

My 2 cents

I used to go /MNK for most jobs. At early lvls, the 1/2 H2H skill is not enough for you to miss too often on mobs, and yet you still get "Martial Arts" increase. Monk is one of the faster killers in the ealier lvls in comparison, and it helps when it is a subjob.

Having said that, I recently did DRK/WHM to lvl 10, and it proved to be one of the faster ones I lvled. DRKs get Enfeebling skill, and using a Paralyze or Dia in the beggining of battle ensured 1 hit kills as well as Cures to minimize resting times.

In general: 1-5 I would use /MNK., 6-10 I would go /WHM.