what was your first job and why?

[Tomato_Kai]

Re: what was your first job and why?

My very first job was a warrior. I picked the hume with short black hair, because he looks exactly like my little brother O.o

... It's a stupid reason, I know, but it was cool at the time.

My first "in love" job would be THF, however. Sneak attacking is fun :D

Also, Lanih who on earth is your avatar? She's pretty

[DakAttack]

Re: what was your first job and why?

My first job was at Friendly's making ice cream.

[Kailea]

Re: what was your first job and why?

My first job... wow....

Back in Beta I started as a RDM, because in previous FF games, RDM was always the "mage that could cure nuke and Melee" but only got to level 18 before the Beta ended and I had to wait that 2 month withdraw before release ;p

I started release with MNK, because I wanted to deal damage, but did not want to fool with spells at the time. Once I hit 42 MNK, I unlocked DRG and all the other jobs, then realized I had to level WAR (after getting DRG to 25 or so)
So I leveled WAR to 37 and went back to DRG (love this job)


Its been many years, but now this Mithra has all jobs at 37+, but BST and DRG at 75 ^.^

[Lanih]

Re: what was your first job and why?

Also, Lanih who on earth is your avatar? She's pretty

The face is from the new Campaign Freelancer named Areuhat. The one that turns into a wyrm in battle ^^ One of the prettiest things S-E ever did.

[sykoticjestr]

Re: what was your first job and why?

RDM because it is full of win and awesome. whatever class gives you the ability to:
1) equip a mage with a sword
2) beef up said sword with elemental properties
3) enfeeble a monster so its a shell of its former self
4) throw some cures around between nukes and enfeebles
5) obtain spells that makes it one of the best jobs to solo with (ok this last one is my opinion dont hate, appreciate)
6) did i forget to mention that the RDM is full of win and awesome?

now that i got BLU though, im startin to like it alot. and by alot i mean ill prolly never play another class for awhile. and for awhile i mean until im at least 75. its just that awesome.

i think im done for now. people at work are starting to think im wierd.

Later

[Tomato_Kai]

Re: what was your first job and why?

The face is from the new Campaign Freelancer named Areuhat. The one that turns into a wyrm in battle ^^ One of the prettiest things S-E ever did.

Makes me wanna do campaign now just so I can oogle >.>

[Shadowneko]

Re: what was your first job and why?

I started at THF because I've always liked the THF charaters in Final Fantasy. Sounds silly but Locke and Ziadane were really cool to me. I took THF to the 30s in beta and all the way to 75 in retail.

It was dead fun learning how FFXI THF works but now I'm woking on Summoner for a similar reason to the one above...plus Carbuncle is so darn cute!

[Negklar]

Re: what was your first job and why?

RDM, basically because I knew nothing about the game and my brother told me that RDM was very versatile and needed in almost any group setting. To date it's been, and still is, the most rewarding class I've ever played in any MMO.

and because:

RDM because it is full of win and awesome

[skot23]

Re: what was your first job and why?

My first job was Red Mage. From reading about it, I thought that I'd be able to swing a sword, cast offensive magic and heal myself. When i figured out that red mage was a healer with refresh, I went with Blue Mage.

Now I can swing a sword, cast offensive magic and heal myself.

[sykoticjestr]

Re: what was your first job and why?

My first job was Red Mage. From reading about it, I thought that I'd be able to swing a sword, cast offensive magic and heal myself. When i figured out that red mage was a healer with refresh, I went with Blue Mage.

Now I can swing a sword, cast offensive magic and heal myself.

i dont know what your talking about. when im not in a party im out farming and i DO swing a sword, cast offensive magic, and heal myself. i dont know about you but im not just some healer with refresh. i tend to break the standard when i do things so i guess its just me but still.

i have started playing BLU and i will agree that the early levels are easier to solo than it was as rdm but i did all three things that you mentioned above very easily.

sorry i take offense when someone puts down a RDM. they will always be my favorite class because of thier ability to switch roles. plus thier AF gear looks pimpin

thats just my 2 cents, and im not tryin to start a fight or nething..... that makes me think...

who would win in a RDM vs. RDM fight. both the exact same stats, equipment, and magic.

hmmmmmmmm....... somethin to ponder till i get off of work.

[Olorin401]

Re: what was your first job and why?

I started out as a Warrior. I got about level 27 when I decided I needed a better way to make money, and one of the best ways to make steady no-overhead money is from teleports so I started White Mage.

I never looked back. Today I have all the mage-type jobs to at least 37 (except SCH but I'm working on that now) and three of them at 65 or higher. The only melee jobs I have levelled to 37 are NIN and DRK because I need them for subs, and my original choice, WAR, is still down at 33 after almost 4 years.

[Jaice]

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To me, this is a fun story.

The first time I ever heard of FFXI was shortly after it's release from my best friend and his girlfriend, they picked up the game about 6 days before her birthday and came up with a really neat idea to have a LAN party with FFXI as the game of choice. I was all sort of excited for it, I just upgraded my computer in 2002 to run Morrowind better and wanted to test it on an online game so that weekend I hauled my computer on over after getting my brand new elvann warrior to level 10 so I could party with everyone and found out that the party limit was 6 people, which was just jazzy because we had 6 people for the lan party ^^

I've been the meat-shield in every game I've played and it diddnt change in FFXI the first time I picked it up, provoke was an absolute godsend in my mind because every game I've played up to that point hasnt had anything even close to provoke. We decimated tahrongi canyon for a few hours then moved onto the maze with our newb squad.

It was fantastic!! The party setup was Keadjo-rdm, Amokie-thf, Sheirineri-rdm, Nyahoo-whm, Spookypants-mnk, and Jaice-war. Nothing says lovin like shouting out a skill chain running around 5 people in the room with the rdm's nuking at the end ^o^

After that weekend we tried to play those jobs with eachother but I got left in the dirt not even knowing about subjobs until some one told me to run to Valkrum... the scarriest thing I've ever done.... that was my first week or so. I played warrior up to 40 with a thf subjob in a random static party that asked me to be their tank while they level up subs then unlock new jobs, after that I was with them until my drg hit 51 ^^ mucho mucho fun, I miss having the time for a static party and the people that made it up, but that's what skool does ter yahs time.

And now I've started all over, same name on a Mithra and I'm trying out mages and having a blast ^^

[Eiyoko]

Re: what was your first job and why?

I first started on Warrior, intending to play Dragoon to 75. I kept hopping about jobs though, and someone told me I'd never get a job above 50. Eventually I got my DRG to 66, but my interest went to Summoner () and I got that to 75 after my WHM sub was up.

[skot23]

Re: what was your first job and why?

Don't get me wrong, I love playing rdm, it's just that in a standard party dynamic, it really changes in the middle levels. Originally, coming for Star wars galaxies where everything is solo I figured that I wanted to solo the game and RDM would be best for that. However, as I got into the party dynamic over soloing things I just found that blu was more fun.

However, I take my red mage into campaign and it's awesome. But I like 'mage-hitting' stuff alot more as blu.

[Pteryx]

Re: what was your first job and why?

My story's got some similarity to Neomage's, in that I came with the intent of playing a weird job/sub combo -- paladin/red mage. As such, red mage was my first job. When I got to the Dunes, though, I was amazed to discover that status ailment spells work in this game! I knew I'd love the trip to 37.

Early on in my career, some random person gave away a Refresh scroll to me; thus, I figured I might as well get to 41 so I could use it. People warned me repeatedly about how much Refresh changes things and that I might not like post-sub RDM because of this... but I did. It wound up being my first to 75.

Oh, and the PLD/RDM plan? I did eventually follow through with that in a static duo with a DRK that turned into a static trio with a BLU. I'm PLD51 now and feel I'm doing a decent job with this challenge. I couldn't have done it, however, if the first person to chew me out horribly for suggesting such a weird idea didn't turn around and end up laying the groundwork for my own journey. Thanks, Armando. -- Pteryx