not elvaan anymore. now hume. help please

[Thekiller]

O.K. Elvaan WHM sucks. LOW MP! and i wanted to take WHM up as my first job. Now i am a Hume WHM. Is a hume a bad choice?
Will i regret having low MP (at lower levels)?

At higher levels MP isnt really an issue. Because as my RDM (32) i didn't help cure and at the end the WHM had almost all MP (hume WHM btw). I tossed 1 or 2 divine seal cureIII on the tank in a 5 hour session of leveling (i got from 31 to 32 w/o death^^) Should i get all the MP+ gear i can? or MND+ or both?

After level 30 should i sub SMN till levle 36 (tele^^)?

[Arturo-B]

I got to 75 as a hume just fine. My opinion is Skill > Gear > Race.

The first few levels race will seem huge, but past about level 30 it's such a non issue. There's enough gear to allow you to do just fine, even as galkan. As long as you're not subbing war, you'll be just fine with mp. /blm is a good choice I think, but /smn is popular too.

At lower levels I'd get what mp gear you can, but I find +mnd gear pretty helpful. It helps cure power before you cap them in later levels, and it helps enfeeble which you'll be doing a decent amount of before 50 or 60.

[leii]

for a whm subbing smn is fine. you dont really use a blm sub until maybe level 58

[tomfin10]

Re: not elvaan anymore. now hume. help please

Originally posted by Thekiller
After level 30 should i sub SMN till levle 36 (tele^^)?

SMN SJ isn't much better (not even necessarily better) than BLM SJ until LV 50. LV 50 is Auto Refresh and Garuda's Ariel Armor. You get a few more MP with SMN SJ VS BLM SJ.

WHM/BLM get Warp, Elemental Seal, Sleep, Conserve MP at the lower LVs and at LV 58 Escape.

EDIT: Added 3 more things BLM SJ gets. (Thanks to posters below.)

[Rogan]

if you were making a character just to be whm I would have chose taru, but there is nothing wrong with hume whm either, better mnd and good MP, I just prefer taru over any other race for all my pt's mages, but like someone above said it's really skill>gear>race

[Rones]

Main reason to sub blm is the conserve mp trait. While it doesn't kick in on every spell, when it does it has a big effect usually.

[Coinspinner]

Elemental Seal and Sleep are neat too. I doubt I'll bother with SMN sub when I eventually take WHM to 60.

[Aelith]

Hey there. I'm not an authority on this at all, only being a lv 25 whm myself (omg getting the chest keys is annoying).

Anyhow, I feel that mp is more important than mind (to a certain point). The more mp you have, the better your party can chain things along. Your mind is naturally better than a taru's anyway, so it's the mp you have to try and make up.

Mind does help, and I'm not saying you should ignore it. It's just that you can get more of it than you need, if you feel like forking out the cash, and some of that cash could be better used on mp. An uncapped cure one might get you 28 hp at a low level, where it would get you 30 hp if you had a few extra mind points. The extra mp is more important, as it lets you cast more cures.

As for race, don't worry about hume. It's hands down the second best whm race (after taru). And while taru's are better, you do have a few benefits over them (hp wise, it's nice to be able to take two or three hits if you have to). Anyhow. That's my low level take on it.

[felpa_de_osa]

Originally posted by Rogan
if you were making a character just to be whm I would have chose taru, but there is nothing wrong with hume whm either, better mnd and good MP, I just prefer taru over any other race for all my pt's mages, but like someone above said it's really skill>gear>race

you're a little off Hume has better MP than elvaan but mind belongs to elvaans