Please don't take this as a 'I'm more uber than you' suggestion, or thought, but seeing as you don't have a Lv75 job, and probably haven't experienced most of what the game has to offer, you should probably spend some time popping and killing things in sky. Sky has much better and easier to pop NMs, that drop much better gear and take less than 25% of the time and energy to organize. Ground HNMs, same deal. I understand that you do want sea access, and you want to pop Jailers in sea and finish the CoP storyline--but until you have a strong linkshell, capable of other endgame feats, focus on those things. Already having better gear, more expierenced players, and the ability to work together will make people more motivated to get sea access, and then make them more motivated to farm it and pop the mobs.
Oh, I definitely don't think it's a bad comment, and I'm beginning to see your point. I have a sky LS that's .... well, a little slow to get anything done at the moment, mostly because of recruitment and attendance problems. (We did Genbu with 8 last week, no deaths, and no rangers for Shadowbind, which was one of the most fun fights I participated in. I know that's not anything to brag about apparently, but it was pretty cool.
) No abjuration for me this time though, Crown Abj. hasn't dropped all the times we've done it.
Maybe it's because I already have sky that I don't really find it all that exciting, and that I already have Noble's and most of the endgame equipment I want other than Crown and a few stupidly expensive things. I'm sure other people would see it differently though. Maybe I'll talk to them and see what they want to do, although it'll probably cause conflicts with my Sky LS. LOL Oh well!
I'll be honest, only four of my static members are 70+. Oddly enough, the lower leveled people are the ones that are the most dedicated to getting through the missions. We static leveled secondary jobs from 30 to 57, so we're all very familiar with how we work together. The problem is, 6 people can't accomplish everything in the game, unfortunately. Expanding our "synergy" to the rest of the LS doesn't seem to be working too well, so maybe I need to see what their priorities are.
You might be right, that I need to rethink my priorities about the sea NM's at least. I think it's just the idea of trying it to see if we can do it, instead of following all the written out strategies to the letter and having to have this job and that job. But, other people might not have the same priorities.
Thanks.