What job are you taking to 99 first?

[Ryukin]

we all know the only DD's lfp while lvling will be sam's to get to their cap since 95% of ppl who play have that and "love" that job lol

[Altanass]

BRD... , because i have the gear and its not difficult

But i really want pup at 99, i solo'd to 75 in about 2 years... so 76-99 is going to take how long? lol

BLM would be fun to have at 99, but if theres only going to be like one manaburn camp for 6 people on the entire world then fuck that. Plus my gear is gimp .

WHM would be awesome at 99, but i havent played it in a year and dont understand the newer abilities/spells lol

[Kimiko]

Probably take them all to 99 in time, but BLM will be my primary focus.

[Theinen]

I'll be working on WHM,SMN and SCH as the Abyssea minis come out and keep them all up to date with each one.

[Corrderio]

I'll probably level WAR to 99 first. I want Sekkanoki. Maybe king's justice will level three skillchain with the new campaign weapon skill.

BST is going to be leveled casually.

Would be interesting, sucks the WS will be campaign only.

Surprised how many CORs there are out there that want to do this. Wish it wouldn't be a waste of time/money on my part to take COR to 99.

[Araius]

COR until I run out of money

Then probably BLU. Until I get fed up with going 0/628904620 on some worthless spell.

[Malacite]

Tough call tbh. I've almost got my Maat's cap (15 levels away WOOT!) but as it stands I have 8 75's (BRD can go fuck itself for being the most dehumanizing experience in the game. That said, Massacre Elegy or a 3rd March still gives me a hard on)


SMN 99 is going to be a no brainer unless they nerf burns. The real painful choice will come down to THF, SAM, DRG or BLM all of which would be awesome. As much as I'd love to take my 75 BST to 99, again, fuck that shit. Not unless there's some really crazy high level, big profit stuff I can solo thanks to being 99.

Taking BLM to 99 is going to suck bad enough, doing BST on top of that well fuck, may as well go buy a gun and shoot myself in the head right now.

[Classikmage]

RDM would be going up 1st for me, no contest. Followed after by BLM & RNG. All the other jobs in my sig can go fuck themsleves.

...and yes, that means 50% of my avatar now belongs to my mannequin in June when I come back.

[machiko]

SMN 99 is going to be a no brainer unless they nerf burns.

Will be truely amazed if they leave smn burning intact, increasing level cap and leaving a heavily abused cheap leveling method in place would make zero sense. It's not even hard to nerf, just make yellow mobs give no xp, so yeah I doubt there will be that many 99 smn if they do.

[Evildemon]

I'm definitely taking Drk, Blm and Drg. and past that its a toss-up as I like a few jobs but don't want spend forever leveling them all.

[Karbuncle]

Will be truely amazed if they leave smn burning intact, increasing level cap and leaving a heavily abused cheap leveling method in place would make zero sense. It's not even hard to nerf, just make yellow mobs give no xp, so yeah I doubt there will be that many 99 smn if they do.

Considering Square has already expressed they don't give a damn about SMN burn i'm willing to bet it'll stay intact nice and well.

With that being said, this just sounds like a butthurt post cause "SMN BURNS R CHEATINSZ!!".

Its not that big of a deal.

[Xavier]

PLD, WAR (maybe SAM), and RDM. Doubt I'll have time to level more, and I'm a firm believer in one tank, one melee, one support player versatility. Depending on how fast they actually roll out the level caps I'll probably end up taking most jobs to 80 though.

[Malacite]

I really don't see how SMN burning is anymore abusive than TP or Manaburns. It takes a good while to get a pull together, every SMN involved has to use their 2 hour and quite a few things can go wrong in the process.


Agreed, ppl bitching about SMN burn are just jealous/QQ. Wish SE would bring back the old manaburns in Sea. I heard ppl used to get 50k/hour in a full PT doing that.

[QuePsiXI]

The only correct answer is whatever job hates God the most, because only Neo's religious beliefs are the right religious beliefs. 99BLM/49DRK seems pretty evil. But I may not level my subjob all the way to 49 because then I'll be a super bad ass rebel against the establishment.

[Tsuko_Asura]

I really don't see how SMN burning is anymore abusive than TP or Manaburns. It takes a good while to get a pull together, every SMN involved has to use their 2 hour and quite a few things can go wrong in the process.


Agreed, ppl bitching about SMN burn are just jealous/QQ. Wish SE would bring back the old manaburns in Sea. I heard ppl used to get 50k/hour in a full PT doing that.

Fuckin lol@ not seeing the difference between 30k/H and 15k/H alternatives to, with seasoned burners, 60k/H. Granted, I don't think there's anything wrong with AB(I do it fairly often), but to say that its in leagues with the other means of gaining EXP simply because they all possess the word burn is pretty naive.

That said, and as much as I don't like the prospect of it, I'm sure Square will end AB when the level cap is raised. Lets face it, they're raising the cap so we have something to do and, subsequently, keep paying them. Why would they ignore an obvious lightening of their wallets?

[Malacite]

Even so, by the time you get it all set up and are done with, a really good TP burn will have made just as much EXP or more. Most I've gotten from a single burn was just over 50k, but even that still takes a good while to set up. It's only really crazy if you try to monopolize the zone by doing multiple runs (which of course means having a COR or two try and reset your 2 hours).

My point is it's not something that you can sustain indefinitely. It's awesome for getting a shittonne of EXP up front though. And again, I say bring back the 50k/hour burns in Sea. Tired of getting dicked for EXP on BLM.

[Gippo]

The level increase will be both a blessing and a curse to blms. Here's' why.

I'm leveling blm to 99 first. It was my first 75, and is my LS job.

It's funny that overall, if its hard, the consensus is that no one is going to do it. I guess that means I'll be among a handful of blms @ 99 first. I'm not holding onto hope that SE has any plan to fix blm in exp pts, and i'm already committed that I'll have to solo all the way to 99. AB pts wont work either, unless you want to totally gimp your elemental skill.

Everyone wants blms @99, but no one wants to do it. We're probably going to have 2 different classes of blms, those that ABed it to 99, and that therefore suck and dont know what the fuck,and thus arent getting omgwtf resists therefore being useless, and wasting a pt spot etc..
and those that did it the legit way. Anyone that goes to manaburn puddings knows that you can easily see the difference between an ah blm, and one that cares, usually measured by 300+dmg per nuke or more.

I'm convinced that this trend of seperation among blms will continue to show. The "HOLY SHIT WE NEED YOUR BLM even though I dont have it leveled, therefore I have no way of knowing that you're a shitty blm" way of thinking that you hear LS leaders/officers using will continue to be there. People will continue to need blms, but eventually, as we approach 99, and the way MAB bonuses with regards to the damage forumula works, this seperation will be so obvious that it will appear that Good blms are getting better, and shitty blms are getting worse.

This 300dmg avg difference that we see now may eventually hit 500+ or even 600+. As the damage difference becomes more and more apparent, less people will want to play blm, because no one wants to be continuously reminded that they suck. It's much easier to find the damage in the chatlog and do a direct comparison, than to have to use a parser to compare melee dmg. Yeah, things are situational, but with the way mab works, I cant see it working any other way.


I'm really excited that blms should be top nukers again, unless they royally F up scholar again. If blm is your main job, I dont think you'll be too happy with your fellow blms after the update, because you'll be the one dying more, you'll be the one using up that RR pin within 30 minutes of the LS event. I'm not saying blms wont understand hate, and I'm not saying blms should be getting constant praise, but with this seperation in damage that i'm predicting, hate will no longer be a tank pt vs blm pt situation. it will be a tank vs. one blm almost all the time.

Yeah it will definately be fun to nuke a new spell after 3 years, but if you're a serious endgame blm, i'm almost wondering if that new firepower will backfire on all of us with the pointy hats. Shitty blms will get by, but good and great blms will have to nuke less to compensate for the extra damage.

My other blms in my LS usually nuke as much as I do, but how do you communicate that they're only doing so because they're seeing 70% resists. I think you really have to be a career blm to understand hate. You dont learn hate by soloing pets and rats..

Overall though, yeah it will be fun to get more powerful, but unless you're gimp or your tanks get new hate tools, with the seperation of damage from blms, hate will be even more of an issue. It's my opinion that less and less "Good blm's" will be out there, and those that are will have to work a lot harder to carry on the dead weight of the blms that dont want to even care about the job.

Thoughts??

[Knightfell]

Taking BLM to 99 is going to suck bad enough, doing BST on top of that well fuck, may as well go buy a gun and shoot myself in the head right now.

Yea, this is the reason I just can't bring myself to consider taking BST to 99. The idea of soloing 1 job to 99 makes me feel nauseous as is.

I'm worried that there will only be one or two viable camps 80+ for BLM's and SCH's. /wrist

[Pendas]

Thoughts??

Yeah, get off your high horse. If I still had an account I'd do BLM first, because it's my favorite job. I couldn't care less what everyone else does or how they perform.

[byte]

Yea, this is the reason I just can't bring myself to consider taking BST to 99. The idea of soloing 1 job to 99 makes me feel nauseous as is.

I'm worried that there will only be one or two viable camps 80+ for BLM's and SCH's. /wrist

You can always level sync down. I get almost all my jobs leveled up now doing this:
* Grind to 37 (Usually solo the first 15-20 levels and do FoV)
* Level sync E.Ron Colibri until lv55
* Level sync Wajaom Woodlands Colibri until 73
* Merit burn the rest of the levels /anon

I haven't found anything quicker yet besides ABs.