Back into the world of FFXI...
Lately I've been going into Delve as Geomancer. I only have a few jobs "delve-ready," and I consider White Mage as my main job, so it was a little weird going in as GEO. It's actually a lot of work! If I actually want to do more than my job description. The group I was with had me hasting the Scholars for their stun recast, debuffing the NMs, Impacting certain NMs, as well as keep up my standard GEO buffs and debuffs. I basically took over a Red Mage's job. It's a lot less stressful than being a WHM. The only way I could screw up is if I cast the wrong thing on the wrong NM, but that's a huge mess up to do! I keep a notepad in front of me reminding me what to do on each NM. Some NMs cannot take any magic damage or it'll ruin the whole fight.
It's also hard to keep up MP. In my 1300ish MP pool, 666 of it goes to Impacting, and almost 300 goes to Geo-Frailty (defense down on the mob) and about 70 or so goes to Indi-Focus (magic accuracy boost on my party). Thankfully the Bards that have been in my party know to put Marches up but also Ballad on me, and with Refresh from my RDM sub and switching into my idle gear set, I get a decent amount of MP refresh back. Generally I will have enough MP to recast Impact on the next mob. It all ends up depending on if I can keep my luopan from dying too much, since it's 300 mp to recast it.
I've gotten a few compliments on my GEO, and the linkshell I am rolling with now seems pretty intent on having me come GEO regularly. I have mixed feelings about this, since I still like WHM and I'm better at WHM. My old linkshell mates, who I followed into this new one, say that my WHM is better than the two that this new group uses regularly (or at least better than one of them... which I agree), and I'm wondering if having a good GEO is worth not having two solid WHMs.
Well, we got one win in the Foret fracture, out of quite a few attempts in the past week (6-10 I would say). And of course the time we actually win is when everyone magically has an item set in their search comment (the usual way of deciding loot from the mega boss). Before this, nobody bothered setting a comment... and then suddenly everyone but me had one. I even asked in chat if I could still lot on the item I wanted (dagger, two dropped) and I already passed everything else to show I wasn't being greedy or anything. No answer, everyone ignored me. Well, I didn't want to cause drama (because I guess someone could say "hey, maybe the drop she wanted didn't drop so she's lotting this as a consolation or something") so I passed. And they of course replied to everyone else's question even though it was right after mine... Someone said that in this LS people tended to ignore things they didn't want to reply to. And they are on Ventrillo, so they have there own insider information that they probably told their own people to not forget to set their comments. Would have been nice if they let everyone know... But loot is loot, and having fewer people able to compete gives you a bigger chance, I suppose. Oh well, I was able to purchase the dagger with plasm saved up anyway. So now my delve-useless favorite job, Thief, can now be uber!
I'm wondering how long my friends and I will end up staying in this linkshell.
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