Good Morning Friends! I come to you with a glad heart because I have once again finished another new job. For the past week I have been working on Ninja and last night I managed to push it across the line and ding level 80. I’ve not spent a significant amount of time gearing it, but I did grab the artifact gear set and snag the resistance weapon from Gangos. This puts me somewhere in the neighborhood of 450ish with the gear I currently have equipped, which is not phenomenal but good enough for the moment. When I started down this path I did not fully appreciate Ninja as a job, but over the course of the last thirty levels, I have come to appreciate just how good of a class it can be. Granted I am nowhere near as competent as your average Ninja Main, but I took to heart some advice that I should focus on debuffing the target. The thing is… that seems to make a massive difference in how fast targets go down.
If we go to the character sheet that means I have finished leveling all of the classes that utilize dexterity as the main stat. This means that not only can I get rid of any unneeded Bard/Machinist/Dancer gear but that I can also get rid of any dexterity-focused jewelry. This leaves Monk and Dragoon as the last physical dps classes that I have yet to finish. I’ve largely left Dragoon open as a soak for any available clan hunts that I happen to have on a given day and am in no real rush to push it across the finish line. Monk is going to be an interesting journey because I do not love positional combat. What I feel like I need to work on instead is some of my healers because of all of the jobs in my list, those are going to be the largest lift for me on a personal level.
Something that you need to understand, is that I began my life in MMORPGs as a healer. I played a Dwarven Cleric main pictured above in Everquest, and technically this is the second rendition of this character after rerolling on a brand new server. Playing a cleric in Everquest left some permanent scarring I am afraid and I am not sure if it was the complete heal rotations, not being able to progress other than slow prodding root and nuke gameplay, or the fact that I would quite literally get called at all hours of the night to log in and come resurrect someone so they would not lose a level. Whatever the case I have avoided playing healers in any game moving forward apart from a brief stint in Everquest 2… also playing a Cleric, more specifically in Inquisitor.
A good portion of my time back in Final Fantasy XIV has been about breaking down mental blocks. Over the years I had built up this mental block against tanking for strangers, but the difference there is tanking is a role that I knew in my heart that I was good at. Healing is one of those things that I have long decided I was shitty at, and have thus been unwilling to put myself in the position of having the lives of the party in my hands. Granted as a tank I also very much have the lives of the party in my hands, but for some reason it feels differently. I’ve thusfar leveled Scholar through Palace of the Dead but in order to make my way through the level 60 plus grind… I am going to need to be willing to do the thing that I have been avoiding. That is queuing to heal random strangers. I know once I put myself out there I will do fine and start to feel my “sea legs” as it were, but it is really hard taking that first step.
So my goal for the weekend… queue for leveling roulette and try and make that work.
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