Did you stick with it?Follow

I've started this game twice now. Both times, I started as a Monk, and was sure it was the job for me. Just... loved it, and took a lot of pride in doing my best at it. The first time around, I didn't get very far, I think level 20 with WAR and MNK, and a few below 10. Then I left for WoW for a bit, and it was thinking "Man I miss being a Monk" that tipped the scales in favor of coming back.

That was a while ago. I don't know how long because I don't really pay much attention to dates. But I started up my Hume Monk, same face and all, and went at it. Got my subjob and took Warrior up to 20 again, and I enjoyed tanking just as much as DD. But then I decided to try out Thief, since I wanted TH anyway. And that was fun. I couldn't really decide which of the three to take through Qufim first, so I started leveling RDM. And BLM. And WHM.

Currently, I've got BRD at 47, WHM at 37, and seven other jobs from 20-22, plus BST at 18. And I'm getting ready to take NIN up from 13. I haven't played Monk in ages. It's not that I don't miss it. I've just found something I love about every other job ever, so I keep getting distracted. And now they're adding three more; I'm doomed.

We're getting lots of newer players around here these days, and several of them talk about what race/job they want to be, what would make a good starting job for the advanced job they're aiming for, etc. I'm wondering how many people started out with a clear idea of what they wanted their character to be. Did you stick with it?

I'm in the same boat OP, started out as mnk, swore by that job, now he's been passed up by several other jobs.

Nope, have not stuck to it, but haven't neglected my monkie either.

Nah i didn't stick with it. I started out as WAR, wanting to save ppl and tank etc due to that was what i thought WAR meant back then, but when i got WAR to 20 and got to jeuno and got chocobo, i went WHM and stayed there till lvl 73 then quit 7-8 months ago and im joining soon, like in 3 hrs if the update hurries up ^^. on dial-up ;; until they set up my broadband line and send out modem, sorry for changing the subject ^^

My first character I started as a THF. That was possibly the worst idea ever. I did that becasue I wanted to be a THF/NIN. Once I got to 30 my love of dragons won out over being thiefy though. (Yes, I meant dragons, not dragoons.) I decided that I needed to be a DRG so that I could have a pet dragon. I became a DRG/THF long before it was popular and took a ton of flack for not subbing WAR.

I quit for a year due to RL issues.

I came back and made a new character on a new server. (The other character still exists, I just don't play it.) I started as a BLM. I want to be a career BLM. Then they start talking about expansions and new jobs. I just know that I'm going to try out the new jobs. I'm beginning to wonder if my BLM might not become one of them...

I started out as a Monk too ^^ As you can see from my sig, no I didn't stick with it and I miss it dearly. There's no better job for pure a** kicking. I love my SAM, but it wasn't what I wanted to be when I started the game at all.

After I got Monk to 22, I leveled Thief (I have no idea why because I don't think I even knew about TH at the time). When I got Thief to 30, I really wanted to be a Ninja. But my boyfriend (who I static with) wanted to be a Ninja as well, so I stepped aside and took up Samurai.

I still have my Monk gear on my mule. I'm waiting for the day when I can take it up again.

I started out as WHM. I took that to 56 for Raise 2 when I realized that there isn't really much more for the job after that level aside from like, Cure 5. Back then, Raise 3 was expensive, and after learning about how much more of a difference it made over Raise 2 (a piddly 360 EXP with 2400 capped EXP loss), I decided, ***** that. I retired the job and made it my teleport/R2 *****. I have since gotten it to 58WHM so that it could sub /29BLM and use Escape, so now it's like a master of transportation.

Took up RDM after that, and it became my main. 75RDM today.

There's many jobs I'm trying to take to 37 (BLM, NIN, and BRD being a few I've done so far, DRK and WAR being next) but that's for RDM subbing purposes.

Yes. Level 75 Thief for 9 months. Thief main for 2 1/2 years.
Closing in on 700,000 exp just as a level 75 Thief.
All other jobs designed only to support Thief. I love Thief.

Knew I wanted to be DRK before I even started playing, and here I am, DRK75, not a single job above 37 until after I dinged the magical seven-five.

I wanted to be a RDM from way before this game was released in NA. My friends talked me out of it saying RDM sucked. Lol.

So I became one of the gazillion WARs that swarmed the Dunes. Then I went DRG when I hit 30.

I came to the verge of quitting sometime in my mid 30s when the LFG got unbearable, but I bit the bullet and continued. This was possible soley because I was unemployed at the time and could LFG for 10 hours straight without batting an eye.

Sometime in the low 40s I got a static party that took me to 65 before we disbanded.

No way in hell I would go back LFG in the PuG pool as a DRG, or any melee DD for that matter. I was no longer unemployed by this time. Note that this was still before the TP nerf when DRG had a great reputation.

So I took up RDM. Went from 1-65 (including subs to 37) in about half the number of days it took me to get from 1-40 DRG (and only playing 2-3 hours every other day or so at that, instead of the regular 8-10+ hours/day during the DRG PuG days).

Then I quit for WoW.

Came back on a new char, leveled WAR 1-70 in a static with friends.

I've semi-quit again. I only play when my static is ready these days.

Yes. With some sidetracking of course, but the main aim was whm/blm, and it still seems to be that when I'm not peeved off at the higher-level player base ^^v

I started off with Samurai or Monk in mind. I wanted to be a cool elvaan, strong (and nice abs! *flex*). Got MNK to 30, war in the 20s. Started questiong all of the advanced jobs slowly.

However. My first time in jeuno, i'll never forget. All the guards in such shiney armor! 'Whoa! Knights!!' I said. My friend informed me that you can actually wear that armor in the game, and I was immediately hooked. =) I had to look as sexy as that. No ifs ands or butts.

As me and my friend quested all of the jobs, I started leveling paladin up to lvl 10 inbetween. I even skipped the night they went to finish the SAM quest, 'cause I wanted to get pld to 10 for dunes.

Year and a half later, I'm 67 pld and with the news of SE's desperate plans to make PLD on par with NiN again, I'm more excited than ever to be the shine that blinds you all on a sunny day. ^^ My SAM is 24 now, and every now and then I envy my friend that i started out with, doing sick trick dmg on everything for light and dark SCs. However, I fell in love with monk somewhere along the line...and its 53 now. That's definitely going to be my next job under PLD.


The only true thing that we 'stick with it' is how we see ourselves. The race, body size, and face that you see your in-game self image as being. Don't chose your race by what will match your favorite job, but one that will match what you want the self image to be. An under-estimated, but calm and cute taru? A fiesty mithra with an attitude for destruction? A wise and steady Galka? These are the reasons we pick our characters. Stick with it. =)

-Lac

When I started, I wanted to be a Dragoon. I had seen the AF that looked like Kain's armor and even gave my character blonde hair.

In the process of getting to 30, since this was my first MMO, I had asked many questions and found many people very helpful and willing to teach, or just helping my out in a tough battle.

I started to think "Man... all these people have really helped me out, I'd like to "repay" this to others.".

Thus another pld was born.

You should level that WHM up to 37 (if not 42 for all teleports) since it sounds like SE is wanting us to not always use the same sub... so maybe PLD is going to be benefiting a lot from WHM sub here soon.

(Semi) Joking aside, for the topic at hand I orriginally wanted to be a SMN... but was put off by the needing one job at 70+ to get all the avatars. I decided to start off as WHM since that was the sub for SMN and take it to at least 30 to unlock the adv jobs. Come about 20 I decided to stick with WHM because I simply loved it and actually was told I was "the best WHM" he had ever partied with. Learned later that day that he had a level 70 job also, not just the 20ish.

Ever since then i've stuck with WHM and haven't regreted it.