Is White Mage A Excuse To Get To 75 Quickly?Follow

I'm not sure if you're trolling or not, so I'll give you the benefit of the doubt.

WHM is probably faster to 75 than most DD, I'll certainly recognize that. It's either slower or equal speed with PLD, NIN, RDM, BLM, BRD. It's nothing about WHM in particular, but it's just the dynamics of party play. Outside of some exceptions (manaburn is one, and the other mostly don't apply till merits), parties need tank, two melee, 3 mages. When you compare the amount of melee jobs (7, pre ToAU jobs) to party slots, and then the number of mages (5 pre ToAU) to party slots, it's not that surprising mages get invites faster.

And it's not all roses for a WHM trying to level. Post 41, most parties get in a mentality that RDM will always out perform WHM. This can make 41-50 painfully slow at time. Likewise, post 70, lots of parties prefer RDM+BRD backlines as opposed to one with a WHM. Sure, pre 40 it looks like WHM is the fastest, but that will certainly change.

I don't think any job can get to 75 too quickly. It's long and hard, even for very experienced set parties. Changing the amount of XP to 75 for any job would just make people stop levelling that job entirely.

Hey great! If we increase the amount of exp required for a white mage to level that will surely ENCOURAGE people to level white mage! Then you'll have an even easier time getting a WHM for a party!

</sarchasm>

Edited, Fri May 12 13:36:02 2006 by CCWhiteMage

If you wanted to get to 75 the fastest, go Bard. They will beat a white mage to 75 hands down.

When I said:

"Making sure everyone has a good amount of mp"

I ment HP*

My thoughts on this...
BRD is probably the easiest to level to 75 fast, because:
1) Few BRDs
2) Ballad

A BRD can get Ballad over the mages quickly, and can throw out some Acc/Damage songs and repeat. Combined with a high demand/low supply, they can rise through the levels, then get a manaburn invite and hit 75 in a few weeks. The only slow point I've heard about with BRDs is 41-55 (between refresh and Ballad 2)

RDM is slow 1-40 unless you have a friend to level with you, because what can a RDM do really besides backup cure? (I know they can do alot, but when looking at the BRD and RDM seeking at 35, which do you pick?)

Any job in theory can hit 75 fast, it just takes the ability of knowing when to party, or getting a static going...Picking the best camps for exp (lot of MNKs? find some bones)... Sometimes the "Tried and tested" path sucks, find a better camp. But take the time to learn to play the job right.

CAN a whm get to level 75 quickly? Of Course.

Is that why most people play WHM? I doubt it.

A lot of Whms really do just love their job, and dont care about the benefits of being able to maybe hit 75 faster then others. Thats all that should really matter when you decide what job you want to take up.

I'll go out on the limb and be in the minority here and say that I leveled WHM not only for the convenience factor of my own sneak/invis/teleports but to experience endgame content with a fairly in demand job. While this may be my sellout job to experience endgame content, I still put in a lot of hard work, effort and gil to be the best I can be. Should they raise the amount of XP it requires a WHM to level? Hell no. It should stay consistent with every other job in the game.

Imperial Coffee +1 > Cookies. Discuss.

Helpful hint, assuming that REALLY wasn't intentional...

Um. Don't go into a large group of any job and tell them they have it easy, and it should be harder for them to level.

  ,------------------------------------------------. 
 /    {Uschi}      ~Taru female. Green hair ftw!    \ 
/  (70WHM/35BLM)   ~Social LS: JokersWild <3         \ 
|  (30BRD/15WHM)   ~Dynamis LS: Kyte                 | 
\  I like CoP too much.                  Sea+Sky: O / 
 `-------------------------------------------------´

Simply put, no.

WHM, as mentioned, becomes almost shunned around 40, in favor of redmages. Again, as mentioned, WHM around 65-70, get replaced by RDM and BRD, for more DD room. Now, on top of that, add the fact that WHM isn't exactly an in demand job for BCNMs either, there are very few popular BCNMs out there, that have a slot for a WHM, let alone require one. End-game, yes, we're sought after, early-game yes, we're sought after. In between, unfortunately not so much.

BRD is fast, frighteningly fast, if your only intention in the game, is to hit 75 as soon as humanly possible, by all means, take WHM to 30, and BRD to 75.

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I'm going to stray from the topic here for a moment shortly, as I reply to a point in the OP.

"About 5 minutes after logging on you probably get an invite to a party."

I will say, that from 61 to 69, that's been somewhat true, BUT, and what a but it is, I've been noticing a fast-growing trend, and want to know if any other WHMs have ever noticed the same thing, or if I've just being experiencing a lot of coincedences.

When I first log in, I'm not usually looking for a PT immediately. A lot of times, I'll go to /anon before I even leave my MH, after saying Hello to my LS, and I'll have already gotten an invite, before I can turn /anon on. I turn this invite down. Hours later, I take off /anon. Bam, often within 5 minutes, I get another invite. Sometimes I'm LFP, other times I'm not. Now, you may say, well that's great, but here's where I stray from the OP, and things start to get a little weird for me. I usually get hit initially, with invites; however, if I turn down that 1 initial invite, and 15 minutes later I'm looking to party, I'm stuck for hours. Same for when I've been on for a while and I take /anon off. If I don't get an immediate invite, or I turn down the first invite, I'm again, screwed for hours... It's almost like if you don't "Magically Appear" on /sea, you're not sough after. XD

This has happened for about 9/12 of my last PTs. Instant invites, or hours and hours of seeking, watching DRKs at my level and THFs getting PTs while I'm sitting there.

Does this happen to any other WHMs? And is it just timing, like I happen to sign on, right at some sort of "Party rush hour"? O.o Because, sadly enough I've been taking the instant invites, and having them wait on me for a few minutes, while I either mule gear, or run to check the AH, etc, for fear of having to wait hours and hours and hours for the next invite.



Anywho, back to it all, more EXP needed to level for WHMs? Level it all the way, and then you decide.

Edited for a typo.

Edited, Mon May 8 23:19:43 2006 by Simp

Being a whm carries with it a responsibility - to look after, preserve and enhance the health of your party. It's not always an easy responsibility to bear. Yah, at times we get invites faster than others, and at times slower. But we earn our xp like everyone else, and we learn to do our jobs better while earning our xp.

And no whm stays a whm, especially past 42, unless he or she loves the job.

Firebrand

Edited, Tue May 9 12:29:39 2006 by Firebrandd

Fixed.

Edit: Don't post in a thread talking about WHM being a fast track job when your sub is extremely underleveled. You are unfortunately one of those racing to 75. Get cracking on that BLM, escape will save your hide.

Edited, Tue May 9 13:23:21 2006 by Cyth