You misunderstand me. The fact that I lost all those levels isn't what makes me regret restarting, rather it's the fact that nearly all of my friends that play are at least twenty level ahead of me. The worst part of my situation is that I came back to what I started with after giving most everything else a try.

Had I stuck with it originally, I would be playing with all of my friends instead of talking to them over tells because they're too powerful to do anything with me.

As for the tarutarus being fighters, I'm not at all against it. I actually started leveling up my thief and monk. Though I'm not very far in either, it's already fun. Going against the general mold is coolsometimes, and it doesn't usually turn out too bad.

With the right equipment and skill, you can make just about any race/job combo work. One of the best white mages I've ever partied with was a galka. He had great equipment that gave him more than enough MP and he knew when to heal and when to wait. He didn't go spamming cure spells, draining his MP (like most white mages I run into, I am sometimes guilty of this too when I get too excited) and used his healing correctly.

The only thing that really should be uniform, as discussed in many other threads, is the subjob, because it can make or break a partying ability. I'd take a WHM/BLM Galka before a WHM/WAR Taru.