Still at a lot of problems with become a BST/mage of any kind.

You have to be level 30 to do the BST quest. If you wanna have mage as a sub you MUST party. A BLM can dish out the hurt but can't take it and a WHM can't really dish out enough to kill a monster before running out of cures.

I would say that a good number of easy prey monsters (the lowest you can get EXP from) can kick the crap out of my WHM. Even then it's just not viable. Getting 12 EXP for a 10 minute fight when you need 5000 EXP for the next level? It would take you at least a week to gain a level.

Also if you want to have a sub you will need to have a job in it's 30s to solo monsters and get the goods for the subjob quest.

You will NEVER make it above Rank 2 PERIOD!!! You must fight a monster with your level capped at 25 that you can do only mildly well with 6 people... It would be impossible to solo.

I can go on for quite a while explaining how impossible it would be to solo but there's no need.


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Yes all of the others FFs have been first player. I was a little afraid of this too and I've completed them all. But once you start playing it will not be an issue. You will learn to love partying. You probably will enjoy it enough that you decide not to be a beastmaster after all.