Sorry for the hassel. I was wondering...

[Orophin]

I do intend to play with a party, and alliances. And at times, solo and challenging, the harder, the better.

I hope you intend to party because you won't pass lvl 20 if you don't (beside if you are a Beastmaster). Soloing after lvl 15 is very long and boring, you will only solo in the beginning. At lvl 30, you can almost die (and will spend 10 mins on him) from a monster that will give you like 25 exp (and you need like 5000). So I do hope you want to party but for the solo part, forget that.

[Lionx]

PLD and DRK are very specified, however if you want to be able to tank and deal good damage, i recommend WAR because they can do both provided they get the gear to do them. Try it, its not as bad as you would think.

RDMs can melee, but past lvl 30 they arent recommended to, if you want to do similar things but also melee, try Blue Mage instead. RDM is more focused on enfeebling magic, and Refreshing(MP Regen) and more backline spellcasting.

SAM is a master or skillchains, their individual hits are nothing too spectacular, however they can do two skillchains at once and is able to adapt with just about any melee out there. Later on their Weapon Skills are nothing to sneer at as well.

NIN is a tank, they are expensive, i recommend not doing this job until you get a stabilized capital. They are more of an evasive tank, however they damage deal after lvl 70 in merit pts.

As opposed to Del Murder's lvl THF plan, i recommend MNK instead and forget THF until later. WAR/MNK is way more preffered from lvl 1-30, and is a superior tank to just about every other job that can tank with a Great Axe. /THF offers nothing great until lvl 30. It pains me to see everyone as /NIN or just using /THF just because they want to and not seeing to fit their party's needs.

[Del Murder]

I managed fine with THF, but yeah MNK is probably better. I just really hate the monk job, always have. I like the ability to steal and gain more treasure.

Another reason I chose THF was because I had a lot of the gear already from when I went through as WAR.

[Markus. D]

I managed fine with THF, but yeah MNK is probably better. I just really hate the monk job, always have. I like the ability to steal and gain more treasure.

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[Lionx]

The thing is, before 30 you only get Steal, and Gilfinder(not really anything).

With MNK you get more HP and also Boost, which is like a mini-provoke which helped me keep hate pretty solid after the second provoke if i spam those two.