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If I was in an Abyssea party with 3 other people, I was not bard. If there was any number greater than three, I had a 50/50 shot of being on bard. If there was more than a party, I was probably on bard.

MP management was rarely a problem in most Abyssea groups, and for proccing NMs, killing faster wasn't really the point. March helps build TP, but half the time the remaining melee are turned away while the WAR or the NIN tried to proc whatever.

I will be honest: I just spent the better part of two days leveling my BRD from 42 to 99. To be fair, I did play and enjoy BRD, but the fact that I am seriously OCD about my jobs held me back from going to 75 back in the day. Mainly, dat inventory. I think I have 14 instruments I carry...? At the time I had limited room and was doing endgame, so to change to BLM from BRD took a nice amount of muling and prep. In the end I shelved it in favour of trying to "be endgame".

It was awesome to come back to it, I always loved running about, pulling mobs, sleeping adds, buffing the party. It's awesome to see the reactions of the entire party the moment the buffs start driving their numbers higher. But I did return for the "easy" invite. Mind you, for me that "easy" invite is hard since I am simultaneously gearing it while trying to get access in the new area -.-

The bigger point: You do what you got to in order to get your stuff at times. It's why I have various 99's I worked on, even if they are not fully geared.

GEARCOLLECTOR.

I think I had 7-8 I lugged around before I got Ghorn. Some of them you really want the extra potency on, like marches since that's a % haste boost, and lullaby and elegy since they're enfeebles. For stuff like Etudes? Pffft no point.

I really need an LS that does more organized events... the chaotic noob shell/mostly empty shell combo is not working for me.

I was collecting currency for a Mandau, but with the change in weapons, I am debating using it on a Relic horn I've held onto since my old days in my Dynamis shell...

I know, but at the same time, I have always min/max'd as much as I saw feasible. For instance I did not get all the elemental Magian staves simply because I would need 24 to truly feel geared out to the max on my jobs (8 damage, 8 acc, 8 perp for when SMN gets its turn to go to 99). Instead I stuck with my +1 staves. 24 inventory that is not storable, even max'd as I am on storage, is just insane. And I know the instruments don't all help, but I didn't want to take chances. I wanted my BRD to be top of the line.

I am of the mindset that since they gave you now 22 jobs to play, it's best to have one of each leveled (one tank, one DD, one healer, one nuker, one ). You can do the hybrids to give you more options (like how MNK can DD and tank to some degree depending on mob/area), but limiting yourself to leveling and gearing for one role only hurts yourself and anyone who you join for events. Sure, my gear is not fantastic on them all, and I am still in need of some serious skilling on some jobs (RUN jus got to 99 as well so I will have some fun on WAR soon just running through weapons to skill them all up...), but that just leaves me out of high end events, which I'd likely not be in using most of those other jobs because they lack the high end gear of someone doing it as a career.