DomfranciscoOfIfrit wrote:
I still see shouts for Empy Seal farming on Odin regularly. If BST isn't to your liking, NIN and DNC are excelent at soloing Abyssea mobs too. A THF and a BLM/(RDM/WHM/SCH) can duo many popular seal NMs as well, and with that combo you've got TH and Yellow procs. Many other job configurations can low-man seals too.
BST is to my liking, but I'm starting it from scratch (lvl 27 now) to try and get there, just so I can get gear for other jobs, just so I can participate in the kinds of activities most of the population is doing. I haven't seen more than maybe three random shouts for seal farming on my server since coming back, though I don't doubt that it's different on yours. I do remember seeing tons prior to quitting, but the only thing I really see shouts for now are Reives and things I haven't heard of.
The problem though, with leveling BST is that once I do that, I still need some kind of passable gear and such for the BST in order to really make progress towards gearing my other jobs, and even then, I don't see myself being able to solo the kinds of mobs that drop +2 items (unless I'm underestimating BST here). But my point was more just to sympathize with the OP - it's very hard to re-enter the game with no friends and try to pick up your level 90 job with no relevant gear and get caught up on your own, without doing significant leg work to enable yourself to solo (which is fine, it's doable) or finding some helpful folks to play with who aren't focused solely on the newer content. I, personally, am making progress on my gear, questing for seals, joining dom-ops parties and getting in one of the random shouts I mentioned, but it's still not the same as prior to quitting, when I had an active LS that was usually doing abby stuff and I could hop in and get what I needed and help others do the same. Now I feel largely like I'm playing solo all the time.
As for the OP (or anyone else who'd be interested in CoP/Abby/VW etc.), if you're on Bismarck my name's Craine and I'd be happy to have some company and even assist you to the best of my abilities. I already have a couple of jobs geared up (THF, and sorta BLU) from prior to quitting and if I had a couple of friends on the server who needed stuff as well, we definitely could low man things, as other posters mentioned.