Coming back to ffxi and some questions aout leveling rng.Follow

Abyssea killed RNG, sorry. Do you like WAR, NIN, MNK, WHM, BLM, or BLU?

Appreciate the replies!

To be honest, I was aware that rng was more of a "toy" job as of late by reading different message boards, but still wanted to level it. I guess I'll have to get familiar with the "new" content first obviously and go from there.

Definitely would not level RNG as a first job. I'd strongly advise an Abyssea friendly job that will get you into an Abyssea linkshell or group. Most of the good gear for any job (AF3, Empyrean weapons) is going to come from Abyssea. Voidwatch has some good items too, but you'll likely want your character fleshed out from Abyssea first before moving to Voidwatch.

WAR, WHM, NIN, THF, BLM. With that group you can proc all red, most yellow and get TH for empy drops. I'd add in MNK, BLU, BRD as other decent Aby jobs. RNG is just sad in Aby. I can gear up my WHM for DD and outdamage my RNG.

RR/GH/Apoc has made 1H godly in Abyssea and there was no comparable Atma for ranged attackers. In fact, its better to enter Aby as a magic based ranged attacker with a good true flight build and Ultimate/GH/Beyond atmas.

Fortunately RNG seems to be useful in Voidwatch so its not a completely dead job. Its just going to be a while before someone starting from scratch gets that opportunity. Given it takes a week of casual levelling to get from 1-95 these days, I'd suggest levelling an Aby friendly job first, use it to get gear for RNG and then level RNG at that point to do VWNM's.

I was actually thinking of returning as well, and im probably about the same as this guy when i finally quit was around the time of ToAU expansion and i managed to level a blue mage to 60 back then but was held up by {Sea} missions. I remember it beeing forever to level anything back then. How could raising the level cap actually of lowered the time it took to level characters? im confused by this.