An excellent party

Of course I go on game a couple of nights ago to try to level RDM. It doesn't go well. After 2 hours no invite. I suppose I could have tried to put a party together but I was not in the mood to try to lead a mix Japanese/English team. I am not that comfortable in lead to do that yet.
Still I managed to get 1 snowman out of the effort. I tried to solo also but that did not go so well.

Last night a different story altogether. I was not planning to party. I managed to get the last two snowman for my moghouse and I was placing them in, when I got an invite. I decided I would join and let the leader know I could only stay about 1 hour. I stayed longer when I waited for my replacement, but it was hard to go. The party was excellent. We had a whm, rdm, blu, sam, nin, and dnc. Everyone did their jobs, and did them well. I had not played rdm for awhile, particularly in a party situation, and I think I was able to do well because everyone else did well. For the most part I was able to enfeeble and cast a few regen on the tank, and a couple of others when they needed it. I was able to back up cure for the whm fairly well.

My only confusion was the whm would wait for me to cure him, and a couple of times he did not heal to regain his mp. It was a fun party, no PL, and no deaths. It really was hard to say goodbye, but it was time for me to get off!

teleport successes.

This week I made it to level 17 with the blackmage job. It was hard. Last week my level did not budge, between a very slow party, and dying plenty solo, I thought I would never make it. Yesterday I did. So now I have warp. YES!
I also did the Qufim supply run, so now I can warp out there, and back to windy if needed. That makes life much easier until I can get the Kazahm keys.

Also last week, admidst the frustration of not leveling, I took a day off and leveled with Noelie and Cevout. He is working on his subjob so we all put on level one jobs and partied together. Talk about fun beating up all kinds of crazy stuff. I leveled monk to 6. So slowly I am getting different jobs leveled up. Watching Noelie play pld, makes me that it could be fun to play.

Partying, not so fun

The past few days I have been trying to get the whm job up to 15 so I can head to Bastok and get the rest of the things going that I need for the quest to get drain! I don't mind playing white mage, but I really hate the pl system for these low level parties. I can't learn my job to have some one else do it for me. Then if I do manage to find a party without a powerlevel, they are pulling so many mobs that are so tough that I can't keep up with the cures and members die. Then the down time to wait for more members or healing is so dull. I have been so frustrated with the whole thing. I have no idea what to do. I have had lots of suggestions, but there really is not anything that works well for me to choose. So I am stuck in the dunes for another week. I wish I could play more on the evenings and weekends when the members of my ls is on. At least I would not be so bored.

Subjob advancement and Steelfleece Baldarich

Playing Thursday night I managed to complete the Subjob quest. I got into a party made of all Melee experts with a Pl, I was the only mage in the party. I often felt rather useless as I watched the guys fight while I was trying to heal, and then be out of commission because I was poisoned. I really, really hated not having a white mage that could cure me from that. Still in just a short amount of time, I moved from level 16 to 18. Most of the attacks were bringing in 200 + experience points.
After the party disbanded, Raji, Bones, Melpomne, and Amberly came to help me finish my subjob quest. One our way Bones somehow managed to agro a big, and I mean a big beast called a
Steelfleece Baldarich.
It was huge! I am sure the four of them could have taken the thing on, but since they were with two of us low level people they were afraid it could have killed the two of us, and we would have had to relevel back to 18.
Bones managed to get us transported out of there and then safely back to get the item we needed to get our subjob. (We had picked up another player that needed help completing the quest as well.)
Needless to say it provided some rather entertaining game play.

frustration abounds

yes I am frustrated. I had a whm yelling at me last night, I could not ever seem to keep member parties healed, and just like a completely dumb rdm. Maybe I am trying to learn so fast, all I want to do is do this job well, and right. I have found another good site though! Much better than some others I have looked at. Gives me more hope.

Red Mage Party? I don't think I like it!

I was in a Party last night that had 4 red mages, 1 black mage, 1 warrior, in the end we ended up with 3 red mages and the 1 black mage. The first group had a blm that thought he could take a goblin on his own if the rest of us just kept curing her and protecting her. Duh! Not! I had seen a goblin take nearly and entire party and this one killed me when she decided to abandon the party. We may be redmages, but we all only have so much MP and we would run out of that by the time she thought she could get that goblin down.

We filled the spot with a very good redmage, but we were so out of balance, I found I would be casting the same spells. At one point I was trying to cure the party, but the lag on the computer was so bad that I could not seem to manage curing and we lost a party member in the battle. That was very frustrating. I could not get my macros to work correctly again, and with the lag, I could not target and check party members fast enough. grrrr. I hope I get better at this soon. I did make it to level 16 but lost my signet shortly there after. So perhaps today I can take the time to get Sofiana back to Bastok, then next week back to the dunes.

3rd Party

Okay so I get into a new party yesterday, the first without a pl, which is good in learning your job, but tough in the fact that our poor Tank could not take the damage, and our whm could not keep up, and I could not manage to help her out much. It makes me frustrated that I am so slow but I am coming up with ideas to help. I have to do some more research on macros settings and see if I can get better at reacting quickly when I am stumbling through my macros and how to get it to work.

On a kind note, members of my linkshell have been helping me out. Now they are going to craft me some items. I can not get over the kindness that some people have for a new person like me. Not just in taking time to help me level, return to base safely, and now this. If they are like this in game, it tells me what they are like in life.

2nd party

I managed to get into a second party last night. It was not quite as efficient as the first one I was in, but much better as far as picking the fight.
We had a summoner in the group so that was very fun to watch.
I was KO on my way to meet the party, so I lost the lvl I had obtained, I did get it back. I was not able to level to 15, but Fantone, and Bones from the linkshell I am in, came to help me a bit after. Michael came home shortly there after so I had to stop playing.
I will try again tonight. Hopefully I will get some done before I lose my signet.

1st party experience

My sister Noelie got me to the dunes to join a party. Needless to say it was very interesting, but I learned a couple of things that I hope to help other red mages in the future.
1. In a party setting, use Dia over Bio.
2. Try not to use the elemental spells, they are ineffective. At least on crabs. :)

Watch what the puller is doing, if he grabs too tough of a mob, you may have to back off to help cure the white mage in the group.

Try your best to get your macro settings to work. That for me was the hardest thing to do. For some reason I could not scroll between my different party members to use the cure spell. Something I have to practice more some how.