A Monk of a Beast

Okay, sorries, my last post was sent to the wrong blog. This is where I should put all that is "current issues" related, the other one relating my past endeavors. ...heck, I wonder if I'll ever continue on those, it's been so long that I lost the thread of where I was going, and I figure that if I'm to tell my tale, might as well write it all start to finish, then revise it rather than have my first chapter set in stone, followed by lots of "oh yeah, did I mention that such-and-such was a robot? Yeah, that was kinda important..."

....Mecha-Shantotto-zord... okay, my brain's officially fried.

Back to the current issue now!

Those who followed my adventures on Akai-Tenshi know that so far, I'm a career Monk and Bard, with the occasional outing as a Thief in Dynamis. More recently, I started specializing my Black Mage for Abyssea purposes, as most fights ended up being kite-spam. However, recently I have undertaken a pet project.

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Get it? "pet" project? ...I can't believe the puns I can come up with unintentionally. Anyways, I haven't event mentionned what it is, so the pun is indeed lost on those out of the loop.

But yeah, seeing... AARGH! Forgot his name! His fault for not showing up on the linkshell or Dynamis as often as before... Anyways, BSTyface single-handedly took care of Lamia 13 when doing assaults together. Well, more precisely, his pet coeurl (not me! I'm Mei's pet, remember?) handled most of the fight, my job being limited to dispelling the initial charm on the undead soldiers who fought alongside her.

Long story short, I wanted to dabble in the Beastmaster's ways. Just for that. Not that I'm tired of doing rat spy finding missions, but still, the idea of setting a pet on a mob then sitting back for five minutes was quite appealing.

A few months later, my Beastmaster's finally past level 76, which is when I finally got all those cool new pets at my beck and call. Ever since (which is last Firesday), I've been hanging out in Bastion battles speed-leveling that job. Even got to fight alongside Booty and Mei in a puppet royale battle, and the job's pretty promising.

The next day, we go into Abyssea-Vunkerl and defeat the Dverger that dropped the +10 MP/tick refresh Atma. The day after that, we go into Abyssea-Misareaux to take down the Iron Giant with the Razed Ruin atma, as well as Flame Skimmer for its +10 to stats abyssite.

...wow, we're getting quite strong rapidly, but only in Abyssea. For elsewhere, my Monk remains at the same strength, unless I spend lots of time investing in better gear, which I really don't feel like doing. However, my Beastmaster is showing a lot of promise... well, my pet is, which means...

I might retire my Monk in favor of my Beast.

Not to be fretting, I might continue improving it, however I don't feel compelled keeping up with everything anymore, gear and skill wise. I might even sell most of my gear in favor of better Black Magery accessories, seeing how Beast is pretty low maintenance.

So my main portfolio has become the following :
- Bard (Salvage, certain missions);
- Thief (Dynamis pulling, anything needing a TH4);
- Black Mage (Abyssea NM killing);
- Beastmaster (everything else).

...I think that's pretty reasonnable. Might add Blue Mage in the mix, but so far, those big four should be sufficient for my present needs.

Alright, room getting filled up, I'd better leave this at this. Ta-taaa!