Qufim and leveling.

Nothing much exciting has happened recently, but I've been making a bit more progress with BLU.


Now I know most people complain about everything that goes on in parties in low level areas, mostly because of incompetant/lazy people that really don't bother equipping/playing properly, leaving others to take up the slack (with "It's only my sub job" being a favourite excuse) so parties tend to suck. Now, this isn't always the case, but recently it has been so I've been soloing. In the intrests of fairness, I'll still give most parties a chance but there is a limit to my tolerance. Powerlevelers increase this margin, because I'm selfish and have lots of other stuff I want to get done. :)
I should take this oppotunity to say that I believe powerleveling nublets with no clue how to play their (or any) job just makes high levels nublets with no clue how to play their job, but on the other hand, I'm not naive enough to think that they'll stop sucking after a few slow parties learning it the hard way. So in short, I won't ever ask for, or expect a PL but I won't refuse one either.

Sadly, I've had poor parties back to back from 23 onwards (a level gap of 21~23 in Qufim actually makes it impossible for a party to work well; unless the 23's can handle the higher level mobs (Pugils) without much input from the lower level members) which tempts me to just forget grouping and solo to 37, even more tempting considering that BLU can solo pets as effectively as BLM.

23~24, I duo'd worms with my NPC, I didn't have Utsusemi yet and they weren't as weak as pets so I fancied the extra safety margin.
24~26 was again fine, solo this time due to Utsusemi making life easier. I spent most of my time around the pond, which made for good chains when I had it to myself - usually 3 worms with one MP pool. Some worms dropped to Even Match at 26, so won't be able to fight them for much longer.


I figured I'd have a go at some Gigas to see if I could get Body Slam before I left. As it turns out, a Tough giant is not as easy as a Tough worm - I struggled with the first, and then the second (a warrior) started double attacking like crazy and I ended up at my Home Point.

I'm at the right level for getting a group in the jungles around Kazham, which typically is a good experience for me so I might be able to get a half decent group there. I can't be sure, it's been a while since I visited at this level.