Wasted exp rings and new merits!

Dancers and scholars, rejoice! The job-specific merit point category, Group 1, will finally be coming to you in the upcoming version update!

With this addition, dancers and scholars alike will be able to reach new heights by spending acquired merits points on upgrades such as reducing ability delay and enhancing the overall effect of their job-exclusive abilities. The group maximum ability increase and the individual maximum ability increase will be 10 and 5 respectively, in line with the other jobs.

It would have been nice to actually see what they were going to be...strategem recast reduction maybe? :o I bet 'Conseve MP effect' will be in there somewhere.

Not much success with leveling DRG so far, despite getting 2 levels in as many days. Well, most of it really came from one party which was pretty decent but since then I've had trouble getting a new solo camp - I tried Crawler's nest


Exorays don't mess around. The sad thing is, my Healing Breath triiger was 305 HP at this point, so there's nothing I could have done to survive. :\

Flies weren't too bad though, and were easily chainable if the pulls were merciful (I ended up /whm for dia pulling, since /blu's Wild Oats ins't long ranged enough, pebbles would have sufficed though).

The Bostaunieux Oubliette was the next spot I tried, and turned out to be pretty nice despite the incredibly annoying attack down move the bats use.

(insert comical KO picture here)
There's some unwritten law it seems that whenever I settle down to solo and use my exp ring, someone will either call me or show up at my door, resulting in me being distracted and subsequently killed, or having to go out and wasting a charge on my exp ring.