The game is out and in my possession. It has been installed, updated, and registered.
Mazer Rackham at your service. For those that don't recognize the name, go read Ender's Game. Mazer is now rocking out with some good classes and I'm learning a ton about the game. I still need some insight into where I should be leveling and how I should be leveling but I'm making some progress none-the-less.
My favorite class so far has been Lancer. But I have to admit that Lancer is more fun with other class' abilities to attach to it. Like having Cure that I can use while on Lancer is nice because then I have a way to cure myself during a fight. Also, when I get PUG to rank 6 I can get Second Wind and have a basically free self cure every 60 seconds. Combining all of these jobs is so much fun its crazy. I really like how it is based right now but I have still yet to get into macros and seeing how gear swapping works too. Another thing is when I get my classes up higher I'll have more wiggle room with abilities and can cross over more which will make things REALLY fun.
I am not sure how the skill up tapering works though yet because I haven't really noticed a difference, just that as I rank up the mobs get easier and I get less skill points. It was nice teaming up with Disdain Kirai last night though because we were taking on some stronger mobs and getting really good skill ups. Duoing definitely seems like the way to go from about 6-10. We were doing Dodos near Camp Horizon (I think) at rank 8 and were doing pretty well once we figured out that Disdain should be tanking because he had the free self heal and the much higher physical level to mitigate the damage. Dodos were doing about 100-150 per hit on me but seemed like only about 100 at most on him. The other nice part is that they don't really have any devastating attacks just more of debufs like slow, blind, and sleep. Getting 250ish skill points on average from them is way better than getting 100 max on the lower level mobs I was killing before.
Hopefully tonight after singing I'll be able to get my PUG going and get to 6 then be able to swap back to my CON and LNC and get those to 10 for more abilities. After I get those out of the way I may swap to THM to see what I can get out of that. This is getting fun!
