I feel pretty in purple

Once upon a time.. I wrote this:

MEYAOU!!! Thou Shalt Not Pass!!! MEYAOU!!!

Saturday left me with a bit of insomnia and not much to do, so I decided to try out Paladin a bit. I usually do this sorta thing in Sandy so I can gather up a few fire crystals & conquest points while I'm at it. And its amazingly fun to kill easy prey mobs in a few hits... nuff to give a girl airs, I'm sure, but if i can't intimidate an Orc, I'd just assume kill it in two swings. But I ran from lv9 to lv15 in very little time, when you get 15-40 xp per mob. I've always loved the idea of being a paladin. I can imagine guarding a door... keeping the linking tarutaru out... MEYAOU!!! THOU SHALT NOT PASS!!! MEYAOU!!!

hehe...and now.. well... I MADE IT TO 73!!! And now look at me! I'm PURPLE! MEYAOU!!
I took white mage to 73 or 74 when I had taken some time off to level red mage. It wasn't a really planned effort as I'd like to think, but just an effort to keep myself entertained by the game. Lotsa things were discouraging me, mostly involving people constantly criticizing my gear or the HNM para-military nonsense. But I took red mage and others pretty far, including some combat jobs I had not done before.

(In a segment of non-sequiter theatre: My first choice when starting the game was Thief, but changed to Warrior after not...knowing a darn thing I was doing...and KO'ing a ton. But I had to eventually passed my subjob quest, I found white mage... and LOVED IT. Lets just admit it.. people will not invite a warrior that doesn't know what she's doing, but will invite a white mage. And I loved being the one to take care of the whole party, but it would be 2 years before I went back to leveling Warrior.)

White Mage CAN be fun, exciting and have a lot to do. Maybe people dissagree, but I find it as a frequent wait for the right moment, and watching logs for signals, the mobs for animation, and the party chat for other clues for when you're needed. I take great pride in the fact that I could recognize things like Petrified before the tank could. However, it is a different feel and style to tanking as a Paladin. I have watched many different tanks and I have known many ideas of the ways of hate control already, and after getting advice I could, I became what I consider a decient paladin. But thats not the best part...the best part is that to be a good paladin, you have to be a spazmastic kitty jumping up and down and poking the mob until it gets so angry it wont want to eat anyone else. And guess what? I LOVE BEING A SPAZMASTIC KITTY!!! I just bounce, whack with a shield, flash, poke, and all the wonderful things that paladins get to do. And I LOVE it.

hehe.. of course.. its not always easy. When you introduce jobs like Monk or Warrior or Samurai who get immense weaponskills and are just TP machines.. its hard to compete. Last night, I had a thief and a Samurai..who subbed thief.. that spammed weapon skills enhanced with Sneak Attack, and then threw in Rangers 800 point archery weapon skills to boot. Just can't compete against that kind of hate. It really makes me feel bad too, since I end up looking like a newbie tank, and its not as if it necessary to do all that. The party that got me my level was killing faster and more efficient and I hardly ever lost hate for longer than a few seconds, and they had high hate jobs too.

Anyway.. I'll be over here.. looking at my sparklie new armor..

"I feel pretty..oh so pretty... "