Wallen wrote:
Hi Nasomi community, I just wanted to post this to help get it off my mind, because for some reason it still lingers. It's an experience I had levelling WHM around levels 28-32.
The party begins in Bibiki Bay killing Dhalmels. We have 2xNIN THF DRK BRD and WHM (me). Now, I'm fairly new to Nasomi, but have played FFXI on retail and learned some, but I still have a lot to learn. Here, I was not prepared with all the right spells. The party is going pretty well thanks to having 2 NIN's, but the Silence begins to afflict them, and I don't have Silena or Erase to help with that. If I had known, sure, I definitely would have had Silena ready and happily make sure my party was Silence free.
Ninja: [Silenced]
Me: [I'm sorry] [I don't have anything to give you.] :<
Ninja: ...
Later, they proceed to tell me that if I'm going to EXP, "You need to farm", and also made a comment on my gear, which I'll admit wasn't the best, but I had a few Seer's pieces, Zealott's Mitts, and was still able to heal and debuff fine (in this instance). I'm fully aware that I need to farm the gil to get what I need to do the job, but at this level with this party, it didn't seem like it was so much of an issue. I still felt bad about it, and will definitely want to be prepared for next time.
The most interesting part of this is that you can turn from the Dhalmel's gaze and not be silenced. I mentioned this and at first I was given a "No" by this particular player. I told them to test it, and we found out you could.
I don't feel like the player was trying to attack me or anything, and I totally got where they were coming from. It just felt like they had this "You're a noob, and my word is law" attitude towards me. The moral is, be prepared so players don't try to pick you apart.
Sorry, and thank you if you read through this entire thing. I hope some others will share their opinions or insights with me on this. It's always good to talk with others about petty, bothersome things. [Good luck!] out there!
Don't farm as WHM, out of the starting jobs it's the worst job to solo with since it has the lowest damage capacity. If you want to farm start leveling WAR or THF and sub WHM for cures or just level RDM. You can also do what I did and just give up farming and start fishing instead. It'll take a week of fishing to get to a decent level but once you get there you can get enough gil per hour to make the necessary gear affordable.
But yeah, you do need to farm or fish (or craft if you can take the initial investment). Since WHM practically can't melee they're only involved in battles through spells. Yeah, obviously you'll be the main healer but so can RDM and even PLD. Parties that invite you will expect the benefits of those WHM-only spells, which include these super-important -na spells. I play RDM and when I hit levels 32 & 41 I stopped partying a went fishing for a whole day each time to afford Dispel/Refresh because parties invite RDMs at these levels partially because they have those spells.