Absolute WORST job to keybox! opnions?

[Rambus]

For me it has to be BLU...hands down.
YAY! I'm a 75 BLU with no spells and no blu magic skill. >.>

I remember a funny story with SMN pts.
This blue had sea and some homan ( maybe 5/5?) then someone asked why he did not have Disseverment yet.

the answer was "I do not have the blue magic skill to learn it"

[Frost]

Blue was an atrocious job for me until it hit 81.
The play style just wasn't my cup of tea, and I was fully merited and geared in favor of the job to begin with.
I have to say it's one of the better jobs to leech up, for that reason, Blu 1-81 is nothing like Blu 81-90.

Pup is painful to skill up even without having to do so after leeching...
Throw in leeching and it just amplifies it.
I solo'd my pup form 1-75 and still came no where close to capping skills on my melee and ranged puppets, and I was trying. One of the main issues being the frequency at which the puppet actually fires it's crossbow. Other than the drum magazine there's not much you can do to reduce that delay really. Imagine trying to skill up Elemental Magic Skill, when all you have is ancient magic...
And you can't jam a nickel in your keyboard and spam summons like summoners can either...

SO yeah, I'd say pup is the most painful job to leech up.

[Auredant]

Blue was an atrocious job for me until it hit 81.
The play style just wasn't my cup of tea, and I was fully merited and geared in favor of the job to begin with.
I have to say it's one of the better jobs to leech up, for that reason, Blu 1-81 is nothing like Blu 81-90.

Pup is painful to skill up even without having to do so after leeching...
Throw in leeching and it just amplifies it.
I solo'd my pup form 1-75 and still came no where close to capping skills on my melee and ranged puppets, and I was trying. One of the main issues being the frequency at which the puppet actually fires it's crossbow. Other than the drum magazine there's not much you can do to reduce that delay really. Imagine trying to skill up Elemental Magic Skill, when all you have is ancient magic...
And you can't jam a nickel in your keyboard and spam summons like summoners can either...

SO yeah, I'd say pup is the most painful job to leech up.

Didn't factor in learning curve on Pup...there's definitely more to it than most jobs from what I've read...and prolly the reason it will be the last thing i level...lol. But to me it's still blu....learning spells is a chore when ur blu magic skill is near capped...what a nightmare it would be wit gimp skill. it's the reason my BLU30 won't set foot in abbyssea till 70.

[Quedari]

I wonder whats easier:

- Level BLU regular way and stop now and then to get a spell.
- Leech BLU and at 90 skill up and farm spells.

My BLU is 44, so I don't know.

I leeched blu from 41 to 90, and as annoying as spell hunting is, I thought hunting spells at 90 was easier than hunting at-level. I just started where I left off on spells at 41 and learned from mobs that were 5-10 levels above my blu magic skill. Wearing your blue magic skill+ gear and blue magic merits will help you learn spells above your base blue magic level easier as well. That doesn't mean you're gonna learn Quad.Continuum with the same blue magic skill as a level 60 though :P

until... he gets the spells. AND then skill up blue magic

There is no "learn then skill" because you have to have the skill in order to learn the spells. Kinda like weaponskills, I suppose, since you have to have a certain skill level to have the WS available.

[Frost]

Didn't factor in learning curve on Pup...there's definitely more to it than most jobs from what I've read...and prolly the reason it will be the last thing i level...lol. But to me it's still blu....learning spells is a chore when ur blu magic skill is near capped...what a nightmare it would be wit gimp skill. it's the reason my BLU30 won't set foot in abbyssea till 70.

You're right, i didn't factor in the learning curve, though intentionally.
I thought about that, but there's a lot of jobs (arguably pup) that are easier to understand once you "have everything" you know?
So the learning curve concept was there in spirit lol.

[Alistaire]

I wonder whats easier:

- Level BLU regular way and stop now and then to get a spell.
- Leech BLU and at 90 skill up and farm spells.

My BLU is 44, so I don't know.

Leech, easily. Then @ 90 you can farm only the spells you'd use @ 90, and have easier transportation if you go /whm to port around and get a bunch, diaga trains of mobs that at the proper level would own you, etc etc...

[Gratinao]

And as punishment, he won't be able to use it for anything until... he gets the spells. AND then skill up bluge magic. Man, he got such a huge advantage by "cheating" there!

LOL you can't get Blue Mage spells till you get the skill up. Good thing they upped the skill up numbers in the update or you would have a long road ahead of you. I am glade I have not done this with any of my jobs only one the even comes close to this is my BRD 51-90 I can still buff Party but landing a song on a mob not going to happen.

[Randwolf]

LOL you can't get Blue Mage spells till you get the skill up. Good thing they upped the skill up numbers in the update or you would have a long road ahead of you. I am glade I have not done this with any of my jobs only one the even comes close to this is my BRD 51-90 I can still buff Party but landing a song on a mob not going to happen.

I love this 'fail-safe' in BLU. You can't 'fake' the high level spells.

[Boldheart]

NIN sucks leeching to 90 also cuz it's the only job that uses Katana and Ninjitsu skill. So if you dont lvl NIN the regular way, you will be skilling up for awhile. Also SMN would suck to leech on.

[Atomic646]

Best job to level with keybox: Any melee, when you've already got war90 with every skill bluenumbered :>

Haha I did THF from 30-90 had dagger capped on 90RDM and evasion capped on 90sam was simple lol