DRG/BLU vs DRG/RDM vs DRG/WHM

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didn't read everything here, but here's one more drg soloer's experience. i soloed drg to 71 (then discovered abyssea in january and am, obviously, 90 now; this is my 4th time reactivating, the last break being ~2.5 years long). i started a couple months after FFXI was released and drg was all i wanted to do. back then, it was /whm. /rdm was the other option, but i didn't care for rdm, so it didn't make it past lvl 5, which it still is, so i can't speak for /rdm. when blu came out, i read it would be better than /whm, so i unlocked it and, sure enough, it was much better, imo. power attack and foot kick are only interrupted if you're not paying 10%+ attention. auto regen is a plus, configurable attribute ups are also a plus. and, when field manuals came out, refresh is attainable at all times (talking outside of abyssea which has atmas for refresh). with field manual refresh, mp is not nearly as big a deal (i could 5 chain birds in woajam till i got tired), so less mp is ok for blu and the added att/def is just a bonus. i'm sure there are more reasons i think /blu is much better than /whm, but the rum is interfering with my thoughts. again, i can't speak to /rdm because i never leveled it. to sum up: being an old school drg soloer, /blu is the best (again, in my opinion) sub for soloing.

oh, just reread your op. for my soloing experience, it wasn't nearly as much about the sub's spells as it was about supporting the drg. the sub was just a way of executing the heals i desperately needed, the rest was just lagniappe. hope that makes sense. again, the rum.