Nomadic player looking to settle down and finally get stuff done

[Luvbunny]

Why don't you try leveling blue mage. With good evasion gears and evasion atma you can easily tank some of the seals NM with very little problem. And you have ninja and blue magic proc which are 2 out of 5. You can always bring a friend as BLM/WHM to round up your little duo group. Blue is also perfect for someone who don't always have more than an hour or two, you can gather your spells little by little at your own pace. Thief, Dancer and Beastmaster is still best if you like melee jobs. With Beastmaster you can easily solo some of the plus 2 NMs, with the right atma combos, dawn mulsum and stacks of pet food. Like others have jealously posted in other threads, a naked beastmaster can solo some of these BCNMs with just a jug and stack of pet foods +mulsum :P

[Totema]

I've already leveled BLU as a subjob, as a matter of fact. And I do like it, though I'm still getting used to everything that it can do. I'll give that a try!

Also, I read something mentioning soloing in Dynamis. I guess that's for money? How could I get into that?

[Luvbunny]

Dynamis solo jobs are plenty, the most common one would be beastmaster. You would want to work on two magian trials axes, for Pet Damage Mitigation, or Pet Evasion. Definitely will have to complete at least hand and leg empyrean armor. Try to get the neckpiece, earring and back piece Empyrean set. Then get the body and feet from relic set. Beastmaster is good for starter, the pet are quite durable, and you get wide scan ability to find out where the time extension mobs are. Once you feel comfortable with dynamis farm, switch to dancer or thief. You should by now, know how to get the TE and how to kill them safely. As dancer or thief, you get far more currency farming solo than beastmaster. Once you master this, you can advanced to farm as paladin/thief or puppet master/thief, basically claiming the time slot for weapon skill proc, much less camped.

Please focus on completing all the missions, the rewards would be a great bonus for your melee gear set. Three nice earrings, 1 good ring. Then you can focus on dynamis clear, the cities one are doable to solo as beast master except the Beaucedine and Xarcabard. Get a duo, much safer. Then you can just farm on CoP dynamis zone, there are 3 to choose from. Clear the 3 zones to access Tavnazian one as well. You should be able to get 80-100 currency on worst day, which will happen when you just started. On a good day, 140-200 is not uncommon.

[Luvbunny]

I've already leveled BLU as a subjob, as a matter of fact. And I do like it, though I'm still getting used to everything that it can do. I'll give that a try!

Blue mage is worth the investment - it may take a while to master but it is one of the most versatile jobs. You will be useful in abyssea seal farm, you can solo duo a lot of abyssea NMs for your seal farm and plus 2 farm. You are also needed for Voidwatch proc. You can farm dynamis after you learn how to do it efficiently. It's the most bang for your bucks, but you know, takes time to master This is not noobies friendly job at all.

[Doombringer]

I read something mentioning soloing in Dynamis. I guess that's for money? How could I get into that?

you'll need to look up the specifics, but basically you head into your preferred dynamis zone, hunt down a handful of special nms that will increase your time limit in dynamis (while also opening up dynamis' proc system) then choose a camp that lines up with the procs you have.

the 3 types of procs in dynamis are weaponskill, magic, and job ability; which will vary by time of day, or the job of the monster in question

dancer is a good job for this because it's steps count just like any other job ability, but are much more spammable. therefore making it significantly easier to proc. but that applies to ANY job that can solo effectively while subbing dnc. (BST THF so on)

the real ace up dnc's sleeve is that it doesn't need to sub itself (sub itself? @.@) to proc, and it's a fairy survivable job on it's own; so it can farm with subjob locked, opening up the possibility for special white procs. these white procs are rare but pay off HUGE. basically one white proced mob is worth 100 normal red proced mobs.

[Kjara]

Most of the game content nowadays is pretty much duoable, with the exception of the newer endgame activities. If you want to get good gear and fast, I suggest you and your friend level some good jobs combo for abyssea farming. AKA:
Seals = blu/nin (or nin/dnc for tougher NMs) + blm/rdm (or whm/blm for tougher NMs)
Key Items= war/nin + whm/rdm
Monster Drops= mnk/war + whm/rdm (or thf/dnc, if the NM doesn't require a healer. having all blunt procs + treasure hunter is a good idea)

The 'perfect' set ups for abyssea usually require 3 people but as you can see, even with just two you can get a good chunk of most of the procs. Of course, this means you also need to skill up a lot. It takes time, but all the good stuff in this game does. I'm on Siren and wish you the best of luck. Wish I was as lucky as to have a pal to duo with like you do! Solo has became a curse of no game progress unfortunately, and by solo of course I mean 'one character'. Dual/Triboxing doesn't count.