Interim Report – Sorry to keep you all waiting!

[Eyeballed]

I found leveling White Mage in pick-up groups miserable for the 50-75 stretch because of how misinformed and esoterically equipped 90% of the melee were, even relative to the limited knowledge available at that time. There were a lot of people who were so dense that, even to me on my first job going to 75 for the first time, it was obvious they were retarding progress. As the healer, all I could do to make them flail around less horribly was cast Haste and Dia II. It was infuriating.

I stuck it out because end-game looked interesting for support jobs, even if watching a handful of mental invalids fail to efficiently kill various species of crabs killed something deep inside of me.

That was my subjective experience. Your subjective experience is that you enjoyed leveling up by killing more crabs than the bearded boat bros on The Deadliest Catch.

You are trying to make your experience into something objective. That is not the case.

I think you answered your own question here; Obviously this was early on in the game's history and people were simply noobs on the whole. I mean, fair enough all you had to do was stack MND/MP, (if even that to be effective), where if you had a problem sticking Dia something was terribly wrong, and if you couldn't stick Haste, you might give MNK a try instead.

As well, I feel you're also attempting to objectify your experience in an even more acute sense with regard to a single job for a span of 15 levels. I'm referring to all jobs from levels 1-75 (99?).

PS: Your sig is the best I've seen in a long time.