Quote Originally Posted by Daemon View Post
This is the method I would do it.

Job Thief
Starting from level 1-10 outside of Windurst. Do Gov Pages, earn enough conquest points to buy emperor band. Head to outer Horontoro ruins. Earn fire crystals, Wild onions to sell and earn gil for gear.
Ebands are free now, you just talk to the npc near the signet guard and do easy tasks (use a ws, get lvl 5) and she gives you Eband, meat jerky strips and a reraise "raising earring". All part of the /easymode stuff after 2010.
I personally liked the pre 2010 game better because I liked long-term goals, grind and sense of accomplishment. I actually preferred the pre-patch skill-up rates, they were medieval and grim but you really felt you had achieved something when you cleared 250~ skill and also they were a symbol of your proficiency in playing that job. If you had capped skills it meant you had played the job for a long long time, and so you were reliable in event parties.
I would sooner have mythic gaxe than delve gaxe, so I dont really see the 'obtain a delve weap' as a meaningful end goal in this test. But people can get new char 1-99 in 2-3 days, some have built Maat's cap on a new char in a few weeks. I'm sure you can get delve on new char easy enough too.
I think rieves are very fail indeed, they are unfit to walk in the footsteps of 'campaign battles'. I still do WOTG area battlefields today, because imo wotg was the last real ffxi expansion we had.