Episode VI: FFXI - Return of the DD!!! -

[Olor]

I really don't think a DD who's not already at near BiS could get folks to follow them to Escha - Zitah unless those folks are kind enough to carry him. Alluvion's possible though, as you can use RoE vouchers for obsidian to avoid needing to actually fight.

This. I've got basic 119 gear, and *do not* feel confident leading a party to kill Escha NM's I've never fought. I don't like being a millstone. There is not really an adequate stepping stone between skirmish and everything else, at least not without millions and millions of gil in stones. At least I used to be able to bard but now GEO has completely supplanted that and BRDs are not really in demand.

Besides which *no one* is shouting for those lower tier NMs. Only stuff I see shouts for is CP parties (which I am also not geared enough to join...) and high-tier endgame. The middle is totally hollow.


And honestly I can't even really bear to use the stones anymore it's just so depressing to roll crappy augs over and over and over and over again.