What the heck is "greased lightning"?

[LineageRazor]

But getting MNK to 62 and not knowing what Greased Lightning is? Suspension of disbelief only goes so far. This is like getting SMN to the 60s and asking what Aetherflow is.

Getting MNK to 62 means that he's been playing MNK for two levels. The rest are covered by a jump potion. By choosing the right content, it's entirely possible that he may have made those two levels simply by mashing buttons. He may, in fact, have actually generated stacks of Greased Lightning from time to time while having no idea what those were. Mentioning that the Class/Job Quests say what GL stacks are is also no use; those are also skipped by the jump potion.

To the OP, whenever you start a new job, be sure to look at your skills under the Actions menu. A number of MNK skills (in particular, Snap Punch, Demolish, and Rockbreaker, in particular) describe how to obtain Greased Lightning and what it does. Suffice it to say, playing MNK is primarily about getting three stacks of Greased Lightning, and keeping those three stacks going as much as possible while you're in combat. I would also recommend that if you're not willing to research the jobs you play, don't use a jump potion. Level them up, instead - the game does a great job of teaching you how to play the job through job quests.

Personally, I have more of a beef with BLM/THM's skillset. The tooltips don't really describe exactly WHAT Astral Fire and Umbral Ice DO, or why you'd want one or the other - just that certain skills grant them. I've run into a couple of low-level THMs that had no idea that Astral Fire increases fire spell damage, and spent most of their time in Umbral Ice because they could cast spells, essentially, for free. Sure, the Astral Fire and Umbral Ice icons say what they do, but accessing those icons is awkward if you play with a controller instead of KB and mouse.

[Talraen]

Getting MNK to 62 means that he's been playing MNK for two levels. The rest are covered by a jump potion.

I'm excited to obtain the tornado kick skill. To perform tornado kick, I must attain greased lightning 3. I don't even know what greased lightning 1 is. What the heck is greased lightning and how do I attain it?

OP indicated they had obtained Tornado Kick, ergo, they didn't use a Jump Potion (because they'd have already had it).

OP is very, very clearly trolling, between this and the gladiator stuff (which also would contradict the idea of using a jump potion, because that would unlock Paladin automatically). He is very well aware of exactly the kinds of things people will react to, and is perfectly crafting posts to get people talking about them. It's brilliant trolling, but I have no doubt whatsoever that it is trolling.

[Souljacker]

OP indicated they had obtained Tornado Kick, ergo, they didn't use a Jump Potion (because they'd have already had it).

OP is very, very clearly trolling, between this and the gladiator stuff (which also would contradict the idea of using a jump potion, because that would unlock Paladin automatically). He is very well aware of exactly the kinds of things people will react to, and is perfectly crafting posts to get people talking about them. It's brilliant trolling, but I have no doubt whatsoever that it is trolling.

You haven't read many troll threads if you think this is brilliant.

[Hasrat]

Personally, I have more of a beef with BLM/THM's skillset. The tooltips don't really describe exactly WHAT Astral Fire and Umbral Ice DO, or why you'd want one or the other - just that certain skills grant them. I've run into a couple of low-level THMs that had no idea that Astral Fire increases fire spell damage, and spent most of their time in Umbral Ice because they could cast spells, essentially, for free. Sure, the Astral Fire and Umbral Ice icons say what they do, but accessing those icons is awkward if you play with a controller instead of KB and mouse.

What's worse is how nothing really describes how three stacks of either reduces cast times for the opposing level 3 spell. Real easy to pass on those spells as long as you think casting 3 level 1s would probably be about the same.