Thaumaturge to Black mage?

[SnowVix]

Thanks for clarifying that, Rannie. This is a big sprawl of a game, and it's hard to sort all this out. THIS time I think I might have the answer. I've got to join a Grand Company and do at least one other quest before I get Sylph Management.

I'm doing enough muddling around and side quests that I'm lvl 35, but haven't gotten to that point in the Main Quest yet. So I'm getting confused when I see that it should happen around lvl 20.

yeah, for this game you want to delete the "do all the sidequests so you can progress the story" mentality from other MMOs from your brain. there's only a couple places you'll get stuck (44, 47, and a few times in each expansion). Sidequests are handy for leveling alt classes instead.