The other nice thing about starting as an archer is at level 15, you can switch over to thaumaturge and level to 30. Once you reach level 30 thaumaturge, you can start the black mage job which is literally a blast! The only draw back to a thaumaturge or blk mage is the platform you are working from. I play on PS3 (soon to be PS4); however, I have found that targeting can be tricky on large mobs in the dungeons, especially when multiple adds need sleep at one time to take pressure off the tank and melee DPS class. The class can be brutal for noobs (like me) because you need to know how the dungeons work (AOE attack or single attack...when to sleep or not) or veteran players can get pretty nasty. Just night before last, I was running the haunted mansion for the first time, and our dragoon up and quit the instance because I was not following the attack orders from the tank to his liking. You just need to prepare to grow thick skin with this community.