To be a newb again

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Pompidou

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This isn't really a flame, because I'm not mad at anyone, but it is a funny/bad party experience so this seems the best spot. It just defies all logic.

I was levelling as a Beastmaster. I was level 9, and while I was strolling around Sarutabaruta, I get an invite to a Terongi party. Sounds good to me, after all, I've never partied as anything but a mage before. The party consisted of my Bst 9/whm 4, 3 level 9 blms - no subs, and a level 9 redmage - no sub. I only mention they had no subs to show that they were in fact newbs and not noobs.

I quickly noticed we had no tank. My Warrior isn't levelled, and as a Bst, I don't plan on pt'ing. I point that out, and the leader, one of the blms says it doesn't matter. Ah well, I think, it's only level 9, we'll have a good time anyway.

Then he says to me: "Pomp, ur main healer"
I'm a Bst/whm. I'm not main healer material. I can only heal 4 times w/ my 32 mp. Have the redmage do it. His sword can use a rest I'm sure. I didn't say that of course. I only said "Well, I can only cure 4 times, but if you think that'll be enough, it's your call." Four cures with a black mage tank was just asking for trouble.

We get to terongi and the leader dies in the first battle. He insisted on a raise, at level 9, to save only 24 exp. It took 30 minutes for a random passerby to do the good deed, because noone answered the shouts by the other pt members. They wanted me to run back to my moghouse, change jobs, run back, raise, run home again, change jobs and run back, but I wasn't doing that to save 24 exp and a 2 minute walk. I insisted on waiting out the time till the death countdown expired, he HP'd, or a random mage performed a raise. Shortly thereafter, the pt had to go eat dinner or something, and we all went home. Twas a day I'll never forget.
 
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hmm... lil young for a cannon party.... but by th time theyre level 45, look out!!!!

Yeah lately i've been reliving my old roots as a newbie..... it is SOO GREAT!!!!
0 requests for AF help
0 requests for hakutaku fight
0 worries about camping an NM

nothing but me.. myself.... and ronfaure.

True not many newbies start off with 300k in their pocket... but i wasnt giving that up :P

I miss the stressless days of being a newbie.
 
lmao @ drewtaru

[excuse me][help me out]Hakutaku[monster][fight][can i have it?]wwwwwwwww

anyway... i miss those days of being a newbie too. i remembered being all excited when logging in... /sigh... where'd that feeling go ; ;
 
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try it out.... just start a new job.....
dont tell anyone new you meet about your real job....
any true newbie doesnt know what that 10 on the sandy flag next to my name is.....
its a sense of freedom like no other.....
i even joined a couple of newbie LS...... man its great^^
 
I hear ya ^^ Ive gone back and lvl'd dark knight to 13 and I have ranger almost to 12. I do it mostly for the beastmen seals (we've got BCNM 40 down to science) and Im trying to Lvl ranger to sub with my samurai.

The freedom is nice. Once in a while you get a goofy request / question.
I was in ghelsba outpost picking off orcs as ranger and I had a newb (not n00b) ask me how I got all that great gear?

Im thinking "great?" then I realize, wow, at this lvl newbs are dressed in rags, while Im wearing the best I can possibly have at that lvl. I check this person and they basically have a sword and a subligar. So i took about 10 minutes to very basically explain the dynamics of the game economy and send him on his way. (another one asked me if they could go back and choose ranger as a job ^^)
Then theres the "doh! I should've went /anon" inevitable request to whore widescan for someone......grrrrrrr.

It is quite relaxing too, when Im wearing my royal footmans tunic, I feel like Im "sneaking' around and hiding. Kinda like Obi-Wan in Mos Eisley ^.~
 
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