Red Mage duo begins

The thing about being a noob in ffxi, is that you never know you are one.
You think your the fitting edge, the best, that you know everything,
but no.. thats not how it is.
Your a noob.

After finding how much of a disappointment RDM was compared
to the RDM in FFIV I started to test some other jobs.
I wanted to do good melee damage, but not completely give up on magic.
So i picked Dark Knight.
Dark Knight was alot of fun, i mean come on.. your running around with
a scythe like your the freaking reaper, how is that not awesome?

As much fun as DRK was, leveling it never went fast.
If you ever leveled DRK you know that they dont get alot of party invites,
and I was tired of being a low level noob so i went back to RDM.

I eventually got it to 75.. that took a LOOOOONG time.
(yes Maat kicked my ass a ton of times.. Whats Gravity good for?)

When i leveled RDM i had no other RDM friends to teach me the job
or give me any tips.
This resulted in me turning into a typical "Refresh Whore"
Thats the Red Mage that only know how to refresh cure and haste,
and dont know shit to do when he finds himself in a pickle.

Then i joined a linkshell ran by a russian called Popny.
The linkshell was named Undersky (boy was that a trainwreck)
Through that linkshell i met a guy called Trogdar.
He was also a 75 RDM, pretty much same getup as me except
he was a little more pimp. (he didnt look like a noob like me DX)
At the time he didnt have duelist's chapeau, morrigans, dalmatica
or anything like that, but he knew what he was doing and did the
best with what he had.

When he heard that I had never had a RDM duo or solod anything
he was shocked and demanded that we should go to Gustav Tunnel
and say hello to Bune.

When we arrived there was no Bune, but Trogdar knew there was another
NM in that zone that might just be up. Yes it was the scorpion Amikiri.

He popped after killing just a few Place Holders and we brought him upstairs
to where Bune pops to kite him.

I didnt know much about fighting NMs like this so i used Gravity alot.
Big Mistake! Amikiri will eventually build resistance towards gravity,
and should therefore be saved for emergencies.

Trogdar died for some reason.. dont think it was my fault.
(nuking makes a mob go unbound? who knew!)
Shortly after i was dead.
So as the humble and nice person that i were i apologized for messing that up.
(I yelled at him and was like WTF MAN?!?!)
We got up and got ready for round 2.
We kicked that damn scorpions ass.
The victory was amazing, it filled us with a big boost of self estime.
We decided to kick it up a notch and went to sky to say hello
to Zipacna. Zipacna hits hard (read: very hard)
He butchered us for 2hrs. We decided to just go home.
We tried him again the next day and thought that no one could
beat us up like that and get away with it.
So he deleveled us.. good times.. really.. %¤#&!

Trogdar became my mentor, taught me the importance of full
enfeebling merits and ice/wind merits for bind and gravity, and
that i could not be a good RDM if i didnt even own an Enfeebling Torque.
(whats so bad about fulltiming beak necklace?)
After a severe Tune Up on my Red Mage we went back to sky.
It may not have been the fastest kill, but we took him down..
Yes Zipacna was dead.

We became partners in crime, together we killed tons of fun stuff,
and we're still at it. Only now we are more than capable of soloing all
the stuff that raped us in the past.
It's fun looking back at it now.. how could the two us lose to
weak sh*t like that?.. We were noobs, and we didnt know.



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