SCH61!

Got 2.5 more levels or so today, almost 50k xp. This took about 5 hours, first with a mediocre party that camped the crawlers in Aydeewa Subterranne, then with a much better party camping the same. The first party only lasted an hour: the NIN dc'd and didn't come back, and there were no other tanks seeking, so we disbanded. Got an invite almost immedately after from a group of friends that included a COR, PLD, WAR, and SAM. They grabbed me with the idea of my healing, but a Besieged was finishing and we reasoned that a RDM might pop after it did. Indeed that was the case, and our party started with level 59 x5 and level 57 x1 (the rdm). We proceeded not to miss a single chain 5, and taking only one break in the next four hours.

Everyone in the party was on the ball, although the DD's were a little annoying in that they were being given plenty of opportunities to finish impromptu skillchains and were failing. I broke 700 on an Aero3 MB (windsday, windstorm, ebullience) and impressed the hell out of the party with the fact that I was constantly nuking (along with throwing Regen2 on the PLD) and never ran out of mp. With Sublimation, a COR, and my new pimp hat (bonus to sublimation effect), along with popping Parsimony on all my big nukes, my SCH simply never had to wait to cast what it wanted. It rules :)