Current status of FFXI

Okay. I have an addiction. It's FFXI (or for anyone who doesn't know Final Fantasy 11).

Yesterday, I managed to level War from 32 to 34 despite dying once, with an rdm who refused to heal (infact wants to be a melee), and not having a true tank. I did tank for a while but i was for the most part the primary puller.

side note ----- Tank - a character who's primary job is to take all the damage from the monster (mob), hopefully by maintaining hate. Hate can be made by hitting the mob with damage or through various spells or job abilities. In FFXI, the paladin is the primary tank.

Later, I was able to level my Monk job to 54. Retrieve part one of my AF for gloves. As usually with my static party, we started out by dieing as we got the place. Afterwards we didn't even come close to death. I think that leveling here is going to take a long while. Level 53 required 13k while level 54 is requiring 16k. yuck.