Greetings my fellow Vana’dielians. I am proud to announce that after many, many, many years, I have finally ranked up to 75 on Scholar!
I wish I took a picture of the event happening, but sadly being too wrapped up in the mana burn party I was in, that did not happen.
Before I continue on with the events of yesterday, I want to rewind a bit to the day prior.
For the first time I tried out this thing called “Fields of Valor“. In various areas around Vana’diel there are these Field Manuals. I checked one out in Western Altepa Desert and browsed to page 5 where there were mobs I could fight. That page had a regime of me needing to kill 4 Antican Secutors and 6 Antican Lanistae.
The Secutors were simple enough to fight. It was too bad I couldn’t fight 6 of those instead of the Lanistae (BLM mob). The Lanistae are not only Black Mages, but were clustered about other Anticans so pulling could have been gone badly. As a matter of fact, it almost did once. Good thing for Sandstorm as I ended up running all about Western Altepa hoping some of what I linked would depop, but needless to say, I ran around and ran around, and finally decided to run to Rabao for safety.
I can’t say that I will or won’t attempt FOV again as soloing takes quite a bit of time, but the 1,140 gil was nice. Doing FOV in a duo or party might make it a bit more worthwhile.
Now back to the events of yesterday…
Yesterday, I started my day out back in Mount Zhayolm in a black mage mana burn party. I had a good bit of experience to get when I started out, around 18k. I really wasn’t expecting a whole lot as these parties go through quite a rotation of people and can whither away quickly if no other black mages are seeking.
However, after some much nuking Ebony Puddings, I obtained my first level 75 job. Now that I have obtained this level, it’s a matter of getting a good amount of experience as a buffer then switching to meriting.
Speaking of meriting, before I could even access this ability, I had to head to Ru’Lude Gardens and speak to the Nomad Moogle that stands next to Maat and have it cast some odd spell on me. Once it done this, I could switch over to merits when not obtaining experience.
So… I had the Nomad Moogle cast a spell on me, now back out to Mount Zhayolm. There is this cast iron plate I’ve been needing to get to open up the Gates of Halvung. Sadly, after looking in the accessible spots, I didn’t find what I was looking for. I’ll have to make a return trip and hope to locate what I need to find (whatever that may be). On the upside, Ineyeri invited me to mana burn for a while before she retired to her new home in San d’Oria (yeah, I’m in Windurst by myself now).
Before I end this post, I’m going to include some images of the merit ability that I’ve obtained. One includes the number of merits that I’ve already obtained just to see what it was like.
Take care everyone! I’m off to get some rest before I buffer some more and get some more merits!







