Well I have spent 4 hours leveling up because I went into an area that I have to for the story to move that was ten level higher than me. The monster up to that point were 33 at most, I was 37. So I figured I was way over leveled from last night's 500 chain I did. Well I go into the next area after that boss fight and I get completely destroyed almost. All of the monsters are 44-47 range now. I'm like, what the? What logic is it that makes you increase the monster difficulty in the middle, the middle of a story path? And it is not just some simple, a few levels, but 10. These guys have me on the defensive the whole time healing my party as I slowly drain away my MP.

So I go and level, I get a 999+ chain, the cap is 999 so everyone knows. I am now 44 and so I march back in there with a new strategy. During all of that leveling I have been busy on the License Grid. Ashe now has almost all of the Magic and Abilities, meaning the left half of the board at the top is all finished almost. I'm only missing one from the abilities and like 4 from the Magic. I can't even buy the magic yet. Basch and Vaan have all of the important Abilities learns and some extras. They also have all of the Heavy Armor, Shield and Sword learned as well. So I'm set whenever they drop new items in the stores. Basch also have most of the techinques at this point, 1,000 needles being one of them. I have tried them out, but they are pretty useless so far. I might use traveler on large groups of monsters.

I had so many items that I made 170k in gil. And I got these Monograph things that I'm still trying to understand somewhat.

My new strategy is Basch is the tank, Ashe the healer and Vaan the back up with, back up healing and removable and negative status. I also in almost full FFXI party mode now. Those playing it will understand. I'm watching all my buffs and debuffs. Ashe drops Slow on the monsters, Disable if its not immune, though pointless it seems at this point, they are all immune right now. And casts Decoy on Basch, which makes him the auto-tank, because it directs all monsters on him. Also all my guys have Haste and Protect in their gambits. Ashe throws Curaga at 70%, which is 1000 damage right now, and I cure for 1400, and she seems to go up to 2400 at times. Vaan is the same on curing and Basch is set down at 50% just in case. Vaan also have Poisona and Blindna on him. He uses Libra too. I had Ashe using Steal for a while, but that gets me in more trouble than good and with the monsters I'm fighting, I don't need her running finding more troubles for me.

Vaan 44
Ashe 44
Basch 44
Vanguard
596056 Points
103470 Gil currently
34:29 Hours