the magic number is 235
Q: What's the difference between 230 healing magic skill and 276 healing magic skill?
A: ONE HP LOL. Cure 3 now heals for 235 HP. I'm one pimp motherfucker, I heal in easily divisible increments. Sadly, Cure 1 still heals for 39. Square-Enix said at the Fan Festival that they want WHMs to be the best healers. Well, this may sound like a radical idea, but I would imagine that making Healing Magic Skill count for more than shit would be a start.
Just as a side note to anyone looking to cap Healing Magic: Generals are good up to level 250; after that wait for an undead Besieged and cure the Qutrubs. The best General to cure is Najelith (Hume RNG, on the balcony near the Mog House) as she doesn't charge into the fray like Rujahedeen nor is she positioned near certain death.
Q: What's with the Abyss Burgeonet:?
A: To show off of course. Having completed my DRK AF2 set, I did something I haven't done for a long time and switched to DRK:
Note the blue name above my head and my emo speech.
Q: Why in God's name did you merit HP to level 8 instead of MP?
A: I hate MP whores. If I merited MP, I would probably become one of them - one of the zombie-like WHM/SMNs (or SMN/WHMs) whose one goal in life is to convert every last bit of HP to MP. I have witnessed the horror of this firsthand - taru SMNs with full (or near-full) Zenith who get oneshotted at the first AoE. Having 4 HP and 4 MP for 'balance' would just gimp me up - if you're meriting stuff, it's either one extreme or the other. So, 80 HP it is.
Q: What's with the Paluwan Khazagand?
A: After whoring Ilrusi Atoll points, I finally managed to get my hands on one of these. The critical rate % improvement is nonexistent, but it's an improvement over Harness, and that's what counts.
And now I close this entry with the obligatory Xbox360 gimp.
Yes, I actually asked him if he was on XBox. One of my LS mates had the misfortune of partying with him, and he reported that this particular RDM meleed and didn't even bother to use En-spells.
I'd like for S-E to implement a 'filter by Xbox' option in the next patch. As the vast majority (99.8%) of XBox users are NA (see: xbox sales in japan), and the vast majority of them are idiots, this would provide a useful option.