Gosh Darnit 3rd Jobs. >.>

[Khy]

I wasn't planning on staying in TO much longer...But they had to pull out 3rd jobs. T.T I might just stay until I get Evo, though.

Anyways, I've got a few questions. =D
-First one...If I were to restart a character right now, how long would it take for me to get to Lv. 130/TM Lv. 120? Or if I continued with my kitty that's at Lv. 102/ TM Lv. 79?
-Second, how many times have you died doing the 3rd job quest?
-Third, Are there any better places to train that give more TM EXP other than Bugbears and Swamp 6? And which place is better?
-Fourth, is it better to go pure or hybrid when advancing? Depending on those little announcements I've seen, it looks like most people went pure. But looking at the fact that cats only get 2 attacks is pretty discouraging...And I heard that new 2nd job skills from kTO won't be coming until next year, and I'm not sure if I'll still be around then.

Lol, I ask a lot of questions on MT. xD
Thanks in advance. ^^

By the way, congrats to all you peoples with your third jobs. D;
Bet you're swimming in a pool of other peoples' jealousy now. ;l Amiright??

[Senpai]

1) If you're a grinder, it should be less than a week. Otherwise, I'd stick to the kitty.
2) 0. It's incredibly easy. You might have trouble on the leviathans, though. Those monsters only took 500 melee damage from me.
3) Bugbears are good for regular exp, but they have crappy TM exp. Stick to Swamp 6.
4) Up to you.

[Anchors]

2) Zero on light dragon tanker, four on LK fox.

Concert Tour from leviathans, yetis, and I think at least one other monster causes a lot of problems for "lower" level characters, especially if they gang up on you - and that's not too hard for them to do in the cramped corner you have to fight in. They'll do around 2-3k per cast, and they do sometimes spam it. My fox died once this way (8k HP), although my dragon was able to survive thanks to cure and the HP gear I put on him (11.6k HP).

Faint from tooth flower can also cause problems in conjunction with their instant, spammable lacerator skill. I'd try to keep these to one-on-one battles. My fox died once while mobbed by all three after getting fainted once.

If you ever bring in a magic character, the Addaxes might cause some trouble with the charm wink skill... They don't have high AP or anything like that, or any uber skills, but with only five minutes, getting spammed with winks on a magic-type might cause you to run out of time. Luckily, it doesn't seem to succeed often at all.

Madam Chiffons are a huge pain in the ass with berserker and some 7k hit they can deal while berserked... My fox died twice on this quest. I wasn't using sprints, though - I'm not sure if the berserked chiffons can be outrun while wearing one.

Lastly, but perhaps most annoyingly, nothing seems to deal large damage to most of these monsters... They seem to mostly have around 6k-ish HP which isn't too bad, but when detonator or radiant strike are dealing 1k damage tops, it becomes something of a pain - especially when the monsters take off half your life with each hit.

I can't even imagine trying to do these quests with my 1-charm characters. >_>

[Khy]

Yeah, I'm pretty much a grinder. But in less than a week, I could probably play 3 hours a day, and still only be at Lv. 30-40/TM Lv. 10-25.
I'm a pretty bad player. o-o;
Or were you referring to my cat advancing to those levels in less than a week, rather than creating a new char?
And in Swamp 6, I focus on the Mud Monster...things xD. Right?