Seeing a column on FFXI fills my heart with nostalgic joy. I just resubbed (for the 100th time) last week, and it's really nice to see FFXI getting some attention here ^^


Anyway:
I tell more magically inclined people to start RDM.
RDM18
BLM and WHM37
RDM75

RDMs godly even at low levels. It's one of the most sought after classes (after level 41, and even before to a lesser degree), you can level it extremely fast and if you stick it out to 75, you'll have not only the best solo job (arguably) in the game, you'll have a job that's useful for pretty much any and everything in end game.