You've been a WHM too long when...

[Ikonic]

As taken from: ffxi.allakhazam.com/db/jobs.html?fjob=1&mid=1089343020850733102


You've been a WHM too long when...

- you toss out Cure III's trying to see if the mob will aggro you.
- you switch to your WAR and wonder why your MP is gone.
- /anon you get raise requests and go to raise before realizing you're on your <50 BLM sub.
- you delight in the fact that your hammer can outdamage your WAR friend.
- you sit in Qufim just raising people all night long out of boredom.
- you're sad when your party never needs a DS+Curaga.
- Lving THF you die and tell your ls "doh! forgot to cast Reraise"
- Whacking a mob to pieces while farming seems very exciting to you.
- Lvling BLM, you care more when you get spells back on your WHM than new spells on BLM.
- actual melee fighting seems to fulfill a sick inner pleasure for you.
- you find it odd that a new WHM does not get crazy about curing.
- another WHM is in the group, you compare your cure potency to theirs... And laugh when your Cure II heals for 91 while theirs does 90.
- you freak out on a melee job when your HP falls in the yellow.
- you go on NIN and miss your WHM.
- People in Qufim automatically /tell you if they need a raise, whether youre there or not.
- you go on /anon when coming within 2 zones of Valkurm Dunes.
- every one of your WS macros contains the line "It's HAMMA time!"
- your CTRL key has the letters worn off of it.
- you watch everyone's health bar while on a melee job.
- you hate any DRK/THF above level 30.
- you try to spam Cure IV while leveling WAR.
- you cringe at the mere use of the letters "P" and "L" near each other.
- When someone tells you to go farm you head to Lower Jeuno.
- you wish /sea WHM 25-75 stopped working.
- you zoom around all the different telepoints out of sheer boredom.
- you lose faith in mankind after waiting for a party more than 1 hour.
- you are watching a fighting movie and when the blood starts flying yourhands jump for the keyboard.
- after a night of real hard lvlign you are not sure what lvl you are because you have been /anon for almost 3 months now.
- you see a RDM casting cure you are ready to beat him, wether or not the cure was needed.
- you complain to the LS after LFG for more then 20 minutes and they tell you to go kill yourself.
- you feel the need to tell your whole party you got a 0.1 increase in healing skill.
- you laugh to yourself when you land a debuff a RDM had resisted.
- you have a deep reservation about flies, at any level.
- your benediction macro effectively says you are going to die
- you have seriously thought about not curing that "annoying" party member.
- convert scares you to death.
- you hate the pld for overlapping your cures.
- you hate the nin for not giving you anything to cure.
- you hate the war for giving you too much to cure.
- MP is never enough.
- you cry every Darksday.
- blessed hammer is your only weapon of choice
- you haven't used your WS in three months
- you cheer for having 4 more mp every level
- you cast Banish II on the ship just to show everyone a WHM can do damage
- your LS needs a WHM they instantly come to you
- ANYONE needs a WHM they instantly come to you
- all you eat are mushrooms and pies
- you feel naked without your Cure spells
- you get -STR effect and laugh because it doesn't affect you
- you hit provoke on WAR before realizing you're still on your WHM macro set
- people you don't remember wave at you in Jeuno because you raised them back when you were lvl 25
- Playing on a WAR sub and aggroing a mob that is going to kill you...feeling so helpless without your Cure spells as you watch yourself die
- you See the WHM job in a whole new light when you are the Tank and someone is healing you
- you cast regen and a backup healer casts cure and you slap them
- you use benediction after a nasty AOE and the fight is over to conserve MP
- the melees are off looking for a mob to pull and you cast flash on a pop knowing it will miss you until they can get back.
- you use an icarus wing so you can make a light skillchain with hexa-strike during an XP party just to show off
- while waiting for the last party member you sit at the Vahzl telepoint because the music is more relaxing then in jeuno
- you spam banish, holy, and everything else you have right before you level up trying to get to 0 mp just as the mob dies.
- you use an AOE weaponskill on 20 sheep causing 5000 damage then brag to all your DRK friends when they "only" hit for 1000 against an IT+++ in a skillchain
- you pass by a level 10 who is about to die and use a Cure 5 for 60 HP just to show off, then cast Protect IV knowing it will wear off by the time your Shell IV lands
- you cast stoneskin then make the theif SATA behind you.
- any time your hunting a mob that is magic aggro you insist on pulling with Stoneskin :-)
- the words "Using Souleater" cause you to have nightmares.
- at level 25 you go to (insert newbie zone here) to raise people. At level 26 your official raise policy is "If I trip over your corpse, I'll raise it"
- you let the tank get red hp just so you can maximize your divine seal efficiency, then flip out when they cure themselves
- you refuse to wear your AF hat outside of XP parties
- you magic burst your /blm spells for 7 damage and feel proud that you bursted.
- you can outdamage everybody by curing undead but are still mad you can't regen them.
- low levels ask you for help and you can honestly say sorry, I know i'm 30 levels above you but I'm just a WHM. Can't help you kill that.
- you've teleported from one city's AH, figuring you can get a better price somewhere else. Even on something like Fire crystals.
- Teleport Atelpa = Warp to Jueno.
- (to cooks) you equate Fungar-type monsters to increments of levelling time.
- you unleash Seraph Strike after someone does a Weaponskill in hopes that you'll Skillchain. ...and are utterly delighted when you do.
- you call for /help on an easy con Goblin Leecher not because you can't kill it, but because it would take all day long to do so.
- you pray for a PT SC'ing light so you can practice the timing on bursting Curaga..
- you hear a teleport request offering 500gil you are already shouting yes before you realize your current job isn't whm.
- leveling your blm sub, you cast cure spells more than you nuke.
- you solo an easy prey undead in Eldieme Necropolis for 21 exp, and spend all day bragging to everyone you know about it.
- you won't go somewhere just because you can't teleport, warp, or airship there.
- you've mastered the art of sending tells to 4 different people while in a level up party while still curing and casting spells effectively
- someone /tells you offering gil for a teleport despite the fact that you are an 8drg/4sam.
- you have 18 new linkpearls in your inventory after 5 levels in Garliage Citadel.
- a friend calls you at 4 in the morning because they can't find a white mage and they KNOW you were up till 6 last week.
- your party leader asks you to take OFF the Holy Phial and the White Cloak +1 because your Cure II's are interfering with your Paladin's ability to contain hate.
- you start yelling at other White Mages for failing to use poisona on their tanks right away.
- you poisana everyone BUT yourself because you aren't loosing hitpoints anyways.
- you have to set up the skillchains for your party because no one has ever done them with a club-wielder before.
- people check your bazaar and find 25 Wind and Water Clusters after you spend 45 minutes in La'Thiene Plateau.
- you beat elementals to death in La'Thiene Plateau simply to save mana so you can teleport back to Holla to get a chocobo and ride to the next elemental before the storm ends.
- your high-level crafter friends ask you to STOP sending them clusters because they are running out of places to keep them.
- your first question upon entering a party is, "So, who's the bard today?"
- you get in a fistfight with another White Mage over who's Cure II restores 100 HP more often.
- the prospect of taking a low level job to the Dunes is exciting because Crawler's Nest is giving you even MORE mobs with AoE attacks.
- you stop checking your messages altogether because you can't keep up with all the friend invites.
- you are excited that you can finally take out a Banshee in Qufim all by yourself but none of your friends can yet.
- you storm out of a party like an angry diva when someone questions your judgement (knowing full well you will have a new one right away)
- you consider 10 minutes to be an excessive time to leave your flag up, and consider just logging out or crafting at that point.
- you have ever said anything along the lines of "Well, you aren't dead are you? Then quit telling me how to play!"
- you can actually effectively heal, melee, and contribute to skillchains without the party taking horrible damage (thank god for <st>!)
- you consider non-meleeing WHM to be the ultimate in noob white maging.
- you unequip your hammer, even though you are on anon, when passing through Valkurm.
- you have ever lied to l/s members about what you were *really* up to so as not to hurt their feelings when they ask for powerleveling.
- In real life, you can hardly eat pie or drink juice without wanting to log on.
- you have a macros set up that tells the party to evacuate, which you start hitting AFTER you are running for the zone.
- "Paladin" and "Bard" you see as youR support crew, send by Altana to make your life easier.

[Ikonic]

More that wouldn't fit on the first post:

You've been a WHM too long when...

- the party pulls undead, you get *excited* because it means you have offensive spells that can really hurt something for a change!
- you sub whm with your brd and can't help but cure alongside the main healer.
- you spend a week farming for your new Cure scroll but don't regret spending the gil.
- Too many backup healers in a group makes you feel sad and uneeded.
- you quest Aspir because you think it'll help you keep curing, then realize it won't work for a whm =P
- you level slower than anyone else in your LS
- you feel you can't level if you don't have your food and juices.
- you feel insulted on a low level job if someone tells you what to do.
- People tend to remember partying with you six months earlier
- New friends you meet want a place in your static pt.
- your mog house is too full because you bought all your new spells and equip 10 levels ahead.
- you feel lost without your tele spells.
- you get mad when the whm in your pt raises people outside of your pt.
- If someone in your pt dies on a different job, you feel like HPing and raising them yourself.
- you stay as far away from Valkurm Dunes as you can at all times.
- you're sad lvls 35-45 because you're completely broke.
- you find a hammer and continuously shout "It's Hammer time!"
- you lose a fight and blame in on your tunic and the spell interuptions
- in spanish class, the teacher asks, "Que dia hoy" and you repeatedly shout "you're not level 7 yet! you can't Dia!"
- you run around in white robes thinkin it will give you -enmity (which can turn deadly if they happen to be the wrong robes)
- you find farming enjoyable because you get to kill things
- your friends are impressed by your 280 damage on that Banishga II
- you laugh at the PLD who cast Holy
- you secretely hate all other WHMs your level because they might steal your parties
- you openly hate all SMN/WHM
- you won't party with DRKs because they kill the old quadavs you were after when you think they should go kill garnets
- you would gladly trade Refresh for the chance to enfeeble
- you get into a party with a NIN tank, doze off, and find that the party is still ok and didn't notice you were gone - you refuse to heal on SMN, BLM, or BRD because you can't stand it anymore!
- you die to a Too Weak monster
- While playing your BLM sub, you miss an MB because you were still curing a party member
- when you cure better with whm subbed than the actual whm in your group
- When you go over to a friend's house, take over his 32 monk for a little while and say "you only have 10 macros?!?"
- When you /cheer every time you block an IT's attack with your shield.
- you ask the thief to SATA you ('~')
- you laugh when you beat the other WHM to a cure
- you forget to turn off anon when leveling a different job
- you have over 100 people on your friend list
- you call the bard your sidekick
- you panic when somebody goes in the yellow/orange
- you panic while resting after a battle when a drg uses Spirit Link and you wonder what hit them.
- you get surprised when you hear the music that plays when you engage a mob.
- you cheer when you do 0 dmg to a mob in an exp party since you might get a club skill up.
- you feel like nuker whenever you see undead.
- you cry when you have to shoud "|Teleport-Holla| |Do you have it?|."
- you cry when you help a war 10+ levels below you and yet he does more damage than you.
- you desperately cast spells to keep hate off that war since your auto-regen, stoneskin, and Hp make you a better tank.
- people not having the ability to sneak/invis really annoys you.
- while you level your blm sub, when a battle turns south you use Manafont to cure people.
- teleport spells and warp are your substitutes for running when you get aggro outside a party.
- you are hitting Ctrl + 2 (Cure II for me) over and over not paying attention then you realize the fight is over.
- you look at the skillchain chart and get excited that on the SC they are doing you can busrt Banish II/Holy.
- you have to elemental seal to Drain or asipr for a 1/4 of the blm and drk.
- you wait to Cure yourself so you can use ur highest cure to refill your HP.
- you are proud when your WS does 162 DMG
- keep pressing TAB while running through dune to check other's hp lvl.
- after Pt'ing in dune as thf, goes back to mh, change main job to whm, and realize that u didn't use Steal even once.
- you laugh at low levels when their cure does 10 HP
- you can fish on the ship between mhaura and selbina without fear
- you want to kill Marchelute for your hammer all over again
- you know the rdm refresh cycle better than most of them
- you're mad if you have refresh and reach full mp
- the fight is going slow, so you cast a Banish II to speed things up
- you make a song about raising people in the dunes
- you always seem to be on your last 5k =P
- you forget to switch to your blm macros and wonder why you can't Cure III
- you can somehow manage curing the party, talking on the phone, petting your dog, and watching Adult Swim all at once.
- you get disappointed if someone else curagas after a gob bomb
- your friend aggros all the leeches in Ordelles Caves and you Banishga to save him, almost killing yourself
- you are excited to hit level 42, because you get Regen and Cure III back the WHM sub
- you cannot wait to hit 50 on my BLM main, so I can Raise people
- you lust after the breastplate, and seriously consider getting to 40 just to wear it
- you wish BLM had cool Weapon Skills like a WHM
- you con the worthless prey banshee and the "highe defense" scares you..
- you cast Protectra on the party even though you have a WHM in your party and your the blm
- you are leveling a job in quifim with a lvl 24 WHM in the party and he keeps saying how much he cant wait for Raise.. you remember when you first got raise and go into shock..
- you recast Dia/Dia II when the BLM casts Bio/Bio II
- you find it amusing when you cast Invisible on someone who is riding a Chocobo
- you go to new XP party areas 1-3 levels earlier than what's generally accepted and still get invites
- you hate but love Red Mages
- you love exploring new areas with sneak/invis and Warp out immediately if anything aggros
- you go solo coffer hunting in Garlaige Citadel, leech your way through Banishing Gate #1, sit around for about an hour while camping a coffer spawn and recasting sneak/invis when an Explosure suddenly bops you from behind, interrupts your Warp twice, kills you, and you find this amusing.
- someone pokes you and you automatically cure them...
- meleeing gives you an uncertain joy that can't be matched
- you're running around pointlessly with a friend, and they're in yellow and you panic even though nothing will kill them.
- you're the only one the the party that gets excited when lightsday comes around and gets mad when darksday comes around.
- you level your sub and are always watching the WHM to make sure they're doing their job correctly.
- think it's fun when someone drops to red because it makes you use your higher level cure spells.
- you got Cure IV you followed your friend around telling them to get as close to death as they could so you could use it.
- it's fun to take hate off the tank.
- you first learned Raise your search comment said: I hope you die. [Oops..]
- you first learned Raise you told a friend to kill themselves so you could Raise them.
- you did BCNM40 three times in a row and hunted a NM with a good drop for two weeks so you could buy your staffs [Dark/Light] four levels before you needed them because it made you feel like you were the richest WHM in your level range >_< And that you were the best WHM ever!
- Benediction is fun because the mob chases you around while everyone else is panicking that their WHM is going to die, but you laugh because Reraise is still on.
- you show off Holy on a lvl 3 Light Skillchain during AF key hunts and do 15 damage
- you try to help with magic bursts and waterga does 5 dmg (with maxed skills on your BLM sub)
- your only stat-remover macro is Erase
- your AF hat is left in your mog house Storage
- the one time you accidentally hit the mob and your club/staff skill goes up by 0.5
- you only take Teleport-Vahzl requests/shouts
- a mob that just turned Too Weak takes 15-20 minutes, requires Elem Seal + Aspir, Starlight, Stoneskin at all times, Haste, and sometimes Benediction
- your idea of a skillup party means fighting mobs in Tahrongi, La Theine, or Konschtat
- you get blisters on your feet at the mere thought of actually walking to where you want to go
- your in a party levelling another job and you find yourself answering for the white mage when the puller says they're waiting for the White Mage to get MP
- were wondering why u still don't get an invite in 20 min, then realize u still have /anon on.
- you're out fighting , running straight from one mob to another without stopping and look to your hp, realizing you're almost dead and about to die ........ only to realize that you don't have auto-regen on your level 5 War
- playing a BLM you also carry +MND gear and have them macro'd in so you can take over healing.
- playing BLM you almost wish someone would invited you to the pt to be the healer so you don't have to change your ways.

[Striveldt]

i may post alot, but i think you just won for way too much fuckin time on your hands ^^

[Ikonic]

nah, it was a simple cut and paste with minimal formatting.

[Striveldt]

yea, i see that link at the top now... some of those are pretty funny...others i don't get, which is why i kinda want to lvl my whm.

[Slayerz]

U know youve been a whm oo long when u can come up wit all that.

espicaly when u read it all.

add this one,

-When R2/L2 button sticks on your contorller, you trow it down and start to cry as your pty dies

lol

Slayerz

[Stargasior]

'you see a RDM casting cure you are ready to beat him, wether or not the cure was needed.'

Lol. I haven't been punched by a WHM yet but I have been kissed by several female WHM's for never missing refresh

[Ikonic]

I've actually gotten pissed a few BLMs and RDMs for healing before and told them such, but now I understand that they are just helping out and that they generally have mp to spare, whereas I do not.

[Kraion]

Man i didnt realize how bored i was. I cant belive i read that hole thing lol

[Antioc]

It appears as though ive become another victim of Ike's lists, was funny though...and frieghtning. ive seen some of those symptoms ma self[glow=red,2,300]TEXT[/glow]TEXT

[Uduantra]

OMG i cant believe i read that all....and yes i can relate to almost all of it.../sigh