Mithra, Galkans, Taru, Humes and Elves of all ages and sex, I come before you to ask a simple question.
Why on Vana'Diel are you running around looking for parties with underleveled subs and sorely out of date equipment?
Do you not realize that not only are you shorting yourself of stats and abilities, but you hurt the party that pities you?
It's one thing to be 28Pld with your War being 15, and you get into a kick butt party in Yhoator and you go from 28 - 32 in the space of a few hours. Okay, you weren't expecting to get 4 levels today, so your sub's off by one level. No problems.
However what is it with people running around 25 Nin/ 7 War? 26 Blm/ no sub. 34 Pld/ 6 War. 34 Whm/8 Blm. etc.....
You lose out on mp, hp, spells, and abilities. You are not an effective player no matter how lucky you are that you got that high.
I've partied with individuals who at 36 were wearing lvl 21 beetle gear on their warriors with a lvl 18 weapon. Granted rings in particular can be worn for several levels and the Kampf gear (hands, legs, feet) for Paladin can be kept a good 15 levels or more.
I've asked people what they are thinking here are some responses.
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"I don't have any gil."
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"All I wanted was the 'Steal' ability, or some other ability or spell"
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"I don't have time."
So all in all, people come on. Level your subs. Please. I personally when setting up a party will never invite a severly underleveled sub job person in. To me, it's a sign of severe noobness. Ranks up there with repetative party seek spams, repetative gil beg spams or any type of repetative spams.