sylphine
BLM : ok, you have a big mp pool. Sry, ppl will never invite you seeing you're even more useless than a mnk or thf in valkurm dunes.
-.-" I hate it when people write off jobs like this. Its just makes the game more crappy all round.
I have a summoner friend (now 75) who went smn/blm through the dunes because he didn't want to be asked to heal. He still got his party invites. Of course things have changed now since the dunes is a lot less populated than in "the good old days". And I do agree that /whm is generally accepted to be the best choice for smn, and I'd recommend you take it
razz But if you want to go /blm... hell why not?
As for Mnk and Thf - Mnk remains a good tank (provided they are /war) until ~lvl25. They are especially handy for second vokes and backing up ninja tanks at these low lvls.
I also don't see how Thf is any worse than any other job at dunes lvl. None of the jobs have access to any powerful abilities, or good weapons/armour (personally I off tanked for my pt as thf/war until 16, but that might just be me being me >.<" ). Why would you take (for example) a drk over a thf? I don't understand that.