I had a fun night last night - I've been lucky enough to be given a subscription so I can play again, and I've finallly got my White Mage crystal. I've been leveling THM for Swiftcast (my next goal is unlocking a Ninja), and so I said 'hey why not an Ifrit run?'
So we go in and the tank spends the entire time running around Ifrit auto-attacking, so I end up pulling almost all of the aggro the entire time (Tiff was also playing THM but she does her rotation backwards [Thunder -> Ice instead of Thunder -> Fire, so my dps ends up being higher). So I do the tank thing and move to a side so his AOE's miss everyone else (except the tank, lol), and the healer (Kristen) gets to work casting Cure every turn on me and boom - done.
Though there were a couple of tight spots (nearly shit myself when he first aggro'd on me like NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO), we got through just fine. And the tank didn't bother commending any of us. Lol.
tldr it's really annoying not being able to get commendations from people you're in a party with when things like that happen
I also desperately want to level my crafting classes and plant goddamn chocobo fruit seeds (I need a black chocobo because it reminds me of that fucking asshole from FFVII!), but that seems like a pipe dream for now, with my almost nonexistant profit margins and lack of company seals for engineering scrolls. >: