Okay, so I haven't posted in a while. I have slowed down in playing, but when I do I have fun. I have stopped actively leveling my THM. I do level it while doing leves, but of course very very slowly. I don't really mind because at the moment I do not like how THM is played. Maybe I will level up another DoW or DoM - but for now I'm having a blast with Botanist and Cook. Yep, I'm a cook now. I loved making pie dough :D For some reason pie dough sounds more yummy to me, than pie. <.< Anyway, crafting still needs way too many clicks, but they

 reduced the lag greatly, so it's okay. Crafting also lets me watch TV or something while I play. I took up cook because I always enjoyed that most and the linkshell doesn't have any high level cooks.
Botanist also supports cooking greatly and yeah, it just fits together really well.
My BTN is almost 25 now, which is when I will get Level 30 leves, finally. Adventurers get that at 23 already. As I said, I enjoy BTN greatly, however I have been hitting fatigue. And fatigue on BTN means, that I can't even farm because I damage everything I try to chop. This is REALLY annoying. I wouldn't mind less SP, but I don't even hit surplus because the game doesn't let me. Also a reason why I started leveling cook. When I hit fatigue on BTN I just cannot play BTN anymore.

A quite fun screenshot from the Level 20 THM quest, thought I'd share. Poor Lala carrying about 2 tons of books.

 Now these are screenies from the faction leve event I took part in some time ago. While I did have enough points to theoretically take leves, ALL of them, with no exception, gave me nothing but gil as a reward - which I am totally not interested in. I participated anyway, and it was quite fun.

However, I can't help to feel that this game will never live up to FFXI. At least not group play wise, it is just horrible. The targeting is bad, the SP gain for certain classes is bad, healing is mindless AOE spam, it doesn't matter weather you debuff a mob or

 not (normal mob, mind you, not talking about bosses) because they will die either way and it just feels like a bit hassle for SP and not fluent, enjoyable gameplay. Just what were they thinking, I really don't know. Of course I compare it to FFXI, because it's the same company that made both games and battle wise, FFXI was just SO MUCH superior, I can't even describe.
Oh well, but I'm repeating myself. :) My consequence is just that I don't level my DoM because it's not acceptable for me at it's current state.
Okay, what else is new FF - wise? They will have a bigger patch at the end of November, where they introduce a lot of stuff that should have been there at release. <.< Good news? You judge.