Am i really doing this again???

There are two things that i absolutely despise in ffxi.
1) Getting the map of Crawler's Nest.

Of all the retarded quests SE could come up with. This is truly in a class of its own. Long, irritating, expensive(in certain situations), dangerous, and ... oh yeah, LONG! It's no wonder most people just memorize the way down to the basement of Crawler's Nest and get out of there to the desert as fast as possible. Either that or get windower and alt-tab your way to ffxi-atlas.com. ^^ (preferred)

2) Build up Norg fame to quest Utsusemi: Ichi

Of all of the subjobs there are to choose from, there are none as useful situationally for all jobs as ninja. Face it, if you want to play endgame or solo with certain job combinations, you must level ninja. Having shadows which are a guaranteed way to nullify damage in 90% of the situations is a must, not to mention if you plan to level warrior, thief, ranger, bard, and dancer. Unfortunately, there is a matter of getting the spells that will be your greatest asset of the job. Although they are purchasable, in most cases they are cost prohibitive. For most, you must quest those ninja scrolls. (sounds like something out of a bad movie) =/ ... and it is!
The catch is this: you can't just go up to the quest npc's and get the quest. You must attain that elusive and abstract level of acceptance to those virtual characters we like to call "fame." (Like those pixelated bots even care...wtf gimme the darn quest!!!) {side note: people complain about bots... cept SE created them, they're called npc's >.<}
The absolutely retarded part of this story is this, unless you are a high-level job, which isn't the case when you're just starting out getting to level 30, there aren't any quests that you can complete in Norg. What you're left with is (and how the heck would you figure this out) is to go to one of two totally unrelated zones and do and endless amount of repeatable quests there, which are somehow magically linked to Norg. I mean, when's the last time Nana Mhingo set foot in Norg? *shrug
Not only that, but the quest involves getting 4 individually farmed items. They don't stack(which takes up inventory space), they don't drop with every kill, and the zones to acquire these are kinda out of the way. (by "kinda" i mean: a ridiculously irritating run back and forth until you feel like betting on the Chicago Cubs to win the World Series or throwing your Wii controller at the bowling pins you made out of your younger brother and sister)
The only option for a starting character at level 30, with maybe 30 or 35 inventory slots is to spend the most retarded real-life week running back and forth... and back and forth... and back... and forth... and .....

yeah you guessed it... i've got to do it again....*throws the nunchucks....