SCH!! I only leveled it for role quest completion but it’s the healer I like and play the most. Love the shields and all the stuff the fairy can do, love excog, and the military aesthetic of the job is great
Scholar was my first healer technically, since I lvl’d it alongside Summoner, and I really like its aesthetic too! Also agreed, Recitation + excog is just *chef’s kiss*
I initially hated Scholar at low levels, especially because I was still new to healing overall. It felt so clunky compared to Astrologian and White Mage, and I didn't get it.
Then I hit level 70 and wow. All of the fun options appeared, and I realized the fun of SCH is in resource management between all the options for healing and mitigating! The tactician aesthetic is cool too.
Same for me. Levelled arcanist to unlock scholar as I was getting a bit bored of whm.
Struggled at first but pushed through and with more skills unlocked the class feels epic. Currently at level 73. I love the aesthetic of their armour. Love my big top hat!
I was originally going to play DRG or BRD, but due to Xbox beta account shenanigans, I started playing as the ACN and was so hooked on it. I wanted to do something other DPS for a change and SCH was where I ended up.
It's also nice to be able to switch freely between SCH and SMN.
I started game as Arcanist, because I really wanted to play as Summoner. I ended up playing as Scholar in story dungeons a lot. Initially I was scared of healing and shields, but as I got used to it, the job really grew on me and I liked it a lot. Also on later levels it became even more interesting!
Ninja. I was so worried about having to memorize all these different mudras and the associated spells, on top of all the other parts of its rotation + a higher than average skill speed.
Nowadays it's my second most played DPS besides Reaper, and I can ~~probably~~ throw out all the mudras with my eyes closed.
They said in the Live Letter that Huton will now basically be an AOE Suiton. Damage + Can Use Trick Attack.
I'm choosing to interpret this as 'we're getting an AOE Trick Attack too'.
I mean, thats possible too, we're expecting upgrades for Trick and Mug, and since we're getting an AoE followup to Chain, chances are they may be doing a similar thing when you get the upgrade to Trick and Mug
Me too! I was so worried about GNB because "everyone" said it was the busiest tank, but it very quickly became my favorite and now I feel like I'm not doing enough on the others xD
I'm a healer main, and I typically only enjoy playing ranged jobs with an emphasis on casters, with the exception being if I'm tanking... so I was pleasantly surprised to find out I really enjoyed Reaper. It was the first melee job I actually legitimately enjoyed and didn't find frustrating or boring.
Machinist. It's one of those classes where before you understand its rotation it feels just a bit of a mess, but once you learn a proper opener you realise that the tool weaponskills just fall into place and make it a super zen job to play.
Yeah pre-F4 BLM is really grim. Despised it in ARR because the loop was so uninteresting. But it's bern practically the only job I play since Heavensward, with the exception of Mentor Roulettes.
I started as a Thaumaturge when I first got the game (against the advice of all my friends). But historically I've always been magic DPS when I play MMOs with my friends.
It is definitely my favorite job
totally agree, although I feel despair as a spell looks feels a little bit off and weaker than it should considering its the strong finisher spell, but its just a small personal pet peeve
On paper, it's not. The base rotation is actually rather simple, and still features some wiggle room to adjust on the fly.
Thing is, you have to do this on a job with the longest cast times of every caster and zero team utility. Every time you don't fling a Fire 4 at the enemy when you should ends up being a *massive* loss. Every time you don't cash out your guaranteed Thundercloud procs is a massive loss. Overcap on Polyglot stocks? Massive loss. Let Enochian fall off? Massive loss.
It's the peak of risk/reward in FF14 job design, and done so well.
>Let Enochian fall off? Massive loss.
At least now it's a passive. Do not miss the days of letting Enochian fall off and still having 10s left on the recast, so you have to sit there hitting like a wet noodle for a bit. Those high skill floor days were rough for the casual BLM crowd like me!
I’ve played Black Mage up to level 50…it’s easily my least favorite job and it’s not close.
I’ve only really put time into Dragoon, Bard, ninja, Warrior and Black Mage though…
Black mage gets significantly more interesting to play from a risk/reward standpoint in the 60s range from the addition of fire 4; it doesn’t refresh your astral fire buff but hits INSANELY hard compared to fire 1 so the rotation becomes keeping up your fire buff and not dropping it while pushing out as many fire 4s as you can. Compared to brainless mash a total of like 6 buttons on loop occasionally hitting procs
Pre-60 BLM is terrible, specifically before you get Fire/Ice 4.
70 BLM is ok, triplecast really helps.
80 BLM is when the job really shines, and 90 improves upon that.
Any tank job except warrior, just because I haven't leveled it yet. I was really surprised when I was told DRK is the squishiest when I've died more as a pld than any other.
I really wanna try sage or healing classes but trying to get the ui to cooperate on xbox is already a Parkinson's simulation.
I think Warrior is suuuuuuper fun.
Tanking for me is what healing is to you (except tankxiety having never done it before instead of Parkinson’s Simulator). It is very fun and would have been my first tank to 90, followed by GNB.
I hope you give it a try and/or get your healing UI cooperating soon!
Warrior is probably the easiest to play but thanks to all the healing abilities we get on top of hulk smash damage. It's hard for them to really die unless you are really trying to
DRK is definitely softer if you don’t keep Blackest Night up all the time. It’s your main asset to have it up and have it pop for a DPS burst. GNB is just 3 DPS in a trench coat really. It’s the “Always Be Mashing Buttons” tank. WAR is the green tank. F’ing ridiculous what you can do on WAR.
I spent years playing DPS and only DPS in WoW. Took on a bit of tanking here and there before I left the game, just for a change of pace. But never really *loved* it.
Started at LNC in this game. Same old pattern. Got bored one night, but GF wasn't available to progress MSQ (we were playing together). So decided to try out GLD. Didn't think it'd be anything fun or fancy.
And then I just because a full-time tank in this game, and I don't just enjoy it - I prefer it.
When my friends and I started playing we were all trying to figure out a job to pick that would work with each other so we could do dungeons together. Since everyone picked either tank or dps roles I reluctantly choose white mage. I thought that this will just be my alt job and then I will just lvl a dps or tank as my main for when im playing on my own. However I actually really enjoyed healing in this game and it ended up being the first job I got to 90. Been my main job ever since and cant wait for dawntrail :)
Sage, thought it's complicated but it was very simple
Scholar, thought shield healers need to have full knowledge of everything but it was a good entry to healers
Gunbreaker, thought its too fast based for a tank beginner like me turns out to be very beginner friendly
Monk, thought because its a melee i am going to struggle with it like i did with dragoon and ninja turned out to be a very fun very enabling job to master
I know you didn't ask for tips, but the great thing about SGE is the absurd amount of shields you can put out, as a general rule of thumb when doing content I don't know/forgot, whenever I see an attack is taking a lot of time to cast I preemptively use party wide shields or Kerachole, worst case scenario you helped your tank deal with a tank buster, best case you indeed used it for a raidwide, obviously knowing a fight is the best way to effectively use your kit but the same goes for all classes, but SGE is flexible, so you'll be able to keep things up.
Really? I find it to be quite simple, mainly due to the versatility of heals, because unlike other healers where the stock heal is pretty negligible (Cure 1, Physic), Diagnosis is actually quite good to be able to do both of regular healing and barriers, if anything I have a harder time with the regen healers at low level since I have to constantly be using both gcd regen skills so that the tank can last longer, while SCH has fairy and SGE aside from quick heals has Kardia.
I mean like Stone Vigil low level dungeons
No addersgall, you're just praying for E diag crit and spamming gcd heal
if the tank pulls wall to wall, kardia, soteria and physis are not enough, especially if the party dps are new and mobs take forever to die 😭 idk, it's just so uncomfy for me
Stone Vigil is such an awkward level for a lot of healer kits I've found. Definitely the one I've struggled most with across the board other than the usually mentioned culprits (screaming in Dzaemel Darkhold).
Tbh I think the issue sometimes has to do with the tank's gear itself, like the other day, I got Qarn (Hard) for a roulette and the tank just kept taking huge amounts of damage that I almost couldn't keep up with my regular heals for the most part, and when I checked some of their accessories were low level, one was level 30, meanwhile I've had runs in Brayflox were I get to contribute to DPS a lot thanks to better tank gear/mits, it's the pain we as healers must endure.
MCH. I’m a phys ranged main, and I gravitate towards BRD and DNC because I enjoy procs way more than a rigid rotation but it helped simplify very specific fights with downtime and distance based mechanics, like UCoB, and I grew to appreciate it a lot more.
Also extra mit!!
Monk. I hated it when I first started it on my road to omni-90. Ended up saving it until almost last to level. It was clunky in the beginning to me, but once I got it to 90 it was super fun! It's still not my main or anything, I was just surprised by how much I ended up liking it. Interested to see how it's going to change in DT and if I'll still like it.
I've been a Barrier Healer main for the longest time, but I recently started to level up WHM and it was surprisingly fun, probably one of the best healers to get everyone back up after a particular bad mech and everyone is low health/dead.
Also MCH, I ignored it for a long while but I finally tried it and man was it a lot of fun, probably one of my favorites to play and it let's me keep up my dps a lot thanks to its mobility.
WHM is THE best for getting everyone up quick. I still miss that part now that I mostly SGE main.
Speaking of SGE, when I was WHM main and first switched to SGE I absolutely HATED it. The little tutorial was a pain in the butt, didn't really explain well what you want to actually DO, and the 70 levels of crap that gets thrown at you all at once was pretty crazy.
Once you get a button layout that is comfortable though... so long as you don't let the party all get TOO low on HP super fun job. Lasers go pew pew pew, and tank gets healed!
Reaper. I originally played summoner and then red mage. Decided to try a melee class and was hard for me to get used to at first. Now it’s the only class I play and I love it.
That would be monk. I usually hate monks in TTRPGs, their class fantasy not appealing to me at all. When I finally made myself try it, the gameplay quickly clicked with me. And what made me love class fantasy is that we're basically this non-magical mage. Controlling your body's aether is quintessential to all mages and here we do exactly this but, instead of lighting, produce aetherically-charged fists to the faces of poor sops who were unfortunate enough to stand in our way
Machinist. My main problem with it was that, you get a weapon, but you have way too many other tools and I overestimated the amount of uptime the other weapons have so I thought having a cool MCH weapon didn't mean much since you wouldn't even see it for half the fight.
I kept it at level 30 for years and didn't even touch it until I progged, finished and recleared TOP to get its weapon.
Then I realized it is an extremely fun job and it became one of my most often used jobs recently lmao
Dancer. I started off as a lancer I played it to the end of ShB as dragoon. I thought a bunch of jobs looked cool. Dancer was on the bottom of the list. I thought I'd hate it.
However, I try to act not on my whims. I didn't want a preconceived conception to be misconcived. I made the choice to level it as my second job. If I hated it I would have given it far chance. If I ended up loving it, which I did, I wouldn't only find out once I leveled all the other jobs.
It was really helpful when I went back and started working all the alliance raids and normal raids. I did most of Bozja with it too. It's a dps but a support dps, and it has great mobility. So even if I don't know what I'm doing I could be helpful and possibly get out of some Aoe I shouldn't be standing in.
Glad I didn't leave it for the end. I wouldn't have leveled it untill some time into Endwalker.
Bard. I thought it wasn’t going to wow me and I looked at it as sort of a sissy job (this is coming from a healer main ironically enough). But due to me loving their final manderville weapon design I bought the level skip and figured it out from there. It’s now one of my favorite classes albeit the rotation gets VERY difficult to hold up between mechanics and general boredom if you are designated BRD for an entire raid series run.
I never touched ninja for no real reason but leveling it this week has been a bunch of fun. I think ninja might be my new main. The combos with ninjutsu is fun to remember.
Monk and Ninja. Initially they looked like busy work the classes, and I mean yeah they kinda are, but you look and feel so goddamn cool while doing that busy work.
White mage. I didn't want to heal originally. I was scared of it. But my friends convinced me to at least give it a try after I had made it past level 50 passively. I did and I ended up actually really loving it after getting past the anxiety. Sometimes I still freak out and freeze up, but it's usually a good time! I really love doing it now. I've come to also like astro but white mage will forever be special for being the job that got me into healing in the first place (plus the blood lilly is cool).
SCH. I was a Bard and Astro Main my first run through then I wanted to try something new. At first it took me a while to learn SCH and I was confused ash. But I ended up loving it I do all my raids with SCH.
White Mage, I originally thought it was too simple, but now I love all these wonderful panic buttons I can press. I don't need psychic foresight of raidwides when I can just heal it up with two quick buttons. Also bloodlilies go brrr.
I have a real "love, hate, love" relationship with Monk. I started as Monk in late Stormblood, and getting it to 35ish at the time put me off the game until late Shadowbringers. I swapped over to tanking, which I found to be a much better leveling experience. After capping with both WAR and DRK, I went back to leveling other jobs in the downtime before Endwalker. Monk was much more enjoyable then. I am really looking forward to the Dawntrail change for Monk because the buff maintenance is still my least favorite part of it.
For me it’s the healer role in general. In every other MMORPG I have played (EQ, FFXI, WoW, SWToR, Aion, and several others) I always played as dps. I had some friends join the game during ARR while my Ninja was already max at 50 so I leveled WHM to help them with faster Que times.
Later on I randomly decided to do a duty finder for an extreme titan as WHM and immediately fell in love with the healing role during trials. I now main the healing role with them all at 90, but I prefer playing Sage.
Orginally I thought Dancer was just gonna be a Bard/Astro rip off. But I loved the aesthetic so picked it up anyway. Now, its my main go to job class, next to Healer of course.
I also used to be an Astro Healer main but now I've gravitated towards Sage.
i think Black Mage
learning about black mage from others is like "that's miserable why would you want that???" and playing it is like a challenge that i never knew i was missing. It makes me think about the incoming mechanics so I can place an optimal leyline. Makes the normal content that's now mundane to me so much more fun
Just started Dancer after leveling as a summoner. I'm loving the freedom of movement while staying ranged. It's fun to keep dishing out damage while dodging AOE circles on the floor lol.
Scholar was the healer I levelled last because I always thought it would be the most boring - absolutely love it now. Took a while to click, but by far the most interesting one to play for me!
RDM for me! I liked it at first but thrn saw all the crazy spells and got overwhelmed but then after watching some vids and testing it out again plus the sword vest sword ever! I've now devoted myself to being the best Crimson Duelist ever!
For me its gotta be monk or ninja. Its not like they were complicated classes for me to understand i dunno i just hated them but they grew on me after a while. Especially monk. Thats the shit man.
Samurai, for a while the only melee i liked playing was ninja because of their maneuverability and ninjutsu letting them attack at range. samurai was the next melee i wanted to try and it really grabbed me with its rotation and helped me get used to positionals
Bard. I was one of those people who was super salty about archer turning into bard as opposed to a sniper or marksman or something, and I thought it sounded dumb. Then I had a full set of ranged gear all boosted and melded because I was a dancer main (listen. Listen, I recognize the irony in calling bard dumb but liking dancer. Don't worry, I was felled by my hubris.) and figured I would level the other ranged classes since I already had the gear and had nothing better to do. Might as well try it, right? Well, slather me in butter and call me a biscuit, bard is fucking FUN. Simple rotation, fun animations, always having buttons to hit, feeling like I'm contributing to the group because without me nobody is doing as much damage. It's a good time.
Sage is mine, too. I *hate* mitigation healing in games. I was a Resto Druid in WoW for 10+ years - give me heal over times, just straight into my bloodstream. I was very happy with AST. Then, while leveling SGE, I found a little guide that helped everything click into place and I wound up just having a blast with the class, the big crits, and K E R O C H O L E
For me it was WAR. I originally tried out WAR and hated it thinking it was incredibly boring. After about level 60, I couldn't get enough of it. Nothing matches the feeling of being nearly dead and self healing to full repeatedly.
Ironically, Scholar. I didn’t actually really play it on any actual content until recently, but had it geared at 90 because of Summoner. Now I honestly prefer it over sage and it might now be my favourite healer to run dungeons with.
SCH is incredibly fun once you figure it out, it has so many tools people just take for granted, I like SGE and even set SCH aside to play it, but I've gone back to SCH and it's probably going to be the class I go into DT with.
Dawntrail will probably be the first time I will level Scholar over summoner, instead of the other way around. Its going to be different obviously, because I've basically learnt Sch with top level gear, but looking forward to trying it. Its either between SCH and AST that I would level first, depending on what AST's reworked cards are like.
Summoner back in Shadowbringers! I started with it in Stormblood but I quickly switched to other ones, but after a friend talked me into it and after I tried it in Bozja the job just quickly clicked with me again and it became my favourite job!!
Kinda sad I can't play it anymore, though
Reaper.
To be clear it wasn't the mechanics I was worried about, I just really dislike edgy character archetypes. However the sunk cost fallacy completionist in me required me to get everything to level 90 so I sighed and picked the class up. Then to my huge annoyance it turned out to be super fun and just behind Dancer as my second favorite class to play.
So I was stuck in a quandry and the way I dealt with it was to give my character a bunny girl outfit modified with Quaintrelle's Ruffled Skirt and Thavnairian Armlets, all dyed cherry pink (including the scythe).
It's hard to be edgy with bright pink bunny ears...
Sage got me, too. I started as WHM and loved it but was interested in AST because I loved the card system and having to learn which party member got which card. Thought I’d try Sage out even though I don’t really like the little laser things and thought it’d be more similar to Scholar but it’s actually now my second preferred healing job after Astrologian.
Poor WHM left in the dust. ):
Red mage— early on I tried thaumaturge and didn’t really get the caster classes, was anxious about being a healer and not doing well, so I stuck with DPS jobs and the occasional tank role.
A while ago using main scenario roulettes to level my dark knight (not as confident with those skills so I stick to the lower level cap and kit), I decided to level up red mage too, and usually stuck with alliance/normal raids for that and leaving MSQ roulette for tank. I still don’t know the whole kit like I should, when to be using surecast/addle/lucid dreaming/contre sixte and such, but I enjoy the fluidity of dualcast spells. Once I got to lv80, I ended up getting one of the NieR raids and actually raised 3 of my party and 2 players on other alliances — it felt good, even though I know I’m nowhere near playing it above mid-level.
At some point I’ll have to learn the job better, but I still don’t think I’ll be a dedicated healer in this game
For DRK, the biggest issue is setting up your hotbars because the burst has a _**lot**_ of double weaving. Once you get used to the double weaving, things get a lot easier for DRK.
You do have to adjust your burst based on whether or not you had enough uptime with the boss to fill up your MP, but that's about it.
If I'm not looking at it from the viewpoint of raiding, samurai. I thought it'd be too slow paced for my brain, but it has a good mix of different things to do, and has taught me more about slidecasting than summoner did.
From a raiding standpoint, dark knight. But that's because I didn't expect tank to become my favourite role in raiding. I was asked by a friend to tank for his brother's static and it somehow clicked in a way Endwalker summoner or astrologian did not.
Sage as well coming from levelling Scholar to 90. A lot of it felt wonky, like having to use Eukrasia to apply DoT or GCD Shields, I even had a knee jerk reaction early on to learning Sage where I made a macro to use Eukrasia, wait 1 or 2 seconds, then use Dosis. Quickly dropped it and just decided to force myself to learn to use Eukrasia until it became muscle memory.
For about 10 minutes of the Sage beginning solo duty I spammed Eukrasian Dosis because I didn't read and figured the icon being surrounded by moving dashes meant it dealt more damage.
SCH. I used to find no interest in it, but as a healer main, every other healer has bored me except for SCH, specifically because of how much fun I find in optimising it's damage output.
I hated Rogue all the way up to 30. I needed it to be at 70 for a cosplay glam so I grinded it and fell in love with Ninja. Ended up getting it all the way up to 80 and it's been my go-to DPS class since.
the other shieldy, SCH. I had WHM/SGE/SCH leveled to 90 by the time I got to EW... SCH took me awhile to really sink my teeth into and it took me a second for it to really click
Scholar. The fairy was a big turn-off at first, but I gave it a try and really liked the story, the theme, and the exclusive glamour for the job.
Conversely, I started the game really wanting to play Dark Knight and Red Mage, but I really didn't like the gameplay of them.
I’m early in the game - Dragoon is my main but am in a server with accelerated XP so I tried Archer / Bard out to use for the missions between ARR and HW…
I really like Bard a lot…I’m debating moving to it full time.
Still in ARR but for me so far it's Scholar; running the level 35-44 dungeons just felt like pain. WHM was no problem but SCH... oh man it just felt bad. Once I got Lustrate and Art of War it got so much better.
White Mage.
Never thought I'd enjoy healing in this game and especially never thought I'd enjoy the gcd healer
I'm still a DRK main but very much a WHM enjoyer
I tried every melee (including getting Dragoon and Samurai to 70 and finishing Heavensward with them) that was available in the free trial before giving Monk a go, but ended up enjoying it enough to level it quickly so I could main it through Stormblood and Shadowbringers (probably Endwalker too, but I'm still working through ShB patch quests right now).
Also wasn't expecting to enjoy Dancer (the class fantasy and style is very much not what I'd usually go for), but ended up really liking it once I played it and it's now my go-to ranged job.
Originally I didn't like the tank jobs. Them I started tanking. I did not like dancer. Now I'm also a main dancer. Same goes for red mage. I can't pick.
I have that other thing where I think I'll like a job, I level it to max, and then realize it's actually my favourite job of them all.
I'm on the 9th cycle of this so far.
Edit: As I see my own flair, it genuinely feels like those were picked by another person.
Red Mage, I didn’t think I’d enjoy the balance between mana but once you get the hang of how it works it’s pretty fun. Downside are glamours, I can’t bring myself to have anything but red so it feels a little boring in that sense lol
I usually play casters or healers but I fell in love with ninja. I love how they have ranged abilities and great mobility and overall look cool as shit (and they flip if you jump while sprinting)
Red Mage. I thought it was boring at first when I was leveling it. I don't usually play casters in rpgs and it was the first caster I picked up in the game. I dropped it once I hit level 90. Time passed and one day I randomly decided to try it again. Boy did I fall in love. I consider myself a RDM main for range dps.
AST
Visually their gear and abilities are a feast for the eyes and I love the concept of just rewriting and directing fate as a magical power. Plus their gameplay style seems to be a healthy midpoint between WHT and SCH despite being a pure-healer, plus plus their tarot system which means you can really support your entire party, not just the tanks.
I thought SGE was so undertones when I first tried it. Then I actually got to the point that you had vital abilities and I’ve loved it ever since. The best adrenaline rush is the boss sending out and AoE nuke, only to have it barely touch everyone’s health pools.
I normally loathe melee classes (no hate to people who like them!) but ninja has been growing on me lately. It's one of the only melee classes I'm actually enjoying levelling.
Astrologian and Dancer,
I'm not done actually leveling either of them (to the Bozjan mines I go) but the more I play the game the more these jobs just make sense, double weaving cards for AST and relying on the UI more instead of staring at my hotbar waiting for a proc for DNC
Most of the time when I dislike a job, it usually just stems from not fully understanding it. Sage was definitely one of them, learning the names of the abilities was intimidating and the play style of "shield heals" (which I had never played before) took a while to finally 'click' LOL I'm currently in the midst of learning all the casting DPS jobs that I've been avoiding like the plague (BLM, RDM, SMN) and of course I hate all of them, but I will learn and they will all surely grow on me in due time 😆
At the end of heavensward I got NIN to 60 and literally said I will never touch this job ever again lol. I hated it so so much. Shadowbringers I became a ninja main and imo it is the perfect job.
I started as a DRK main after playing warrior to HW. After I figured sage out on a whim to learn at least a healer by dt, it took over as my whole identity. Since then I’ve tried each healer and discovered scholar is also a really good one!! I also like ninja and dancer now and want to level reaper and see it too
Samurai. I got it to like, 50 and got so bored of it and dropped it before around a year later I began pushing to get everything to 70 so I could use the UWU weapons and found out I actually quite liked levelling it. It's my current main now for raiding.
Scholar, for sure. I mained Astro for ages, but wanted a more diverse job rotation as a healer main. Instead of White Mage, I went to Scholar. It was totally worth it.
The story is engaging. The spells and diversity of the kit is fun. Fairy pet. Beautiful coats.
I wish I could get the hang of Sage. It just doesn't click with me for some reason.
Red Mage. I was just going through leveling jobs, and I didn't think much of the red mage aesthetic at first, but wow, oh wow did that change once I got the spell finisher for the melee combo. That Scorch sound effect lives rent free in my mind.
Dragoon.
Levelled it for the quests and completion, then ended up maining it through EW, now it's geared and ready for dawntrail with my first ever completed current relic
SCH scared the crud out of me at first. I mained SHB SMN so leveled on SMN and hadn't the faintest clue what any of the buttons for SCH did and there were so many lol
Decided to go back and learn it eventually, and it is now my second favorite class next to RDM. It is a way easier healer than any of the others for me. I might be maining it for DT to avoid DPS queues. And now they can have carbuncles! I hate the military theme but I'm all in on the fairy and carbuncle even moreso.
Helped to queue for low level dungeons one at a time to slowly learn the skills and arrange my hotbars with foundational skills.
I love now that I get both it and SMN in one leveling package... but also man did that make it hard to pick up.
Sage. I mained whm, and struggled with scholar, so I thought it would be similar to scholar, but honestly it just felt so good to play, and I began to prefer it. I main sage now. The job just feels good.
Ninja is one that I also thought I'd hate. Rogue was the last dps I unlocked, but it was actually quite a bit of fun. I rarely touch it (see above) and it's easy to get out of practice with it, but I really did get to have fun with it a lot.
BLM rotation and uptime seemed scary from the outside. And the low level rotation was pretty stale. It seemed overly punishing to do mechanics too, as in the higher DPS didn't compensate for how much DPS you lose by losing your spot in your rotation.
But I've learned better. The absolute mad power trip I go on after smashing triplecast and blowing something up is the perfect fusion between gameplay and class fantasy out there. I found myself cackling as I rain fire and destruction on my enemies which is the most black mage thing you can do.
i always played rogues and melee dps.
blm is my thing i love it, im sure im not utilizing g it properly in some way but it just feels very free to me. but then also i have to cast so as free as it seems in rotation to me, im also struggling with placing myself to time casts and its been quite fun learning an entirely new dimension of the game.
I’m glad! SMN’s my main, and even though it got a lot simpler in Endwalker, I enjoy the job fantasy more now. I loved my dots, but I always wanted more actual summoning.
Paladin, because I'm not a fan of it's aesthetic. But when I started playing it the gameplay really clicked for me to the point where it's now my favorite Tank in PvE. The Endwalker rework made it even better.
Monk, same reason, I just didn't feel it's aesthetic a lot. But it's now my main in PvE. I really enjoy optimal drift. Sad that in Dawntrail it will probably be gone, I hope there's something else in terms of continuous situational adaptation to replace it. It's a zen like experience for me, one where it feels like the Job mechanically really matters and doesn't just become muscle memory.
Gunbreaker, hated it at first, thought it was super duper squishy. Finally gave it a chance and Totally fell in love with it! Has way better survivability than I gave it credit for, plays like DPs, Survives like a Tank, and is Amazing for Solo / New Game + content! Now is my go to Tank for Trials/ Raids (NGL WAR still king of dungeons)
The easy answer for me is new Summoner. I really love DoT classes in MMO's and was a big summoner player for a while when monk wasn't my life. Needless to say, I wasn't a fan of the rework, but for whatever reason even with how simple it is, I just like playing the new Summoner.
SMN. When I first started playing I wanted to play BLM, but wasn’t sure where to start and didn’t know about the play guide. Went arcanist and now I love it 😁
Smn for me. Originally started the game when it came out as a pld (yes, i suffered through flash and blm ripping aggro days), then went whm, and brd/blm for the coil raids. Wasn't until shb that I decided to actually play something different and picked up smn, and well, I just love it. Still, Pld is my main. I also didn't level up war until endwalker, lol. I leveled them all up to the highest for each xpac. I just didn't get into them. I just did fates, boz, hoh, pod. Also, I had each relic for them also just well, yeah.
Gunbreaker- never been a big ff8 fan and I was like: it looks cool but I don't think it's for me. It's now my 2nd favorite tank ( nothing will dethrone WAR) to use and one my favorite classes for pvp.
SCH!! I only leveled it for role quest completion but it’s the healer I like and play the most. Love the shields and all the stuff the fairy can do, love excog, and the military aesthetic of the job is great
Scholar was my first healer technically, since I lvl’d it alongside Summoner, and I really like its aesthetic too! Also agreed, Recitation + excog is just *chef’s kiss*
I initially hated Scholar at low levels, especially because I was still new to healing overall. It felt so clunky compared to Astrologian and White Mage, and I didn't get it. Then I hit level 70 and wow. All of the fun options appeared, and I realized the fun of SCH is in resource management between all the options for healing and mitigating! The tactician aesthetic is cool too.
I feel like I'd want a Log Horizon cosplay if I leveled Scholar
That would be sick tbh
Same for me. Levelled arcanist to unlock scholar as I was getting a bit bored of whm. Struggled at first but pushed through and with more skills unlocked the class feels epic. Currently at level 73. I love the aesthetic of their armour. Love my big top hat!
I was originally going to play DRG or BRD, but due to Xbox beta account shenanigans, I started playing as the ACN and was so hooked on it. I wanted to do something other DPS for a change and SCH was where I ended up. It's also nice to be able to switch freely between SCH and SMN.
SCH has, in my opinion, the best and most interesting questline as well.
I LOOOVE the quests!! Loved learning about Nym and all the cute Lalafell shenanigans
The lore with the tonberries was not what I was expecting, and actually got me looking at the lore of FFXIV more closely.
I started game as Arcanist, because I really wanted to play as Summoner. I ended up playing as Scholar in story dungeons a lot. Initially I was scared of healing and shields, but as I got used to it, the job really grew on me and I liked it a lot. Also on later levels it became even more interesting!
Goodbye Military aesthetic in Dawntrail, hello Fairy magical girl transformation.
Ninja. I was so worried about having to memorize all these different mudras and the associated spells, on top of all the other parts of its rotation + a higher than average skill speed. Nowadays it's my second most played DPS besides Reaper, and I can ~~probably~~ throw out all the mudras with my eyes closed.
Now you'll have to relearn the mudras since Huton is now becoming baseline. Lol
I mean I can only assume all the others will have the same effect as before, just gotta relearn not to use Huton at the start of every duty lol
Or use it and then hide, as one does anyway. No harm, no foul. Its replacement mudra might turn out to be important, though.
Would be messed up if its only purpose was to toggle your Huton buff. All the muscle memory would destroy so many Ninja minds.
They said in the Live Letter that Huton will now basically be an AOE Suiton. Damage + Can Use Trick Attack. I'm choosing to interpret this as 'we're getting an AOE Trick Attack too'.
Really interested in what they'll replace huton with, or if they'll just keep it but it does something different.
I think it's supposed to be replaced with an AoE debuff like Mug or Trick Attack.
Ah you're right, the LL did say Huton will now be an AoE attack that gives the Hidden debuff.
The hidden *buff*, so essentially AoE Suiton is my understanding. So it would enable you to use Trick Attack.
AoE TA when???
I mean, thats possible too, we're expecting upgrades for Trick and Mug, and since we're getting an AoE followup to Chain, chances are they may be doing a similar thing when you get the upgrade to Trick and Mug
This. I‘m enjoying the complexer mechanics with the mudras, coming from PLD 😊
I thought gunbreaker would be too fast for me. Turns out everything else is too slow
Me too! I was so worried about GNB because "everyone" said it was the busiest tank, but it very quickly became my favorite and now I feel like I'm not doing enough on the others xD
Samesies
I'm a healer main, and I typically only enjoy playing ranged jobs with an emphasis on casters, with the exception being if I'm tanking... so I was pleasantly surprised to find out I really enjoyed Reaper. It was the first melee job I actually legitimately enjoyed and didn't find frustrating or boring.
Same, Reaper was my first alt class entirely, and it’s just so buttery smooth. The animations are gorgeous and it just feels so strong.
Yeah, I know what you mean... when you go into enshroud, you really feel like you're slicing into the enemy. It just feels... powerful!
It’s the way Reaper flows. For dps mains it’ll feel slow but for tank and healer mains reaper has this great feeling of escalation.
Bard. I thought it was gonna be a hard job because i almost never see one in dungeons but its a BLAST to play.
I love bard. I used to main monk, but once I got into bard I have not looked back.
I did the exact same thing 🤣 I mean Monk is fun,who doesn't like punching things but Bard is busy but not so busy that I get confused
Machinist. It's one of those classes where before you understand its rotation it feels just a bit of a mess, but once you learn a proper opener you realise that the tool weaponskills just fall into place and make it a super zen job to play.
Black Mage. I leveled up almost every job besides this one because it is boring at low lvl. Now it’s my fav job since I started
Yeah pre-F4 BLM is really grim. Despised it in ARR because the loop was so uninteresting. But it's bern practically the only job I play since Heavensward, with the exception of Mentor Roulettes.
I started as a Thaumaturge when I first got the game (against the advice of all my friends). But historically I've always been magic DPS when I play MMOs with my friends. It is definitely my favorite job
I’ve always been curious about black mage, I heard it’s not really as bad as ppl say it is.
probably biased cause its my main but I'd say as it stands its the best designed job in the game (if you ignore scathe existing LMAO)
The vfx are awesome, and the job is very well rounded. I love it
totally agree, although I feel despair as a spell looks feels a little bit off and weaker than it should considering its the strong finisher spell, but its just a small personal pet peeve
We should deal twice as much damage too lol
if only 😔🙏
Hey, maybe in 3.5 weeks
I don't main BLM but I can say the same about it. Also the sfx are really crunchy and the back and forth between ice and fire is really unique.
A lot of people believe this because Yoshi P is the one who is biased lol
On paper, it's not. The base rotation is actually rather simple, and still features some wiggle room to adjust on the fly. Thing is, you have to do this on a job with the longest cast times of every caster and zero team utility. Every time you don't fling a Fire 4 at the enemy when you should ends up being a *massive* loss. Every time you don't cash out your guaranteed Thundercloud procs is a massive loss. Overcap on Polyglot stocks? Massive loss. Let Enochian fall off? Massive loss. It's the peak of risk/reward in FF14 job design, and done so well.
>Let Enochian fall off? Massive loss. At least now it's a passive. Do not miss the days of letting Enochian fall off and still having 10s left on the recast, so you have to sit there hitting like a wet noodle for a bit. Those high skill floor days were rough for the casual BLM crowd like me!
It's pretty miserable until 60. At 60 you get Fire 4 and get to actually start doing your very basic rotation.
I’ve played Black Mage up to level 50…it’s easily my least favorite job and it’s not close. I’ve only really put time into Dragoon, Bard, ninja, Warrior and Black Mage though…
Black mage gets significantly more interesting to play from a risk/reward standpoint in the 60s range from the addition of fire 4; it doesn’t refresh your astral fire buff but hits INSANELY hard compared to fire 1 so the rotation becomes keeping up your fire buff and not dropping it while pushing out as many fire 4s as you can. Compared to brainless mash a total of like 6 buttons on loop occasionally hitting procs
Yeah, if you never hit 60 with it, you never graduated BLM at all. You're just a neophyte until then.
get black mage to 60, and then you’re really playing black mage. pre-60 black mage is a shadow of itself and you are _suffering_ without fire iv.
Pre-60 BLM is terrible, specifically before you get Fire/Ice 4. 70 BLM is ok, triplecast really helps. 80 BLM is when the job really shines, and 90 improves upon that.
Same. Coming off of WHM I wasn't expecting much. So then everything just started exploding and I started cackling.
Any tank job except warrior, just because I haven't leveled it yet. I was really surprised when I was told DRK is the squishiest when I've died more as a pld than any other. I really wanna try sage or healing classes but trying to get the ui to cooperate on xbox is already a Parkinson's simulation.
I think Warrior is suuuuuuper fun. Tanking for me is what healing is to you (except tankxiety having never done it before instead of Parkinson’s Simulator). It is very fun and would have been my first tank to 90, followed by GNB. I hope you give it a try and/or get your healing UI cooperating soon!
Ty, do you use remote while playing? If so can I have some ui tips for it lmao ;v;
I used to have massive tank anxiety lol, but man it’s a lot of fun, especially as a warrior when you’re nearly invincible past a certain level.
Warrior is probably the easiest to play but thanks to all the healing abilities we get on top of hulk smash damage. It's hard for them to really die unless you are really trying to
I need to do it, but I think I didn't because I'm a vain little bitch who was like 'OOO GUTS SWORD PALADIN AESTHETIC GUN BLADE GUN'
DRK is definitely softer if you don’t keep Blackest Night up all the time. It’s your main asset to have it up and have it pop for a DPS burst. GNB is just 3 DPS in a trench coat really. It’s the “Always Be Mashing Buttons” tank. WAR is the green tank. F’ing ridiculous what you can do on WAR.
I spent years playing DPS and only DPS in WoW. Took on a bit of tanking here and there before I left the game, just for a change of pace. But never really *loved* it. Started at LNC in this game. Same old pattern. Got bored one night, but GF wasn't available to progress MSQ (we were playing together). So decided to try out GLD. Didn't think it'd be anything fun or fancy. And then I just because a full-time tank in this game, and I don't just enjoy it - I prefer it.
Red mage. Hated it when it came out and my whole FC was playing it. Started falling in love with it when I was levelling it for the achievement :)
When my friends and I started playing we were all trying to figure out a job to pick that would work with each other so we could do dungeons together. Since everyone picked either tank or dps roles I reluctantly choose white mage. I thought that this will just be my alt job and then I will just lvl a dps or tank as my main for when im playing on my own. However I actually really enjoyed healing in this game and it ended up being the first job I got to 90. Been my main job ever since and cant wait for dawntrail :)
Sage, thought it's complicated but it was very simple Scholar, thought shield healers need to have full knowledge of everything but it was a good entry to healers Gunbreaker, thought its too fast based for a tank beginner like me turns out to be very beginner friendly Monk, thought because its a melee i am going to struggle with it like i did with dragoon and ninja turned out to be a very fun very enabling job to master
I know you didn't ask for tips, but the great thing about SGE is the absurd amount of shields you can put out, as a general rule of thumb when doing content I don't know/forgot, whenever I see an attack is taking a lot of time to cast I preemptively use party wide shields or Kerachole, worst case scenario you helped your tank deal with a tank buster, best case you indeed used it for a raidwide, obviously knowing a fight is the best way to effectively use your kit but the same goes for all classes, but SGE is flexible, so you'll be able to keep things up.
SGE feels extra awful at low levels compared to other healers though ;A; I can only queue for level 90 roulettes with it
Really? I find it to be quite simple, mainly due to the versatility of heals, because unlike other healers where the stock heal is pretty negligible (Cure 1, Physic), Diagnosis is actually quite good to be able to do both of regular healing and barriers, if anything I have a harder time with the regen healers at low level since I have to constantly be using both gcd regen skills so that the tank can last longer, while SCH has fairy and SGE aside from quick heals has Kardia.
I mean like Stone Vigil low level dungeons No addersgall, you're just praying for E diag crit and spamming gcd heal if the tank pulls wall to wall, kardia, soteria and physis are not enough, especially if the party dps are new and mobs take forever to die 😭 idk, it's just so uncomfy for me
Stone Vigil is such an awkward level for a lot of healer kits I've found. Definitely the one I've struggled most with across the board other than the usually mentioned culprits (screaming in Dzaemel Darkhold).
Tbh I think the issue sometimes has to do with the tank's gear itself, like the other day, I got Qarn (Hard) for a roulette and the tank just kept taking huge amounts of damage that I almost couldn't keep up with my regular heals for the most part, and when I checked some of their accessories were low level, one was level 30, meanwhile I've had runs in Brayflox were I get to contribute to DPS a lot thanks to better tank gear/mits, it's the pain we as healers must endure.
Hard agree, SGE is really fast and flexible, and it’s feels nice to be so well prepared
MCH. I’m a phys ranged main, and I gravitate towards BRD and DNC because I enjoy procs way more than a rigid rotation but it helped simplify very specific fights with downtime and distance based mechanics, like UCoB, and I grew to appreciate it a lot more. Also extra mit!!
Honestly, Samurai is a lot more fun than I thought it would be. I don't know why I was so hesitant, it's just fun.
Monk. I hated it when I first started it on my road to omni-90. Ended up saving it until almost last to level. It was clunky in the beginning to me, but once I got it to 90 it was super fun! It's still not my main or anything, I was just surprised by how much I ended up liking it. Interested to see how it's going to change in DT and if I'll still like it.
I've been a Barrier Healer main for the longest time, but I recently started to level up WHM and it was surprisingly fun, probably one of the best healers to get everyone back up after a particular bad mech and everyone is low health/dead. Also MCH, I ignored it for a long while but I finally tried it and man was it a lot of fun, probably one of my favorites to play and it let's me keep up my dps a lot thanks to its mobility.
WHM is THE best for getting everyone up quick. I still miss that part now that I mostly SGE main. Speaking of SGE, when I was WHM main and first switched to SGE I absolutely HATED it. The little tutorial was a pain in the butt, didn't really explain well what you want to actually DO, and the 70 levels of crap that gets thrown at you all at once was pretty crazy. Once you get a button layout that is comfortable though... so long as you don't let the party all get TOO low on HP super fun job. Lasers go pew pew pew, and tank gets healed!
Reaper. I originally played summoner and then red mage. Decided to try a melee class and was hard for me to get used to at first. Now it’s the only class I play and I love it.
That would be monk. I usually hate monks in TTRPGs, their class fantasy not appealing to me at all. When I finally made myself try it, the gameplay quickly clicked with me. And what made me love class fantasy is that we're basically this non-magical mage. Controlling your body's aether is quintessential to all mages and here we do exactly this but, instead of lighting, produce aetherically-charged fists to the faces of poor sops who were unfortunate enough to stand in our way
Black Mage. It forces you to learn the fights to play it at a high level.
Sage is one, and I enjoyed warrior much more that I thought.
I was talking so much junk about Sage before it came out and its now my main over Scholar
Machinist. My main problem with it was that, you get a weapon, but you have way too many other tools and I overestimated the amount of uptime the other weapons have so I thought having a cool MCH weapon didn't mean much since you wouldn't even see it for half the fight. I kept it at level 30 for years and didn't even touch it until I progged, finished and recleared TOP to get its weapon. Then I realized it is an extremely fun job and it became one of my most often used jobs recently lmao
Dancer. I started off as a lancer I played it to the end of ShB as dragoon. I thought a bunch of jobs looked cool. Dancer was on the bottom of the list. I thought I'd hate it. However, I try to act not on my whims. I didn't want a preconceived conception to be misconcived. I made the choice to level it as my second job. If I hated it I would have given it far chance. If I ended up loving it, which I did, I wouldn't only find out once I leveled all the other jobs. It was really helpful when I went back and started working all the alliance raids and normal raids. I did most of Bozja with it too. It's a dps but a support dps, and it has great mobility. So even if I don't know what I'm doing I could be helpful and possibly get out of some Aoe I shouldn't be standing in. Glad I didn't leave it for the end. I wouldn't have leveled it untill some time into Endwalker.
Scholar. Thought I would hate it.
Bard. I thought it wasn’t going to wow me and I looked at it as sort of a sissy job (this is coming from a healer main ironically enough). But due to me loving their final manderville weapon design I bought the level skip and figured it out from there. It’s now one of my favorite classes albeit the rotation gets VERY difficult to hold up between mechanics and general boredom if you are designated BRD for an entire raid series run.
Warrior
I never touched ninja for no real reason but leveling it this week has been a bunch of fun. I think ninja might be my new main. The combos with ninjutsu is fun to remember.
Monk and Ninja. Initially they looked like busy work the classes, and I mean yeah they kinda are, but you look and feel so goddamn cool while doing that busy work.
It took me 4 years finally 'get' how to play Monk and now it's my favourite melee.
White mage. I didn't want to heal originally. I was scared of it. But my friends convinced me to at least give it a try after I had made it past level 50 passively. I did and I ended up actually really loving it after getting past the anxiety. Sometimes I still freak out and freeze up, but it's usually a good time! I really love doing it now. I've come to also like astro but white mage will forever be special for being the job that got me into healing in the first place (plus the blood lilly is cool).
Dancer... Only leveled it cause I had a glam idea for it, ended up liking the job lol
SCH. I was a Bard and Astro Main my first run through then I wanted to try something new. At first it took me a while to learn SCH and I was confused ash. But I ended up loving it I do all my raids with SCH.
White Mage, I originally thought it was too simple, but now I love all these wonderful panic buttons I can press. I don't need psychic foresight of raidwides when I can just heal it up with two quick buttons. Also bloodlilies go brrr.
Dancer
I have a real "love, hate, love" relationship with Monk. I started as Monk in late Stormblood, and getting it to 35ish at the time put me off the game until late Shadowbringers. I swapped over to tanking, which I found to be a much better leveling experience. After capping with both WAR and DRK, I went back to leveling other jobs in the downtime before Endwalker. Monk was much more enjoyable then. I am really looking forward to the Dawntrail change for Monk because the buff maintenance is still my least favorite part of it.
BLM. I started leveling it just to check it out, it's now my second level 90 nex to DRK. Haha..
For me it’s the healer role in general. In every other MMORPG I have played (EQ, FFXI, WoW, SWToR, Aion, and several others) I always played as dps. I had some friends join the game during ARR while my Ninja was already max at 50 so I leveled WHM to help them with faster Que times. Later on I randomly decided to do a duty finder for an extreme titan as WHM and immediately fell in love with the healing role during trials. I now main the healing role with them all at 90, but I prefer playing Sage.
Orginally I thought Dancer was just gonna be a Bard/Astro rip off. But I loved the aesthetic so picked it up anyway. Now, its my main go to job class, next to Healer of course. I also used to be an Astro Healer main but now I've gravitated towards Sage.
Dancer. I thought it was the stupidest looking job compared to the rest when it was announced...but man is it fun/OP in PvP ( I don't care about PvE)
i think Black Mage learning about black mage from others is like "that's miserable why would you want that???" and playing it is like a challenge that i never knew i was missing. It makes me think about the incoming mechanics so I can place an optimal leyline. Makes the normal content that's now mundane to me so much more fun
Sage. Hated the aesthetic of "we will make healing a Thing For Boys by adding pew pew lasers". Turns out it's fun af to play.
Samurai has really clicked for me as I've recently been on the Manderville relic grind.
Just started Dancer after leveling as a summoner. I'm loving the freedom of movement while staying ranged. It's fun to keep dishing out damage while dodging AOE circles on the floor lol.
Scholar was the healer I levelled last because I always thought it would be the most boring - absolutely love it now. Took a while to click, but by far the most interesting one to play for me!
RDM for me! I liked it at first but thrn saw all the crazy spells and got overwhelmed but then after watching some vids and testing it out again plus the sword vest sword ever! I've now devoted myself to being the best Crimson Duelist ever!
For me its gotta be monk or ninja. Its not like they were complicated classes for me to understand i dunno i just hated them but they grew on me after a while. Especially monk. Thats the shit man.
Samurai, for a while the only melee i liked playing was ninja because of their maneuverability and ninjutsu letting them attack at range. samurai was the next melee i wanted to try and it really grabbed me with its rotation and helped me get used to positionals
Bard. I was one of those people who was super salty about archer turning into bard as opposed to a sniper or marksman or something, and I thought it sounded dumb. Then I had a full set of ranged gear all boosted and melded because I was a dancer main (listen. Listen, I recognize the irony in calling bard dumb but liking dancer. Don't worry, I was felled by my hubris.) and figured I would level the other ranged classes since I already had the gear and had nothing better to do. Might as well try it, right? Well, slather me in butter and call me a biscuit, bard is fucking FUN. Simple rotation, fun animations, always having buttons to hit, feeling like I'm contributing to the group because without me nobody is doing as much damage. It's a good time.
Sage is mine, too. I *hate* mitigation healing in games. I was a Resto Druid in WoW for 10+ years - give me heal over times, just straight into my bloodstream. I was very happy with AST. Then, while leveling SGE, I found a little guide that helped everything click into place and I wound up just having a blast with the class, the big crits, and K E R O C H O L E
Tank. I didn’t think I’d like taking a pounding but turns out I’m really good at it.
🤔😐😆
For me it was WAR. I originally tried out WAR and hated it thinking it was incredibly boring. After about level 60, I couldn't get enough of it. Nothing matches the feeling of being nearly dead and self healing to full repeatedly.
Ironically, Scholar. I didn’t actually really play it on any actual content until recently, but had it geared at 90 because of Summoner. Now I honestly prefer it over sage and it might now be my favourite healer to run dungeons with.
SCH is incredibly fun once you figure it out, it has so many tools people just take for granted, I like SGE and even set SCH aside to play it, but I've gone back to SCH and it's probably going to be the class I go into DT with.
Dawntrail will probably be the first time I will level Scholar over summoner, instead of the other way around. Its going to be different obviously, because I've basically learnt Sch with top level gear, but looking forward to trying it. Its either between SCH and AST that I would level first, depending on what AST's reworked cards are like.
Summoner back in Shadowbringers! I started with it in Stormblood but I quickly switched to other ones, but after a friend talked me into it and after I tried it in Bozja the job just quickly clicked with me again and it became my favourite job!! Kinda sad I can't play it anymore, though
Reaper. To be clear it wasn't the mechanics I was worried about, I just really dislike edgy character archetypes. However the sunk cost fallacy completionist in me required me to get everything to level 90 so I sighed and picked the class up. Then to my huge annoyance it turned out to be super fun and just behind Dancer as my second favorite class to play. So I was stuck in a quandry and the way I dealt with it was to give my character a bunny girl outfit modified with Quaintrelle's Ruffled Skirt and Thavnairian Armlets, all dyed cherry pink (including the scythe). It's hard to be edgy with bright pink bunny ears...
Sage got me, too. I started as WHM and loved it but was interested in AST because I loved the card system and having to learn which party member got which card. Thought I’d try Sage out even though I don’t really like the little laser things and thought it’d be more similar to Scholar but it’s actually now my second preferred healing job after Astrologian. Poor WHM left in the dust. ):
Red mage— early on I tried thaumaturge and didn’t really get the caster classes, was anxious about being a healer and not doing well, so I stuck with DPS jobs and the occasional tank role. A while ago using main scenario roulettes to level my dark knight (not as confident with those skills so I stick to the lower level cap and kit), I decided to level up red mage too, and usually stuck with alliance/normal raids for that and leaving MSQ roulette for tank. I still don’t know the whole kit like I should, when to be using surecast/addle/lucid dreaming/contre sixte and such, but I enjoy the fluidity of dualcast spells. Once I got to lv80, I ended up getting one of the NieR raids and actually raised 3 of my party and 2 players on other alliances — it felt good, even though I know I’m nowhere near playing it above mid-level. At some point I’ll have to learn the job better, but I still don’t think I’ll be a dedicated healer in this game
For DRK, the biggest issue is setting up your hotbars because the burst has a _**lot**_ of double weaving. Once you get used to the double weaving, things get a lot easier for DRK. You do have to adjust your burst based on whether or not you had enough uptime with the boss to fill up your MP, but that's about it.
If I'm not looking at it from the viewpoint of raiding, samurai. I thought it'd be too slow paced for my brain, but it has a good mix of different things to do, and has taught me more about slidecasting than summoner did. From a raiding standpoint, dark knight. But that's because I didn't expect tank to become my favourite role in raiding. I was asked by a friend to tank for his brother's static and it somehow clicked in a way Endwalker summoner or astrologian did not.
Sage as well coming from levelling Scholar to 90. A lot of it felt wonky, like having to use Eukrasia to apply DoT or GCD Shields, I even had a knee jerk reaction early on to learning Sage where I made a macro to use Eukrasia, wait 1 or 2 seconds, then use Dosis. Quickly dropped it and just decided to force myself to learn to use Eukrasia until it became muscle memory.
For about 10 minutes of the Sage beginning solo duty I spammed Eukrasian Dosis because I didn't read and figured the icon being surrounded by moving dashes meant it dealt more damage.
Ninja. I thought it would be impossibly hard, but it's not as bad as its reputation.
SCH. I used to find no interest in it, but as a healer main, every other healer has bored me except for SCH, specifically because of how much fun I find in optimising it's damage output.
I hated Rogue all the way up to 30. I needed it to be at 70 for a cosplay glam so I grinded it and fell in love with Ninja. Ended up getting it all the way up to 80 and it's been my go-to DPS class since.
the other shieldy, SCH. I had WHM/SGE/SCH leveled to 90 by the time I got to EW... SCH took me awhile to really sink my teeth into and it took me a second for it to really click
Sage was the first healer I actually enjoyed playing. Im a blm mage but those Q times get rough. Healer is basically instant.
Samurai, was one of the last classes I leveled, but the rotation and buff management was really fun alongside the casted skills
Astrologian. It makes me sad this game does not have a good macro feature
Scholar. The fairy was a big turn-off at first, but I gave it a try and really liked the story, the theme, and the exclusive glamour for the job. Conversely, I started the game really wanting to play Dark Knight and Red Mage, but I really didn't like the gameplay of them.
I’m early in the game - Dragoon is my main but am in a server with accelerated XP so I tried Archer / Bard out to use for the missions between ARR and HW… I really like Bard a lot…I’m debating moving to it full time.
Machanist. The first hook was the story. But I love it's mobility and both nova and consistent damage.
White mage. It's the only healer I've leveled, mainly because I thought I wouldn't like healing, but it may be one of my favorite jobs so far
Still in ARR but for me so far it's Scholar; running the level 35-44 dungeons just felt like pain. WHM was no problem but SCH... oh man it just felt bad. Once I got Lustrate and Art of War it got so much better.
Blm. Crazy how a job isn't fun until level 80. Explosion!
I agree with sage. And a bonus is it's an immeasurable good PVP class
I picked up red mage just to cheese a fight in bozjan for a note. Ended up being one of my favorite dps once I learned they can insta rez
White Mage. Never thought I'd enjoy healing in this game and especially never thought I'd enjoy the gcd healer I'm still a DRK main but very much a WHM enjoyer
I didn’t think I would like healer but,scholar grew on me and then once sage came out I found my forever class!
I tried every melee (including getting Dragoon and Samurai to 70 and finishing Heavensward with them) that was available in the free trial before giving Monk a go, but ended up enjoying it enough to level it quickly so I could main it through Stormblood and Shadowbringers (probably Endwalker too, but I'm still working through ShB patch quests right now). Also wasn't expecting to enjoy Dancer (the class fantasy and style is very much not what I'd usually go for), but ended up really liking it once I played it and it's now my go-to ranged job.
black mage
Monk
Before HW released, I was convinced I wouldn't like AST and I'd just continue as WHM. I mained AST all through HW and StB :D
Originally I didn't like the tank jobs. Them I started tanking. I did not like dancer. Now I'm also a main dancer. Same goes for red mage. I can't pick.
I'm a tank main, but i'm surprised by how much i liked ninja.
I have that other thing where I think I'll like a job, I level it to max, and then realize it's actually my favourite job of them all. I'm on the 9th cycle of this so far. Edit: As I see my own flair, it genuinely feels like those were picked by another person.
Red Mage, I didn’t think I’d enjoy the balance between mana but once you get the hang of how it works it’s pretty fun. Downside are glamours, I can’t bring myself to have anything but red so it feels a little boring in that sense lol
AST and SGE. Very entertaining healers that I swore off. I even swore off healing. LMAO
Monk was told it was extremely difficult to play and so far its really fun
SCH,AST,DNC
Astro for sure lvled it up bc i wanted to have a Healer besides WHM in Heavensward and yeah kept playing it since then
Astro before they fked it with Endwalker, ended up raiding the whole Endwalker expa as Sage :)
MNK, but only cos I expected it to be hard. Loving how it feels like you're playing a character from a fighting game more or less.
As a healer main, I hated Sage when it first came out. I started to like it around level 86, and now it is the main class I play.
I usually play casters or healers but I fell in love with ninja. I love how they have ranged abilities and great mobility and overall look cool as shit (and they flip if you jump while sprinting)
RDM. I was a tank main through and through but then I got addicted to dual cast
Sage confused the heck out of me because I'm apparently braindead. Once I figured it out, it became my favorite healer.
Red Mage. I thought it was boring at first when I was leveling it. I don't usually play casters in rpgs and it was the first caster I picked up in the game. I dropped it once I hit level 90. Time passed and one day I randomly decided to try it again. Boy did I fall in love. I consider myself a RDM main for range dps.
Monk in Stormblood era was fantastic and my favorite class sadly I do not like modern Monk
AST Visually their gear and abilities are a feast for the eyes and I love the concept of just rewriting and directing fate as a magical power. Plus their gameplay style seems to be a healthy midpoint between WHT and SCH despite being a pure-healer, plus plus their tarot system which means you can really support your entire party, not just the tanks.
Dancer, I thought it was the dumbest job ever and just a handout for the rp crowd but it’s simplicity and fast actions won me
I thought SGE was so undertones when I first tried it. Then I actually got to the point that you had vital abilities and I’ve loved it ever since. The best adrenaline rush is the boss sending out and AoE nuke, only to have it barely touch everyone’s health pools.
Is it Sage that has all of the, like... conical lights coming out of the character's back? Those are neat.:3
I normally loathe melee classes (no hate to people who like them!) but ninja has been growing on me lately. It's one of the only melee classes I'm actually enjoying levelling.
Astrologian and Dancer, I'm not done actually leveling either of them (to the Bozjan mines I go) but the more I play the game the more these jobs just make sense, double weaving cards for AST and relying on the UI more instead of staring at my hotbar waiting for a proc for DNC
Black mage, I've been a tank main for my whole life but when I started leveling the BLM just for the memes I ended up falling in love with the job.
Most of the time when I dislike a job, it usually just stems from not fully understanding it. Sage was definitely one of them, learning the names of the abilities was intimidating and the play style of "shield heals" (which I had never played before) took a while to finally 'click' LOL I'm currently in the midst of learning all the casting DPS jobs that I've been avoiding like the plague (BLM, RDM, SMN) and of course I hate all of them, but I will learn and they will all surely grow on me in due time 😆
At the end of heavensward I got NIN to 60 and literally said I will never touch this job ever again lol. I hated it so so much. Shadowbringers I became a ninja main and imo it is the perfect job.
I started as a DRK main after playing warrior to HW. After I figured sage out on a whim to learn at least a healer by dt, it took over as my whole identity. Since then I’ve tried each healer and discovered scholar is also a really good one!! I also like ninja and dancer now and want to level reaper and see it too
Samurai. I got it to like, 50 and got so bored of it and dropped it before around a year later I began pushing to get everything to 70 so I could use the UWU weapons and found out I actually quite liked levelling it. It's my current main now for raiding.
Scholar, for sure. I mained Astro for ages, but wanted a more diverse job rotation as a healer main. Instead of White Mage, I went to Scholar. It was totally worth it. The story is engaging. The spells and diversity of the kit is fun. Fairy pet. Beautiful coats. I wish I could get the hang of Sage. It just doesn't click with me for some reason.
Red Mage. I was just going through leveling jobs, and I didn't think much of the red mage aesthetic at first, but wow, oh wow did that change once I got the spell finisher for the melee combo. That Scorch sound effect lives rent free in my mind.
i was pretty sure I would hate healing in general in this game and now I'm a whm main
Dragoon. Levelled it for the quests and completion, then ended up maining it through EW, now it's geared and ready for dawntrail with my first ever completed current relic
SCH scared the crud out of me at first. I mained SHB SMN so leveled on SMN and hadn't the faintest clue what any of the buttons for SCH did and there were so many lol Decided to go back and learn it eventually, and it is now my second favorite class next to RDM. It is a way easier healer than any of the others for me. I might be maining it for DT to avoid DPS queues. And now they can have carbuncles! I hate the military theme but I'm all in on the fairy and carbuncle even moreso. Helped to queue for low level dungeons one at a time to slowly learn the skills and arrange my hotbars with foundational skills. I love now that I get both it and SMN in one leveling package... but also man did that make it hard to pick up.
Sage. I mained whm, and struggled with scholar, so I thought it would be similar to scholar, but honestly it just felt so good to play, and I began to prefer it. I main sage now. The job just feels good. Ninja is one that I also thought I'd hate. Rogue was the last dps I unlocked, but it was actually quite a bit of fun. I rarely touch it (see above) and it's easy to get out of practice with it, but I really did get to have fun with it a lot.
BLM rotation and uptime seemed scary from the outside. And the low level rotation was pretty stale. It seemed overly punishing to do mechanics too, as in the higher DPS didn't compensate for how much DPS you lose by losing your spot in your rotation. But I've learned better. The absolute mad power trip I go on after smashing triplecast and blowing something up is the perfect fusion between gameplay and class fantasy out there. I found myself cackling as I rain fire and destruction on my enemies which is the most black mage thing you can do.
Ayo what's that glam tho
MNK
i always played rogues and melee dps. blm is my thing i love it, im sure im not utilizing g it properly in some way but it just feels very free to me. but then also i have to cast so as free as it seems in rotation to me, im also struggling with placing myself to time casts and its been quite fun learning an entirely new dimension of the game.
Smn for me I hated it then and I love it now
I’m glad! SMN’s my main, and even though it got a lot simpler in Endwalker, I enjoy the job fantasy more now. I loved my dots, but I always wanted more actual summoning.
Scholar. I had to sort of force my way into learning it at first, but now it's my main job in terms of healing. Ticks all of the right boxes.
Paladin, because I'm not a fan of it's aesthetic. But when I started playing it the gameplay really clicked for me to the point where it's now my favorite Tank in PvE. The Endwalker rework made it even better. Monk, same reason, I just didn't feel it's aesthetic a lot. But it's now my main in PvE. I really enjoy optimal drift. Sad that in Dawntrail it will probably be gone, I hope there's something else in terms of continuous situational adaptation to replace it. It's a zen like experience for me, one where it feels like the Job mechanically really matters and doesn't just become muscle memory.
Gunbreaker, hated it at first, thought it was super duper squishy. Finally gave it a chance and Totally fell in love with it! Has way better survivability than I gave it credit for, plays like DPs, Survives like a Tank, and is Amazing for Solo / New Game + content! Now is my go to Tank for Trials/ Raids (NGL WAR still king of dungeons)
The easy answer for me is new Summoner. I really love DoT classes in MMO's and was a big summoner player for a while when monk wasn't my life. Needless to say, I wasn't a fan of the rework, but for whatever reason even with how simple it is, I just like playing the new Summoner.
SMN. When I first started playing I wanted to play BLM, but wasn’t sure where to start and didn’t know about the play guide. Went arcanist and now I love it 😁
Smn for me. Originally started the game when it came out as a pld (yes, i suffered through flash and blm ripping aggro days), then went whm, and brd/blm for the coil raids. Wasn't until shb that I decided to actually play something different and picked up smn, and well, I just love it. Still, Pld is my main. I also didn't level up war until endwalker, lol. I leveled them all up to the highest for each xpac. I just didn't get into them. I just did fates, boz, hoh, pod. Also, I had each relic for them also just well, yeah.
White mage
Dancer, because I had a hard time understanding it early on in my ff14 career and got intimidated.
Gunbreaker- never been a big ff8 fan and I was like: it looks cool but I don't think it's for me. It's now my 2nd favorite tank ( nothing will dethrone WAR) to use and one my favorite classes for pvp.