BST
it was my first job to 99. i would play it more often but my inv hates me nowadays.
DRK
2nd job 99. very fun to have big hp, dread spikes, self healing + skillchaining ws. it can also technically break the hp cap.
MNK
was first job i started soloing things on. high hp, getting hit with less ws is great, can counter alot of auto attacks thrown at you.
BLU
Blue is unbeaten for me because it is a very unique job.. & it can do alot of unique things, even things like removing tp from mob & plague, insane cures (ive done upto ~2147 restoral (self cure spell only) & 1500-1600 white winds)
magic barrier - 500-600 stoneskin for magic dmg.
Can also deal great dmg while keeping mobs petrified. allowing for some weird cleaving, especially in dyna D. (entomb)
while it has to use JA to skillchain with spells or burst with them, bursting with the hybrid ele spells can do ALOT of damage. over 50k in limbus, 99999 on some other things like apex, warders.
SAM
TP gain is so fast it feels like i'm im a properly buffed party when solo. Seigan/3rd eye is also a bit underrated.
SAM, DRK, MNK, BLU all can laugh off alot of attacks. but Blue Mage is the only job where i can aggro things and not have to worry about it much.
Your Most Fun Jobs To Play, And Why?
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Your most fun jobs to play, and why?
BRD. Because I always get buffed.
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Because when i nuked on blm the SE server exploded
Cerberus.Dekar said: » PLD: Few people want to tank and it also functions as a healer. It lets my friends have more flexibility with their jobs. I like being able to fill in any role that's needed. PLD is actually surprisingly fun to play. I've never played a tank job before (I guess back in 75-era I did level my Ninja to nearly 70 as a blink-tank, but I did the TP in SH, WS in Haubergeon thing so it was actually fun and more like a DD than a true, turtle-tank thing) but recently leveled PLD and starting playing cos it seemed no one else really wanted to (like you said) and I've had a ton of fun playing it so far... in 75-era and even pre-Majesty, I'm not sure I would have liked the job much, but now it's really fun. I feel pretty untouchable in most scenarios and can easily hold a ton of stuff that would flatten me in seconds in a turtle set on any other job. I haven't even played around a ton with stuff like Shining One/GS or Ullr builds but just with Excal/Burtgang it's a lot of fun. I haven't played RNG actually since Hover Shot was added... but this was my first/main job since 75 days and I always enjoyed the shooting-at-range type of play, so when DM2 and other similar HTMB came out that saw RNGs returning to this style back in like 2013, I was sooo stoked and had a ton of fun. BLU and RDM are also lots of fun and have tons of potential without needing a parties worth of support. I do most things nowadays on BLU just because of the utility and sheer amount of things I can do.
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hmmm....my most fun job to play...now what to pick... :P
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Bahamut.Celebrindal said: » hmmm....my most fun job to play...now what to pick... :P
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Beastmaster- at 75 cap I was always impressed with the BSTs who made it to 75 and endgame, and the things the job could do solo, which no other job could do. I actually didn't play the job seriously until my wife joined the game in 2011, then I absolutely fell in love with it, learning the world and scouting, exploring, in ways that other jobs didn't really do. Even without Charm and using jug pets, beastmaster was my favorite. Square-Enix hasn't made it easy for us, from the end of 2015 with the Ready distance nerf, and a series of stupid job balance adjustments, but for me BST is a labor of love, and I'll continue to do what I can on the job. FFXI pet gameplay is the best of any MMO, and to me, of the three pet jobs, BST is the most enjoyable to play. Playing the job, you are like a one-man army, very cool kit even if it's not always the most powerful. I wish we'd get better gearing and BST-only axes and shields, but you can do a lot with beastmaster these days (though that's true of most jobs today, in fairness).
Dragoon- I've always enjoyed this job. It's had its ups and downs, hasn't had the consistent love from S-E like samurai, but the class fantasy, the iconic purple armor, jumps, the wyvern, it's so good. When fully buffed it plays very well, good balance of TP gain, skillchains, WS damage, etc. Scholar- the job design, when you compare it with the other mages, WHM/BLM/RDM, is extremely interesting and IMO has the most appeal. I need to play SCH more, I put it down for a while since we stopped using SC/MB strats, but I recently picked it back up and am having a blast relearning the job. Ninja- my first 75 job. Back in the day I was early on the "NIN as a DD-focused tank" wave. Like dragoon, another iconic Final Fantasy job, and it has a neat kit, Utsusemi, "casting" without being a magical caster. Katanas are one of the coolest weapon types, great animations. I still play this job occasionally. Honestly it needs a redesign to make it a viable 3rd/4th tank option. We are never getting that, of course, but having PLD/RUN be the two dedicated tank jobs while ninja has been pushed to the margins sucks, and XI is worse for it. Shiva.Alikara said: » DD BRD is, surprisingly, a lot of fun. I've heard stories of people tossing BRD REMA, to never have to play the job again, but I wonder how many of them picked up a Naegling and sported Bunzi/Ashera for maximum damage. Also can get decent hybrid -DT%, so I've found it more durable than COR in some situations. Heck yeah, built a BRD on my only alt for the buffs, but I got hooked on the rest of its potential to DD and more. Ended up just finding it to be a surprisingly good time when I paid it more attention, and now I sometimes like playing only on that character on BRD (and I did get hooked and got the gear lol, Ashera and Volte STP gear and all!). When you can really focus on all of BRD's abilities it just feels active and engaging in a fun way - and since you can contribute in so many ways it's pretty satisfying to be simultaneously... providing major party buffs, while adding significant DPS, while helping with crowd control (sleeps, debuffs), maybe pulling mobs or even coming /WHM and adding even more of a support element (while still single wielding away lol). Ninja.
Cancelling a higher tier shadow buff to cast a lower tier utsusemi (San to Ni) in a high-damage physical fight is still one of the most exciting things to pull off. Never getting hit through shadows is like an elite status of perfect gameplay, and shadow tanking is the most unique style of damage mitigation the game has really ever seen. The only sad part is these types of encounters are ultra rare nowadays (basically reserved only for certain MT). Still ultra fun style of play imo. I wish more high-stakes shadow tanking fights made a return. THF was my 2nd 75 job, because I was poor and thought it would help make money better (didn't really make farming crawler silk that much less painful). It is still one of my favourite jobs and I keep it geared even if I never use it. I tried doing Kin as BRD+THF once and died at 3% or so but I wasn't playing at my best (and I don't bot heal on the BRD). If I could get that down I would use it for that.
Kin should be extremely easy on geared THF even solo (with trusts), so not sure what was your problem with BRD. Unless you mean you had 4 buyers doing nothing. Still with brd you can probably easily floor Kin's accuracy, so there would be barely any reason to cure.
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