What Is The Most ... In FFXI?

I surprisingly found myself conversing w/ Google's search "AI Mode" and having some fun talking about FFXI. I was trying to see what information it would get right, get wrong and if it would accept corrections. It was surprisingly fun. and it turns out to be a constant yes-man and accepts corrections. I'm not sure if it will make it better. I'm curious what answers others will get if they approach the information I fed to it.

However, I wanted to throw out some questions to the community which were fun and curious to get answers to.

What are the best support jobs (in order) for Physical Weaponskill Damage?

What are the best support jobs for Magical Weaponskill damage?

What is the most versatile job in FFXI?

I'm going to avoid the best dd, and best tank, cuz I think those have been argued to death. :D

cor cor and cor :)

1 and 2 if just ws damage; GEO SMN BRD COR RDM(fury frailty malaise)

1 and 2 If you include gaining tp it changes to COR BRD GEO SMN RDM(sam and war roll)

1 and 2 if you include tp gain, and include that said support must also be the ONLY source of haste, it's GEO BRD COR SMN RDM(Indi haste, haste, frailty/malaise)

Most versatile is BLU, or RDM, depending on how define it. Both tank, heal, buff, debuff, cover all elements, BLU has AOE without sub blm, RDM has zero tp feed and 2 additional weapons, daggers and archery.
(I would argue for bst, if it weren't so limited by call beast timers)((Bst tanks, heals, buffs, debuffs, has pierce/blunt/slash/magic damage))

Cor is too big of a candidate for front and back line support with damage dealing capabilities.

A close second would go to Dnc. Healing and some support with much better physical damage and front line support.

Bed is third imo. Better support but less DD.

sorry sorry if its not clear.

Not a support job as in cor, brd, geo, rdm to be in the party to help deal damage... what support job maximizes damage as in /blm /drk /war /drg /nin /dnc

I know we say subjob all the time, but the game term is actually support job.

Though I do find those lists pretty interesting as well.

That was definitely unclear

Not even a discussion then. Best sub is nin or dnc, tp bonus offhands. Period. (kc if you're feelin froggy)

DRG if you cannot dw, or your main has default dw

/drg for phys if atk capped, /war otherwise
/nin or /dnc for magic, staff ws excluded
probably /dnc again for utility that doesn't rely on sub-level magic skill

you are 100% correct since the first 3 replies all had the other interpretation. I was unclear.

I would also say, the last questions about versatility, was not about subjobs. though thats interesting too.

makes me wonder how AI deal with lots of bad or opinionated data. can definitely agree the couple times I used it for actual FFXI game information it was happy to be completely wrong even when corrected. lots of things are subjective or misinterpreted and I'm certainly guilty myself of putting some bad data out there at least more than once :)

If you mean sub jobs then it depends on the main job imo.

Best is probably War because it's sort of in the middle and every job find something useful in War. Probably best for versatility. You get smite, berserk and DA for damage dealing, defender, warcry and provoke for tanking.

Drk is for jobs without smite and when you need that Drk stub magic. Especially when they need extra attack.

Otherwise Drg is the best sub for higher WS damage overall.

Why are so many people shortening SuPport job as suB job?

I am not sure. I just gonna blame that strategy guide I bought from GameStop back in 2002.

Is that the one that said only Drk is a real dd job and others jobs are not as strong as Drk.