Can’t recommend arcanist enough. You get a healer and dps all in one. So short queue and lots of learning experience plus a solid learning dps and healer all in one nice little package.
@@LeftyPencil So here's how it works. You see on any starting class you get, you get that classes experience gained. Examples - You gained X Marauder/Arcanist/Conjurer experience. That line of text continues even after you pick up the respective job advancement for those classes (Warrior/Summoner/Scholar/White Mage). Arcanist is unique in this situation as at 30 they get both the option to become a Summoner (ranged magical dps) or Scholar (healer). As both jobs gain Arcanist experience, whether you're leveling up a Summoner or Scholar, you're getting Arcanist experience, not Summoner/Scholar experience. Because of this, despite whichever of the two you level up, you'll naturally be leveling the other option as well due to the Arcanist experience gain. If you level this class, when you advance to a job and you continue leveling, check your job page. You'll see you have the same level of the other job you didn't choose to level.
I don't understand how astro and blm is harder than monk , once you see how monk is actually played with its rotation you'll see that you have to make another tier below D
Your videos helped me when I was on free trial, now that I just started Heavensward (a beginner, no less), this is exactly what I was looking for. I started as Summoner and I'm having a lot of fun so far (I'm lvl 60), but I'm definetly trying some of these A and S tier later on (Warrior and Red Mage to be precise). Thank you for your considerations through the video, it helped me a lot.
Just in terms of fun, SMN starts pretty good and only gets better. If you do get the game, I don't think you'll regret taking SMN to cap first. It also feels _amazing_ in pvp right now.
Do warrior for sure. It’s nice to have a different role you’ll que super fast as tanks for roulettes to level it up fast. It’s also really nice to place both ranged and melee classes to get different perspectives on the encounters across the game. Good luck!
WAR is really fun as a tank. I started out with monk and did warrior to help with my tank anxiety. The pros of that job is you can heal while being tanky. Redmage is the combo of black and white mage. It's really fun.
Glad to see dragoons placing. I feel like I'm going MAD on my controller most of the time trying to optimize damage .. I'm pressing a LOT of buttons. Always had me curious how much more busy a job can really get. I've only played like 4 jobs seriously.
Started at the end of Shadowbringers as WHM, switched to AST at 50 and SGE at 70. Felt like Goldie Locks looking for that perfect porridge; WHM was too slow, AST was super busy, but SGE was a good balance. Enough to do so your not bored, but not overwhelming like AST can seem sometimes(plus lasers)
i started with white mage actually and i’m very happy i did. Sure some may say it’s “boring” but for a fresh brand new player, it was enough to manage and did not find it too boring. Queue times are very fast. the longest i’ve waited was like 2 minutes but usually queues were instant. and the beginning of the MSQ was a very cute and wholesome experience for me :) healer class is, in my opinion, a great class to learn the game. FF14 is a very busy game (compared to what i’m used to in ESO, only 2 hot bars versus… at least 3 in the endgame) and i feel like i learned about how the combat mechanics work with ease. white mage is much easier than scholar. healers also have to do dps too which makes it more interesting. TLDR; white mage is a beginner, new player friendly starting class and i’m very happy i picked conjurer lmao. plus a fairy forest is cozy to walk around in
I’ve leveled BLM, RDM, DNC, and Sage. I felt like Sage was easy to learn, once I watched a few videos and played around with all of the skills. It’s by far the best job I’ve played in FFXIV so far.
Agree! It seems like a lot at first but once you learn the abilities it's extremely intuitive. Plus the aesthetics and sound effects are simply unmatched. It's my favorite job as well :)
Found my place with dragoon. It is surprisingly simple once you get around the Ogcd order and the Positionalls are very good to hit sincenthey don't Force you to continuously move from hear to flank from 2 to 2 seconds
I'm a 10-year FFXIV veteran, and yesterday I made a new character to run ARR as Thaumaturge/Black Mage. The absolute hardest thing about this is simply staying alive. Black Mage is quite powerful in DPS terms, but so squishy in HP terms, and so immobile. If you stay on level with the MSQ, it can be very challenging to not die, especially when so often the area you must enter to do MSQ is also hosting a FATE. It happened several times between level 1 and level 19, which is where I got during the first session.
Writing this before watching: For a melee DPS, I think SAM has become a lot more beginner-friendly since its release. However, the level 50 requirement to play it leaves me thinking DRG is the absolute best. Next easiest would be RPR; lastly, NIN and MNK are hardest, and so not what I would suggest for a new player.
SAM and RPR are definitely way easier than the other 3 melees, but IMO RPR is easier than SAM. You just have so much leeway for everything, you have a 10% hp shield + regen every 30 sec, you're tankier with maiming tier armor, and there's no part in your rotation where you're really that busy. Enshroud is faster but you're just spamming 3 buttons basically. You have less room for mistake as SAM as you really don't want to drift your big hitting abilities out of the buff windows, you're a bit squishier, you have 2 buffs to manage (although it's easy in EW) and your rotation is overall busier. But yeah, they're both in the easier classes category.
When I started back in 5.2 I chose Conjurer bc I wanted to not eat shit in the field bc my knowledge of mmos was nonexistant. I LOVE white mage but god I wish they gave it some love in Endwalker like turn down Assize or Tetras lv to lv49 or something every other healer has enough ogcds to heal between casts but whm only has Bene. Which is on a 3minute cooldown so its reliable exactly once. Scholar has 3 lustrates, Ast ED and multiple regens whereas whm only gets medica2 at 50. White Mage needs something at lower levels.
As a WHM main and a sprout as well as someone who is new to the group content aspect of all MMOs, I can highly recommend WHM to those wanting a short queue times for MSQ, the ability to ignore all DPS mechanics (you still have to dodge AOEs), and a feeling of weight on your shoulders knowing that you are the last line of defense for your party not to wipe.
Lancer is the same 1-30 its 5 weapon skills over and over that look like an upward slash and then 30-50 you slowly get dragoon skills but nothing really interesting until later
I'm fairly new to FF14 but have played a lot of MMO's. I usually play a "traditional" healer but tried Scholar (because it unlocked as I was playing astrologian. I tried Scholar just to get Grand Company credits easier (Class in Need bonus) and after about two dungeons it seemed to flow fairly easily for me. I'm not max level so maybe that changes, but up to level 60 it's really not that hard to keep a group vertical. I very much liked the insight to each class, great video.
Dragoon to be honest is often depicted as a beginner class since it has high armor and an easy rotation early on and pretty streight forward to play. Only fails you can make is your jumping timing and that was made easier with the shortening of the animation
DRG is pretty simple through ARR but then it starts going off the rails from there. I leveled the class for class quests (DRG being my favorite flavor) and by 60 I was ilvl scumming roulettes because I didn't want to try ShB on content with a DRG.
the only thing i'd have changed probably would be red mage, the utility caster, super easy rotation, dual cast res, healing, it's definitely solid, but i can understand the A for the late introduction
warrior is best beginner friendly for tanks, but gotta say paladin is also beginner friendly if you're gonna play casually but pretty big brain to optimize
i dont mean to sound rude, but i think you forget just how long the MSQ is when placing these jobs. you get dozens of hours to get used to each class' expansion's toolkit, and that greatly helps you familiarize yourself with the job's rotation. leveling 1-80 with DRG and WHM simultaneously (generally DRG thru MSQ content and WHM in dungeons/trials), i got what i thought was rather skilled with both. the only real issue i had learning was that i forgot to use my raid buffs because i had it on some esoteric Shift+CTRL+E bind and out of the way, as well as not aligning my personal buffs with raid buffs and instead acted generally as if i was playing solo without any consideration of others' raid buffs. neither of these are problems with the class itself, nor do i think high-end complexity itself is any indication of whether or not something is "beginner friendly," as it still takes likely hundreds of hours to even get to where the jobs get complex. in other words, the absolute amount of practice you get with these jobs is more than enough to teach a new player their job in a comfortable way, to the point where these jobs become boring due to their repetition.
dont get me wrong, i agree with BLM's placement; it's unique in how it interacts with new content. yet classes like DRK, DRG and GNB i feel are placed too low.
I absolutely agree that Astrologian is kind of busy, but I think if you can pass that, it is actually the easiest healer to play (but I have a mmo mouse so that might be it). Just my own experience.
Uhh what? How is it easier than whm? Astro is not only busy but you also gotta learn your cards and target the right people while watching party HP and attacking the boss. Not to mention the fight knowledge you need to have in order to make good use of earthly star, horoscope, and macro
@@TheOptimistDelusion I was exited about learning the draw system at first, but I quickly demystified it and it turned out to be quite mundane once figured out. As long as my priorities are... 1. Heals 2. Buffs 3. Dps ... in that order, everything feels fluid and flexible; I never feel out of option. I personally find the White Mage a bit clunky compared to AST. That's just my own experience, but I suspect people who prefer to pay more attention on supporting the group and less on damaging enemies will find AST easier to play than WHM (if being busy is not an issue for them).
@@argosfe7445 A bad whm will undeniably contribute more to healing and dps than a bad ast. Less things to juggle means less things to mess up, simple as that
@@TheOptimistDelusion Now that I think of it, maybe the mana buff across all healers and the blood lilly changes make WHM less clunky. I might have to try WHM with the changes. That said, before 6.1 AST felt much easier to me. Maybe that's just me. *shrugs*
Nicely done! I didn't find myself disagreeing strongly with any of your choices, but feel one needs to add a caveat. The easiest job for me is the one I have the most fun playing. If I'm having fun I don't notice technical difficulties because I'm enjoying myself and am motivated to keep at it. For example, I agree with you that Summoner is technically easier than Red Mage but personally I find Red Mage more fun. A friend of mine finds Summoner more fun and would say that is easier. We're both right because it's a matter of preference. I think people should be encouraged to experiment with different jobs to see what works for them.
I am a warrior and dragoon player. I believe that dragoon is more of a B tier job. The rotation on its own is very straight forward but there are a lot of CDs to keep track of, which can be daunting for some people. As a controller player, it took some time for me to get used to it.
anyone can presss buttons as dragoon. The idea is to do your positional,OGC and align your buff to maximize dps. Many classes do this but I feel for DRG is pretty mandatory to keep up with other classes. Namely samurai and monk
Leveling summoner now as an alt and I have to agree. Its rotation is set pretty early and does good, consistent damage. Even more so, outside of 1-2 minor things, its pretty much impossible to really mess up your dps. You are a walking 90% parse as long as you keep uptime. Even with WAR you can easy overcap resources if you aren't being intentional. SCH is definately takes some learning to get a handle on so I'm not sure if its the biggest selling point except that you get the healer role quests done without having to level another one. Bonus points: Astro and SCH are two of the only jobs have have solid class stories.
Idk about drg being c tier, it's not very hard, has a very static rotation. Easy to learn as you gain more skills while leveling, and has plenty of room for improvement as you get better at the game. I'd place it in A or S for a starting job imo.
@@yammez1 DRG is really not hard to master. I'd argue it's the easiest. You could make a case for SHB Dragoon, where you had to play around with Mirage Dive timings to delay Life Cycles for buffs. But now that it's been streamlined to being a 2mn burst job, you simply execute the opener and hit everything roughly on cooldown. I've cleared Asphodelos fights on every melee znd I can guarantee there is zero player expression and zero thought required to play it well.
@@BlobFGC Being streamlined to 2 min burst is every job. You could make this argument about any job. At least DRG has the animation locks to keep it relatively interesting.
As someone who wanted to heal and started the game as a SCH, astro was the easiest job in the game to learn in comparison to SCH and WHM. My brain could not understand those at all, especially SCH.
As a newer player, I have been playing BLM through the msq ever since I started and now im currently level 60 near the end of HW. I recently began to understand the difficulty when I realized that fire iv doesn't refresh enochian. I get nervous whenever i see the max level job gauge
I’ve just started doing Savages as a BLM and it’s definitely a lot to learn but everything is introduced to you a step at a time allowing you to learn it thoroughly if you put the effort in!
unfortunately that also means double the gear required. if you're swapping between SMN and SCH every 2-5 levels, you're going to be quickly undergeared on one or both of your jobs. one might just say tomestone gear, but you don't get tomestones that fast if you're not doing MSQ, and you don't need XP if you're doing the MSQ
how is monk in the same level of dificulty than dancer and machinist. somethings off here. you need to manage and keep a 18s DoT and a 15s DMG buff, you have lots of decisions to make on each fight just because your normal rotation is not the usual 1-2-3. you dont have a ranged attack to keep uptime so its the most greed heavy class along with BLM, meaning you have to use your stacks of thundeclap masterfuly. depending on your opener, and on the fight , you need to use diferent chakra beast combinations, messing up your chakra beast gauge is a big F on your rotation most of the time. running monk on skill speed higher than 1.94 feels awful, not to mention since its the highes skill speed oriented class, if you dont have Excelent ping, you can forget about double weaving, making your bursts super awkward because you wont be able to weave a lot of forbiden chakras, making you lose dps.
Guess im just an elitist or a masochist or both. This list only helped confirm for me that the classes i want to try the most are Dark knight, Ninja, Astrologian, and Black Mage lol
Sick, I started with BLM and started a DRK as soon as I could try that. Never thought I was having less fun than possible but I guess I don't know what the grass was like on the other side.
i switched to "whatever comes before summoner i forgot and i dont care" thinking "i wana play dps, but i wana rush through msq, so why not? healer for dungeons, dps for anything else, EZ" didnt think for a moment that summoner was bad for raiding. abit clunky and weird sure, but it wasnt a coinflip between clear or 0.1% enrage. now with endwalker, its my recomendation for doing endgame for the first time.
My choices for starting jobs: Tanks: PLD WAR and GNB and DRK tied with last. Heals: WHM and AST tied in first and SCH and SGE tied last mgDPS: RDM BLM SMN rDPS: DNC MCH BRD meDPS: SAM NIN RPR MNK
I actually main WAR, RDM, and WHM. I think WAR is great, but we talking as a starter. And tanking as war in early and mid game requires knowing more tools than what is required for PLD.
I played through msq with blm and wouldn’t do it over. When I started playing other classes though i found some of them kind of boring compared to the trials I had been through hardcasting for 3 seconds.
MCH was so hard to get into. No clear rotation to gleam from just reading the abilities nor any good way to manage keybindings to fit how I laid it out for every other job. You need to watch a guide on how to play it and why you do stuff in certain orders before you can even begin to do damage. In the end it might be strait forward but the first few levels are really confusing.
I've wanted to play FFXIV so bad and have always wanted to be BLM. Almost a decade ago, I would watch videos on the game and watch videos on BLM. A few years ago, I started FFXIV and chose BLM. I have been BLM ever since and will always be BLM. I love it. And it isn't as bad leveling as people say, but in difficult content, it is easily far and away much more difficult than every other job in the game. I've played RDM, DRG, SMN, and a bit if NIN, but none of them feel like BLM. It is so rewarding and no other job requires me to put that level of effort in. But as fun as it is, it is equally stressful at times. But it's amazing and I love it. It's definitely the worst beginner job, but it's a job everybody should try. It operates so differently than the rest of the game, which is both a good and bad thing.
Doesnt matter if you cant start with red mage class but nothing beats red mage. i go all in for redmage. why you ask ? cause he give you seizures with all the animations, he can magic of color black, he has unlimited times instant rezz, and not only that but he got fucking style and got a rapier and is pecking the enemies with that in melee.
After leveling all job while at least understanding how to min max each, here’s my recommendation for trying out jobs For healer, start with whm, then you have the choice of going AST or sch. If you prefer the barrier healing instead, SAge is the step up from Sch for pure preventive healing. For tank, start with warrior, then drk, then you have a choice of going a more party utility paladin or one more focus on dishing out dmg as GNB DPS wise, dancer, smn, drg, bard are good starter, drg can progress into monk, dancer can sorta progress into reaper, but yeah dps are mostly unique and not as homegenised as tank/healers
Bro sage is S. its an entry level barrier healer because they need 2 healer jobs for beginners to play, WHM/SGE entry level regens/shields , AST/SCH advanced.
I think it's probably because monk has a VERY specific combo, that the game basically tells you what to do next. (Only being able to use certain moves in certain stances). Dragoon has a lot of things that occur outside of the main rotation, like jumps and whatnot. This is coming from someone who both started with dragoon and rarely plays monk, so idrk.
hmm what did i do? so i started out with arcanist and thought it was going to be a healing class (didn’t know about jobs stones) so i dropped it because i didn’t want to do that… then I created a gladiator… got bored of that didn’t really like tanking that much, then i created a black mage and whew i fell in love with that class instantly.
On the topic of drk starting at lvl 30. I actually agree with that. Id like people to learn the job before being thrown into a dungeon with them. I didn't use to feel that way until I lvled rpr. Learning a job that starts at lvl 70. That was a lot of buttons to learn. I haven't even tried to figure out sage.
If you learn SCH you’ll understand sage. It’s all just managing your charges for ogcds and shielding damage before it hits. It’s almost more learning the fights than the class in a lot of fights. Plus Haima and Panhaima are amazing
Sorry, I‘m a complete noob, so can you explain why it‘s a hard decision for a Paladin when to trade some DPS for a self heal? It‘s a tank, so whenever healing is necessary, it‘s mandatory (unless the healer is providing it). It‘s not really a question, is it? If that means that the fight will take 1% longer due to the missing DPS, who cares (apart from endgame speedrunners, probably)?
Just started playing Astro (I’m a sprout) after playing summoner until lv 65. It has been a terrible ride so far. The job is a lot of fun but there are so many things to take care of that it gets overwhelming. I force myself to play conservatively and keep the tank at full health. If I get greedy the party wipes. Definitely a tough learning curve that requires a lot of apologizing in party chat.
Hard disagree with Red Mage. I think the main issue with the job from my perspective is how it starts at level 50 with so many spells at the ready. It’s a lot to get into for a new player for sure. I will also say that Scholar is definitly harder to play than Astrologian (Ast main here) Sure, Astrologian is busy, but what makes the Scholar hard is how stressfull things become once people really need to be healed. I feel like Scholar requires you a bit to keep a shield on people at all times. Because once they’re at less than 50% health, its really nervewrecking. Astrologian doesnt really struggle like that. Healing is easy, especially now. And healing is it’s main job afterall.
I mostly agree with your take on RDM. As a new player myself I had to really ask for a lot of help from friends when I first started playing RDM just to understand the basic ranged rotation, with doublecast and everything. And since it starts at 50 I would say it is one of the more difficult jobs to learn straight off the bat.
If there was a tier below D I would put BLM there. Its leveling process is brutally difficult compared to the other jobs, it changes identity completely every 10 lvls, and is far and away the most demanding job in the game. Especially at end game content. Astro would still be in D-tier. I also tend to think that monk & ninja are worse starter jobs than Dragoon. Form & mudra management alone make them much more difficult to manage. DRG having a lot of oGCDs (especially so early) is a wonderful thing for beginners IMO. It teaches them the importance of the GCD and weaving abilities. DRG was my first job from 1-60, and I would actually have it be my absolute top recommendation choice for those level ranges. Beyond 60 it gets drastically more difficult and at that point I would move it down two tiers from S. Also... going through HW for the first time on DRG is prime from a story standpoint.
I got back in ff14 last I played was before stormblood when I got back game really chage.now I don't have to lvl up other tank class to unlock there skill now they by lvl up and they remove spells and skills I had to relearn my jobs and learn new rotation. And I never been a fan of war tanks if I tank I use drk pld and going to try gunbreaker
disagree with drg he is way easier then that. disagree with reaper he is probably the easiest melee. disagree with mnk he is deffiently harder then drg maybe the same as nin. disagree with ast he is way easier then sch and sage
as a DRG main i can honestly say it's more about getting a flow going. their rotation is literally a mobius loop of skills :P as for reaper, i'm still very much learning it, but the first thing i noticed is they are GREAT at crowd controlling. DRG has a sort of limited set of GCD skills and they're all Line AoE's requiring pretty specific positioning, where reapers can get into the middle of the melee and just go ham. one on one, DRG all the way. in crowds and dungeons, Reapers tend to shine a little brighter :)
😂 I don't get this vid . I know u can buy classes. But for now a clueless player. But u recommend white mage but u need lvl 30 conjurer to unlock it. If I'm a new player I will not have a single clue where I can get a white mage. Some other classes u need a complete main story to unlock. U put 20 classes when reality is only like 7 and they have different names.
Imo, I would clarify to new players first that the healing and tank roles are kinda advance level and the majority of the DPS roles are beginner friendly. Lots of new players ignoring the positions of the enemies and facing them at the party, not using AOE to pull and maintain agro, and forgetting to turn on tank stance. Healing same thing most new players just spam healing and don't even put DOTS on anything. Maybe there's lack of understanding or not reading the tool tips? Idk.
to me any job is fun most jobs are addicting. its all about learning stupid game mechanics. from level 1-55 there really is no mechanic accept a gold floor. but from 60-90 some jobs can be harder then others because of mechanics. black mage and astrologian could be the two hardest jobs. astrologian is actually fine but the card sytem.
This isnt really a list of the "best job for a new player" it is really just a "tier list of the most simple job" keep in mind not every new player wants to play a simple job, espc if they come from other MMOs. I still havent hit max lcl (i have BLM at lvl 71 and DKN at 60) and the idea of starting on a class like warrior sounds super boring to me, tbh if i would have followed that advice i probably would have quit the game.
free trial player here, I started the game on BLM and i'd honestly put it at the bottom of C instead of D. yes, it is hard, and yes, it completely changes play style from 50 to 60. but imo a big part of what makes BLM difficult (at least what I can tell from talking to ppl) is how different it is compared to other jobs. starting w/ BLM makes that much easier since u end up learning the game through the eyes of that job. it's def not for everyone, and it's still p hard, but imo it's not that bad.
for intro jobs I think gnb and drk should be swapped due to continuation making moving a boss rather difficult during 30s, as well as reaper and drg seem low for jobs that you just press the glowy button for, especially drg
Well, actually, I think that samurai might be one of the worst jobs to start with, but the reason is not so obvious. It depends on the person's goals. If someone just wants a chill dps job to play and enjoy story and content, samurai might be the best, but if you really want to become a better player(melee dps specifically) samurai is a bad choice. This is because samurai is just so simple and forgiving, that there is practically no necessity to try hard. There is not much room to improve and not much stuff to improve(come on, we have like 4 oGCD right now, thats a joke) This is why I consider dragoon to be the best beginner(dps side) job. Because it has a solid learning curve and offers an opportunity to become better. You start slow, get more and more abilities. You learn what oGCD is, then what is double weave, obvious way to optimize and improve rotation by flexing with buffs. On top of that you get badass gear and good job story which is great to progress alongside HW. You can choose, how much try harding you actually wanna do with dragoon and you will find ways to improve your performance
Your vidéo is based on your personal expérience and i definitely don't agree with you about the last tank( which should be S tier like the warrior) so your vidéo is not objective at all
"5 straight seconds of casting during combat is wrong"
*anxiously hard casting flare on blm*👀
I felt this.
Can’t recommend arcanist enough. You get a healer and dps all in one. So short queue and lots of learning experience plus a solid learning dps and healer all in one nice little package.
Is there a way to queue as a healer? I'm placed as DPS by default. Perhaps level locked?
I read it available at lvl30?
@@LeftyPencil So here's how it works. You see on any starting class you get, you get that classes experience gained. Examples - You gained X Marauder/Arcanist/Conjurer experience. That line of text continues even after you pick up the respective job advancement for those classes (Warrior/Summoner/Scholar/White Mage). Arcanist is unique in this situation as at 30 they get both the option to become a Summoner (ranged magical dps) or Scholar (healer). As both jobs gain Arcanist experience, whether you're leveling up a Summoner or Scholar, you're getting Arcanist experience, not Summoner/Scholar experience. Because of this, despite whichever of the two you level up, you'll naturally be leveling the other option as well due to the Arcanist experience gain. If you level this class, when you advance to a job and you continue leveling, check your job page. You'll see you have the same level of the other job you didn't choose to level.
I don't understand how astro and blm is harder than monk , once you see how monk is actually played with its rotation you'll see that you have to make another tier below D
Your videos helped me when I was on free trial, now that I just started Heavensward (a beginner, no less), this is exactly what I was looking for. I started as Summoner and I'm having a lot of fun so far (I'm lvl 60), but I'm definetly trying some of these A and S tier later on (Warrior and Red Mage to be precise). Thank you for your considerations through the video, it helped me a lot.
Just in terms of fun, SMN starts pretty good and only gets better. If you do get the game, I don't think you'll regret taking SMN to cap first. It also feels _amazing_ in pvp right now.
Do warrior for sure. It’s nice to have a different role you’ll que super fast as tanks for roulettes to level it up fast. It’s also really nice to place both ranged and melee classes to get different perspectives on the encounters across the game. Good luck!
Thank you guys, I just bought the latest expansion and I'm going all the way to 90 now, I'll try the other jobs for sure.
WAR is really fun as a tank. I started out with monk and did warrior to help with my tank anxiety. The pros of that job is you can heal while being tanky. Redmage is the combo of black and white mage. It's really fun.
Glad to see dragoons placing. I feel like I'm going MAD on my controller most of the time trying to optimize damage .. I'm pressing a LOT of buttons. Always had me curious how much more busy a job can really get. I've only played like 4 jobs seriously.
Yeah, endgame goon is busy. Especially after we can double weave. Oh God.
Started at the end of Shadowbringers as WHM, switched to AST at 50 and SGE at 70. Felt like Goldie Locks looking for that perfect porridge; WHM was too slow, AST was super busy, but SGE was a good balance. Enough to do so your not bored, but not overwhelming like AST can seem sometimes(plus lasers)
Oh really now ? Here i though AST is busy that make me not bored of them. Fun to make our eyes keep open
Astro might be busy, but the buffs mechanic is so fun I honestly don't care
What are the abbreviations? I’m new to the game and haven’t gotten them all done yet
I started as a BLM, now I will go to RDM.
@@aerieleah533 As a BLM is so cool when the buff accelerate my spells, in combination with Ley Lines, is almost insta cast lol 😆
i started with white mage actually and i’m very happy i did. Sure some may say it’s “boring” but for a fresh brand new player, it was enough to manage and did not find it too boring. Queue times are very fast. the longest i’ve waited was like 2 minutes but usually queues were instant. and the beginning of the MSQ was a very cute and wholesome experience for me :) healer class is, in my opinion, a great class to learn the game. FF14 is a very busy game (compared to what i’m used to in ESO, only 2 hot bars versus… at least 3 in the endgame) and i feel like i learned about how the combat mechanics work with ease. white mage is much easier than scholar. healers also have to do dps too which makes it more interesting.
TLDR; white mage is a beginner, new player friendly starting class and i’m very happy i picked conjurer lmao. plus a fairy forest is cozy to walk around in
Great video bro the only thing i would say is Monk is definitely in the C tier with Dragoon and ninja. That job is not really beginner friendly.
As someone who was a Bard main from level 1, transitioning to being a Reaper main was so smooth and satisfying. I love Reaper's ease of use
I’ve leveled BLM, RDM, DNC, and Sage. I felt like Sage was easy to learn, once I watched a few videos and played around with all of the skills. It’s by far the best job I’ve played in FFXIV so far.
Agree! It seems like a lot at first but once you learn the abilities it's extremely intuitive. Plus the aesthetics and sound effects are simply unmatched. It's my favorite job as well :)
Found my place with dragoon.
It is surprisingly simple once you get around the Ogcd order and the Positionalls are very good to hit sincenthey don't Force you to continuously move from hear to flank from 2 to 2 seconds
I'm a 10-year FFXIV veteran, and yesterday I made a new character to run ARR as Thaumaturge/Black Mage. The absolute hardest thing about this is simply staying alive. Black Mage is quite powerful in DPS terms, but so squishy in HP terms, and so immobile. If you stay on level with the MSQ, it can be very challenging to not die, especially when so often the area you must enter to do MSQ is also hosting a FATE. It happened several times between level 1 and level 19, which is where I got during the first session.
Writing this before watching:
For a melee DPS, I think SAM has become a lot more beginner-friendly since its release. However, the level 50 requirement to play it leaves me thinking DRG is the absolute best. Next easiest would be RPR; lastly, NIN and MNK are hardest, and so not what I would suggest for a new player.
i find mnk easiest, you quite literally cant gimp your combo now
I think the thing with dragoon is if ur maining it since lvl 1 it has a clean learning curve during your long road of leveling
SAM and RPR are definitely way easier than the other 3 melees, but IMO RPR is easier than SAM. You just have so much leeway for everything, you have a 10% hp shield + regen every 30 sec, you're tankier with maiming tier armor, and there's no part in your rotation where you're really that busy. Enshroud is faster but you're just spamming 3 buttons basically.
You have less room for mistake as SAM as you really don't want to drift your big hitting abilities out of the buff windows, you're a bit squishier, you have 2 buffs to manage (although it's easy in EW) and your rotation is overall busier.
But yeah, they're both in the easier classes category.
@@SemperVII yeah, I wrote it messy, but I think easiest to hardest now is:
1. DRG
2. RPR
3. SAM
4. NIN
5. MNK
@@StriderZessei nah, dragoon on number 3 or 4. You clearly haven't played end game dragoon.
Whm is extremely boring levels 1-50 imo, actually 0 ogcds, almost made me drop the game
When I started back in 5.2 I chose Conjurer bc I wanted to not eat shit in the field bc my knowledge of mmos was nonexistant.
I LOVE white mage but god I wish they gave it some love in Endwalker like turn down Assize or Tetras lv to lv49 or something every other healer has enough ogcds to heal between casts but whm only has Bene. Which is on a 3minute cooldown so its reliable exactly once. Scholar has 3 lustrates, Ast ED and multiple regens whereas whm only gets medica2 at 50. White Mage needs something at lower levels.
For real
Fr it's so annoying :/
As a WHM main and a sprout as well as someone who is new to the group content aspect of all MMOs, I can highly recommend WHM to those wanting a short queue times for MSQ, the ability to ignore all DPS mechanics (you still have to dodge AOEs), and a feeling of weight on your shoulders knowing that you are the last line of defense for your party not to wipe.
Lancer is the same 1-30 its 5 weapon skills over and over that look like an upward slash and then 30-50 you slowly get dragoon skills but nothing really interesting until later
I'm fairly new to FF14 but have played a lot of MMO's. I usually play a "traditional" healer but tried Scholar (because it unlocked as I was playing astrologian. I tried Scholar just to get Grand Company credits easier (Class in Need bonus) and after about two dungeons it seemed to flow fairly easily for me. I'm not max level so maybe that changes, but up to level 60 it's really not that hard to keep a group vertical. I very much liked the insight to each class, great video.
Dragoon to be honest is often depicted as a beginner class since it has high armor and an easy rotation early on and pretty streight forward to play. Only fails you can make is your jumping timing and that was made easier with the shortening of the animation
DRG is pretty simple through ARR but then it starts going off the rails from there. I leveled the class for class quests (DRG being my favorite flavor) and by 60 I was ilvl scumming roulettes because I didn't want to try ShB on content with a DRG.
@@TheGreektrojan i love how cracked out drg rotation becomes
@@imbawling yeah everything feels so nice and colorful when you learn to weave those jumps into the rotation
It's easy in the beginning but gets pretty crazy after lvl 60
I started as summoner and fell asleep in a dungeon
the only thing i'd have changed probably would be red mage, the utility caster, super easy rotation, dual cast res, healing, it's definitely solid, but i can understand the A for the late introduction
I started as Thaumaturge/Black mage
warrior is best beginner friendly for tanks, but gotta say paladin is also beginner friendly if you're gonna play casually but pretty big brain to optimize
i dont mean to sound rude, but i think you forget just how long the MSQ is when placing these jobs. you get dozens of hours to get used to each class' expansion's toolkit, and that greatly helps you familiarize yourself with the job's rotation. leveling 1-80 with DRG and WHM simultaneously (generally DRG thru MSQ content and WHM in dungeons/trials), i got what i thought was rather skilled with both. the only real issue i had learning was that i forgot to use my raid buffs because i had it on some esoteric Shift+CTRL+E bind and out of the way, as well as not aligning my personal buffs with raid buffs and instead acted generally as if i was playing solo without any consideration of others' raid buffs.
neither of these are problems with the class itself, nor do i think high-end complexity itself is any indication of whether or not something is "beginner friendly," as it still takes likely hundreds of hours to even get to where the jobs get complex. in other words, the absolute amount of practice you get with these jobs is more than enough to teach a new player their job in a comfortable way, to the point where these jobs become boring due to their repetition.
dont get me wrong, i agree with BLM's placement; it's unique in how it interacts with new content. yet classes like DRK, DRG and GNB i feel are placed too low.
I absolutely agree that Astrologian is kind of busy, but I think if you can pass that, it is actually the easiest healer to play (but I have a mmo mouse so that might be it).
Just my own experience.
Uhh what? How is it easier than whm? Astro is not only busy but you also gotta learn your cards and target the right people while watching party HP and attacking the boss. Not to mention the fight knowledge you need to have in order to make good use of earthly star, horoscope, and macro
@@TheOptimistDelusion I was exited about learning the draw system at first, but I quickly demystified it and it turned out to be quite mundane once figured out.
As long as my priorities are...
1. Heals
2. Buffs
3. Dps
... in that order, everything feels fluid and flexible; I never feel out of option.
I personally find the White Mage a bit clunky compared to AST.
That's just my own experience, but I suspect people who prefer to pay more attention on supporting the group and less on damaging enemies will find AST easier to play than WHM (if being busy is not an issue for them).
Astro is not easier than WHM lmao
@@argosfe7445 A bad whm will undeniably contribute more to healing and dps than a bad ast. Less things to juggle means less things to mess up, simple as that
@@TheOptimistDelusion Now that I think of it, maybe the mana buff across all healers and the blood lilly changes make WHM less clunky.
I might have to try WHM with the changes. That said, before 6.1 AST felt much easier to me. Maybe that's just me. *shrugs*
Nicely done! I didn't find myself disagreeing strongly with any of your choices, but feel one needs to add a caveat. The easiest job for me is the one I have the most fun playing. If I'm having fun I don't notice technical difficulties because I'm enjoying myself and am motivated to keep at it. For example, I agree with you that Summoner is technically easier than Red Mage but personally I find Red Mage more fun. A friend of mine finds Summoner more fun and would say that is easier. We're both right because it's a matter of preference. I think people should be encouraged to experiment with different jobs to see what works for them.
I am a warrior and dragoon player. I believe that dragoon is more of a B tier job. The rotation on its own is very straight forward but there are a lot of CDs to keep track of, which can be daunting for some people. As a controller player, it took some time for me to get used to it.
anyone can presss buttons as dragoon. The idea is to do your positional,OGC and align your buff to maximize dps. Many classes do this but I feel for DRG is pretty mandatory to keep up with other classes. Namely samurai and monk
@Omega Storm he's a controller player. Don't even bother trying to tell him how to play properly. He is forever going to be a casual.
@@gainsdolph6225 lol take it easy killer machine, we know you are a beast
WHM is so nice to start with. Loved it, but after 2 years break.... I have no idea how to play again!
I really enjoy Warrior, he had great selfheal and the aoe MP bomb he had pre crossclass skills balance was fun
best starting class is arcanist imo, summoner is braindead after rework and you get a free healer for instant queues
Leveling summoner now as an alt and I have to agree. Its rotation is set pretty early and does good, consistent damage. Even more so, outside of 1-2 minor things, its pretty much impossible to really mess up your dps. You are a walking 90% parse as long as you keep uptime. Even with WAR you can easy overcap resources if you aren't being intentional.
SCH is definately takes some learning to get a handle on so I'm not sure if its the biggest selling point except that you get the healer role quests done without having to level another one.
Bonus points: Astro and SCH are two of the only jobs have have solid class stories.
Idk about drg being c tier, it's not very hard, has a very static rotation. Easy to learn as you gain more skills while leveling, and has plenty of room for improvement as you get better at the game. I'd place it in A or S for a starting job imo.
Yeah, this is not a great list.
It's easy to learn, hard to master. It is a difficult job, but the perfect one to learn how it feels to play melee DPSs.
@@yammez1 DRG is really not hard to master. I'd argue it's the easiest. You could make a case for SHB Dragoon, where you had to play around with Mirage Dive timings to delay Life Cycles for buffs. But now that it's been streamlined to being a 2mn burst job, you simply execute the opener and hit everything roughly on cooldown. I've cleared Asphodelos fights on every melee znd I can guarantee there is zero player expression and zero thought required to play it well.
@@BlobFGC Being streamlined to 2 min burst is every job. You could make this argument about any job. At least DRG has the animation locks to keep it relatively interesting.
@@yammez1 MNK has been streamlined to 2mins but still has a decently high skill ceiling. You cannot make this argument about any job.
As someone who wanted to heal and started the game as a SCH, astro was the easiest job in the game to learn in comparison to SCH and WHM. My brain could not understand those at all, especially SCH.
Right?? Im leveling Scholar now (Ast main) and I am really struggling in some dungeons
Thanks for the video. I started 30day trial yesterday on PS4, lol. I have years of MMO experience so I'm hoping for the best.
As a newer player, I have been playing BLM through the msq ever since I started and now im currently level 60 near the end of HW. I recently began to understand the difficulty when I realized that fire iv doesn't refresh enochian. I get nervous whenever i see the max level job gauge
I’ve just started doing Savages as a BLM and it’s definitely a lot to learn but everything is introduced to you a step at a time allowing you to learn it thoroughly if you put the effort in!
SMN/SCH also have double the job quests which means easy XP.
unfortunately that also means double the gear required. if you're swapping between SMN and SCH every 2-5 levels, you're going to be quickly undergeared on one or both of your jobs. one might just say tomestone gear, but you don't get tomestones that fast if you're not doing MSQ, and you don't need XP if you're doing the MSQ
Scanning through this video and comment section is a nightmare as a new player, the symbols and the abbreviations are completely alien to me 😂
The timestamp a help a ton tho, enjoyed the video
how is monk in the same level of dificulty than dancer and machinist. somethings off here. you need to manage and keep a 18s DoT and a 15s DMG buff, you have lots of decisions to make on each fight just because your normal rotation is not the usual 1-2-3. you dont have a ranged attack to keep uptime so its the most greed heavy class along with BLM, meaning you have to use your stacks of thundeclap masterfuly. depending on your opener, and on the fight , you need to use diferent chakra beast combinations, messing up your chakra beast gauge is a big F on your rotation most of the time. running monk on skill speed higher than 1.94 feels awful, not to mention since its the highes skill speed oriented class, if you dont have Excelent ping, you can forget about double weaving, making your bursts super awkward because you wont be able to weave a lot of forbiden chakras, making you lose dps.
Guess im just an elitist or a masochist or both. This list only helped confirm for me that the classes i want to try the most are Dark knight, Ninja, Astrologian, and Black Mage lol
Sick, I started with BLM and started a DRK as soon as I could try that. Never thought I was having less fun than possible but I guess I don't know what the grass was like on the other side.
i switched to "whatever comes before summoner i forgot and i dont care" thinking "i wana play dps, but i wana rush through msq, so why not? healer for dungeons, dps for anything else, EZ" didnt think for a moment that summoner was bad for raiding. abit clunky and weird sure, but it wasnt a coinflip between clear or 0.1% enrage. now with endwalker, its my recomendation for doing endgame for the first time.
Is this guys background Levi Ackerman? If so I like his style 😎
I remember ARR days when you have to stance dance and players are afraid to touch WAR.
My choices for starting jobs:
Tanks:
PLD
WAR
and GNB and DRK tied with last.
Heals:
WHM and AST tied in first
and SCH and SGE tied last
mgDPS:
RDM
BLM
SMN
rDPS:
DNC
MCH
BRD
meDPS:
SAM
NIN
RPR
MNK
I actually main WAR, RDM, and WHM.
I think WAR is great, but we talking as a starter. And tanking as war in early and mid game requires knowing more tools than what is required for PLD.
Black mage is the best starting class and here is why.
Because it isn't
I used it through the whole MSQ. It made me a better player. I’m sure of it.
I played through msq with blm and wouldn’t do it over. When I started playing other classes though i found some of them kind of boring compared to the trials I had been through hardcasting for 3 seconds.
Just started as a lancer an the rotation isn't that bad at all, easily beginner A tier, jmo
MCH was so hard to get into. No clear rotation to gleam from just reading the abilities nor any good way to manage keybindings to fit how I laid it out for every other job. You need to watch a guide on how to play it and why you do stuff in certain orders before you can even begin to do damage. In the end it might be strait forward but the first few levels are really confusing.
Especially when comparing it to RDM which is extremely strait forward. They even color coded it's abilities xD
All I could think of while listening to this guy talk... "For lunch we have something cool like a cigarette."
I've wanted to play FFXIV so bad and have always wanted to be BLM. Almost a decade ago, I would watch videos on the game and watch videos on BLM. A few years ago, I started FFXIV and chose BLM. I have been BLM ever since and will always be BLM. I love it. And it isn't as bad leveling as people say, but in difficult content, it is easily far and away much more difficult than every other job in the game. I've played RDM, DRG, SMN, and a bit if NIN, but none of them feel like BLM. It is so rewarding and no other job requires me to put that level of effort in. But as fun as it is, it is equally stressful at times. But it's amazing and I love it. It's definitely the worst beginner job, but it's a job everybody should try. It operates so differently than the rest of the game, which is both a good and bad thing.
Doesnt matter if you cant start with red mage class but nothing beats red mage. i go all in for redmage. why you ask ? cause he give you seizures with all the animations, he can magic of color black, he has unlimited times instant rezz, and not only that but he got fucking style and got a rapier and is pecking the enemies with that in melee.
It is fire indeed ! Would have granted it S spot but cannot place it above a Summoner at the moment
After leveling all job while at least understanding how to min max each, here’s my recommendation for trying out jobs
For healer, start with whm, then you have the choice of going AST or sch. If you prefer the barrier healing instead, SAge is the step up from Sch for pure preventive healing.
For tank, start with warrior, then drk, then you have a choice of going a more party utility paladin or one more focus on dishing out dmg as GNB
DPS wise, dancer, smn, drg, bard are good starter, drg can progress into monk, dancer can sorta progress into reaper, but yeah dps are mostly unique and not as homegenised as tank/healers
Bro sage is S. its an entry level barrier healer because they need 2 healer jobs for beginners to play, WHM/SGE entry level regens/shields , AST/SCH advanced.
What? Dragoon harder than Monk? I totally disagree with that
I think it's probably because monk has a VERY specific combo, that the game basically tells you what to do next. (Only being able to use certain moves in certain stances). Dragoon has a lot of things that occur outside of the main rotation, like jumps and whatnot. This is coming from someone who both started with dragoon and rarely plays monk, so idrk.
hmm what did i do?
so i started out with arcanist and thought it was going to be a healing class (didn’t know about jobs stones) so i dropped it because i didn’t want to do that… then I created a gladiator… got bored of that didn’t really like tanking that much, then i created a black mage and whew i fell in love with that class instantly.
I hope next expansion the make a class that has a tank/dps split similar to scholar summoner.
what about healer /tank?
Healers have to sadly deal with the crappy party frames and targeting system.
Astro on console is a nightmare
‘Down, down, down, down, card’
@@ragingsensei275 You can use keyboard and mouse on console, and you can use a controller on PC.
As a Spanish speaker I couldn’t stop hearing the color morada every time he would say marauder 😂
Good content!
Loved the Witcher 3 music 🎶
On the topic of drk starting at lvl 30. I actually agree with that. Id like people to learn the job before being thrown into a dungeon with them. I didn't use to feel that way until I lvled rpr. Learning a job that starts at lvl 70. That was a lot of buttons to learn. I haven't even tried to figure out sage.
If you learn SCH you’ll understand sage. It’s all just managing your charges for ogcds and shielding damage before it hits. It’s almost more learning the fights than the class in a lot of fights. Plus Haima and Panhaima are amazing
That Levi background 👌🏼🤙🏼😁
I wish, as a begginer, to understand what the symbols mean
Fun how you have each starting zone in S tier for every role. 😂
50 minute queue for monk for castrum meridianum made me nope away from dps. (pre patch)
Sorry, I‘m a complete noob, so can you explain why it‘s a hard decision for a Paladin when to trade some DPS for a self heal? It‘s a tank, so whenever healing is necessary, it‘s mandatory (unless the healer is providing it). It‘s not really a question, is it? If that means that the fight will take 1% longer due to the missing DPS, who cares (apart from endgame speedrunners, probably)?
1 year late, but they care because some fights have enrage timers that if you dont kill the boss within it will just oneshot you.
Just started playing Astro (I’m a sprout) after playing summoner until lv 65. It has been a terrible ride so far. The job is a lot of fun but there are so many things to take care of that it gets overwhelming. I force myself to play conservatively and keep the tank at full health. If I get greedy the party wipes. Definitely a tough learning curve that requires a lot of apologizing in party chat.
and me starting the game as a BLM main, with a DRK tank and a Astro heal :'D
Hard disagree with Red Mage. I think the main issue with the job from my perspective is how it starts at level 50 with so many spells at the ready. It’s a lot to get into for a new player for sure.
I will also say that Scholar is definitly harder to play than Astrologian (Ast main here) Sure, Astrologian is busy, but what makes the Scholar hard is how stressfull things become once people really need to be healed. I feel like Scholar requires you a bit to keep a shield on people at all times. Because once they’re at less than 50% health, its really nervewrecking.
Astrologian doesnt really struggle like that. Healing is easy, especially now. And healing is it’s main job afterall.
I mostly agree with your take on RDM. As a new player myself I had to really ask for a lot of help from friends when I first started playing RDM just to understand the basic ranged rotation, with doublecast and everything. And since it starts at 50 I would say it is one of the more difficult jobs to learn straight off the bat.
If there was a tier below D I would put BLM there. Its leveling process is brutally difficult compared to the other jobs, it changes identity completely every 10 lvls, and is far and away the most demanding job in the game. Especially at end game content.
Astro would still be in D-tier.
I also tend to think that monk & ninja are worse starter jobs than Dragoon. Form & mudra management alone make them much more difficult to manage. DRG having a lot of oGCDs (especially so early) is a wonderful thing for beginners IMO. It teaches them the importance of the GCD and weaving abilities.
DRG was my first job from 1-60, and I would actually have it be my absolute top recommendation choice for those level ranges. Beyond 60 it gets drastically more difficult and at that point I would move it down two tiers from S. Also... going through HW for the first time on DRG is prime from a story standpoint.
Sage skill floor is like slightly harder than whm. I'd easily place it in A tier.
As someone who plays WHM, I do because it's braindead, you put regen on the tank, 1 medica 2, then Holy spam, works 90% of the times.
me, a beginner, starting out as black mage...
I Desperately Want To Like Final Fantasy Online But I'm Struggling So Hard Picking A Class Because Frankly This Game Has Far To Many!
I just need to get over my Tankxiety
Is it possible to just use bow and arrow at end game?
Unfortunately you have to use the Song Skills and other Bard Abilities as well.
I got back in ff14 last I played was before stormblood when I got back game really chage.now I don't have to lvl up other tank class to unlock there skill now they by lvl up and they remove spells and skills I had to relearn my jobs and learn new rotation. And I never been a fan of war tanks if I tank I use drk pld and going to try gunbreaker
disagree with drg he is way easier then that. disagree with reaper he is probably the easiest melee. disagree with mnk he is deffiently harder then drg maybe the same as nin. disagree with ast he is way easier then sch and sage
as a DRG main i can honestly say it's more about getting a flow going. their rotation is literally a mobius loop of skills :P as for reaper, i'm still very much learning it, but the first thing i noticed is they are GREAT at crowd controlling. DRG has a sort of limited set of GCD skills and they're all Line AoE's requiring pretty specific positioning, where reapers can get into the middle of the melee and just go ham. one on one, DRG all the way. in crowds and dungeons, Reapers tend to shine a little brighter :)
There hasn't been fairy management since storms blood...
BLM is one of the most interesting jobs at 90 and not that hard to play.
Just because you don’t find it hard to play doesn’t apply to everyone
😂 I don't get this vid . I know u can buy classes. But for now a clueless player. But u recommend white mage but u need lvl 30 conjurer to unlock it. If I'm a new player I will not have a single clue where I can get a white mage. Some other classes u need a complete main story to unlock. U put 20 classes when reality is only like 7 and they have different names.
I've always heard that summoner was one of the hardest jobs in the game. Is that not true, or has it changed and is no longer skill dependent?
I has been reworked in endwalker and went from being one of the hardest classes to master to the easiest DPS to play nowadays
Ninja has more positional besides armour and aerial
What makes SCH sucky for beginners is the lame and obscure tooltip. Once you figure it out, it's nowhere near the hard area pincode.
Lost all credibility as beginner job when you put samurai and dancer next to gnb and monk
Eff the rules, Main Ninja
Imo, I would clarify to new players first that the healing and tank roles are kinda advance level and the majority of the DPS roles are beginner friendly. Lots of new players ignoring the positions of the enemies and facing them at the party, not using AOE to pull and maintain agro, and forgetting to turn on tank stance. Healing same thing most new players just spam healing and don't even put DOTS on anything. Maybe there's lack of understanding or not reading the tool tips? Idk.
to me any job is fun most jobs are addicting. its all about learning stupid game mechanics. from level 1-55 there really is no mechanic accept a gold floor. but from 60-90 some jobs can be harder then others because of mechanics. black mage and astrologian could be the two hardest jobs. astrologian is actually fine but the card sytem.
I not seeing any of this I have options such as Glad Pug Mara Lancer Arch Conj Thaum Arcanist《《 Being said im thinking Lancer or Conjurer help me out
FF XIV ?
Come on TH-cam, I was looking for a class guide of FF Stranger of Paradise !
Me starting as BLM and wondering why gameplay till 50 is extremely boring and inflexible - 0:
This isnt really a list of the "best job for a new player" it is really just a "tier list of the most simple job" keep in mind not every new player wants to play a simple job, espc if they come from other MMOs. I still havent hit max lcl (i have BLM at lvl 71 and DKN at 60) and the idea of starting on a class like warrior sounds super boring to me, tbh if i would have followed that advice i probably would have quit the game.
I heard what you said about my PLD :) lol
free trial player here, I started the game on BLM and i'd honestly put it at the bottom of C instead of D. yes, it is hard, and yes, it completely changes play style from 50 to 60. but imo a big part of what makes BLM difficult (at least what I can tell from talking to ppl) is how different it is compared to other jobs. starting w/ BLM makes that much easier since u end up learning the game through the eyes of that job. it's def not for everyone, and it's still p hard, but imo it's not that bad.
I LOVE dragoon but it’s not a beginner class definitely not
Playing bard is like playing piano
Your fingers know just where to go.
All ranged physical should be at the top IMO, easiest by far by design. I always tell new people to play archer first
31:41 your welcome
Sage isn't d-tier.
Ngl I'd put MNK in D tier.
for intro jobs I think gnb and drk should be swapped due to continuation making moving a boss rather difficult during 30s, as well as reaper and drg seem low for jobs that you just press the glowy button for, especially drg
Sage on C or D? Realy? Never ever xD
Sage is easier SCH
What BS you spout about AST....
Well, actually, I think that samurai might be one of the worst jobs to start with, but the reason is not so obvious. It depends on the person's goals. If someone just wants a chill dps job to play and enjoy story and content, samurai might be the best, but if you really want to become a better player(melee dps specifically) samurai is a bad choice. This is because samurai is just so simple and forgiving, that there is practically no necessity to try hard. There is not much room to improve and not much stuff to improve(come on, we have like 4 oGCD right now, thats a joke)
This is why I consider dragoon to be the best beginner(dps side) job. Because it has a solid learning curve and offers an opportunity to become better. You start slow, get more and more abilities. You learn what oGCD is, then what is double weave, obvious way to optimize and improve rotation by flexing with buffs. On top of that you get badass gear and good job story which is great to progress alongside HW. You can choose, how much try harding you actually wanna do with dragoon and you will find ways to improve your performance
Your vidéo is based on your personal expérience and i definitely don't agree with you about the last tank( which should be S tier like the warrior) so your vidéo is not objective at all
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