i've leveled all of the jobs (even blu even though not all the spells yet). my faves are: drk, smn, sge. my least faves are pld,blm,ast. drk: big sword, "goofy dark paritcles", best shield in the game smn: easy to use (now), lots of nuking with summons sge: doing damage heals, fast casting, somewhat easy to use pld: clunky for my taste, attacks seem slower than the others, lower atk damage imo blm: need to stay still do most damage ast: need to search for the right cards for most efficient damange output. others are fun from time to time XD
Those are the easiest jobs, not the most played ones. If 2 of the 5 most played jobs were healers and one a tank the queue for stuff wouldnt be asking for healer and tank all the time.
This is wrong actually, since queues need 1 tank, 1 healer, and 2 DPS roles (x2 for trials/raids, excluding alliance raids). There are 4 tank jobs and 4 healer jobs respectively, however there are 11 DPS jobs (about to be 13 in dawntrail). So if you go based on how a duty queues up, it'd be 4:4:11(or 13) compared to 1:1:2. The number of DPS jobs is disproportionate to the number of tank/healer jobs, there's more overall DPS players but that doesn't mean there's more dragoons than warriors for example. SE adding two more DPS jobs sort of solidifies this point since it seems to point to there being more players on each individual tank/healer compared to DPS roles. If it was relatively balanced with the current ratio (queue times not taking 30+min), you'd expect there to be 25% tanks, 25% healers, and 50% DPS spread out through the playerbase. Now these numbers aren't exact but rather an estimation, I do agree it's probably DPS skewed but that won't matter for my next point. It's at least *close* to 25%/4 tanks, 25%/4 healers and 50%/11 DPS, making it around 6.25% of the playerbase for each tank/healer job, and 4.55% of the playerbase for each DPS job. Obviously this is just theory but now let's get into some real statistics. This is for the EW raid tier and only reflects raiding, but I feel like it's enough of a sample to drive home this point. Anabaseios 6.5: www.fflogs.com/zone/statistics/54#class=Any Anabaseios 6.4: www.fflogs.com/zone/statistics/54#class=Any®ion=1 Abyssos 6.3: www.fflogs.com/zone/statistics/49#class=Any Abyssos 6.28: www.fflogs.com/zone/statistics/49#class=Any®ion=7 Abyssos 6.2: www.fflogs.com/zone/statistics/49#class=Any®ion=1 Asphodelos 6.1: www.fflogs.com/zone/statistics/44#class=Any Asphodelos 6.0: www.fflogs.com/zone/statistics/44#class=Any®ion=1 You can see from scrolling down to the amount of parses with each job that the frontrunners are more often than not, tanks and healers. Few exceptions are like summoner, dancer and samurai hence their appearance on this video. No hate just trying to give some insight on this kind of thing. I do think it's interesting that SE is opting for more DPS jobs.
It's a bit more complicated than that. Look, there are 4 Tanking jobs, 4 Healing jobs, 3 Ranged DPS, and 3 Magic DPS. Those are the roles represented in this list. The roles with the lowest number of available jobs. All content requires *at least* one Tank and one Healer (high end raiding gets more complicated with Healers). So there are going to be a disproportionate number of players who play those roles. Especially since leveling at least one job in all roles has been "encouraged" through the use of bonus content to completing all role quests. The reason there are *two* Healers on the list is because High End Raiding requires *both* a Regen Healer (White Mage or Astrologian) AND a Shield Healer (Scholar or Sage), which is why the list includes one Regen Healer and one Shield Healer. The reason why Melee DPS isn't represented is both because of the pressure for both styles of Healing and because Melee DPS is the most over-represented role in terms of sheer number of jobs. My curiosity is what data, specifically, was used to compile this list and what the numbers look like further down from just the "top 5". Is it just "jobs that participate in clears of latest high end endgame content"? Is it "jobs that are leveled to 90 as per the latest census data"? My initial thought is that it's "high end clears", which is, itself, a bit misleading as to which jobs are the most enjoyable for people because people have been, are, and will continue to be pressured into playing jobs they might not enjoy as much to meet the needs of a "meta".
@@StingcatKnight Yeah, and in every comp, you actually have two dps for each tank/support. Actually in alliance raids there are even less tanks. There are more dps, but there also twice as much dps characters per run.
Samurai and reaper not being here invalidates this list. I haven’t gone a day (67 days and counting) doing daily roulette not running into one of those jobs as a tank
I am sort of noob so I can't really talk on the level you can but I have been maining a machinist and have hit level 90. I think it's a pretty easy job to be honest, very simple rotation, make sure you buff your drill, anchor or chainsaw and the blast window is pretty relaxed actually. I know people saw ping ping ping, but I don't see it. I think the job gives you more than enough time to execute it near perfectly and easily as well. It's pretty fun too!
I like the white mage but it's annoying when the tank runs off at once and around an edge with 20+ mobs and I have to run after him and by the time the spell is through the tank is already dead it happened to me 2 times today in the lvl 44 dungeon with the dragons
I never play summoner, because I leveled summoner through scholar. Every time I switch to summoner, I feel like I set my skill bar wrong. Most of my hotbar is empty and I play with controller on PC which makes it 1.1x worse.
Sage is a really well designed job, takes a lot of the button bloat out of healing, you don't have to cast as much as scholar, can fit into almost any group composition, the abundance of ogcds makes it feel tactical and mobile and instantaneous, without having to stand in the same spot spamming the same spell as much. Not surprised why its played more than the other healers, it's more fun to play unless you can find fun in the challenge or clunkiness in other healer jobs. Hopefully it stays like this in future expansions.
ah man warrior. i used to love warrior so much just cause of the Aesthetic of the job. But got bored as hell cause my rotation is just making sure i can fell cleave as much as possible. been much happier on dark knight. My main dps is Dancer. Also main healer is sage.
War and Dancer are controller friendly compared to other jobs. They really need to tone down the button bloat on some other jobs. Sage is easier to manage than Scholar for sure and I used to be a Sch main since ARR. Also Sch fairy has some lag to it still while as soon as you press an ogcd on Sage it goes out smoothly.
I feel like that is a never ending conflict that FFXIV faces. Adding new stuff every expansion to supplement the 10 level cap raise, but avoiding too much bloat on controllers.
The irony of this is that the easiest jobs are the most played and the hardest jobs are the least played and yet whenever they simplify jobs, people won't shut up about it being a detriment to the game despite the actual statistics show the exact opposite. So Im starting to think those people are nothing but a vocal minority when the actual stats say people much prefer easy jobs.
Easier jobs are popular but it is detrimental to your game if all jobs are easy. If you have easy jobs, you already gained the people that enjoy having an easier experience, you're not gaining more players by simplifying harder ones. Instead, you're losing the people that enjoy playing them. Games need both ends of the spectrum to make casuals and hardcore players happy. :)
it is what it is, I think what they need to do is raise the easiest jobs difficulty up to catch up with the rest, however if it gets too difficult the casual MSQ player is not really going to stay
Want to play white mage for thematic reasons but that holy spell gives me a migraine every time. Seems like the only way to play would be turning off my animations, which is like taking the frosting off a cake.
I prefer the Paladin over the warrior in doungens for a simple reason. If the healer dies (what happened very often in 6.0 in the lvl 90 Doungens) then I can Heal still the other DDs so that at least two people are alive and can kill the boss. In the same scenario, as a warrior I could only hold myself alive and therefore it would only be one player against the boss left, which means the kill would take longer.
My White Mage is 85 and all of the other healers are 90 I also have many level 90 DPS and a couple Tanks now I’ve come across many other Sage healers and sad to say from my experience with the ones I’ve come across only 1 out 10 of them are any good at playing Sage it seems and I know that they’re not new to being a healer because we’re doing level 80 to 90 dungeon runs or Raids at first my buddies thought I was being too harsh in my opinions until they too started playing with random Sages as well as other healers in general then they started to see what I’ve been talking about because they started to compare other healer players to how I play a healer. It got to the point where they hated playing with other healers so now every time we play together I’m stuck playing Healer because that’s the only way they’ll feel confident that they’ll have a good healer on the team but that’s just the experience we’ve had in our time playing the game we’ve even joked about how i should open a school for teaching healing in game lol.
i think the issue is u start off as sage at lv70 so u dont really have much time to get a good grasp of it by most casual players which could be why they struggle to use it effectively
@@StingcatKnight this is the main/number 1 problem (ie skill issue) that stems from jobs that start at much later levels. People don’t realize how much the lower levels (albeit grindy at times) build solid job foundation / fundamentals . I see this across the board with various later level jobs.. Though it’s easier to skirt by with certain jobs (mainly DPS) and play poorly Vs a bad Tank or Healer. A party won’t last long in higher level content (or really struggle where they normally wouldn’t)
@@jaysea838 Yeah, after leveling WHM and SCH to 70, I unlocked SGE and was stoked to try it out. But I was bombarded with SO MANY skills! AND, they all look like the same icon, with "slightly" different shapes and "slightly" different colouring. Add in the weird names and I was just lost. Very few of the skills have simple explanations, so trying to memeorize everything when it all looks the same and sounds like gibberish, I moved back to WHM. I WANT to play SGE because it looks super cool. I know people hate the grind, but I'd much rather the new classes started at a lower level. I'd say 30 as that's where the core classes first get their Soul Crystals, but I'd be fine with 50. I've resorted to, after unlocking a higher class, running lower level dungeons and gradually increasing the dungeon levels so that I can ease into the class.
Not sure why, I find scholar easier than sage lol. I main scholar for that reason as I was trying out both to choose which to run for a static I was joining that had a pure healer already
Fairy does a lot, tons of mitigations, its a weaker pure healer playstle but with strong mitigation. Sage is a focused mitigation healer with weak heals.
@@lushdontu4015 I do, I enjoy it and it's not like sage. I don't consider them similar in play. I need a different mindset for either. Sch plays more like a pure healer without that potency, sage is far more focused on mitigation
Coming at this video a couple months late - but yes, the list is pretty accurate. Warrior is easy and fun. Dancer is easy and fun. Summoner is easy and fun. Those are all jobs I tend to revert to when I don't want to have to think too hard (and I got roped into tanking Savage on WAR this tier. Its a great off tank.) And then.... I play SCH as my main healer. They kept the core rotation identical to how it was in 5.0 so I chose not to jump on the Sage bandwagon and be a SCH again instead. While its true that the floor is higher than sage, I prefer the flexibility I get in not having to keep a monster targeted while doing my AOE rotation, so I can focus on the tank. It's a tiny mental thing in dungeons and doesn't matter in solo target content, but it was enough to make me choose the "harder" of the two jobs, in the end.
I thought this would be an actual informational video on what classes get played more overall instead of something so subjective. That being said, you aren't far off. If you look at FFLogs and look at the amount of parses for a comparison of how many parses are uploaded daily, you'll see the spread of player base on average: WHM tops out at 55,231 parses logged SMN end up at 49,597 parses logged DNC has 47,736 parses logged RPR drops off at 40,964 parses logged Lastly, RDM with 38,901 parses logged Ill put a full breakdown of the class parses in order in case anyone was interested below in the actual numbers ---------------------------- WHM: 55k SMN: 49k DNC: 47k RPR: 41k RDM: 38k SGE: 37k MCH: 36k SAM: 27k BRD: 24k BLM 23k SCH: 21k AST: 20k WAR: 19.9k DRG: 18.7k PLD: 18k DRK: 14.7k GNB: 14.5k NIN: 14.5k MNK: 13k
I like the white mage, you become what makes or breaks a boss fight. A good white mage doesnt care about mana with lucid dream in use constantly when you get to even 6k mana. The skills that make a white mage's life easier are regen, assize, benediction & medica II for the regen effect. I like to use medica II because it has a cast timer & then regen on the tank, it takes the pressure off me to keep tge tank alive if the other team members need healing. A white mage is the vanilla ice cream of healers & nothing goes better with something else then vanilla ice cream.
OK, sooo, I main bard, and to me, its the easiest job in the game, so, it's always mind-boggling to me that so many people find it hard to play. I mained monk for a long time (as I played on and off from 1.0 beta), so, maybe compared to monk, anything looks easy. That said, a lot of what I didn't like with monk are non-issues with bard (ie: positional attacks, lack of freedom/ease of movement, a rigid rotation with little to no room for error, etc). After years of playing monk on and off, with lengthy breaks from the game in between, I finally returned to the game for good towards the end of Endwalker, and decided to really dig in to the other classes and bard really changed the game for me so much. I have a lot of anxiety, and so put a lot of pressure on myself to be flawless as a monk, but bard took so much of that stress away, and I feel much more relaxed and free, and it's actually fun, and what is a game if it isn't fun? TBH, all the ranged dps, aside from black mage, brough a lot of fun back to the game for me, but bard is my all time favorite at the moment (tho, I don't see that changing any time soon unless SE breaks the class).
@@ShikiRyougi05 He is okay in Dungeons sorry for being rude but many Casual Healers (mostly WHM) just lazy as fuck and dont want to heal at all, thats the reason why they love WAR because they dont need to do their job, in Raids is DRK still very strong and has for me the second or best raid Invulv.. and is even as MT viable (i prog P10S as MT often and i feeled way more safe when i play DRK then PLD) DRK is boring in compare to pre ShB because he is now just a WAR with more oGCDs but he is still fine. TLDR: He is okay in Dungeons but Healers hates him because they now have to do their job a quite more and dont just Spam their 1 Button DPS "Rotation" and in Raid he is for me the best MT after WAR
@@kohlicoide2258 i guess because i started in EW im used to tanks (especially warrior) being busted af xD My main problem is just DRK's stupid magic cd. That shit is borderline useless in dungeons
is FFXI the previous mmorpg version of final fantasy? i've never played the old one, but i think this new one is pretty fun to play, u should give it a shot
2:18 dark knight is easier, dark knight is 1.2.3 bloodwhetting, hit all ogcds in any order. warrior is actually easy to fuck up due to fell cleave reducing the timer of fell cleave so its easy to either waste an inner chaos outside raid buff coz people dont hold them, or overcap on rage due been on say 70 but needed to infuriate during buffs and wasting 20 energy or if you dont want to waste energy you waste infuriate ticking time which will cost you later on. And i play high content and usually parse 99 so it looks easy but isnt as easy to master as you think
Both jobs are easy, but drk have to actualy think about when to use tbn and is a much busier job with much more ogcds. It's not even fair to compare them, WAR is the whm of the tanks and that's a good thing.
@@xierotron That's one of it's uses. If you want to be good, you need to know when to pop it up and so it will be completely consumed, otherwise you are losing dps. And there are a lot of other situations other than TB's that you should use it.
Here’s the REASONS why your list is the way it is: White Mage because DPS players got bored and don’t care to understand how “HEALING” works. Warrior because Easy Mode. Sage Because New. Summoner because Pet. And Dancer because Catgurl memes and Bard is obsolete.
@@StingcatKnight old SUM actually needed a braincell to play and old ASTs card had more use and better single or aoe buffs with again a braincell needed to play properly then they added 2min burst to everything and skill went the window. Healers also had more dps skills rather than one button mashing and a dot to upkeep.
@@StingcatKnightBLM was considered easier than old SMN, actually a shame what they did to it. Maybe also a future video idea. "Removed things from jobs", there is so much interesting stuff, especially the stance dancing from healers and tanks. You should watch old guide / raid videos
Do you agree with this list? What makes a job more desirable than other job?
challenge. I dont wanna be in the comfort zone all the time so i main ninja, monk, astro to have fun.
@@selenang2006 very nice👍
i've leveled all of the jobs (even blu even though not all the spells yet). my faves are: drk, smn, sge. my least faves are pld,blm,ast.
drk: big sword, "goofy dark paritcles", best shield in the game
smn: easy to use (now), lots of nuking with summons
sge: doing damage heals, fast casting, somewhat easy to use
pld: clunky for my taste, attacks seem slower than the others, lower atk damage imo
blm: need to stay still do most damage
ast: need to search for the right cards for most efficient damange output.
others are fun from time to time XD
Dancer is also just the best when traveling in the game..
yea the 3 dashes and speed boost, i can see it
@@Phoenix-cc7xb 🙌
Those are the easiest jobs, not the most played ones. If 2 of the 5 most played jobs were healers and one a tank the queue for stuff wouldnt be asking for healer and tank all the time.
This is wrong actually, since queues need 1 tank, 1 healer, and 2 DPS roles (x2 for trials/raids, excluding alliance raids). There are 4 tank jobs and 4 healer jobs respectively, however there are 11 DPS jobs (about to be 13 in dawntrail). So if you go based on how a duty queues up, it'd be 4:4:11(or 13) compared to 1:1:2. The number of DPS jobs is disproportionate to the number of tank/healer jobs, there's more overall DPS players but that doesn't mean there's more dragoons than warriors for example. SE adding two more DPS jobs sort of solidifies this point since it seems to point to there being more players on each individual tank/healer compared to DPS roles. If it was relatively balanced with the current ratio (queue times not taking 30+min), you'd expect there to be 25% tanks, 25% healers, and 50% DPS spread out through the playerbase. Now these numbers aren't exact but rather an estimation, I do agree it's probably DPS skewed but that won't matter for my next point. It's at least *close* to 25%/4 tanks, 25%/4 healers and 50%/11 DPS, making it around 6.25% of the playerbase for each tank/healer job, and 4.55% of the playerbase for each DPS job.
Obviously this is just theory but now let's get into some real statistics.
This is for the EW raid tier and only reflects raiding, but I feel like it's enough of a sample to drive home this point.
Anabaseios 6.5: www.fflogs.com/zone/statistics/54#class=Any
Anabaseios 6.4: www.fflogs.com/zone/statistics/54#class=Any®ion=1
Abyssos 6.3: www.fflogs.com/zone/statistics/49#class=Any
Abyssos 6.28: www.fflogs.com/zone/statistics/49#class=Any®ion=7
Abyssos 6.2: www.fflogs.com/zone/statistics/49#class=Any®ion=1
Asphodelos 6.1: www.fflogs.com/zone/statistics/44#class=Any
Asphodelos 6.0: www.fflogs.com/zone/statistics/44#class=Any®ion=1
You can see from scrolling down to the amount of parses with each job that the frontrunners are more often than not, tanks and healers. Few exceptions are like summoner, dancer and samurai hence their appearance on this video. No hate just trying to give some insight on this kind of thing. I do think it's interesting that SE is opting for more DPS jobs.
It's a bit more complicated than that. Look, there are 4 Tanking jobs, 4 Healing jobs, 3 Ranged DPS, and 3 Magic DPS. Those are the roles represented in this list. The roles with the lowest number of available jobs. All content requires *at least* one Tank and one Healer (high end raiding gets more complicated with Healers). So there are going to be a disproportionate number of players who play those roles. Especially since leveling at least one job in all roles has been "encouraged" through the use of bonus content to completing all role quests. The reason there are *two* Healers on the list is because High End Raiding requires *both* a Regen Healer (White Mage or Astrologian) AND a Shield Healer (Scholar or Sage), which is why the list includes one Regen Healer and one Shield Healer.
The reason why Melee DPS isn't represented is both because of the pressure for both styles of Healing and because Melee DPS is the most over-represented role in terms of sheer number of jobs.
My curiosity is what data, specifically, was used to compile this list and what the numbers look like further down from just the "top 5". Is it just "jobs that participate in clears of latest high end endgame content"? Is it "jobs that are leveled to 90 as per the latest census data"? My initial thought is that it's "high end clears", which is, itself, a bit misleading as to which jobs are the most enjoyable for people because people have been, are, and will continue to be pressured into playing jobs they might not enjoy as much to meet the needs of a "meta".
I'd say theres more to it than just being the easiest job, theres 13 dps jobs but only 4 tank and 4 healer jobs
@@StingcatKnight Yeah, and in every comp, you actually have two dps for each tank/support. Actually in alliance raids there are even less tanks. There are more dps, but there also twice as much dps characters per run.
Samurai and reaper not being here invalidates this list. I haven’t gone a day (67 days and counting) doing daily roulette not running into one of those jobs as a tank
well yea, if u are tank main u not gonna see tank as often, and theres at least 2 dps slot each instance xd
I can't believe they wouldn't be up here but SMN is.
As a Reaper main I don't super often stumble upon other Reapers during my Roulettes. But I do see quite a few in PVP especially frontline
I am sort of noob so I can't really talk on the level you can but I have been maining a machinist and have hit level 90. I think it's a pretty easy job to be honest, very simple rotation, make sure you buff your drill, anchor or chainsaw and the blast window is pretty relaxed actually. I know people saw ping ping ping, but I don't see it. I think the job gives you more than enough time to execute it near perfectly and easily as well. It's pretty fun too!
Thats because they fixed the ping problem
lol, most of the jobs you mentioned in this vid are my most played classes 😅
BE NOT ASHAMED BUT PROUD, STAY PROUD WARRIOR OF LIGHT
I like the white mage but it's annoying when the tank runs off at once and around an edge with 20+ mobs and I have to run after him and by the time the spell is through the tank is already dead it happened to me 2 times today in the lvl 44 dungeon with the dragons
pop sprint before entering combat and follow the tank closely! I will be posting a healer guide soon!
Only tried summoner from this list and thought it was ok. (Normally I main PLD). Today I decided to try DRG and I am having the most fun yet.
enjoy!!! im drg main too!
I never play summoner, because I leveled summoner through scholar. Every time I switch to summoner, I feel like I set my skill bar wrong. Most of my hotbar is empty and I play with controller on PC which makes it 1.1x worse.
that can be overwhelming trying out a job at lv90 0 idea how it works
Sage is a really well designed job, takes a lot of the button bloat out of healing, you don't have to cast as much as scholar, can fit into almost any group composition, the abundance of ogcds makes it feel tactical and mobile and instantaneous, without having to stand in the same spot spamming the same spell as much. Not surprised why its played more than the other healers, it's more fun to play unless you can find fun in the challenge or clunkiness in other healer jobs. Hopefully it stays like this in future expansions.
thats the positive side of a newer job and I agree with what u say
ah man warrior. i used to love warrior so much just cause of the Aesthetic of the job. But got bored as hell cause my rotation is just making sure i can fell cleave as much as possible. been much happier on dark knight. My main dps is Dancer. Also main healer is sage.
certainly can put ppl off for being too simple
War and Dancer are controller friendly compared to other jobs. They really need to tone down the button bloat on some other jobs. Sage is easier to manage than Scholar for sure and I used to be a Sch main since ARR. Also Sch fairy has some lag to it still while as soon as you press an ogcd on Sage it goes out smoothly.
oooh that could be a good point, i've never played console myself i thought theres a lot of keybinds on console? more than on pc
I have only used controller since 1.4 when i started playing. Overall ive not had many issues with button bloat for the ps controller.
I feel like that is a never ending conflict that FFXIV faces. Adding new stuff every expansion to supplement the 10 level cap raise, but avoiding too much bloat on controllers.
@@rivenansgar2415 looked fine to me ye
@@iPlayOnSpicayea another new ability incoming
I have all healers to max, and if you're running out of mana on whm, you're doing it...... differently different 😅
u'd run out if u dont use lucid dream and assuming u are keeping ur uptime as high as possible
@StingcatKnight totally agree, but you should be using mana free lilies, and ascize as much as you can. I seldom use lucid dreaming.
@@riangfys5241 yes there is a skill that remove cost of mana on next spell as well so its usually not problem
thanks for the help and input gin
thx brothermen
The irony of this is that the easiest jobs are the most played and the hardest jobs are the least played and yet whenever they simplify jobs, people won't shut up about it being a detriment to the game despite the actual statistics show the exact opposite. So Im starting to think those people are nothing but a vocal minority when the actual stats say people much prefer easy jobs.
Easier jobs are popular but it is detrimental to your game if all jobs are easy.
If you have easy jobs, you already gained the people that enjoy having an easier experience, you're not gaining more players by simplifying harder ones. Instead, you're losing the people that enjoy playing them.
Games need both ends of the spectrum to make casuals and hardcore players happy. :)
it is what it is, I think what they need to do is raise the easiest jobs difficulty up to catch up with the rest, however if it gets too difficult the casual MSQ player is not really going to stay
What class that is the most lookout for, especially on PF setting?
I'd say generally healer/physical dps
I enjoyed this video, and gave a thumbs up. 👍
i gave u thumbs up 👍 too thx brothermen
What class did you start as?
Gladiator > Paladin
Want to play white mage for thematic reasons but that holy spell gives me a migraine every time.
Seems like the only way to play would be turning off my animations, which is like taking the frosting off a cake.
ooh thats a shame
I prefer the Paladin over the warrior in doungens for a simple reason.
If the healer dies (what happened very often in 6.0 in the lvl 90 Doungens) then I can Heal still the other DDs so that at least two people are alive and can kill the boss.
In the same scenario, as a warrior I could only hold myself alive and therefore it would only be one player against the boss left, which means the kill would take longer.
good point, you can defos keep another player alive as a paladin, its the big plus of playing it
As controller player i love ninja, cause he have not as much buttons as other dds
👍 have to press fast during combo time tho!
My White Mage is 85 and all of the other healers are 90 I also have many level 90 DPS and a couple Tanks now I’ve come across many other Sage healers and sad to say from my experience with the ones I’ve come across only 1 out 10 of them are any good at playing Sage it seems and I know that they’re not new to being a healer because we’re doing level 80 to 90 dungeon runs or Raids at first my buddies thought I was being too harsh in my opinions until they too started playing with random Sages as well as other healers in general then they started to see what I’ve been talking about because they started to compare other healer players to how I play a healer. It got to the point where they hated playing with other healers so now every time we play together I’m stuck playing Healer because that’s the only way they’ll feel confident that they’ll have a good healer on the team but that’s just the experience we’ve had in our time playing the game we’ve even joked about how i should open a school for teaching healing in game lol.
i think the issue is u start off as sage at lv70 so u dont really have much time to get a good grasp of it by most casual players which could be why they struggle to use it effectively
@@StingcatKnight this is the main/number 1 problem (ie skill issue) that stems from jobs that start at much later levels. People don’t realize how much the lower levels (albeit grindy at times) build solid job foundation / fundamentals . I see this across the board with various later level jobs.. Though it’s easier to skirt by with certain jobs (mainly DPS) and play poorly Vs a bad Tank or Healer. A party won’t last long in higher level content (or really struggle where they normally wouldn’t)
@@jaysea838 very true
@@Phoenix-cc7xb yea that defos help a lot, doing some lower level dungeons and working ur way back up
@@jaysea838 Yeah, after leveling WHM and SCH to 70, I unlocked SGE and was stoked to try it out. But I was bombarded with SO MANY skills! AND, they all look like the same icon, with "slightly" different shapes and "slightly" different colouring. Add in the weird names and I was just lost. Very few of the skills have simple explanations, so trying to memeorize everything when it all looks the same and sounds like gibberish, I moved back to WHM. I WANT to play SGE because it looks super cool.
I know people hate the grind, but I'd much rather the new classes started at a lower level. I'd say 30 as that's where the core classes first get their Soul Crystals, but I'd be fine with 50. I've resorted to, after unlocking a higher class, running lower level dungeons and gradually increasing the dungeon levels so that I can ease into the class.
Not sure why, I find scholar easier than sage lol. I main scholar for that reason as I was trying out both to choose which to run for a static I was joining that had a pure healer already
Fairy does a lot, tons of mitigations, its a weaker pure healer playstle but with strong mitigation. Sage is a focused mitigation healer with weak heals.
sage was made to be an easier version of scholar lol
@@lushdontu4015 id like proof tbh... Sage does not play like Scholar unlike Astro and whm.
@@elgatochurro if you played scholar at a high level, you don't need proof
@@lushdontu4015 I do, I enjoy it and it's not like sage. I don't consider them similar in play. I need a different mindset for either. Sch plays more like a pure healer without that potency, sage is far more focused on mitigation
I’d put samurai on here too
maybe as sixth, its certainly played frequently in end game raids
I am in love with my WHM
👌have fun with it
Forever a dancer main :3 it's so fun to play and it's not to bad to learn but yeah the RNG can make it suck a lot sometimes xD
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Coming at this video a couple months late - but yes, the list is pretty accurate. Warrior is easy and fun. Dancer is easy and fun. Summoner is easy and fun. Those are all jobs I tend to revert to when I don't want to have to think too hard (and I got roped into tanking Savage on WAR this tier. Its a great off tank.) And then.... I play SCH as my main healer. They kept the core rotation identical to how it was in 5.0 so I chose not to jump on the Sage bandwagon and be a SCH again instead. While its true that the floor is higher than sage, I prefer the flexibility I get in not having to keep a monster targeted while doing my AOE rotation, so I can focus on the tank. It's a tiny mental thing in dungeons and doesn't matter in solo target content, but it was enough to make me choose the "harder" of the two jobs, in the end.
yep, sometimes ppl just want a chill time and you should just pick whatever makes u happy!
I struggle with regen healer.. lol
oh, i find shield healers less enjoyable, feels weaker overall
I thought this would be an actual informational video on what classes get played more overall instead of something so subjective.
That being said, you aren't far off. If you look at FFLogs and look at the amount of parses for a comparison of how many parses are uploaded daily, you'll see the spread of player base on average:
WHM tops out at 55,231 parses logged
SMN end up at 49,597 parses logged
DNC has 47,736 parses logged
RPR drops off at 40,964 parses logged
Lastly, RDM with 38,901 parses logged
Ill put a full breakdown of the class parses in order in case anyone was interested below in the actual numbers
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WHM: 55k
SMN: 49k
DNC: 47k
RPR: 41k
RDM: 38k
SGE: 37k
MCH: 36k
SAM: 27k
BRD: 24k
BLM 23k
SCH: 21k
AST: 20k
WAR: 19.9k
DRG: 18.7k
PLD: 18k
DRK: 14.7k
GNB: 14.5k
NIN: 14.5k
MNK: 13k
which part u getting this from
Astro is the better class for buffing, and white mage the better pure healer
thats true
I like the white mage, you become what makes or breaks a boss fight.
A good white mage doesnt care about mana with lucid dream in use constantly when you get to even 6k mana.
The skills that make a white mage's life easier are regen, assize, benediction & medica II for the regen effect.
I like to use medica II because it has a cast timer & then regen on the tank, it takes the pressure off me to keep tge tank alive if the other team members need healing.
A white mage is the vanilla ice cream of healers & nothing goes better with something else then vanilla ice cream.
OK, sooo, I main bard, and to me, its the easiest job in the game, so, it's always mind-boggling to me that so many people find it hard to play. I mained monk for a long time (as I played on and off from 1.0 beta), so, maybe compared to monk, anything looks easy. That said, a lot of what I didn't like with monk are non-issues with bard (ie: positional attacks, lack of freedom/ease of movement, a rigid rotation with little to no room for error, etc). After years of playing monk on and off, with lengthy breaks from the game in between, I finally returned to the game for good towards the end of Endwalker, and decided to really dig in to the other classes and bard really changed the game for me so much. I have a lot of anxiety, and so put a lot of pressure on myself to be flawless as a monk, but bard took so much of that stress away, and I feel much more relaxed and free, and it's actually fun, and what is a game if it isn't fun? TBH, all the ranged dps, aside from black mage, brough a lot of fun back to the game for me, but bard is my all time favorite at the moment (tho, I don't see that changing any time soon unless SE breaks the class).
be free my friend, go hard with bard!
replace white mage with scholar and ut literally all my most played.
also add reaper but that job is also super ez 😓
🥲
id swap sage with dragoon, see more of them then sage. If you wanted a 2nd healer I'd say i see a FUCK load of scholar more than sage.
dragoon seems bit more played in casual content, but i still think sage is quite up there, and scholar i hardly ever see
Lol surprised no reaper
its close one but not quite
Ayo what happened to DRK damage?
Isn't it... y'know DESIGNED TO HAVE THE HIGHEST DPS?!
yea no idea, i know dk has high burst but overtime the dmg is not great vs warrior
The different between GNB (most dps) and PLD (Lowest dps) is still just 2%
@@kohlicoide2258 that makes it even weirder tbh...i pretty new and haven't raided yet but drk's mitigation (especially in dungeons) seems very lacking
@@ShikiRyougi05 He is okay in Dungeons sorry for being rude but many Casual Healers (mostly WHM) just lazy as fuck and dont want to heal at all, thats the reason why they love WAR because they dont need to do their job, in Raids is DRK still very strong and has for me the second or best raid Invulv.. and is even as MT viable (i prog P10S as MT often and i feeled way more safe when i play DRK then PLD) DRK is boring in compare to pre ShB because he is now just a WAR with more oGCDs but he is still fine.
TLDR: He is okay in Dungeons but Healers hates him because they now have to do their job a quite more and dont just Spam their 1 Button DPS "Rotation" and in Raid he is for me the best MT after WAR
@@kohlicoide2258 i guess because i started in EW im used to tanks (especially warrior) being busted af xD
My main problem is just DRK's stupid magic cd. That shit is borderline useless in dungeons
"#5 most played job in the game is arguably the most played job in the entire game"
what
R u kidding me right now red mage can out damage a summoner
oh thats a very nice change!
the classes feel same in this gamee. the healers and tanks are copy paste
thats how it be 😔
This game doesn't look anything like FFXI in terms of combat. I don't know if I will ever switch
is FFXI the previous mmorpg version of final fantasy? i've never played the old one, but i think this new one is pretty fun to play, u should give it a shot
#JusticeForGin
#justiceforlalafells
Summoner was much more fun in Shadowbringers.....I miss my DoTs....
i heard it was a lot more challenging ye, never got to play it sadly
Dancer main 4 life!
uwu
2:18 dark knight is easier, dark knight is 1.2.3 bloodwhetting, hit all ogcds in any order. warrior is actually easy to fuck up due to fell cleave reducing the timer of fell cleave so its easy to either waste an inner chaos outside raid buff coz people dont hold them, or overcap on rage due been on say 70 but needed to infuriate during buffs and wasting 20 energy or if you dont want to waste energy you waste infuriate ticking time which will cost you later on. And i play high content and usually parse 99 so it looks easy but isnt as easy to master as you think
Oh and dark knight to activate its damage buff is just 1 ocgd, warrior is a whole 3 gcd combo
u might be right, im not that experienced on dark knight 👍
Both jobs are easy, but drk have to actualy think about when to use tbn and is a much busier job with much more ogcds. It's not even fair to compare them, WAR is the whm of the tanks and that's a good thing.
@@RFKG you pop tbn when a tankbuster is coming just have enough mana ready
@@xierotron That's one of it's uses. If you want to be good, you need to know when to pop it up and so it will be completely consumed, otherwise you are losing dps. And there are a lot of other situations other than TB's that you should use it.
Here’s the REASONS why your list is the way it is:
White Mage because DPS players got bored and don’t care to understand how “HEALING” works.
Warrior because Easy Mode.
Sage Because New.
Summoner because Pet.
And Dancer because Catgurl memes and Bard is obsolete.
👍
@@StingcatKnight Confirmation is a beautiful thing, albeit based.
we need old AST card system back that was great, and old SUM then properly balance everything.
But eww third party toxicity mods.
i missed out on both
@@StingcatKnight old SUM actually needed a braincell to play and old ASTs card had more use and better single or aoe buffs with again a braincell needed to play properly then they added 2min burst to everything and skill went the window.
Healers also had more dps skills rather than one button mashing and a dot to upkeep.
@@harrygraham5810 yea i've been told! theres a rotation to learn with dots and what not
@@StingcatKnightBLM was considered easier than old SMN, actually a shame what they did to it. Maybe also a future video idea. "Removed things from jobs", there is so much interesting stuff, especially the stance dancing from healers and tanks. You should watch old guide / raid videos
@@hairyhagrid439 oh wow
Yep agreed with yr list, they are also the easiest jobs to play. Boring but effective.
indeed, most peeps like an easier time overall