FFXIV Dawntrail Official Job Guide Updates 

SMN feels like getting a single 2X4 from homedepot at Christmas morning as a child and the kid next door gets a monster PC.

Timestamp: 0:00 - Intro & Tank Overview 9:36 - Healer Overview 15:45 - Melee DPS Overview 26:40 - Physical Range DPS Overview 38:28 - Magical Range DPS Overview 48:57 - Final Thoughts

me crying into my black mage archmage beard as I cast moogie beam in cutter's cry and oneshot an entire pack of enemies

GNB and NIN gonna SLAP

RIP Ice Paradox. You were taken from us too soon.

Square when Astrologian: "Okay I guess you can have a little bit of MP just so you aren't guaranteed to run out" Square when White Mage: "Here's three more free spells every two minutes, don't let Astrologian or Scholar know"

Damn Happy, with a video on the Job changes already. You the best!

Viper combo finisher buffs being 40s instead of 30s is actually a huge deal. It makes it a lot easier to do double Reawakens in 2s without losing that buff. With the 30s buffs it was pretty tight because Reawaken takes so long to get through. There were like 3 or 4 different 2 minute windows based around not losing that buff in different scenarios.

holy crap umbral soul at 76 still is brutal. come on square enix, BLM at low level synch is going to be god awful.

Oh wow I didn't think they would be so aggressive in removing the SGE dots stacking. I know quite a few people were excited about that. A shame.

For the GNB changes, this is actually probably a slight fix to the endwalker rotation where gnashing fang and its follow up ability was doing slightly less damage then burst strike and during an optimal 2 minute with full cartiridges and sitting on the 3rd part of your combo, it was actually optimal to do gnashing fang outside of no mercy to start your combo which was pretty strange to be honest. This is mostly because you used to take the potency of gnashing fang and continuation together when compared to just burst strike, but when burst strike got a continuation that gap was closed. Seems like they've finally adjusted it back to now gnashing fang being optimal to use in no mercy and burst strike being filler. Good change.

So glad machinist is going to finally be good

Not sure why it's more important to compare to media tour numbers specifically rather than live service since it's what people have been raiding with for a while now. Y'all couldn't really do lvl100 content over there, so idk... It's good to acknowledge I guess but as you've seen with the chat and stuff the actual 6.58->7.0 comparison is more relevant and talked about. It will affect how we all played the jobs until a few days ago vs. the update...

I’m here to see if ast gravity is still a winner (regardless I’m still playing it through) Edit: damn, everything else looks fine though

Black Mage's Manafont also went down from 120 seconds to 100 seconds which is very very nice

when full patch notes dropped 6am est, Viper & Picto didn't show levels of when they get each action and passive. It was so weird lol.

Looking forward to leveling RDM 90-93 weirdly maining Jolt III, ignoring all Verfire/Verstone 0rocs.

I'm here for this.

Maybe I'm bad at math, but unless rainbow drip into black paint combo is optional filler, doesn't casting two white combos and motifs lower its filler DPS?

>Mr Happy can say all the French words in the RDM kit >But can't say "couerl" correctly even though it's based on French

I think you only get the LB slower if you have copies of the same jobs

One day they'll bring back Manashift as a role action... one day...

Great! Because all i cared about was Gunbreaker anyway!

Now that they've further buffed the potencies of Scattergun and Auto Crossbow and given us an extra bioblaster charge without doing anything to Flamethrower I think we can officially say Flamethrower is a DPS loss now in AOE? As I recall it was already basically DPS neutral in Endwalker so now it's just gotten worse by comparison. Still a cool emote at least? For dancer, I'm confused why they decided to make Tilana give you 50 meter when they just changed stuff like Barrel Stabilizer so you wouldn't have overcap concerns, hoping that's one of the early hot fixes.

Poor Summoner :'(

Umbral soul needs to be moved down to be usable at level 50 or 60.

Was hoping and praying for chapter markers :(

Does anyone know if Blood weapon gives more MP per proc to compensate for having 2 less procs?

Lv 90 summons not having auto attack is crazy.

As a dnc main I feel under appreciated

oh wow, they really took the Picto feedback about how it seems very strong and might need some potency adjustments... and doubled downed and made it even stronger? Isn't it just strictly speaking better than BLM or a melee, in every possible situation now?

To clarify, only non-standard single target is dead for BLM. Non-standard aoe is still a potential potency gain.

So Dokumori is DMG+ with Treasure Hunter?

I don't really mind what solar bahmuts looks like it's the fact that it plays exactly like the other 2 demisummons minus potency stuff. It just feels like such a missed opportunity that they are all just hit deathflare and spam the astral flare equivalent. Imaging if reapers enshrowd phase was just spamming cross reaping for 15 seconds with a 2.4 gcd 😂 phionex had a 2 button combo in shadowbringers but they got rid of in favor of just spamming 1 button ??? I don't get it man I don't want old summoner back but the job just feels unfinished after the rework and I feel like we're gonna wait another 2.5 years for 8.0 and all we're gonna get is a painflare upgrade or something like that. there are so many things they could've added like combo actions to titan ifrit and Garuda that would've replaced there summon buttons but they chose to give the combo action to searing light😭

Tommrow!!!

dark new cooldown is good but it’s 120 seconds replacement. we got heart of corundum on 120 seconds 😂😂😂

MCH- rip and tear, until it is done... gimme my shotgun...

New Haps video, let's goooooo!

Hey Mr. Happy I need you to bring to Squares attention. The dual dye channels. They are not right and they need to be fixed. I know you can make a video about that so square can look and fix it. Thank you, see you in game ❤

I surprised no one commented about how the new combo from Delirium now also gives MP whereas it didn't have that in the media tour.

I kinda get comparing it to media tour stuff, but it wasn't really "known info" since it was a bunch of stuff that was subject to change and has never been in the live game, so dramatically less people will be familiar with those changes that, in a sense, never really existed to begin with. Would've been nice to have a visual representing the media tour tooltips if you were going to do this, since not all of us memorized all those tooltips and potencies or whatever. I get you kind of go over it verbally, but it's distracting whenever you get sidetracked with chat talking about old potencies or functions from the live game and you're talking about the media tour, haha.

idk if anyone feels this way, but happy's disregard to certain parts of the changes kinda takes away the objectivity he usually holds. someone in chat told him oracle was buffed (which was a pretty significant buff at that), and he just scoffs at it because "it only happens every 2 minutes." That's pretty significant considering its all impacted by buffs, yet he made a huge note to macrocosmos and then also disregards it in the same breath saying "with how good it was in the beginning of EW in one instance, you guys will be okay." What's the point of delivering objective news if you'll either downplay or make bigger puddles of stuff? i thought this video was talking about job guide changes objectively, not disregard stuff about jobs you don't really play often lol. and before people grab pitchforks or get emotional, i'm not saying happy is a bad CC by any means or is the worst person in the community for this, he's only human, just giving my opinion on the lack of bias at certain points on this video is all. have fun on launch later tonight :D

Time stamps?

Yippieeee

GBR getting higher potency just makes sense.. the job is only really good (vs the other tanks) if you are consistently getting crits; otherwise it’s an average role at best. The mits are definitely top tier but it’s only really needed in high end play which is not the majority of the player base. It erks me that WAR is so brain dead to use but at least it’s a consistent class.

no time stamps? Damn

I check with my uwu run, I get +2560 more potency throughout the whole fight as RDM. like extra 7-8 gcd using Jolt II potency. I get +3080 potency throughout the whole fight for TEA. 9 ish gcd. I don't know how it compares with the other caster. but at least it's better than the EW RDM. Now just thinking for 2 targets what to do. Previously. Jolt2 + impact + jolt2 + impact = 320+ 420 + 320 + 420 = 1480 While. Jolt 2 + Verthunaero + verfirestone + Verthunaero = 320 + 360 + 340 + 360 = 1380 Now. Jolt2 + impact + jolt2 + impact = 280 + 420 + 280 + 420 = 1400 While. Jolt 2 + Verthunaero + verfirestone + Verthunaero = 280 + 360 + 380 + 360 = 1380 I guess Jolt 2 + impact is still the way to go for 2 targets. Verfire/stone doesn't always proc, It still gives 20 more potency than single targets. unless you're generating either mana. Still lower than previously? yes. But every other thing got potency buffed.

The servers up yet?

Wait, no mention of Warriors decimate and gauge interaction with Infuriate changes?

Worth noting, I understand why it was skipped over, but the potency buff for Oracle is pretty significant. Nearly 50% stronger, and was absolutely necessary because of everything else about the job and its changes. Its personal damage output was already the worst among healers, it lost half its damage buff cards, and it just generally didn't get as much in the way of damage buffs for 7.0 as other healers. Terrible MP economy wasn't the only thing that'd leave it DOA, its damage was set to be by far the weakest of every healer as well. The massive Oracle buff I feel still doesn't fully rectify that but definitely at least brings it closer. As for the concept of followups on healer abilities, speaking as a healer main, I'm neutral on them. Like, Oracle after Divination and Glare IV after Presence of Mind, yes, those I think are fine. Divine Caress after Temperance is *conceptually* good since I feel like people underutilize Temperance, so locking another skill behind it is a good way to encourage people to use it more liberally, but as mentioned, forcing Divine Caress to be used so closely to Temperance is a little awkward, they probably could've done better with this one. What's utterly baffling though is locking Sun Sign behind Neutral Sect, since Neutral Sect itself gives practically zero benefit to an experienced Astrologian outside of high-end content. It only functions with healing SPELLS, and as mentioned, we barely have the MP to keep up right now, nevermind if we try to start casting Aspected Helios. Neutral Sect can be a decent way to bring people back up if some mistakes have been made, but then the mitigation from Sun Sign has probably already missed the point where you'd want it.

Im gonna be the best viper out of all of you

Wait wars aoe will only hit 4 mobs?

I am sticking with my DNC at this point. Yes I also play SMN too but DNC I have trained too much on.

Gnb potency seems too good to be true. Im anticipating nerfs already in 7.1

Time stamps bro.

Hate the dash changes to Drk and Gnb, but otherwise happy with my main classes. Appreciate the video Happy!

ok, thanks for clearing up the Dark Knight gripe I had, I saw the skill split of Salted earth and I fumed about it.. They kinda need to put that warning that you can choice to have it split, and not just they are no longer connected.

6:55 Players: Make Blue Mage a regular job!! Devs: Make a blue dps you say? Ok, got it

As a DRK main. I don't necessarily hate that they made S&D an optional separate button, but I am wondering what the point of it is. To help players find it? To cater to players that like button bloat? Personally I think S&D is fine but when it comes to player interaction, it feels pointless. Why delay activating it? I find myself button mashing SE just so I can get it out of the way. I feel like they should either make S&D a trait that activates upon the first tick of SE. Or implement a risk reward where the potency of S&D increases during the late stages of SE. That way, it will feel so much more satisfying to reach for that button imho.

Is PCT a pure DPS like SAM, MCH, BLM, VPR, BLM?

Party Comp: GNB & WAR SCH & AST VPR & SAM PIC & DNC That's the comp.

They just had to touch warrior🤦🏽‍♂️ couldn’t had just left the damn thing alone.

Title is misleading. You are only talking about what they adjusted compared to the media tour?

40:12 they'll look better in their new picto glams lmfao

Why does this video skip over so many new actions? Are they just not worth discussing? Or the things that are changed since endwalker? All i hear is media tour this, media tour that.

They really need to do something oblation and TBN or just bring back soul survivor and revise it 🤦‍♂️

I'm probably the only person that likes the EW SMN changes. Mainly because it actually plays like an FF summoner.

Drop the ball Happs you know you should’ve put time stamps.

I am SO ready to finally become a Pictomancer!

It’s funny to me that basically every buff was brought up to 20 seconds, except Trick Attack/Kunai’s Bane

They shafted dragoon so hard its infuriating. They removed one of the best gap clasers in the game that dealt damage and replaced it with a shitty forward dash that serves no purpose whatsoever. And to add insult to injury they got rid of dragoons dragon sight just fucking wonderful. Awful change and square should be ashamed

I don't care about how high picto numbers are the aesthetics are ugly

GOTTA BUFF BUNGREAKER

NIN is op now

Explain BLM changes to me like i'm a casual sprout

IMO, Black Mage always felt like a job that was designed for a different game. It becomes a turret locked in place in a game where fights require mobility. It required precision working with server ticks to replenish MP. It basically only barely worked out with all the jank because the director of the game willed it. I think just like what he said there will still be a big difference between good Black Mages and average Black Mages. But honestly, Pictomancer is what I'm really excited for. SMN doesn't even even pretend to feel like a mage/caster. And RDM, I feel like if verraise was removed, the job would be completely unplayable (also it never really scratched that itch of feeling like you're playing a casting job too well). If Pictomancer is fun (but not too easy!), and doesn't feel like you're fighting against the basic job design and server limitations, I'm super excited to potentially finally play and fully enjoy a caster DPS.

I'm never going to forgive them for getting rid of Plunge, one of Dark Knights coolest animations and replacing it with a wet fart of a Monk dash ripoff, in the same breath they said they want to go back to exploring job identity more. Hypocrites.

Actually straight up bad. I have a feeling this is the expansion where I fall out with the game. Some of these job changes come across like no one on the team truly cares about it at all.

You really need to time stamp your videos. Especially when you just ramble and people have to search for classes you would like to know. Instead of setting through..I think, I don't know, I'm not sure...

Can I just state the obvious? They always make the media tour stuff OP and over the top just to get people psyched for it and by expansion release its RARELY the same as the media tour. And then a year later everything is 1000% different so I wouldnt waste my time getting excited about the vaunted, almighty media tour when in 12 months its gonna be a whole different game. We've had this game for like a decade now... has Happy reallllllllly not caught onto Squares hype game media tour fake outs that they ALWAYS do yet? I just dont understand why he gives such a fuck about the media tour theyve always been fake as hell to get people interested and a year later its ALWAYS 1000% different... Whatever floats your boat, it's your fantasy bro live in it happily lol. P.S. Do NOT play a drinking game taking a shot of booze every time he says MEDIA TOURRRR... You WILL die of alcohol poisoning lmfao good god say it with me kids.... MEEEEDIAAAA TOURRRRRR

So... Healers still shit? But now the only healer with a glimmer of hope had said hope stomped out? Nice.

Astro still starts instances with the Astral deck (Lord of crowns) drawn, which is literally just grief. So obnoxious that they didn't fix that, or at least make it so you can pick which deck you start with

Everybody gangsta making fun of Pictomancer until the full patch notes are out and it is the strongest caster, best put together job, most original, most engaging and best designed job on release lol

You're just skipping so many changes, just go one by one from the top.

Sorry but I couldn't disagree more with the DNC changes. Going back to ShB static SS every 30s with no room for delaying removes all choice and on-the-fly execution of the job; Everything is the same every 2 mins, nothing is dynamic anymore. Plus the Tillana change (without a tech step change) makes our rotation timing worse (back to 119.5s). These just feel like a slapdash change made once they heard about the 0SS rotation. These are really bad "fixes" to the 0SS "problem" and feel like a step back with the progression of the job's rotation.

I'm a casual, and an average Black Mage main, so? Only the few amazing, highly skilled Black Mages have the right to have fun with a forgiving rotation? I started playing consistently about a year ago because I loved Black Mage, it's the only class I actually like so I sank lot of effort trying to do my best, just for the class to be reworked, and probably ruined for me, great!

no timestamps? cmooooooon dude

Damn, they didn't delete Warrior.

My dude you need to change the title. Everyone thought you would be going over all the changes from Endwalker to DT. No you are ONLY talking about changed from Media tour which to most don't matter because we don't know off the top of our heads the difference from here to Endwalker

You're a true luminary! 🌟 __ "Success is not the key to happiness.. Happiness is the key to success.. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.."

heheh GNB go bbbbrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

Shit ngl I didn't even know Macrocosmos did damage.

Man these are... dry

Healers whine about being healer jobs and now they are mad

They need a PTR lol

Cool, this means odds are that PF will block out samurai or viper because they're both greedy melees with no party buffs. Thanks Yoshi P

Don't you hear it? Thousands of healer mains crying out in pain..? 😢

first!!! edit: Man i did some math, and goon has gotten shot in the face :

Oh, we're finally merging the two timelines since the healers on strike have already seen this & played the expansion already but the rest of us haven't

I’m convinced you healer mains are masochists. Y’all never get anything interesting lmao