The 5 MOST Played Jobs In FFXIV 

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

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&region=1 Abyssos 6.3: www.fflogs.com/zone/statistics/49#class=Any Abyssos 6.28: www.fflogs.com/zone/statistics/49#class=Any&region=7 Abyssos 6.2: www.fflogs.com/zone/statistics/49#class=Any&region=1 Asphodelos 6.1: www.fflogs.com/zone/statistics/44#class=Any Asphodelos 6.0: www.fflogs.com/zone/statistics/44#class=Any&region=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.

yea the 3 dashes and speed boost, i can see it

@@Phoenix-cc7xb 🙌

well yea, if u are tank main u not gonna see tank as often, and theres at least 2 dps slot each instance xd

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Thats because they fixed the ping problem

enjoy!!! im drg main too!

good point, you can defos keep another player alive as a paladin, its the big plus of playing it

pop sprint before entering combat and follow the tank closely! I will be posting a healer guide soon!

thats the positive side of a newer job and I agree with what u say

that can be overwhelming trying out a job at lv90 0 idea how it works

certainly can put ppl off for being too simple

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

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

ooh thats a shame

I'd say generally healer/physical dps

👍 have to press fast during combo time tho!

be free my friend, go hard with bard!

yep, sometimes ppl just want a chill time and you should just pick whatever makes u happy!

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.

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maybe as sixth, its certainly played frequently in end game raids

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

👌have fun with it

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.

Gladiator > Paladin

oh, i find shield healers less enjoyable, feels weaker overall

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

which part u getting this from

what

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its close one but not quite

dragoon seems bit more played in casual content, but i still think sage is quite up there, and scholar i hardly ever see

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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

oh thats a very nice change!

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

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thats how it be 😔

i heard it was a lot more challenging ye, never got to play it sadly

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@@StingcatKnight Confirmation is a beautiful thing, albeit based.

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

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.

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watching on 1.25x

@@Itsoob. wow thats gonna cost me my average viewer retention rate gg

i watched on normal speed now @@StingcatKnight

indeed, most peeps like an easier time overall