What Job Should I Play In Dawntrail? - Media Tour Review & Discussion (All FFXIV Jobs) 

I use whatever I have to for raiding but keep rotating for all the other content. It keeps things fresh.

14 is nice in that it doesnt punish you for not having a main. You can have a character who can change around. I want to have a main, but still cant pick one.

Swear I saw you comment on some 14 vid likely years ago now. The content your channel revolves around is completely alien to me but still respect the work/dedication. You sound like a cool dude haha. Nice to see you still around these neck of the woods 💪

Gotcha. Yeah, I didnt look into it too closely and it's probably one of my least familiar jobs. Plenty of time to figure out how it works later lol

Getting into a party with a chill fun group is why I play

Yeah, the standard opener in there is good. I change it around a little for certain fights but that’s pretty rare. There are some fight specific optimizations here and there but you’ll be set if you just do that to start

That or we can pop enshroud early and shuffle the use of arcane crest to just before Communio 1 clip plentiful harvest to 2nd enshroud but ensure you get all big hits in 20s

That being said I do agree with vit that it is clunky af. Even if arcane circle is 25s, fitting all these buttons in that window is gonna be tight. Whether that is a good thing or not really is in the eye of the beholder, I personally think it is something that's actually fun about reaper, but I think the philosophy of "tack on buttons to other buttons" for new expac skills. is just tired and unsustainable. Watch 8.0 have plentiful harvest 2 and communio 3 as well as harvest moon 2. I snooze.

I'm sure there will be some sort of work around, and I definitely get the appeal of it. I just need more time on reaper to get used to it better. It'll be interesting to see rotations once we get all the finalized potencies

Honestly every Healer has too many healing skills, they should give more DPS skills

I’ll wait to see what the new fights look like to decide if the extra healing feels unnecessary or not haha

Agreed. Jumps will work identically to before, you just won’t be punished if you don’t get that mirage dive off. Geirskogul/life is less flexible now but I’m okay with that personally

I see, I just missed the charges, but that makes sense. Still sounds good to me though

@@99_Vit yea I am a big fan of this new gauge too, just wanted to clarify

That’s the plan eventually!

Come on man everything needs to be the same. Every class needs to play the same...what you like to optimize and had fun with it? Nah we need to turn the class into a three button auto win class. Isn't that fun?

@@pod155 lol, yeah, having to press the exact same buttons in the very same order in every single fight for eight minutes straight is sooo much fun, can't wait for DT release for jobs to play themselves.

@@pod155 True, why waste your brain eneregy on engaging with the video game when shiny button go wow boom brrrr

everyone in this reply chain is agreeing with you, like you didnt just not press mirage dive 2 before the 2nd geirskogul and then not think about anything the entire rest of the encounter

@@andylawlzz well, because it isn't the case in a lot of fights. Sometimes you don't want to delay first LotD window, sometimes you do it without buffs, and sometimes optimization can give the whole new window of LotD. There is a lot of fights where you can do either of those. And none will be possible with strict 1min cd. A huge downgrade to job's design.

I think a lot of us vets need a new mmo lol That being said, I do think the new field exploration content might save the game for me!

@@hayalmatnu9919 I'll be real, I don't really care for "having an mmo", I only play FF because, well, it is a final fantasy game, and I love final fantasy games. I don't think I'll ever unsub just because of that, but they are truly pushing me at this point. I am still excited to see what ultimates DT will have and I want to prog them, but outside of that, it's safe to say this is no longer a game I enjoy nearly as much as I used to back in stormblood and to some extent shadowbringers.

To me "busy = good" because I like pressing a lot of buttons. I personally like when this game feels more like playing a rhythm game than a tactical strategy game. I get that's not everyone's cup of tea, but it's what I like. Ideally there's a good mix of both across all of the jobs so people can play what they prefer. I agree it's a shame they're streamlining it as much as they are for people who want to use their brain more

I was wrong about monk in the video. You actually get different stacks for each form. The rotation will end up working very similarly to how it does now, just no buff or dot now

@@99_Vit we'll see. when something changes that heavily it doesn't always end up the way devs expect it to. (warning, much longer than i anticipated) as it stands, monks baseline non min/max rotation is very fluid and mostly intuitive. The only unintuitive part for a looping rotation is exiting your 2nd PB in burst window with a twin snakes to force the loop. and it's overall dps under the perfect rotation is . . not even noticeable. It's main benefit is that fluidity gives it a lot of freedom to interact and adapt to any boss fight mechanics. Where other more rigid classes can run into issues. Making it a stacking of resources type job leaves it open to issues and cursed scenarios regarding boss downtimes to me. Where boss downtimes don't really hurt it right now, since outside burst you have a 40s window to use your 2nd PB in, and can form shift + chakra charge (and yes anatman in rare cases). to exit that downtime phase in a better position than most other jobs. As you can begin your rotation from anywhere within it's range as the scenario demands. setting it up to build charges and resources may very easily compromise that. We'll see though. ranged phys may still be what i go with, as I almost always start bard. And despite you thinking ranged phys is the easiest role, bard has probably one of the most complex and difficult rotations to min/max and get higher parses on. I've played most of the melee as well. One thing I'd have liked to see them do (they didn't) was add an extra charge to Empyreal arrow. Giving you more freedom in how you use it within songs to not end up over capping on stuff like pitch perfect charges. the freedom of using songs is nice, and it looks like we'll be back to my favored Wanders minuet > mages ballad > Army's Paeon(shorter AP) cycle. as the upgraded bloodletters will likely skew the numerical values back into mages favor. On the point of Machinist . . well. that one will be interesting. MCH has a very full burst window already, and adding 2 more global within that could become annoying. Since drill at 2 charges will then mean you want to fit 2 drills, air anchor, chainsaw, chainsaw followup, and full hypercharge into a short burst window, which is about 8 gcd's of length, and any drift on drill could easily become punished. it may also allow double hypercharge burst windows a bit more freely than they are now. it's doable but it's tight with the drill timer coming off cd the very gcd you finish it. (drill > air anchor > chainsaw > hypercharge > 5x heatblast > hypercharge > 5 heat blasts.) which finishes the 2nd hypercharge right as drill is coming off cd. It'll come down to potencys. one hypercharge window is equal to 3 standard globals, and burst windows can generaly hold 8. right now that's air anchor, chain saw, and 2x hypercharge windows.