with the recent nerfs and buffs, anyone planning to change his/her main job?

I was a DRK main (originally MNK main in 2.0) in Heavensward, and will be switching to (most likely) SAM or, if it turns out to be unfun, MNK due to the DRK being gutted and looking much less engaging to play. I will be giving him a try after figuring out if SAM is fun and engaging and see if theory holds up to practice, but I am one of 3 tanks switching to DPS in my guild because of the changes.

I played WHM through 2.0 and SCH through 3.0. Now neither interests me at all. I thought I was done with healing altogether until I saw the new AST skills. I will go either with AST or SMN.

I've been a WHM since ARR beta. The changes made to WHM don't look that great to me honestly so I'm switching to AST as my main.

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Originally Posted by SaitoHikari

Bard is getting reworked entirely and I can already feel that my damage output is going to take a heavy hit. Even so, I love the class so much to abandon it for such a silly reason. I'll make it work, somehow.

White Mage on the other hand... I'll most likely still play it as my main healer due to its heavy burst damage, but I won't be taking it into any serious content.

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You'll make it work, plus with all the support spells in your arsenal, you're gonna find groups in high-level contents.

Been pugilist since 1.0 and mnk since it was added and not planning on changing anytime soon. I dabble in every job to get proficient at them anyway so everything will get recapped to 70 before long.

I've drifted mains all throughout my time playing, from BLM to BRD to DRG to DRK. At this point I'm not sure I even have a true "main", considering I've leveled every job to 60. That said I have BLM and all three tanks geared up to the teeth, healers close behind of which AST is my favorite.

In Stormblood I'll probably be starting out as PLD. Then once the hype dies down and dps queues become more acceptable again I'll have a try at RDM. It looks very much like something that's right up my alley - caster dps with support heals. I already spend way too much time Clemencying as a PLD. XD

I'm a DRG main since 2.0, while they seems to be getting even more refined in 4.0 I'll still be switching to SAM as I'm a giant sucker for katana XD

Possibly, I man a bard right now but im not sure about the changes. They seem great but it looks like the job is going to be very complicated and I enjoyed bard because it was fairly simple. Red Mage apparently seems pretty simple according to all the youtube videos Ive seen so I may give it a try if I cant get comfortavle with Bard again (plus im really gonna miss the wide volley animation)

Nope. :3 Paladina 4 Life

i did play monk since V1, it was the only job i did level up to 50 at that time.
i do play other jobs time to time, like pld/war...

sadly with stormblood i will put my monk on hold, mostly because the new thing showed soo far are not interesting... the monk have barely evolved in 4 years and will probably not evolve more for another 2 years... yes we did get a few ogcd skill, but most of the change barely affect our combo system or even offer a nice add to the jobs, the chakra system is bad in many way, instead to reward player that keep them fight going on... we will need a trait for make it usable, what must been there from the get go. for get access to one tp gain (useless with invigorate) and one attack.
i will not talk of the tackles mastery that is for me the biggest slap in the face we can get... a mastery for a charge usable only every 30 sec... seriously? worst one of the charge change give knockback to this charge, meaning, you are a melee that will charge an enemy from far....for... push it from you?

all in all, no new attack or really interesting system added to the monk... that still the only jobs that have a severe downside if you mess us. if you loose greese lightning you are good for 20-21 second with subpar dps. greese lightning that is the center core of our jobs haven't really get any improvement. we did get a few more second of duration, with sb it will be a 16 second duration. when every other jobs buff have 30 second duration or come from trait, ninja have the same speed buff and them damage buff is now a trait. really?

the combo system... we use the same cycle (and it was tune down) for 4 year. no new add, no new interesting tool... you know the worst, when HW did come out, when i have seen the dragoon get a 4th hit in his combo, i was there.... "why? why the monk that is based on form and free combo can't get a 4th combo?" and it's worst... Dragoon get a 5th hit combo... for god sake? the monk second core mechanic is the combo system, why it didn't evolve!

and the most sad, since our community is rather small... we can scream and say "hello, your change are bad, we need more, can we get some real evolution for our job" no will heard us. we are not the whm, with every patch, our community of player have reduce more and more and more... we are less wanted in raid than ever and will probably be even more less wanted. brotherhood is not enough for justify the place of the monk, it's a 2 minute cool down increasing the damage of people around the monk only of 5%.

when ninja place a debuff every minute that increase the damage of the whole group of 10%. even the dragoon, with battle litany and his piercing debuff offer more than brother hood. and sadly our dps will not be enough for compete with the sam. that will have no downside like greese lightning.

then with sb, after many years as monk, i stop the monk. i see no reason to continue to play a jobs that have barely evolved in 2 expansion pack. and i'm not the only here....

the most ironic is, the monk in the V1 was horrible, simply horrible. even at that time i did play it. but after a while i can't continue to support a jobs, that SE clearly don't want anymore. Dragoon did get tons of new tool, far more new tool, when monk have barely evolved and more new jobs added can offer more utility or more damage than us.
i have said it on the dps forum... monk don't need a balance, monk don't need the skill they have planned for us... we need a freaking rework with a real direction and for one time real evolution of our jobs. until then, the monk will slowly disappear, less and less and less player will continue to play it. even people like me that have support it throught v1 can't go on anymore.

ps: i really hope SE will react really fast, because the situation is critical now. if they don't do something really fast the #deletemnk will not be needed since almost no will play monk anymore.