How often do you change jobs when you play?

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Originally Posted by hagare

wut?
are we still talking about 14?

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Yes. The story is too long, and isn't that good, to realistically justify playing through it again for a lot of people.

I'm a Reaper main now. Other jobs are for the achievements and bicolor gemstones.

I've never been a one-job player. I've been a WHM main for almost 8 years and until DNC came along I was a BRD secondary for that same time. Now I'm a WHM main and DNC/BRD secondary.

I had some classes I didn't level until I wanted the amaro for all 80s. Now I keep them leveled because I found I enjoy quite a few of them. So while I'm working on leveling, I'll focus my roulettes around that class, and then once they're max, I'll swap around for roulettes depending on what role I feel like doing.

For SAM and (I'm assuming) RDM and others that don't start at 1, you can take them into low level dungeons to focus on how the skills behave at lower levels. Or you can take them into POTD 1-50 and see how the skills unlock and how things build on each other.

Oh, and since character alts came up, all my character slots are filled. I love alts. My main is the only one I found a RP reason to be all classes. The rest specialize.

My 1st goal is to get tank healer and DPS levels normally it was WAR WHM BRD now it's WAR WHM DNC. But then I play all 3 just as well and can do any content I try as any one of the three. So it depends on the roll bonus or how I'm feeling.

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Originally Posted by Jkap_Goat

I don't have any alts because I refuse to do the storyline again, it's good but once is enough in my life time

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Originally Posted by hagare

wut?
are we still talking about 14?

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The confusion is the question asks if you play other CLASSES/JOBS, whereas Jkap commented that they don’t play ALTs.

Obviously I don’t know who is thinking what, but there could be a misunderstanding about the question (alts =/= jobs), or that it is possible to have multiple jobs on a single character.

However, since Jkap’s been playing since 2016, I think rather they are just responding to conversation above their comment where people talk about having multiple characters (for raiding etc), and not really commenting on the OP question.

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Originally Posted by kaynide

The confusion is the question asks if you play other CLASSES/JOBS, whereas Jkap commented that they don’t play ALTs.

Obviously I don’t know who is thinking what, but there could be a misunderstanding about the question (alts =/= jobs), or that it is possible to have multiple jobs on a single character.

However, since Jkap’s been playing since 2016, I think rather they are just responding to conversation above their comment where people talk about having multiple characters (for raiding etc), and not really commenting on the OP question.

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hence my following comments xD
I did try and clarify that OP was probably talking about alt-job instead of alt-alt
eh *shrug*

I switch jobs when I get bored. It helps stave off burnout. Started as an archer, mained ARC/BRD through Stormblood, then switched to red mage. I tend to level DRK first just to get those fast queues while doing the MSQ, then go back to DPS after.

When I arrive in a new zone as DPS, I'll switch to BOT and MIN for a moment to see if there are any special nodes up. I only have NIN and the crafting and gathering jobs, nothing else.

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Originally Posted by hagare

hence my following comments xD
I did try and clarify that OP was probably talking about alt-job instead of alt-alt
eh *shrug*

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Yeah- I was following you both, but I wasn't sure they understood your question with "yeah and I said I don't have an my alts and stated my response". Who knows!

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Originally Posted by TheMightyMollusk

I switch jobs when I get bored. It helps stave off burnout. *snip*

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I'm the exact same. While I'm a healer at heart, sometimes I just want to kick some butt. For those moods, I pull out red mage, blue mage, or reaper.

Other times, I miss my times tanking in WoW and hop on gunbreaker.

After fiddling around with RDM and SAM for a few levels, I found out that I am not really a fan of getting a Lvl 50 job with a full skill set handed to me. I struggle to get into it and understand the mechanics of the job when I just get a bucket-load of skills thrown at me.

So I left both classes and am now levelling a GLD from scratch, my first tank. I enjoy that more because I can follow the job and the play style gradually.

The job system is one of the reasons I got super into this game after bouncing off MMOs in the past. I'd get terrible alt-itis and burn myself out before reaching endgame. But with FFXIV I can try out everything and that feels very freeing.

I like leveling multiple jobs at the same time because I enjoy doing daily roulettes but I take story stuff very slowly so it keeps me from getting ridiculously overleveled. But I tend to like staying consistent for cutscenes. In ARR I was mostly a BRD/SMN/DRG/WHM (started as CNJ). In the bridge I was mostly RDM/SMN/DRG. In Heavensward I did 90% of cutscenes as DRG, while doing a lot of side content as AST/MCH. That was also where I picked up DRK (my first tank class) and fell in love with it through the questline.

Now in Stormblood I'm mostly SAM, NIN, and AST, with SAM being my main cutscene job. The nice thing about this game is that it feels like it's still my character doing all these things, just leaning into different skills she's picked up. The job questlines help a lot with that, and I'm always so happy when an MSQ npc acknowledges that I've gone through a particular class questline.

Overall though, I have all my jobs at around 67 (only missing WAR/PLD/RPR/SGE) except for BLM which is 34 right now.

Rarely.
I main'd monk for about 2 years, got fed up with the changes to it in stormblood, main'd sam for about a year, finally got burnt out on melee, and have since switched to and am still main'ing machinist to this day.

I first started playing at heavensward release, So, figure: only 3 changes in 7 years.

At the moment I’m primarily playing as MNK with intention of dabbling with SAM.

Why is that? Because BiS between those two is mostly shared. So I only have to acquire or switch out a few pieces instead of fishing for another chest coffer in p4s. And because I want to play MNK for the remainder of this expansion - despite the changes - SAM will serve as an optimal alternate.

I just tanked the most wholesome Sunken Temple, ever. Lots of small chatter, peeps had to AFK here and there but really no one minded because even in intervals there was a smattering of talk. Our party was labeled "Catsoup and Tall Girl" by the BLM; I wasn't sure why, but it was funny so we all just went with it! The other DD in the group was new to the dungeon and had a dog that seemed to love barking, poor person had to tend to it every few minutes. The healer was quieter, but they just did their job quite well.

Also the BLM actually bothered to pick up relics along the way, look up the right order for opening the last door, and did it perfectly at the end. Mostly people just tip the pans when empty and deal with the summoned pack. But this was still pretty cool because really, no one does it usually!

Very awesome, 100/10.

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Originally Posted by RobynDaBank

I just tanked the most wholesome Sunken Temple, ever. Lots of small chatter, peeps had to AFK here and there but really no one minded because even in intervals there was a smattering of talk.

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Awww, I love dungeon runs like that! For every bad group I've had really sweet randos who make doing old content for the millionth time new and interesting.

I will say that, as someone who's come late to tanking, I'm very grateful I picked up a tank class because I think it's made me a better healer and player overall. Having some sense of what all the roles are doing gives you a better idea of how yours fits in, I find.

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Originally Posted by Vhanja

After fiddling around with RDM and SAM for a few levels, I found out that I am not really a fan of getting a Lvl 50 job with a full skill set handed to me. I struggle to get into it and understand the mechanics of the job when I just get a bucket-load of skills thrown at me.

So I left both classes and am now levelling a GLD from scratch, my first tank. I enjoy that more because I can follow the job and the play style gradually.

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Forgot to reply to this but if you want to try levelling a new job from the bottom up you can run low-level dungeons with your adventurer squadron. That's what I did for Dark Knight, because I was too nervous to inflict myself on real people before I'd grasped the basics. There's also doing Palace of the Dead, which you start at level 1 for and gradually move up in level as you go through.

Darn it, I replied in the absolutely wrong thread! D:

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Originally Posted by RobynDaBank

Darn it, I replied in the absolutely wrong thread! D:

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I didn't mind :) It was very nice story!

I change jobs very often, seeing how my expert dungeon run is 1 of 2 options, I have to make the game more fun myself by playing different jobs.

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Originally Posted by Vhanja

After fiddling around with RDM and SAM for a few levels, I found out that I am not really a fan of getting a Lvl 50 job with a full skill set handed to me. I struggle to get into it and understand the mechanics of the job when I just get a bucket-load of skills thrown at me.

So I left both classes and am now levelling a GLD from scratch, my first tank. I enjoy that more because I can follow the job and the play style gradually.

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One tip I always suggest for this is to do a solo run of Palace of the Dead with any new class that starts at an advanced level. Obviously it doesn't take you all the way up to level 90 but even if you just do the first 30 or so floors you can see how the job is built from level 1 to level 50ish in a compressed couple of hours. It might not give you the full idea of how a job will play at max level, but it will give you building blocks on how the job is constructed. I feel the same way as you do with jobs that start with a boatload of skills and abilities all at once, but PotD has helped me get over that hurdle.

I main SMN and have it at 90 as I'm caught up with the MSQ. Since SCH shares a base class with SMN, I have that at 90 as well, though I haven't used it in a while so if I were to pick it back up I'd probably do badly. While I was still on the free trial and I reached the level cap in SMN midway through the main scenario of Heavensward I started leveling DRK, which I recently got to 90 after grinding for a while. The only other job I have at 90 right now is RPR, and I'm currently trying to level DNC so I have at least one job in each role. I usually just play SMN outside of leveling since it's what I'm the most used to but sometimes I'll switch to a different job if a situation calls for it, like if I'm trying to solo an unsynced boss from an earlier expansion and I'm only able to do it as a tank. As for why I decide to level jobs other than my main in the first place, I find it satisfying and it gives me an excuse to check out side content that I normally wouldn't with my main.

I level everything, and I try to keep one of each role equally geared (as well as, obviously, keeping up with how to play that job competently). In ShB it was GNB, DNC and SCH. In EW it's GNB, DNC and SGE.

Pretty often these days, will keep changing jobs till i get atleast a 99 on every single job. Currently workinh on SGE.

Outside raiding, pretty much anything on the go.

Thanks, guys - how do I unlock or find Palace of the Dead?

Not often enough I've gotten into a rut mostly of playing WHM and RDM most of the time.

The trick is to level your favorite jobs concurrently when you can. With the XP given for completing the MSQ + side quests, one can easily get to at least level 30 or so on three separate jobs these days. When working with alternate avatars, that generally ends up being Summoner, Bard and Paladin, which encompasses each member of the Sacred Triad, since leveling Arcanist leads to both Summoner and Scholar. Since just killing hunt mobs gets so much XP, one frequently outlevels the content on a single job, by as much as 15 levels. Spreading things out makes it easy to substitute for a different "playstyle of the day" when leveling.

Oddly enough, the MSQ + side quests (+ FATEs) + et cetera also work in a similar fashion for level 80 to 90. Getting to level 90 on one job via MSQ + dungeons + occasional FATEs plus getting to level 87 on a second job via side quests + FATEs plus getting to level 82 on a third job via Hunts + FATEs (plus Tome hunts now they're active again) still makes leveling to max level on multiple jobs easy.