Healer mains: your fav role/job when not healing?

Paladin and Blackmage.

But it can happen that I'll play the others jobs too because I like them all.

NIN if i want to play DPS, very engaging and somehow i am able to retain the "algebraic" rotation knowledge. Plus, bunny summon has always been a show-stealer for me. Nin always has something it can do at any given point it time.

PLD if i want to play tank, it is "easy" to pick up and put down and none of its mechanics are overly complicated to the point that i feel i need a warm up or something like that. Additionally people are less likely to grief a PLD (or even notice) if they mess up a mechanic during battle.

Or i just swap to another healer, seeing as how I play all 3, and will play a 4th if one ever comes out.

PLD, because I hate long DPS queues.

Red mage, so I can still part time heal. /s

But yes, jokes aside, I quite like magic-wielding classes, so when I don't feel like healing I try rdm/blm. Currently trying to learn summoner as well. :)

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Originally Posted by tinythinker

I've always considered trying SMN considering how much I like the base class and SCH, but it seems like it is *so* complicated.

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To make it as simple as possible to explain;

The core difference is aetherflow usage builds a unique gauge. It's not like tacked on faerie gauge that's just there and your aetherflows are your big heals, Aetherflows are your DPS bursts.

You build up to a big buff mode called Dreadwyrm Trance that makes your Ruin spam more powerful and faster, and then you perform the process a second time that turns your pet into a Demi-Bahamut that does his own bursty hits for everything you do.

If you can play SCH and balance the Faerie pet skills and manage Aetherflows, you can absolutely swap to SMN as a DPS class option. The complexity is the same, it's just different skills from just being a DPS instead of a healer and that unique DWT mechanic.

Personally when I get tired of healing but still want to take on a supporting role I tend to use Red Mage. Bard has some support, but since it’s 90% off-gcd it doesn’t really feel the same as having to make an active decision to support the party in the heat of combat (since you can do it while dealing damage seamlessly)

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Originally Posted by RopeDrink

most content (even casual) involves tanks farting about, avoiding mechanics, or just tanking things in fires because screw positional deeps.

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I was levelling MNK back in 2014 when I quit and quite enjoying it, now I was thinking of doing it again but you say it's kinda discouraging. It's already annoying that while levelling tanks don't know how to stand still and keeping spinning and screwing your positionals, I assumed later it would be better but from what you say....meh :(

Black Mage or Dark Knight :) I generally enjoy healing the most, then tanking, then dps. :)

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Originally Posted by Tlamila

I was levelling MNK back in 2014 when I quit and quite enjoying it, now I was thinking of doing it again but you say it's kinda discouraging. It's already annoying that while levelling tanks don't know how to stand still and keeping spinning and screwing your positionals, I assumed later it would be better but from what you say....meh :(

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Positionals are a thing you genuinely would never learn about unless you study the melee jobs, and it really doesn't help when you can still perform without them.

Since most people don't speak up out of fear of a tank bitching at them, just say, "Hey, could you hold the mobs still? I get damage bonuses if I hit stuff on certain sides."

I had a level 70 healer bud leveling tank, and he had 0 idea positionals were a mechanic after getting two jobs leveled.

I was actually a BLM main until level 66 MSQ...and then took a break and went hardcore WHM from 1-70. Since then I've done probably over 90% of dungeons, raids, and roulettes as a healer, and I've gotten so used to it I'm not sure whether I'm maining a healer or DPS now. So I guess my fav job when not healing is BLM if I'm counting myself a healer main?