Job(s) you don't main for good reasons?

I have a burning hatred for AST despite healing being my co-main role with tanking. I hate the aesthetics, I hate the gameplay, and I don't get along with people that main it.

I've found maining DPS in any MMORPG to be too simple. It can be fun at times, but generally if I'm going to be waiting for others to stop making mistakes, I may as well play something that can pick my brain in the meanwhile. 15 years ago I've found that to be healer and my opinion hasn't changed. Optimizing HPS while still maximizing DPS is far more enjoyable to me. Tank is fun in dungeon content, as you get to dictate the pace of the run, but in raids tank is just a glorified DPS and FF14 doesn't offer challenging dungeon content.

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Originally Posted by Gothicshark

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Huh?!?!? (Insert confused face meme) no such thing as girly or masculine jobs in this MMO. As a woman, I play Tanks, I play Melee, I play heals, I play ranged, and I play Magic DPS, I play all Jobs, and my character is girly because I'm Girly IRL and made my characters as Girly as possible, the Jobs themselves are not girly.

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A lot of healer glams are inherently feminine or are feminine leaning. All the healer mascots are female while the tank mascots are male. Not to mention things like whm animations lol.

I am a tank main and have all jobs to 80. The only to jobs that I really don't enjoy are DRK and SMN.

I am not a fan of the current SMN rotation and am super pumped for the changes coming to it in Endwalker. The new design of the class looks amazing for sure!

DRK, on the other hand, is going to be in a tough spot for the start of Endwalker. All 3 other tanks are getting amazing new self sustain tools and the DRK is getting squat. The design of Blood Weapon, TBN, and Living Dead are far too clunky to be enjoyable to play. None of these will be addressed by Endwalker changes either, so look for major changes coming to the job in the first or second major patches for Endwalker. Until then, I'll be a PLD main for the first time in my FFXIV career.

BLM just feels like such a hassle. It's rougher in unfamiliar content but even when I know the fight it doesn't feel worth it or rewarding for me to try to memorize every bit of an encounter to maximize DPS.

Basically any ranged job that isn't a healer. The more I try to play one of these jobs, the more I realize just how much I gravitate towards melee fighting in FFXIV. Healers are exempt because I enjoy this kind of support role, and I am more comfortable doing it from a ranged position. I thought RDM would be a shoe-in choice with its curative/raise and melee abilities, but that didn't pan out either.

What can I say? I like to be all up in the boss' business.

SAM, because I just don't grok it no matter how many training dummy hours I put in.

Redmage, Bard, Dancer.

Those are so overplayed that finding a party in the PF is a harder task than the duty itself.

Any tank because I don’t enjoy tanking in any way and any melee because I don’t like all this positional nonsense.

BRD and RDM are the only ones I truly have fun playing. DNC was okay for awhile but it just started feeling kind of awkward and slow after awhile for some reason. I like the aesthetic though so I guess I’d still put it in third place.

Mnk because I hate positionals.