I'll try the new jobs out eventually, but I'm in no rush. Just gonna wait for the "nerfed" jobs to be buffed and watch as all the sheeple who like playing the flavor of the month come crawling back after all their doom and gloom talk and be secure in the knowledge that they're all shallow bandwagoners.
Same plan as when I started three months ago - max WAR, then PLD, then DRK, then figure everything else out, probably start on healers, and I might start with WHM just because. :cool:
None of the gloom/doom/FotM stuff bothers me at all.
I'm wouldn't mind playing SAM or RDM but it feels terrible playing over saturated class. Probably stick with my MCH or MNK.
I'm dropping my WHM. No point if I cant play it serious content if I keep getting ignored due to the fact that I'm not an AST.
Bard has been the only job I really played since the beginning. I would play a little machinist from time to time, but I would always get bored of it eventually. Bard always felt more engaging to me.
What I like about bard now is the high apm and always having to make quick decisions. I actually like the randomness. It can be frustrating some times, but extremely rewarding at the same time. It's a simple class on the surface, but possibly one of the most complex the deeper you go.
Despite all the new changes in Stormblood, the new bard seems pretty simple and slow-paced. Out of the 3 new songs, only Wanderer's Minuet seems good, Mage's Ballad is just okay, and Army's Paeon just seems bad. It seems like Square intended to sacrifice dps for a bit more utility.
No more Bloodletter procs except under Mage's Ballad really kills it for me. With less ogcds to weave, what am I going to be doing in between each gcd? Run around like a headless chicken? Aoe outside of Mage's Ballad is probably going to be boring as hell.
I'm still going to level Bard to 70 to see how it is. If I don't like it, I'm probably going play machinist or red mage and hope they improve Bard in upcoming patches.
I've been WHM main ever since ARR closed beta, though I got all 3 healers at lvl 60 right now.
I'll most likely take all 3 healers to 70 in stormblood too so I can evaluate them all myself, but given the information we have right now I'll most likely be AST main in stormblood :/
Things may look grim for WHM currently, but I'm still optimistically hopeful that it wont be as bad as it currently seem when stormblood actually launches.
Even if it is bad on launch, it may get better in 4.1 so I'm not gonna ditch it completely.
I really dislike the WHM changes, like really really dislike them, but... I hate the themes and aesthetics of AST and SCH more than I hate the SB WHM changes, so I'm sticking with it.
I'm so excited to be able to summon Bahamut-egi and fail DPS checks. ^ 3 ^
I change mains every expac it seems. PLD for ARR. DRG for HW. NIN for SB.
outside totally disliking the bard changes , not switching main , however gonna try rdm and sam for sure , and probably level my drk (albeit pld look more fun now) for tanking , and Sch (or Ast) for healing , Smn was my alt in 2.0 , Sch was in 3.0 now in 4.0 ....probaly pld/drk or sch/ast