easy dungeon roles?

Despite not being in a dungeon for quite some time now, I was wondering what tanking and dps roles are the easiest to manage. So far, for the majority of the dungeons I've been in, have been ACN (dps).
Anyway, I'm hoping to do some tanking for the first time, and I'm thinking of GLA (at Lv30). For dps, I'm hoping to do PGL.

(Sig banner is not up to date, LNC is currently at 17)

I found Marauder easier than gladiator when I first started tanking so you could try that, make sure you are doing the class quests at their guilds, you need the skills.

Black mage is the easiest class in dungeons but also one of the more boring ones until you hit like level 45+

In level 50 black mages still got an easy rotation but the challenge is to finding ways where you have to move as little as possible to dish out lotsaa damage!

Healer is by far the easiest role in low-level dungeons. imho. You have to do practically nothing. As a White Mage Regena do almost anything and as a scholar the fairy.

Marauder/Warrior is definitely a-lot easier than PLD for newcoming tanks, Overpower gives you emnity easier over bigger groups of enemies and not to mention Defiance at level 30 which kinda makes your tanking a cake walk after that.

DPS wise for dungeons and such just go as you wish, MNK has a movement rotation to heavily determine its damage output, SMN is damage over time, BLM is long casting heavy damage, BRD is a support role but can do decent dps, DRG is mainly behind target apart from heavy thrust which is a flank, NIN is all behind target and so forth i recommend playing them all to 15 and you'll know which one you like best.

As others said, MRD is going to be easier than PLD for learning to tank. Overpower can be used far more often than Flash and the resource it uses (TP) regenerates quickly on its own, so you don't need to weave in Riot Blades to regenerate your MP.

For DPS, if you're looking to do melee, both DRG and MNK are relatively easy in the beginning. I would say MNK is easier simply because it FORCES you to use specific abilities (due to buff uptime and stance rotation), which means there's less thinking involved. I'm in Opo Stance? Well I can either Bootshine or Dragon Kick. Is there another MNK keeping Dragon Kick up? Use Bootshine for extra damage. Don't have another MNK keeping Dragon Kick up? Use Dragon Kick for the debuff. That's it.

Bard is the easiest damage dealer. doesn't even have to do anything but attack.

they are ranged damage dealer, their attacks are instant, their DoTs are instant, can move freely and attack at the same time, don't have to do lb.

not saying it's the best or highest DPS but Bard is the easiest job to play.

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Originally Posted by Zaft

As others said, MRD is going to be easier than PLD for learning to tank. Overpower can be used far more often than Flash and the resource it uses (TP) regenerates quickly on its own, so you don't need to weave in Riot Blades to regenerate your MP.

For DPS, if you're looking to do melee, both DRG and MNK are relatively easy in the beginning. I would say MNK is easier simply because it FORCES you to use specific abilities (due to buff uptime and stance rotation), which means there's less thinking involved. I'm in Opo Stance? Well I can either Bootshine or Dragon Kick. Is there another MNK keeping Dragon Kick up? Use Bootshine for extra damage. Don't have another MNK keeping Dragon Kick up? Use Dragon Kick for the debuff. That's it.

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I must admit, I find myself thinking too much playing monk "OKay okay time to use dragon kick, hmm was it flank or behind? oh yeah flank!" If you play it as a main it should be easier though I reckon

Monk is the easiest melee DPS to start learning how to play melee. as other said, monk combo forces you to do it the right routine so you can just create a macro to deal with it.

I would think monk would be one of the more challenging DPS. I have it at 50 and don't get me wrong, its a ton of fun, but the changing rotation, the upkeep of greased lightning and the positioning makes it more difficult than other DPS jobs (thats not to say its HARD, just there are others that are easier). Likewise, Nin is kind of the same, it doesnt really have many position requirements but it does involve watching and timing buffs and mudras.

Easiest I would say is BLM by a long shot (its actually kinda boring I feel) and BRD. I don't have DRG at 50 but that one just bored me so much I couldnt take it past 34 after I got blood for blood.

Tanks I cant comment on WAR since I havent levelled mine, but from playing PLD and watching WARs, it does seem that in the lower levels WAR has a much easier time holding hate. In 2.4? the buff to flash enmity was a big help at least, although GLA/PLD has the benefit that if you level with someone who can sleep adds in a dungeon, you can very easily hold hate with flash without waking mobs which MRD/WAR can't do

I'm legit surprised to see people calling Monk the easiest melee to learn, because honestly at low levels Monk has far more room for mastery or error than Lancer or Rogue by a massive margin. By the time you're at Bowl of Embers, you're balancing two combos with variable positioning, a DoT, and learning your key mechanic of maintaining stacks. And before you say "yeah, but you don't have to do all that", you technically don't have to do anything but spam Heavy Shot as an Archer. Except it's a horrific habit to get into and doing yourself no favours down the line.

What's Lancer doing to be played ideally by Bowl of Embers though? Heavy Thrust into near-infinite Impulse Drives. Or your 1 2 1 2 1 2. Really it won't matter much at all. If you want to pick up a melee DPS and haven't played one before I really do recommend Lancer; it's really simple, has the highest natural durability outside of tanks, and while it gets plenty complicated later, has very clearly the easiest low levels.

Archer or Thaumaturge are usually considered the easiest DPS to pick up and play. Archer gets freedom of movement and a relatively simple 'rotation' which is just "Are these effects up? If not I should refresh them, otherwise I spam Heavy Shot". Thaumaturge gets into a fairly familiar rhythm before long - burn MP, transpose, rebuild MP, transpose, burn MP...

If you're wondering how they're all going to look when you get into level 50, for DPS classes:
- Monk is focused on maintaining a constant, 'fluid' rotation. Going too long without attacking costs you a lot of power; letting specific effects drops off costs you a lot of power; and you need to minimize your movement and adapt to what the timers remaining for your effects are to determine what you need to do. Plus, lots of positioning - you lose, on average, about 25% of your damage just by being in the wrong place when you hit buttons.
- Dragoon has simple combos, but they're multi-step combos that you have to commit to, which results in a fairly lengthy rotation of abilities to keep effects up and slip in your 1-2-3 without letting them drop off. In addition, you're weaving in Jumps when it's safe to do so - which will lock or otherwise adjust your position, meaning you need to know what's coming and whether or not it's safe to go all out.
- Ninja has a very simple basic rotation that's entirely static. The difficulty comes from the fact you have an entire second rotation in Ninjutsu, which have to be memorized and executed every twenty seconds to maintain effects and use the appropriate tools for your situation.
- Bard maintains a personal buff and DoTs and then spams Heavy Shot. However, Bard's DoTs also get the ability to start resetting cooldowns and getting procs that enhance the Bard's other actions, and so Bard becomes a very reactive class to maximize.
- Black Mage has a fairly simple rotation as mentioned - blowing MP on huge damage and then going into cooldown mode. Though fairly simple and static to learn the pattern, there is some slight randomness to it (Thundercloud procs); most importantly, Black Mages have to master moving as absolutely little as possible.
- Summoners have to master both manually controlling their pets to maximize damage, and maintaining a constant cycle of duration-based damage effects to stay up. It's a lot of micromanagement and executing a general strategy efficiently, rather than reactive play (bard) or focused rotations (Ninja, Dragoon, Monk, Black Mage).

For Tank, it depends. Overpower is simultaneously the better aggro generation move over Flash and the more difficulty to use (It's a lot more finicky about positioning than Flash). Either way, learning to tank as either of them relies on learning aggro mechanics, learning to watch what your allies are doing just as much as your enemies, etc. etc. - and these skills are pretty much identical for both classes. (Also if you're having to Riot Blade to Flash for your aggro you are doing something wrong)

For healer, absolutely pick up Conjurer instead of waiting 'till 30 to crash course into it as Scholar. The dungeons do a very good job of slowly amping up the stress on healers; it takes a very concentrated effort to wipe in the first couple dungeons, and you'll have lots of practice before the first real tests at around level 30 in Brayflox's Longstop and The Navel. Be aware that healing is a role that really benefits from already knowing fights - after all, if you die because you didn't realise that you can't be standing in the water at point x in a boss fight, that's your entire team that's gonna wipe.