Do you play as your most efficient job or your most fun to play?

I started all over again back in January and decided to go ninja and I mained that until I beat Heavensward then I switched back to my old love of summoner. I geared it all up and did its anima, but I haven't played ninja in so long, so I went back to it and started playing it again to get reacquainted. I actually prefer to play as ninja instead of summoner, at least for the time being, but I noticed that my runs are actually a couple minutes slower. My nin is roughly 20 ilevels lower than my summoner, so obviously if I want a quicker run, I have to go as summoner. So, I'm a bit torn on what I prefer now. Ninja, which is more fun for me, or summoner, which is more efficient.

You ever find yourself in that dilemma?

I main AST and raid as AST, which is a significantly higher IL than my BRD, but I run with my BRD for my roulettes and other casual content.

I do this because I enjoy healing and I'd like to think I'm a good healer, but I get bored of healing all of the time. Playing BRD gives me a little break. I don't think there's a problem with it, as long as you meet the IL requirements for content you're fine :)

I enjoy and am best at BRD, so it's both. Since I love to play BRD so much, I think that's why it's my best job, to be honest.

I also love to play SCH. I don't think I'm very good but I think I'm good enough to not be a hindrance when playing it.

I've been an archer/bard since the beginning, it's what I'm most comfortable with; even if I'm not always doing the best I can. I had an absolute blast leveling dragoon and I'm currently working on blackmage (I feel so powerful..) Leveled astrologian for a while and really loved the sense I was playing an important role, same with dark knight, but in the end I'm just a bard. :>

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Originally Posted by WinterLuna

I main AST and raid as AST, which is a significantly higher IL than my BRD, but I run with my BRD for my roulettes and other casual content.

I do this because I enjoy healing and I'd like to think I'm a good healer, but I get bored of healing all of the time. Playing BRD gives me a little break. I don't think there's a problem with it, as long as you meet the IL requirements for content you're fine :)

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I do this also! I main SMN for raiding/ex primals(before nerfs/echo) and I do roulettes and other casual things as WHM. After upgrading and echo things I try raiding with WHM.

I just stopped playing as anything other than NIN. The other DPS jobs became very annoying with Heavensward (monk: chakra spam -> carpal tunnel, DRG: add/subtract timers, BLM: maintain a buff just to even have your DPS rotation available to you, BRD / MCH: now casters, etc.) while NIN saw QoL improvements (armor crush) and fixes (mudra lag). I didn't find those other classes hard to play (I'm actually quite good at BLM), but they weren't enjoyable.

I've tried DPS for content I "don't know", but haven't liked BRD, DRG, or BLM at 60 for PVE so I just stick with WHM. A job that you're more interested in you'll be willing to invest more in, imo, so eventually you'll be far more efficient.

The most fun to play - Ninja isn't exactly the best thing to main when you're sitting in europe and play on an NA data center. I do tend to get more efficient at the jobs I play the more I actually play them, tho.

That said: I'd advice simply gearing your ninja, if you have more fun with it. Gear comes easy, so it's no big deal!

Both. I love managing SMN and I'm good at it.

Do which job you find fun and make it efficient.

They're the same thing for me, Scholar.

I enjoy ninja, and coincidentally it's my best job

Viva la Ninja master race!

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Having played ninja for a while now all other classes seem slow and rubbish. :p

I am playing as what i have the most fun with which is atm BLM mainly with DRK and MCH on the side :)

I "mained" Monk all through first and second coil, SCH for Final Coil (discovered I REALLY enjoy healing), Monk was my first Job to get to 60 for heavensward, geared it up got my 240 relic, but now I miss my SCH so I'm currently on the 240 step for that too lol .
I don't raid anymore but I always use my Monk or SCH for ex primals. I also enjoy doing dungeons on my Summoner or Black Mage xD

My first loves and my favourites will always be Monk and Scholar and subsequently i've spent the most time learning the ins and outs of them and I perform the best with them.

Though I'm not sure what you mean by most efficient, I'd have to say that the jobs I have the highest outputs with are usually also the ones I consider most fun, hence my gearing them to end up the highest output among my jobs (all 60). Which between those (Bard, Ninja, and Monk at the top) just depends on mood, and whether there's any use for the Bard's songs. I've gone back and forth between maining or co-maining Bard and Monk from 1.2 to 3.1, and spent a short time maining Ninja around 3.1 before having to Bard again, and then fading out from raiding entirely and taking up all three (with all but SMN still within 10 ilvl of those 3).

I was always a healer main, and currently my AST is my highest iLVL, but I have been having an in and out affair with Summoner since the start of 2.0. The utility is something else! I'm gearing it now, and am almost caught up.

Funnily, I'm actually working on Ninja, but I only just unlocked the job (but I have a bunch of level 60 scouting gear, lol). I also played BLM to 60 in POTD, adored it, and am cursing every time I want to work on BLM since I can't stand Archer but am still 17 levels away from Quelling Strikes.

For the most part..."most efficient job" and "most fun job" are the same for me. But, it does depend on the content I'm running.

Example, I main WAR; raid on it, run dungeons on it, do open-world stuff on it (unless someone else really wants to tank). I love the job. But I *hate* PvPing as WAR. Instead, I PvP as BRD mostly, and enjoy it a lot.

On the other hand, I do a lot of casual stuff on WHM as well; Holy spam in dungeons is just too easy.

Only if someone in my static (when I get into one) asked me to play a specific job they know I'm better at because we need the help. Otherwise, I'll play whatever I find fun and work on improving. Good thing is I currently main DRG and MNK, which I find the most fun. So... it all works out. :D

I have the most fun as WHM and I feel I play most efficiently as WHM. So, that's what I usually play.

I have gotten BLM and SMN up to 60, but I have conflicted feelings about both.
I think I can play Black Mage very efficiently. BUT, it is a little boring for me to play.
I am decent at Summoner, but, to be honest, I haven't done enough dungeons with SMN to be good at it. I usually don't play SMN in dungeons because I don't want to slow everyone down. BUT, I really enjoy summoner.

Now I am leveling Ninja. I am trying to memorize the rotations and how to best maximize DPS and when to use what skills.
I want to have a DPS job that I both enjoy and am confident in. I hope ninja can be that job, but to be honest, I never play DPS jobs in MMORPGs, so I'm still not used to it.
But I want to get better.

Fun & efficient....for important content I tank bc it's my main but for anything else pretty much I use whatever I feel like but usually it's the efficient classes. Any healer I find efficient, for tank I usuallly avoid PLD for dungeons, for dps I almost always uss something that kills quickly in dungeons, such as BLM, SMN, MNK & I avoid ranged & NIN bc they're far weaker overall. And DRG can be the biggest pain ever so I rarely use it, especially for dungeons.

Really every class is fun in its own way but it's most satisfying using MNK or BLM bc the insane damage output.

I play as SMN for PVP/PVE, SCH if necessary or lazier/ want quicker queues.

I find tanking the most fun but my latency isn't good enough mostly for me to tank optimally in (might eat AOEs and annoy the healers) :(

I play for fun, only thing that is in the way of my fun, is the fact that we can not gear up all battle classes at the same time.

WAR and MNK are my go to for PVE, both are very fun for me and I'm equally skilled at them. PLD is my default for PVP. It just feels so right there. But in general if I'm going to get efficient at it, I'm having fun with it first.

I play as NIN on my main as it's both my most proficient and fun to play job. Even though I do tend to switch it up with MCH and MNK, I always go back to NIN.

Play mostly as paladin, my most fun. Otherwise, what's the point?

Besides, with enough repetition anyone can become skilled at anything in this game.

It really depends on the type of content.

Expert Roulette and 60s Roulette, I will go in as Summoner or any Healer simply because it is more efficient, and lowers the chances of disgustingly long runs, and provides a safeguard when it comes to deaths. With a premade, the same job pool is there, but includes Black Mages.

Level 50, I will go on Black Mage, Summoner, WHM, Scholar or whatever I am leveling. I care not for efficiency when I am leveling, but do when I am farming tomes.

Trial and PvP, I do whatever I feel like, but will fill in PvP if there is no healer.

I hate the obsession with speedruns, so... I play whatever I feel like. Others should do the same. A couple minutes is nothing to get fussed over.

I main WAR, play SCH because I enjoy it, and I have a geared dragoon and summoner I also enjoy playing on. Fastest queue is always tank, but I often just get tired of tanking duty finder, and I always have to tank for raids and most of the content I run with my static. So I'll often queue on SCH which is still pretty fast because I'm decently geared on that job and like to dps as much as I can.

Lately I've been joining mentor roulette queues on dps jobs, also for fun. Sometimes I've had to leave the duty and requeue as tank when a tank leaves. Apparently there's been a lot of tanks dropping duties lately.

I strive for efficiency enough as it is at work. On FFXIV, I play whatever I consider to be fun at the time.

That isn't to say I don't do my best to contribute to the party in group content, but I do the best I can in the role I feel like playing.

I have fun when I can play efficiency.
If teammate limit my gameplay (like an incapable co healer), then I will not have fun.

Otherwise, I can have fun with all the job :)

For me they are one in the same: Summoner! I like BLM as well, and I'm warming up to SCH (still not super good at healing though).

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Originally Posted by WinterLuna

I main AST and raid as AST, which is a significantly higher IL than my BRD, but I run with my BRD for my roulettes and other casual content.

I do this because I enjoy healing and I'd like to think I'm a good healer, but I get bored of healing all of the time. Playing BRD gives me a little break.

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o.o I think we may be twins. ^All of this, for me.
Just that my BRD is an alt <_>

I like healing. It gives me the odd feeling of control over the situation (don't get me wrong, I'm no control freak. Ask anyone in the FC - my main response is almost always "up to you guys /shrug" or *try* to go with the flow when tactics change up by someone else's preferences (no garantees via habit)... unless it's just blatantly wrong >.>).
It does get boring, after a while... but exciting when there's a challenge (...maybe that's why I like to haunt Niddhogg NM, so much, lately... know it by heart, but somehow, something still always happens...).
I usually jump to my BRD if I just don't feel like taking so much responsibility... but yet still happily able to help the party with songs (I'm sad when I can't find a reason to play any >_> no casters, no DPSing healer, no AoEing melee or WAR in need of TP, no frantic/raised healer needing mp.... ;______; )

I'd say healing/AST is my most efficient (and fun, under the right circumstances).
BRD is probably my most fun.... even if I'm not as efficient (just... because thats not my main focus/don't play all the time)

DRK and NIN are the funnest to play for me, but it depends on what I'm doing. For roulettes, I go drk for instant ques, but for raiding, I stick to dps unless my friends need a tank. But between my mch and my nin, I'm definitely more effective as ninja. I'm currently working on perfecting the mch dmg output, but I have ninja down pat. So to help the group, I go ninja.

Drk for me I just love pushing myself to my limit with it and having great DPS, great AoE tanking, and a gap closer. No class comes to Drk with it's fun and challenges.

I love playing all healer, but WHM is really hard to maintain for frontline. For new content I always play SCH. For frontline I always use AST.

I play about every class I have at 60 to some degree. Ilvl ranges pretty much everywhere between 213 and 235.
I decide which class to play based on the content, not how well-geared I am :)
For example, BLM, my highest, is mostly used in trial and mentor roulette, sometimes WC, always VA, as well as raiding.
AST, my second highest, is mostly used for ex roulette, WC and EX primals (and was used for raiding in my last Static, and yes, even then I geared up my BLM first).
For PvP I prefer my BRD though, and PotD I prefer doing on NIN. DRK and DRG get the remaining roulettes and sometimes overworld fights.
When I'm in the mood, I randomly usw WHM or SCH instead of AST and SMN instead of BLM, but that's limited to normal-difficulty content; as I'm not as good at playing them as the others (so I couldn't suddenly play SMN on raid level).

My most fun, because with me, fun = efficiency.

I go WHM all the way.

On top of the HOTs and the amount of panic buttons it has, I can stance dance pretty efficiently and feel completely in control. Both of these = fun to me!