Do you NOT have a main job?

What I mean is...... do you happen to be always switching jobs/roles in your time of this game? 2 years I've been playing this game, but I can't seem to make up my mind on what I want to focus on. This is a bit troubling because tomes, week limits become an issue for me, don't get me started on the relics.... >_> And now Stormblood's gonna make things worse. Anyway, has this been happening to anyone else. Or have you been pretty focused on a job/role?

I've played one job for many years, I felt comfortable and didn't wanted to look at anything else. Sure while having downtime (throughout raid breaks), I did level my other jobs and alts, and took some looks at different jobs I might have been interested in, but I caught myself constantly falling back to that one job. Funny thing is, I don't even like the role so much, but I play it because I played it from the beginning of the game. I tried switching last summer to something else since I got burned out, but I just can't bring myself to farm more tomes or relic items etc. Not to mention, I wouldn't be able to raid with that new class that's more fun, since my static doesn't allow job/role switches. I am still looking forward to 4.0, maybe I can finally main something else, if these jobs are fun. We'll see.

When I first started when the game launched I played as drg which didn't play that long then I switch to bard as main until ninja came out and then I couldn't really decide what job I want to play as so I geared them both and once in while played whm as third job but when HW came out I stopped playing bard and took ninja as main and play whm as secondary but usually stay on ninja with how the community treats healers (which you can read about in other threads lol)

I do that mostly to meet FC demands. Blessing and a curse from how I see it, because as much as I'd like to have every job geared for every circumstance, at least trying for it means that I can provide more opportunities for friends and FC.

It helps to prioritize though. Like for Stormblood, I plan on no more than one 70 per extended role (one tank, one healer, one ranged, one melee). No idea if I'll stick to that, but at least that way I won't get too obsessed with gearing up every single job.

The only job that I can stomach playing over and over without getting tired or bored is summoner.

My main is my first character who is and always will be Bard and nothing else. That said, sometimes I play alts more than her and lately don't even play her 'first' in new content because, while part of me really wants to, I favour appropriately pairing off my characters with that of my friend's. I'm more than willing to play Stormblood on some alts before my main this time around even if it kills me a little inside to neglect my main for the sake of both pairing off my characters and experiencing the story on my Warrior whom aesthetically is the most fitted to filling the WoL role.

Each of my characters only has one Job between them so maybe my circumstances are a little different since I change to whoever I feel like playing or what role I need at the time, but regardless of that, I will always consider my Bard, K'nahli, my one and only main.

I always say my main is tank, but I honestly hop between the majority of my jobs fairly frequently. About the only one I hate touching is scholar because of how boring it is to be a dps bot, but I suppose my 'mains' would be PLD/DRK/NIN/MCH. Used to main Warrior but I got bored of always being off tank.

I think the term "Main Job" means something a bit different to everyone. I've heard people use it differently. Which is fine, just be aware that everyone replying might not be on the same page.

With that being said, for me "Main Job" refers to the job that get's first priority in all of my limited resources; capped tomestone gear, weekly drops, etc. As such, it tends to be my best geared job at the time, and the job I run through the most current content. When I'm raiding, my main is the job I'm raiding with. When I'm not, it's my favorite. Ideally, the two are the same, but it's not always the case.

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Originally Posted by Kazrah

Like for Stormblood, I plan on no more than one 70 per extended role (one tank, one healer, one ranged, one melee). No idea if I'll stick to that, but at least that way I won't get too obsessed with gearing up every single job.

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That's how I am doing it. I'll have one geared specifically, a dps usually, because I only like healing in group content and even then it gets tiring. I plan on switching mains to Samurai probably from Dragoon, so I am not really to invested in any class right now. (Still fairly new to the game so still trying classes, but this is my experience from other games)

I stick with WHM mostly. I like to heal and WHM is the job I like healing with the most. I do swap to level other jobs but I almost never enter any dungeon that isnt a leveling dungeon as something other than WHM.

I have a main job now, it being monk. But back on my first character (January 2014-August 2015), I was maining monk and white mage equally between (around) november 2014 to June 2015, after which white mage was my main job during Heavensward 3.0, and monk has been my main since I made my second character in November 2015.

I main ninja on this character.
I main monk on another character.
I main dark knight on another character.
I main astrologian on another character.
And I finally main black mage on yet another character.

Which one I play the most depends on my mood and whether one of them has a particular glamour goal. I do consider the ninja my main, though I really don't play her that often these days anymore.

I bounce between 2 I like to play, one patch I will gear one first. Next patch a may gear the other first, all depends on my mood.

I also have a couple alts who have 1 job at 60 that I can tinker with when I get bored and want to play something different. So if I cap tomes, get my drops on my main one week, I can switch to an alt and get some tomes and a drop here or there. They gear slower but are fully geared on their one job well before the patch is outdated.

I switched more during ARR and early HW, but I've been a lot more focused since I returned and have basically just played WHM. This is in part because I joined a new free company and started actually doing some content I couldn't gear up for in a day, which pretty much makes the decision for me of what class I'll attend as. Paladin is also my default choice of tank, as I don't like the other two as much. My DPS job constantly changes though and I'll be looking at RDM for Stormblood, though I level everything. I also like to switch up my healing with AST a bit.

i can never decide what healer i'd rather be, so i end up switching between all three.

I'm determined to choose a main for stormblood.

Leveling everything was and is one of my main goals and time sinks. That said, I found myself playing WHM whenever it was time to do something that progresses my character, so I just fell into it being my main. That isn't to say I don't enjoy WHM, I enjoy it quite a lot. This is partially due to my FFXI main not existing yet. I know it'll be flavor of the month but unless I can't stand the play style, i'll be focusing on SAM.

My main is PLD, probably always will be (unless they let us fuse to Job's in some sorta custom class builder, then I'll be a Shield & Pistol welding MCH/PLD/healer hybrid, with a Job stone in Mind & Dexerity... which can only qurry as DPS, but can OT in bursts)... back on point, PLD is always my 1st class to level to max & 1st class to get higher ilv gear threw weekly tomes, next is a 50/50 split between my fav Heal & fav DPS class with other slightly lower ilv gearing methods at the time (MCH & AST atm... was MCH/WHM)

I've primarily focused on blm and whm I love both of those jobs but do find it a little hard to get them geared with their BiS before the gear gets replaced with higher level stuff. There has been a few other jobs I've taken interest in and have levelled but it's been tough to properly gear them for much.

I'm almost sick of the gear grind just for the gear I just got to be outdated to be honest. I think I'm almost at the point of quitting the game, it ends up where I'm only able to focus on 1 or maybe 2 jobs at most, at least with other games I've played I was able to level and gear multiple jobs without my gear for them becoming out dated in the process

GLA/PLD is definitely my main, for not only gameplay reasons (it was the first class I levelled to 50 and then 60, and I find it the easiest and most relaxing to play as), but also for sentimental reasons - GLA was my starting class in version 1.0 and so I have that nostalgia at least. Plus roleplaying-wise the backstory I have written for Enki is that she is a free knight (a knight errant if you will), and so GLA/PLD only fits into that. :)

Which goes against my usual preferences to play as WHM or as a healing class or Job in games, but I dislike the healing meta in FFXIV and feel healing as WHM particularly at high levels is just too complex and confusing - ironically I only really like healing as CNJ/WHM at low levels. Figures I guess. :p

Honestly I have never changed Main Class in any game I've been in with the exception of Everquest. There I started out when the game released with a Bard, and after getting it to 40th level... I switched over and became a Rogue, the bard was just too weak for my tastes. And the Rogue allowed me to explore the world more without being in a group. Since then... I rarely if ever switched to anything else.

Everquest: Bard switched to Rogue at 40th and worked the Rogue up to the cap level.
Dark Age of Camelot: Champion (when they nerfed it I left the game)
FFXI: Red Mage... did toy with the Black Mage because I liked it lot too.
Jade Dynasty: Vim (Kinda lilke a Drk)
Neverwinter Online: Spellstorm Mage (Basicaly a lightning mage), Did actually switch to the Master of Fire (a DoT style mage)... both of them AoE mages... left when they Nerfed Mages.
FFXIV: Summoner... plays just like the Red Mage in FFXI... but might toy with the Blm too... still... SMN will remain my primary.

Been a floor tank since ARR early access but will be switching to Samurai once Stormblood arrives because I'm a sucker for katana. XD

I have ten 60s, one 58, and an absolute garbage class that I hate playing at 53 (but will still level because I need the Grandmaster of War cheevie). I often bounce around amongst my properly geared jobs for a myriad of reasons but can't really settle on one. Stormblood will be adding two more to the table that I'll probably level to 70, on top of the rest. My compulsive need to level all jobs for the achievements and scratching my itch for varied playstyles refuses to abate.

It also allows me to know each and every job on a fundamental level (except for the job I don't like, I don't think I'll ever understand or enjoy it).

I usually keep my tanks leveled with tome gear and use the alex nm/ crafted stuff for everything else. Then after I get the tanks to max ilvl is just mix and match until the next patch.

I play healers, namely WHM. However, I do lack a DPS class I like for when healer spots are filled in PFs. I used to play bard, but then those casting bars were added. If I wanted to play a caster, I would have played a caster, so I'm down a satisfying alternative.

I'm hoping I will like either SAM or RDM.

I started out just with Black Mage, and then later tried out Dragoon. Originally thought I'd just stick to those two, since in previous MMOs I'd never been able to get even one class to level cap, nevermind two or more.

Now I've got everything at cap and all pretty nicely geared to boot. The more I played the more I found I enjoyed playing just about everything. Except SCH. I don't really do much with SCH.

As far as prioritizing what I gear, I suppose my "Main" focuses are still BLM and DRG, along with DRK now too. Of course thanks to gear sharing, a geared DRK means a geared PLD and WAR too. And a geared BLM a geared SMN. I'm also trying to gear up my MNK for Stormblood, as I plan to focus on it and SAM when the expac hits. Hallelujah that they share gear, makes things easier on me. Sharing accessories with DRG is also nice on that front. Then NIN, then Phys-Ranged, then Healers I suppose.