Class Job/Satisfaction 5.0 (NA/Overseas) Poll Results

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Dark Red= Most satisfied

Dark Blue= Least satisfied

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Looks about right... Give me back my Energy Drain for the love of all that is holy... I won't even complain about the lack of DPS complexity anymore if you do.

I didn't get a vote here, but I have to agree with the high satisfaction for PLD.

i'm surprised monk is so low when it's the top physical dps

Huh... I wonder why Warrior is so low. It got the least amount of changes and the things that did change are net positives imo. We actually got even stronger with the addition of IC.

Hell yeah, BLMs made out like bandits. This job really took off at 60 and only getting better.

Have to feel bad for non-Whm healers. No new healer class this expansion so the devs could focus on the existing three and ensure high quality class design and this is the result...

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Originally Posted by grinkdaboy

i'm surprised monk is so low when it's the top physical dps

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People are more dissatisfied with the actual changes. Anatman, GL4 being underwhelming, and six-sided star. Also, the tornado kick rotation/opener got deleted according to my understanding.

As someone that plays blm/whm/pld as the main job for each respective role.... yeah, I'd say that chart accurately reflects how I feel on those three jobs.
I feel bad for scholars and astologians, but white mage deserves the good treatment after what they did to it for the last couple expansions and especially SB.

My only beef with Warrior is maybe and this my inner spoiled brat talking is the potency of our attacks. Besides that if I were to address a "serious" issue with WAR is the "new" attack animations, Inner Chaos and Chaos Storm is just reused assets there is no cool or OOMPH effect using it. Fell cleave still have best impact compared to Inner Chaos.

i was SMN main but i beat the MSQ as BLM. what an amazingly fun job. and the "no movement" drawback is basically gone now. i can only hope SMN changes gets reverted, especially egi assault. absolutely unnecessary skills. BLM gameplay flows beautifully between AF and UI meanwhile. SMN gameplay is a mess of unmatching cooldowns, awakward downtime or "press 10 buttons in 5 seconds" phase

This is a pretty accurate representation of my feelings, seeing as I am (or was) an AST main who also dabbled in SCH a lot.

Suffice to say I've had a bit of a job identity crisis this expansion. I don't have a main job anymore that I like to play. I play tanks and RDM but I wouldn't say any are a "main" for me.

I look at the AST and SCH response and shake my head. Leveling both of them, I'm not seeing any major issues. Some QoL fixes are needed of course, but nothing so horrible that the jobs are broken.

I expect MCH to become the new "Bard" for players who just want to DPS only as the Range Physical DPS.

Dancer is nice but some people will get annoyed with the Mini-game Simon Says mechanic for the dancer's buff.

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Originally Posted by RyuDragnier

I look at the AST and SCH response and shake my head. Leveling both of them, I'm not seeing any major issues. Some QoL fixes are needed of course, but nothing so horrible that the jobs are broken.

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AST is incredibly weak in terms of healing and damage. The cards are underwhelming. Divination is underwhelming. I felt incredibly useless to every party I had while leveling AST. AST was one of my favorite jobs in this game that I played in content from dungeons to Ultimate, and it was a chore getting it to 80. I’ve since switched to leveling WHM, which already feels far more comfy by comparison.

SCH, while stupidly strong at healing (especially at level 78 with that completely broken Sacred Soil trait), is incredibly boring compared to how it used to be from every SCH main I’ve met thus far in the game. They also cannot spend their excess Aetherflow on Energy Drains, which forces them to either overcap stacks or spend them on worthless healing.

Well, it looks like it's global that SCH and AST were the mos affected jobs.
I hope devs really watch this chart, go and check the healer forums and see how disappointed and sad we are with these changes so they can fix this out. Specially AST. I don't want to level it up anymore.

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Originally Posted by HyoMinPark

AST is incredibly weak in terms of healing and damage. The cards are underwhelming. Divination is underwhelming. I felt incredibly useless to every party I had while leveling AST. AST was one of my favorite jobs in this game that I played in content from dungeons to Ultimate, and it was a chore getting it to 80. I’ve since switched to leveling WHM, which already feels far more comfy by comparison.

SCH, while stupidly strong at healing (especially at level 78 with that completely broken Sacred Soil trait), is incredibly boring compared to how it used to be from every SCH main I’ve met thus far in the game. They also cannot spend their excess Aetherflow on Energy Drains, which forces them to either overcap stacks or spend them on worthless healing.

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This, I'd happily give up some of our new healing potency for more complexity. Sacred Soil in particular was already useful but DAMN is it broken with the added regen.

As a SCH, pretty much what everyone* has been telling from when they first saw the changes.


*Everyone who is not out of their mind.

Divination needs like a minute cut off of its Cooldown.

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Originally Posted by EdwinLi

I expect MCH to become the new "Bard" for players who just want to DPS only as the Range Physical DPS.

Dancer is nice but some people will get annoyed with the Mini-game Simon Says mechanic for the dancer's buff.

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They perform the same dps wise, one is slower the other is a constant active time event. It comes down to how you want to apply the damage.

I feel like the only place Ast is good now, is PvP, and it feels pretty delightful in PvP (which hardly anyone does, sadly).
Sch atm feels better than Ast in PvE, even if the dps rotation is much more boring now.
I would like to get back into playing RDM, but seeing how the satisfaction is a bit low on them, I am getting worried about it.

Also... Why does it seem like BLM comes out on top for every expansion?
Is it like, the favourite class of the Devs or something?

Not at all surprised with the AST results. Wall to wall pulls used to be extremely fun and satisfying to heal/buff as an AST; now it's just pure stress. Enough stress to make me go back to WHM which seems to be the healer powerhouse at the moment.

This was a poll hosted on reddit, not the JP forum. It has only been translated and presented for the japanese players so they can see EU/US attitude to the changes.

I didn't get to vote on this, but as a former AST main, yeah, I agree on that front. I also didn't like SCH before and I'm sure I'll like it even less now.

I'm surprised BLM is so high up there. I hadn't looked at the changes. Looking at their new traits and actions now, it looks lovely. It was next on my list to level, and it looks like I'm going to have a lot of fun.

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Originally Posted by NessaWyvern

I feel like the only place Ast is good now, is PvP, and it feels pretty delightful in PvP (which hardly anyone does, sadly).

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I'm surprised you like it in PvP. It pretty much got nerfed into the ground in that. It's still probably the strongest and most fun PvP healer, but it was better before the changes. (Clearly the nerf was needed, though.)