Why did you choose to be a Conjurer?

This thread is regarding the concept of changing the class name and actions for Conjurer. It's already been well discussed so instead of talking about it here, let's talk about what brought us to Conjurer in the first place.

I chose Conjurer because I wanted to use elemental magic offensively. I imagined the great graphics of FFXIV, and imagined the cool spells I could use during battle. Once I started playing, I was really drawn to the lore of the Conjurer's guild in Gridania.

Of course right now I'm disappointed about the look of the offensive magic but I hope that will change. Check out my thread in battle mechanics to see my suggestion. http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...ffects-dev1037

So why did you choose to be a Conjurer?

I chose Con because it seemed like the closest job to a BLM (My first 75 in FFXI). Now, I'm reduced to nothing but a cure mage....

When I glanced the spell and ability progression list I saw more conservative FFXI spells on CON than I did THM (Cure/Raise/Fire/Flare/etc). It seemed to me to be a WHM + BLM Hybrid which were among my first jobs 75 in FFXI, yet not exactly a RDM, namely, no Gravity or Bind. Honestly, I don't know how to treat the job entirely, it feels as if the role of CON could just as entirely be played as THM with no difference outside of the elemental spells.

I was a Paladin in FFXI and wanted to play a mage this time around.

The whole "spill your own blood" aspect of Thm sounded a little to angsty Dark Knight for my tastes...

I gave up being a Pld in FFXI, one voke, and even with all my abilities, couldn't hold enough hate when the everyone could be /sam after level cap. So I decided in this game to go back to my roots of MMOs and be a wizard. Closest to that is Conjurer.

I chose CON based on the promo info on the FFXIV website before release. I also thought it might be the next step forward from a BLM style class. That's a negative.

I chose Con because it's so versatile. I can heal if my party needs healing. I can nuke if my party needs nuking. And I can solo pretty easily because I have access to heals and nukes.

I also chose Con because I hate being pigeon-holed into a role, and it would disappoint me greatly if they got rid of Con's nuking and made it a healing only class (which is what the thinly veiled motivation of some of the posts in this thread is... sorry, don't want BLMs and WHMs that can only do one or the other)

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Originally Posted by Kaedan

I chose Con because it's so versatile. I can heal if my party needs healing. I can nuke if my party needs nuking. And I can solo pretty easily because I have access to heals and nukes.

I also chose Con because I hate being pigeon-holed into a role, and it would disappoint me greatly if they got rid of Con's nuking and made it a healing only class (which is what the thinly veiled motivation of some of the posts in this thread is... sorry, don't want BLMs and WHMs that can only do one or the other)

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Im pretty much with Kaedan. I dislike being pigeon holed into existing for just one purpose (a la WHM, BLM) but I played SCH in FFXI and I really enjoyed it. Not only could I nuke and debuff when I wanted to, but I could heal and buff up too, it was really intense and kept me involved in the fights all the time. I find and feel that CON plays similar to SCH, and therefore I am never bored in a fight.

I actually have a few fond memories of levelling CON up to 50, quite a few times where the party has wiped and and I would be the only one standing and still destroy the monsters solo, or when someone pulled a few too many raptors and I was the only mage, I kept the team alive with my CC, debuffs nukes and heals, etc lol its fun to be a CON that doesnt just stick to healing or nuking. ^^

I wanted to focus on healing and support. Love supporting my party members :)

ALSO they were the hardest class to rank up besides THM before the sp changes in November. It was sort of rewarding to rank up a class that ranked slowly compared to the DoW. I know it ranked slow for me

To me... it was the closest thing to a Black Mage.

Now im stuck leveling Thaumaturge too since we dont know how these 2 classes will be handled in the future.

I played Thm in the Closed Beta and didn't like how it played. So I switched to Conj and loved the difference. I had my Elemental spells and decent heals. In XI I had started on Whm and didn't mind healing people but I still felt left out; not being able to do damage to the mob with everyone. Now on XIV I don't have that issue of feeling left out.

I picked CON because I really enjoy healing, and based of skills con was better suited for healing, but also could nuke and DD, basically a RDM. However the range for heals is not that great for them and it is much better on THM. However I did not pick CON first when I started the game, I picked lancer, now that is my lowest battle class.(22 lol) Kinda went the opposite direction, but CON was my first 50 and still glad I ranked it to 50 first.

I chose this class for the ability to cure and buff. The ability to use the elemental spells as well, as Ranka said, gives it a RDM feel and is the feel I'd like to stick with ^^

I'm one of those strange people that actually really enjoyed being a White Mage in XI...watching health bars, scanning the log for undesirable stats to remove -- it sounds so boring, but I loved supporting a team of friends! :) Since this class had "Cure" listed as one of the spells I figured that I could work it around into being some sort of a healer. I hope that Blindna and erase come around sometime in the future because those sure would be helpful. :)

I choose conjurer because I like the idea of killing many enemies in a instant. ;)

I chose conjurer because I wanted to use it as a backbone for my other jobs. Initially I was just going to level it a little, but I really became attached to all the different ways I could play it. I like the versatility of healing, debuffing, dd'ing, and supporting with buffs. Having a high mage job available is never a bad thing either!

I originally picked conj because it seemed to be a much stronger healer than THM(protect/shell felt required, mainly shell, it used to be completely insane magic DR). I wanted to be a SCH again, which was my main in FF11. After leveling it and playing this game, I quickly became disappointed with conj, it was boring, easy, and nothing like SCH at all.

I miss my stratagems, I miss having to kite, I miss matching nukes with weather, I miss klimaform, I miss my weather buffs, I miss my CC(gravityga/sleepga/bindga), I miss dark/light arts, I miss R2, I miss RR2. Conj was a huge let down to me in every way imaginable. SCH took so much concentration to play, I was constantly challenged and always having fun. From healing parties/events, to nuking, to kiting NM's and soloing them, to nuking puddings solo, to nuking in events, to nuking nms, to lowman kiting/nuking, etc :(

I leveled archer instead, and now I'm waiting for the combat system revamp + job system + armory system revamp before I touch my mages again.

I wanted to play a healer.

The nukes were simply a bonus. I find that in end-game scenarios (HNM) I have great spells but lack Thaumaturge range. Though, solo & SP grind I almost never healed and relied solely on elemental weaknesses. I actually liked this kind of versatility because it allowed me to level in my own way, but come to the goal I intended which was to heal.

I'm currently leveling Thaumaturge to 50 and may switch to it as my "Main" for the range, but I'll still be healing and using primarily Conjurer spells and abilities. I doubt my action bar will change much at all, in fact. I simply prefer the Cone AOE and its range (though I originally "lol" at this type of AOE and saw it as useless - how nearsighted I was).

I can see we all have played Conjurer for different reasons. It's very interesting to see all the responses. I hope the dev team takes this into account when planning future adjustments.

I wanted to be a super awesome black mage lol, but the outfits are bland, the shoes are gay, in every sense of the word, the "epic" fireballs, ice-spikes, lightning bolts, upturned earth, etc... from other final fantasy series have essentially been reduced to tiny sparklers where even with the doubled size from the recent patch they still don't seem the least bit powerful or destructive, almost all the staves are literally just sticks with no personality or awesome factor to them whatsoever, and our primary armor types are robes and hooded robes, we basically get 2 sets of gear for all 40 levels and only color variations to them.

at this point Conjurers are the very definition of the word bland, and I hope that changes soon, but from what i can tell the only change we have to look forward to in the near future is that one class specific set of gear that makes us look like a black mage, and neat-o though it may be, I'm not looking forward to a thousand "black mages" running around looking even more identical than before.

I chose CON because it's spells open up all the options for when I start other classes. The basics like Protect, Shell, Stoneskin, Shock Spikes, and Cure, and the more advanced spells like Raise. It's really a solid start before hopping on other classes to learn more abilities, spells, and weapon skills.

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Originally Posted by Dubont

I chose Con because it seemed like the closest job to a BLM (My first 75 in FFXI). Now, I'm reduced to nothing but a cure mage....

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lol same here XD, try to be a DD and you wont have many friends, they will never say youre a good nuker, just a bad healer lol

I choose conjurer because of all the buffing and healing spells to be completely honest. I LOVE main healing a party, so it only seemed right to take up the magic class with the most buffs to hand out. Not to mention, the elemental wands are SO DARN CUTE.

I chose conjurer because it seemed to be the closest thing to a white mage and I wanted to be a healer.

I like soloing and CON seemed to have the right combo of curative & status removal spells, protection buffs and nukes that suited my taste. I like the elemental magic aspect of it, as it seems they're more connected to nature than THMs and they use wooden wands and staves (again the nature aspect). The CON guild blows THM guild out of orbit in terms of looks. It's in Gridania (which I actually like) which is ruled(?) by 2 horned kids who are Conjurers. Seemed closer to my old BLM from XI and I don't mind healing at all.

I knew I definitely wanted to only play a mage class in XIV - don't ever plan on leveling a DoW class, no matter some of their useful skills and my handicap for not having any.

I guess, to me, THM sounded a bit, dare I say, fake....they fiddle with death and graves and they live in a church-like building. The religious undertone was off-putting. Frankly, they sound more like a cult O_O whereas Conjurers seemed more along the druid path, which I could connect to. However, I couldn't imagine my CON now without the THM skills, so I really have to give them some credit.

I found this on wikipedia. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conjuration

I honestly just wanted to get a utility job out if the way before I started meleer. In xi I never levelled a Mage because once I startedmeleeing I didn't want to start over on a completely new gear and ability-get.

Not sure if I'm going to be a dedicated Mage or not.

One spell: cure, but as I've lvled its turned into something more like a BLM

I actually started as PGL and then any time I was with a group... I missed being able to help when somebody was getting beat on. As much as I despised being WHM in ffxi, I missed helping. The thing that got me "hooked" was when I was roaming around in the Black Shroud and saw some guy with a sliver of health left running from some mob. I cured him to full and gave him some buffs and he turned around and defeated whatever had been chasing him.
The ability to do that is why I continue to play it. ... though I do wish the range was better. I don't like going anywhere near whatever my friends are fighting to re-buff them XD
It does add that danger-danger element to the fray, though. lol

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Originally Posted by AzureKikinak

One spell: cure, but as I've lvled its turned into something more like a BLM

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I've heard mixed reviews on this class being more of a BLM or a WHM. Just curious how the comparisons can vary so much. I just picked up this game yesterday and am trying to decide what class I want to play. I enjoyed BLM in FFXI, and was looking for something similar, but I can't find much about the class comparisons and what makes them unique. I wish I could get in and play to see which I might like more, but I had to wait until ClickandBuy opened and have been on hold with them for the last 45 minutes.

Can anyone give a brief breakdown of the different magic classes, or point me to a site that can give me the main roles of each? Thanks.

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Originally Posted by Windowslm

I've heard mixed reviews on this class being more of a BLM or a WHM. Just curious how the comparisons can vary so much. I just picked up this game yesterday and am trying to decide what class I want to play. I enjoyed BLM in FFXI, and was looking for something similar, but I can't find much about the class comparisons and what makes them unique. I wish I could get in and play to see which I might like more, but I had to wait until ClickandBuy opened and have been on hold with them for the last 45 minutes.

Can anyone give a brief breakdown of the different magic classes, or point me to a site that can give me the main roles of each? Thanks.

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Check out finalfantasyxiv.com ! That's what I used to get a handle on the 2 magic classes.

i just wanted to be like my old whm job in ffxi, i was a pretty good whm, so i decided "go conjurer" and i had alot of fun with it. i liked buffing and healing people whenever i saw ANYONE.

I play healers in all MMOs. It's my favorite role.

FFXI: White Mage
WoW: Holy Priest
WAR: Archmage
Aion: Cleric

So, when researching the caster classes on the official FFXIV website, it seemed that Conjurer was more the path of the healer (even if it is a WHM/BLM hybrid):

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Attuned to the essence of all things around them, the conjurers' intimacy with all forms of being enables them to shift between both offensive and defensive magic as needed.

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Wheras THM sounded like a pure damage-dealing caster:

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Thaumaturges are unparalleled in their powers of destruction, eclipsing even the Desciples of War.

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I'm waiting on pins and needles to know which class will unlock White Mage and hope I didn't take the wrong path.

I chose CONJ for a few reasons. First, I was a SMN/WHM/BLM in FFXI, but SMN and WHM were my favorite. I love healing. Since there are no pet classes yet, I went with the class I knew would be more of a dedicated healer. But... Conjurer isn't just a dedicated healer. It's sort of like a RDM or SCH. You're very versatile and I like that. THM seems more of an indirect support class to me -- both offensively and defensively. I may end up leveling both to not only supplement each other but also to get a feel for both.