Being a Tank sucks.

[chidarake]

BLM is for you. no position or mp issue, dps is very competitive even you don't know the job very well, and it's very easy to learn.
Since you have played tank, you know how important enmity is, that's the only thing you need to be aware of. No fire2 before flash etc.

no position issues.?? what... seriously you lose los and then your cast is cancelled, stand to close you have to move for aoe's or die. you have to know where to stand and which direction to face and pay attention to the tank and where he/she is pulling to otherwise you'll be in the wrong place and unable to cast.

no mp issues, tell that to all the blm's who screw up the rotations and have no mana left casting bliz 1 after 3 secs, to get enough mana to bliz 3, with probs a 6-9 sec delay in attacking... which by the way can be deadly in speed runs.

also as blm you need to know when to aoe when not to, manage hate cus blm are massive hate gainers especially in aoe. what to do when you do pull hate.. and no that doesn't mean run to the tank and stop dps'ing.


to op..

truth be told the way most dungeons are run nowadays you cant really afk dps and not be noticed. not that anyone can really do anything about it mind. some dps classes seem easier than others at the average level of play, which by the way sounds like where you'd want to be. take your role seriously but don't expect to be carried through stuff.

and as for mechanics, sorry to say you have to deal with more as dps I would say than tanking.. especially in places like ct and coil.. but even some dungeons have dps specific mechanics that can and cannot be ignored depending on how good the dps is.

if you want to take a break from tanking, by all means pick up a dps class or heals class and try it out but don't expect it to be so much simpler that you don't have to do much.

[Ryu_Hayabusaa]

Having mained a Tank for a while, and feeling the weight of the pressure that one would feel, I want to take a break from it and try a DPS. I already have a NIN at 50, but I'm looking for a few things:

• Ease of Mechanics
• General 'fun' level
• Not having to worry too much about situation awareness
• Worry-free gameplay

What comes closest to this list? I'll take 3/4. My thoughts are BRD or possibly THM, but I'd like to hear some suggestions. Currently a Highlander, if that makes any difference. Thank you all in advance for any replies.

step 1. uninstall FFXIV ARR.
step 2. buy a wii-u

[Mezlabor]

play a dragoon no one expects anything from us anyways. If your good as a dragoon then people are impressed if you fail and suck then your just another lol dragoon.

[Flipside101]

What I will say, though, is that tanks have it much easier in my book than healers, because while both their jobs are about awareness and reaction, healers also have to deal with

I'm not a healer and shall QFT this 100%, especially in FCOB. I play BLM as main and I have to say, my class is very easy to manage; This is why I've become designated as the early warning guy on VOIP. Meanwhile the SCH/WHM are busy keeping any derp DPS that get hit + mechanics while healing the tank (which occassionally forgets to pop a CD during big hits). Healers are the lifebloodof a party, they die, you know it's going to wipe. You can get clutch moves to survive that extra 10-20 sec of a tank being dead by popping a really expensive CD, but you can't replace that health bar once everything is blown. Hell I've tanked headlights before and we made a comeback.

[Tex_Mex]

Go Bard! Easiest class in the game, and they have a really fun playstyle due to the procs!

[aisustrong]

Go Bard! Easiest class in the game, and they have a really fun playstyle due to the procs!

i dont like archer, it feels so cowardly
really hoping i wont need to level it to 34 for quelling for blm
triply so because of df wait time

[Kazumac]

I personally don't find playing a DPS class any less pressure than other roles. Sure in a lot of content you can play half assed and get away with it but really the same can be said for any role in those situations. For content that there is pressure to perform well all jobs have equal responsibility and are noticed if under performing.

Now on a personal level you may feel that a particular role is less stressful but that's more based on your preferences than any of us on the forums telling you one is less pressure than another. I personally find healing is least stressful in progression content than tanking or dpsing. But that's due to my comfort level with the job and role more than it being mechanically less of a lynch pin for the group.

[Kadas]

I don't believe most answers here really answer your question at all.

I believe I'm in your same boat: I tank in endgame dungeons, but I just want to pew pew and deal damage without having to worry about a 40 moves rotation (drg), my position (drg, mnk), a double rotation (nin), healing everyone (let's admit it, healing requires more focus than tanking).

The answer I've come up is either Bard or BLM.

Bard has admittedly lots of pew-pew buttons to look at, but they can be arranged in just one big macro and 2 dots+heavy shot, for a total of 4 buttons without a huge DPS loss, and you're pretty much worry-free as you can move and dodge while dealing damage.
Drawback is well, by doing so there is an actual dps loss, even if not huge, compared to not having a macro, and you sometimes have to sing and deal with some mechanics which are just defaulted to BRDs.

Black Mage has unlimited mana, a very simple rotation to keep up, nothing to do whatsoever. Its only drawback is you gotta know when to dodge and how, or it might result in a dps loss, cause you can only situationally deal damage while moving (procs and stuff).

I'm pretty happy with Bard so far, it's my go-to job for anything but coil, I'm about to get 50 BLM and then I'll see, but I'll probably just use both.

I'm not usually a ranged guy, I'm a melee guy/ninja guy, but they're all too boring and annoying at the same time, I've given up on using them, I'm far too lazy.

Hopefully this gives you a clear answer, instead of some silly suggestions I've read.

As for responsibilities: I can watch a tv show while pewpewing on bard for any non-endgame content, be it expert or ct/st/wod with little to no damage loss, but as a tank I'm required to do slightly more slightly faster that it makes it harder to focus on my beloved tv shows. Healing would be worse, and melees just keep you busy all the time.

[Kuroyasha]

As for damage dealers, I believe you're right and they have it super chill, especially bard since you can just trololo around and steal deal optimal damage (lock-on or strafe pls, thx)

False. If you want to deal optimal damage as bard it is not that simple. This notion that bard doesnt have to do anything to do optimal dmg is a buncha bs.

[aisustrong]

False. If you want to deal optimal damage as bard it is not that simple. This notion that bard doesnt have to do anything to do optimal dmg is a buncha bs.

this is probably true, I've played with a lot of bards and the first time I played with nattack, the guy who got me into this game and who is a bard main, he generated so much more aggro than any other bard I've ever played with before. he actually managed to pull a mob off of me twice
so a lot of people that play bard must really suck

doesn't surprise me really considering about 60% of the bards I see don't even know how to dodge
and get hit more than blm