A big Problem that MAY come up with Stormblood...

[Elkanah]

I will continue to main DRK and WAR on my tanks, and maybe play around with PLD. Either way, all 3 are getting leveled to 70. No questions asked right there. BLM has always been my main DPS bread and butter, second being SMN; aside from leveling NIN DRG and BRD/MCH on that end. I'm just adding to the list with RDM and SAM too.

Really though, I'm curious to see how much different DRK will play, and I'm expecting to stay tank for most, if not all my content. I ran all of HW up until now as tank, and DPS second if tank was already taken. So nothing will really change unless it's necessary. Either way, all jobs will be at 70 for me (except healers, cause I despise healing, though some classes are better than others come SB) lol.

[Reiryuu]

It's comments from Yoshi P like this:

Twinfinite: Some players were upset that there wouldn’t be any new tank or healer jobs with the launch of Stormblood. What would you say to these players to make them feel more at ease?

Yoshida: You know, [people] who are upset about no tanks or healers being introduced, he [Yoshida] feels that it’s less “oh if you had introduced a tank or healer I would have played it” [and] more “oh the wait queues are going to be longer, the matching is going to be so many DPS waiting!”

I’ve mentioned this on stream on several occasions before, looking at the data all throughout the 3.0 series, people who have been playing as a tank or healer whenever a new expansion is introduced, they will first try to level their main job, and we did introduce the Dark Knight and Astrologian as tank and healer respectively. The player population didn’t seem to change too drastically…

Source: http://twinfinite.net/2017/03/ffxiv-...view-pax-east/

make me wish that the players will prove him wrong. Me? I'm certainly not going to main WHM in the expansion, but I'm having trouble determining what I will play. AST? Sure, it's possible. But I've been seriously eyeing RDM, SAM and BRD too. I'll end up getting all jobs to 70 eventually... but... I dunno. To me I'd rather see all roles receive equal treatment/content distribution in an expansion whether that be a new job, job-exclusive rewards (mounts, minions, etc.), or what have you.

[AlphaFox]

I expect the first week to be filled with images of "See, we told you DPS times would be high!" which honestly, RDM and SAM are highly coveted classes that people have been wanting for a long time. I expect times to be fairly high but within a month or so I expect times to go back to normal.

[Dalmacus]

After watching veri merri's video on samurai i'm leaning towards samurai more now than before.. and i main tank for the past 3 years so it'll be quite a change for me..

[LunaFaye]

After watching veri merri's video on samurai i'm leaning towards samurai more now than before.. and i main tank for the past 3 years so it'll be quite a change for me..

Yes join the dps. I've done the same thing but already in 3.x, after they screwed up PLD and I got tired of playing warrior. Hated DRK and still do, as well as the upcoming changes are not very impressive. I didn't regret it, and we can all switch back in 5.x when they screw over the dps once again, or add only heals/tanks.

[savageink]

Well for one thing. Drk/Mch/Ash should have started at 50 so you could immediately main them if you wanted to. Likewise Sam/Rdm should have started at 60, none of this ten levels behind nonsense. If the HW jobs had been better tested (maybe with an actual public test server so players could get their hands on it and test them ahead of time!) and they started at the correct level (in this case 50) when HW launched then I think we would have seen a lot more people stick with them.

Same with Sam/Rdm, if they did the right thing and made them start 60 instead of 50 and if they end up working properly (as in not underpowered), then more people would stick to it rather than going back to what they were playing.

I think the logic is it gives them 10 levels to get used to playing them in familiar content before dropping them into the unknown patch content. Whether that is good or bad I suppose is up to debate.

[Marcie]

I will stay Scholar till I die

[dlgc]

When I have decided on something, it is almost impossible to change my mind. Having a healer as one of my my main has always been my thing ever since I started playing mmorpgs.

So no, nothing will change for me in SB, and of course I have a group of friends behaving pretty much the same way, but will switch jobs according to one another, so we are all good to go.

Cheers,
D.

[TheRealMadruck]

SNIP

I main Dark and I sincerely do not mind the changes at all. The biggest thing I hear in regards what people have a issue with is that they mostly lost according to them DPS. Now what I am about to say may cause some hatred....but please be respectful with no name calling. I feel that to many Dark Knights are playing this job like its a DPS more than actually a tank. A prime example of this are those Dark Knights that will immediately turn off Grit after they have aggro the mobs to boost their dps while they take 2x the damage putting a large burden on the healer and also not allowing a healer to dps if they feel like it because they are too focused on using their mana to keep you alive.

Now you may say that a good healer can do both...you may be right....but for all the raids and dungeons I have pugged since HW came out....I have seen alot of healers that want to dps when I am on my own DPS(not tanking) and the Dark in our party is taking so much damage and focusing on DPS not buffs and such that those healers do not have the option to. And yes....I agree that those are what you call bad tanks.....but they are still tanks! They are going to still que and repeat the same thing over and over again unless SE changes them so noone can debate that Dark Knights should have grit on at all times except when off tanking or solo and they should be played more on the focus of mitigating damage and keeping hate than focusing on max DPS!

[Kathryn]

I'm still going to tank, and I'm looking forward to it as a DRK now I don't have to stance dance because that annoyed the hell out of me I want to enjoy my game not turn it into a job I do enough of a job in a Pharmacy every day.