Would you prefer a new race or a new job?

[Ametrine]

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It's more complicated than just 2 DPS only, sadly. For starters, RDM and SAM are arguably the best designed jobs, mechanically, SE has given us so far.

A pretty shocking proportion of tanks played for the sole reason of swords, as PLD/DRK were the only sword weilding jobs. WAR and DRK got nerfed.

WHM was being dragged down by bad press regarding the Lily system and it's the one job actually hurt by the role system replacing cross-class. WHMs have to use 4 role slots to return to the pre-4.0 skill set.

SCH, however, was WAY over-nerfed, with a laundry list of changes that hampered everything. MP refresh, MP costs, fairy potency, and DPS outputs felt gutted. (SMN hurt, too.) It was much harder to play SCH, and SE had to make multiple, sweeping changes and additions to fix what they broke.

[Balipu]

It's more complicated than just 2 DPS only, sadly. For starters, RDM and SAM are arguably the best designed jobs, mechanically, SE has given us so far.
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I don't know. I really dig the ninjutsu mechanic. I just like red mage a little bit more cause they have better gear and their entire job story is awesome (HW ninja sucked).

Although it IS true that while I enjoy healing in FFXIV there is no interesting healing mechanic. What makes healing fun is the control you have over the battlefield.

[shao32]

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more that being good desingned to work perfectly from the begining i rater was more the popularity of being RDM nad SAM itself, both are the top list of ff jobs most wanted and both end being dps at the same time, pretty smart move (sarcasm).

and about tanks and healers yeah, they say we dont recive new toys for the shake of balance and we go to recive special treathment for that, we end having a freaking damm mess, lucky healers being balanced fast and now are pretty good, but tanks are still a joke and they keeping giving more stuff to WARs for no good reason when tank balance problems are DRK right now.

but still, being just SAM and RDM alone do a lot more that balance problems you can solve with patchs.