Did you switch jobs in shadowbringers?, from what to what and why?

[Macleod]

So, I leveled SAM up to 80, which felt pretty much the same as it always has, and got bored fairly quickly. Spent a few days trying out other jobs trying to find something I liked without much success, and then the unthinkable happened...

Friday night I decided to try Dancer, which I had absolutely 0 interest in...just didn't seem like my thing...but OMG, I can't believe I actually like it! Been playing it all weekend trying to level up and haven't changed to anything else, so it has me hooked (for now).

I just wish I looked more like this...

[Palladiamors]

Eh, still playing my summoner but I am not really enjoying it. I like complicated classes but summoner is a whole lot of busy work for not a whole lot of payoff. Like, worse than end of Stormblood levels of busywork but even LESS payoff than before. I also really dislike the diminished presence of Egi's and being given a mechanic that puts even LESS focus on them. Egi Assault is a good idea that currently just serves to give you Ruin 4 instead of being about your mini-primal doing something impressive. The increase of damage to Enkindle is nice, but the Egi's took a massive hit to personal damage and STILL suffer the 70% of your damage rule. Ifrit's attack is listed as an 80 potency attack, but Miasma III hits for 40 potency and does just as much damage. Garuda has a harder hitting Enkindle than Ifrit now and her normal attacks are only a few hundred damage behind Ifrit's, with her Egi assaults hitting for nearly as much Ifrits, with Slipstream just flat out dealing more damage over time than any other Egi-Assault, just requiring you to NOT spam it to be effective.

Meanwhile Ifrit and Titan both lost their auto-attacks and had their time between attacks extended to three seconds from two. Both lost about half of their attack power on their attack skills as well, with my Ifrit going from 2700 at the end of Stormblood to 1400ish at the beginning of Shadowbringers. Its just making for an overall very disappointing experience for me, and I have plenty of other jobs I could level to 80 that would deal as much or more damage for less effort and be more fun in the process.

[Ayuhra]

Last time I played was Heavensward. Back when that was current I was a Black Mage. Came back for Shadowbringers as a Dancer.

Why?

Well, in the Heavensward days BLM was immobile. I hated it. So I took up a mobile class.

Loving Dancer.

I understand BLM has had some quality of life fixes since those days and in Shadowbringers is quite fun so I'll probably go back and check it out at some point.

[armandojc3]

Last time I played was Heavensward. Back when that was current I was a Black Mage. Came back for Shadowbringers as a Dancer.

Why?

Well, in the Heavensward days BLM was immobile. I hated it. So I took up a mobile class.

Loving Dancer.

I understand BLM has had some quality of life fixes since those days and in Shadowbringers is quite fun so I'll probably go back and check it out at some point.

Ya, he is still kind of a turret job but he has a few mobility options

[Ryskim]

Prevous mains:

SMN, DRK, AST

Current mains:

SCH, DRK, MCH

SMN is a piece of garbage right now. Absolutely disastrous rotation (if it has one at all), terribly bad DPS compared to previous version, no new permanent summons. We know Yoshi-p hates pet classes but this is an insult to any pet class lovers. Can't tank with Titan anymore as it is unexistent physically speaking. A summoner that can't tank with pets. Won't touch this mess until they do something with it.

DRK
It's nice now with Edge of Darkness skill. The summon at lv80 is simply a dot. I couldn't care less about it. The removal of the power slash combo is simply the worst decision ever. Now instead of spamming 2 combos for 80 levels you can only spam one. And i want Dark Passenger back.

AST
No buffs they add can fix how they incredibly ruined this job. The fun with the cards and their different effects were key in this job's design. Now you have 1 effect only. What an incredible piece of garbage class AST is right now. No wonder it got lots of buffs in 5.05 but the class can never be fixed until they roll back the card changes.

MCH
This job is the only class that actually got better after the expansion. Maybe MNK a bit.

[wereotter]

Yes and no....?

My heart is still with monk as my main job. But my raid group needed a caster DPS and the other melee DPS decided to be a samurai (and the high pitched squeal from iajutsu causes me really bad headaches) so here I am now as a red mage to fill that need in the raid team and to let me be as far from the samurai as possible :P

[creamcaramello]

I started the game as NIN and pretty much mained it up until DNC was released. I've always wanted to play DNC and took up NIN cause it seemed the closest (animation-wise). But aside from really wanting to play DNC, NIN's lack of damage output solidified my change. Like, for such a punishing job, you don't hit as hard and that was a real bummer to me. Seeing 100k crit on DNC really showed how much NIN lacked in the damage department. :/

Plus, while playing NIN, I came to enjoy becoming a support job. So I was sad that Shadewalker and Smokescreen were removed. I loved helping out healers when they accidentally aggro during mob pulls with their regens and helping tanks with their tank swaps. RIP aggro management...

[Sequora]

I started the game as NIN and pretty much mained it up until DNC was released. I've always wanted to play DNC and took up NIN cause it seemed the closest (animation-wise). But aside from really wanting to play DNC, NIN's lack of damage output solidified my change. Like, for such a punishing job, you don't hit as hard and that was a real bummer to me. Seeing 100k crit on DNC really showed how much NIN lacked in the damage department. :/

Plus, while playing NIN, I came to enjoy becoming a support job. So I was sad that Shadewalker and Smokescreen were removed. I loved helping out healers when they accidentally aggro during mob pulls with their regens and helping tanks with their tank swaps. RIP aggro management...

Did you think DNC was going to be a ranged DPS? Most people assumed DNC was going to be a healer

[creamcaramello]

Did you think DNC was going to be a ranged DPS? Most people assumed DNC was going to be a healer

I initially thought it was gonna be a DPS (and part of me hoped it would share a gear with NIN) until I read that people thought it might be a healer. So I leveled AST and capped the other healers to get used to healing. :'D

I mean, I'm not mad that it became a DPS and the rumour did get me to try healing, a role I've been avoiding but now enjoy part-timing. But I guess it's good that it was not a healer considering how botched SCH and AST became (for healer, I main AST and PHEW the changes omfg). One minor complain I do have about DNC is how the AoE (aside from Saber Dance and Fan Dance 3) is melee-range-ish.

[Alistaire]

Switched from NIN to DRG after 5.05...honestly not that big of an issue for me personally as I run several characters, and one of them DRG's been its main job since HW. Had been raiding on NIN straight from the start at final coil till now. Sorta feels bad but NIN is such a convoluted job compared to any other melee it's good to be raiding on DRG again. Mainly sad since I had figured I'd be on the ball this expac and level one of my other alts NIN as well, for more practice with pugs. Oh well. So here's me sitting on 2x NIN80's now, one of which had been 60 right before 5.0.