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

[Acidblood]

Switched from SCH/PLD/DRG in SB to BLM in ShB.

I've always liked BLM and with the new abilities and QoL updates 5.0 BLM feels great. DRG still feels OK, but I haven't really invested in it yet; Tanking (a.k.a blue DPS) and Healing (a.k.a bored half the time) feel very lacklustre in ShB so far, so yeah, not sure if I will stick with those roles or just go pure DPS for this expansion.

[Nanami_Naniwa]

I leveled up WHM first for faster queues but switched back to RDM right after (which was my main in SB as well). After my FC got into raiding we are always missing a second tank so now I'm leveling the WAR to fill in the tank position (and with DNC & BRD already in the raid group we don't need another low DPS/Support character)

[Rosenstrauch]

I'd say I dropped WAR for GNB, as I find the moderately higher APM of the Continuation Combo more enjoyable than spamming Fell Cleaves during my burst phase, and aesthetically the GNB coat is very nice compared to what WAR got. I also dropped SAM, BLM, and MCH for MNK and DNC, in both cases for the same reason: High APM during burst, and in MNK's case Greased Lightning 4 making it play like how my absurd Skill Speed SAM played during Stormblood.

[fumofu]

Can't decide what job to main until I have them all at lv80, but most likely melee dps candidate was SAM, until they introduced Hagakure back, which is wtf. We have 3 other melee dps with super complex rotations, why couldn't they keep SAM as easy one?

Main magic dps used to be RDM/SMN, but looks like i'll be sticking only to RDM, since SMN now is way too complicated.

I kinda like how they simplified SCH, but it's still far too complicated to play, cos very limited and weak heals, but at least got rid of those excess dot skills and I don't know how I feel about getting energy drain back. Guess it takes mp management a bit easier, so maybe it's a good thing, but they could also just lower mp cost for other skills instead of giving 1 extra skill to clutter skillbar.

Dunno about other jobs yet.

[Deathroes]

I am a WoW "refugee". I first tried WHM pre ShB and got bored with it's dps offerings early on(I got MSQ to do man, throw me a bone here). I found the bone when I went with scholar. Now that was a fun class! So many different ways to heal AND do dps. I jumped shipped as soon as I saw what ShB was going to do to the job in the livestream.

So I went to Ninja, and fell in love again. But, I guess I spent too much time on the forums, because all I read here is how Ninja is undertuned and trick attack(which I love because of the added complexity of setting it up) did not compensate enough for its lack of sustained dps. I had no plans in investing in a gimped job, so off I went.

I have already been burned in WoW by playing a rotationally complex class that did not have the dps reward at the end just like Ninja does here. I was not going that route again. So here I am, on Red Mage currently, hoping that the very existence of VerRaise gets me a spot on most teams. People say it is a very simple class to play but the proc based system and melee+magic dynamic it has satisfies my complexity standards

[Kemiko]

By role and expansion:

Tank
ARR: WAR - HW: DRK - SB. WAR - ShB: WAR

I have never enjoyed PLD and no matter how silly good it gets won't change that. I was hype for DRK and used it entirely through HW and loved it. Then it was gutted horribly and lost what I enjoyed about dark arts in SB, so I went back to WAR. DRK I hear is better in ShB but is a better SB DRK, not a better HW DRK so I'm staying WAR.

Melee
ARR: MNK - HW: MNK - SB: DRG - ShB: MNK

Loved MNK until I experienced the most boring and useless 10 level grind I've ever experienced in this game. MNK 60-70 in SB. The tackle masteries were... just plain awful. The DPS buff skill felt horrible to use and the capstone felt worse than DRG's Battle of Litany (it actually still does). Thus, I swapped to DRG when by 4.2 it was obvious that the developers didn't care. But, with the singular change I wanted to Riddle of Fire back in 4.0 happening in 5.05, I'm happy to return to MNK.

Healer
ARR: SCH - HW: SCH - SB: SCH - ShB: WHM

My bro mained WHM in ARR so I went SCH to pair well with him. He swapped to SCH in HW but I also hardly ever saw him by 3.2 so I just stayed SCH. With him promising to be around more often in ShB and WHM no longer looking to be the black sheep of healers, I decided to swap to WHM.

Physical Ranged DPS
ARR: BRD - HW: N/A - SB: MCH - ShB. DNC

Back in the olden days of XIV there was only BRD for non-magical ranged deeps and was basically mandatory for certain things thanks to its silence (T1/T2 Coils, Chimera, Pharos Sirius) thus I was this thing for those things. That no longer mattered in HW and while I did unlock MCH I wouldn't do anything with it until SB. Then DNC was announced, and I mained that in FFXI so I was super hyped. I is DNC now.

Magical Ranged DPS
ARR: BLM - HW: BLM - SB: BLM - ShB: BLM

Loved BLM. Through every expansion. That hasn't changed.

[Saber44]

Ninja to dragoon

[Allooutrick]

I switched to paladin so I could be the holiest shadow bringer and rode the unicorn mount for its entirety.

[ObsidianFire]

ShB SMN makes my hands hurt when I have to play the job for longer then fifteen minutes. Even after trying out several different keybinds. So I left it for SAM which actually has a sane base rotation.

[Drayos]

ShB SMN makes my hands hurt when I have to play the job for longer then fifteen minutes. Even after trying out several different keybinds. So I left it for SAM which actually has a sane base rotation.

I’ve heard bar a few needed buffs to potencies SAM feels great this expansion