Quote Originally Posted by Curisu View Post
Also, every job has some kind of self healing.
Some have a oGCD insta heal, others have a lifesteal buff for a few seconds. But the CD of these skills is a bit higher.
Black mage says hello. Unless youre counting potion use as self healing. We used to be able to cross-class the arcanist heal(and physick is really too weak to count as a heal since it uses a stat that isnt on arc/smn gear after level 49, but thats another conversation), and we used to have the role skill Drain(also too weak to count as a heal - im gonna steal 2500 hp from an enemy hitting me for 3k+?). We currently have nothing. My over-world survivability is based on killing things before they kill me, avoiding pointless fights, and my chocobo.

OP - Try dragoon, and try summoner. Once youve leveled up high enough, you can try red mage too. Those are the best matches for what you described. By all means, try black mage and anything else that strikes you as well. You can try every class on the same character with no penalty, so a few test drives are perfectly valid.