What did your favorite job used to play like?

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ARR summoner
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Scholar
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There are a bunch of extras such as Super Virus, Eye for an Eye, Protect, Stoneskin, Aero... but if I talk about everything I'll exceed the character limit.

Man, very calm is right. ARR SMN sounds super chill. Sounds like, in that respect, it's kind of in the place BLM is now?
SCH def sounds more compact. Where there just less abilities on your hotbar back then? Or are those just the main ones?

And yeah, if you have more to say and that pesky character limit is getting in your way feel free to make another post. I'd love to hear more.

2.0 PLD, 1 combo that got used. All the defensive cds.
Made it way easier to call fight mechanics out when you didn't have to focus on a rotation.

Hahaha considering I started tanking so I could pay attention to my hotbar less and help my group with callouts I can see how ARR's PLD would have been very cool~

I appreciate that the first post in this thread is about old DRK. Since there was already a small explanation of how it used to work up above, maybe I could give a more personal story about being a DRK main, rather than just saying "used to be good, is bad now."

Wow, that was an intense story. Thanks for the really thorough response.
I picked up DRK about 3 weeks before Shadow Bringers dropped, and in that time wasn't able to really play it enough to understand what I was doing. Hearing all this though, perhaps ironically, gives me hope for the future of the job.
I'm sorry to hear that things have fallen so far for you. If you ever try Ultimate or take a break and play PLD let me know how it shakes out for you. Who knows, maybe that's just what you need.
Either way, I'll be rooting for you.