What do you love most about your favorite DPS class?

[Arkdra]

I like most jobs, but Sam is my favorite for sure.

1. It is a straightforward job with almost no friction (until tsubame comes along and messes it all up).
2, Big numbers, big crits.
3. I love the aesthetic, wish I could spew out even more cherry blossoms.
4. Low positional requirements. I like positionals, but I don't like having to do a lot of them (monk) or regularly doing them back to back (drg).
5. One of a tiny handful of jobs that actually have a fairly involved aoe rotation. Like I have to move between cones and circles, have an attack I am building to, and have a gauge spender and have to be paying as much attention to the kenki gauge in aoe as in single target.
6. Yaten > enpi > gyoten (hope I got this right, im not looking it up) may technically be a dps loss, but it still feels S I C K.
7. More buttons to push when doing basic combos, which was the main selling point that got me off of nin back in stormblood.
8. More buttons than most other jobs period also a selling point to me, I like the keyboard piano.
9. I love third eye > seigan. Like yeah, it's an almost meaningless dps increase and the seigan animation is weak, but I don't really care. Every time I do this I get the same feeling of satisfaction as when I execute parries in other, more action-oriented games.
10. It goes fast. Not as fast as monk or nin (well outside of bozja gear, currently at 1.68 gcd), but still fast enough.

[Fellgon]

Black Mage/Summoner: Because its flashy! Its big, its Exprooooosion!! (love that meme)

[Jirah]

as of right now im in Limbo as my favorite job atm is suffering from brain hemorrhaging (take a guess..) so been doing BRD more until he either recovers in 6.0 or until i pull the plug and obsess over some other job.

I like the power behind Pitch Perfect combined with refulgent and Apex, also BRD is the most fun ive had aoeing a its madness if u put in the effort to dot everything. Since im not fond of positionals and the other two ranged jobs put me to sleep as to how boring they can be its nice to see BRD having some manor of threat and discipline. DNC is essentially auto mode and im still waiting for the bad news from MCH

[Hysterior]

Dancer - Because My Lala can channel his inner Xena

[Rosenstrauch]

The Dancer artifact gear looks gorgeous in motion.

That's not a damned by faint praise thing—I love almost everything about Dancer. I just love how well animated the artifact gear is most of all.

[ItMe]

Dancer - Because My Lala can channel his inner Xena

Hahahah oh man, oh shiiiiit.
I didn't even think of that!
That's an awesome idea and I'll bet the glams are wild!

[Rein_eon_Osborne]

BLM = Being able to overcome movement heavy phase effectively + lightshow!
SMN = Books. I’m obsessed with books.
RDM = Rapiers caught my heart. Their stance, and their sheer flexibility. Also the power to die gracefully.
DNC = Looking pretty & the power to gain enmity from fellow DPS member by switching dance partner.
NIN = All because of Honeshirazu Recollection. Nah, I love slightly faster pace (not too fast like MNK) and their stances.

[RdehlikaJenma]

Monk: Shoulder Tackle and kamehameha go brr.
Dragoon: Nice, meaty-feeling combos one I got Fang and Claw and Wheeling Thrust.
Summoner: More complexity, higher mobility due to Egi assaults and oGCDs, Enkindle Garuda go brr
Machinist: flipping around like a maniac with the HW combo abilities, Wildfire/Hypercharge speeding up rotation adds a certain flair I can't help but enjoy

[Raikai]

Machinist nowadays visually looking like a proper Machinist with the addition of the Tools + gameplay itself being a huge leap from the clunky mess it was in SB.
Though that gameplay revision striped the job from a bit of its complexity, and it would be nice to have some again come EW.


Gunbreaker because of the Continuation combo is one of the most satisfying things in the game. I just wish this combo in specific (not the actual Continuation ability, but the 3 GCD linked abilities) would be like the pvp combo, just because it's really hard to find a comfortable keybind setup for it with all the tons of other abilities that a tank has.

[Kolsykol]

10. It goes fast. Not as fast as monk or nin (well outside of bozja gear, currently at 1.68 gcd), but still fast enough.

I dunno what the actual APM is, but I actually feel like SAM is faster than NIN.
When you have everything available with NIN in your opener it does feel very fast paced but then after that it's really quite slow imo, I'd probably say that just based on my feelsies without actually looking up the actual APM I'd say it's MNK>SAM>NIN>DRG in that order.
The Ninjutsus also overinflate it even further since it's basically two to three buttons for one ability, but even then.