How often do you change jobs when you play?

[Vhanja]

After fiddling around with RDM and SAM for a few levels, I found out that I am not really a fan of getting a Lvl 50 job with a full skill set handed to me. I struggle to get into it and understand the mechanics of the job when I just get a bucket-load of skills thrown at me.

So I left both classes and am now levelling a GLD from scratch, my first tank. I enjoy that more because I can follow the job and the play style gradually.

[Nebty]

The job system is one of the reasons I got super into this game after bouncing off MMOs in the past. I'd get terrible alt-itis and burn myself out before reaching endgame. But with FFXIV I can try out everything and that feels very freeing.

I like leveling multiple jobs at the same time because I enjoy doing daily roulettes but I take story stuff very slowly so it keeps me from getting ridiculously overleveled. But I tend to like staying consistent for cutscenes. In ARR I was mostly a BRD/SMN/DRG/WHM (started as CNJ). In the bridge I was mostly RDM/SMN/DRG. In Heavensward I did 90% of cutscenes as DRG, while doing a lot of side content as AST/MCH. That was also where I picked up DRK (my first tank class) and fell in love with it through the questline.

Now in Stormblood I'm mostly SAM, NIN, and AST, with SAM being my main cutscene job. The nice thing about this game is that it feels like it's still my character doing all these things, just leaning into different skills she's picked up. The job questlines help a lot with that, and I'm always so happy when an MSQ npc acknowledges that I've gone through a particular class questline.

Overall though, I have all my jobs at around 67 (only missing WAR/PLD/RPR/SGE) except for BLM which is 34 right now.

[Kyu-Momo]

Rarely.
I main'd monk for about 2 years, got fed up with the changes to it in stormblood, main'd sam for about a year, finally got burnt out on melee, and have since switched to and am still main'ing machinist to this day.

I first started playing at heavensward release, So, figure: only 3 changes in 7 years.

[xxmiamorecadenza]

At the moment I’m primarily playing as MNK with intention of dabbling with SAM.

Why is that? Because BiS between those two is mostly shared. So I only have to acquire or switch out a few pieces instead of fishing for another chest coffer in p4s. And because I want to play MNK for the remainder of this expansion - despite the changes - SAM will serve as an optimal alternate.

[RobynDaBank]

I just tanked the most wholesome Sunken Temple, ever. Lots of small chatter, peeps had to AFK here and there but really no one minded because even in intervals there was a smattering of talk. Our party was labeled "Catsoup and Tall Girl" by the BLM; I wasn't sure why, but it was funny so we all just went with it! The other DD in the group was new to the dungeon and had a dog that seemed to love barking, poor person had to tend to it every few minutes. The healer was quieter, but they just did their job quite well.

Also the BLM actually bothered to pick up relics along the way, look up the right order for opening the last door, and did it perfectly at the end. Mostly people just tip the pans when empty and deal with the summoned pack. But this was still pretty cool because really, no one does it usually!

Very awesome, 100/10.

[Nebty]

I just tanked the most wholesome Sunken Temple, ever. Lots of small chatter, peeps had to AFK here and there but really no one minded because even in intervals there was a smattering of talk.

Awww, I love dungeon runs like that! For every bad group I've had really sweet randos who make doing old content for the millionth time new and interesting.

I will say that, as someone who's come late to tanking, I'm very grateful I picked up a tank class because I think it's made me a better healer and player overall. Having some sense of what all the roles are doing gives you a better idea of how yours fits in, I find.

After fiddling around with RDM and SAM for a few levels, I found out that I am not really a fan of getting a Lvl 50 job with a full skill set handed to me. I struggle to get into it and understand the mechanics of the job when I just get a bucket-load of skills thrown at me.

So I left both classes and am now levelling a GLD from scratch, my first tank. I enjoy that more because I can follow the job and the play style gradually.

Forgot to reply to this but if you want to try levelling a new job from the bottom up you can run low-level dungeons with your adventurer squadron. That's what I did for Dark Knight, because I was too nervous to inflict myself on real people before I'd grasped the basics. There's also doing Palace of the Dead, which you start at level 1 for and gradually move up in level as you go through.

[RobynDaBank]

Darn it, I replied in the absolutely wrong thread! D:

[Burmecia]

Darn it, I replied in the absolutely wrong thread! D:

I didn't mind It was very nice story!

[IdowhatIwant]

I change jobs very often, seeing how my expert dungeon run is 1 of 2 options, I have to make the game more fun myself by playing different jobs.

[StriderShinryu]

After fiddling around with RDM and SAM for a few levels, I found out that I am not really a fan of getting a Lvl 50 job with a full skill set handed to me. I struggle to get into it and understand the mechanics of the job when I just get a bucket-load of skills thrown at me.

So I left both classes and am now levelling a GLD from scratch, my first tank. I enjoy that more because I can follow the job and the play style gradually.

One tip I always suggest for this is to do a solo run of Palace of the Dead with any new class that starts at an advanced level. Obviously it doesn't take you all the way up to level 90 but even if you just do the first 30 or so floors you can see how the job is built from level 1 to level 50ish in a compressed couple of hours. It might not give you the full idea of how a job will play at max level, but it will give you building blocks on how the job is constructed. I feel the same way as you do with jobs that start with a boatload of skills and abilities all at once, but PotD has helped me get over that hurdle.