Finally Maxxed All Jobs for Endwalker

[Skivvy]

Been sitting on Sage as my last job to level for a while now, absolutely hate how clunky it feels having to split a GCD just to apply a DoT or Shields.
I kind of don't want to level it just out of spite.

I also put off SGE for a long time as I really had no interest in the job and WHM has always been my baby, ever since XI. I definitely struggled a lot just trying to get used to the kit and overriding my years of WHM muscle memory, but now I'm a SGE main. :3 I don't like the aesthetic as much as my WHM, and I definitely miss all my twirls and holy, but I enjoy how it plays.

But anyhooo, congrats.

[NekoMataMata]

I don't think there was a single job that I absolutely hated when grinding to omni that I hated. There are things about literally every job that I don't like mostly due to awkwardness but nothing super unenjoyable.

Edit: Oh actually forgot I don't have BLU maxed so I technically don't count as an omni probably.

[greatpumpkinator]

I don't think there was a single job that I absolutely hated when grinding to omni that I hated. There are things about literally every job that I don't like mostly due to awkwardness but nothing super unenjoyable.

Edit: Oh actually forgot I don't have BLU maxed so I technically don't count as an omni probably.

Close enough

Just get a levelling partner, and BLU will be max in like...an hour?

[Zanarkand-Ronso]

Oh actually forgot I don't have BLU maxed so I technically don't count as an omni probably.

JK, I actually dont think (or know) if Blue Mage counts towards Mastering Magic. So you're probly good :3

[Reinha]

If one is a collector, roulettes and WT aren't needed.

80-86: bicolor gemstone farming
87-88: Caduceus farming
89-90: Tiny Troll farming

[greatpumpkinator]

If one is a collector, roulettes and WT aren't needed.

80-86: bicolor gemstone farming
87-88: Caduceus farming
89-90: Tiny Troll farming

I barely was able to handle doing just 10 FATEs each week...doing enough to get from 80-86 would have been a monotonous nightmare, to say the least. What is that, like 200 FATEs or more?

Also, what did you do for the 86-87 and 88-89 level gaps?

EDIT: You should always do WT each week IMO...the chance of those juicy 3 lines! Plus, if you don't care about the bronze/silver rewards, you can always just get the MGP tickets. You can never go wrong with extra MGP.

[Reinha]

I barely was able to handle doing just 10 FATEs each week...doing enough to get from 80-86 would have been a monotonous nightmare, to say the least. What is that, like 200 FATEs or more?

Also, what did you do for the 86-87 and 88-89 level gaps?

I'm trying to get the mount and wings so I will level all jobs before the grind is finished. Way more than 200 fates. It's nice to be working towards something guaranteed while I wait in PF, though. Maybe the new relic will involve fates so there might be a way to hit two birds with one stone.

No level gaps, I just wrote it wrong. Fate farming also at level 86 and caduceus farm at levels 87 and 88.

[VictorSpoils]

Got them all to 90 earlier this year. There was a lot of PotD/HoH/Bozja/FATEs since those are all their own grinds. Every job was fine to use in those, but as far as personal preference goes:

Tank: WAR gets the heals, has fewer buttons, can reliably double weave, and (at least until the next patch) doesn't need DH melds, which was actually a reason to only use WAR. Slight drawback is putting up the initial Storm's Eye before going all out. Other tanks are pretty even.

Healer: SGE gets so many oGCD heals while barriers are nice for altering fatal attacks. WHM/AST/SCH rely more on GCD heals (Lilies/Regens/Barriers) and have a harder time weaving (Thin Air+Asylum/Cards+Earthly/Fairy+Soil). Even though the GCD for SGE's DoT and barrier heals is extended, the latter come out faster and can be used on the move. AST/SCH double as button-heavy, and though the latter is also a barrier healer with oGCD heal options, it loses all of them from Energy Drain and Dissipation, and the healing from the former is negligible. The fairy is barely visible, moves slow, can't combine actions, and the lone gauge ability doesn't get much use. I leveled all 31 jobs pretty evenly, but SCH was my least used thanks to SMN.

Melee DPS: SAM
No denying SAM got easier without Kaiten, but it's still pretty straightforward even with all the buttons. DRG has so many things to do at once, including a lot of jumps that can't be double weaved, and it's annoying messing up Mirage Dive/Geirskogul, though having 3 positionals instead of 2 is remedied by them being used consecutively. RPR gets its positionals much later, but its difficulty lies with getting more and more resources towards 90 that have to be used in a certain order, trying not to forget Soulsow, not clipping the Lemure combo, and not mixing up cones with single-target skills. NIN and MNK are consistently fast-paced, and even with the latter down to two positionals, it still has a brief buff+debuff to maintain.

Magic DPS: RDM/SMN
RDM is preferable when worrying about raising people, dealing with low spell speed, and actually using Swiftcast for damage. Got a lot done with BLU, but am a little guilty of not taking its rotation seriously enough, and Extreme/Savage groups are just miserable most of the time. The low health pool, lack of oGCD heals/mitigation skills, and limited raise are big hurdles. And yeah, BLM still has those long, interruptible casts. I just spammed Scathe in PotD/HoH since everything evaporated.

Ranged DPS: DNC/MCH
Haven't touched DNC in a while so it's up in the air whether it's above or below MCH. BRD seems like it would be easy, but you eventually get so many things to optimally maintain: two debuffs, a random GCD proc, a 15-second oGCD attack, Apex Arrow, and three songs (one which makes weaving harder, one which makes the procced GCD's charges easier to waste, and another that has an oGCD proc with a strict window). Then combine that with three damage buffs and Barrage, and the fact that songs/Troubador can't stack with other BRDs/ranged jobs. Getting to remove stuff with Warden's Paean like in Great Hunt EX is nice, unless the healer follows all of them up with an Esuna and forgets when you get stunned and poisoned with 800 HP.

[NekoMataMata]

Close enough

Just get a levelling partner, and BLU will be max in like...an hour?

I had a partner, but we stopped at like level 40 and he quit the game before we ever really bothered finishing again.

I've been thinking lately that maybe I could start gathering all the spells since I only have the fish spell, and once I gather most of the spells up to my level I'll see what I feel like doing then.

But I've really been taking a massive break since I finished omni. At first I thought about doing roulettes for the tomes but really, I don't need them and no more roulettes is so heavenly.

JK, I actually dont think (or know) if Blue Mage counts towards Mastering Magic. So you're probly good :3

It doesn't, I got that. Would still like to have it though. It's incredibly useful.

[Packetdancer]

Congrats! I'm on my last job -- I leveled one in each category fairly quickly, so that I could do all the role questlines and so that I could flex into tank, healer, melee, or caster when running stuff with friends, and then I took a lengthy break from doing so.

I found in ShB that leveling everything to 80 helped me learn things about jobs I had never played that have been useful to sort of internalize when healing or tanking. I also found I was surprised at which jobs I enjoyed that I thought I wouldn't; I expected to dislike melee DPS jobs and yet found I enjoyed them far more than physical ranged. So it was, I think, a valuable experience, even if I then didn't play some of those jobs that often. (MCH, for instance.)

I mean, I also wanted the amaro.

So for Endwalker I wanted to level everything to 90 (eventually), because you never know; a job I didn't like that much previously might be one I did like this time. (Or, sadly, a job I did enjoy previously might feel "off" a bit to me now and not as fun... which did happen in a couple places; I don't quite enjoy NIN as much now, and I'm not even entirely certain why.)

Still, mostly there were no surprises; I still find I prefer melee DPS to caster or physical ranged, and I still prefer tanking to DPS, and I still prefer healing to everything. (Mostly because I don't like not having the ability to try to pull something back from the brink if it goes sideways.)