CC & The Big Four

[Vandi]

Before I list these jobs, keep in mind, in the right hands, they CAN be played proficiently. So if you’re an individual who uses one of them(and knows how), ignore this post and keep up the good work.

Listed from Bad to ‘throw out the plane with no parachute’:

4. Reaper- “My scythe is too heavy. Help me!”
3. Paladin- The Tickle me Elmo of pvp. “But look at my Def bruh!”
2. Dancer- “Push? Aoe?! No, no, I don’t do those. I’m ranged lolol.”

1. Brd- 100% bottom community service.


Alright, so. Reaper. Reaper, at least of late…IS actually a decent job for its utility. Very solid defensively. However, rpr is in many ways like a locomotive that needs team powered coal to get going. Watch what happens if you’re paired with rpr, pld, and a healer. 0 damage. 5 years to kill anything. Unless you’re breathing down someone’s throat, Enshroud takes 5 years to start damage, can be guarded, then run away from. Since chunks of its dps comes from assists, having any of the above jobs on team seems to always make it suffer.

Paladin. It tickles. It gets in the way. But it’s no dpsing gnb or Cc stun spamming war. It has. . .cover. 1 person cover. And some extra hp. That’s it. A decent pld will break 500k in a typical match. Some can’t break 200k. Some can’t 100. No solid aoes outside of LB.

Dancer. Every full moon, I’ll see a dnc that does stupid high damage, which lets me know the potential is there. But soooooo many times, get stuck with dncs who can’t hit the x button more than twice the whole match. Single target, no crystal point aoe support, nothing. Damage is non existent. But BOY are they good at running away.

And lastly.

Bard.

The community service janitor of pvp. Everytime mch and Brd are on the same team, mch slaps brd, pushes it to the ground, sits on its chest, effectively bottoming it, and says: “Hold my beer. The whole match. And say thankyou for the privilege.” There are those who will immediately defend Brd and say with silence it’s practically broken. No. WHITEMAGE. . .is a better bard than brd. Verses what Brd was capable of in 3.0 by the end of it, this version is a geometry pool shot playing joke. Even maximizing its line shots, it’s tickle damage. WHITEMAGE gets a hypervelocity multi dimensional rail gun LB. Brd. . .gives you gauge.

And holds your beer.

For free.


So, just saying from personal experience, whenever you get 2+ of these jobs at match start, you already got 2 feet in the grave. Sorry.

And yes, I know some of you will 100% disagree with everything said here. Perhaps you’ve been fortunate enough to have much much better experiences. I can only go off what I’ve had to very verrrry consistently suffer through.