Finding the right second class

[GerMagic]

Allright, getting back at this, since I finally got my Unicorn and Titan HM isn't happening with DF it would seem^^

So for now I did the following:

Conjurer 30 (while I like healing in dungeons, soloing is pretty lame, as it's basically a slower Thaumaturg that need sto selfheal from time to time. also often dpsing in dungeons since nothing to heal^^)
Thaumaturg 17 seemed awesome at first, but especially when having 10+ seconds of pause the dmg isn't that great, while survivability seems low
Archer 25 actually fun, since kiting is kinda fun, but it's also pretty stressfull x)

From what I've lived through in DF I think I prefer not having a cast-bar (I always want to finish this cast, but have to stop it or stand in aoe ^^).

I'm always very undecided when playing "twinks" since I'm really a tank at heart, and FF XIVs classes all actually look pretty nice. Silly 1000 letters.

[Bixby]

Silly 1000 letters.

That restriction doesn't apply to edited posts.

If you ever played a boomkin in WoW, that's what BLM kind of ends up being like, minus a good deal of depth (but that's the case across the board; FFXIV hasn't had the chance to develop much depth or twists). The solar/lunar thing is quite a bit like the astral/umbral thing.

I wouldn't say Warrior gets all that close to DK at all. It's a tank, so it's got survivability. You can solo several things at once, but the self-heals don't get nearly to DK level. And there's nothing close to the depth of the runes/runic power interaction. You build and spend Wrath, but building it is practically automatic, since it just comes from your normal rotations. It's a very satisfying class to play (IMO), but if you go into expecting DK, or WoW Warrior, you're probably going to be disappointed.

Personally, I think that's true of most jobs in the game. Try to take them at face value and see how they play here. Comparing them to other games just leads to lots of "Well, it's nice, but it doesn't have this one thing I really liked." (The reverse is also true.)