total noob to ff

[Elven]

It's funny the ARC starts off as an easy playable character but once you pick up your job it totally changes gears and all of a sudden you find yourself being trolled because people resent that job as being relatively easy when in truth that couldn't be more further from the truth. You have a unique array of tools and range which unfortunately can not be mastered with sub par skills to do ballads, aoe, bait mobs, silence etc... Rewarding if you can master a Bards mechanics but if you want less demands and clear instructions then don't look pass DRG and Monk pure dps in its most potent form.

[BLKM4EVER]

The other nice thing about starting as an archer is at level 15, you can switch over to thaumaturge and level to 30. Once you reach level 30 thaumaturge, you can start the black mage job which is literally a blast! The only draw back to a thaumaturge or blk mage is the platform you are working from. I play on PS3 (soon to be PS4); however, I have found that targeting can be tricky on large mobs in the dungeons, especially when multiple adds need sleep at one time to take pressure off the tank and melee DPS class. The class can be brutal for noobs (like me) because you need to know how the dungeons work (AOE attack or single attack...when to sleep or not) or veteran players can get pretty nasty. Just night before last, I was running the haunted mansion for the first time, and our dragoon up and quit the instance because I was not following the attack orders from the tank to his liking. You just need to prepare to grow thick skin with this community.