Easiest dps right now

[VisRalis]

I did start up a Bard in ARR and loved it. Being able to dps on the move felt much better to me but the news of Wanderer's Minuet kept me from leveling the Bard. I've stuck to BLM due to inertia, but I think I need to have something else to use for my sanity.

Help.

Help.

Ninja has a trait that increases your move speed - like having a permanent Bard's Swiftsong.
After playing it, all other classes feel slow and sluggish xd. Running out of AOE's is much easier (and even better with Shukuchi teleport, love it!).

Try it out - I'm loving NIN atm.

[Nadirah]

Stupid q, wtf is the ninja rabbit?

[VisRalis]

Its when you mess up your Mudras and you activate a dud Ninjutsu, showing a rabbit dancing on your head.

[Twilite]

Haven't really heard from MNK's how it plays but I personally feel the easiest is not DRG. Judging from the amount of pained sounds over voice comm I doubt it is BLM either. BRD's got minuet issues. Didn't like MCH at all when trying it out.

I love my DRG but I feel like it is time to also level and gear up the NIN. Just in case. =D

Careful there. It took years before everyone in FFXI learned that job flocking will alert SE to nerf said class. I have no doubts the same will be the case here.

[Inosaska]

To many abilities bloat all the classes now. I've barely played the game mostly because of this too because I don't want to play something that will cause me to look at my keyboard more then looking at the screen just to remember that I'm actually hitting the right button for the ability.

[FreyrPrime]

To many abilities bloat all the classes now. I've barely played the game mostly because of this too because I don't want to play something that will cause me to look at my keyboard more then looking at the screen just to remember that I'm actually hitting the right button for the ability.

Practice. Practice. Practice..

I've been 60 for exactly a week and I've spent hours on the dummy committing the DRG rotation to muscle memory. Just cause DPS gets the reputation for being easy don't be that guy. Put the time in and join the rare DPS that actually matter.

[Shori]

Here is the order I would rate them: (easiest first)

SMN - altho shift further down for some primals/bosses (reason i put at top is because you can output decent damage without even having played it before, or you have many choices available depending on how the fight is going. its a very versatile role)
BRD - realy your only issue is dont auto-engage before tank does
NIN - this is where it starts to get a little harder
BLM - as OP mentions altho it is still easier than some dps roles
DRG - altho I dont play this I STILL see loldrg dieing so maybe it is actually hard
MNK - because positionals and GL stacks are still way harder than other dps, particularly if your tank has ants in his pants
MCH - because is lacks in dps (unless SE is planning on fixing that)

[FreyrPrime]

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As an ex-MNK for most of 2.X I still shake my head at myth of MNK difficulty. They have two extremely flexible combo's, and if you set your bars up correctly the rotation flows so smoothly that it's pretty brain dead honestly.. Flank-Flank-Back, Back-Back-Flank, Flank-Flank-Flank.. etc etc..You always know which positional you're going to land way ahead of time and can plan accordingly.

Now DRG with BotD and the randomness with FnC/WT and how tight Geirskogal makes it.. Yeah, that makes MNK look like a walk in the park.

[Shori]

As an ex-MNK for most of 2.X I still shake my head at myth of MNK difficulty. They have two extremely flexible combo's, and if you set your bars up correctly the rotation flows so smoothly that it's pretty brain dead honestly.. Flank-Flank-Back, Back-Back-Flank, Flank-Flank-Flank.. etc etc..You always know which positional you're going to land way ahead of time and can plan accordingly.

The rotations are fine if you're attacking a doll or a stand-still boss - but raids particularly are never like this, and WAR tanks (nothing against them) through dungeons are not like this because they need to move the mobs about to use overpower on as many as possible. Other DPS do not need to worry about this so mcuh. While I agree with you that it can be brain-dead easy in some circumstances (typically the same circumstances it would be easy for all DPS) what I mean is that when it is difficult its more-so than other DPS which is what OP wanted to avoid.