Not sure DPS

[Maero]

^ Well you prob loathe Bard because your only an Archer and not actually a Bard?
Kidding aside, i say OP to try multiple classes and see which one interests you more. Ninja, Monk or Dragoon may even be of interest to you.
While i have never mained Dragoon, i always found it to be fun

[Kazumac]

^ Well you prob loathe Bard because your only an Archer and not actually a Bard?

Such sass Ish. But in all honesty it's a good point. I pretty much find any class before about 40 to be dull and mundane. Having played my wife's bard at 50, I enjoyed it. Leveling archer to 26 was like pulling teeth. MCH is quite fun but you have to like cool down micro management. I find it fun but it is not for everyone.

[Veji]

I'm in the same boat. Got DRG to 51, and realized keeping the massive set of combos up, while avoiding boss mechanics seemed daunting. Got MCH to 51, and discovered that for the movement sacrafice, the DPS just didn't seem to be decent enough. Started working on BLM(36), but i can see where massive movement fights are really going to irritate me. I have to make a choice between MCH and DRG, and just stick with it, but i can't decide. I like the aesthetics of all three dps classes, but i've yet to find one that has that ideal dps payoff per skill or con. I'm seriously thinking of just sticking with MCH at this point, but idk...

[Jim_Berry]

I'm in the same boat. Got DRG to 51, and realized keeping the massive set of combos up, while avoiding boss mechanics seemed daunting. Got MCH to 51, and discovered that for the movement sacrafice, the DPS just didn't seem to be decent enough. Started working on BLM(36), but i can see where massive movement fights are really going to irritate me. I have to make a choice between MCH and DRG, and just stick with it, but i can't decide. I like the aesthetics of all three dps classes, but i've yet to find one that has that ideal dps payoff per skill or con. I'm seriously thinking of just sticking with MCH at this point, but idk...

Not going to lie; in situations like that, I'd rather miss my positional and hit the mob normal than to NOT use the positional and risk losing my buff.

[JackFross]

I have to make a choice between MCH and DRG, and just stick with it, but i can't decide.

It's important to note that the penalty for missing positionals with DRG is incredibly tiny. It used to be massive, but combos no longer break and effects still activate now, even when you miss it, so it's really not so bad. It's also literally two combos, not a massive set by any means.

H>IDC4>P>TTT4

Simple, rote, to the point. Pre-56, you're working with
H>IDC>P>TTT>TTT

But it's really not as bad as it seems? It's generally the HT>IDC>P>TTT part and mechanics will eat the rest of the HT timer so you just start over. :0

If you stop thinking about it as 8 buttons and start thinking of it as 2 combos, it becomes a lot easier to manage the chunks and understand how the Job functions and plays.

[Maero]

Such sass Ish. But in all honesty it's a good point. I pretty much find any class before about 40 to be dull and mundane. Having played my wife's bard at 50, I enjoyed it. Leveling archer to 26 was like pulling teeth. MCH is quite fun but you have to like cool down micro management. I find it fun but it is not for everyone.

you know it