EU Fanfest Info Thread

[Korbash]

I'm quite happy that BOTH Red Mage and Samurai are DPS.

Like I've said in a thread I created, there is a deep lack of DPS casters/mage in the game. There are 5 discipline of Magic jobs and 3 are healers and 2 are DPS. For those like me who love to play mage classes/jobs as DPS, you only get 2 here, which sucks. Actually, considering I started playing FF XIV ARR in the closed beta, Arcanists (SMN and SCH) were not in the closed beta, or at launch, so there was only 1 disciple of magic in the closed beta, or at lauch, I could play: Black Mage. Which is exactly what I started with, and I was quite depressed over that... just 1 mage DPS?

There is also a deep lack of swords DPS jobs in the game. Both Paladin and Dark Knight are tank, and even the axe weapon is a tank job, which I also play by the way, mostly to help guildies out, and I don't care about the rest of the players and I'm not helping them out in any way.

The main melee class I like to play is assassin/burglar/thief/rogue/ninja or whatever name they get in games and MMOs, with 2 daggers and stealth and back stabbing. Ninja was added the a 2.X patch which I was happy about.

The second melee DPS I like to play is sword class but so far all of them have been tank. So I'm sure I'm not the only one who wanted to play a sword DPS job as wel.l

As for those complaining about queue time, we're used to it, I read books, I also watch anime, movies, tv shows, takes notes, etc. You're the ones who are probably bored and don't know what to do with yourself while queuing.

Why two DPS?

Tanks - WAR, PLD, DRK
Healers - WHM, SCH, AST
Strength Based DPS - MNK, DRG, -SAM-
Dexterity Based DPS - BRD, NIN, MCH
Intelligence based DPS - BLM, SMN, -RDM-

Now we got 3 of each. Know that's not going to make most people happy, but I know at least a couple of people that'll be thrilled there's a proper sword slinger DPS, now. Two, actually, if you count RDM being a sword slinger.

Pretty much agree with you. There are TOO MANY tanks and healers and not enough of the others: INT and STR, no matter how many tanks and healers can complain about it. After Stormblood the jobs will be balanced, right now they're not.