Red Mage vs Samurai

[Dat_Jynx]

Samurai all day, everyday. It was my main on FFXI along with MNK and NIN (just like FFXIV), but SAM was the 1st I'd jump on. I'll try RDM, but it isn't high on my list (not too much into mages).

[Xyrn86]

Personally RDM is my ATF job from FF history, Drg being right behind it. So I'm personally going to be grinding the hell out of RDM to get it to 60 before i start the MSQ ^_^

[Wolfleader]

I have been waiting for Samurai since hell 1.0 haha. I played Samurai in FFXI. I will be switching my Main from drg to sam. I will probably lvl samurai to 60 before I start doing SB stuff. So hopefully I will be able to get Samurai to 60 during the early access. All my current battle jobs are 60. so I will eventually lvl RDM as well. It def looks interesting.

[SeriousxSarcasm]

I doubt I'll be switching my main, but I'll definitely give Samurai a try. Don't have a melee leveled yet, so why not? RDM looks too much like a BRD clone, so the interest sorta died there lol.

[Valenth]

I doubt I'll be switching my main, but I'll definitely give Samurai a try. Don't have a melee leveled yet, so why not? RDM looks too much like a BRD clone, so the interest sorta died there lol.

Lol, just because of the hat? Because skillwise it looks anything but a clone with the chain-spells, giant explosions and dashing, thrusting and leaping back. xP

Anyway, to stay on topic, I've been hoping very much for a Samurai melee dps and got just that, so I'll definitely start SB as one. I main Dragoon and love melee DPS with giant single-blow, heavy hits (loved Gladiator in Aion too for that reason), but also nimble multi-hit attacks like NIN. The Iaijutsu shown in the gameplay vid seems to be exactly that combined with some combination system like on ninja (though perhaps linked to attacks used rather than seperate skills like mudra's).

[SeriousxSarcasm]

Lol, just because of the hat? snip

Pretty much. XD And just the general aesthetic. It looks too "nancy-prancy french noble" for my tastes LOL. I know it's superficial to get hung up on, but it's just not something that hyped me up when I saw it. :/ Plus, I've already got a caster, so it seems silly to add another to my repertoire when I could maybe fall in love with a melee class finally.

[Nicodemus_Mercy]

Being a fan of casters in general, but not having any love for any of the dps jobs in FFXIV (caster or not), I've mainly stuck with healers. I am hoping that Red Mage will be a dps job I can enjoy. But my guess is I probably won't, because if I do, many people will not.

I find all the dps jobs currently in game just too complex to be fun for me. Whether its combos, positionals, "awesome ability that can only be used while under the effects of a buff from another ability", or just in general too many finger gymnastics required, for one reason or another I don't find any of the dps jobs fun to play. If I wanna enjoy dealing damange, healers are my only option currently. They are the only simple way to dps. Toss up dots, spam your nuke, maybe use a cooldown where applicable. Nothing too complex to deal with.

I'm pretty sure though, if RDM ended up being that simple to play, there'd be a lot of backlash for it. I just wish there was at least one "simple" dps job I could enjoy playing, and I'm not really expecting the combat revamp to do anything dramatic to change things. Still RDM will likely be leveled before SAM (once my WHM is 70).

[Silverquick]

Well long ago... I played an RDM/BLM to 75 (Back when that was the level cap) in FFXI on Bismark Server under the name Phoenixus and was really good (Might have been Silverquick, was so long ago I can barely remember, used to run around with a Dragoon named Kalith).

That version of the class is likely to be extremely different than the iteration in FFXIV, You don't really have refresh and you're not really acting as a support class anymore in this game at least from what I can see in the video.

I personally am looking forward to trying out Red Mage in this game as well. If it is at all as cool looking to play as the video showed... then likely I will enjoy it a great deal.

Red Mage treated me very well in FFXI... I suspect it will do the same in FFXIV even if I have to adjust to it being a more of the Traditional Red Mage in the earlier FF games.

I am seriously looking forward to it.

[Mikaeus_The_Lunarch]

i have yet to develop any interest in samurai at all at the the moment, but i'm beyond excited for red mage. since SMN is already my back-up job, i don't have to worry about gearing up!

[Silver-Strider]

I'm not overly excited for either job but of the 2, I'm probably going to level SAM 1st, just because my main DPS job is MNK so I'll have gear for it once leveled