Want to DPS in SB

[YitharV2]

My thought is play anything you want.

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Any raid group that would reject a skilled player because it is nonmeta just sends off warning bells to me, and I'll leg it faster than light speed

I'm not a raider by any means since I just started a few months ago, but I really think it's a bad idea to play around what you think other people will want, because if you don't enjoy playing the job, what's the point? You should play what you enjoy.

[Agrios]

My thought is play anything you want.

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I'm not a raider by any means since I just started a few months ago, but I really think it's a bad idea to play around what you think other people will want, because if you don't enjoy playing the job, what's the point? You should play what you enjoy.

I totally understand that mindset and it's usually my go to in other MMOs. My problem with that in XIV is that I enjoy just about every class...which is why I almost capped them all in the last expansion. >_< Having been a tank for the longest time has been amazing for 5 man content but I rarely found a raid group that needed a tank due to only needing 2 and PUGing raids isn't really that fun to me.

[YitharV2]

I totally understand that mindset and it's usually my go to in other MMOs. My problem with that in XIV is that I enjoy just about every class...which is why I almost capped them all in the last expansion. >_< Having been a tank for the longest time has been amazing for 5 man content but I rarely found a raid group that needed a tank due to only needing 2 and PUGing raids isn't really that fun to me.

I don't think anyone can tell you the meta though because we haven't even hit the first raid yet. I think DRG or BRD are good picks in terms of utility.

[BorisDaBlade]

I would really advise finishing 4.0 as a tank. THEN go play dps. You're not losing anything by tanking and by the time you finish, the queues will probably even out and you can give dps a go. Seriously, you'll thank yourself for it.

Unless you have a FC tank in your back pocket, you could literally double the amount that of time it would take to clear the content just waiting in DF queues.

[Spawnie]

BRD is still the go-to as DPS support. Since they got rid of the clunky cast times i'd give it a go.

This only got 63 on my bard but feels so much better overall to arr n hw have to wait til hit 70.. think they are getting bard close to how it should be

[Celef]

There ara so many RDM and SAM atm because it's new, eventually people will go back to their "main" class.
If you can't decide between range of melee I suggest you test RDM, it can do both and you'll feel like a pintball, it's pretty fun