Thread: Strong 4.05 classes (easy to play) ?

Yet don't want complication and able to function well aka do rotation EASY (basics) yet very fun at 70 ?

Red Mage.
Easy to pick up, easy to master, easy to execute, does respectable damage, slots in the best meta comp, highly desirable due to the physical dps raid buff.
It's not punishing at all, either, so if you die or mess up your rotation, you can recover instantly.
You also get great hats, you can rez healers if they both die (and I've done this so many times, it feels so good to be clutch),
You get rapiers and a beautiful battle stance. Corps-a-corps and Displacement have beautiful animations.

EDIT: Let me again mention the hats. Bard no longer has a monopoly on cool hats. Hats are very important for gameplay, I find, and Red Mage's hats are easily S tier.

Originally Posted by Galvuu

Red Mage.

You also get great hats.

This is the only point that matters.

Red Mage. You can be brain dead and still be second in DPS over every other job.

Originally Posted by NorthernLadMSP

Red Mage. You can be brain dead and still be second in DPS over every other job.

Run into a lot of DF RDMs that I beat as Dragoon of all things. So...you can't be braindead.

As accurate as the aggro list can be...but I have more aggro than a lot of DF RDMs, and I use Diversion and Evasive.

There's a lot of bad DF rdms but... there's a lot of bad DF players for every job. SAMs, RDMs and MNKs tend to be ok more often than not from my experience.

Originally Posted by Dualgunner

Run into a lot of DF RDMs that I beat as Dragoon of all things. So...you can't be braindead.

As accurate as the aggro list can be...but I have more aggro than a lot of DF RDMs, and I use Diversion and Evasive.

RDM is still a caster.
You still need to follow your ABCs (always be casting) to do damage because you have no autos.
If a melee dps presses one skill at random each 4 seconds, they still have their autos doing work (which is like, over 20% of a melees dps on average, right?). At absolute worst, a monk who's afk does like 20ish% of a decent monk's dps.
RDM... not so much. Each second you do nothing, you really do nothing xD

Originally Posted by Galvuu

RDM is still a caster.
You still need to follow your ABCs (always be casting) to do damage because you have no autos.
If a melee dps presses one skill at random each 4 seconds, they still have their autos doing work (which is like, over 20% of a melees dps on average, right?). At absolute worst, a monk who's afk does like 20ish% of a decent monk's dps.
RDM... not so much. Each second you do nothing, you really do nothing xD

I know x3 my only point is, it's not *as* braindead as suggested of a job. You still see bad Red Mages, you still need a basic grasp of the mechanics.

MNK is pretty easy. Stay away from MCH if you want easy.