Thread: Strong 4.05 classes (easy to play) ?

Red Mage, Ninja and Sam is what i say

Red mage and monk are simple and strong. Both offer rewarding gameplay too. Red mage is more about burst whereas monk is about sustained damage.

Samurai are strong and can be simple, but if you want the most out of it, it's hard. Think simple to play, hard to master.

Black mage is also easy to understand with good power.

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

Far from true. Auto's are ~30% of damage when you're playing effectively as monk. The amount of damage in that 30% is buffed by a constant uptime of GL3, Twin Snakes and Dragon Kick on the target. And is 30% of a larger whole of a monk who is using their shorten ~2second GCD on GL3, and hitting positionals with it. The said, the Monk you describe would be doing next to nothing.

I don't understand the "monk is simple" comments. The rotation is locked, but getting into position is a constant dance above other jobs that need to move for mechanics. Monks are punished more heavily when they drop the constant attacking, when they aren't in position, and even when not attacking the decision making that goes into Form Shifting, Meditation, and Earth's Reply(rare, a skill we hate but has a use) is still substantial.

I know it's been said, but Red Mage has to be the "easiest" dps to play at a high level. I play red mage with the goal of staying away from Jolt/Impact as much as possible and it works really well. It's really not punished by dying and has a ton of utility. The biggest thing they worry about on certain fights is when to use their melee combo etc.

I think overtime, all jobs become easy if you like them enough. I'm always fighting, on any class, to make sure i'm no.2 on everything on the hate list. So if anyone beats me, I think what I could do with my rotation to make it stronger so that I can beat them. Play what interests you. I find Dragoon to be one of the most fun and unique dps classes. The rotation is really not that hard and at 64 you literally dont even have to care about the Blood of the Dragon timer. Even then, they increased it's duration for earlier levels to make it not such a chore.