"Play what you want!"

[usalia]

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Thats good and all but why this same fun looking people are demanding all the game to be retarded easy? The hard working people have fun as well you know.
Why so much of the i play how i want people get offended when they dont get a easy 0 work content or a free carry?

[Averax]

People who constantly come to the forums and ask "hey what's OP right now" are usually not going to be good at anything, and are just FotM rerolling rather than focusing on mastering a job they actually care about. "Play what you like" is better than constantly telling people what the flavor of the month is right now.

Someone who takes the time to get to know one job that they really enjoy playing is, most of the time, going to better in an environment where it matters than somebody who's constantly switching to the "in" jobs.

[Nikolas]

Play what interests you is the best answer. The other answer players have a tendency to give is "play this because that's what I play and I like it." This can't really be helped though as people can only suggest what they know.

[Larsille]

...Is a completely useless, and even problematic response to someone, especially newbies, asking questions about what class they should play.

Op: "Hey I'm trying to decide on the one meaningful decision we're allowed to make in the game andI'd like some insight."

Some dude: "it doesnt matter! If you care about your contribution to your party and/or balance you're playing wrong! Play what you like!"

It's an awful attitude to have towards a game centered around group play and generally only serves to generate salt in the community over underskilled players at best. Discuss.

So you are basically saying, they should play how I want, else i get salty?

[Naunet]

It's an awful attitude to have towards a game centered around group play and generally only serves to generate salt in the community over underskilled players at best. Discuss.

So you'd rather people... not play what they want? That ends up in folk not having fun...

[YitharV2]

...Is a completely useless, and even problematic response to someone, especially newbies, asking questions about what class they should play.

Op: "Hey I'm trying to decide on the one meaningful decision we're allowed to make in the game andI'd like some insight."

Some dude: "it doesnt matter! If you care about your contribution to your party and/or balance you're playing wrong! Play what you like!"

It's an awful attitude to have towards a game centered around group play and generally only serves to generate salt in the community over underskilled players at best. Discuss.

If the OP doesn't give any real information about what they like, then there's very little to go on as what they should play.

I mean, the advice isn't wrong in the sense that it generally doesn't matter unless you're going for speedkills because every job is viable in clearing the content. Well, everyone following the meta doesn't really do anyone any favors, because there's a reason the meta composition works best and many don't understand why.

What you're basically saying is people should not play what they want and have fun doing that, but rather just follow the meta because it's a team game. I mean, it is one, but I don't think it's a good idea to play a job you hate just for team composition.

[Nhisso]

No, youre useless if you cant play a class without being told what to play.

[Felis]

Op: "Hey I'm trying to decide on the one meaningful decision we're allowed to make in the game andI'd like some insight."

The one meaningful decision we're allowed to make in the game is the appearance and the name of the character. Classes and jobs are changeable with just equipping another weapon or tool after they finished the lv 10 class quest of the starting class.
"Play what you want " mean "test out some classes and see what make more fun for you"

[IzumiOgata]

Seems like an awful lot of people are conflating "play what you want" with "play how you want", the two things may be related, but there's a world of difference between them: There is only a handful of correct ways to play a job, but there's no correct job to play, that's a personal choice, not an objective one.

While ignoring combos and skill synergy -is- playing wrong, choosing MCH over BRD is not.

Please, do take that into consideration.

[Beckett]

The only worthwhile class advice to give to a new player, besides "Play what you want!" is that they might want to consider a tank or healer for easier queue times. The decision of what to level first is meaningless to endgame content. If someone asks for advice on what they should play, saying something like, "DRG is trash right now, don't play that." is pointless. Any job is perfectly acceptable to do all story content through 70.

After they've completed the insane amount of content on the road to 70, if they decide that they want to do end game content and their chosen job isn't the best fit, they can level up something else. Telling people to suffer through a job they don't like for dozens of hours on the chance that they'll want to comply with the end game meta is asinine.