Need help deciding on class/job

[Sinizter86]

No thank you very much for your response it's been a very good resource for me to pull from I think I will take the advice of frizze and try blm out and maybe switch to dragoon when I feel like being melee thank you all for your input it's helped alot

[Frizze]

Quick BLM highlights then. Read and try to make sure you understand the two stances - umbral ice and astral fire. Ill summarize here, but look at the actual info. Astral fire(granted by casting fire spells, stacks up to 3 at higher levels) does 3 main things. First, it completely shuts off your mana regen. Second, it makes your fire spells hit harder(higher stacks increase the damage bonus). And finally, it raises the mana cost to cast fire spells while reducing the mana it takes to cast an ice spell. Umbral Ice(same as AF) does 2 main things. First it boosts your mana regen to crazy high levels(natural mana regen is 1/10th per tick outside of combat - UI at one stack gives you 1/4 per tick in combat and at the highest stack gives you roughly 67% per tick). And second, it reduces the cost(and i think damage done by) fire spells.

So what you want to do is get into your fire stance to buff your damage and cast as many fire spells as you can, then when you run out of mana switch to ice to get it all back, then back to fire to repeat(at higher levels you also add a thunder dot at some point in the mix). The Transpose skill(level 3 or 4 - switches current element stack to 1 of the opposite) helps with this at early levels, Fire 3 and Blizzard 3 have special properties that allow them to be used as your "switch" spells later on. And finally, read your spell descriptions. In other FF games Fire 2 might just be a more powerful fire spell, but here it has different properties and is used in a different way then fire 1 completely(specifically, fire 2 is your primary AoE for most of your career). Theres a lot more to learn to optimize and master the destructive arts, but getting that much right will take you far. That and of course, asking if you need help with something more.