Can't find a right class for me

[GenesisET]

I played for half a year, and yet coudn't find a class I'd really enjoy. I once quit the game, now I came back.
Tried RDM: at first it was cool, but then i thought its so simple. On the other hand, i hate skills with procs. This is why i'll never play Bard.
I was AST main, but can't do these cards anymore. RNG hates me.

All i do is lvl-ing up evertything in order to find something i'd like. And it's hell to do the same PotD again&again for every class.

All i have is: AST 60, SMN 60, Scholar 60, etc. It's all I've done before i quit the game 7 month ago. I know that every job feels different and better at 70 lvl, but how should i know which job will satisfy me? If i'll lvling up every job to 70 just to try whether it suits me or not...Hell.

What should i do? I wanted to try a tank for the 1st time. I think to try Pal. But damn, starting from lvl 1, my god. Is Pal worth it? If all he needs is to press 1-2-3 buttons, i don't think it's worth it.

[Transient_Shadow]

its all up to you. I'm sorry to hear you haven't found the right fit yet. It may turn out no class suits you and maybe another game is more your style. Or you may wind up loving tanking. it all depends on you. and there's only one way to find out.

HOWEVER you will have a much easier time leveling with a tank due to the ability to spam dungeons and that insta que. so no need to go through potd again.

[Hasrat]

Don't pretty much all jobs have some sort of proc mechanic? I mean, that's typically what keeps things feeling dynamic and active to some extent.

[Krotoan]

Don't pretty much all jobs have some sort of proc mechanic? I mean, that's typically what keeps things feeling dynamic and active to some extent.

Some of them are 100% proc though, take for example Dragoon. There is no randomness anymore except which finisher your combo procs first, it's either gonna be the rear one or the side one which will chain to the one that didn't proc.

OP: What do you like about any class you've played so far? It'll be easier for people to suggest something if we know what you found fun.

[HyoMinPark]

Hmm. You said you were an AST main. Have you tried WHM? It’s a pretty straight-forward healer, nothing to really manage in terms of AST cards or SCH fairies, powerful healing and powerful DPS spells. Might be worth giving it a shot. It has the Lily System, but you can basically ignore it and still play the job the same way—all Lilies do is reduce the cooldown duration of certain oGCDs.

As for DPS, you could try maybe SAM or DRG. Any “procs” they have are typically guaranteed, rotations are relatively simple and straight forward. But if DPS isn’t your thing, I would definitely consider WHM. Tanks, I’d probably recommend PLD, if you were interested in tanking. Sturdy tank, lots of cooldowns and mitigation, simple rotation (for the most part...I haven’t leveled it to 70 yet, but the rotation up to 60 was very straight forward).

[addz3]

I've been caught up trying to find a class so I feel the annoyance and pain. As it's been said before levelling paladin will not take long at all. I think if you get something to LVL 50 you'll know if you'll like it or not so you don't need to get to 70

[VanilleFang]

I would recommend WHM if you haven't tried it.

Have you tried any tanks yet? PLD is fairly easy to pick up and doesn't have proc saturated mechanics.

[Myvar]

Some of them are 100% proc though, take for example Dragoon. There is no randomness anymore except which finisher your combo procs first, it's either gonna be the rear one or the side one which will chain to the one that didn't proc.

OP: What do you like about any class you've played so far? It'll be easier for people to suggest something if we know what you found fun.

Actually, Chaos Thrust always procs Wheeling Thrust (the rear one) and Full Thrust always procs Fang and Claw (the flank one).

[Krotoan]

Actually, Chaos Thrust always procs Wheeling Thrust (the rear one) and Full Thrust always procs Fang and Claw (the flank one).

Cool. Thanks!

[Tridus]

If you're levelling a tank or healer, you don't need to spam PotD to 60. Once you get the dungeon queue you can use that because the waits are so much shorter. You could also drop the money for a jump potion if you REALLY don't want to wait and go directly to 60.

It's hard to recommend a class because aside from no procs, you didn't really say what you want. Healer wise, AST is the only RNG heavy one. WHM has barely any (one that procs a free Cure II and hardly matters at 70, and another that's so irrelevant most people forget it exists), while SCH sometimes lets you get lucky with a Crit Aldo which is awesome but not necessary to play well (and fairy management, which is work but not random). SCH's big advantage is that you already have it at 60 and can give it a try without having to level it, since it doesn't drastically change between 60 and 70. Course, WHM is an absolute blast to play, especially in dungeons with big pulls because Holy is god tier AoE healer DPS.

Tank wise, PLD gets far more involved past 50 since you get a second combo that's DPS and MP regen focused, a pretty great single target healing spell (used it yesterday to keep a group alive in o8 when both healers got knocked off until the SMN could bring them back up), a ranged magic nuke that you work in for high DPS and gauge boosting, and a couple of spiffy group defense abilities.

Honestly, I find sub 50 play boring on pretty much every class at this point. It's hard to evaluate them at that level because so much stuff is missing. That does make it harder to try to find the right one, unfortunately.