LF New Job

[Tulzscha]

You could go on about saving certain things for buff windows or whatever, but lets be real here, we're in the "New Player" subforum.

I’m not new to MMOs, just the jobs in this game. I didn’t want to limit this topic to the role forums and didn’t know where else to put it. Other than copying it in each of those. Meh. I appreciate any info I can get.

I'm actually more partial to MCH right now than Dancer, but I am not qualified to speak to how it plays at 80.

Ah cool what do you like about MCH?

[Chrallmal]

Ah cool what do you like about MCH?

I tend to favor jobs that have a very high Actions-Per-Minute style as an average over time. It keeps my mind busy. MCH feeds that need for me. I'm also a bit jazzed about MCH because I know what it was like back in Stormblood, where I detested it. Most importantly, lots of things to do oGCD. Hypercharge -> Heat Blast -> oGCD spam, etc. It happens so often that it keeps me busy, but it doesn't feel like it is all that I am doing. I do miss the utility of DNC, but that is supposed to be the spectrum. MCH has the best damage output of the ranged physical DPS, but the worst utility. DNC is on the other end of said spectrum.

Raldo said (paraphrase) DNC is essentially clicking on Cascade and then clicking whatever subsequent button has a dotted outline around it. Keep doing that until you're out of things with dotted lines, and click Cascade again. The order is really irrelevant. He isn't wrong. I'm not saying it's child's play, because there is a nuance to it all. However, it does feel like all you're doing is fishing for Four-Fold Feathers so you can actually have an oGCD ability to weave and keep yourself busy. Kind of like the old AST where all you were really doing was fishing for a Balance card. The rest of the card system was pointless other than modifying your card effect once you found a Balance (or maybe Arrows).

With MCH, I stay busy, and I stay mobile. If I had to pick a favorite between DNC and MCH, I really couldn't. I love them both for completely different reasons. I play MCH for the feel of the job, and the sense that I'm playing something that has a high skill-ceiling (that might be my low skill making a mountain out of a molehill). I play DNC because I want to be useful for more than just my personal damage output - and I cannot say enough good things about their dash ability. It's so fun.