What DPS job do you find the most fun and why?

[MOZZYSTAR]

I used to love bard. Right now, they're all pretty monotonous.

[Nerfworthy]

MCH is currently winning as my favorite job of ShB. Fast paced, pew pew, explosions and guns and robots. It's everything MCH was meant to be from the beginning.

[Connor]

Personally I absolutely love Dancer. The animations look great, having a load of support options feels really fun and I feel like I can contribute to the party in a different way from other DPS like Black Mage or Samurai. It has amazing mobility thanks to En Avant charges, plenty of buffs to help out the party like Shield Samba and Improvisation, plus Curing Waltz (though the potency is very low to compensate for it being used twice on one go). It can feel very fast paced when hitting procs during Flourish phases, and seeing those 100k+ Direct Critical Quadruple Technical Finish (bit wordy lol) is always really satisfying. The downsides to the job are that since the procs are RNG, you can sometimes go a few GCDs without getting anything, which means you’re just spamming Casade / Fountain. Your personal DPS is also the lowest of the damage dealers, so making the most of your buffs and utility is key to making your contribution to the party, which is something I really enjoy

[Silver-Strider]

At this point, I sort of don't have a main DPS anymore. I love MNK but it just keeps getting worse with each expansion. I miss HW MNK.

SMN was usually my back up DPS and he's currently 75 atm but the rotation just feels off right now. Maybe it gets better at 80 or maybe I'm doing something wrong but I'm not really feeling it either.

Thank god I still have my WHM to fall back on, until they nerf him too QQ

[IchiExorz]

IchiExorz, do you have both RDM and DRG lvl 80? I've been contemplating rolling RDM but I'm worried that you found it a bit easier than DRG. My DRG is only 71, but I didn't find it quite as engaging as I hoped it would be (although I love their aesthetics etc). I was hoping RDM would be fun and unique with a proc-based system, but if it's painfully easy I'm not sure how much I'll enjoy it.

Yeah I do have both at 80.
Well DRG is considered rather easy but I find RDM to be even easier. The procs don't really make the rotation much more interesting imo. If you want something proc based I think bard is a better choice. The rotation feels very fluid though.
They're easy to learn fights with though.
And I really REALLY like the aestethic of RDM. And I love the idea of being a caster with some melee mixed into it.

[ksuyen]

This expansion I love MCH. It was a slower buildup during Stormblood, but now it is literally melting the enemies. Fast pace, high burst and yet the rotation is simple enough that I don't have to be a hotbar watcher. The next job that I love is DNC. I heard so many good things about BLM, so I'd probably try to level that from 63 to 80 one day.

[Drayos]

Agreed, I'm leveling NIN purely based on being able to summon a Hellfrog.

IchiExorz, do you have both RDM and DRG lvl 80? I've been contemplating rolling RDM but I'm worried that you found it a bit easier than DRG. My DRG is only 71, but I didn't find it quite as engaging as I hoped it would be (although I love their aesthetics etc). I was hoping RDM would be fun and unique with a proc-based system, but if it's painfully easy I'm not sure how much I'll enjoy it.

Tbh RDM is very reaction based and very front sided gameplay, I wouldn’t say it’s easier.

RDM has always been a job which it isn’t a case of a lack of room to improve, it’s always been a little closer in jobs between dps numbers between being good and average compared to some other jobs.

With how smooth and simplified jobs are I wouldn’t really say RDM is easier. I wouldn’t say it’s painfully easily, but I wouldn’t say it’s hard either.

I’ve been messing around with mine abit and it is pretty fun, and the rotation doesn’t rly get stale as it isn’t just learning to repeat the same openers and rotations.

[Drayos]

Yeah I do have both at 80.
Well DRG is considered rather easy but I find RDM to be even easier. The procs don't really make the rotation much more interesting imo. If you want something proc based I think bard is a better choice. The rotation feels very fluid though.
They're easy to learn fights with though.
And I really REALLY like the aestethic of RDM. And I love the idea of being a caster with some melee mixed into it.

Tbh I wouldn’t say bard is harder then RDM anymore

It’s litterally pop songs in correct order, press burst shot, hit ogcds use emp for free procs. It’s opener is now like 9 skills long which makes it actually smaller then RDMs.

Bards gotten ALOT easier to play, as the only maintaince in it is really holding the 30sec DoTs which has iron jaws to refresh both instantly with.

It’s difficulty defiantly came down a long way after SB where it had a lot more decisions to make throughout a fight

[Mahoukenshi]

As I'm still for a long, long time in the leveling phase, I'll only talk about first impressions and aesthetics:

Personally, I quite enjoy Dragoon (my starting job career) and Samurai, even though SAM's impressions are restricted to the inital job quest and some random meddling with open world trash mobs. For both jobs, I adore their job-specific armor appearance, and the skill animations of SAM. So currently my inital job satisfaction is "battling" with my inner japanese fanboyism for SAM *lol*. When I first unlocked, for example, SAM and RDM and was confronted with two skill bars worth of skills at once, I also thought SAM's skill flow was more intuitive, especially after some slight rearrangements. I've read some valuable first timer tips for RDM since then and will also spend some more time with the latter as I want at least one of each role (Tank, Healer, Physical DPS, Magical DPS) for the distant future job role quests. As a sidenote: RDM's starting job quest seems to play in a time much later post-ARR, which I found a bit weird. But given when it was released, understandable.

[supaiku]

Blm. I love the new skills, we are more mobile than ever and the 2 more seconds on AF and UI are really nice to have.
And who doesn't like doing lots of damage with throwing explosions at peoples heads.

And Dancer so far. Most of the animations look pretty and it's fun to play.