Need suggestion for a new job that would match my taste.

[Alise]

I have been playing a tank for so long and need some break to play other job to 80, but

I am not sure which job would fit best in this criteria :


-since tank is a melee, I prefer my next job to be range
-I want cool moveset, epic attack that look satisfaction.
-I don't like to standstill while attack.
-prefer physical over magic, but either will work.
-since I am going to play DPS, I want my dps to be as high as possible, so I prefer not to choose the job at the bottom tier.




Thank you.

[Seraphor]

Sounds like you want Machinist.

Ranged.
Cool moves. (flamethrower, drill, robot)
No standing still.
Physical.
Top Physical Ranged DPS.

[CrashofZenki]

I prefer not to choose the job at the bottom tier.

... Unfortunately we have DPS tiers even when it shouldnt be a thing.

[Naryoril]

Sounds like you want Machinist.

Ranged.
Cool moves. (flamethrower, drill, robot)
No standing still.
Physical.
Top Physical Ranged DPS.

My thoughts exactly. And even the standard 1-2-3 combo looks pretty fancy in their upgraded version.
1 - Jumping into the air and doing a bunch a flips or whatever while shooting
2 - Spawning 10 or so bullets floating in a wide angle before you which then shoot towards the enemy
3 - Spawning 2 "satellites" which shoot at the enemy

[Drayos]

... Unfortunately we have DPS tiers even when it shouldnt be a thing.

Tbh tier list only really applies to top 3 realistically

The dps difference between a machinist and red mage is 11 dps.

The dps difference between a summoner and bard is 13 dps.

The dps difference between Samarui and summoner is 600 dps.

Only when u look at BLM, Monk, Dragoon do u start to see the thousand+ dps differences. RDPS wise.

Everything below is between

13k (Dancer) and 13.9k (samarui)

if u want the Best DPS going

get on BLM / DRG / Monk / SAM. If u arent going to roll those jobs, the DPS Differences arent huge enough to realistically care about them because the DPS Differences realistically will be outweighed in Real situations where One player can Grey parse and the other Orange Parse in the same group. for example, i on Most occassions manage to Out DPS SAMS in Expert Dungeons :P its just simply how it realistically falls.

[Alise]

Oh thank you very much. And I didn't know that MCH now is a pure DPS job? Did the support ability stay or removed?

[Seraphor]

Oh thank you very much. And I didn't know that MCH now is a pure DPS job? Did the support ability stay or removed?

It's support has been reduced to a single party defense buff that all Physical Ranged DPS have, on a 180s CD. Tactitian.
Everything else is DPS focused, and its DPS isn't bad in general. In fact in my 'static of sorts' we have a Machinist who regularly out damages both our Monks.

And it’s simple to play now too.
You have a couple of skills you want to line up for your Hypercharge/Wildfire window, but then everything else is simply use on cooldown, pairing Reassemble up with Drill as much as you can, and then Turret gets used at 100 Battery gauge.
Obviously there’s some fine tuning for optimisation, but you can go a very long way with just that.

[Stepjam]

... Unfortunately we have DPS tiers even when it shouldnt be a thing.

There are always going to be tiers. Unless every class is exactly the same, you will eventually get tiers.

But Squeenix is good enough at balance that within a few patches, they should all be in spitting distance of each other. The 4.5 classes were REALLY close to each other balance wise, all were perfectly viable. But even then, there were tiers because that's inescapable.

[odym82]

Be forewarned it takes a while for MCH to start being cool. For a long time you’ll be resigned to the sad sound of the Spread Shot and a very sad looking and underwhelming Rook Turret.
But then.... then it starts to get epic

[ksuyen]

Two tiers:
BLM - MNK - DRG - SAM <------------------600dps------------------->RDM - SMN - MCH - BRD - NIN - DNC