What did your favorite job used to play like?

[ItMe]

Well my favourite ARR and beyond job is RDM... so it plays exactly like it did on day one of SB.
My favourite job before that was BLM which all the way back in 1.0 played more like it does in FFXI

Has RDM really changed so little?
Dang, they must have really found a good groove for that class~
Glad to hear they're preserving everything you love about it.
Wait, BLM had heals way back then? Huh... that sort of puts into perspective for me why some want them to give BLM a resurrection spell.

Principal was basically the same. Cast fire spells till you're out of MP then blizzard into your umbral phase and throw out a thunder while your MP regens but the rotation was simpler. Still had firestarter and thundercloud but you couldn't force a proc like you can now.

I'm liking AST since the post expansion changes that were made. I find WHM to be really bland in comparison but that's also because it's been my main for 3 expansions and I'm bored of it. Don't like the way SCH plays at all in ShB.

BLM's rotation was simpler before you could force procs?
Man, that's not something I would have expected at all.
Which ShB changes do you think helped AST the most?
Honestly, I love it, but I'm too bad of a healer to play it. I just eat through all my MP and we wipe

Pretty much exactly like they do now at level 50. Fire 3 - Fire 1 spam until oom - Blizzard 3 - Thunder 3 - Blizzard 1 if needed to fill mp still - Repeat. It was the simplest dps job in 2.0 by far.

Hahaha and look at it now. Man things have changed.
I don't know about you, but I find that while it's not hard to play BLM, it's pretty challenging to play it well.

I feel this hard we have almost the same story, after hw I was salty about the drk changes so I moved onto WAR and really enjoyed it until 4.2 when the IR change happened, so I U-Turned back to drk which at this point had seen adjustment + I had a cooler head so I actually saw the fun in the new design and as you said got into gcd manipulation going into alphascape for some big returns. Then 5.0 BAM WE HEAR YOU LIKE IR SO IMMA PUT IT ON DRK.

By that summation I gather the wheel is about to turn again and DRK will be back in your courts in 6.0.
Good luck~