What is your main job at the moment?

[Vickii]

I know you can have lots of jobs but what are you playing the most/what one is getting the best gear first etc?

You will 90 percent find me as MCH or BTN

[Eien713]

BRD for life here. Started as an archer and will remain a BRD for as long as I shall play the game. I've stuck with the class through thick and thin and will continue to do so no matter what. I'm also probably among the minority who actually liked HW's bowmage :P BRD is the class that I enjoy the most and play the best. I don't think I'll ever find another class in an MMO that I'll like more than FF14's BRD. I really like not being a pure DPS and being a bit of a support class too (though the class' utility isn't as big as it once was).

[Eclipse12187]

White mage main since 2.0, got to live through the glory days, then being overshadowed for 2 expacs to B L O O D F O R T H E B L O O D L I L Y. Dislike the healing changes and having my skills ripped from me for role actions but I still like my job.

[tdb]

Current plan for gearing priority: healer (first pass mostly done) > tank > caster > ranged physical > melee

What I play most depends on what I'm doing. For DF I'm almost always a healer, sometimes a tank for dungeons. For one-healer duties or if I have a friend as co-healer I play WHM, but if I have an unknown co-healer I pick AST because I can then choose shields or hots depending on what my co-healer is. Sometimes, if I'm playing with a healer friend and it looks like the queue for double heals is too slow, I go RDM or SMN. I don't trust randoms to not be idiots so having a backup raise is good.

For soloing things like treasure maps, hunts or fates I pick a dps class based on my mood and how fast I expect things to die. SMN and MCH have fairly long rotations so they can feel unsatisfying for maps or hunts. RDM and BLM are sort of middle ground, with some charge-up required for the big attacks but usually able to pull them off. DNC and NIN are good if I just want to kill something really quickly thanks to most big things being available off the bat.

If I want to gather and craft something I obviously use the classes required by the recipes. I mostly do that when myself or a friend has need for a piece of gear or furniture. The MB is unstable enough that I usually don't bother outside of special circumstance like just after the release of a new set of crafted gear.

[AncientWillow]

For now pally but im boored of it so im upping sch/smn and war to switch to to see if they can get me more focused while i think of the theme for gnb on my character before i go to it.

[glitteringcosmos]

I'm a BRD main, and have been since I started the game, though I ran through all of ShB as DNC. I really enjoy the utility of being both offense and support as a ranged physical, and DNC allowed me incredible mobility while I was getting the hang of all those crazy mechanics in ShB LOL (this being my first mmo and my first PC game with mouse/keyboard combined to create a steep learning curve). I recently switched back to BRD as my main because I've always loved archer aesthetic and the rotation for BRD is a little more complex than DNC, which makes it more fun for me. That's not to say I don't still love DNC and still play it, but you know what they say about your first love lol. So for story, I always go through as my main, and for that reason it always gets my highest priority gear-wise.

Group play content, I alternate between playing as main, healing as AST, and tanking as GNB or occasionally DRK, depending on what my group wants to run as. I tend to gear them up as simultaneously as I can. Then casters, so that I can be a rez mage if needed. I've got all my crafters and gatherers at 80 and max level gear for the moment, so I can pretty much make myself whatever gear or furniture I want or my FC mates want or need.

I don't play melee, period. I've been working on leveling them up through beast tribes and WT so that I can get the achievements and the Amaro mount, but that's it. I don't play them at all in group play, because I really dislike the playstyle and the aesthetic. It's just not for me.

[glitteringcosmos]

BRD for life here. Started as an archer and will remain a BRD for as long as I shall play the game. I've stuck with the class through thick and thin and will continue to do so no matter what. I'm also probably among the minority who actually liked HW's bowmage :P BRD is the class that I enjoy the most and play the best. I don't think I'll ever find another class in an MMO that I'll like more than FF14's BRD. I really like not being a pure DPS and being a bit of a support class too (though the class' utility isn't as big as it once was).

Bowmage? :OOOO Tell me more, this was before my time!

[Xatsh]

RDM for me. I like casters. I like how it has multiple utilities: Emergency Raise, emergency heal, as well as dps. And out of all the casters it actually has alot of mobility, double that of other casters basically. Still like the rdm of ffxi better. Had the ability to enfeeble, buff, and tank as well. But that game design actually supported that.

Was main healer at the start of this expansion but I really hate the healer changes and the healer DPS > Everything mentality that fflogs and the balance discord has pushed on the endgame community has made party finder toxic to coheal in. It has devolved into only using off cast time heals, keeping up 1 dot, and 1 button spam. Just not fun at all. And I love party finder when your co-healer does not heal because they have no insta cast left and casting a normal heal is a dps loss. Healers just need a complete redesign, and the community needs to shut off the parsers in prog groups.... (Or SE needs to actually find a way to stop ppl from using them). They are actually making progression slower.

Tanks I mess around on, enjoy playing them. Just too many people in my group that main tank.

[tdb]

Bowmage? :OOOO Tell me more, this was before my time!

I faintly recall that BRD used to have cast times on their abilities, just like the magical classes. It was mostly before my time too though so someone else can probably tell it better.

[Eien713]

Bowmage? :OOOO Tell me more, this was before my time!

Once upon a time, back in HW, BRD received a blessing and a curse known as The Wanderer's Minuet (the old version, not the one we know now). This skill allowed BRDs around Eorzea to increase their damage, but they had to sacrifice their mobility for it. Our kind came to be known as bowmages since we turned into casters, though our cast time wasn't as long as magic casters. I personally liked this phase of the class' evolution. It added an extra layer of challenge that I enjoyed. We could get our mobility back by dropping Wanderer's Minuet, and this allowed for some interesting stance dancing.

Oh, and I remember we had some skills that could only be used when Wanderer's Minuet was up.