Deep dungeon question

[Thurmnmurmn]

Wait what? Did I read this right?

I can see that. Since you can LVL up through it and get your skills given to you as you go along. And it's not like the early floors are very challenging.

I mean I just relearned machinist in Eureka orthos this week and the first few floors were nice and easy to figure out my rotation.

[Rongway]

POTD is a great way to learn and get practice on classes you're not familiar with as well.

I can see that. Since you can LVL up through it and get your skills given to you as you go along.

PotD is not a great way to learn a new job. First, people don't actually learn how to play a job by gaining its actions one at a time. I know a lot of people think they do, but really, no, they don't. They learn to play a job with an incomplete set of actions and mechanics. There's a basic principle called Specificity of Training that states that training should be representative of the actual desired end task. If your end task is to play a job well, you need to have all its actions at least through Lv70 for a lot of jobs, maybe Lv60 on a few of them that just get action upgrades or an additional combo finisher. If people try to learn a job one action at a time, they will put buttons in bad places on their bars and they will develop bad habits that they wouldn't develop if they had to account for all their job actions. For example, someone learning RDM one action at a time might develop a habit of starting a combo with equal mana, because this behavior is possible as early as Lv02 but is punished starting at Lv68. Second, people don't learn a job's rotation unless they can continuously attack for 60s or 120s without breaks, and PotD enemies don't live that long.

If you want to learn to play a new job, get it at least to Lv60 and then wail on a target dummy for a few minutes.



Back on topic, if two players want to duo the deep dungeons, the best jobs for them to pick are the two jobs they play best. Any job pair can complete a deep dungeon, and being on your best job will make it easier to deal with unexpected situations. Even if there were a job that had better tools for handling that situation, if you don't know the job well enough to use those tools correctly in a panic those tools amount to nothing. On your best job you'll be able to think more calmly and use all your tools effectively.