Dancer may be an easy job, but it's one hell of a fun job

[Vandso]

Especially after lvl 70. The burst is great, dumping all those feathers you collected throughout 2 minutes all at once is really gratifying. The step mechanic is really cool, it feels like you're building up a huge amount of power to release all at once. And having three non-targeted forward dashes is the best thing any job could have in terms of movement. Even the situational skills are great, AoE shield, AoE heal. Every easy job should be designed like this, straightforward but engaging and rewarding. My only complaint Dancer is that it deals more damage than the other ranged dps jobs, which are more difficult to play. In my opinion easy jobs should always deal less damage than the difficult ones, otherwise it wouldn't be fair for the people to play with those. Why would I want to play Bard if I can play Dancer?

[ZephyrMenodora]

Why would I want to play Bard if I can play Dancer?

I like the Archer/Bard archetype more.

[TheMightyMollusk]

The Aiming jobs get all the style. The rhythms of music, dance, and gun.

[Vandso]

I like the Archer/Bard archetype more.

Me too. I find Bard cooler looking than Dancer, and Machinist more than both. But I like the Dancer gameplay way more. As Bard I have to keep track of dots, songs, procs, my gauge, it's so much happening at the same time. I still like it, I just wished it dealt more damage.

[ZephyrMenodora]

Me too. I find Bard cooler looking than Dancer, and Machinist more than both. But I like the Dancer gameplay way more. As Bard I have to keep track of dots, songs, procs, my gauge, it's so much happening at the same time. I still like it, I just wished it dealt more damage.

I do agree, Bard for me is a very busy class for it's low personal damage. I have a lot more watching of timers and procs than any other class I play. A lot of times people consider it an "easy" class but I think it has more to manage than anything else I've played.

[Nav_Fae]

Unpopular opinion: But I don't think Dancer is an easy job to play at an optimal level. Maybe for a physical range it could be the easiest, (though I'd give it to MCH). I think optimally Dancer is harder than SMN.

I do agree, Bard for me is a very busy class for it's low personal damage. I have a lot more watching of timers and procs than any other class I play. A lot of times people consider it an "easy" class but I think it has more to manage than anything else I've played.

Bard is really difficult to optimize and play optimally. So much multitasking goes into Bard for less reward. It's the least played job in the game right now for a reason. Ever since Bard got It's job identity back, it's been getting increasingly more difficult to master.

[Limecat]

One thing in particular I like about DNC is how efficient it is. It can 123 AoE without loss with two mobs instead of three like usual. I just wish Curing Waltz had more range, so it was more feasible to have you and your dance partner overlap heal circles for better pinch group recovery.

[Tsumdere]

The Aiming jobs get all the style. The rhythms of music, dance, and gun.

Unpopular opinion: But I don't think Dancer is an easy job to play at an optimal level. Maybe for a physical range it could be the easiest, (though I'd give it to MCH). I think optimally Dancer is harder than SMN.

As a high orange parsing DNC, I do have to agree. It's not a difficult job to pick up by ANY means, but at the very high levels there is a lot of micro decisions to make on the fly, dance partner shenanigans, and dance shifting to keep the most optimal dance rotation up.

It's not the hardest job to optimize (shout out to BRD/BLM/RDM/DRG), but it does have more meat to it than people give it credit for.

[Raikai]

One thing in particular I like about DNC is how efficient it is. It can 123 AoE without loss with two mobs instead of three like usual. I just wish Curing Waltz had more range, so it was more feasible to have you and your dance partner overlap heal circles for better pinch group recovery.

Yeah! Not asking for an Earthly Star range, but a little more could improve vastly the usage of the heal. One of the best feelings is when the Dance Partner actually knows what you're doing and collapses to you just after aoe.

On topic, Dancer is really fun, so it is the optimization of its playstyle. I'd say it's as hard as RDM to play on that ceiling (and RDM is pretty wild with those drifts.)

The thing I wish from 7.0 is something for the TS downtime, because there the gameplay can get a bit bland with just the 1-2-3-4 / SS / 1-2-3-4. The TS window is already at its capacity of oGCDs.

Edit: Oh, and that Closed Position could get an improvement to be like its PVP variation (or Kardia), so swapping dance partners could be less of a hassle - and it would be a pivotal thing to improve the DNC's skill ceiling.

[TheMightyMollusk]