Thread: Did you switch jobs in endwalker?, from what to what and why

[Lunar_Kn1ght]

When I first started the game I was a PLD main, but eventually lost interest in the job because I got bored with how Tanks are used in this game and kept on switching to other ones to the point of leveling all of them to 90 and not really finding my main for nearly two 2 years.

Got comfortable with MCH because I'm trying to do POTD 200 necromancer challege at the moment, and just stuck with it for now. Honestly theres something about every job in this game that doesn't make me love it, thus I'm always changing jobs...

but anyways, MCH, for now.

[Chasingstars]

Pre-Endwalker: Red Mage + Dancer
Endwalker: Red Mage + Summoner

[Mostly_Raxus]

was originally a drg/drk main forever, but swapped to RPR on EW launch caus it looked cool,
didnt much like the rotation, felt slow to me so i ended the tier as a SMN just because it was easy to jump on seemed to have a higher APM and was fun to lookat, plus it made pugging easier as it could preform under any conditions.. cant stand caster gear tho so had to get back to my roots..

so i went back to dark, sadily they were a walking dumpster fire in the eyes of the community by the time i picked em back up so i said screw it, if i wanna pug i will have to play war... found i hate how we hold the axe in this game, especially on our back, ((WHY is the heavy side up on our back!? so dumb)) that and the fact that i much prefer how drk plays made me dump that,,

so i decided to go melee, wanted high APM and sam was so flavor that everyone and their mom was playing it so i chose NIN that was middle of the pack, viable not flavor so i wasnt fighting to get in grps, andfell in love with it, still loving NIN, granted seeing a lot more of them now days but dont care as im having way to much fun playing it so sticking it out as a naruto ripoff with a weeb costume and some pointy edgy bois

so melee= NIN, tank= DRK, physical range= MCH, magic= RDM, healer= SGE.
really happy with this setup and the 2 new jobs will definitely have to wow me to change my "mains"

[SilverSkyway]

As for my main job. Mch to Brd. But not because of damage or utility, because I wanted to use a bow instead of a gun. That's it.
I leveled and play a War (and Pal) for awhile, and still do for fast ques. But the idea of tanking stress me out to no end.
Then there is red mage that I played for a hot minute

As of right now, I'm trying to play main melee dps but hate it to much. I have Sam at max but again, I hate it.

[Elkanah]

I went from GNB to Reaper for EW. After the nerf, I went back to WAR and stayed war till end of ew. If VPR gets nerfed after 2 weeks due to everyone somehow calling the class OP- then I'll probably go back to Warrior main and keep vpr as a third behind blm

[Roda]

Pre endwalker: summoner

Post endwalker: Not summoner. Not really having fun with my jobs anymore. Hoping picto can fill the void...

[4clubbedace]

gnb to any other tank, lvl 90 gnb gives me carpal tunnel

[cjbeagle]

I left SAM because of how bad it felt without Kaiten, tried every other job (at 90) looking for a new main, and ended up just sticking with SAM because even without Kaiten I still like it better than any of the other options.
I'm still sour about Kaiten getting removed - my interest in the game as a whole was drastically diminished by them completely gutting the only job that really suited my preferences.

[Dyvid]

Dropped SMN after 8 years because of obvious reasons. Don't have a main, just drifting from between Range DPS when I decide to play which is rare these days. Endwalker is really living up to the name.

[Taranok]

Mostly dropped BLM, though dabble with it. Endwalker has made it clear that sitting still and memorizing boss attack patterns/prepositioning is no longer a valid playstyle, and the way I like to play BLM, and even casters in general, is anathema to EW's general fight design philosophy, which is vastly, vastly more reactionary and movement-heavy than it is preplanning and remembering what's happening in the fight.

I play every class to some capacity, but the biggest thing was more or less realizing my ability to enjoy my role was being actively killed by the encounter designers, and me just bouncing around to whatever seemed fun at the time. If you ever want to know what the biggest act of homogenization the game has ever had, there's 4 events to really look at. When tanks were turned into carbon copies of paladin, when healers were turned into carbon copies of white mage, when every job got mitigation stepping on the toes of rphys, and when casters were forced to play the game like ranged phys. Nowhere is this more obvious than the mass migration of the caster population over to the only caster that truly plays like a ranged phys.

I digress.

At least Samurai was interesting until superchain 1. I actually enjoyed removing Kaiten, the skill always felt like pointless bloat that made the class harder to learn at a base level than it needed to be. I just wish the animation was transitioned to Third Eye or something, as it was a great animation.