Thread: Most OP jobs for CC in your opinion

This is for CC, not FL. I play a variety of jobs, not all of them, but in my experience these are some of the top jobs in terms of sheer power and ability to influence the outcome of a match:


Definitely OP:
1. AST/RDM


Powerful, but a notch below:
2. WAR/GNB/PLD

Very solid:
3. WHM/DRG/PCT/NIN

4. Everyone else.

And that may be it, in my opinion. What are your takes?

Hard to say yet. I have more griefs about underperforming or badly designed jobs. AST is definitely a problem to me, RDM I don't know. I see them everywhere so they have to be good. It's mostly AST that feels insanely oppressive in all directions, and AST (or even WhM) are the reason tanks are that good right now. If you remove that pocket healing tanks will start dying a little more like they used to.

I just know warrior can be deleted. Imagine doing a burst, losing 30% of your HP for pressing the buttons, then trying to selfheal, but your stun comes 3 years too late cause of animation delay, and you can't aoe heal. You are just a sitting duck then. And you can remove Limit Break from your hotbar, it is like a voluntary euthanasia sign.

Warrior went from "too angry to die" to "angry because you die too much".

Originally Posted by gidsonBrand

If you're talking specifically about ranked, then yep anything that brings in it's own damage or heals to "parse" well is going to succeed. Dragoon is great for this since a lot of people in lower ranks seem to forget about you if you run around a corner.

Common gameplan that shot me through Plat and into Diamond:
1) High Jump in and Guard, soaking enemy CC and burst
2) Elusive Jump out, throw my burst while the enemy is still tunnel visioning me
3) At low health/mana and back out of the fight for a ground pot. Most people seem to forget about me at this point.
4) Re-send burst, rinse and repeat

Usually I'm fine going in with 5k mana as long as I have Guard/Horrid Roar. But yeah, I followed that game plan to the letter on Red Sands/C9/Clocktown and it works 80% of the time. It only fails if my team gets giga cleaved on the point while 2 people do chase me and don't forget about me.

No, you didn't get teamed with wintraders. Simply put.

Originally Posted by VictorSpoils

No, you didn't get teamed with wintraders. Simply put.

i know this comes as a shock to a lot of you guys on the forums, but if you improve at the game, you win more! you should try it instead of blaming things that aren't real.