How do you keep having fun with your job(s)?

[Asari5]

played dragoon since 5.0. but my fun with it decreased over the years. still dislike a lot of the small changes they did.

now i play monk more often than dragoon. a job i mained back in HW but.... without all of the positionals its just not as much fun as it was.

in dungeons i play often as a tank, bosses jumping around and positioning themselves ALL THE TIME annoys me a lot though.

i do like playing healer in normal trials, normal raids and alliance raids, but fight design just got sooo boring over the years.

[Rithy255]

All jobs are a cosmetic choice at this point, they're not designed to be fun or unique.

Only encounter design matters sadly.

[Raikai]

I've tried to get back into Astrologian ever since Shadowbringers. I leveled it all the way to 100 just because of the role quest completion and decided to try it out in a more serious way.

I know about the infamous healer strike movement, but heck - I'm wondering how people enjoy healing? Like, how don't we get an "organic" healer strike, because the role is so busted...

Here's my impression on AST after so long:
- I don't particularly feel as if the healer role is rewarding. The predictable patterns of damage only challenge you to memorize where to use your ogcds. You press, damage done is negated. There's no deep thinking or strategic play... That's in high end fights. For the casual content the opposite happens - players take so much avoidable damage that it becomes triage mode, which can fulfill my urge to be a healer... but somehow it doesn't, because I know that what's challenging is not the encounter's healing checks, but just player intervention. I don't know if that makes sense to somebody else? That's a feeling I have.
- Okay, so if being a healy-healer is not fulfilling... green dps then? Nope. Malefic spam with some Combust / E. Stars now and then just don't make it for me. I actually like the fact that there's no more RNG fluctuations with the cards, but the big adrenaline rush, that is to give a damage card to a dpser, only happens now in the 2min burst windows, which is disappointing. The defensive cards are fine, but as single-target healing tools they feel redundant unless the co-healer is sleeping. It's a dead horse being beaten but while I don't wish to be as complex as a Red Mage, I wanted healers to have just a little more.

The job almost asks me to play it wrong, by sorting damage cards outside of the 2min meta, because that was what made me enjoy it most. Maybe if when Divination ended, the 3 main Play actions automatically swapped into a specific set of other minor arcana suits, according to the AST lore

3 direct damage buffing cards (one for the tank, one for a healer and one for a dpser) that you must use in the next 60s. Basically something to spice up the burst window downtime.

Actually that is really a necessity even in many dps jobs like Ninja or Dancer when the burst window downtime is a snooze fest.

[TheDustyOne]

I have fun with my main job because it's among the few Square has yet to butcher, now that I've said it out loud, I expect it to be dead by next patch.

In all seriousness, if I do get bored of RDM, I swap over to PLD or VPR for a little while, or just not play.

[Onshinn]

I be cheeky with my jobs... of course not every player likes a cheeky manoeuvre but if you randomly find fun players... they are great in learning lotsa cheeky ways to play, and you learn a new thing everyday. So play by ear if you find fun players, just remember not every players likes cheeky players. Heh.

[Cygnia]

DDR phased me out of healing and support, a role I have always gravitated towards in tabletop (Pathfinder 1e) and found satisfying; too much of liability to be a proper healer in Dawntrail these days and keep both eyes on the boss plus players through the glittery fug. A caster at heart.
Anyway, I keep having fun by zipping through old content properly level sync'd as a red mage. Out of the classes it feels like the one most unchanged and its natural versatility means what is left of the battle system it can gamely adopt. When progression is required, Dancer.

[Wyssahtyn]

[Sunhwapark]

I usually pray it's not going to be reworked/updated/revised or showing up on patch notes at all.
The less occasions it gets tinkered with, the better.

[Striker44]

I rotate pretty regularly through three different jobs, each a different role: PLD, SCH, and RDM. Even when I'm not leveling an alt job or something, it still means I'm never settling into doing the same exact thing over and over again. I also don't play much per week compared to most of the playerbase I would imagine, so it takes a lot longer for even "samey" things to feel stale to me.

[Hallarem]

I just enjoy the aesthetic and lore. I havent enjoyed pve in this game much from the point of view of playing my main job.

Everything from gearing, statplay, talents and self-expresssion during combat is not there like in other mmos and games. Except in pvp which is hilarious its more diverse than pve.