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death-stranded · 2 years

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I keep changing my main job in FFXIV and I’m once again undecided.

I’ve been WHM since day 1 and this is what I played all through Endwalker but with my anxiety getting worse and the typical toxicity towards healers, I decided this wouldn’t be my main job anymore. Although, I want to keep in good practice for daily roulettes and maintain up to date gear, and WHM has actually become my go-to PVP job since the last update.

The main dilemma then becomes do I want to main as Bard or Red Mage? I’ve consistently used both as my DPS favourites and every few months my preference changes for which is my top pick. Previously I leaned more towards Bard, then it was Red Mage, but now I’m swaying back to Bard again. I suppose I could just switch between both but the highest available gear right now is locked behind weekly time-outs so ideally I should optimise one over the other if I want to do high-end content.

Bard is my preferred aesthetic, I have far better (sluttier) glams, and the job just feels a ton of fun to play. It also has some of the best utility which is well suited to my healer experience. Unfortunately it’s one of the poorer DPS jobs and has a bit of a bad rep in the community.

Red Mage isn’t as interesting to play and I feel the job has less personality, however it’s a lot more fluid and has an easy rotation. It also has the best resurrection ability in the game, and I’m a full on Rez Mage machine. Sadly as a bunboi I can’t wear the iconic hats for either job but I feel like I miss it more here. RDM is fairly decent DPS wise and it’s also the job I’ve used to clear most of the Extreme/Savage content I’ve attempted so far.

Neither are particularly highly regarded DPS jobs, but Bard has great utility and Red Mage has rapid ressing and a less ‘busy’ toolkit.

Maybe I should just throw on the 2B panties and go Dancer instead.

#personal #gaymer #ffxiv #rambling

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vyrerus · 6 years

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Last night was one of those nights where I just felt really proud of my video game skills. First I did early afternoon raid as Ninja for my friends mostly EU static, and did O1 to O4 as NIN. Lotted 99 on the mount, not that it mattered, everyone else already has one! Then small FFXI break between raids, still can’t get my hands on a Scroll of Temper. I am literally considering server hopping because I just can’t get my hands on one easly. Rah! Not that there’s anyone I know on Sylph anymore. I went there in early 2016 to chill with a friend and get though Adoulin/Rhapsodies, but they helped me with one mission in Reisenjima and then fucked off to do Ambuscade and Escha and shit. Now they play XIV...

Anyway back to what made me feel pride. Main raid came up. We’re missing our Astrologian because of holidays. I’m one of the tanks in that group(I fill the DRK or WAR slot), so I can’t sub in to heal, lest we get a dumb PUG tank. We got a PUG SCH and rocked 1 to 3. 4... well... our DPS have a problem with coming with their game faces on, and we only just got our WHM into beating it two weeks ago, and they’re still really shaky with some of the mechanics, and raid lead is trying to take the training wheels off and not do calls for her. We could have beat it, but the SCH we got forced a DC instead of just leaving. So we’re gonna try again Monday, since Thursday is Thanksgiving for most of us. This isn’t really what made me feel prideful, though I always feel good in that group, because they’ve all been my friends for like almost a decade via FFXI and FFXI forums. At about minute 6 of us waiting on the Scholar to come back(he never did), I get a PSN message from my buddy Okitraz Msmitty.

Oki is or was a phenomenal bard back in a static on Sargatanas that I used to raid with during Final Coil of Bahamut. That group had all the right moves, except the WHM, but the entirely wrong attitude. Some of its members were friends with and sort of understudying Xenosys Vex’s static at the time. Their WHM at the time, Omnomnom Noms would occasionally come fill in for ours when she couldn’t make it. We loved having Noms with us, because he was/is an exceptionally good healer(he’s retired from XIV now). We also had Xeno come with us a time or two. Unfortunately not at the same time as Omnomnom Noms. Which Xeno refused to change his playstyle to accomodate us, so him coming along didn’t really help us out much, but I digress. Point is, Oki is an old buddy, and one of the reasons I maintain a character on Sargatanas. Literally the only person I keep up with from that static at all, though we don’t talk as much as we used to.

Anyway, he was asking me to come help them with raid. Now I’d just run like 5 hours of Savage mode raiding, so I was kinda beat. I was like, “Sure, but I’ve gotta finish Excal raid, take a shower, and walk my puppy.” So I did all that, and he’d gotten his group to wait for me. Then they were like, “Oh well, we did 1 while we were waiting.” and I was like, “Oh well, I’m gonna hop away then. I need that book for my final ring to i340 this char’s SAM.” apparently healers are in short supply, so they do a page run for me, which we wind up 7 manning, because a PUG RDM they got left as the countdown finished for pulling Alte Roite. At first I fucked up, cause I hadn’t put on my serious healer pants sense Susanoo. In fact, my SCH was still only i320 with garbage melds, but I got the job done. Then we moved on to 2. 2 went fine, though the DPS killed themselves by not doing mechanics at 1%. No biggie, me the AST, and the tanks finished it off. Healer feet dropped, so I took them. We do O3s next. I’ve never healed O3s all of the way, not too mention, my gear is way behind relative to the rest of the group. Now, I don’t think I did any amazing parse shit. Like I’ve never been an FFlogs champ, but we got O3s down in 2 tries, and we only failed the first time because we had double ranged, and the LB3er for the Ninja/Colossus phase misstimed the LB3, and didn’t kill the Ninjas. Healer pants drop, and I win the twine too, so I move two more pieces of my healer gear up to i340 lol.

So these guys, they think I’m like some dynamite healer, when I’m really just shaking off rust and flying by the seat of my pants. They trust me to heal O4s. One of the tanks sends me a cool 1 million gil to remeld my leftside to direct hit for more damage. I’m psyching myself up to heal O4s for the first time. Suddenly, their WHM appears. At first they’re like, “Ok, we’ll have to kick Sinistral(me).” but then they’re like, “No wait, that Ninja is a PUG. Sinistral you have i340 SAM right? Come on that!” So I dodged a bullet, and got to have a ton of fun destroying O4s on SAM for a change! Also though, I got myself killed on the very last delta attack because I was slow stepping out of the Blizzard III stacks. Not to worry, I still came in second on the parse somehow, at least if I heard them right. Also we did it with 3 melee, so it was extra fun! Also when I died the Monk goes, “Uh oh, we might not make the check now.” and I was like, “Ruh roh...” But we did!

#FFXIV #long winded ramble #I felt pride #though then I wondered #everyone is good at something in this world #I'm like the salutatorian of all the XIV jobs #I can play'em all to like 96%#I can't get into number one though #Also all the parses with my guys #on FFlogs #I suck

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