Which Class and WhyFollow

The time is nigh to begin thinking about what we will choose to become when the game starts, seeing as our classes will be wiped in phase 4.

I'm interested in hearing which classes you all will be choosing and why... I also think this thread will go some ways to help others who are as of yet undecided choose what they'll be doing. There is still a lot of unknown as to how the jobs will work, so state your case!!!

For my first class I'll definitely be going CNJ, I mostly want to always make sure I'm easily able to get into a pt... and everyone knows white mages have no problem doing this

Just as a side note, is there any early indication as to which class will be the biggest DPS?

PUG here because I enjoy a fast pace of beatings ;P also thinking about conj cause of the lack of healers ...

I will be going SCH because I love healing, but I don't enjoy WHM. Hopefully it is fun and just as viable as WHM both in small and larger events. Can't wait to try it out!

I'm going to start Marauder for the Limsa story arch, but I'll be switching to Gladiator/Conjurer after I craft for a while.

I'll probably be GLA most of the time since my g/f will most likely be a CNJ and my friend will be a DD of some sort.
Plus from my experience, most tanks seem to have issues holding threat on everything.

I'll play marauder lancer puglist and move to dragoon warrior then monk to see which one I'd rather play. I'm not in beta so I don't have a clue which I'd rather be at this point so until then it's trial and error. Side note I wish necromancer was an option but it doesn't fit with final fantasy.

Phase 4 characters/progress get saved for launch. Unless the plan has changed.

i thought id be going lancer before any betas. because ive always loved lancers and lances and halbergs as weapons in general, and their armor looks ultra hot. but with friends/roommates involved i decided to tank. tried glad first and then decided to go marauder instead. the glad seems too ez and maybe generic for me. it is the classic unkillable tank. but i wanted more dmg, more options, and i thought warrior was a dps but once i found they were tank, it was on. both seem ez now but i think marauder armor and axe will look 'cooler' to me endgame.
I tried the giant dudes and they ran too weird for me. so i lvled a human female lancer to 15, but she is super ugly. next beta i checked out elf race and wasn't digging that. made a black/yellow cat guy as my next beta char (26 glad,20mrd,20cnj). then i have another lvl 5ish giant chick and think that will be the one ill ultimately make. just have to make another human female to make sure. sorry i dont care to remember names of races, but who can forget lalafell =p (too child-like for me, add the mustache for @#%^fell effect)
ill go samurai asap as main most likely, hopefully live launch but i do not think it'll happen. and ill take up 2 crafting and 2 gathering skills im thinking.

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Edited, Jun 30th 2013 9:40pm by elenex

I'm starting with arcanist because I like limsa best, and because I enjoy healing in dungeons. Based on the data-mined info I saw posted in one of these zam threads, it looks like arcanist is going to open up some very useful cross class abilities for DoM, so I won't feel like I wasted any time on that class even if I don't like it as much as cnj or thm.

I'm glad to hear that they will have useful cross class abilities for DoMs. As of right now there really isn't anything worth cross classing for THM or CON. Sure you can get a nerfed cure or protect, but in a group you won't really need either. And CNJ can get Thunder, but the duration combined with it having a cast time makes keeping it up 100% a bit difficult. Surecast seems decent, but until I know of any 100% interupts It will be unused by me. I've been sticking to the increased damage and crit rate buffs from Archer and Pugilist.

Will Arcanist start off with any curative abilities, or will they not get any until Scholar?





Edited, Jun 30th 2013 10:02pm by DamienSScott

I want to be a Tank for this game, so I'm going with the MRD. GLA was okay, but what really drew me away from it, (vain reason ahead) is that I didn't like using a friggin dagger as my weapon. If I was a thief or something, I could deal, but not my heavily armored, 6' 7" Roe GLA. I know there is the short swords as well, but they were little too. I would rather have a big axe!

im pretty sure palys will get some big ol swords higher level. if you look in the trailer videos their weapon is among with biggest. i think daggers on them are kinda cool tho

Edited, Jun 30th 2013 10:23pm by elenex

I'll be moving to Ultros on 4, and going the CNJ>WHM route for general play and reserving a tank-y class to raise with the missus on HER slower climb to WHM.

I will probably start CNJ because I have always liked Gridania best of the three cities. CNJ has good early cross class skills (cure and aero) and could be one of the tougher jobs to bring to lvl 10 because it just doesn't have the same offensive power. By picking it first quest xp can carry me most of the way. Then I will focus on Arcanist -> Summoner as my main job. I really enjoy playing mage classes and will likely end up lvling a few of them anyways :)