Final Fantasy XIV (Guide in first post)

Aazrael said:

Might need to resub here as well before release. Not sure what MSQ I did last, the Golbez fight I think. Not sure how much has been added storywise since then.

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That's where I was too, it's not too long. Can play for 4days for free atm I think, so you could delay resubbing for a bit if you just want to clear the MSQ. Still recommend resubbind the week before to do a bit of prep(getting a khloe book and completing it but not turning it in until release week so you can double up for example, and cleaning retainers and stuff).

Aazrael said:

The biggest problem I have with this game is I cant settle on a main job. Ended up with Black Mage at the post MSQ this time around. But always bounce between tanks, ranged and melee dps.

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I thought DRK would be my main, but I ran into the same problem as you.

I think it's just a natural state of playing an MMO like ff14 with this kind of job system.

They haven't said exactly yet, there's a bunch of leaks already and apparently media tour info embargo should be soon(some say later today) so we'll see. BLM being YoshiP's main class though there's little chance it turns out complete shit.

The leaks say they removed increased mp regen from ice stance instead giving it to ice spells(so it's more consistent and not reliant on mp tick shit), Convert works like the DNC skill that gives you every proc at once(firestart, thunder, 3 umbral hearts, paradox and full mana) and the new thunder spell is just a better version of the old one and is supposedly granted automatically along with paradox or something(no rng on thunder procs maybe?). Anyway for now it's all just leaks and not very precise ones but it seems BLM's mostly getting qol that'll make it even easier to play.

For class choice I always do it the same, I pick whatever class looks the most interesting first and then I level Scholar and Paladin(although after EW it'll probably be WAR instead cause WAR is a lot more fun to play). I'm likely going Pictomancer first this time. I always want a healer and a tank for queues though and Scholar is always my favorite healer so it's pretty straightforward for that. Nowadays since they have trusts I don't mind leveling DPS first either, I just trust every dungeon, only need to queue for trials but that's pretty short.

Yeah I don't think DPS queues will be any worse than usual, healer/tank players are still gonna play these, DPS players will switch to other DPS, but there's not gonna be a majority of players doing DPS stuff just because it's new. Some for sure but yeah. Queues actually go decently in my experience because so many ppl will be leveling several classes and so many ppl do roulettes and stuff.

This post has a lot of the links, it is missing some people's job videos though(for example Mr Happy has a video for every job) but good stuff if you want to see some specific stuff like the 2 dyes channel video.

Edit: Finished watching every job video, seems the leaks I had seen were accurate although a few things were missing.

Overall the expansion job changes can be summed up as "more of the same", where almost every class is almost exactly the same as EW versions but with like 1 or 2 big GCD/oGCD added every 2mins which often don't actually impact the rotation in any meaningful way. That's both good and bad I'd say, depending on whether you like the class or not. For example a lot of ppl didn't like the oversimplification of Summoner with EW, and the changes do absolutely nothing to change that, it's exactly the same job after the changes with one more oGCD every 2mins. Ppl who hated SMN changes will still hate SMN and ppl who liked it(like me, I like how braindead it is) will probably be kinda happy.

Having seen the changes and stuff for sure, I'm pretty confident going Pictomancer now, it looks really neat. I'll still be getting Scholar(the new 100 ability is pretty funny cause it suddenly makes Scholar who was often the "worst" at dealing with massive healing requirements probably the best, but is otherwise pretty fucking useless other than as a 3min aoe regen) and Warrior(same job, just more self healing and more ungabunga big damage, perfect) as a followup. Kinda interested in Black Mage and Monk changes too. Viper looks extremely meh to me and I think I'm just gonna level that last or close to.