Final Fantasy XIV (Guide in first post)

I don't think the switch job exploit is necessary at all. I leveled the normal way and it was just fine?

I mean yeah you have to do some water canoning for a whooping 5mins at the start, which is exactly what every other class has to do too while you do the hunting log to get started and can enter potd. You can learn a bunch of skills right away too. The most important one is probably to go find a group of goblins(there's some in middle la noscea for example) and get Bomb Toss. You can do that literally at lvl 1. Now you have an aoe. Set your chocobo to healing(needed early on), pull a few mobs together, and spam bomb toss. 3bomb toss tend to clear all the mobs at this lvl. 3mobs is like half a level until 15+. Now you can repeat this process to cap, adding more aoes and options. Once you have white wind you can set the chocobo on damage instead to speed it up, using offguard to kill targets fasters, using Bad Breath for reduced damage+poison and Mind Blast for paralysis and replacing the spam spell with Plaincracker from golems keeping the bombs for the stun itself.

The class is perfectly able to level on its own without using the exploit.

I just don't see much point in skipping the leveling considering it's one of the best part of the class. The endgame is actually the worst other than the carnival. But I mean if you want to skip ahead sure whatever, just the class is perfectly able to solo its way to 50 on its own at a good pace(5-6hours if you do just that). It's like way way faster than leveling any other class and aoeing packs is kinda fun in its own right imo and few classes can do it otherwise(and it's just not worth it). It reminded me of solo questing on SCH back at release where I'd see other healers pick one mob at a time slow as fuck and complain about healer DPS meanwhile I'd just dot 5mobs together and kill them all together.

Primals grinding suck dicks however. And generally speaking, the class sucks at 50. It can do some cool stuff in some dungeons if the bosses are not immune to instadeath, but a lot are just immune and the class DPS is just bad compared to a standard 50 class. It also could use more synergystic skills so you don't end up mostly spamming one button. In the carnival you might switch due to element weaknesses/strength, but in normal content there's no reason to not be spamming Glower or Ram's Voice or whatever 130potency spell you prefer, and only use the other stuff situationally with Fire Angon/Sharpened Knife to weave in primal oGCDs/OffGuard/Magic debuff and Song of Torment for dot. I guess it's not a bad lineup of skills for a 50 class however compared to the rest, just feels weird that I only use like half my bars and the rest is there for carnival.

They have skills that do stuff when the target is affected by x, but they're either weak(Aqua Breath > High Voltage is still 130potency per hit and Aqua Breath needs the dot to run to do its full potency) or require status effect which don't work on bosses(Ram's Voice > Dragon's Voice require freeze to actually hit).

Overall a fun experience as side content, but the class itself feels wholly unfinished, and for a limited class, it's not nearly powerful enough to warrant all the limitations. It should be able to actually solo relevant 50 content, but it can barely do that decently and in some cases just can't do it at all(for 4man content that is, everything else isn't even close to soloable).

Honestly based on my anecdotical experience, I'd say there's no penalty, it's just pure RNG. I've taken 10+runs to learn dungeon stuff in full BLU groups, and 1-3runs to learn other stuff with a 70unsync. I've also learned all my primals shit unsynced obviously. And again, super RNG. Garuda was like 25runs, Shiva was 7runs(but then I ran 27runs for the other 4 guys and it never dropped for them), Titan was 51runs, Leviathan was 30ish runs, Ramuh was 12runs. I haven't done Ifrit yet I'm just waiting for them to fix normal mode dropping it and then I'll solo that.

Dungeons stuff for the most part was fast but a couple took a lot of runs. Glower took 21runs iirc? Missile took 20ish runs and so on, while others I was done in 2/2 parties in like 5runs total, so yeah RNG gonna RNG.

Honestly my biggest petpeeve with the class is basically, it's not worth the limited tag at all. There's only 3 things that I think would need balancing if the class was to remove the limited tag:

- Make sure every boss has instadeath immunity. Currently, some do, some don't, and obviously on the ones who don't, BLU is retarded. As in you do 200k damage on your first missile, at i130. Shit doesn't even generate threat so it's not like then you have to tank. And Doom obviously guarantees a fight will be 15secs at most(well after it lands but it seems to land fairly often tbh).
- Probably nerf White Wind and or put a Healing efficiency penalty on Mighty Guard(maybe potency reduction on the aoe part only, so it can be used for self healing but not group healing). White Wind is too potent of a skill on a DPS class in its current state, and is absurd for threat building with Mighty Guard, although due to the lack of tanking tools, that wouldn't be an issue on actual challenging content
- Buff fucking everything. The class is just not good enough atm so if it was to be a normal job, it'd need a ton of buffs. More potency on shit, less reliance on primal skills for damage, add some combo system, even as a trait for BLU(Every skill you use grants a small bonus of damage to every other element for 15secs, stackable, so you're incited to use various skills in a row instead of spamming just one for example, simple and easy system). Probably also limit Mighty Guard and possibly White Wind to PF/solo, you don't want a fucker using these in a tank/heal/2DPS queue, it's way way worse than using Titan-egi on SMN which is already pretty bad.

But honestly, in the state of things, the class is hardly gamebreaking and these changes would be minor enough. They just need to make instadeath immunity tag on mobs default to on, otherwie they'll forget some savage boss down the line and the world first will be a BLU tailscrewing it for 999.999.999 on pull and leading to a 1sec time, tweak White Wind/Mighty Guard which only serve a purpose for BLU groups but not so much in normal parties and would create imbalances, and then tweak damage numbers up. Since the potency are similar on all skills tbh it wouldn't be too hard to model.

Onoes said:

Well fuck, friends just talked a few of us into joining up, I'm currently downloading the client, but apparently they are on Gilgamesh. One friend is at char creation and its full, some googling makes it sound like the only real option is starting on another server and paying to transfer over... or you just get lucky. >_< Not off to a great start! haha

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If you try again during the day or whatever, it'll generally go in. They have char creation restrictions based on server pop updated every few hours, so at prime time generally a lot of servers are blocked. Otherwise as mentionned you could make a char on any server on the same datacenter and play cross server dungeons/stuff, using a cross server linkshell to communicate ingame(or just discord). Then in april or so use the free server transfer to get on the same servers. Could also benefit from making a char on a preferred server using this system, to get the Road to 60 xp buff.