And as much as you might think you won’t need Verraise after you’ve cleared a fight a couple times, let’s be honest: there’s always going to be times where something goes wrong and you’ll be glad there’s a Red Mage around to resurrect one or both of the healers. Red Mage brings a simple and almost rhythmic rotation to the table that doesn’t get interrupted easily by a sudden death like with the other caster classes, and its Embolden ability has useful damage-up synergy in any endgame party composition. While FFXIV’s player base still largely prefers to use Red Mage in this way – having a Red Mage in the party while learning and progressing through a fight, and then switching to a different DPS class when its utility and synergy is no longer needed – that doesn’t mean that this class is weak on DPS by any means. Once upon a time, Red Mage was viewed as a relatively weaker DPS class that was better utilized for its party synergy while raiding – specifically, its ability to resurrect two fallen members of a party in quick succession thanks to its native Dualcast trait, when combined with the role ability Swiftcast. At the end of the day, though, who doesn’t love summoning a giant red frog that spits a fireball at your enemies? Ninja brings all that to the table, and more. And like Samurai, Ninja doesn’t really offer any party synergy outside of the role abilities available to it as a melee DPS. The ability Ten Chi Jin – necessary for higher-end gameplay and for putting out that aforementioned high DPS – remains one of the clunkiest abilities in the entire game, and can take a while to get used to using efficiently. Ninja is a very busy class, however: you’ll constantly be hitting a lot of buttons for that high DPS with only the briefest of times to rest during a tough fight. Owing to stiff movement since the days of the Heavensward expansion, Black Mage is often regarded as an uncompromising class. It can be a challenging class to play well because of its “turret” style of gameplay: when you’re in the midst of dealing your most damaging attacks, there’s a better-than-average likelihood that you’ll be stuck in one spot and open to attacks that more easily avoided by other DPS classes. #3: Black Mage (BLM)īlack Mage puts out high DPS numbers, but like Samurai, it doesn’t really contribute to the rest of the party. Samurai has no synergy to offer a team in return other than the damage it deals, however, so if you choose to play this class, be prepared to bring that heat. The difference between a good Samurai and a great one, then, is knowing when to use your biggest attacks at the best possible times for maximum damage, according to the synergy provided by your teammates. There’s more nuance to that, of course, but big damage for far less work relative to other DPS classes is Samurai’s hallmark in FFXIV’s player community by this point. In sharp contrast to Summoner’s complexity, Samurai almost seems too simple: charge your Sen Gauge with three short and simple combo attacks, hit an enemy with Midare Setsugekka, rinse, repeat. So even if you want to do big numbers, you’ll be best at the class you like to play, and you’ll likely do higher numbers as that class than trying to understand and execute a rotation of a different DPS class that you don’t like nearly as much. That means that not only do your own attacks matter, but so do your skills and abilities that help others do their best, too.įinally, keep in mind that every raid tier in FFXIV is designed to be clearable by any combination of DPS classes. Your individual DPS for a fight might be fine and good in such cases, but when a party’s synergy is on point, not only will your own individual DPS be even better, but so will the rDPS of the entire party. If your static’s Astrologian gives the wrong person a damage-up card buff, or if your Dragoon gives you the Dragon Sight tether while you’re handling a mechanic and able to use your best and strongest attacks, then your theoretical rDPS doesn’t matter. In order for a party’s rDPS to matter, you need synergy with your team. Individual DPS is important, but the rDPS (or “raid DPS”) of a whole party is more important.
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