Competitive WoW Player discovers the world of RNG from JoCat's FFXIV Ranged DPS guide

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BRD main here. You need party buffs? You need heal buff? You need party-wide dmg mit? You need ESUNA? We got you.

dancer main here. people call it RNG-based but my overall damage has never really wavered. there aren’t too many buttons to hit but the random light-ups keep my brain awake. i love it

You don't even need to stand still to cast your abilities, it's pretty chill. At least until you get assigned to interact with boss mechanics because you have the most free time.

When you get around to trying Dancer, I implore you to not think of it as a bunch of RNG- Instead, Try to think of it as an interpretive dance, ever changing and flowing to and fro as the whims hit. It makes a big difference in the mentality of how you play it and how you perceive the many procs.

As a machinist main, you're the one most likely to give the melee dps a run for their money when it comes to staying on top of the enmity list

There was one point in an Endwalker dungeon where the DPS on my machinist caused me to literally rip the aggro from the mobs I attacked even though the tank had their stance on. I'll never forget how good that felt lol

Dancer is insanely fun if you are on the fence about trying it out.

If you do end up liking Reaper, I would definitely consider giving machinist a shot. Barring the possibility for big reworks in dawntrail, machinist really does play a lot of a ranged reaper. They both have rotations about building up resources and spending them to enter speedy phases where you attack fast and weave abilities between them on top of it.

The Reverse-Asmon: Two hour plus react skimmed to 10 mins

BRD main here. I'm at the back playing Baby Shark on my harp.

the dnc experience is screaming "PLEASE GIVE ME FEATHERS" into the uncaring void at 3am.

Machinist is the most brain dead of the three and I love it, brain dead easy and does the most dps of the three

There's something about playing dancer that just feels really good. Got a good vibe to it.

The one thing I absolutely love about range is that each one is vastly different from each other in theme, story and style; be it appearance, play and utility. More so when ya Duty Finder and if ya happen to be MCH and DNC pops in for the other DPS... cough Yeah... Queen is a sexy beast. Pair up with a DNC for Partner to turn your Queen in to a literal Sexy Thicc Terminator with Robocop devastation each CD cycle.

Brd= Healer's Assistant, DNC=I suck at DPS but here SAM I can make you even better (I kid I've seen some insane DPS from good DNCs), MCH= Dopamine addict living for their next hit in 20 sec from Drill (Also added TF2 crit sound mods so Reassemble + Chainsaw becomes an even higher dopamine shot from all the crit sounds in a mob pull) and secretly more depressed then the Dark Knight. Can you guess my main?

DNC is fun despite the RNG~ Also regarding healing: SGE can be kinda rough to learn since it slaps you with a bunch of skills already at level 70, so I suggest trying other healer job if ever. But once you get the hang of SGE it becomes one of the easiest to use healer roles imo

At the risk of just whining, I'll put my opinion out there that the ranged tax as currently designed is a tad too strong for the logical reason it exists. In high end content where this balance is intended to actually matter, melee and casters can often mostly mitigate downtime to be nonexistent or to have minimal impact. Losing 1-2 GCDs in melee over a fight is probably not anywhere near as bad as just being 10-15% less effective overall. But that said, JoCat isn't wrong that the penalty isn't so bad as to justify not playing them entirely. You just probably won't be stacking multiple phys ranged in one 8 man static.

So fun fact, MCH is basically the phys ranged version of MNK/SMN where square has kept rebuilding them. I started back in stormblood and comparing that MCH to Shadowbringers/Endwalker MCH is like night and day (not to mention what ive heard about Heavensward MCH). First off, back then if you had bad ping....don't bother, the class was basically unplayable. There used to be so much you had to manage. Nowadays, your heated mode is triggered by the hypercharge skill....however back in the day, it just happened whether you wanted it or not. So if you accidentally screwed up your rotation, or even if you lagged a bit, you could end up in your burst window....with no burst. Next, instead of the battery meter for queen, we had bullets. You could only hold 3 and they were pivotal to do like...anything. increased your potency, higher proc chances, and heat management. However the only way to reload was through either "quick reload" that would give you 1 bullet every 15s...or "reload" that filled 3 every 30s....god I despised this system. Lastly there was Gauss Barrel, it was a weird floaty thing that went on the tip of your gun. Messed with glam, basically required to put on at the start of anything and you never turn it off, also I swear it had a hidden internal timer as I swear it would just turn itself off randomly. I can't speak on HW MCH as I wasn't playing back then, however I heard it had cast times like a mage. Overall, god I'm glad they changed MCH in SHB because so many people (myself included) did not like MCH, and it was one of the more unpopular classes.

Ya, we have it easy. Some days, I just feel like playing on girlfriend mode, and playing dancer. Where the 2 hardest mechanics are deciding who's going to actually dps well, and mid battle partner swap should your dance partner start making out with the floor. Otherwise, it's just press the shiny button that lights up, and give zero fucks about mobility or range limit restrictions.