Playing All Roles Leads to Victory

[@javabird4168]

I pay too much money for this game to not play every job lol

[@Spyno41]

Lol. Same. I mainly Tank, but I'm trying to max out every class cause it's genuinely fun and want to see the story of each job.

[@andy4an]

there is opportunity cost to playing roles you like substantially less than the others though. it makes sense if you enjoy them all roughly equally and have the time to do so. but there is a pretty big gulf between my enjoyment of tanking and my enjoyment of DPS/Healer.

[@bophadesknutz7798]

​@@andy4an Thats fair. I just leveled all of them to see which ones I know I dont like and WHY. Fortunately for me the only Jobs I got to 80 that I dont like playing for raiding, for now, are SAM/BLM,

[@jamieanderson8308]

This! 100% 😂😂

[@filipevasconcelos4409]

I love tanking, so i got all my tanks to 50+ on my free trial. I'm also leveling the classes that i see the WoL using on trailers, so i have dragoon 60 and i'm now leveling Monk. After that, i'm gonna slowly work towarda leveling all the classes

[@queseraphita]

my gameplay and gamesense changed drastically once i started leveling other classes like tank and healer when I spent most of msq as a summoner, things like, recognizing mechanics in new content I haven't done before, repositioning or prepping for things as I pay attention to the cast bar or my teammates party buffs and health, I was terrified of healing and now I find myself wanting to do extremes and savage content for fun once you get into a learning mindset. Although I now find myself more frustrated watching tanks when I heal because they don't rotate their mitigations or use it at all when they pull

[@lunausagi8495]

I'd even argue there's merit in playing all 3 dps "roles" Range DPS lets you have a very lax time and can instead direct your focus to learning the fight Melee DPS is all about maintaining uptime so it's a step more difficult And casters need to both know the fight and how to stay relatively close to the boss for heals and buffs so playing the other roles really give you the feel of how to do both of them effectively

[@Cherryblossoms110]

"Range DPS lets you have a very lax time and can instead direct your focus to learning the fight" Uhm... maybe if you're playing Dancer. Optimized Bard and Machinist were so chaotic that I couldn't pay attention to anything until I got used to their rotations. ESPECIALLY bard.

[@thegrandpotato217]

I leveled arcanist as my first alt job with the intention of playing summoner. I tried out scholar and barely touched summoner until level 50, and even then i still mostly play scholar. Honestly healing is so much easier than it looks from the outside, and so much more fun than it initially seems.

[@pantherman8719]

Healing is fun.

[@Reynsoon]

"Let me get this straight, you think that healing is fun?" "I do, and I'm tired of pretending it's not." Seriously though, nothing is better than dragging people kicking and screaming with thicc heals while slapping Regen or Whispering Dawn on someone who ate an AoE, or rescuing someone and getting thanked.

[@whatisit9688]

healing is fun until its optimized then you're just pressing a single dps button and refreshing a dot with occassional weaving oGcd. unless you're ast which is way more engaging

[@Theaggyyu]

Oh gosh, one of my happiest early memories of this game was learning to heal after just playing r anged DPS all the way to the end of the latest patch (3.4 at the time). It gave me so much perspective on what healers go through, why it was important for me to stay close to the party, what a healer has to deal with if someone gets hit... And not only that, but having to multitask the way healers do taught me to actually be aware of what the other party members are doing. It stopped me from tunnel visioning! So heck yeah, play all the roles!!

[@kaidaw6546]

I graduated from Sprout a couple months ago and one of the main things drilled into me by my Veteran friends since day one was YES you can be a bad DPS. Of course it made more sense the more I played but I'm glad I was taught things like that early on. Like even if I didn't get it at the time I kept their suggestions in mind (keep dots up, avoid DMG/do not rely on the healer healing specifically you, etc) so I formed decent habits before things clicked for me later on.

[@sadmezcalita]

the biggest thing that helped me get over my fear of healing is just doing it. ask people near the end of dungeons if you're doing alright. if they say no, ask them what's up. if they say yes, move forward with the knowledge that you're doing a good job. another tip is, while levelling, to run dungeons multiple times until you feel comfortable with the mechanics. especially run the more difficult ones (aurum vale, thousand maws) to temper your healing ability. to any fearful would-be healers reading this, just go for it- you got this!

[@Altearithe]

You're 100% correct. I'm one of those who never thought they would tank at all due to anxiety (I mained SCH for all expansions). I ended up doing what you pointed out: you can start at level 1 and learn slowly. My PLD, WAR, and DRK are now around 44, and my GNB is 72. I may not be the best tank, but man am I having fun learning how to. Learning ninja and monk also helped me understand how to tank well so those jobs can do their positionals.

[@felitrieste77]

I recently started playing tank after a life of dps. The majority of time i have no idea of what im doing but its pretty funking fun. (and my god so many comms)

[@lorafrost9628]

This is so me, too lol

[@RegyRusty]

Very good and important video. I don't particularly enjoy healing, but I'm absolutely glad I learned how to do it. Understanding the perspective has made me a better tank as I get an idea of what tools the healers have to keep me alive, and how best I can help out with that.

[@PMK94]

Back when I was maining MCH, I learned the "ranged DPS need to stay near healers" thing when a healer Rescued me over to them out of nowhere. It had never even occurred to me before that I should worry about my positioning beyond avoiding mechanics, but with that one Rescue it suddenly clicked. Now as a healer, it's just painful when the party decides to spread out for no good reason instead of staying nearby

[@Taoscuro3003]

One thing I did after I discovered your channel, it was to watch all the job guides. I think the more I know, the best for me as a Scholar to do my job better with all that knowledge. And I am also playing as Gunbreaker, Dark Knlight, Summoner and Machinist, even though my main is the Scholar. I love the capacity in this game to be so plural on the jobs.

[@Brawneteer]

I was doing this pretty much from the get go. I started with Thaumaturge, and got that up to 36 or so, unlocking Black Mage at 30, and then proceeded to level up Conjurer and Gladiator to nearly the same point, unlocking White Mage and Paladin along the way. Even though I main DPS with Black Mage, every single Trial and Raid I've done thus far has been as either a Healer, or a Tank. My Black Mage is lvl 54, White Mage is 54, and I have Gunbreaker at 61 now. Knowing everything that all roles are focused on helps to make sure you're making everyone's life easier, which in turn makes your life easier.

[@fairfarren38]

Wow, what a well-timed video. I just picked up tanking the other day and am about to pick up healing. Both roles scare me to death. I was thinking of giving up and just going back to what I know, but you've convinced me to keep at it.

[@andy4an]

i think there's a massive difference between "played ____ enough to understand how it works" "enjoys playing ____, volunteers, and doesn't have to be goaded into doing it" if you'd asked "how many roles have you played enough to understand the basics of how they work?" i would have answered "3" instead of "2', as I very much agree that even just dipping your toe in is super valuable. But realistically, I have not play tank in any meaningful way since proving to myself that i understood it well enough to feel confident that i enjoy it substantially less.

[@LegendOfRoGamers]

I picked up Astrologian in the Moogle Event and it helped me get through the anxiety of being a healer mostly because the tanks were making big pulls and making me adapt and test my limits and made me realize some limits. Now my struggle is to not be greedy in trying to sneak a dps spell too much before needing to heal. I also love your guides as they're very simple, explicit and to the point with how you explain the progression from 1 to 80. Keep up the good work. When I want to try a class, I watch your guide to see how the job would play. Now I'm gonna try Monk

[@darlin9153]

Healer main here. I love this advice! Playing around with other classes while still enjoying mine has helped me understand myself as well. It seems as if no matter what I do, I will *always* have tanking anxiety. I don't think I will be able to do it! I will instead stay in my bubble since I genuinely do enjoy being the healer of the group.

[@kennethchan9861]

Oh gosh, another healer with tank anxiety!

[@jung5328]

I’m the opposite, I have healing anxiety. I can do 4 man comfortably, but not 8 man contents. I’ve been trying to practice though :(

[@darlin9153]

@@jung5328 I understand! 8 man content can get a little difficult if the other healer is on DPS mode (unless you are the only healer in Bozja/Zadnor). I would say enjoy yourself, keep learning if you really want to. Most of the time people are chill with mistakes. You may encounter a few trolls/a******* (just a few). *Don't let thier comments bother you.*

[@jung5328]

@@darlin9153 fortunately I haven’t met any trolls. I will keep trying for sure! It’s super fun and I queue trials as healer when I’m feeling brave lol. Hopefully I can get as comfortable healing as I have with tanking.

[@drakelx]

I’m technically a healer main, and have slight tanking anxiety too. I think it stems from the fact that I don’t always know when I should be doing what as a tank during a boss fight, especially since I’ve ran most content once while progressing MSQ. I’m ok with running a specific dungeon after recapping on the boss mechanics. But doing roulette as a tank scares me cos I’m afraid of not knowing which attack is the tank buster/X mechanic, especially since I know that there’ll be people blindly following me as I do when playing non-tank roles.

[@GaeFootballClub]

i come from a background of high end WoW raiding, so the idea of playing 1 role is pretty common. yeah people multi class, but it’s mostly “yeah i play melee” “yeah i play a wizard” “yeah i tank” “yeah i heal”. if anyone ever completely swaps roles, it’s out of necessity like there being literally no good tanks to recruit. i haven’t touched any high end raiding content in FFXIV but with how the job system works, it seems very very easy to swap so long as you have time and patience.

[@biabarr92]

Gosh do I want to scream this to my fc sometimes. I'm the only one there who is leveling all the jobs and I do feel every job taught me at least a little bit about the overall game (eg don't double click/spam click with ninja, when can I start moving without interrupting my cast in blm, just the fact that I AM capable of keeping track of my positioning+the map+the rest of the team with white mage, ect). Every job and every role has something unique that can best be learned by actually taking up at job and making small mistakes and learning from from them.

[@loudinternalscreaming4543]

I used to only exclusively play Healers, after maxing Gunbreaker I no longer bitch about when tanks never do wall to wall in a dungeon. And when I play a tank, I usually don’t blame the healer when I die in a massive wall to wall Playing different roles brings a big level of perspective

[@Antiyoukai]

But wall pulls are exciting as a healer. ❤️

[@loudinternalscreaming4543]

@@Antiyoukai oh yeah like I said when I’m playing healer I always want the tank to wall pull. There’s always this one spot in The Twinning I fuck it up though, the trash pull section before the 2nd boss. That wall to wall scars me for life

[@Antiyoukai]

@@loudinternalscreaming4543 It's easy if you're a WHM. Other healers, not so much.

[@loudinternalscreaming4543]

@@Antiyoukai I’m a Scholar main so when super hard sections come up I usually bring out Seraph and try to load the tank with regens

[@kfk4441]

This is the one game when I feel pride of playing healer/support. Most games I do supporting with buffs of cover (here with bard and Gunbreaker), I usually don't like just healing because it feels like a thankless job, you have to keep everybody alive but if that fails, whatever the reason, you'll get a bad look, it doesn't matter the cause. I main white mage here, when I duo heal i do the bursty heal and my partner my support, she helps me to cover my shortcomings or healing as well when I'm busy elsewhere, I feel like my heals matter and well.. It's well known how manu commendations we get as healers because healer. Yeah it's common here, that feels sweet to me, in other games I feel as a background character as a Healer. Here... I have my spotlight sometimes, LB3, wall to wall... I feel so important in any rol in wall to wall pulls, as tank I pray my healer knows what to do, as healer I feel as a hackerman or a demigod if I'm on Whm (HOLY +Assylum takes care bois) and as a dps... I feel like the others need me, they can't endure forever and they did this to give me the chance to make the biggest damage posible, a great favor guys that's my one job as dps, I feel fully useful no matter what I go. That's why I agree so much on every role is equally important, it's beautiful

[@TheEventide]

Since your poll finished, I have transitioned to playing Dark Knight, thus playing all three roles. Without your poll and guide videos, and sadly the death of Kentarou Miura, I would still be playing Healer/DPS strictly.

[@NabsterHax]

When my partner started playing, I levelled WHM with her for fast dungeon queues. She occasionally stayed in AOEs as a Ninja because "it doesn't kill me and I have shade-shift/bloodbath so you don't even need to heal me." Then she tried playing healer herself and was initially extremely nervous about it. She was NOT happy when I deliberately stood in an AOE and parroted her own words back to her. Learnt her lesson though, hehe. She's since levelled all jobs to 80 and is a very good player. It's still fun to occasionally remind her of those days though.

[@greshick]

Old healer main, now tank main. I leveled war for the sole goal of understanding how tanks worked from the other side as wesk mentioned. I ended up finding, like he mentioned at the end, that I like it better than healing. I actually switched to tank in my static as we were looking for one. Easier to find a dps than a tank healer. We had someone who wanted to heal over dps so it worked out.

[@Saieden]

I found this in ESO myself. I played dps exclusively for a long time, then when I started healing there was so much that helped with keeping up buffs and parse healing, as well as contributing to damage which is not innate to the role as it is with healing ff14. That in turn helped me be more aware of where I should be as dps to stay in all the buffs, and when I later started tanking, the learning curve was much smoother because I knew what I would want the pulls to look like in easier fights, and of course keeping up taunts and buffs/debuffs.

[@immortalcbox8769]

I’ve started playing white mage recently. Man is it stressful keeping people alive that don’t care about AOEs. I’ve definitely gained perspective going from Samurai to PLD/DRK to now white mage. Should add I started originally as a BLM and boy learning mechanics when you lose a lot of dps by moving is a pain.

[@DominoPivot]

Words to live by. My first classes were Archer and Rogue, yet I only learned how to play them efficiently when I tried Tanking and saw strangers play them. Both actually stayed on my toes doing AoEs while I was pulling, and the Archer even stood in the middle of boss arenas in order to deal with adds from a distance while the Rogue played bodyguard for the healer. I thought my job as an Archer was to stay far from the danger puddles, but I realized then that no, it was the Tank's job to make sure the puddles were not pointed our way. My job as the Archer was to prevent unnecessary movement so that everyone else had an easier time. When you have a proactive Archer, the Tank doesn't have to deal with adds, which in turn makes the Rogue happy as they can keep backstabbing the boss. This in turn made me a more proactive healer, as I made sure to stay in front where I could apply DoTs as soon as the Tank got a hit in, which was ok because it didn't generate much enmity compared to eager healing. Which in turn made me want to use my mitigation more effectively as a Tank to allow the healer to deal more damage. Which in turn made me want to better support the Tank as a DPS...

[@ArchieGamez]

Playing most roles are pretty intetesting, you can learn new things especially coming back to your favourite role like example pulling big mobs into NIN's Doton or healer bubble and when to time raidwide damage buffs with DRG and such

[@pietje54]

You need way more subscribers, your guides and wisdom are the best!

[@Castersvarog]

Back when I first started playing this game a few months ago as an Arcanist I think I spent a pretty decent amount of my time looking at my hotbar keeping an eye on my cool downs and dots. But after completing 2.0 I decided to spread my roots a little and try out the other jobs and roles I can say, I’ve improved by quite a bit. For example, with Healer I’ve basically spent like 80% of my time looking up at the fight and my teammates health and that habit has managed to seep into my other jobs. Plus, trying out the other roles has been pretty fun, I might prefer playing as a Dragoon, which is now one of my main jobs, or summoner but it’s a rush when the tank pulls big and you’re trying to keep them alive as a healer, And I’ve noticed so much more about my teammates during fights.

[@krise99391]

Since i voted in that poll i've picked up White Mage, and since i now play all three roles to some extent i've found that while i understand much more about the healing role, i've also learned how i can tank(i main Paladin) more efficiently. In a way that i never would have learned otherwise, since most healers won't really be picking on the little things in df content. So i can say that i fully agree with pretty much everything you said in this video. I also found out that i actually like healing even though It has never appealed to me at all before i picked up White Mage on a whim. Funnily enough, before picking up FFXIV i never thought i would ever even think about approaching tanking or healing, but now i play each of them more than i play DPS. And honestly, you're probably the only reason i ever dared venture past Paladin. I probably wouldn't even be playing at this point if it weren't for your 1-80 guides.

[@EDHCoffee]

This is so true. I spent 15 years playing melee dps in WoW. Came over to FF in May and now i'm 6 levels from finishing AST and getting my Amaro. I've learned so much about the other roles and now enjoy tanking and even like healing a (tiny) bit.

[@stefaninisimoes2206]

I only play healer role. I'm super excited about the launch of Sage class. Scholar (x), White Mage (x), Astro (x), Sage ( )

[@wollyram6248]

Trying different Jobs is fun in its own right, if you are mechanically inclined, getting to grips with the different rotations is interesting and enjoyable onto itself.

[@Dyvinell]

ive definitely always had this mindset about not even just FFXIV, but other mmos with the same tank healer dps archetype, and have always recommended any of my friends at least try some of the other roles for the exact reasons you mentioned here. as someone who has leveled every job to max, i can absolutely confirm that having played other jobs in different roles, and even different jobs from the same roles, gave me a lot more situational awareness and combat knowledge to understand all of what is happening from different points of view. i wouldnt be nearly as good at the game if i had only stuck to one thing, and i definitely would not have known the potential other jobs could have, or what they bring to the table in a party. one thing you said that i especially agree with was your comments about dps being responsible to kill things faster too. little do a surprising amount of people know, but greed is the best mitigation. when dps, and even tanks and healers, learn to properly greed for dps on fights, while still properly avoiding mechanics and staying alive, they output vastly more dps than someone that plays it safe. more dps from them means enemies die faster. enemies dying faster means less damage outputted on the tank or even the party as a whole with raidwides, stack markers, etc. less damage outputted means less struggle for healer. thus greed is, in fact, the best mitigation. sure playing it safe is good if youre progging a new fight, and still learning mechs, but once you know the fight better, you have absolutely no excuse to not be greeding until you die over and over and learn what your limits are on each fight. also, greed being the best mitigation is why holy on whm is such a stupidly useful tool in trash pulls. not only are you greeding with dps, your dps literally mitigates by stunning enemies, in other words it is the same as using two mitigations at the same time. its genuinely surprising just how many whm's i have seen at max level still not using holy spam at the beginning of a trash pull. as a whm that should 100% without a doubt be one of your first things to do. anyway, to end this rant, and for anyone still reading this, listen closely to wesk's words here because they can apply to not only just this game but any game with this same archetype. its videos like these why i continue watching wesk's content, because he very much knows what he is talking about and is truly helpful.

[@Greyknight1575]

Me playing white mage before i started tanking allowed me to recognize that the big blue shining dome is a whm's are of effect heal. Thus when i tank i know to look out for that and stand inside the circle, this also made me look up what other beneficial party ground aoe's were so i would know when tanking if i should stand in them or have the mobs stand in them. Playing another job or role even in passing does so much to help you understand what party members are doing and what you can do to maximize synergy.

[@myjunghoseok6652]

yea i always dpsed because i was too scared to tank or heal but my friends eased me into other roles. now im more flexible and i can help them with any content :D and its fun!

[@outofideas7]

10:39 this is always such an interesting thought pattern for me, though I tend to think of it in reverse. I try to brainstorm what I Think I’d enjoy with like “oh bard has 2 dots and cool utility I’d love it” and then end up enjoying the feeling of dancer more and feeling I betrayed my thought processes somehow. I’ve done this for so many different games, it’s honestly weird. Im trying to work on just doing what I find fun, not trying to justify reasons I think a certain class would be fine, but just what feels most satisfying to press. That said, my bard is still 60 so i might just be super biased toward dancer right now and bard will become amazing, idk yet lol

[@ChazEevee]

I can relate with what you said at the end. I had lots of tank anxiety before even trying tank and while doing it for the first time. After having a lot of bad experiences playing with some tanks I started to take on the role and I felt comfortable with being the defense/enemy focus while protecting the party. It’s been really cool. Also I totally don’t get “Chad Energy” when fighting a gigantic boss in Alliance Raids!

[@Sticklesticks]

From my realization if you want to be the best on whatever role or even job. Its to learn the other roles - you hit it on the nail when you go on about why the tank is moving the boss that way, healers learning range dps for positional AoE heals. There’s so many examples but in the end if you want to get better learn other jobs/roles!

[@SinHurr]

Man, I was just sitting here contemplating changing my actual real life job, and, man. Topical! On topic: Tanking is the role that's hardest for me to get into. I really like Gunbreaker for example, but I'm not super comfortable with the balls to the walls pull everything style that seems to be the style, but I don't want to be the slowest cog in the run and cost other people their time.

[@chadikhr7258]

weskalber all 3 My controller: no

[@danielhayden8674]

Very good guide but I think there is a slight caveat in saying the earlier dungeons are 'easier'. I've been in a few Haukke Manor etc runs where the tank has tried to wall-to-wall as much as possible, but in these instances there are very few tank cooldowns, healers only have one heal they can spam with no oh shit buttons, aoe dps skills are limited and quite often people at this point might have a weird hodgepodge of underlevelled gear. It's a perfect cocktail for wipes. You're right though, if people have played all the roles at that point, they'd be more aware of the limitations.

[@WeskAlber]

Earlier dungeons are easier and the wall-to-walls are possible. But also the lack of AoE is on the tank, not the dungeon.

[@DanielSantosAnalysis]

For awhile I only played DPS and Tank, but recently I finally started playing as a White Mage and it has absolutely been enlightening.

[@zachsroomYT]

I think one of the reasons why people think tanks and healers are so important is because in a regular dungeon there’s only 1 tank and 1 healer while there’re 2 dps. So if either the tank or the healer dies during a boss or a large pull, the rest of the party will most likely share the same fate.

[@grandruby5343]

I like beating the shit out of things, so I went with monk as my first job, and it will always be my main. Then I was gifted a level skip and picked the white Knight PLD. After learning the basics of tanking( and learning what tank anxiety is) it’s my favorite tank job And then I decided to become a bar tending WHM(if you’re in Hyperion, you’ll probably find me somewhere) So playing all the jobs just gives you different perspectives and can make the game even more fun than it already is!

[@orilurks3531]

Damn you're the second person to post an encouraging video right after I decided to stop trying to play healer because of anxiety and toxic players, and thinking that I'm not good enough as a result. I'm still afraid but I don't want to give up entirely now.

[@WeskAlber]

Take it slow! low level content then work your way up!

[@LadyBGames]

Honestly you'll run into assholes anywhere on the internet but that doesn't mean you're not a good player either. Some people are just rude to be rude while others are having a bad day and snap unintentionally. Pay no mind to random people who have a bad opinion of you because ultimately, they're there till the dungeon ends and then odds are you'll never see them again. My advice for getting better with heals is to literally start from Satasha, slap all the skills up to 15 on your bar and run it till you're comfy. After that, just progress through dungeons at your own pace and add skills as you go. It realllyyyyyy makes it a whole lot easier and will also help shake your healing anxiety a bit since you'll be starting small and odds are will run into a ton of new players too which makes learning any new class easier imo. XD Good luck on your healing endeavors!

[@orilurks3531]

Thank you very much! I'm now back on track with my scholar in particular. The impressive amount of tools given at higher levels helps so much. Sometimes when I know the dungeon/raid, I turn off the chat to avoid toxicity as much as I can. It makes everything more impersonal which can be relaxing.

[@roliellemaranan8123]

I started DPS now I’m a tank main currently leveling healers now. I feel like my knowledge of the game has increased ten fold now playing all roles

[@bardvt4492]

This is actually very good advice and something im going to take into practice as of now i raid on phys ranged and plan to raid on healers and all dps categories. I never thought id be playing a healer or melee for that matter but when trying to heal a bit and play caster DPS i realize its pretty similar in how i have to pre-plan rather than just sit back all fight as phy ranged. the more i play/ learn new classes the better i feel im getting as a player since im actively looking out for things

[@MacMc691]

I only started playing this game just over a month ago, but I've been playing MMO's for over fifteen years, and everything that is being mentioned is MMO 101 regarding PVE. People should play all classes to gather a better understanding of the trinity and what each role entails and certainly to gain a different perspective of any, and all encounters. Although, it appears this game isn't huge on PvP, but everything Wesk is mentioning also applies to that area as well, whether it's this game or other MMO's, but knowing how each class or foe functions can sometimes turn the tide in a PvP match. By knowing mechanics of all, or most classes, people would be surprised how much better, and how much more they will accomplish by not having tunnel vision. That's not to put pressure on people to play other roles if it doesn't interest them, but give it a shot, you might actually enjoy it. For new tanks, if you're unsure about an upcoming boss in a dungeon or a raid, do a quick read through before zoning in. The more you're prepared, the better you will do.

[@BaskerRubbnits]

I started playing FFXIV as a tank, periodically taking up the dps role when a friend wanted to do tanking. After hundreds of hours I finally ended up picking up healing, and having a decent amount of fun doing it. Having played all archetypes, I ended up learning to see certain tells, noticing if a tank wanted to keep pulling as a healer, or if a healer felt uncomfortable with the size of the pulls as a tank or dps. It's easier to adapt to any given situation if you know more variables, and if you walk a little in each roles shoes you'll have an easier time picking up information, which you can then use to try to keep the situation from falling apart.

[@MGlBlaze]

I tend to gravitate towards Tank and Healer. Part of it is that I like being able to more directly help the team outside of simply dealing damage (namely, keeping everyone else alive either by heals or by keeping enemy attention on myself) and partly because everyone else playing DPS almost all the time makes DPS queues long and Healer/Tank queues short. I do play some DPS, though. Mostly red mage, because I enjoy the crossover of melee and magic, and I still like having the added utility of being able to heal if things get really bad. And red mage Verraise can be extremely powerful. I am also trying to break out of the bad habit of not using Embolden enough. I also like the "gotta catch 'em all" aspect of Blue Mage as well, but Blue Mage is a limited job in XIV, sadly. I intend to eventually get EVERY class to the level cap, though. So I'll be playing everything sooner or later.

[@kircheis710]

I agree. Learning all roles really expand my view on how the fight proceed and seeing my mistakes. I still think healing is harder to learn because I have to balance between healing and damaging. Usually I play a new instance with DPS/tank and try it with healer after I have confidence on handling the instance.

[@Gunplabro]

I usually don't do any damage as healer until I see what the tank can do. When the dungeon starts I tell the tank he is free to pull as much mobs as he dares. We wipe we wipe. At least we know our limits.

[@delprimero0171]

It's been several months since I first watched this, but I finally have a tank, healer, and dps at 90! Thanks Wesk for convincing me.. I am definitely a better player now. Not to mention I changed mains from Dancer to Dark Knight!

[@Cassapphic]

I think I answered 2? I play all 3 roles, but I am by far much less confident in my healing abilities than tanking or dps. I’m generally most comfortable on tank but I main dancer for savage as its a more forgiving role, I have flexed tank occasionally when my static needed one so I have tanked savage a bit and it isn’t as terrifying as first seeing. But in the context of casual content, just natural practice and knowing what your abilities do should be enough for most players to quickly become at least decent at the role. (Edit: It may be from playing it in savage and trying to help with healer checks and optimise healing to help healers dps, but dancer has helped get more of the same learning as healers when applied to phys ranged, aoe procs and dances have more limited range so you learn to stay close to the group, and the small range of healing waltz further emphasises this. It doesn’t matter enough in casual content though so again it may be me applying high end experiences into bad the wrong context)

[@TheBudkai]

Yes exactly this. My "main" is pal / nin / blm / whm. I just level the dps classes during the msq.

[@oscarvillacorta6406]

Reminds me of my journey. I only played DPS jobs because it was what I was comfortable with. I never thought I would try or like healer. Especially Scholar. Shield healing was so daunting for me. I now main Scholar as my primary healing job.

[@Lynmaru_]

I don't really enjoy healing anymore but playing the role so much has made tanking so much more fun and easy. Knowledge sure is power.

[@VinWeasel113]

I've been a healer my whole life, since playing WoW from 2006-2014, and giving FFXIV a proper try this year. I'm enjoying the way healers work in FFXIV, doing damage between healing and even getting in as close as the tank to do AoE damage in large pack mobs. I noticed the "adventurer in need" in the roulettes was tank a lot of the time, but I have bad tank anxiety, so I never wanted to try; I worry so much about keeping aggro/emity on everything, knowing boss mechanics, and even leading the party though the dungeon; I don't pay attention where I'm going as a healer, I just follow the group and haven't really learned the layout of dungeons. As experienced as a healer as I am, I would have a lot of fun when the tank does big pulls and I'm actually challenged to heal, but I would also feel pretty miffed when the tank was timid and progressed though the dungeon at a snails pace doing small pulls. A few times in the leveling roulette, I would get a tank so bad that they would not use their whole kit maintain emity, not have their emity generator on even when we tell them multiple times to turn it on, and not even pulling mobs off of allys who are clearly being attacked and calling out for help; these tanks would never speak either, and any amount of advice we gave seemingly went unheard. At this point, I thought "screw it, apparently the bar for good tanking is extremely low, as long as I maintain emity I'm good", and I tried tanking. It was nerve racking at first, but I started to have fun controlling the pace of the dungeon, just rushing though with a huge pull is a blast, and I learned so much! Not only did I learn how to tank better, but also I learned how to heal better; I changed the way I target mobs to make it easier to grab emity, but now I have an easier way to instantly switch targets as my healer to damage enimes and heal the tank. I have also learned more of the layout of dungeons and certain mechanics. I also learned that it's pretty annoying to pull mobs for the tank, and also just running right up ahead or along side the tank as they dive into a group of mobs is kinda annoying. I don't pull as a healer anymore, I'll still run ahead after we finish a group of mobs but I'll stop and wait at the next group for the tank to pull, just as a small sign that "I'm ready when you are". I haven't really learned anything as DPS, other than I don't need to be on top of the mobs as ranged DPS, and that I've given myself a pavlovian response to always keep an eye on everyone's health when in a party. Realizing, multiple times in a single run, that I don't have to heal or protect the other party members always makes me laugh.

[@Halinspark]

Started as BLM, spent a significant amount of fights running around trying to keep out of AoEs. Now that I have everything 60+, I'm far more comfortable watching for mechanics.

[@ZectaCrest]

This is so true for me, I started as dragoon, but picked up dark knight along the way even tho I had tank anxiety , and WHM cuz I wanted at least 1 class in all roles, now DK is my main and I use it proficiently in eden savage with my FC!

[@BearWitch_Project]

Maybe it was because of the results of your poll that this video mainly focused on those who main DPS and don't feel up to taking responsibilities, but I kinda hoped you would touch up a little more on healer mentality as well. Lately I've commonly run into the situation where the DPS have been pretty responsibly and minding their positioning but when a raidwide comes up and the party's health is

[@kierenm4810]

I always appreciate hearing how much good dps matters in dungeon runs. I main healing and can't count how many times I've said to my tank buddy: "dps is slow. I'm running out of cooldowns." The worst is when he's pulled wall to wall and we realize one (or both) of the dps aren't using aoe. Good dps are a blessing in dungeon runs. Not just for speed running. But also just... makes healing so much nicer.

[@apdj94]

Ok maybe I'm just getting old or maybe I just suck at video games but nothing about this game is easy for me and as such certain jobs generate a significant amount of anxiety especially when I get kicked out of ever third dungeon for my performance. So yes, I only play a handful of jobs in the DPS category where my underperformance can be more easily hidden.

[@uzumakiigor]

Super true. I started playing summoner bcuz its always the class I love.. then I switched to SCH, despise never wanting to ever play as a healer, to faster queues and never looked back xD. I love Sch now and I'm trying all the classes for fun :)

[@sylphonsoul2533]

Thank you! I always tell this to my friends but some refuse to understand.

[@Swad-cf8nc]

The best Tank and Healer players were all great DPS. This was the first thing I remember being told in a Valkurm Dunes party way back in 2006.

[@dylanmiller9162]

To your emphasis at the end of the vid, playing other roles has also helped me understand that DPS is by far the hardest, sweatiest, and most complex role. Remembering and then actually executing optimal weaving, openers, and rotations in the middle of a fight is a nightmare.

[@blackjet2000]

I personally mostly stick DPS/Tank. Even though I went all classes to 80, I end up not using various extra tools from healers ESPECIALLY the lv80 ones. Still it is fun trying all roles and classes, getting an idea on how each behaves

[@SilverforceX]

I play all 3 roles, but enjoy tanking most. It's always better to see through experience basically.

[@PBToaster]

I agree that everyone should at least dip their toes into other jobs. You'll learn the annoyances which other players have to deal with while playing them.

[@Gangerworld]

I'm a DPS main, but when I leveled WHM to 80 I noticed that a lot of players -like, a LOT of players, stand in aoe attacks, or at least linger in them too long and move too late.

[@YugiMomo]

I don't have as much time so I haven't branched out from healer (WHM to 90 AST at like 66 rn) but man, what's even more furstrating than ppl standing half way across the universe while you have asylum or want to med2/aspected/Helios is when you have the asylum up ***and they stand outside the edge of it***

[@TheFurrLord]

Although I picked up being near melee range on MCH from the HW days in which blank was part of the rotation, I could never be that hide in a corner person. I like being a viable target when possible for DRG tethers. Gimme that sweet sweet dragon eye!

[@christiangroff7116]

I do try all roles. I like Warrior, Scholar and Ninja a lot. I also ended up enjoying Dragoon even though everyone else like you plays it. I can see why people main Dragoon so much, because it was the poster boy for Heavensward. I really think Healers should get some respect. Scholar isn't great on DPS (I use Ruin 2 and Art of War a lot because they are fast casting) but if I need to throw up a shield before someone dies, that's great. I got frustrated early on because Tanks keep running into monsters and taking too much damage, but I need to understand that they might be Level 19 and not have a lot of defensive moves or are using vendor gear.

[@ApolloHawke]

My fucking dumb ass had the idea to work through each part of the story (RR, Heavensward, etc) in order and leveling all the classes to that parts max level while doing only content from said part as much as possible before moving on to the next expansion. Kind of a pain in the ass but so far it's been enjoyable to see the progress slowly build up.

[@arbor_]

I think I accidentally learned the game the best way, I started out as a white mage because I usually don’t play support and I’ve heard a lot about the healers in this game being like supports from OW, so green dps Playing support taught me awareness and responsibility for my team Also because it was so simple learning ABC was pretty easy I played dps next ninja, I bigger jump in difficulty but I picked it up quick There were a lot of times when I played support the tank would miss an AD and the healer would take agro because heal enimity And usually the tank would pick up on it but playing dps I would try to be more aware of my support to make sure they weren’t getting murdered because the tank didn’t make sure to grab all the agro Also making sure I was in place for my positionals was different from support since I normally just make sure I’m in the center of my team, but it kept me on my toes depending on the boss/dungeon Then playing tank I chose Dark Knight, not as fast as ninja ofc but not as slow as WHM Having played all the classes making sure I had all the agro was important for trash pulls and from playing healer I knew to make sure and use my CD’s since I’ve had tanks blame me for them dying when I made sure to keep track of when they used their cd’s so I could save my big heal CD’s for the next pull without rampart and so on Also having played ninja I didn’t like when the boss had to move so much since it made it just a little harder but not like ninja has a lot of positionals anyway, but I made sure to angle the boss away and move the boss so that the rear was in a good place for the dps And the awareness from support would be good if I picked up paladin but it’s also good since I’m pretty quick on picking up extra ads that spawn on an instance I’m not familiar with. The biggest thing holding me back is all the buttons I’m not super familiar with everything yet since I just started but also playing 3 classes at level 50 and more barely 3 weeks into the game isn’t doing me any favors XD Love the videos keep them coming ❤

[@innoillust]

i used to play NIN and then queue times sucks, so I level up SCH, it's not as hard as I think, but level 60+ things get quite busy and I don't feel like I'm playing it right, so I changed to DRK and now my favorite Job is DRK I also do levelled up the rest of the jobs, what's really good is that each job is unique and playing DNC isn't like playing MCH or even BRD even tho they're are ranged dps

[@dhekutitania]

I do want to level one job of each role at least and I am working on melee and tanking. However there are jobs in that category that I don't really enjoy and do not want to level them to 80. My favourites are Paladin and Ninja...I'm just wondering if it is okay that I level these 2 to 80 and not the other tanks/melee...

[@infinitydarkful]

I want my Amaro but holy shit fuck playing summoner

[@Lanaestra]

Really the only role I don't usually like is DPS And that's like 60% complex rotations, 40% I can't be bothered to level a job with queue times so bad

[@SinHurr]

Petition to make all 4 mans 8 mans to reduce dps queue times

[@lunausagi8495]

I'm a BLM and my self-imposed playstyle is to be right up in melee range in the boss' butt even with leylines. I love letting my DRG know I'm available for them eyes and also get all the juicy party buff for my DPS. Standing far away does nothing to help my DPS.

[@dylanmiller9162]

Playing a healer helped me fully understand why I should use tank cooldowns constantly-the less healing they have to do, the more dpsing they can do.

[@amiablereaper]

After tanking from 1-70, I finally started mDPS for Reaper. Once I have my 4 mains to 90, SMN+SCH are next on the list

[@blindmanai6957]

Finally stepped out of my DPS safe-space. All it took was WeskAlber calling me out. Thanks for pushing me out my comfort zone. Tanking isn't as hard as it seemed (at least not up to LV 30), and healing is even easier (though my first run through Trials Ifrit was a bit frantic).

[@Mir_Teiwaz]

I'm still doing the MSQ as BLM, but I've been getting the itch to try other roles because I've enjoyed them in the past back when I played WoW. I just recently picked up GNB, PLD, and ACN to try out, but I dunno how much I'll do with them before finishing the story.

[@Wolfgang9Hype]

If you have the road to 70 buff it can be super easy to bring up a second (or third) to go through story with. I managed to bring 4 jobs to 80 while going through the story, but I had to do some extra work to do so. But it should be fairly easy to keep at least two up.

[@Mir_Teiwaz]

@@Wolfgang9Hype unfortunately I don't have that, but I do have the earrings from preordering endwalker and I'm in a FC that does a good job of keeping the exp buff running.

[@MyNameIsMir]

What in the name of Exa Pico is Mir doing in FFXIV?

[@Mir_Teiwaz]

@@MyNameIsMir I need something to help me decompress after a day of dealing with Shurelia and Lyner.

[@MyNameIsMir]

@@Mir_Teiwaz Meanwhile I just want my Ar Nosurge DX playable in English :c

[@onadaTotihotiH]

I honestly find myself enjoying things more as a tank/healer since having things to worry about other than my rotation is what I really like to have

[@baronvonboomboom4349]

Preach brother, preach.

[@ElMofo9]

Ive only played melee dps so far but im not even in hw yet I still need to do half of the post arr msq. Eventually I want to try a healer when I figure out how to manage party targeting on controller works

[@JhoTerra]

I remember being TERRIFIED of trying healer, I only relented and gave scholar a shot as I got tired of queue times. I now consider healer my comfort role outside of truly painful content. It's... really easy... but it doesn't look like it from the outside. The difficulty is purely in how much you can greed in attacks before the tank cries themselves to sleep.

[@snail736]

I've sworn to only play MNK during my first hour of playing and have yet to break it. I'll think about trying out and leveling different classes once I finally finish MSQ

[@acehealer4212]

I was planning on leveling at least one job from each role because I want to experience all the role quests. And who knows. Paladin is the job I want to main right now, but maybe I will decide that I like the way another job plays more. Maybe I’ll be a Machinist main someday lol.

[@funbunffxiv]

Thank you for this. I am on the road to all jobs at 80, but PotD is killing me 😂

[@JesterZamba]

I aim to have a preferred job in each role on my way to the Amaro.

[@MurderOfAKiller]

honestly id argue that for flexibility, everyone should have a job of every role theyre comfortable with and know on a base level, just so if someone in the fc is like "need a tank/healer/dps for x content" you can always offer to tag along if you want! or just give your friends those sweet instant queues :3

[@JesterZamba]

Exactly!

[@Xershade]

My favorite thing in any game is when someone tells me "Shut up stupid healer/support, you don't know how to play other roles." and I then swap roles around with someone, play that person's role, and out perform them so hard on an alt role that they rage harder while the rest of the group laughs silently. That or I just tell them, "Well I actually do know, I need to know how idiot dps/tanks are going to possibly screw this mechanic/boss up while being arrogant little dorks when they don't listen to the raid/group leader trying nicely to explain mechanics." Usually only do that though when they've been a dork for a while though. Just because I have a healing stick does not mean I won't shove it up an arrogant person's butt if they deserve it. XD

[@ray30k]

Another reason why I think everyone should at least consider leveling one healer: Few things are more memorable as the first time you perfectly time a small AOE heal to hit right as a stack-marker attack finishes. Damage? What's that, all I see is my entire party at 100%!

[@SyI16]

6:49 Quin pepelaugh oh no no

[@sangahlolo]

I love healing ❤️‍🩹🧚🏻‍♂️

[@serabi_]

I TECHNICALLY play every role but I don't play healer in 70-80 dungeons because of how adept I am on it. I just mainly play all Tanks and dps

[@cosmicpepe3973]

I like a healthy mix, but when I want to relax I go healer.

[@Wolfgang9Hype]

I do healer for lazier Trials/Raids. The main time I feel pressured is during trash pulls in dungeons or if people are missing mechanics.