What your Melee DPS Main says about You, FFXIV Jobs

[@Catspirit123]

As a dragoon player, I pride myself on backflipping well. It’s a really useful positioning tool if you know how to aim it. I’ve saved myself in savage so many times with that one ability

[@zeroligervii6036]

I agree, for a long time I have strained to learn to be a more precise Dragoon by learning fights, and the timing of my jumps; I tend to make healers more stressed now due to threading the needle with my attacks. XD

[@yoooo790]

Good stuff bro

[@yoooo790]

I am also using backflip a lot lol

[@Sairagna]

How many more did you kill yourself with it though :^)

[@UltaFlame]

I have learned to love Dragoon in Frontline. Using that backflip to escape hairy situations is amazing

[@yaddonatt]

Pro-tip for mastering the evasive leap with Dragoon: spend a lot of time jumping and spinning your WoL around in the air while moving; once it becomes second nature to reposition your WoL this way, you can quite easily spin yourself around to jump in the direction you actually want to, upping your mobility significantly. Of course, that can't stop you from overshooting, so getting used to just how far your jump can take you is also key. - a Dragoon main

[@WunderhausMickeymaus]

Back in the 2.0 days I came up with the idea that my lalafell was actually an imp voidsent that possessed a dead corpse because it thought adventuring looked fun and needed a disguise. With Reaper's release it was a no brainer what job it would be for the expansion. A White Mage.

[@Konpekikaminari]

Lemme guess... BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD LILY!

[@warllockmasterasd9142]

Lalafels are spawn of evil from beyond the void though.

[@SuperRoboPopoto]

@@warllockmasterasd9142 it’s true, we are. That’s why I give out cookies.

[@warllockmasterasd9142]

@@SuperRoboPopoto I knew it!

[@Nempo13]

@@SuperRoboPopoto Wait you give out cookies? As a lalafel people give ME cookies all the time!

[@sheltonwilliamson711]

"why were there so few Dragoons? For the same reason why you're TANKING THE FLOOR!"😂 -Synodic "SAVAGE" Scribe😂

[@PurpleSyrup14]

For a WoL in particular, there's more to some of these jobs than just the lore you touched on here. The WoL who mains ninja actually started as a rogue, for example, combining the knifework of those upright thieves with Doman techniques to create entirely new abilities. The rogue guild also has their own code and serve Limsa Lominsa and her people from the shadows...a lot like ninjas do. The class leads into the job very well from a lore perspective.

[@jacobkern2060]

Same goes for Pugilist into Monk, the fact that you trained as a fistfighter is something that's vital for the Stormblood job quests

[@overdrivedrinker8284]

I'd like to add to the Reaper segment that the WoL in particular is VERY VERY rich in aether, and for the WoL that mains Reaper, they need to be on near constant alert, because the voidsent on the other side of their avatar I'm sure would be more than eager to wait for them to make a misstep so they can have all that sweet, succulent aether to itself

[@jacobkern2060]

I would also like to add this for DRG. Their AF1 gear is specifically designed to come apart and kill a dragon from the inside if the Dragoon wearing it got eaten. Because it happened. That often.

[@RagnarDracobrother]

As a Monk main i do have to say i miss when i could run faster than ninjas with riddle of the wind. Great vid as always!

[@jacobkern2060]

Ah, yes Fists of Town

[@ChrisWizzerd]

I mained Monk forever... Until they crashed it and never fixed it

[@simj202]

Now, instead of faster legs, you get faster fists. A good trade off.

[@ChrisWizzerd]

@@simj202 debatable, monk has always been my main... But since they were nerfed just before stormblood they have been worthless ever since..

[@definitelynotaweeb6879]

@@ChrisWizzerd MNK is literally the highest rDPS job in the entire game at the moment lol, I totally get how a job rework could make you lose interest in it, but to say that it is worthless is just flat out wrong.

[@DemonKingRegalia]

The explanation at 4:18 about how both actual dragoon trainees and dragoon players don't "get it" opened a whole new perspective for me. Brilliant.

[@charnor2727]

Dragoons trained 2 classes to backflip, both red mage and reaper

[@Livingdead7]

Reapers don't backflip we teleport 😆

[@acgearsandarms1343]

@@Livingdead7 Hell-a-port.

[@Nempo13]

@@Livingdead7 And I have seen more reapers die to it than dragoons for awhile now.

[@anarchicbean5888]

I always get curious why nobody mentions the BRD jumpback. RPR is a teleport that can go forward or backwards, and can return to original position. It’s movement is much easier to control. But BRD i have accidentally sent myself off a few cliffs….

[@Feuerhamster]

Shoutouts to RDM, the only class where , for a brief period, their "kill yourself" button was part of their regular rotation.

[@Wanderingsage7]

Hey, if the trial arenas had decent rail guards there'd be fewer death jumps

[@SynodicScribe]

Sounds like Initiate speak to me!

[@Sov-Ryn15]

@@SynodicScribe guard rails: the equivalent of training wheels for DRGs

[@Space-1255]

simply don't die, it's uncanny how easy it is

[@kurousagi1239]

​@@Space-1255 I mean, how hard can it be? Right?

[@baronfuath5872]

but then we would need an OSHA inspector to come and ensure every boss arena's rails are up to code and able to keep a roegadyn dragoon away from the edge as well as a lalafell dragoon! Boss arena builders decided to trust no rails. rails aint shit but poles and sticks. Darwinism is the only railing they think we need.

[@amitamaru]

I see the reaper as someone who decides to do whatever needs to be done to protect others, damn the consequences. After all, Drucilla did frequently tell us to piss off if we couldn't handle working with Garleans or void magics. Can't afford to be picky.

[@overdrivedrinker8284]

@Demonqueen Lilith Whichever reaper this avatar belongs to, come and grab them, they got loose

[@Konpekikaminari]

Minor connection- the first Dragoons weren't dragon _slayers,_ but rather dragon _riders_ The dragons of yore took Dragoons with them to battle as comrades in arms (in Tales from the Storm, it's mentioned Ratatoskr herself was a known fan of this co-op) The progenitors of this art stood shoulder to wing with giants, and I find it exceptionally awesome

[@SynodicScribe]

Careful, that's not entirely true. The individuals you speak of did indeed exist! But they were not the dragoons we have. Prince Haldrath marked the beginning of Dragoons as we know them, and the discipline became tailor made to slay dragons. It ceased being a Pre-Dragonsong art many centuries ago. Perhaps it has the chance to become what it once was in ages passed, but that will take time, and only the dragons themselves would remember what techniques those knights employed. The Holy See would have made sure the Soul Crystals didn't possess Pre-War knowledge.

[@CalamitasDeus]

@@SynodicScribe Wait, then what about what Estinien was told in that one side story about how he got his trueblood armor?

[@SynodicScribe]

@@CalamitasDeus Like I said already. They did exist, but those dragoons weren't the same we have. Same name/concept, but different disciplines. The WoL inherited the Ishgardian Dragon Slayer arts, not the Pre-War dragon rider arts.

[@CalamitasDeus]

@@SynodicScribe Wouldn't the theory be then that we already have some dragon rider skills as of the latest expansion or two?

[@Konpekikaminari]

@Synodic Scribe this is why I wish we had more lore on skills, especially those who are 70+ Dragoon has quite a few skills that feel less dragoon and more... _dragon_ at this point, namely the Draconian Fire openers and Chaotic Spring/Stardiver (which are Nidhogg's moves) It might be my obsession with this job, but every move just oozes stories to me

[@jaysanj152]

I do love how Post Endwalker MSQs gives a bit of a sneaky lore and has unique dialogue options exclusively for the RPRs mains where Zero actually compliments you for not going crazy and noticed that we didn't force out avatar to serve against its will and instead treated it with care.Something which is a huge foreign concept to not only her but most void sents and contracted avatars as they lived a more different lives. That and exploring the 13th also gave me a weird feeling where the Avatar you're contract with isn't technically evil per say but more misunderstood and necessity in which if you have respect it and treat it with care as eventually It'll grown onto you and you can even forge a bond with it.Granted you're still not supposed to get TOO attached with it otherwise you'll risk losing yourself and succumb to its power but if you got what it takes to tame your avatar.You're ready to defend anyone,It's like DRK in a sense. But treat it like Zenos where all you care about is power and hunger in which you abuse the Avatar you've contracted to a point even that fears you and well... You'll break yourself. Either Way,RPR needs more lore man.i do find them quite fascinating and i sure there is more to them than just being an "edgy lord",an impression DRKs had to Deal with yet their lore is spectacular.

[@joripien]

Having played Ninja for the whole game up until the end of Endwalker and then switching to RPR as main for the Endwalker patch quests has been so satisfying, All those little nods and extra lines for reapers made it feel like the game really recognized my character's job switch

[@tickledpickle5671]

@@joripien This isn't the first time NPC's have noticed your job, and made comments about it no one else would. Try re-watching all the HEavensward quests as a Dragoon. Some real gold there.

[@17Master]

@@tickledpickle5671 There are a couple drops from Yugiri if you do the Doma part of Stormblood with Ninja leveled up.

[@killergodzilla0270]

@@tickledpickle5671 In Stormblood at the entry point to the DLC, one of the thaumaturgists calls you the Master of Destruction if you leveled up Black Mage

[@gratuitouslurking8610]

@@tickledpickle5671 90% of the reason I leveled up Dragoon prior to Ishguard. Having side content occasionally bringing up the other classes or events we run into prior also is kinda neat too.

[@Tindall4CO]

As a person that has mained Warrior, Dragoon, Monk, Samurai, Dark Knight, and Paladin so far these videos make my character appear as a very honorable and heroic person. And honestly I like that seeing how I spent hours to try and master every job. Especially for Dragoon. Now I always make sure I have enough room before I backflip

[@SeikeKyu]

....The frog summoning comes from the 1806-1807 novels Katakiuchi Kidan Jiraiya Monogatari. Which was the direct inspiration to three characters in Naruto; Jiraiya, Tsunade and Orochimaru (thier names and associated animals literally did not change between inspiration and reference). The Immortal Toad Ascetic is not only Jiraiya's temporary mount, but he is also his mentor that teaches Jiraiya all the magical arts. Shinobi also often carried short swords, but paladin already exist in the game. So they had to change the name of the item type to refer a different weapon. To be fair Naruto takes a lot of references from a whole slew of sources from modern, fictional and historical in origin. From the old Kodan naritive arts(Sarutobi Sasuke), to historical novels (Jiraiya), to folk tales (Princess Kaguya), to classic mangas(Yu Yu Hakusho) and this is just 1 character reference sheet. But do to its popularity a lot of people just lump it up to Naruto. The tropes that make up Naruto existed long before the manga was made.

[@greatestcait]

I'm a Dark Knight main, but if ever I were to dip into Melee DPS, it'd be Samurai. As a Dark Knight, my entire reason for doing what I do is to protect the innocent, whether it be from Garlemald, Primals, or mere bandits. I've already effectively got something I've pledged my loyalty to - the people, wherever I may go, I shall defend them from that which threatens them. EDIT: Also I'm looking forward to videos for the other roles, please continue.

[@acgearsandarms1343]

There’s decent Samurai armor and glamour for Tanks. Especially for Dark Knight. The Odenta Kai weapon.

[@Tystolfo]

It's interesting you say this because for me, Samurai and Dark Knight seem to be two sides of the same coin. The art of Samurai Musosai passes down to the WoL is that of following justice instead of a lord and delivering said Justice to those who have strayed from the path, similar to Dark Knight. However where a Dark Knight would simply kill the wrong doer and strike fear in others, a Samurai would spare their life and simply cut down their "evil" inside, thus giving them a second chance to be better. So a Samurai is almost like a Dark Knight but more focused on honour and mercy. This is not to diss DRK tho lol, simply two different paths I find cool.

[@gruntmasterbroadcast]

Ngl In character my Au Ra dps is probably a mix of Dragoon/Samurai/Spellblade cause mostly I think Twinblades are neat.

[@Nempo13]

The reason for people saying Samurai should have been a tank is due to how Samurai play in Tactics (where all these classes come from anyway). Samurai in tactics wear heavy armor and are used as front liners to take hits and dish back the damage. So any who play tactics expect the Samurai to be tanks, specifically retaliation based tanks.

[@kitsunehanyou09]

I main Monk because I like martial arts films, beat em up games, and dressing up my FMiqote in a qipao or street brawler gear :D I do like how this interpretation of the lore fits how I believe my WoL sees things as needing a balance of light and dark to achieve peace. Samurai used to be my sword using main, but when you realize there's three sword wielding jobs whose lore tie them to being historically protectors and vassals to lords, until they turn their attention to being one that follows a wanderers path to strike down evil doers... I have to side with the one with an exploding sword.

[@Nempo13]

Yeah but the level 90 paladin skill is SO SATISFYING. You get a 4 hit aoe chain that wrecks single and groups while also healing you with each hit.

[@litsaber]

You laugh at me, but that floor would've wiped the raid 5 times by now.

[@litsaber]

Jk I main RPR for melee nowadays, good thing that doesn't have an elusive jump

[@KohiKona]

DRG: "Did you know you have an ability that straightup sends you to the abyss and fucking kills you?" RDM, SAM, RPR: *"Tell me more."*

[@ArnnFrost]

You Dragoons floor tank to honor tradition. I floor tank because I'm F'in' stupid. We're not the same.

[@ruick78]

Reaper feels the set up working with most unlikely allies, we were ally our selfs with a being we truly dont know or understand. We always shown the void sent always seen as evil on our journey, yet one reached out making a pact with us and we accepted its deal to assit us on saving the world.

[@scribbledoll4382]

ooooh i like this! :D i main conjurer/white mage now but once i get high enough leveled i wanna try other classes/jobs too and reaper is high on that list! and i like how its sort of like working with another type of elemental..just... one from the void. following the ethereal voices that call to you and guide you to get a deeper understanding of the world and her sacred balance.

[@mr.jeorgexiii1732]

These videos have been prettyfunny! Excited to see the other jobs

[@Wanderingsage7]

So did Early Garleans stumble upon a working voidgate? Cause I can't think of a way they could have contacted the void sent otherwise. Modern magitech is well, modern. Within the last century or so, baring lucky finds of Alagan ruins... This also brings into question the whole 'Garleans are descended from Gulg' thing. Between Gulg and modern Garlemald, there were reapers. ... actually I could see the first Reapers getting hold of auracite now that I'm thinking on it. Speculation ho!

[@acgearsandarms1343]

Likely a natural planar fissure. Voidgates are manmade. They were desperate enough to seek dark powers to survive. Based on what we saw of Lapis Manalis, there were no signs of machinery or magic to make a voidgate. It was just that it was specifically thin the barrier between worlds in that location.

[@Konpekikaminari]

​@ACGearsandArms sounds about right And knowing the game, it's either this or "an Ascian taught them that"

[@lyconxero457]

As someone who has leveled and plays every job, it's hard to know what I consider as my "main" job since I try to be flexible for the people that I play with. That being said, I do feel like I have a "main" job in each role being the job that I enjoy playing the most and Reaper is by far my go-to melee job. Honestly, Reaper lore seems pretty simple and it suits me just fine. I've made a contract with a voidsent who gives me power in exchange for suckling on the life of my fallen opponents which means that I'm hella powerful AND my voidsent is eating GOOOOD! Thanks to what we know about the void and voidsent now, it's also apparent that our contract with our voidsent is perfectly equitable despite Y'shtola giving us a slight warning about utilizing said power. I've personally always been a fan of a class or job that utilizes both magic and swordplay so while Red Mage stymies me a bit being too slow with it's casts I feel extremely powerful and quick as a Reaper who can go into a mode where I rip and tear super fast and end with a powerful bit of void magic. Just seeing how cool the job already is at this point makes me extremely excited by the prospects of what will be added to it in the next expansion.

[@DoctorSoulll]

Can't wait for the Healing Job Video! :D

[@cj_skywalker]

Funny you used the Shadowbringers trailer - all the melee DPS got destroyed by the Lightlord but a TANK(aka Dark Knight) one-shot the Sin Eater without effort. XD

[@markup6394]

5:43 --- What can I say? I never watched "Naruto" XD My head canon about my character is, she specialises in one job per role ^^° It just... keeps changing ^^°

[@dangerousshoes]

"If you're a Monk main, your Warrior of Light has abandoned their ego to better see the world unclouded." Me, the lalafell monk main: haha go fast puncc and kicc

[@DoodleBug84]

My WoL is a mix of Dragoon, Samurai, and Gunbreaker. These are all 100% accurate lol. Though I'm mastered jumping 99% of the time, and I only die when I mean to die to be a dink to my healer friends. I've never actually launched myself off an edge in all my years of playing. (Maybe because I knew the meme going into the class, and deliberately tried to NOT do that.)

[@gratuitouslurking8610]

While Black Mage was the one I started with, I worked with Dragoon during my recent frolicks in Ishguard and plan to bring my Ninja when it's time to take the fight to Doma. Part of it is feeling like tying into the local customs and combat ways is wise to better intergrate with the people there, other parts it's to be thematic, and still others it's to help mix things up a bit as I work through all that post-patch content. Hell, my eventual plan for Shadowbringer and Endwalker's to main Dancer and Red Mage for those.

[@shaneh6707]

There's a deep sense of satisfaction when I'm the only one alive after greeding, backflipping and then gap closing with Stardiver without losing uptime while the others who make fun of dragoons are dead on the floor lol

[@Nazuiko]

Samurai's LACK of positionals? Theyre second to dragoon in how impactful they are, if not the most with the loss of Monk's positional basis in 6.0

[@saintsprayer727]

I would love to see a Healing version of this! I was expecting a meme video but was so pleasantly surprised❤ Sch since ARR

[@avgoldhead7207]

Hell nawl he said STILL GET OUT DPS by a Reaper hell nawl.😂😂

[@Smarfton]

The Dragoon part was silly. Perhaps the game design shifts to, I don't know, for this not to be a thing?

[@SilverRainCain]

Honestly, I don't mind when a DPS job is simple. I'm the kind of player who tries to play as many jobs as I possibly can and trying to memorize any complex combos to execute just one attack can get to be a bit much when I'm not mainning that job specifically. Even more so if I constantly have to bounce back-and-forth between roles and having to memorize the attack patterns of endgame bosses. So, I never understand why some players complain so much when a job is simple in it's playstyle. Maybe they only ever play a few jobs and don't bother with the others?

[@JamesW609]

Same here I prefer simpler jobs I get my enjoyment from figuring out bosses and their mechanics not from using 20 minutes rotations with a spreadsheet open.

[@tickledpickle5671]

Hey. I feel like the Dragoon assessment spot on! Several times, the tnak has screwed up, died, and everything came for me. And I'd survive long enough for the healer to hard-cast a raise on the tank. And survive. Not an initiate at all! :3 And it also perfectly fit my Dragoon's story and background.

[@tickledpickle5671]

Of course, as you said. When there are no more dragon to fight.... Well, My DRG, Nora, has moved on to fighting the void. It took much from her, and though she's still directly dealing with a particular one in her fight against the Void, Her personal fight has gone from being the pride of her home, to being a fight that she takes very personally, and is always chasing, no matter the danger.

[@LuriTV]

My Raen is a Ninja main and it is most fitting for her. And my pledge was propably to princess Yuki

[@itsmoggintime]

As an expert dragoon mogman I evade off the ledge every chance I can >:)

[@sephirothcrescent5768]

My WoL is a summoner so I don't know what it says about my WoL if I'm a summoner.

[@horaciohernandez2850]

We really need more Job Quests, these role quests are so generic they're an affront.

[@no-stresscat1519]

I main Dragoon. I didn't mean to. I happened by accident. With the jokes about being the floor tank, and the backward swan dives off of elevated platform arenas, I could avoid all that if I just played a little bit here and a little bit there, nothing long-term mind you. I told myself I could stop any time I wanted. And I meant it. But, the more the DPS queue popped, the deeper down the rabbit hole I went. Just one more dungeon, the queue was fast. Just one more. Maybe just one more. Then it became a habit turned into obsession. That shiny blue armor, so shiny, and so blue. No other class could be as spikey as me. The spikey IS me. I AM the spikey. The spikey and I have become one. The lance...oh...hey...umm...ahem... Yeah. I play Dragoon. It's kind of cool.

[@0Midnightlight0]

C'mon Scribe, Enlightenment is *kind of* a ranged move...❤

[@PapaDeusVult]

Awesome video as always, Scribe. While I'm a tank main, I do enjoy playing Samurai as my personal pick for melee DPS. And, yes-I'm actually one of the people surprised that Samurai isn't a tank job. This is because it always seems to be portrayed as a heavy armor fighter class in every bit of media outside of Final Fantasy XIV. Going back to the lore side of things, though... Instead of taking on the lore of the Samurai as it was intended, I actually have a different bit of head-canon of my own. I've spent some time on it, and it actually kind of tracks since I'm probably one of the few Samurai players who make use of a weapon that isn't an uchigatana: the Crystarium samurai blade, which looks more like the two-handed Swiss saber. Honing in on that head-canon: whenever I do play Samurai in content, I instead pretend the skills used by my character are actually derived from the Ivalician Divine Knights. You know, those guys who are more dogmatic than they are truly righteous or indignant towards authority-like the Holy Knights and Dark Knights respectively. I pretty much pretend that the main shtick of my 'Samurai' was the Crush: Weapon, Armor, Helm, and Accessory skills the Divine Knights use. I liked expanding the idea further to the point that they wield these arts with a weapon intended to cut instead of pierce-like a single-edged blade of a saber, et cetera-as a show that their arts are so intense and their conviction is so strong that a blade not intended for striking solid body defense like steel will find purchase anyway. As an aside, I laughed at the Reaper meme because that's how I play mine: a farmer with a big scythe-and even the glamour I use reflects that. In much the same vein, I pretend my Dragoon is actually a Limsan spearfisher. If Ishgardian Knight-Dragoons rule the skies, Limsan spearfishers rule the seas

[@hoshi314]

All i want for future of samurai is the return of kaiten

[@stephengrenleski1972]

Or backflip out of the arena right as it gets sealed off.

[@genisay]

Actually, if you start digging deeper into the dragoon lore, especially doing some of the Moogle Tribe Quests, you learn that the orginal dragoons were not actually created to slay dragons... but to fight along side of them. They were dragon riders, as is the typical lore of dragoons in most other fantasy. They even had special saddles they used with their dragon companions, and there are ruins that still stand in Coerthas that were designated landing and barrack sites for dragoon/dragon pairs. This makes things with Estinien even more interesting later in the game when you realize he is the first dragoon in thousands of years to go back to their original roots when he becomes close to Virshan and his reconciliation with Nidhogg.

[@SynodicScribe]

Not entirely correct. The roots of the modern Dragoon began with Prince Haldrath. In fact, we know next to nothing about the original dragon riders outside of them having been knights who who would ride dragons.

[@shinyhero306]

My personal head cannon Is that you attune to the thirteenth’s iteration of azem So it’s like Yeah if it tries it’ll just merge lol

[@anarchicbean5888]

i like this idea, an interesting perspective… i mained RPR for EW and I was tryna decide if the lore worked with my character or not. But this I think makes it so 🤔

[@shinyhero306]

@@anarchicbean5888 yeah I had a similar conundrum Where I questioned whether my character would view the attunement of the avatar as ethical And the only way I could consider that “ethical” was if they had attuned to themselves from another reality

[@NaitomeIya]

I learned melee DPSing as a MNK and I unlocked MNK simply for the punches and kicks. Nothing of the devotion to Rhalgr whatsoever. I knew it, I’m a PGL, not a MNK. XD Also, I thought most DRGs were killing themselves because they greed then fail to time their elusive jump correctly, they elusive jump off the stage accidentally, or because their jumps animation locked them. No-I myself died more often due to me using Jump like a gap closer forgetting that it returns me to my previous position.

[@warmachine5835]

As a SAM alt, I'm still mad about kaiten.

[@adamboyd1132]

Wanna insult a Reaper? Pizza Cutters, one and all. All Edge, No Point.

[@LuriTV]

oh be assured, the end of the scythe is very pointy

[@bendonatier]

My static's dragoon repeatedly jumps into the puddle during ruby 1 during p5s. We love them though.

[@TwitSings]

Although I'm a Reaper main full and through I always like to think that my Wol would've mained different jobs depending of the expansion as his history fluctuates with it Marauder-ARR Monk-HW Dragoon-SB Reaper-SHB Warrior-EW And by how you've explained it, it feels extremely accurate to what I envisioned of my WoL's story, it even cleared some doubts I had of choosing some jobs in some expansions

[@bobseesall]

So if I die as dragoon I'm doing an initiate rp?

[@iaintaylor7390]

Ninja’s mechanical complexity and not-trick-it’s-mug-now also fit the idea of a thankless protected from the shadows

[@femthingevelyn]

"Reaper is the only job with the balls to copy the homework of a gatherer" Warriors also copied botanists homework

[@Puddingskin01]

Warriors just skipped the whole "deal with the voidsent" that botanists did.

[@supremelystupidmoron4120]

Say what you want about backflipping into death, but there was this one time in the gryphon fight in that 1st big bozja dungeon where I accidentally backflipped right into the safe spot during that wind bomb attack and nothing I have ever done or ever will do felt as cool as that.

[@StarshadowMelody]

... God I love the lore behind dragoons. God I want Blood of the Dragon back. God I hate it when Squeenix tries to fix what ain't broke.

[@StarshadowMelody]

No, no, I did not know that was coming, I had rather forgotten Naruto existed actually.

[@StarshadowMelody]

Hm... I think SAM does fit my WoL relatively well, as does DRG(Once it's fun again >_>). RDM not so much, I still want SMN back. Sage and GNB, we'll see, I haven't watched those videos yet.

[@BasalIntegral]

Hearing the dragoon stuff was funny considering I let my GM kill my WoL off in our DnD game (pregame) I felt slightly called out even though it was intentional! haha

[@MidoriGrey]

You know Ironically, I put a lot of thought into the concept that my wol began unlocking his chakra purely by accident and only because of it did he begin to study the methods of a monk. But he's a full mix of calm and collected, and crazy treating the fight like a fun blood sport (he loves a good spar), So he doesn't really fall in line with the lore of a monk anymore. Just an insanely overpowered fistfighter.

[@rifleman2c997]

As a DRG main, this hurts.

[@absollum]

I've gotten really good at the dragoon backflip. Damn shame my healers decided to rescue me through the aoe afterwards.

[@draochvar9646]

Ok, THAT has to f*cking sting. I've gotten pretty decent with the jump and I'd have a damn aneurism if my successful dodge got ruined

[@absollum]

@@draochvar9646 to be fair, the two times it happened, they thought I wasn't going to jump out of the way since most don't. They apologized since they saw the backflip but it was too late

[@invaderzam]

8:03 Meme if you want Scribe but dont forget how horrendously long the queue times were for dps in Stormblood. If Square ever does another double damage job for another expansion, with the current population? Then 14 is gonna be an AFK game for damage. Heck, the healer and tank players should just form a mafia and extort money from dps players.

[@FlashOfSonic]

I personally think it'd be really cool if our Reaper avatar turned out to be our Thirteenth shard.

[@LuriTV]

would be funny but I am pretty sure we allready know our 13th shard. Why wouldn't Zenos choose a part of our soul as his own voidsent? :P

[@overdrivedrinker8284]

It is very possible it is, since new souls can’t become reapers iirc, only sundered ancient souls are able to. I got that info from Reddit though so idk how accurate it is-

[@zephyr7552]

Honestly for as little lore as Reaper has atm i don't think ive seen the NPCs acknowledge the existence of a Job more than reaper, which makes sense since you literally have a demon on your back but we see it acknowledged even in event side quests like the Halloween one. Makes you wonder what they plan to do with it later on.

[@Nempo13]

ARR: Archer (NOT BARD) will get you a handful of comments, but the moment you become a Bard it will stop. So you are looking in the under 30 content for this one. ARR: Warrior will get you comments all the way up to Ishguard, even everyone's favorite elven bud Haurchefant comments on you being a 'force of nature like a beast' in combat but only if you have War leveled. So 30+ content for this one. HW: Dragoon will get you the special comments here. HW: Paladin will get you comments at points but they are far fewer than if you have Drg leveled. Most comments will come from the Temple Knights and Priests. Remember that Paladin is fueled by Halone, the Fury, which is also Ishguard's primary deity. SB: Samurai and Ninja will get you comment in Doma and Kugane. Sam will get mentioned decently in Kugane and in and around the towns. Ninja gets you comments in the Doma HQ and with some side quests more than the MSQ. SB: Warrior will get special mentions on the Steppe from the tribes. SB: Monk and Red Mage will get you special comments in Ala Mhigo, though RM will only get you very small mention compared to Mnk. ShB: Dark Knight will get you quite a number of comments here. Even the Exarc comments on how well the title of WoD fits you these days. EW: Paladin will get you comments everywhere but Sharlayan. EW: Sage will net you comments in Sharlayan. EW: Reaper will get you a comment or two from Garlemald and of course from Zero. Reaper has the least recognition. Every single Halloween event has commented about Black Mages. Little Ladies has commented about Dancer, and Christmas comments about Paladin most times. They have hidden a bunch in the game that is amazing. It really makes New Game+ worth it.

[@Lancefh_ENV]

Okay, people who think SAM should have been a tank, start talking with GNB players that think GNB should be a DPS and we'll start bugging Squenix to do a role swap.

[@Just_Call_Me_Tim]

I totally picked Samurai for the aesthetic and love it for the story behind it. I love a lot of the Jobs, though. Heck, I started as Conjurer for White Mage later on. 😅

[@benjaminfast5496]

I've struggled to truly get into and commit to any of the melee classes. They all of something appealing. But they all of something going against it. For me, this reasons are: Dragoon - the amount of buttons, rotation, and inevitable suicide Monk - the mechanic doesn't do much for me, and all the confusing combos are a bit much for me. Samurai - hard to remember the skill names, and haven't wanted to commit to memorizing them, lol Ninja - similar to samurai, a lot of the names of the skill being japanese makes it hard to remember what's what. But, it's probably my favourite of the melee dps classes though. Reaper: The Warrior of Light using the power of darkness and death just feels wrong to me, so I honestly haven't even started the class yet. I hear it's fun though! I mainly play ranged DPS, magic DPS, and healer classes, so maybe just close range combat doesn't do it for me either. Lol.

[@Jynx0208]

Brave of you to assume that some of us reaper mains don't already strip

[@lordofinnistrad8757]

I’m a Ninja main, but I have my character flavored more as still being a Rogue in service to the Maelstrom. My FC and I generally repackage my Ninjutsu abilities as aspected grenades or other gadgets instead.

[@Coolguysup]

Former sam main. I’ve been liking monk a lot more now. Maybe I’ll find my love for sam again in 7.0

[@hirudemonstrife]

One of my WoLs was 100% a rogue. So when it switched to ninja, he noped right out of that. It isn't a smooth transition... My other WoL goes from dragoon main to dark knight. Picture that story beat.

[@incap6038]

Excuse you! I'm just expanding Botanist by indulging in it's KILL MODE

[@caramelgrace2156]

In all honesty? I just picked up reaper bc scythes look cool as hell and I think should be more common as weapons in video games. Maybe in a few expansions I can say it's for the lore but in all honestly my hc is my WoL just saw "Ooh cool weapon" and went with what was needed to use it.

[@RockSoup]

My WoL learned how to punch things from Lyse. Aura had a crush on her from the moment she kicked a fish baby in the dick.

[@Nogu3]

Been a month since 1.0, never swapped my main job and never will. I wanna be Jackie Chan

[@SuperRoboPopoto]

My combat classes are all generally because I enjoy the combat style with them, head canonically my WoL is a CUL main.

[@SquigglyDestroyerofWorlds]

My friends and I loved saying "grease monkey, that funky monkey" when it came to monks grease

[@anthonydelfino6171]

Samurai? Lack of positionals? That's.... not accurate.

[@elgatochurro]

"the only Naruto reference i don't see" Wrong, those were already ninja things

[@jaykay5838]

I have all melee DPS 90'd, and WAR/GNB , no idea what my main is though.

[@apdj94]

Since I only became a MNK main in 6.3, I don't have any clue what the memes are all about

[@Otacanthus]

I definitely play ninja for the playstyle, I played monk since ARR (Losing greaced lightning and attack speed, together with the patchwork fix to give a mechanic felt really bad), started raiding in EW and changed to reaper, and then changed to ninja because reaper was very boring. But I feel like it fits how I see my WOL, I'd totally see her pledging herself to a princess and her beliefs, so I don't mind living into the fantasy more. And it's definitely easier to live more into the ninja fantasy of it once I turned off damage numbers and ability effects.

[@MarshalAquilus]

And yet almost ever Monk I meet in game have an ego the size of the Small Magellanic Cloud.

[@ChrisWizzerd]

No one laughs at monk anymore because no one admits to ever using the now embarrassing class.

[@samuffert]

Just yesterday i managed to dodge EX ifrit's roomwide that leaves 2 safe spots using Jump and heavensward's theme played loudly in my head, then died a few seconds later anyway because the other dps didn't stop hitting the nail and the healers couldn't keep up, it truly is the initiate's fate to tank the floor

[@Konpekikaminari]

You get a pass on this one

[@kerminator7549]

Which class runs around in a frogsuit of every color 24/7?

[@Just_an_Ace_on_the_Moon]

only melees ive leveled up are dragoon and monk. Monk is definitely favored of the two

[@Sephirothwolf]

The irony that people want SAM to be a Tank when NIN was a great Tank in XI.

[@dragkigamer7944]

As a reaper main that reason is why i main the job and cuz love there playstyle

[@GenesisNebulBryn]

DRK & SMN main **Waits for Caster version**

[@FlynnFromTaiga]

My WoL is every job, I run deep dungeons on every job possible.

[@orokanaangel9907]

Love this; still main Dragoon as my melee DPS.

[@Soggz4]

"Let's not add to that pile" I mean...LBs are pretty much powered by friendship due to ingame lore explanations....

[@SynodicScribe]

If your 'explanations' is the Endsinger then I'll be very very disappointed.

[@poke_my_starfish780]

I don't get why everyone says samurais don't have positionals. They have 2. Anyway, great video. Love your thorough and meticulous presentation!

[@SynodicScribe]

That's the joke honestly. We know they have positionals, but the joke is to say Samuria don't have positionals when they do. haha

[@acgearsandarms1343]

Wait, so do Reaper abilities actually count as Void magic? We already have martial skills and magic mastery so aren’t we just gilding the lily by adding the avatar to our arsenal?

[@Konpekikaminari]

Reaper is 50% void magic 50% botany

[@acgearsandarms1343]

@@Konpekikaminari Talk about putting your blood sweat and tears into your work. But it’s not your blood.

[@King-2077]

Yea but not your magic from my understanding because it’s the voidsent’s magic and since garleans cant use magic themselves their only contribution to the art is the scythe techniques. So basically yes the guys is correct, 50% void and 50% bottany of you call it that lmao.

[@KarkasasDaxe]

Looking at all my Melee DPS Jobs at 90

[@coolguyman16]

I miss Greased Lightning. Building speed and power overtime felt like a core part of Monk’s identity. Loosing stacks sucked sure, but you’d always get them back, much like…I don’t know, how some monks draw elaborate art in the sand only for the tide to sweep it away. I don’t know, I’m just salty it’s gone, that and our positionals.

[@jacobkern2060]

At the same time, though, Blitzes have given the sort of depth that Greased Lightning could only dream of having