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What's your favorite Final Fantasy Job?
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Matt Attack
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Monk. I've always loved fistfighters in games, Yang is a badass and I main it in FFXIV. Blue Mages are high up on my list as well.
DarkConfidant
Member
Ninja, of course.
Always Double-Tap!
Always Double-Tap!
Jailer of Hope
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Man the Aht Urhgan jobs always looked so awesome visually. Blue mage and and Puppetmaster artifacts were some of my favorite looking ones.
Loved playing as black mage or ninja though.
Loved playing as black mage or ninja though.
That1BlackGuy
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playing the Blue Mage was a blast.UltimaPooh
Member
I was always the sucker to play support roles. Just felt meaningful to me. Especially in FF11.
So White Mage first.
Summoner second.
So White Mage first.
Summoner second.
WarioFan63
Member
I used to not like Blue Magic as a kid because of how hard it was to get rolling but nowadays I realize that when you put in enough effort, the pay off is really cool.
All these Dragoons...
Dragoons always the ones that have lag :lol
Sir Griffith
Member
Paladin. Tanking as one in FFXI was an incredible experience I've not yet been able to reproduce in any other game.
How can you exclude Corsairs?! They had the best looks in Aht Urhgan. Only reason I even leveled that job was because I wanted to wear sexy pirate gear when idle. Their Abyssea set was amazing.
I'm a big fan of Paladin. Final Fantasy IV was the first RPG I really got into, so Cecil was a favorite of mine for a long time. Furthermore, I really love tanking as a Paladin in FFXIV. Knight is one of the classes that is almost always useful to have.
Past that though, I really like some of the more atypical Jobs from the series. Chemist/Salve Maker is one of those consistantly powerful Jobs that is way too easy to overlook.
Past that though, I really like some of the more atypical Jobs from the series. Chemist/Salve Maker is one of those consistantly powerful Jobs that is way too easy to overlook.
itchyass86
Member
just play ffxi, than boom monk/nin, and you can solo a majority of the game
^ my fav combo as well~
Black Mage for life! Gettin' dem sweet magic bursts off skill chains in FFXI was the best. Not to mention, as a Taru the "cuteness" to "kill things" ratio was off the charts.
Perusing this thread, it makes me so happy to see all the FFXI references. So many great memories from that game, no MMO has matched it for me to date.
Perusing this thread, it makes me so happy to see all the FFXI references. So many great memories from that game, no MMO has matched it for me to date.
1) Puppetmaster: We get a lot of flack for stealing the LOL title from loldrg, but I'd say we're pretty versatile! Plus the automatons are so cute!
2) Summoner
3) White Mage: I had to play healer because none of my friends wanted to in PTs, I played it for so long that I eventually loved it. Stockholm'd for sure -_-
4) Dark Knight
5) Red Mage
The idea of getting skills is fun. But in practice you just stand there and let some monster whack at you while you tab out and browse the internet.
Mystic Knight/Sword Mage/whatever other names they've had.
Sword Magic is great.. Even more so when you've gotten to the point where you can dual wield on non-Ninja jobs. Exploit all the weaknesses!
Summoner is pretty darn close as well, glass cannons of epic proportions, unless it is one of those games where the Summon actually remains active until recalled (post-FFX) then it is even better! Getting to command huge-ass birds, and mermaids, and dragon kings and so on. Too good.
And as an honourable mention, even if plenty of others have already mentioned it.. Blue Mage is cool.
Sword Magic is great.. Even more so when you've gotten to the point where you can dual wield on non-Ninja jobs. Exploit all the weaknesses!
Summoner is pretty darn close as well, glass cannons of epic proportions, unless it is one of those games where the Summon actually remains active until recalled (post-FFX) then it is even better! Getting to command huge-ass birds, and mermaids, and dragon kings and so on. Too good.
And as an honourable mention, even if plenty of others have already mentioned it.. Blue Mage is cool.
It's pretty hard for me to choose and made it very hard to advance in ff14 because I always wanted to be something else.
To me Ninjas, Mystic Knights, monks, regular Knights, white mages and Dragoons are always classes I want around.
FFT made me hate a lot of Mage classes because of the long charge time. A ninja always did the job better in my experience.
Mystic Knights are very underrepresented. IIRC Celes qualifies as one along with maybe a few FFT guests and the combined powers of Vivi and Steiner. Love that they borrowed Minwu's dope design.
Monks are always around in the series until FF10. They are so good early game and have had great representation with Joseph, Yang, Sabin, Tifa, Zell, and Amarant.
Ninjas also have been around and are usually the best class in the game and have some cool characters like Edge, Shadow and Yuffie. We need another ninja main character.
Depending on the game Dragoons are pretty good. Never used them much in FFV. I like the characters that have the dragoon role.
Regular ass Knights and white mages are perhaps nothing fancy, but always reliable to do their job. What main characters are considered a pure knight is a little blurry becaus they will sometimes take elements from other subtypes of Knights to be more interesting. Steiner sticks out as being just a good Knight ass knight. White mages are a little more obvious. While had the white magic spells and some sort of staff or long range weapon. Typically the love interest.
I think if I picked up ff14 again I'd go with monk over my initial choice of dragoon. There are just so many badass monks in the series. Hoping we can return to a day where the ff games have characters with customizable yet defined jobs like FF10, 9 or 6. I want to look at the next black Mage and say "hey that's the black Mage" even if it's not wearing the hat. Sort of like Lulu.
To me Ninjas, Mystic Knights, monks, regular Knights, white mages and Dragoons are always classes I want around.
FFT made me hate a lot of Mage classes because of the long charge time. A ninja always did the job better in my experience.
Mystic Knights are very underrepresented. IIRC Celes qualifies as one along with maybe a few FFT guests and the combined powers of Vivi and Steiner. Love that they borrowed Minwu's dope design.
Monks are always around in the series until FF10. They are so good early game and have had great representation with Joseph, Yang, Sabin, Tifa, Zell, and Amarant.
Ninjas also have been around and are usually the best class in the game and have some cool characters like Edge, Shadow and Yuffie. We need another ninja main character.
Depending on the game Dragoons are pretty good. Never used them much in FFV. I like the characters that have the dragoon role.
Regular ass Knights and white mages are perhaps nothing fancy, but always reliable to do their job. What main characters are considered a pure knight is a little blurry becaus they will sometimes take elements from other subtypes of Knights to be more interesting. Steiner sticks out as being just a good Knight ass knight. White mages are a little more obvious. While had the white magic spells and some sort of staff or long range weapon. Typically the love interest.
I think if I picked up ff14 again I'd go with monk over my initial choice of dragoon. There are just so many badass monks in the series. Hoping we can return to a day where the ff games have characters with customizable yet defined jobs like FF10, 9 or 6. I want to look at the next black Mage and say "hey that's the black Mage" even if it's not wearing the hat. Sort of like Lulu.
bizzarewars
Banned
I think I like Black Mage the most. Aesthetically I just think they have a really nice design most of the time. Just look like Jawas shootin' fireballs. I like Time Mages a lot too, but that's more for their usefulness in combat rather than how they look.
Mentosrock
Member
THIEF.
FF X-2 Thief, best class in any rpg ever.
FF X-2 Thief, best class in any rpg ever.
mistuhcahlos
Member
Dragoon has always been my favorite except for in Tactics where the Calculator can destroy everyone on the battlefield all by himself.
Xion_Stellar
People should stop referencing data that makes me feel uncomfortable because games get ported to platforms I don't like
Archer/Bard for me!
Thou I wouldn't mind if Square-Enix would add Puppetmaster to FFXIV
Thou I wouldn't mind if Square-Enix would add Puppetmaster to FFXIV
CookedChocobo
Member
Ninja, Double/Dual-weilding swords man
Sheriff_Battlesnake
Banned
Dragoon & Dark Knight
Ugh, coolest JRPG characters.