So You Need Help Choosing a Job in FFXIV... (Endwalker 6.1)

"Don't ask me how a reaper is healing people." I thought this was self explanatory. Death is a high potency cure for everything

The sprout sitting down to watch the sage animations was cute 🥺

SMN in ShB: longest and most convoluted rotation in the game SMN in EW: “hehe clap clap clap slap slap slap”

As a Lalafel Machinist, I've embraced the "they were always so quiet/kept to themselves" serial killer energy we give off.

Healers -- "This is the perfect roll for you if the idea of trying a Carolina Reaper fills you with ecstasy or if your main goal in life is to solve everyone elses problems but never your own." I have never felt so personally attacked in a video before.

I was going through an identity crisis after leveling half my jobs to 90 and I wasn't sure what to play. Thank you so much for this video! I'm even more conflicted now.

Mch: "Though this job is potentially a serial killer..." EXCUSE ME LUCY, I am NOT a serial killer. I prefer the title "professional war crime committer". As they say, 1 death is a tragedy. 1000 is a good start.

The speeded up jump animations have changed the feel of playing Dragoon from sleepwalking to having ADHD. Before when I pressed the jump button I could go make myself a cup of tea and come back by the time the animation sequence was over. Now my every other attack is a jump since you can just throw one in while your next combo attack is still in gcd.

Me: has played for 5 years Also me: watches in detail and takes notes

“Should I play a melee, ranged, or healer?!” RDM: “Yes.”

As a warrior main, i was offended at you claiming we are too powerful. We are not. We need more dmg. More Heal. MORE AXE.

I heard kaiten mentioned and I blacked out, only coming to realizing my room was torn apart. Posters on the floor, keyboard smashed, bed torn to shreds. Tears covered every inch of the scene, and, as I gained consciousness, the depression that square enix envoked upon me came rushing back, only to leave me sobbing quietly on the ground. A broken, empty husk. So yeah, great video as always Lucy!

Tanking in this game is incredibly easy. If you're just starting to tank, give it a month or two and you'll start ignoring mechanics in dungeons to get vuln ups so you can feel something.

For those coming from WoW or other games where there are "wrong job" Fear not, FF14 balance is overall very good and, especially with the last change from this patch which solved a few "annoying quirk" a few jobs had. Every content, can be cleared with any mix of job provided you have one of each role, tank, heal, melee, range, caster. Even healer can actually go as double shield or double pure and clear everything, beside, maybe, ultimate. The only thing that should be relevant in your choosing of a job is your enjoyement. If you play well, you will never be a burden to your team. Similarly no job will compensate your lack of skill. Every jobs are within a few % of each others, and while it is true that a "meta comp" would perform better than one with all the "worst" of each role. That would actually end up being a difference of only a few percent. That can be a deal breaker if you aim for week 1 clear (like world race basically), but in general, a few pieces of gear will offset that easily. Follow your dream, listen to your heart, and do your best. Source: myself, triple legend with almost every weird comp you could dream off because I value the enjoyement of my team.

I’m not mad at the caffeine call out for gunbreaker, I’m just a little bit embarrassed that she’s completely right

"Your main goal in life is to solve everyone else's problems, but never your own." ... Yea... you know, I might just be a healer main... well, at least I'll finally start getting commends in roulettes

9:29 the race clothes Au Ra just walking up and sitting to watch you rotate is so precious :')

For those new or who might want to know what the deal with that "last class" is at 21:17. It's Blue Mage(BLU)! A Caster DPS that can't do content that exceeds lvl70 (At current that's any content from Shadowbringers and Endwalker) or is designated as a "roulette", can only sign up for content with a pre-made party or solo, doesn't learn it's skills through leveling, and is a master class at old content it has access to and content in the open world(they also can't access PVP and a few other things like deep dungeons, basically, if it would require match making, it's a no go for BLU). It's rotation is simple and has quite a bit of DPS when it's rotation is needed. It involves using many stacking buffs and oGCDs at once as well as debuffs on the enemy to maximize damage and then entering a burst phase of high damage moves, and then entering a lower damage "cool down" phase until you can do it again. I say when it's needed for the rotation because the biggest draw of BLU as a class it's ability to insta kill trash enemies with little difficulty. Legitimately it's two button presses maybe one and an entire pack of enemies dies. But beware! These cheap tactics don't work on mightier foes such as some bosses and mid tier enemies. If you want the powerful skills such foes can provide you then your best come prepared! All this how ever is something you will have to work for, as BLU learns it's spells from killing the enemies that have recently used them (and a few unlocked freebies that are gotten for unlocking the class and acquiring a certain amount of achievements like learning a few skills ECT.). Which enemies? Well you gotta kill em and find out!(or look up a list of what gives what on the internet and go through it like a check list, that's okay too!) It's also has it's own set of mini-game repeatable solo instances called "The Masked Carnivale" that add new twists and challenges to the combat system and gives tomestones and other goodies as well al a leader board of the weekly top scores by other player to try and beat. They are the only class that can replace the Healer and tank rolls fully for prolonged periods of time, even whole dungeons and trials(IF you have the right skills learned)! Their aesthetic is best described as "masked stage magician who does daring tricks". Which is appropriate as their biggest tricks are clearing old dungeons on their own and making FATES disappear! It becomes unlock-able after the MSQ for the base game has been completed (you will have seen the credits or bought a skip to an expansion) if you have a class at LVL50, and starts at LVL1. I suggest looking for leveling guides, but all the normal methods of leveling (save those that require you be randomly matched with other people through duty finder) are available. They also get a BOOST to EXP from normal (no fate or guild leves) enemies. I recommend picking it up and unlocking everything on it (it will take you about in afternoon or two in my experience) if you ever need to grind something from the stormsblood expansions or older and want a fresher (and maybe shorter) time of it. ESPECIALLY if you have 4-8 friends willing to help you out with leveling and skill gets. Also if you really like the games solo instance but wished they were more complicated mechanically or re-playable. Tips from an old BLU: if you have the maximum people in your party for an instance, you can "sync" (lowering your level to the dungeons) it and it greatly ups the chance of getting the skill. Also if you have many BLUs in your party trying to get a spell, if one BLU gets it, they ALL get it provided they were alive when the enemy died, were on BLU, and they had attacked the enemy a decent amount of times (4-10).

I keep hearing "It has a nacho progression of ramping up the difficulty bit by bit" in regards to Dragoon as a starting job And I still think it makes sense because nachos start easy to eat and slowly get messier.

So sad Lucy has to put a disclaimer. Your humor is genius keep it up. Great show with Mr happy also