Best/worst Jobs After 13 Years

While SMN was never top-tier, it was quite a strong job for HNMs and such at 75-cap.

Beyond that, we have abyssea, which made the strength of jobs less about the strength, and more about who has the most procs.

Then we have voidwatch, this event is the only alliance event that put smn in bottom tier. Well, atleast when they introduced the ridiculous temp items that became easily refreshable. The first installation of VW was quite tough, and SMN served as a decent damage dealer if I recall.

Then came legion and new dynamis, and we all know what became of SMN at that point, for the better part of it. It became very useful, but kinda for bad reasons.

Then we come to Adoulin, I quit around this time so how SMN fared here dealing with early delve, I wouldn't really know. We come to the point where it is now though, and from what I've seen it is quite a powerful job.

Anyway, point is, while it's never been top-tier (not sure if that has changed at this point), it's not been ****-tier for the most part, either. Well, I guess it was for single-party events, but eh.

Oh my god this. I still, to this day, know my way around the Cauldron like the back of my hand. I probably made about the same, if not more, as you did (because I mined as well)

The best jobs are the support jobs. They are the biggest source of damage in an alliance, due to giving massive acc, atk, and haste buffs.

Why are people shitting on GEO?
Is it the bottle cap hat?

WHM/DNC

Good DD
Great Heals
Stun ***
Afflatus Solace
Afflatus Misery
Hexastrike
Laughs in the face of Silence and Amnesia (only one at a time though)

Echo drops and Ecphoria Ring

The best job is one played by a competent player with sufficient gear to successfully complete the task in front of them.

I don't care if you're a PUP, if you're good, you're good.

Most of what I have seen listed here consists of jobs that people consider essential. Do WHM, BRD, COR, and GEO help? Hell yes. Would I prefer to have one or more in an ilvl event I wished to complete? Yes.

The difference here, though, is that a lot of players won't deviate from the cookie-cutter bandwagon-job-of-the-moment and let others demonstrate their proficiency in their job of choice.

I main RDM and RUN. Yeah, go ahead and laugh, I don't care. :D

Do I consider those jobs the best? Depends on circumstances. More consider GEO to be the master of debuffs, mainly because of game mechanics that make geomancy bubbles unresistable. That definitely helps, but RDM can do things a GEO can't do. Just like GEO can do stuff RDMs can't do.

RUN is definitely awesome for getting people random clears in Abyssea. Yeah, that may be inconsequential to YOU, but it certainly makes the new or returning player who needs that clear very happy. It's arguable whether a decently geared PLD vs a decently geared RUN is the better tank, IMO- against a single target, they're equal, but against a group it takes a very skilled/geared RUN to match a paladin.

All that said, there really is no "best". The best job is the one you play best.

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Don't forget, for a few months drg was the uncontested top DD, spamming Penta Thrust and getting ~60tp returns. I know a lot of people don't like to think about those dark times......

like those people who thinkg "front line jobs suck for that!" when it comes to things like WoE, and even vagary, everything is up for opinion. when it comes to actual field experience with players that play their jobs according to what players/jobs theyre with, youll find that opinions of any matter are subject to ones ability. a dd support and a healer is FAR better and faster than 3 pet jobs in those zones, when all three are performing as they should. so when thinking about which jobs are the "best", using your opinion based on completely irrelevant info, and/or based on horrible performance of jobs that should be supporting said job, please consider that there is no best job, but rather, good/bad players playing good/bad jobs with/without good/bad support.

Why you not talking about my Apoc DRK? Best DPS ever.

There is no reasoning with a pig.

I understood that reference.