The Brutal Truth about EASY jobs in FFXIV

Pointless posturing about what class you play in a video game has risen. Lord above please help me. Lately there has been a tidal wave of people using the term easy jobs to rip down others and form some sort of weird FFXIV social hierarchy of complete and total ridiculousness.

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Timestamps:
0:00 Easiest jobs in FFXIV
0:44 What the easiest jobs supposedly are
1:45 What I want from FFXIV raiding
2:23 PLAY WHAT YOU LOVE, I CERTAINLY DO!
3:11 Spongebob squarepants the job
3:57 All jobs bring the same DPS lol
6:44 So does easy impact performance? No.
7:25 Choose success over failure
9:12 Words of Sagely Wisdom -- kind of

Easy is one of the dumbest terms I hear people use in gaming in general. But in final fantasy 14 this term is the lowest common denominator of pointless elitism.

I want people who are contributing the damage necessary, providing the utility necessary and executing mechanics properly to clear a fight. Boom. Mic drop. That simple.

Let's talk about what jobs other people say are easy.

I’ve genuinely heard over the years that all of the tanks are very easy.
All of the healers can be played by a chimpanzee throwing it’s own at the keyboard. If you play physical ranged, some think you should simply light your character on fire. Summoner also is lumped in with physical ranged in spite of multiple casts and melee range abilities, red mage has been since it’s release heralded as the noob caster. Lastly, Reaper and samurai are the easiest of melee DPS and apparently should feel bad, dragoon barely skims by as barely acceptable.

Meaning the only three that are left are black mage, monk and ninja that I’ve very rarely heard be dabbed on for being easy. So basically, 16 out of the 19 jobs I’ve heard widely be slammed into the dirt for being easy. It’s hard out here man.


Let’s have a mask off moment, going to be real.

Want to know what I enjoy doing in 14 raiding wise? Progging content and clearing content. And when progging I want to play what I want to play, that is scholar or sage, I want to learn the fight, experience the actual thrill of prog which I do enjoy and that sweet satisfaction of a clear. Prog is my favorite part of raiding. Healer prog is brutal and engages me fully.

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Farming? Genuinely bores me. It’s those first few clears that bring me the most joy.
Items? Meh. They’ll be outdated later, other than some unique glam pieces large nothingburger.
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I love Scholar and it’s something that has been in my wheelhouse for a very long time. I swear if you look for a pyramid somewhere that there are in fact hieroglyphs depicting me playing scholar and talking about Selene’s spell speed and attack speed buffs being amazing. I enjoy it very much so I invested the time and beat the pavement with Scholar fight after fight after raid after trial after dungeon after pre-nerf atma grinding fate for literally years. I wanted to play Scholar and so I spent the time and got good at it.

I’m going to be real with you, I’d rather see you play exactly what you want to play than anything else. Get inspired and enjoy it. Like me from personal experience, if I want to play it I will spend the time and improve! That doesn’t make me some special snowflake! That’s normal!

I could not care less if you literally played spongebob quadrahedron pants hamburger flipper the job wacking things with a spatula and referencing spongebob quotes or a job that had a core mechanic of cooking. I say that in earnest. I don’t need to worry about smelling that.

Put simply, I want team mates that get the job done. I don’t care if that’s my static, I don’t care if that’s duty finder, I don’t care if that is party finder groups for extremes. I want people who are contributing the damage necessary, the utility necessary and executing mechanics properly to clear a fight.

But for some reason especially lately there has been a tidal wave of people talking about how easy some jobs are or how hard others are which people are putting on some strange pedestal.

I want to bring up the biggest concerning point about job choice, which is the ability to contribute DPS. And show why this easy thing is ridiculous and then we will move onto what actually matters after.

Let me bring up some actual numbers. Among melee DPS the difference between the highest and lowest DPS is around 300 DPS. Compared to the total 8.5k DPS a samurai who is the top dog that 300 DPS difference is around