Where my Lancers at?Follow

I am on the fence, personally. I have some high hopes for Lancer, but I am very tired of being poor in FFXI. I was never very good at making gil in XI, so I may start as a Armorsmith this time, if for no other reason I might actually have gil to work with when I get to Lancer.

Part of me wonders if SE will overcompensate for how bad Dragoon was in FFXI, and accidentally make Lancer overpowered :P

Traitor!!!

I laughed so much that I decided to grant you Scholar.




















Please don't hurt me! I'm probably gimped and I don't even know it yet!

DRG being my favorite job of FFXI, it just makes sense to pick Lancer to start with in FFXIV.

Haha yes. Scholar. I think my threat to your lances paid off. xD

Well actually... I'm wondering if I could combine Marauder and Lancer together. I guess it all depends on the abilities, but I'm still pretty confused about how you actually are categorized into classes... If I equipped a lance, would that make me a Lancer? And if that's the case, how would I be able to customize my character? Class-specific armor? =.=
Maybe a Lance in one hand and Huge Axe in the other... (\(^ .^ )/) Hurr hurr.

I have my mind set on Lancer. Ever since the days of Secret of Mana, I found the weapon quite cool.
And after all that healing, nuking and summoning in FFXI I need a change~

I wonder how Jump will look like. FFXI's instant Jump wasn't too bad imo, but a little too fast.

2 cents~

Dunesfolk Lancer. /salute.

Lancer's going to be my main DoW job, but I plan on starting as Fisherman and Culinarian in the interest of making money.

I also plan on being a Roegadyn from Limsa Lominsa with Llymlaen as my deity of choice. It's my understanding her symbol is the harpoon.

I will surely start with a Disciple of War, and explore a bit before moving to Disciples of Land or Hand. As for which fighting class, I am still to decide between Lancer or Pugilist.

Correct me if wrong!

If I understood right, Lancer are mainly piercing damage, as attack monsters in front of the character, also they can boost TP, and HP regen and have a low crowd control (forcing targets to attack allies, canceling their TP generation and reducing speed of Flying monsters). Can they attack flying monsters? or just slow them down by area effect.

As for Pugilist, they have higher aggro control (can taunt), can use TP to regen HP, can steal, they are close range, have little area damage, but have higher critical and stun effects.

So, if I am right, Pugilist might be a better pick to duo with an archer, right? because of the taunt and high enmity skills? might be of a bigger help to prevent the archer from getting aggro...?

:) Any opinions will help, my husband will play a Archer and I want a class that will be of help, I am a bit worried about the close range/long range problem, so I need a class that will keep some aggro to prevent me from running after the monster while my husband runs away from it... this kind of situations can be deadly for both of us :P

:) Thank you for the reply, reading other people opinions help a lot in my decision and so far PUG seems like the best option, at least until we get to join a guild/linkshell and get to party more, then I can try out Lancer :D I am so curious about that class, and spears/lance rock!

Conjurer Infiltration!!!

The Conjurer casts Meteor on the Lancer forum!

The Lancer forum takes massive damage

Lancer's baby!! Pierce Womens hearts and armour!

I plan on being a lancer main, though I reserve the right to change my mind once I actually get the chance to play. It looks to be a fairly active job (which is good; I like active jobs), and seems to have a lot of potential to be able to adapt to varied situations (also good; I enjoy being the group troubleshooter).

What I'm really hoping is that crafting will be more... crafty this time around. I'd like to get into a craft or two, but I'm not too big a fan of the "press button -> end product" approach to crafting, and the "use magic crystals to create items from raw mats" theme in XI made it even worse.

To add a new wrinkle to the original question:

Are all of you going to literally "start" with Lancer? I'll elaborate:

I'm envisioning Lancer being my main class. That being said, I want to play the class in a very particular manner, and that will likely involve drawing some abilities from other classes. I've got this healing Lancer thing in mind, and to make that a reality, I'd presumably be required to level up Conjurer or Thaumaturge in order to have access to those abilities from the get-go when I break out the spear.

So I'm thinking that I might start with one of the mage classes, in order to unlock some basic curative magic, before switching to Lancer. I'd level those mage classes until I either reached the cap level for porting over abilities, or I got bored, and then I'd move on to my main class.

Anybody else have any such plans? I know it'd pain me to start as a mage (I HATE being a squishy caster!) but I feel like it'd help me enjoy Lancer more once I inevitably switch to it. That way, I can play my hybrid Lancer/Healer properly.

I totally agree!

Freya's abilities in FFIX:



There's some awesome curative/debuffing potential there. It'd work great as part of a Lancer/Conjurer/Thaumaturge hybrid.


PS: I think you mean "tactical", not "tactile" :P


Edited, Jul 16th 2010 1:02pm by Eske

Can not wait to get my lance on and go own me some critters yeee doggy.... get r done.

Aye, that was pleasant news, since I was planning on starting there anyway. I'll save on gas, at least.

Ditto. I was going to start in Gridania no matter what, so this is good news.

I'll probably give a few of the jobs a "Level 1-20" (whatever the equivalent to that is in XIV) rundown before I settle on one. A lot of them hold no interest for me (marauder, conjurer), and the DoL/DoH jobs will depend entirely on how well-implemented crafting is this time around. Gladiator is in the running for my "main" job just based on party role, and pugilist sounds like it might be interesting enough to consider despite not really digging the whole punching-monsters-the-size-of-Godzilla thing. Those two will definitely get a workout (along with lancer) before I settle on one to level.



That's where I plan on starting (unless one of the other starting areas jumps out and demands that I start there). Story-wise I'll be playing a Duskwight Elezen who got a bit sick of the insular nature of his people and wound up in LL. I doubt I'll make him a full-fledged pirate, but he'll be a bit on the scurvy side of things. Any more solid character development that will have to wait until I know more about the world.

Heyas peoples, I haven't read much about the game but non the less here I come. Lalafell lancer. Anyways, it seems lancer will be able to do some sort of SATA with Ferocity, Collusion and Overrun. I hope they stack. And I have a question, so in this game we won't have subs? Will it be only one job that we will be able to expand by playing different Jobs?

I sure will, this class looks sweet!

No I'll most likely starting in Limsa Lominsa too

I'll definitely be rolling as a lancer from day 1.

Dude your in a lancer fanboy thread... of course we're all going to say lancer is the way to go...

With that being said... LANCER ALL THE WAY!!!!!