What job is most needed?Follow

I want to know your opinions about this: Which job do you think is the most unplayed and do we need more players filling it?

Mages and bards come to mind rather quickly. Everytime I whip out my BRD a lot of people go: Wow a BRD and grab me...

Ok I saw a lot Brd/Thf that didnt get picked before me.... I wonder why... I even saw Brd/Nin (a little bit better than Brd/Thf) and Brd/War

Summoners? I havent seen a lot lately... I loved the blue little Carbuncle for pulling and nothing spells blink tanking like Garuda for a PLD.

So what do you think?

The list varies acording to level. There are more BRD's kicking around the lower levels, just kind of playing around, same with alot of other jobs. From what I have seen the most needed jobs post 40 would be

RDM~Refresh at 41, nuff said, and their excellent array of debuffs

BRD~Again refresh ability (ballad), and a whole host of other nifty group buffs, as well as some good debuffs. BRD is an undersung hero at the best of times, due to mostly ignaorance, alot of people will place RDM (Refresh) over BRD, as refresh is better up to LVL 55 <?> when BRD get balladII, and after that people still tend to think RDM first out of habit.

WHM~While RDM *can* act as a main healer, its often much more plausable and convieniant to use a WHM, as they are simply better.

This list is by no means in any particular order, but I would have to say that RDM tends to take the lead a little more. Parties again, the *optimun* most efficient party set up would tend to dictate the "most needed" and as there are afew jobs absultly needed to form teh "best" party.

Alot of people prefer melee combat over mage/brd support, that and there are jsut more melee jobs to choose from, making mage/brd a little harder to come by.

SMN has a bad rap, they have useful abilities, but are not a very good contributer in the "best" setup. While blink and enthunder group buffs are nice, I would rather have a BRD or RDM in their place as I personally have had SMN parties that have much more downtime with a SMN than a BRD or RDM.

Basically party will look like this

WHM
RDM <BRD> but RDM will more often take precidence over BRD
PLD
BLM
RNG,BLM
Any other heavy DMG player, or RDM & BRD scenario only if the DD roles are filled out nicely with BLM or RNG

===EDIT===There are many variables affecting this as well, some times at any given level there is a surplus of any "needed" job,.



Edited, Wed Sep 1 17:16:41 2004 by DexxH

BRD is probably the hardest player to find when trying to put together a party. I have a feeling that any job that tends to contribute healing in some fashion is hard to find simply because these players feel they have to hide in /anon mode when they aren't seeking. The WHMs in my LS complain quite often about being asked by random strangers to PL them. I can imagine that RDMs, BLM/WHMs, BRD/WHMs and SMN/WHMs also have the same problem.

I'd hate to label any job as being a high-demand job though. I just hate the thought of seeing more Diva players out there.

Hands down, Bard.

I think what a bard can contribute really is quite substantial to a party's efficiency. Melee songs, mage songs, everyone's happy. I've also noticed that when we have a BRD in party, we're able to exp on mobs that a PT without a BRD would have a little trouble with. It does make a pretty big difference. However, being a BLM, getting a BRD and RDM usually means no WHM (( and no Raise II or III )) for any of us. ._.;

It'd be nice to have more Bards around, I think... but it's just not a job that everyone can be interested in. For me, I tried my hand at it, I have a BRD11 to my name. I had a mini-set PT for her, but plans fell through and I just didn't feel like going on. o.O; So.. yeah. Bards, bards, bards!

/poke Miao

It will be interesting how neenja fair in teh patch. Blink tanks arn't very great when all their shadow are wiped out ; ;

Now, I haven't been fortunate (( or unfortunate? )) enough to see something like *that*. @.@; On the times I play, there are usually one or two Bards on seek, and usually snapped up in a matter of minutes. So you can understand why I said that. ^^

As for the BLM/RDM/BRD combo, yes, it is indeed effective, and no one really plans on dying... However, I do happen to be in a semi-set PT with my PLD friend and mistakes do happen. I really don't like seeing him die, only to receive a Raise I. x.X; Other than that, I do so love that combo simply because Ballad + Refresh + other MP regenning tools = a whole lot of MP per tic. That'd make any BLM happy, I say! ^^

scarily enough I was considering playing Bard just for something different.. but out of the jobs I've tried so far I always come back to WHM..

or BST when I want to be left alone. :-P

I guess it cheers me to keep on singing! (wait my voice is sooooooo ugly) *puts a flute there* Ah bliss!

I wish SE had spent more time on the BRDs voices (well singing) It sjust terrible to hear (although you should never hear the voice of a BRD) we have instruments for something.

and of course RDM or a BARD is the most needed.... magic finale and dispel are essential to every party, fighting robbercrabs, beetles or any mobs that give itself buffs... (which is almost every mob) so if your level 41+ and dont have a rdm or bard in your party expect troubles or extreme downtime,
the arguement between whether a bard is better than a rdm or vice versa is all up to how the player uses their character, a strong melee rdm can add up damage, while a bard can power up the melees attacks, it mostly depends on equip and the player
but in my eyes i like a bard to boost my acc and att. ^^

I think Monk is the most needed
>_>
<_<
...right? :(
Nah seriously I think it'd be nice to start seeing decently equipped Monks, there's so few of them...a little piece of me dies when I see a ****** Monk, but people like Aoda and Watusa keep me going strong^^

Edited, Tue Sep 7 22:19:55 2004 by Croenen

I dont know if you remeber dude but on that boat trip with the sea horror there were actually 3 WAR/NINs >< (Including me)
excluding the one who stayed on the pier who was easily 70+!

I've noticed a lot of Pld's in the 50's recently It seems almost every time I get on and "Find Member" I get a few "DD's" a few Mages and a bunch of plds. Recently I did a find member in all areas 6 out of 13 people looking were plds. I gotta agree with BRD SMN RDM or BLM though, never enough of them on.

Lakshmi server = PLDs and DRKs {fact}
First it was the wave of DRKs, then came the PLDs >.<