This will vary and differ from player to player.
Originally Posted by Ralphe2449
So if you were to rank DPS classes in terms of difficulty to play optimally, how would you rank them?
- Uptime Difficulty
Melee's and BLM, requiring positionals, preposition, dealing with boss movement. Specially if you consider FFXIV to house a bit more content then just Endwalker's P567 and 8 Savage.- Optimization Difficulty
DNC often deemed a easy job, suddenly becomes extremely difficult when you try to optimize it.- Speed to learn said Job
How fast rotation/raidbuff/burst alignment/openers/skill name and symbols/muscle memory/standing still to DPS is learned and clicks with players presents a difficulty.- CPM/APM (Casts/Actions per minute)
Here you'll find MCH and NIN at the top for example,- Most buttons to bind or press
BLM I consider the most difficult job, yet it has very little buttons to press or bind in comparison to some other DPS jobs.- Job with most long Casts
Here you'll find to BLM at the top, but to my surprise for example? SAM being higher then SMN. Many will find this also to be easy while others find slide-casting Iaijutsu to be challenging when it's not 2nd nature.- Ping
Some jobs actually become more difficult to play properly when a player has bad ping. MCH probably at the top of that.Most, some or all of the above can affect difficulty of playing a Job optimally. You'll need some amount of statistics from a credible source to back up why x is at x difficulty cause there's more then just " x Job does x number performance there for x easy ". That's a bit of a linear way of looking at it.
- The hardest I believe is BLM.
- Then DNC naturally due to its Kit
- Then MNK and NIN probably at the top
- Then DRG in the middle
- RPR and SAM at the bottom of the Melee's.
- BRD harder to play, though not as hard to optimize as DNC.
- Followed by RDM
- MCH/SMN easiest to optimize.
**Though I could be severely wrong**
and also players opinions can differ because difficulty is subjective. A survey somewhere with a good sample size might help this topic, preferably something recent. Or of course good ole FFlogs as a source.
Originally Posted by Ralphe2449
