Suggestions on choosing a FFXIV job

When I started to play FFXIV, I don’t know how to choose a job for myself. This doesn’t mean I don’t have a job, but I feel some jobs are boring, and some others are not suitable for me. This question has bothered me for a long time. If anyone could give me some suggestions, they would be highly appreciated. I need to stick with a job or class as it may ruin my gaming exp.

Previously, I have played Thief, Assassin and Rogue classes. They are active, stealthy, mobile and fast. However, there is no such a class in FFXIV. Though Thief is a well-known class in Final Fantasy XIV.

Now, my character reaches level 36 WHM, 17 LNC, 12 PGL, 12 THM, 33 ARC and 14 ACN. I have twisted on choosing Dragoon, Monk or Bard. I haven’t decide yet.

I can't play on Hyperion until one day one of my friend told me that  he has leveled a dragoon to 40. He played alone on a Japan Server. How awesome his job is.

I know at this stage my FF exp has totally stalled. But I still want to go forward with my story line and go on.


 For Bard, the animations looks so cool and I like the ranged DPS so much. The Archer quest line is so gorgeous. However, I prefer to the freedom of mobile ranged DPS. But Bard is not able to stand the artifact armor. The Titan bow is especially disgusting and other bows look so awful. What is the most eagerest is that my server is filled with Bards, which is not good for my hipster gene.

For Monk, I always lost my Monks. But Monks are so quick, mobile and the speed of their strikes are faster than big nuke damage. The artifact armor and weapons are better than that of Dragoon. I like the attacks of Monks very much. However, when I played several days, I found they seemed too time costly to play. It is too unforgiving job and really hard to play. It seems that Monk has every single barrier which makes DPS frustrating. The melee ranged, complex rotation and DOT maintenance make the DPS dropping like a brick if there is something wrong. It is quite challenging to play as a Monk. I think only skilled MMOs could play Monk well. Compared Monk with Dragoon, Dragoon is more fun and more casual to play. I really don’t want to buy FFXIV Gil to own good armor to level Monk.

For Dragoon, the jumps and armor are really cool but they are so ordinary. And I know from other players Dragoon has bad reputation. I am a person who cares reputation a lot. And I know the melee DPS is awful compared to range. If I don’t switch class, I can’t level higher, which bothers a lot and make me frustrated for a long time. The benefits to choose Dragoon are that they have good weapons, powerful abilities, good quests and great armor. The weaknesses are damn gene and melee in FFXIV are totally different animal than ranged.   You can buy cheap ffxiv gil from ssegold.com.

Dragoon has higher DPS and more forgiving than Monk. And they are really powerful PVP.

So far, I feel cool to play as Monk but get frustrated as it is really difficult.