Whitemage boring?

[Chrisman182]

Is whitemage a boring job to play?????i assume it would be cause u dont et much action

[Rawls]

control+a
waiting...
waiting....
oh yay i can WS!
Uses WS..
waiting....
waiting.....

melees aren't that much better.. maybe unless you are a PLD or NIN. And BLM is enfeeble... nuke... nuke... nuke... which, with the exception of hate management and the occasional cure, is fairly mindless. Some jobs like THFs though have some strategy involved once you get sneak attack and trick attack.

With WHM you have to moniter everyone's hp, manage hate, throw a couple buffs/debuffs so its a pretty busy job with only red mage and BRD being busier imho. But I think you should still level up a few (diverse) jobs so you could take a break every now and then despite class choices. One person i my LS has about 4 jobs at lvl 30 which i also think is his highest.

And before i get flamed, i understand that being a melee can include things other than just waiting to hit your WS (or berserk and such JAs) depending on your play style and at times can be equally if not more involving when you are in a particularly good (or bad) pt.

[Arturo-B]

In 57 levels I've never been bored. As healer, your attention is more required than any other job I think. If you aren't paying attention, people die. And that's just the heals. Throw in removal of status effects and it's one of the more interesting jobs. Just because you're not sitting there hitting the monster doesn't mean you aren't working.

Most busy jobs certainly I'd put as brd and rdm. But I think whm and pld certainly get kept on their toes as well.

[Rones]

I tried melee, was too bored and switched to a mage. If anything, mages are the busiest jobs and least boring.

[riceburner4540]

sometimes it can be boring being a mage (especially black mage) but most of the boredom comes not from doing little or no work, its from the tedious nature of it. even busy jobs like whm can be boring since you do the same thing over and over. there's always something that keeps you on your toes though, like once in boyahda...my role is to elemental-enfeeble and nuke pretty much...healing is easily taken care of by rdm and whm. our puller is a rng...we never get links so sleeping is not needed.

so he comes running towards our camp (higher ground, accessible via ramp) with a robber crab...but out of nowhere, an old goobbue spawns near the ramp, which would be instant death for the rng and my party had he ran up so he's stuck down there dying. blm to the rescue! throw on a blink, cast a III spell on the crab and i pulled the crab to our party, then sneak/invis on the rng so he can get back to camp safely.

or in the eldieme necropolis, F-5 entrance doing papyrus. at the very bottom of the stairs to the right is 2 large rooms with 2 mummies, kas, and lichs each connected by a tunnel. camp in the tunnel pull lichs from left and right rooms to annihilate. our party went through them very quickly, and would have to wait for respawns so i decided to pull from a nearby room (2 lichs, 2 mummies, close vicinity). pull lich with silence, get whacked once, bind, move, sneak, run back to camp. mage jobs are only boring if you let it be

[Kopitiam]

WHm is so fun... you decide how to spend your mana pool to chain.. what spell to cast effectively to lower wastage... when to DC? when to do ES (if you're a blm sub)? 3 melee being attacked which to heal 1st? the art of healing w/o getting aggro the art of handling 'add' mobs w/o death...teleport...

melee? INC... CNTrl -A... wait wait wait... tp100.. WS... then wait again... /yawn oh yeah throw in some 'fun buttons' to play with like SA, jump etc..

[Dux]

Originally posted by Kopitiam
melee? INC... CNTrl -A... wait wait wait... tp100.. WS... then wait again... /yawn oh yeah throw in some 'fun buttons' to play with like SA, jump etc..

HeHe. I just love the over simplification of other peoples job.

I personally don't play Mellee classes because I don't like that style of play (I love using magic to do my dirty deeds) but I am not sure that saying "Mellee only use 3 buttons " is particualry fair. It is also likely to upset any Mellee who are reading this board.

[Icemage]

I think it all depends on what you enjoy. If you like being able to watch the action on-screen... then yeah, WHM could be boring. I can't remember the last time I was able to actually watch an entire skillchain animation on-screen. I'm too busy staring at the battle log to make sure I'm doing my job right. :sweat:

As far as being busy, WHM gets very busy as you gain levels and have access to more and more spells (for a real test of your ability to handle being busy, try fighting Torama or Cockatrice while playing WHM/BRD ).

Very busy jobs (when played well):
RDM
WHM
BRD
PLD
NIN
BST (Only when solo. BST in parties are rare, but fall into the "not so busy" category when they are partied)
THF

Somewhat busy jobs:
RNG (if for no other reason than they have to /shoot every time they want to activate a ranged attack)
SMN
BLM

Not so busy jobs:
SAM
DRG
MNK
DRK
WAR


Icemage

[Kopitiam]

Originally posted by Dux


HeHe. I just love the over simplification of other peoples job.

I personally don't play Mellee classes because I don't like that style of play (I love using magic to do my dirty deeds) but I am not sure that saying "Mellee only use 3 buttons " is particualry fair. It is also likely to upset any Mellee who are reading this board.

LOL sorry if i've offended the melees, but from my point of view...

"Wow. he's a good damage dealer melee." Generally i dun think it's much of how he plays but rather what he has. Perhaps a 30/70 % ratio.

"Wow. he's a good healer". Ok. in this case.. it's more of a how the whm plays than what he's wearing. 70/30 ratio.

This is more of my point. Of course it doesn't applies to all magic user or all melee.. it's just a general opinion of mine. i've grouped and i know PLD do indeed need to know how to take control of his aggro and stuff. Poor one will make mob kept turning to you or other melee... change a PLD and he's able to stick his hate on mob.

[blueoakleyz]

Yes playing WHM IS boring
and if Melees aren't much less boring, then this whole game is going to be boring to you

[Ariagiovanni]

Every job is boring, it just comes down to which job is less boring to you. I love playing WHM. I can't explain why, and I don't know if anyone can explain why they like playing it, but I find it very enjoying. Boring, yes.

[Tifa]

Every job has repitition to it. I pretty much cast the same spells every battle now.

Haste
Regens
Cures
Haste someone else
repeat...

Sometimes, yes, it's kinda depressing, but you gotta think about what you want to do in the end-game. Leveling up is only the process to get there.

Try to think ahead I guess. If the way to get there is so bad that it overcomes the actual end-game itself, then you probably wanna rethink your decision.

[Miriamel]

Originally posted by Icemage

Very busy jobs (when played well):
RDM
WHM
BRD
PLD
NIN
BST (Only when solo. BST in parties are rare, but fall into the "not so busy" category when they are partied)
THF

Somewhat busy jobs:
RNG (if for no other reason than they have to /shoot every time they want to activate a ranged attack)
SMN
BLM

Not so busy jobs:
SAM
DRG
MNK
DRK
WAR

Icemage

Actually, most BSTs I know join BST-only PTs.. apparently solo EXP at higher levels is awfully slow. But even soloing BSTS are not *that* busy. Find pet, let it attack a mob, heal when in need of MP, help kill the mob, find new pet if dead.

THF I would probably put in the somewhat busy category - during pulls and fuidama they can always watch TV if they wanted to.

Oh, and I think how busy a job is also depends on their sub muchly - DRK subbing THF at 60+ has fuidama to worry about, and a WAR subbing NIN will be rather busy with Utsusemi.

Oh and Tifa, have you leveled in Den of Rancor yet? If not, your list will soon be extended with Poisona, Stona, Silena + Erase.

[Karinya]

How busy a WAR is depends on whether or not they are tanking. Theoretically this is true of MNK too, but in practice most MNK stop tanking even at moderate levels because of a lack of high DEF gear (and/or they don't want to keep a separate set of tank gear even if they could). I don't know if this actually makes them ineffective tanks or if people just think it does - they still have high VIT, better evasion than WAR or PLD and Counter - but if they're not tanking for whatever reason, they're not so busy.

All of the "not so busy" jobs get a bit busier at higher levels, but don't catch up to the really busy jobs (bards, mages, tanks).

SAM, DRK and WAR can also pull sometimes, which makes them a bit less boring.

I wouldn't call THF "very busy" though - they have to do one thing every minute (unless they're also pulling which is reasonably often, but that applies to other jobs too). It's important that they do it right, but it's still only once a minute, it doesn't compare to the frantic pace of rdm or brd who often have more things to do than they have time to do them in.

[Jaggywaggy]

I agree being one myself, thief being very busy? I would say moderately, but I'll say this. It's critical we're on our game during the whole start of the battle especially, we can set or ruin the battle tone.

I played WM to 31 so far just for fun. It's not the most exciting job to me, but I don't find it boring. Do I need a break from it? Yep absolutely like every job though.

Finding ninja(as a blink tank) to be the most demanding job so far with wm close behind.

ninja-->wm-->warrior-->thief-->blm---> ranger. This is based of only the jobs I've taken 18-45.

Really though I think you'll get bored of any job eventually. I love leveling several jobs, and I enjoy leveling subs.