Favorite Job

+1 SAM
-1 COR (flame on)

Black Mage 4
Beastmaster 2
Blue Mage 6
Corsair 9
Dancer 6
Dark Knight 4
Dragoon 6
Monk 5
Ninja 3
Paladin 6
Puppetmaster 4
Ranger 8
Red Mage 6
Samurai 7
Scholar 6
Summoner 4
Thief 8
Warrior 5

with Astrida's vote counted in

Thanks Rangappa, saved me the trouble of updating it.

No offense to any career WHMs out there, but WHM is just a terrible job >.> SCH has most of the same stuff WHM has, only SCH can do it faster, more efficiently, and overall better.

boo :(

WHM is also boring. It's worse than BRD IMO. Also to the previous comment, I have COR now! Not meritted, but I find the roll system kind-of annoying. I'm hoping max Snake-Eye and Fold make it more tolerable. :s

It really depends on who is all using what. For example, on a few of my builds for gkt and polearm sam, need rly high numbers to change anything at all, and if I don't get them, then it doesn't reduce my xhit in the least bit.

And here's why SCH gets my vote.



(All of them are BLMs, except for me, and all of them are tarus except Jocie and me.)

Actually, if you're in a party it won't matter but if you're only doing two different buffs (Like when soloing or Campaigning or what have you), you'll be stuck with the bad roll for the whole time, unless you want to waste a minute to switch out to like Evoker's Roll just to overwrite it.

Well doing the math going from 5hit to 4hit would be a 25% increase (but actually less because have to account for the WS you get from meditate). But even saying 25%, and assuming 65% of dmg on polearm is WS damage and 35% DoT, comes to about 16.25% which is comparable to the DA damage from earlier, also considering the other DDs have more DOT heavy dot/ws ratio than sam, and also would benefit less because 6hit to 5hit is less of an increase than 5hit to 4hit.

Oh I didn't think about it that way. I just figured I'd be there at the keyboard to reroll so why merit it, etc. But that's a neat idea. 1 Random deal's a good idea too. Thanks! :3

Another thing you CORs might want to think about, not really on topic but it's sort of related. Scholar's roll gives a massive boost to Conserve MP when you have an SCH in the party. Something like 25% without lucky roll. It can actually be a lot better on MP than Evoker's Roll because that's a base 45-50% activation rate on Conserve MP. If you're casting a lot of spells (i.e. any mage job), Conserve MP is your friend. And it really shines in places like Einherjar where Sublimation+Scholar's Roll is enough to keep me from having to rest at ALL for the full 30 minute event.

Sorta depends on how fast you are casting how much conserve mp you already have too. And then the luck factor. Since even when it does activate it can still only cut cost by 1/16

Regardless of how useful that particular proc is, it will beat gaining 12 MP or so from Evoker's between casts.

Wiki says 20% Conserve MP averages out to saving about 7% MP overtime. With base Conserve MP (20%), Magnetic Earring (5%), and Scholar's Roll (~25%), that's 50%, or 18% less MP used over time. There's also quite a few pieces with Conserve MP on it scattered around, like Cobra set. Couple that with Light/Dark Arts for 28% less MP used, and Penury/Parsimony to knock off another 50% per cast on bigger nukes/cures, etc, and you have quite an efficient mage.

What happened to the Favorite Job game? ; ;

If I could pick a second favorite I'd go with SMN! :<

Again highly dependent on how fast you are going thru mp.

Assuming you are just as good at rolling evokers as schs you should get 4-5refresh

Now all conserve fractions have equal chance of occuring so if it does activate average savings is 28.125%

Let's say you are throwing out blizzard IVs left and right. With Dark arts up that cost you 158mp.

So with just 25% conserve mp you should save on average 28.4 mp per cast.

Which means it will take 5.7-7.1 tics to recover that much or 17-21.3 seconds. Pretty easy to on average not throw out more nukes than that. Considering hate concerns. And the fact that it has a cast time with fast cast 2 and dark arts up of 6.31 sec and recast of 29.889 sec.

Also if you are using parsimony you are reducing your base mp cost almost by 1/2 of what it was which means you will conserve about 1/2 as much.

So if you aren't zerging chances are evokers will win. Even if you are chances are it will be close. Especially for schs and even more so when they use parsimony

how come i never get invited on skype NO MOE !! ><

I find it funny how these topics end up turning into something totally different. anyway....

rng+1
drk-1

SCH+1
PUP-1

Current:
Black Mage 4
Beastmaster 2
Blue Mage 6
Corsair 9
Dancer 6
Dark Knight 4
Dragoon 6
Monk 5
Ninja 3
Paladin 6
Puppetmaster 3
Ranger 9
Red Mage 6
Samurai 7
Scholar 7
Summoner 4
Thief 8
Warrior 5

+1 Blue Mage
-1 Samurai

I'm a SAM main but *** I can't stand other SAMs >.>

I think this game quickly lost its legitimacy when people started trolling.

Ya i give up keeping track of the votes since its been so derailed but to the people downtalking blm and whm and saying sch is always better; (note im not saying sch isn't better sometimes just that ya'll are giving it too much credit) blm has stun which sometimes can be very useful, and whm has cure 5 that's sort of a big deal givin how little enmity it draws compared to cure 4 and also haste is a pretty big deal too, which is why sch can never make whm or blm obsolete.