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In this video, I’ll tell you all you need to know about each of the four casters in FFXIV Dawntrail – Pictomancer, Summoner, Red Mage and Black Mage – to help you pick one to play. We’ll go over some key actions, playstyle, difficulty and quirks that make each job unique. This video is not a tierlist that’s ranking the jobs by how strong they are, but simply a comparison of their playstyle.
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00:00 Introduction
00:15 Pictomancer
03:45 Summoner
07:20 Sponsor
08:50 Red Mage
12:45 Black Mage
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Posted 18 min ago LMAO I've just decided to level a caster next and decided to check a comparison guide 😂😂
Not subbed but Algorithm brought me here less than 40 mins after upload.
Picto, next question.
Where's FSH?
Summoner is just the cuckolded version of Red Mage. Cant multi raise, doesnt have party mitigation, its heal doesnt scale off of its main stat and it literally does less damage. Red Mage can do every single thing Summoner can do but better and even more.
I have played almost solely summoner sice i started when endwalker hit. And i liked its looks and flow, but definitely wanted more and the solar bahamut is not it.
I decided ti branch out and start trying the other casters. Leveled up blm to 70, and just unlocked pct. I definitely think caster is for me even thiugh ive not even unlocked any melee or tanks haha. Red mage seems fun.
I would have loced ti stay smn but they just kinda didnt make it any more fun this expansion
None of them, FF14 sucks. For the love of God, try WoW. The gameplay is so much more fun.
Leveled blm: "I adore this i am now a BLM main"
Leveled pictomancer : "I am a caster main"
Have gotten Picto, Black Mage, and Summoner to level 100 of the caster DPS so far. Mained Picto for MSQ and love it to death. Summoner is the same as it was in Endwalker. Enjoyed it then and enjoy it now. I just wish that the Demi summons had a bit more uniqueness to them. Black Mage is in quite a sad state. Like, it isn't unplayably bad after some of the patch changes, but it is so sad. Still need to levek Red Mage from 90 to 100, but I don't expect it to have changed much from Endwalker so it should be a good time.
I haven't leveled Black Mage yet in Dawntrail so I've not personally experienced the changes post 90 but I have leveled all the other casters to 100 and it's honestly not even close. Pictomancer is such a fun job to play that it was actually hard for me to level other jobs because I just wanted to level it more. In fact, the only job that I've enjoyed playing as much as Pictomancer…is Viper! SE really cooked with these new jobs and I've gotta say that I actually really like the changes that they made to Viper in 7.05 as the job feels silky smooth in action. But back to the casters, I honestly found that Red Mage is the most boring to play which surprised me as Summoner is essentially the same job as before but I just found Red Mage to be very ineffective at movement as compared to all the other casters. Pictomancer has super long cast times but with a little practice you can find opportune times to get them off while stockpiling things that allow for easy movement while maintaining your damage. Summoner is basically just a ranged physical DPS so movement is not really a problem the vast majority of the time and what I realized after leveling both Red Mage and SMN was that there's no situation where i'd rather take the Red Mage over the SMN as Red Mage feels like I have to work really hard for very little DPS whereas SMN feels like I have to work very little for very little DPS but with neither of them being particularly fun for me to play the choice becomes clear as to which I'd rather use when I'm forced to use one at all. 9/10 if I'm playing caster I'm playing Pictomancer as of right now but who knows if that'll change once I start leveling BLM. On the surface, the changes seem interesting…but I can't see it being more fun than Pictomancer as I personally got over casting the same spell over and over again and thinking that was fun back in Heavensward. Honestly, it's to the point now that I'm really hoping that they completely revamp Black Mage because it's just boring to play for me currently but I'm just really thankful that there are plenty of other jobs that I really enjoy playing in the game AND the actual battle content this expansion has been fantastic thus far.
Blue Mage?? 🙂
i've gone from being a shield healer main (with physrange being my secondary pick) in endwalker to being a full-time caster main in dawntrail. when pictomancer was revealed as the 2nd new dawntrail job i was intrigued, and when early access started i picked picto up first thing. love at first cast. pictomancer is such a wonderful job with a plethora of cheeky little optimisations that all comes together to make it an incredibly fun job to play!
the beauty of casters is that they truly all shine in different encounters. in valigarmanda ex i've loved playing summoner and red mage for their movement tools, but in zoraal ja ex they're less exciting while picto and blm are just brilliant with their sporadic burst movement. m2s was annoying to plan bursts on as rdm while progging, but it was no problem while playing picto. in m4s on the other hand i have my movement and bursts for rdm in a mental spreadsheet, but with picto i'm still a bit lost despite it being the job i cleared on. the dash is an absolute godsend in (almost) any encounter though, and i've only managed to zoom myself off the arena with it a few times, while on rdm i've sent myself verflipping just one ilm too far a bit more often than i'd like to admit ^^
i have a lot more i could say about casters, but in conclusion i think i've found my true calling in spellslinging <3
If you really are a caster the only good response is BLM
Where is THM
the answer is pictomancer for everyone. why? tonsa dmg- u can move while "casting" half of your stuff. well in all honesty 1/3rd ….and DAMAGE.
Also its cute. (personal opinon)
Pictomancer confused the heck out of me until I spent some time on a training dummy.
But once I got it, it is indeed a lot of fun.
At times I find BLM frustrating. Its very easy to lose your combat buffs due to slight but frequent movements as your buffs have very short timers. Other jobs might suffer a slight DPS loss because of the movement but BLM might reset themselves back to the beginning in terms of setting up their rotation. Less of an issue later on but still prevalent.
I've been playing SMN as an alt, but I'm getting tired of all the dead time that comes with each summon. I should have taken another caster to 100 first.
RDM for me, the fact PIC has no oGCDs kills it for me.
was a B.mage main up until post shadowbringers and it was awesome but after i swapped to sage for dawntrail after skipping EW (dont regret it i wanted to do the last eden raids with friends and i did NOT want to do any more post msq bullshit) i just kinda never looked back. ive even gotten it to 100 but after doing the same with picto B.mage just doesnt feel the same sadly
I hate casters in mmos with all my heart, so they’re the only one I havent maxed leveled yet lmao. Maybe this video could be helpful in finding one I’d be willing to give a chance.