Which jobs require the least frantic button pressing (healer or DPS)?

[Xialoh]

Thinking about getting back into this, but I don't feel like straining my hands like I did when I did raiding years ago (not to say I can't do it at all, I just don't want to). Which jobs are the least demanding on the hands to play?

i.e. I've heard bard requires a ton of constant input. I don't want that. I really want to play the game more for content tourism and story than anything.

I've always been partial to healing, but I am considering going for a DPS for a change.

[omegazeda]

If u want to play brain dead DPS job play either monk or dragoon.

[Cyiel]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von omegazeda:

If u want to play brain dead DPS job play either monk or dragoon.

You need to move adequately so not really brain dead. Physical Ranged dps are more easy to play in that aspect.

[Toothy-Jones]

As a starting class i recommend Pugilist and then at level 50-60 as people have said, choose dancer or red mage.

[Toothy-Jones]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von omegazeda:

If u want to play brain dead DPS job play either monk or dragoon.

Monk requires a fair bit of positioning, PUG is deffs one of the easiest starting melee dps but once you get to unlock the end game jobs its left in the dust in terms of simplicity.

[Replicant Six]

Dancer, while people suggest Black Mage, I think it's a bad idea. Black Mage requires extensive knowledge of boss mechanics (if you want to do endgame content) to use them correctly. A lot of bosses require a lot of mobility, and the BLM loses it's DPS if it cannot stay still long enough to get going.

Dancer on the other hand thrives on mobility, and you can keep up attacking nonstop with very simple to understand mechanics. Also you boost your parties DPS which is neat

[Jonas™]

I cannot understand why anyone is suggesting DNC. They have relatively few hotkeys, but half of their abilities are proc based so requires near constant attention to your action bar to know what ability is available at any given moment. BRD is basically the same, but with more hotkeys. You literally spend 50% of your time staring at your hotkey bar watching for procs. I could understand it if you had visual proc icons on your character like WoW (man would that be nice), but in FFXIV all you get is a tiny +[proc] flash past your character that is very easy to miss in the heat of battle.

I find MCH far less taxing. They have only a few more hotkeys than DNC, but a rotation that has no procs and is very predictable. The only thing I see people complain about is that you can clip your heat phase if you have > 200 ping, but unless you are playing on servers that are located in another region or on dial up that shouldn't be an issue.

[DarkFenix]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Jonas™:

I cannot understand why anyone is suggesting DNC. They have relatively few hotkeys, but half of their abilities are proc based so requires near constant attention to your action bar to know what ability is available at any given moment. BRD is basically the same, but with more hotkeys. You literally spend 50% of your time staring at your hotkey bar watching for procs. I could understand it if you had visual proc icons on your character like WoW (man would that be nice), but in FFXIV all you get is a tiny +[proc] flash past your character that is very easy to miss in the heat of battle.

I find MCH far less taxing. They have only a few more hotkeys than DNC, but a rotation that has no procs and is very predictable. The only thing I see people complain about is that you can clip your heat phase if you have > 200 ping, but unless you are playing on servers that are located in another region or on dial up that shouldn't be an issue.

The condition OP stipulated was a class that won't strain his hands, dancer absolutely fits that. Even during its burst window the button presses are pretty relaxed.

Yes, it does require constant attention to your hotbar. I've taken dancer through the current raid tier, and it is a challenge. You have to focus on your hotbar and know the boss mechanics well enough to dodge them out of the corner of your eye. But while it's taxing on your ability to split your attention, that's about it.

Machinist does not fit OP's requirement. Your hypercharge/wildfire window is very button-intensive. And it probably has the busiest opener of any class, having to spam off a huge number of weaves at the beginning of every fight. It's not a complicated or difficult to play class, but it isn't kind on the fingers.

[Jonas™]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von DarkFenix:

Your hypercharge/wildfire window is very button-intensive. And it probably has the busiest opener of any class, having to spam off a huge number of weaves at the beginning of every fight. It's not a complicated or difficult to play class, but it isn't kind on the fingers.

Yeah, I guess I can see that. It has proportionally much fewer hotkeys than BRD so I was focusing on less stretching between shift or ctrl and number keys which is usually what ends up making my hands hurt on SMN and GNB. DNC has more hotkeys than MCH as well, so I guess it boils down to rapid button presses vs having to stretch repeatedly.