Best Classes for Controllers?

[D. Flame]

Especially now that the Steam Deck is a thing, what are some of the best classes to play with a controller?

My plans at the moment are to play White Mage then Red Mage.

[Alternity]

Literally every job except Astrologian

[Gwath]

I'd say Dancer, in my view, is the easiest class overall irrespective of the control input. On the controller with the cross hotbar, you can confidently handle any class, especially if you organize your skills effectively. It ultimately boils down to muscle memory. When it comes to healing or selecting party members on the controller you will use the up/down button on the d-pad which in my experience is just a bit slower than selecting them with the mouse on a kb + mouse scheme, but plenty of others would say otherwise I imagine. Both White Mage and Red Mage are viable on the controller certainly.

[Halcyform]

As long as you get your filters set up, AND you are aware of the controller shortcuts for tab targetting, you can run any class seamlessly.

If you don't have filters set up, healing classes, can be a pain to play with using a controller.

[D. Flame]

Publicado originalmente por Halcyform:

As long as you get your filters set up, AND you are aware of the controller shortcuts for tab targetting, you can run any class seamlessly.

If you don't have filters set up, healing classes, can be a pain to play with using a controller.

I don't even know what that means, lol. Care to enlighten me... please?

[Havok]

Publicado originalmente por Alternity:

Literally every job except Astrologian

My static healer plays astro in ultimates on ps5, your point is invalid. Its viable if you put in the work

[Alternity]

Publicado originalmente por Havok:

Publicado originalmente por Alternity:

Literally every job except Astrologian

My static healer plays astro in ultimates on ps5, your point is invalid. Its viable if you put in the work

I mean not being 100% efficient using cards doesn't prevent from clearing ultimates. If you want the possibility to be as good as you can be on Astro, controller is not the way. I'd like to be proven wrong, though. He asked which are the best classes for controller, not which ones are viable.

[whitemageheal]

Publicado originalmente por D. Flame:

Especially now that the Steam Deck is a thing, what are some of the best classes to play with a controller?

My plans at the moment are to play White Mage then Red Mage.

white mage is easy .not sure about how much screen is available to you though as i have my cross bars enabled .bard is also easy to play on controller .

[whitemageheal]

Publicado originalmente por Havok:

Publicado originalmente por Alternity:

Literally every job except Astrologian

My static healer plays astro in ultimates on ps5, your point is invalid. Its viable if you put in the work

op is on steam deck though and not on ps5 so his/her screen is small .

[Sunny]

Recently switched (back) to controller after playing many many years exclusively with K&M. About a month and a half now? Leveling a new toon to try and re-wire my brain for it.

I like Dragoon, Monk, and Paladin the best on controller.

Bard is OK. RDM is OK.

WHM is easy/fine in solo content and as long as you have a competent party; I'm still struggling with switching targets quick enough when stuff goes REALLY south though. I am used to being able to perform miracles and miracles are hard on the controller.

I have found that I've had to double-bind a couple of spells (I have swiftcast in a couple of different places so that it's natural for my thumb in a particular combo, f'rex). I also use way more than just the four -- uh, loadouts? hotbars? I have an extra two setup for different scenarios. It's...uh, not working well yet.

I gave up on BLM. Dunno if that's because BLM or because controller tho, because it's the first time I've tried it.

Honestly though everything is viable. All of the classes. You just have to want to do it badly enough--youl'll learn. The skill bar is low enough that willpower can overcome unless you are old. The hard part is training muscle memory brand new. Practice. Practice. Practice.

[D. Flame]

Publicado originalmente por Sunny:

Recently switched (back) to controller after playing many many years exclusively with K&M. About a month and a half now? Leveling a new toon to try and re-wire my brain for it.

I like Dragoon, Monk, and Paladin the best on controller.

Bard is OK. RDM is OK.

WHM is easy/fine in solo content and as long as you have a competent party; I'm still struggling with switching targets quick enough when stuff goes REALLY south though. I am used to being able to perform miracles and miracles are hard on the controller.

I have found that I've had to double-bind a couple of spells (I have swiftcast in a couple of different places so that it's natural for my thumb in a particular combo, f'rex). I also use way more than just the four -- uh, loadouts? hotbars? I have an extra two setup for different scenarios. It's...uh, not working well yet.

I gave up on BLM. Dunno if that's because BLM or because controller tho, because it's the first time I've tried it.

Honestly though everything is viable. All of the classes. You just have to want to do it badly enough--youl'll learn. The skill bar is low enough that willpower can overcome unless you are old. The hard part is training muscle memory brand new. Practice. Practice. Practice.

Paladin is a tank, right? I might try that too then. The roles are what, healer, DPS, and Tank. I don't want to do more than one of each, and AFAIK, WM is healer and RM is DPS with pocket revives.

[Sunny]

So, it's more than just tank/dps/healer, though not for Duty Finder. It's only important for the Role quests in Shadowbringers and Endwalker.

https://ffxiv.consolegameswiki.com/wiki/Role_Quests

If you care, grab one of each now. If you don't, don't worry about it. I suggest it for now because you can dump MSQ XP into classes a fair amount. If you want to wait it's fine though, since there's catchup XP (you get a bonus if the job you are leveling is a lot lower than your highest).

And yes, Paladin is a tank. =) You'll start as gladiator. Tanking on a controller is easy peasy, even when things go bad.

I do recommend if you're doing it though, read the Trial strats before you go into them specifically. It's not usually necessary even if you're tanking, but if you're freshly controllered knowing the mechs in advance will help keep you from being overwhelmed. Your field of view will occasionally be more limited than on M&K, so knowing some stuff in advance will be helpful.

[D. Flame]

Publicado originalmente por Sunny:

So, it's more than just tank/dps/healer, though not for Duty Finder. It's only important for the Role quests in Shadowbringers and Endwalker.

https://ffxiv.consolegameswiki.com/wiki/Role_Quests

If you care, grab one of each now. If you don't, don't worry about it. I suggest it for now because you can dump MSQ XP into classes a fair amount. If you want to wait it's fine though, since there's catchup XP (you get a bonus if the job you are leveling is a lot lower than your highest).

And yes, Paladin is a tank. =) You'll start as gladiator. Tanking on a controller is easy peasy, even when things go bad.

I am still on the free trial, which ends at level 70, so none of those really seem to apply to me.

[Sunny]

Yeah, it won't apply to you until way later. The only point to doing it now would be to save later you some time and effort, and if it does not sound fun totally skip it. Just keep it in mind if you start outleveling MSQ and/or hitting your cap.

Getting MSQ XP when you're capped is leaving money on the table. :(

[Acoustic Stoner]

anything works but best options are whm, sge, rdm, war, pld, dnc,drg