Might be coming back to this casually. I paid for the original msq skip but not heavenward I think. My warrior is around 40 or so and it's ok but I never really gelled with the class so much. I do enjoy tanking, but I think not so much in this game.
In ffxi I mained a black mage but hearing they aren't so great (and all casters). I also mained a dps warrior (dual wield 1h axes). Looking for something different here. I guess a desired class in groups that is dps (melee or caster). What are my best options to look at?
I'm ok bringing the warrior to 50 to unlock them .
Realistically as pointed out unless you're doing savage, classes don't matter much. Even if you do savage, most groups aren't retarded enough to try to recruit speedrun setups for progression. A few are, but they'll most likely fail since good luck learning fights when you have probably subpar DPS because the setup is entirely reliant on knowing the fight to maximize buff burst uptime and shit like that.
Still would recommend not doing BLM because it has some fairly large issues though, it can be fun to some people but it's also fucking frustrating as fuck especially if people don't work with you. There's also the fact it's nothing like XI BLM, but then again nothing is like XI at all really.
Now if you do want stuff in terms of desirability. Outside the obvious healer/tank need for every groups, in terms of DPS, I'd say it goes something like BRD > MCH for the utility DPS, which you absolutely need one of in every raid group but generally don't want 2(unless doing those speedrun setups) and for normal DPS it's probably like NIN > RDM/DRG/SMN > MNK > SAM/BLM. Ninja is basically also a must have for every raid group(I mean you don't NEED one, but you really want one), then the 3 next are all very good due to utility they provide mostly(SMN also does really high damage nowadays I think?) although RDM falls off a cliff once you're done with progression so you'd probably want to level SMN and alternate between the 2(they use the same gear, other than weapon). Then you have monk which has some utility and should have high personnal damage after the patch, and then SAM/BLM have no utility, but at least SAM has high personnal damage(BLM not as much I think? although with the changes they might be a good bit higher than other DPS, just still no utility).
That said and repeating it, if you're just playing casually and not progressing on savage hardcore/early on(so you have time to buy a bunch of tome gear as you progress), then it doesn't matter a whole lot. You can have 3BLMs and still clear savage content if you have enough ilvl basically. If you're not even doing savage, shit is mostly irrelevant, you can 8tanks pretty much all the non savage content so yeah.
