 Everybody likes to do damage and don't pretend like you don't cuz I know you're lying otherwise Why would you be playing an RPG with core mechanics such as leveling up getting stronger and looking fashionable as fuck? It's to do massive numbers on the other guys until their numbers are so small They match the PP size of anybody who doesn't commend at the end of a duty. The other members leaving too quickly is no excuse How do you expect to move quick enough to avoid AOE? So if you can't even move quick enough to tell your allies they're doing a great job and that their glamour is sexy Is that uncharacteristically nice of me? Maybe but it means I get to steal the LB3 from the only melee in the group Welcome to a crap guide to Final Fantasy Today, I'm going to be talking about every job. That's right Why you thought only the DPS have the DPS boy I could slap you with my overflowing glamour dresser Damage is the name of the game in Final Fantasy 14 and the entirety of the game is designed around everybody dealing it Including the tanks and the healers if the DPS rules are contributing 60% of the damage tanks and healers are the ones who fill in the other 40 so if you don't contribute you belong in the garbage shoot so don't get so hung up on the roll names Everybody is a DPS what I mean specifically is that one not only is FF 14 a cooperative game Which means anytime you waste is not only yours But also anybody else in your party as well and to every combat feature in FF 14 is designed with dealing damage in mind Healers and tanks get skills that actively promote doing more DPS Hell sage is a healer whose skills actively benefit from doing DPS and most importantly of all in rage Enraged is what happens when you overstay or welcome in a dungeon or boss arena And the residents have run out of things to talk about and are just really ready for you to leave So they can finally go poop without being worried that you're gonna steal all their old dream work to DVDs That is to say you're either forcefully kicked out or alternatively they instantly murder you How do you prevent this from happening you murder them first of course And then you pop in a copy of Shrek 2 so you can watch the castle siege again And guess what the later and later in the game you get the more and more frequent in rage Just start to appear and they'll have more and more health too So if somebody decides they just don't feel like they want to cooperate in this team game They decided to play and now the boss has an eighth of its health left and is about to destroy the entire universe Princess Fiona isn't going to be the only one who will need a hero Hopefully it's been drilled in your head now that DPSing is essential not just for the jobs with the title sticker But also anyone in a fancy robe or edgy trench coat as well now that you know that how does one go about dealing max deeps The first most basic thing is to do your combos press a button see another button light up press that one Congratulations, you have successfully completed a combo and doing so will reap a myriad of benefits from putting damage over time on your target Gaining mana doing your taxes or any variety of other additional effects But mostly it all achieves the same goal of dealing more damage Secondly when I press these skills that the game labels as abilities and the community to calls off-global cooldowns or OGCDs for short more like OGCDs nuts. I personally call them free damage buttons They cost you nothing and there's literally no reason not to press them while your normal cooldown is rolling But this one has a long cool down. What if I need it later? No, it doesn't shut up The cool downs in this game are so short You might as well press them because by the time you need them again What they're back up not to mention many jobs require you to press those free damage buttons to unlock even spankier damage buttons So use your goddamn free damage buttons. It's free damage the next rule of DPSing is knowing your ABCs This means mashing away at your keyboard like a tickle monster working double time more specifically It means that the best way to make sure you are doing the most damage that you can is to always have your global cooldown going Even if it means accidentally pressing the wrong skill like the single brain cell that you are because if you're always pressing buttons Even the suboptimal one you are doing more damage than if you weren't and doing damage is always better than not doing damage Yes, even skathe. Here's a live example with my two subjects Jan and Chloe They both deal 1 million damage and suddenly the boss flies out of melee range Jan sits there waiting patiently for the boss to Return before she can start doing a million damage again Meanwhile Chloe is pressing the deal one damage at a range button the entire time. They're waiting I ask you puny viewer which person is dealing more damage right now. Yeah, but it's only one damage Who's dealing more damage as if any fight is going to get so close that dealing who is dealing more damage Sure it might not look like much But it's going to matter when they fight the boss that has 3 million and 2 health and they wipe all because the other DPS Decided they don't want to press buttons. It's such little DPS. It won't make a difference sure Jan now one of the best things You should do to improve your damage in Final Fantasy 14. It's this it's really simple. I want you to lean in It's a super simple thing here come close. I'm gonna say the thing. Are you ready? Okay, here it goes read your tooltips the little block of text that literally tells you what your skills do Honestly, you would be surprised how many people queue into an expert dungeon and never realize they have a skill that can Attack multiple targets even all the things I tell you in this video the combos the range attacks the aoe damage skills the free Damage buttons the best way to know what your job is capable of is by reading your job skill tooltips yourself So you better read your goddamn tooltips because if I see another player not knowing about their aoe combo and a mob Pull at level 80. I'm gonna grab the nearest ether item bash you so hard You're gonna be teleported to the final resting place of every year appears used under garments with all that out of the way You'd think I'd covered everything you need to do to be an ultimate clearing badass, right? Unfortunately not waffle face because the final responsibility every single role in Final Fantasy 14 shares is not dying Oh sure the healers help but most of the time your own survival is on you and only you and that means making sure you Do the fight mechanics and don't take avoidable damage like it's got the cheese touch I'm sorry. Are you in the middle of your cast? You want to try and hit that purple parse like the big man? You are Each time you take damage that is avoidable means the healer has to heal you and they're dealing less damage And on top of that you get this cheese puff called a vulnerability stack for each stack You have you take more and more damage until you get one shot when the enemy farts in your general direction All this to say if you don't avoid enemy damage You will not only make the healer do less DPS, but you're also likely going to die Which means zero DPS and if you still think that's not a big deal and the healers can just res you each time you die You get a dunce cap of shame that reduces your DPS even more for about as long as a red light in Philadelphia So you better stay alive or else I'm gonna raise you so I can rescue you into an aoe and kill you myself to recap Everybody's DPS matters press your free damage buttons always be casting read your tooltips stay alive But even if you keep all those things in mind the number one rule to improve your DPS performance is to practice Striking dummies are all over the goddamn place out in the overworld and even in the yards of some random people's houses in the residential districts So if you see one, there's no shame in whacking it a few times like you're auditioning to be a dominatrix I'm sure the neighbors won't mind practice makes perfect and even all the foresight in the world will not fully translate into the doing So go and do that doing so that one day you too can do the do and make everybody else look like do-do because of how Good your doing skills are and with how much doing you'll be doing maybe someday You too can clear an ultimate and get a shiny-ass weapon of your own to show off to people AFKing at the limza etherite plaza Just know the difference between an amateur and a masters and a master has failed way more times by the way Get ready for a party wipe wait what? Congratulations, you're now better at the game than you were five seconds ago. Oh, and now you know how to DPS You're welcome. Oh finally my cue just popped No, one of the other party members withdrew a thaw