Selfish DPS in FFXIV is a Meme

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We have people calling Sage and White Mage Selfish now too. The entire concept of calling a job in FFXIV Selfish is busted. This Is Why We Can't Have Nice Things Part 3 Electric Boogaloo.

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Timestamps:
0:00 Selfish DPS is a meme
0:32 SELFISH HEALERS ARE NOW A THING TOO BY THE WAY
1:02 Defining Selfish DPS
1:16 Every job has utility in FFXIV. Every single job!
2:47 So what IS Relevant Utility?
3:20 Red Mage! The Utility KING of FF14
4:31 So what is relevant utility lol
5:31 Selfish DPS is a meme numbers analysis
7:23 Being selfish can help your group clear
8:24 We need a new term for selfish jobs

Selfish DPS is a term that I actually despise.

To be frank, it makes no sense to use it and that phrasing comes with some obvious severe negative connotations, intentional or not. Yet in many spheres in our community we use this term of selfish very commonly. In fact speaking to players and I mean all the way from fresh brand new to mmorpg genre players to casual raiders to some more veteran raiders many people genuinely believe these players are selfish.

Which I clearly view as being preposterous.

This selfish terminology has extended even to impact healers. Selfish healers white mage and selfish healers sage because they don’t provide chain stratagem or cards to boost the damage of others.

So let’s define what a selfish DPS is, and it’s really simple actually, it’s a DPS that brings no utility to buff the damage of other players in the group. It’s that simple. Do you or do you not buff the damage of the rest of the team.

People may wrongly start to presume this means no utility at all which is absolutely false as these abilities I am about to mention are very useful. Say you are on Samurai which is very commonly cited as a selfish DPS.

You have the role action Feint at the very least, which every 90 seconds allows you to help the party with mitigation. Obviously there are also fringe scenarios like E8S Shiva Savage’s adds phase transition where leg sweep to slow down adds is useful.

Black mage is another great example of a selfish DPS that brings utility as the magic counterpart bringing addle. Or machinist for ranged physical DPS that brings 10% raid wide mitigation for the ranged DPS role, I’m not so worried about semantics on that one since they all bring the same 10% AOE mitigation. Obviously citing E8S adds phase or E1S adds phase and a few other scenarios the silence was a fantastic additional utility. Make ranged physical DPS great again, I jest I jest but really make their uniqueness great again please.

So really the argument they bring no utility is a pretty big falsehood, it is ultimately every member’s responsibility to help manage incoming damage to some degree.

Now obviously there are classes that bring even more utility, the most powerful and relevant of which I strongly believe to be the red mage. Ontop of having the virus role action, which I still miss being on healers to this day, red mage in endwalker now has magick barrier which is another way to mitigate AOE damage to the party which is certainly relevant even in the hardest form of content. Mitigation to ensure you do not die from damage is extremely and I mean extremely important. You can recover health if you don’t die, but if you lack mitigation and get curbstomped that’s hard.

Red mage also of course has instant revive which helps relieve some pressure from healers when both of the healer’s swiftcast is down. However in the most pragmatic sense speaking to people doing the actual ultimate fight right now in the most bleeding edge content if both healer’s swift is down in that short of a timespan a third revive probably isn’t necessary cause you’re still dead. So speaking to people many do weigh the magick barrier mitigation as high importance. But for extremes or savage prog the revive is totally powerful utility worth mentioning.

Obviously other notable examples exist, and I’m also obviously not saying summoner’s phoenix is useless or remove curing waltz from your dancer’s hotbars all of that really does help. But in terms of what I’m getting at, if it won’t outright assist in avoiding death like magick barrier I do question the merit in saying reaper’s arcane circle small but appreciated heal utility makes them a less selfish DPS than samurai to the point we should cast judgement over it.

But to cycle it back, at a baseline every single job in 14 has a form of non DPS utility. Some just have slight additional non DPS utility like that arcane crest reaper ability.

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