Final Fantasy XIV Roles: Tanks, Healers, Melee DPS, Physical Ranged DPS, and Magical DPS

A standard Full Party will consist of 2 Tanks, 2 Healers, and 4 DPS of any kind.

A standard Light Party will consist of 1 Tank, 1 Healer, and 2 DPS of any kind.

Tanks:

1. Paladin
• Uses sword and shield.
• Supports party members and can attack from range with magic.
2. Warrior
• Uses axes.
• Strong self-sustain and can use strong attacks many times.
3. Dark Knight
• Uses greatswords.
• Mitigates incoming damage and boosts own damage while consuming mana.
4. Gunbreaker
• Uses explosive gunblades.
• Applies health regeneration and has high damage for a tank.

Healers:

1. White Mage
• Uses canes to channel earth, wind, and light magic.
• Extremely strong heals and stuns enemies.
2. Scholar
• Uses magic codicies to summon a faerie familiar.
• Applies strong shields to allies and can spend more time attacking the enemy due to passive heals from the faerie.
3. Astrologian
• Uses star globes and tarot cards to channel celestial magic.
• Buffs ally damage with drawn cards and balances healing and shielding magic.
4. Sage
• Uses nouliths to fire lasers.
• Shields allies to spend more time attacking enemies and heals allies via attacking the enemy.

Melee DPS:

1. Dragoon
• Uses lances.
• High mobility, strong damage, and supports ally damage.
2. Monk
• Uses martial arts and gauntlets.
• Uses positional attacks to increase damage output with some party support.
3. Ninja
• Uses daggers.
• Strings certain abilities together to create different attacks and can attack from range with ninjitsu.
4. Samurai
• Uses katanas.
• Solely focused on maximizing personal damage output.
5. Reaper
• Uses scythes.
• Defeat enemies to deliver stronger attacks.

Physical Ranged DPS:

1. Bard
• Uses bow and arrow.
• Increases party damage and deal damage over time to enemies.
2. Machinist
• Uses firearms.
• Strong personal damage without sacrificing mobility.
3. Dancer
• Uses chakrams.
• Strongly increases the damage of a single party member and the most mobile job.

Magical DPS:

1. Black Mage
• Uses staffs to channel fire, ice, lightning, and dark magic.
• Insanely powerful damage while sacrificing mobility.
2. Summoner
• Uses grimoires to summon elemental beings.
• Has many instant-cast spells and can resurrect allies like a healer.
3. Red Mage
• Uses rapiers and magic foci.
• Casts every other spell instantly, has a high damage melee phase, and can heal and resurrect allies like a healer.
4. Blue Mage
• Uses rods to copy enemy abilities.
• Unavailable in most content,but has access to very strong spells and can fill any role in single player content.