Suggestion: Give all jobs an AOE ability at (at least) level 15

Tanks get an AOE at either level 6 or level 10 but DPS and all healers don't get AOE until much later. Even stranger to me is that DPS jobs get AOEs at different stages. For example, Archer/Bard gets an AOE at level 18 but Lancer/Dragoon doesn't get one until 40. :confused: Why is that? Why must dragoon be the butt of the joke even in this? (jk)

Now, I understand the desire for making each job feel different but I think that homogenizing things like the acquisition of AOE abilities or DOTs across jobs should outweigh that desire. Not only that but I'd prefer to have an AOE ability as quickly as tanks do. Nothing is more unsatisfying than slowly whittling away at mobs one at a time while playing a job at lower level content.

Some people may disagree and say that it's more fun to utilize a single target combo than to spam one AOE ability during trash pulls but in my humble opinion, killing trash mobs isn't really all that exciting for anyone other than the tanks and healers who have to think about things like mitigation, staying alive and not angering the dragons chilling in the optional room next door. At least, not until you get to max level and you have many more abilities at your disposal.

First AoE skill should come with the same level you unlock your first dungeon and should have an in game note saying to try it (or something like this to suggest the utilization of it). This kinda hand holds and guides people to understanding the importance of AoE. Its really a point of frustration that some classes dont even gain an AoE attack until well into leveling (level 40???). Not really sure what reasoning is provided to not have this combo like that.

This would also fix the current wild imbalance between ranged physical and all the other dps. I could queue into ldr or whatever as a samurai and not be both bored and wildly underperforming compared to if I had queued as a dnc if we end up in some sub-26 dungeon.

Bard has a great AoE skill that it unlocks really early on, and yet my Ninja job is awkwardly limited with types of attacks in earlier dungeons, so I would definitely like to see this happen.