New Jobs Gated Behind Completion of 2.0 Story?

[Nektulos-Tuor]

By that logic: Final Fantasy and World of Warcraft are exactly the same game. They both have Levels, Mechanics, Scripts, Circle AOEs. If I played one I should be a master of the other right?

Wrong!

Even though they feature the same mechanics, the way they are, placement and everything is completely different.

Enemy Strongholds

You mean the rubbish trash I tank as a healer? Those are not strategies, thats just adaptability and tactics. Also that really doesn't teach the tank anything. Most of the time in that dungeon from what i've ran as a healer (when I was doing it low levels.) the DPS or "I" the healer tanked it. It didn't leave a significant impression on me, and the trash in those zones listed were such a joke I barely remember it. It didn't give me a clue on how to deal with real challenges in the game, like dungeon bosses and raiding. I had to learn the new mechanics for each fight. Why else would people say you need to watch youtube videos before doing some fights? I guess its because *gasp!* the game doesn't show you enough?

Hero on the Halfshell

They arn't, they are completely different in a significant way. Sure you could argue that it teaches you how to "Pick up adds." however, the player storyline (base storyline quest) does that 100 times better especially for NPCs you have to save, and you learn that easily enough in your first dungeon you do. It teaches you a lot more then everything the guildhests will ever teach you.

Everquest 1 and 2 had a much better way of teaching people, contested low level dungeons like Black-burrow were fun interesting zones that had pretty much every one of those strategies with mini bosses and wandering mobs. It saddens me that there are no contested dungeons these days.