Main Scenario Restriction Bloodstorm - Very Very Bad idea.

[Gemina]

Cleric Stance is click and forget, Protect you should only use once at the very beginning of the dungeon, Esuna rarely ever has any use and I scarcely need to use Cure, let alone Medica. Likewise, Aero is okay, but things usually die way too fast for it to matter.

You're basically saying don't bother using DoTs, and after a Qarn and Cutter's Cry run tonight with synced players, this is anything but the truth. Expect a min of 30 minutes to get to the final boss in each of these dungeons without any DoTs. Both are quite long, and the mobs don't die as fast as you think they do. You will most likely need two Protect casts if you want it for the final boss fight.

As for Esuna/Leeches most mobs in this game have some sort of detrimental status effect they can inflict on you, and if you're healing through it, you are at the very least using up one extra gcd opposed to just casting your cleanse skill to do so. Keep that in mind.[/quote]

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You will be using Stone I and Cure almost exclusively throughout Conjurer.

Of course you will. And isn't that awesome? That skills you learn from day one are still used in endgame?

Lancer is even worse, wherein you literally do nothing but hit Heavy Thrust then spam Impulse Drive until it drops. If you bothered to level Pugilist, you'll have Internal Release however that hardly breaks up the monotony. Thaumaturge mostly boils down to Fire/Blizzard and Transposing between them. Pugilist probably offers the greatest variety because you actually unlock a full combo early, have a couple buffs and need to consider positionals. Otherwise, no, I didn't learn anything playing the classes I couldn't have easily picked up with less than an hour of play. There is a reason the devs have not only acknowledged their dissatisfaction with classes but are basically phasing them out entirely. Come 4.0 (or perhaps sooner), you won't even need to level them for cross skills.

What is so ironic about this statement right here is how you say you didn't learn anything.

Gating content behind the story isn't some ground breaking accomplishment. It's just forcing people to spam numpad 0/mouse click if they aren't interested in it.

Actually, it kind of is. The rewards for finishing ARR and HW really aren't anything to scoff at. If the players aren't interested, they are playing the wrong mmo. The MSQ is amazing, and even several of the side quests as well. Not to mention class and job quests. Particularly the level 30 and 50 ones. Some of them have even brought tears to my eyes. Be happy I'm not running the show, because if I was I would give better rewards to vets for running with new players at their average iLv.