Job Level 1?

[Dat_Jynx]

The problem with going to lower dungeons is that you'll still be leveling behind the scenes. Now you are learning the actions for levels 1-30 and have these "hidden" 30-40 actions that you'll have to learn when you get to the 30 dungeons. Then by the time you get to 40 dungeons you have level 50+ actions to learn later. Also, about reading tool tips, it's not about reading them. It's more about putting names to actions. You can read all the tool tips you want, but knowing if stun was feather tickle or clobberhead in the middle of a fight could be frustrating.

[dragonseth07]

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I think part of this issue is how people think of their abilities.

I couldn't tell you what most of the names are for the abilities on PLD without looking them up, or even describe their icons. But, I can tell you what hotkey on my bar does what, with remarkable detail. I couldn't tell you the name of the GCD stun or what it looks like on the bar, but I can tell you that it's Ctrl+1. People put a lot of effort into learning their spells the wrong way, I think.

[Dat_Jynx]

I think...

But wouldn't that only work for that job? Also, if you are putting all the same actions for every job in the same places, so you really don't have to know the action from name and icon, aren't you just playing all the jobs as the same job? You might as well make macros that say "Combo opening," "Combo action 2," "Combo closer." Yeah, I have patterns on my NIN for what I do, but I know what those actions actually do because I learned them in case I have to change things up.