Scholar notes from E3 build - Titania Fight

[Gaethan_Tessula]

Paladin is awful leveling, only getting its actual physical rotation at 60, then it gets the magic rotation at late 60, almost 70. Still a very good and fun job to play. So yeah, you can't judge play factor until the end. Not the best design, but it's how it is.

That might work with people who already have investment in the game (if only in the sense that it preys on sunk cost), but I've had a lot of friends try the game and give up in ARR because the slow drip of abilities into a blatantly unfinished class/job isn't worth the canned promise of "it gets better eventually!"

Now extend that awfulness up to the latest expansion, and try to convince a new player to stick with it without buying a skip potion.

[Amon-ster]

That might work with people who already have investment in the game (if only in the sense that it preys on sunk cost), but I've had a lot of friends try the game and give up in ARR because the slow drip of abilities into a blatantly unfinished class/job isn't worth the canned promise of "it gets better eventually!"

Now extend that awfulness up to the latest expansion, and try to convince a new player to stick with it without buying a skip potion.

Sadly that's just how MMOs are designed. "The endgame is when the game actually starts" is the motto of just about every game of the genre. Classes are made with the end in mind, not the journey.