Low level gameplay: A growing problem

[linay]

You heavily overestimate how badly early game is already tuned 3 expansions later.

You could level some dps classes (Dragoon specifically) by mashing 1 button instead of your actual damage combos for a good number of levels.

Hell, dungeons were balanced around cross-class spells being a thing, and situations like: every tank having access to an ae +threat that wasnt on the primary resource, or every healer (and one tank) having access to regularly available mitigation in stoneskin.

All the more reason not to make it worse.

[Barraind]

All the more reason not to make it worse.

Ahh, yes, the "If its broke, why bother fixing it" approach.

I dont subscribe to that one.

Having to wait until level 26 for a basic 1-2-3 rotation instead of just 1-2 (as is the case for some classes) isn't going to teach me anything more useful than if I had got the 1-2-3 rotation at level 15, just in time for the first dungeon. Just as an example.

Its fine, you wont really learn anything about an actual rotation until mid 50's or 60 at this point.

You can 1 button dark knights until mid 60's if you want, and you're still hardcasting heals most of the time as a healer until about then too.

[linay]

Ahh, yes, the "If its broke, why bother fixing it" approach.

I dont subscribe to that one.

I don't think it's broken. And your approach to "fixing" it makes it worse in my opinion.