When do the training wheels come off?

[Forever_Learning]

I really love that the "strict requirements" are:

1) Holding aggro
2) Having decent gear for your class
3) Having a job stone equipped

The very basics of gameplay.

Hold Aggro - ok.

Decent gear - when you are low level, spamming dungeons, you can often move up several levels and discover your gear is less than optimal, but sufficient anyway, you just move on.

Are you seriously saying I should spam something like the vault until I upgrade all my gear, and only then move onto great gubal library?

No one does this - you spam the vault a couple times to reach level 58, then you spam library, and whatever gear you get along the way is bonus.

You also do this because you are clearing the dungeon rather than wiping, so the gear equipped is sufficient, meaning there's little incentive for seeking out much better gear.

Regarding the job stone being equipped, see my earlier post. It can be a mistake related to being unaware of problems with the recommended gear button.

For several minutes I had people massively harass me due to this mistake, novice network explained what I did wrong in under 30 seconds - who do you think was helping me be a better player?

Sadly this is true. My sister came to Siren when the Road to 60 was still active, and she hit level 34 so fast. She couldn't change to BRD yet as she wasn't there in the MSQ. I've had it happen on my character as well, duing stuff over level 30 where one "should" have their job class then.

When I first saw the comment that level 44 was high, my first reaction was the same: No, it isn't.

You can do almost nothing and reach level 44 - I think just four times in PotD will do it.