A thought on solving the content gating issue. Long read, pls bare with me.

[TessaJalloh]

the new classes are useless if you don't first level the old classes to get your cross class abilities. stop whining and get to work.

[Catwho]

the new classes are useless if you don't first level the old classes to get your cross class abilities. stop whining and get to work.

I think this is the most important thing that gets overlooked with "but I only want to be a DRK tank."

Guess what, the best tanks in this game have both PLD and WAR already at 50 for a reason. At the very minimum both at 26 already. Someone who took PLD to 50 played with DRK within the first scenario, went "oh okay got it" and had no issues. Someone who had never leveled PLD would get that jumbled mess of a hotbar and got "WTF" and have to waste a whole day dying to the first DRK scenario - that fight was pretty rough even for the veterans.

The new jobs are very technical. We already have enough bad ASTs running around - the last thing we needed was someone who never leveled WHM getting AST at 30 and train wrecking everything past Haukke.

[odie]

i'm so happy AST was similar to WHM. I picked it up pretty quick. but the jumbled hotbar was crazy for a minute. I wouldn't know what to do on MCH