Starting the game as Arcanist is largely unplayable now

[Goji1639]

I'm new to this game and Arcanist was my first class. Some of the Summoner job quests were difficult to face tank, but overall leveling wasn't that bad. It just feels kind of slow and squishy compared to leveling something like a melee DPS. Even though Arcanist is not a healer Physick is still really useful in those early levels; a lot of people probably don't think to use it but you can heal through a lot with it.

[RubixCube]

I had arcanist as my starter class when I began and will admit I found it pretty dull. For me, the issue was that the other classes decimated mobs at low levels before I’d barely finished applying my DOTs, or even cast ruin, so it felt like I had very little impact in dungeons.

[Tex_Mex]

I had arcanist as my starter class when I began and will admit I found it pretty dull. For me, the issue was that the other classes decimated mobs at low levels before I’d barely finished applying my DOTs, or even cast ruin, so it felt like I had very little impact in dungeons.

Low level balance in this game is definitely a joke. But fortunately, it is not very important at all. Low level content is so easy that this is a minor inconvenience at most.