Starting the game as Arcanist is largely unplayable now

[LichKaiser]

Pardon, but I don’t see where the OP synced down to do a FATE and then claimed it was unplayable? Mind quoting it in case I missed it? I interpreted the OP saying his friend was the one saying this all, who was a new player to FFXIV and possibly MMOs as a whole. Either way, saying the game is better off with a guy who just started and didn’t do anything nearly as horrible as what I’ve seen from some newbies...

I can’t believe I’m actually using this meme. Great Community btw.

You can read it... this:

I have a friend that was intersted in playing SMN end game. He achieved Lv15 and was looking forward to topaz carbuncle as tank. but we discovered that all the pets are now just DPS.

So, you have a physically weak class, unable to put out the damage the other starters can but without any way to mitigate the mob aggro/damage.

He quit last night: "This is unfun, boring and tedious"
I cannot fault him on this, I delierately used a fate to sync from Lv70 to Lv15 and got destroyed.

It appears that the arcanist was changed so much it's only playable if you are with a party now and no solo capability.

This from the starting post, he play the game, there is no exuses, i mean say to someone that it suck, or in a "friendly" way, he is BAD, doesnt mean you actually insulting it, just sayng the true. I mostly hate friendly people that just say everything is good, coz is not, he is bad, and his friend too, he just give up, not even tried to improve. Quitters are quitters, thats all, blame the game for his own inadequacy, that what he did. And the guy that made the thread is bad too, he synced to 15 from 70 and got " QUOTE: destroyed", i'm not the greatest player ever but i still mostly solo level up all my jobs, mostly not even buyng gear but weapons untill 20, never found problem. See player blame GAME and not themself just make me laught. Open a thread about it, well thats not comunity fault, freedom of expression, we say all we want about him, there is not even flame here, just people with lot of opinions about someone who quit game for his incapacity of play own job correctly, blaming game.
I hope you have a wonderfull day in this land full of horrible people that say own thought and not lie with a friendly smile to others

Off topic, i let some of my friends join the game(fun part one of them choose summoner and never had problems livelling, now is lv61), and every time they do something wrong i say them on face .. "You are bad, its your fault, improve and do it correctly" Thats how you teach them what is wrong and what is good, not sayng to all mistakes: "its ok you did your best, good job." coz in this way they will never improve, they just be bad forever, accusing game, design or whatever but themself. I hope this help you to see my point of view.