No one should be allowed to queue without a soul stone if applicable.

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Trust me they did, it used to be a lot worse. Back in 2.0 and 3.0 the game had a different cross class skill system. Basically you can cross any skill as long as you don't have a job stone. So people do things like cross skill 'taunt' on archers, queue into 24 men and circle aggro from the tank to cleave the party. It wasn't just about performance.

Yeah, I was here for the cross-class stuff. In fact, this toon started off as an archer because I wanted to be a black mage. And back then, you had to get archer to level 15, and thaumaturge to 30 to unlock BLM.

I just wasn't playing regularly in the early days of ARR so I don't recall people queuing past level 30 as a base class.