Quote Originally Posted by Maeka View Post
@Merlincross:

Depends on the job. To be honest, the 3-button combo and the 2-button AoE combo is mostly the meat of what tanks do in dungeons. You get the 3-button combo around Lv28-30 from what I could see, and .. well, you have to stick with a 1-button AoE until Stormblood usually. But I can live with that, though for some weird reason, DRK has to wait way longer than anybody else to get their 2nd AoE ability. But I would suppose it's because they have the AoE MP-Spender.

So, most tanks start to feel OK around the Lv30-ish. About the time you get into Haukke or Qarn, and certainly by Stone Vigil, your job starts to feel more complete, just missing some extra stuff they add on later, like Holy Circle, Req, Clemency, etc. But you don't really need those, as you don't really take that much damage quite yet. Then once you get into each expansion's dungeons, the added complexity to the battles starts kicking in, and you start to get these abilities one by one, it's a gradual build-up of fun.

I will agree that none of the jobs except DNC feel good in Sastasha, Tam-Tara, or Copperbell despite how hilarious it is to speedrun Tam-Tara in 6-8 minutes with 2 DNC and a GNB lol.
See I put it higher than that. Sure, our kit might be more 'complete' by Stone Vigil but there's still little to actually use the FULL MIGHT of the Kit on. This isn't just a tank issue either, DPS and Healers also have the same issue.

Put a different way, there's nothing till Keeper of the Lake that actually requires much thought or attention, and after that I would say it takes about halfway into Heavensward to get interesting again with Arey.

A Job might be more complete and have more things to do but nothing expects you to make full use of all your resources till a good ways in. This really makes something like Tanks unfun unless things are going south or people are doing dungeons new/blind but they're not the only Role that has an issue with this. Granted this is the fact of MMOs, old content is boring and just 'bleh' to run but I don't think I could play this game as a new player without someone to pull me in. I think I'd get bored if I was told "It gets better later".

These days I have no idea waht that later is and can barely bring myself to level my old jobs. This is a seperate issue but I think strikes a cord with OP's question/topic. Leveling isn't terribly interesting outside of a couple points so they better get used to it now.