Quote Originally Posted by Dfess View Post
So in other words you don't want new players to have an easier time than you did playing the game? If you had to suffer through it then so do they. I got you.
They already do have an easier time though. It took me two months to get to 50 back in ARR and even longer to finish up to the 2.4 storyline. There were not story skips back then at all, and leveling was an absolute slog in part because of the necessity of the cross class system and how several classes were hamstrung if they didn't have a specific skill from another class unlocked. Swiftcast and Blood for Blood were absolutely essential for healers and DPS respectively and you needed to level THM and LNC to even get them. Or Stoneskin for that matter for healers in general. Couple that with a lack of options when it came to leveling compared to what we have now along with leveling just taking outright longer and it's not hard to say that newbies have things a lot easier now than we did back then.

SE has gone out of it's way to make the new player experience much more palatable and their planned reduction and streamlining of the ARR questline that's coming in 5.3 is another step forwards in that regards. However what you're asking for just is never going to happen.