The skill progression is atrocious

[Khadorus]

Hello, figure be something to chime in here. Even though it says my account is 240 days old, realistically I have been playing for about 3 weeks (give or take). I am overall enjoying the game, so dont take it as I hate the game or something silly like that.

I just crossed 37 as a warrior and 26 as a Lancer (a few other classes but lets not talk about those)

I defiantly can see on the Lancer where having a few more options earlier on would help some. Up until I think 25 it was 2 abilities with True thrust, and every 30s alternating to a different 2nd ability between vorpal and disembowled (along with the occasional life surge or if I am fighting things harder then I should some of the survival abilities.) It was fairly 1 -2 1 - 2 though for a bit of it, so I could see adding an additional ability or 2 in there wouldn't be asking to much to add in.

Warrior I think picked up the 3rd action in their combo sooner, but tanking always have a bit more choice on what you should do next in pretty much any game. I think having multiple aoe abilities would help some over just lining up a smash hit to try to hit all the mobs to keep them. (im sure more aoe abilities are better) I havent found any dungeon terribly difficult up the the Maw, but have a set group going to all of them, so might take away some of the challenge.

[Selova]

This is exactly why to this day FFXIV is still the hardest MMO to get into. If you are a brand new player you really have to just grit your teeth and make it through the slog that is ARR Job progression. I can only speak for myself but when I started FFXIV at the launch of Heavensward, the only saving grace for FFXIV for me was the story. If I hadn't fallen in love with the story as much as I had I would have easily stopped playing a long time ago and now after having looked back I'm glad I didn't stop playing because I have almost every Job at max level and I thoroughly enjoy playing all of them including all the gathering and crafting Jobs which I also have maxed out. They did a good job with the immense slog that is the ARR revamp, now all they need to do is just fix early class progression on all the jobs. Playing your jobs from levels 1-60 still feels just as terrible as it did when I started the game. It might be addressed someday but I wouldn't count on anything soon.

[DRKoftheAzure]

This is exactly why to this day FFXIV is still the hardest MMO to get into. If you are a brand new player you really have to just grit your teeth and make it through the slog that is ARR Job progression. I can only speak for myself but when I started FFXIV at the launch of Heavensward, the only saving grace for FFXIV for me was the story. If I hadn't fallen in love with the story as much as I had I would have easily stopped playing a long time ago and now after having looked back I'm glad I didn't stop playing because I have almost every Job at max level and I thoroughly enjoy playing all of them including all the gathering and crafting Jobs which I also have maxed out. They did a good job with the immense slog that is the ARR revamp, now all they need to do is just fix early class progression on all the jobs. Playing your jobs from levels 1-60 still feels just as terrible as it did when I started the game. It might be addressed someday but I wouldn't count on anything soon.

What class did you start with and what class did you eventually main?


For me back in Heavensward, I started with Lancer/Dragoon, but saw how much level grinding I needed to do on some other classes for cross-class skills on DRG that I switched to DRK which had less of a grind for both Gladiator and Marauder and helped with learning the basics of tanking.


The less grind you have to do for an actually good toolkit the better as that saves the grind for gear progression and traits for later levels and expansions, to help flesh out classes/jobs.

[TheMightyMollusk]