How to make the game better for new players?

[ForteNightshade]

They can't "unnerf" old content. The fights are designed around completely different skills than we have now. Like, I remember when we used to have stone skin and cross-class skills in this game like Cure on the paladin.

Actually, they can. Jobs should be rebalanced so they learn most of their core kits earlier and traits are added to reduce the damage per the level cap. For example, Raiton reduced to having a potency of 400 (down from 800) and a new trait like Raiton Mastery added at say, 73 to bring it up to 800. This would be one such fix to balance jobs at lower level content so you aren't getting absurd scenarios like HyoMin above eluded to. Speaking of, other jobs like Samurai need their kits earlier so there isn't such a massive gap between jobs.