Quote Originally Posted by DPZ2 View Post
Yup. A test that you had to beat in order to reach beyond level 70, not mandatory training to learn your job.

It must have been really popular, as I have spent lots of time reading about the .... nah, I haven't read anything nice about the obvious gatekeeping in FFXI. People complain about the gatekeeping in this game already.
Yeah, no, it became mandatory training to many who walked into the fight and got their ass handed to them within seconds. It was more than just about "the job", it was about using the whole system given to you: proper gear swapping to maximize spells/abilities, item usages, consumable effects, etc. Your "mandatory lesson" was levels 1-70, which was something that wasn't done in a week, like you could do here. If you didn't learn anything beyond hitting one or two abilities and auto-attacking throughout those 70 levels, you deserved to fail.

Also, lol "gatekeeping" that FFXI had. No it had a high barrier of entry, which is different.

Any gatekeeping came from players. Which, in a game were DF doesn't exist, and everything is PF, you lost EXP when you die, and you had to actually travel to the place you wanted to do stuff gatekeeping is expected. This is, of course you can even get a group together after shouting in one zone for several hours, since more-than-likely, there's 100s of DPS ready to join, but no Bards, Red Mages, and/or Corsairs (all buffing/enfeebling jobs in FFXI) who will join you.