Quote Originally Posted by Jettinson View Post
This is not about mass pulling or about difficulty.
Even the lowest dungeon gives you groups of 3-4 enemies where it is advised to aoe rather than single target but instead you are stuck with ranged dps, tanks, casters with those tools while melee just stick on a single target using 1-2.
Sure it's about mass pulling, about shortening the time to get through those instances for higher level players (who complain, for some reason, about the lack of AoEs in those instances). Those lowest dungeons were created in the days when an AoE was reserved for higher level content. Period. All of them were perfectly adapted to using the skillsets of the appropriately leveled players, regardless of class. Many classes and jobs didn't get an AoE until much later.

If anything, AoEs have dumbed down early content to the point we get complaints from folks like the OP.