The Leveling Experinece (Also the new player experience)

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But it's not Paladin. Again, Paladin is a convinient example.
It's paladin and gunbreaker and dark knight and monk and dragoon and ninja, ect. It's not all classes, but *most* classes are just incredibly dull until level 60+ (often level 70+) because they simply do not have their core rotation in place.

That's why I used Red Mage and Samurai as examples. They do have their core rotation in place at 50. 90% of what makes them gun to play is there Red Mage is ~70% of the way there at level 35 (when it gets it's 2nd melee button and so melee is actually worth doing)

Warrior does come out looking better than the other tanks at low level, yes. But that doesn't negate the overall point.

Also, people shouldn't have to play though 80 hours of game before the mechanics are fun. It doesn't matter that it's free if the majority of that time is not spent having a good experience.