Quote Originally Posted by aveyond-dreams View Post
Dude, you couldn't even convince me to put up with 400 hours of story just to get to Reaper and Sage naturally let alone suffer through ARR in its current state just to unlock Dark Knight. The time investment is too high, regardless of how great you think the experience is. It's none of your business how I or others choose to play this game. You need to accept this.

Asking for more battle content in an rpg is not a bad thing, and it also isn't a bad thing considering this is an mmorpg. I am happy that you derive such a high degree of enjoyment from the story, but you do not get to dictate or force others to go through it if they want to get to X feature/job/raid/literally whatever the reason. I'm not asking for the option to start at endgame-

Is it really that bad if someone wants to start off as the cool-looking dark knight class instead of a "gladiator?"

Is it really that bad that someone would rather start their adventure passing through the gates of Ishgard into the castle in the sky that looks so amazing instead of Gridania, which is basically just a random forest village?

Maybe they don't care about the whole cosmic conflict between Hydaelyn and Zodiark and want to go adventure in Meracydia or Corvos in 7.0.

And so on.

Also, rewards come from literally every piece of content in the game. Trust me, casual players are not hurting for rewards when compared to endgame. A few dyeable gearsets and weapons, but that's pretty much it for the hardcore crowd. Those are some tough fights-of course they've earned a little bit of an extra reward.

As someone whose been around since ARR, I find your attitude just...perplexing. This isn't about you, it's about adding qol and convenience for new people. Goodness.
There is some merit in arguing you should be able to start as any class, but that isn't what you're asking for.

And please just stop with the doe eyed innocent act of pretending you're doing this for everyone, it's not fooling anyone. "QoL" and "convenience" are not skipping the entire game so you can start demanding moar raids because you skipped 95% of the content.