Quote Originally Posted by Yves View Post
I'm not so sure how accurate this statement is. Truth be told, most skills that you need to learn to use are North of level 40 or obtained in the first 10 levels. Also keep in mind that many skills are learned via the job quests. This means that there is a gap of 30 levels or more.

So I am not so confident that people don't learn how use/play jobs without grinding them forever. A more accurate statement would possibly be that people who respond to /sh are less likely to be heavily involved with static groups and therefore will have less experience on that specific content.

Just because you obtain the "useful" skills from 1-10 or 40-50 doesn't mean you understand how to use them in a group setup. There is nothing hard from 1-50, or that you can't do solo.

Finding a wolf party at level 40 so 5 hours later you can ding 50 doesn't help the problem either.

There needs to be way more mid-low level dungeons to encourage small to full parties to group up and play together. (And no I don't mean run it solo on your level 50 one time to get an achievement).

Content should be level capped, or scaled (50 joins and is scaled to level 30) so that team mechanics are being developed at early levels.

I have done a few PUG's to help some people get there AF armor in Darkhold and I have never seen such horrid play by level 50's before. No idea what the concept of "hate" control is, no idea how to dodge or position themselves in mechanics where you cant stand still and spam WS A-B. This isn't a leve... You cant just rush in and spam WS over and over and have a total disregard for your actions.

Normally they will die in under 10 seconds on ogre while the 3 of us that understand concepts kill it and raise them up. Even explaining the tactics doesn't help.

This system allows players to create an account today, and have a 50 with full AF by the end of the week who could have spent as little as an hour actually Playing his class. (PL anyone?)

Then they join and Ifrit/moogle/garuda/darkhold party and are floored that an encounter takes actual skill, attention, patience, teamwork, effort..... and promptly run to the forums to qq about lag (god forbid you prepare for a plume, astral flow, etc), difficulty, class stacking etc etc

This is my main issue with the game atm