Combat system is beyond saving.

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Wasn't Heavensward considered the worst expansion regarding job balance and raiding? Didn't that expansion almost annihilated the whole raiding community? I am not sure if I'm following you.

I don't think balance is their point. I think the point is the depth and how a new player would be lightyears away in skill from someone who was raiding at a high level. Compare that to how a new player Warrior is likely only marginally different from someone playing at a high level now.

But part of that depth was just jank, physical vs magic mit, lack of intuitively designed systems, needing to level other jobs (cross-class), and a giant knowledge gap where the game didn't teach certain basic things. They did retroactively start teaching enmity and enmity combos though, eventually.