why is uldah so over used?

[Graveyardprincess]

To prevent a repeat of the HW incident, where MSQ blocked the 3 new jobs from new players.

all 3 HW jobs required access to Ishgard in order to unlock - this caused immense backlash because as a selling point of said expansion, telling someone new to the game who joined the game because these jobs were advertised as a selling point they needed to go play something entirely different for a huge amount of MSQ quests is extremely bad. Telling someone they'd need to play through ARR + 3 entire expansion's worth of MSQ, totaling 100+ hours just to unlock reaper, the only job they actually want to play, over in Sharlayan/Radz at Han would be laughable and be liable for them to just leave the game instead of giving their sweet $$$ SE wants.

With just the level requirement, someone can theoretically just buy a job boost, unlock their chosen job of choice and go through the entire MSQ with it. Alternatively if they avoid the job boost route, they can unlock their job of choice far quicker since 'road to x' giving double EXP, on top of MSQ + roulette exp, can level someone to the unlock requirement point easily long before they would have to reach that point in the story.

As a result, all new jobs require an accessible point within the ARR zone spread.

i mean you still have to be level 50 for it, so i dont think it mattered that much tbh