Pence, you don't quite understand the situation as well as you think you do. I play smart but if I'm going to repeat the entire game up to the point I was at I had no intention of doing it on a character which would nullify all sense of experiencing the game. Your argument for "play smarter, not harder" only works if I wished to be lazy and the suggestion of Arcanist is out without completing 15-20 levels of story quests to unlock Limsa to begin with.

On top of that I intended to change servers anyway after spending less than 20 minutes on Balmung I found it had been overrun by morons and would rather start fresh elsewhere. The commentary on the frustration is merely to point out the massive amount of issues that they didn't address which should have been.