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(06-02-2015, 01:24 PM)Gegenji Wrote:The difference is the mindset.(06-02-2015, 01:14 PM)Aaron Wrote: Its why I think SE made a good choice for barring the HW content. That along with the timeline issues. Why would you start off the MSQ as a AST when in that point of the timeline AST weren't even a thing yet.
The issue is that barring the jobs doesn't fix any of those issues. The only thing you'll be bringing to the table is 50 levels worth of knowledge on a completely different class/job and maybe some gear if you've been holding onto it.
Best case scenario example:
Player leveled MRD/WAR to 50, leveling GLD for the subclass and cross-skills for DRK, and kept all the tanking gear picked up along the way. Completes the MSQ and picks up DRK from Ishgard.
What is this player bringing to the table besides having gear and knowledge in a completely unrelated way to tank? What's the difference that this player is bringing to the table from someone who leveled MRD/WAR to 30/40 other than having gear on hand to equip on level ups as they try to figure out how to play their new job?
This is an actual character I'm using in this example, by the way. This is Judge Jredthys, my Au Ra-to-be. I rushed him to 50 WAR, got him the crossclass from GLD, and held onto the gear. From leveling WAR to 50 (albeit twice - Gogon is 50 WAR too) I know... how to tank as a WAR. I will still have to learn how to tank as a DRK - what its cooldowns are, how its mechanics work.
That level 30 DRK - no matter what they were beforehand - is going to be learning the same amount, if not more than someone who just hit 30 WAR or 30 PLD. Why more? Because at least with the other two you had 30 levels with the base class to learn the rotations and most of the basic cooldowns.
You're being thrown in halfway through for the new jobs. And with a job as complex as, say, Astrologian sounds? You are going to have people screwing up as they learn the jobs whether the job was received at 30/40 or after clearing the MSQ at 50.
You grab a tank knowing you're meant to holkd aggro from the others. Not DPs, or heal. But hold aggro.
A brand new DPS switching to a tank and expecting to be as good tanking as they are dpsing initially is in for disappointment because they need a entirely different mindset.
A dps ignorant of anything tanking if they picked up a PLD would spam riot blade combo and sword oath. Not saying you can't be an even better tank than you were a DPs. But it helps to have some knowledge.
Similar to watching a video before diving into t5. Lot more helpful than going in blind.
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