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It just really annoys the hell out of me because I've switched to a tank job and having a power leveler doesn't exactly help me learn how to perform that job well, and doesn't help all the subjobless people that end up in these parties either.
I think you guys missed his point. He's switched jobs and is trying to learn a new job and how to play it. I can see where this is not a good thing for a tank class to have a PL, especially someone who has never played a tank class before. After all, the PL ends up tanking most of the time.
So how does the new tank learn to keep hate or any thing else? You can expand the argument and ask how does the new WHM in this party learn what level of curing causes problems for the tank? Or the BLM learn where the hate threshold is for nuking?
His point is a good one. Sure it may be a sub,sub job. But it's not just another trip through the dunes. it's a new job with new roles to learn. The entire point of parties and how they progress through the areas was designed to teach everyone their job and its interaction in the group. Sure you may be a level 75 PLD, but at 14 WHM, do you really understand everything a WHM needs to do just becuase you had one in your PT for the first 75 levels? or the 37 Levels for your WAR? Or just reverse that.
Eventually you are going to be in a PT with people who expect you to have learned your job and a level 26 PLD in the Jungle is a REALLY bad time to find out that the WHM isn't supposed to be doing the tanking.
EDIT: Just occured to me how odd this is. I can recall people complaining about PL being a detriment to the game experience for exactly the reasons I just gave. Too many people not knowing how to do their job correctly or at least well, due to too much PL.
Edited, Thu Apr 14 16:45:42 2005 by airamis