Personnage

I scoffed at the idea of running dungeons with NPC's, but I've rotated on the issue. I started with getting one job, AST, to 80 with the main story quest. Healer que is almost instant, regardless of the time of day, so any time I needed a dungeon run to advance the story I had it. Naturally, there is no repeat for other jobs (nor would I want to run all the filler quests between expansions again) so I had to take other routes.

I started with running dungeons as a healer/tank (with short que) and spamming PotD (Palace of the Dead) with my dps. Then the Moogle Tome of Law event started, and I was able to run regular dungeons with all my classes. Once all my jobs were at 50 I had to return to PotD until 60, then grind to 61 so Heaven on High (HoH) was accessible.

Ginding HoH floors 21-30 was a bit boring, but I wanted the levels and it provided until 70. Once there I hit the wall hard. Most of my gaming time is early morning at this point, and people aren't awake to spam dungeons. So I tried Trusts.

The NPC's do mechanics and pulls the same way each time. Once you learn their way, running trusts becomes much easier. One enemy group at a time, stack in the middle of the arena for stack markers, it is very low pressure for a fairly high gain of exp. Of course it gets boring after a while, but it's five times the variety of the same 10 floors of a deep dungeon. But exp is not the main reason I now sing the praise of Trusts.

By taking off the pressure of wall to wall pulls, other players, and by making mechanic resolution the same each time, it has allowed me to really dig in with learning job rotations and skills. So many jobs changed drastically in SHB and I got lost trying to learn them, but with Trusts I was able to pause between groups and bosses and evaluate how I did. What mechanics I missed, what skills I clipped in my GCD (global cooldown), what OGCD (off global cooldown) skills I should have prioritized over lower damage ones.

So thank you, Square Enix, for this player buff. I appreciate it.