What Job Should You Pick? | Final Fantasy XIV Beginner's Guide 

Yeah, I think I confused the level with the msq. That being said unless you start in limsa then it's not accessible until 15 when you finish the starter questline.

I started with black mage but later pivoted to summoner because leveling black mage is annoying

It's less about difficulty and more about it being annoying/confusing as it's by far the job most effected by level syncs. Generally speaking for other jobs when going through the msq if they get level synced they lose a cool new ability, but not that much will change beyond that. However, that isn't the case with black mage because so many of the abilities change how they play, and thus when you have to get used to one rotation then have to go back to a rather different one it can make it feel confusing or even unfun.

Fair, I personally dont have the issue of level sync making me do the wrong rotation by accident but I guess that's up to the individual. (Also not me no lifing black mage on training dummies here and there XD) @@TheNastyNamazu

While I do a agree that warrior can teach some bad habits I still believe it is the better choice for new players. It's forgiving nature and simplicity gives them more leeway than any of the other tanks thus allowing them to focus more on the fundamentals of the role(along with just learning the game) rather than the job(using mitigations, bigger pulls, and handling aggro). Moreover, warrior's habits are easily broken to the point that many players will do so naturally when leveling other tanks. However, my previous statement is mostly referring to brand new player. When it comes to players that already have some experience in the game, and want to learn to tank then I can agree with paladin being the better options.

Teachable moments for any Job/role are practically non-existent for the entire leveling process. Speedrunning as the default expectation in casual matchmaking makes it a case for the opposite: you're only not-griefing when playing to Warrior's " bad habits " as you refer to them, since it's not about your personal skill anymore, those days in the zeitgeist are a memory. Rather, it's about following a script, an unmoving & unchanging pattern, with no variance. Over and over and over again, on a daily basis. The metric is based on how much " time you are saving " others (from the gameplay = the opposite of a learning environment) via repetition+speed. I doubt WAR's kit is creating any bad habits, here. It's a lack of using Party Finder, Linkshells, Free Company chat, Discord, etc., to seek out like-minded players and instead just slamming into Duty Finder to torment another poor content-respecter or three. Teach em' all the hard lesson of how to play as little of the actual game part of the game as humanly possible, in the interest of " saving time ". I think that bad habit, if we're talking learning curves, deserves a lot more community focus/attention than any particular Job's kit (let's be real: the largest bad habit across all tanks is losing aggro on mobs from not properly tagging them in the first place + pulling multiple packs too way too slowly + starting a new pull before finishing the last one) Meta-gaming, especially for tanks, isn't really a teaching or learning kind of environment to begin with. By definition. Not a lot of learning & teaching of " habits " in FFXIV these days, only repetitive moral platitudes & player-enforced homogenization.