it might be because I'm level 90 gunbreaker and dark knight, and I didn't have to go through ARR grinding hell for those, but like, I've also been doing warrior in my alt and that doesn't feel as squishy through ARR dungeons as paladin does on my main
I swear if the answer is a lore thing... like come on you don't expect me not to mash through the ARR job quests, right?