Reducing my level

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Originally Posted by Hasrat

I failed to buy HW before it was bundled into SB, so there's no stopping til I hit 70 now.

Only bright side is getting SAM and RDM so I can keep all the jobs balanced and geared together.

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Not having access to SAM or RDM is definitely a downside to keeping my exp capped, but I still haven't even unlocked the HW jobs! I came into the game with the 3.1 patch so ARR and HW were bundled. Because I wanted to experience as much of ARR as possible before going into HW, I was around level 54-55 when I finally entered Ishgard and that was after relentlessly trying to avoid exp. I never did roulettes, weeklies, FATEs, and the like unless something I was specifically after made me do it. I tried to keep up my skills by spam running trials, which gave no exp ;)

Another downside is not really being able to participate in the most relevant threads that have to do with SB, levels 61+ and the abilities that come with it, but the debates and such are always interesting to read into.

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Originally Posted by Ilyrian

Yes, perhaps a bit too bad-cop. Should you or the OP stop playing? My point is you really have to decide that yourselves - I'm just pointing to the futility of playing a game you know runs counter to what you like and enjoy.

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Personally, anyone who has any type of problem, and comes on here asking for advice or just generally querying something as the OP did, shouldn’t be faced with ridicule or told that their decision to play a game is futile. They should be supported and offered encouragement. For me, if I’d decided to let my social interactions dictate what I do, I would never have gained the little confidence I do have when it comes to interacting in a social environment. It’s thanks to online gaming and the support of the friends I’ve made through said gaming - I turned what you called futile into something positive - as I’m sure the OP can do with the support of the community and their friends...

In the realm of silly requests, this takes the cake for today.

Thanks for all the reply! I know what is possible or not possible now.

One more question - if I start a new character, and choose GLA as the starting job, buy a potion to level DRK to 60 and another potion to complete quest up to start of SB, will my character screen show me as a level 1 GLA? I am quite pedantic about this sort of thing. I want this char to be a career DRK.

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Originally Posted by Hippo

Thanks for all the reply! I know what is possible or not possible now.

One more question - if I start a new character, and choose GLA as the starting job, buy a potion to level DRK to 60 and another potion to complete quest up to start of SB, will my character screen show me as a level 1 GLA? I am quite pedantic about this sort of thing. I want this char to be a career DRK.

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Yes I believe it will show GLA as level 1 as you can't choose DRK as a starter job when creating your character.

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For reasons different from OP, I'd enjoy something to prevent experience gains, if only so I could stall at 60 to experience some of the end-HW content without over-leveling pre-SB.

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Every notable fight/dungeon level caps you anyway. You are literally not allowed to overlevel it.

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Originally Posted by Fynlar

Every notable fight/dungeon level caps you anyway. You are literally not allowed to overlevel it.

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They mean halt all experience gain until reaching expansion areas, i.e., remaining level 60 through the remainder of 3.0 and 3.x content, and only starting to level again once they transition into 4.0 content. Almost as if they don’t have the expansion registered to the account, so the game halts all leveling progress until it is.

Why would you want to halt exp gain though? It doesn't hurt you to have extra and in fact most people suggest you to buy SB once you hit 60 so that you can start accumulating exp. I started a new character and purchased the ARR story skip (but not HW) and the insta-60 skip. Even though literally all exp from HW went to post 60 leveling, I still wasn't to 70 until almost the end of SB and it prevents you from having to do side quests just to keep the main story going.

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Originally Posted by Astral145

Yes I believe it will show GLA as level 1 as you can't choose DRK as a starter job when creating your character.

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oh well, guess i will level a gladiator then. Can I level a gladiator to level 70? Or classes can level up to level 50?

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They mean halt all experience gain until reaching expansion areas, i.e., remaining level 60 through the remainder of 3.0 and 3.x content, and only starting to level again once they transition into 4.0 content. Almost as if they don’t have the expansion registered to the account, so the game halts all leveling progress until it is.

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I know what they mean. I'm saying that it's pointless to worry about being "overleveled" in this game because this game level caps you for pretty much every solo duty and dungeon. Even if you wanted to do FATEs or something, you get capped for those too.

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Originally Posted by Hippo

oh well, guess i will level a gladiator then. Can I level a gladiator to level 70? Or classes can level up to level 50?

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You can get classes all the way to level cap.
After reaching level 30 as Gladiator you will want to pick up the Paladin job. Your Paladin and Gladiator level will always be equal to each other.

If you really, really want your character sheet to show only a single class or job, then you are out of luck:
All classes will want to pick up their corresponding job after reaching level 30. Doing otherwise will severly cripple your character.
The jobs that do not have a base class require that you got some other class/job up to level 50 first.

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Originally Posted by FoxyAreku

No one cares about your search info and those that do will respect you more for having at least some experience on those jobs rather than seeing a blank space and thinking "He's never played this he doesn't know what he's talking about". Leveling down is silly.

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If you read the post you could clearly see that this has nothing to do with how others see his/her profile.

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Originally Posted by Gemina

How so? If deleveling worked like resetting your desythesis level to zero, I go to an npc and buy a tome, and then use it. Done.

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Thats not what I meant, I meant that you would rather the devs spend time creating this feature than you spending a short play session getting your classes from level 19 to level 30 (something which could literally be done in a play session or two these days)

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Originally Posted by Lambdafish

Thats not what I meant, I meant that you would rather the devs spend time creating this feature than you spending a short play session getting your classes from level 19 to level 30 (something which could literally be done in a play session or two these days)

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I don't want the devs to do this. That's not what I'm saying at all. All I'm saying is if the feature was already there, I would rather delevel to get jobs even that I don't care to play any more, that way there isn't the mental gremlin always there telling me to.

I can see the point but I think it's a bit too niche to have the devs work on putting functionality in for.