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I level them for the story and learning the class. When I unlocked sam and the quest was all here you go try and figure out how to play with no real hint during a duty I felt like I was stumbling around and with the 5.0 job(s) coming I hope at least they're more like rdm in that the npc gives you a hint as to what you're supposed to do. Specially if they start at 60 you don't have a lot of time to go read tool tips. I know some people actually learn better that way. Yes there are some jobs that when played below a certain level can be frustrating like mch. I think that's just another thing SE didn't think about when creating them and have improved on. I also know most of the tricks so I don't have to fall to running PotD or HoH to the point of burn out. Like doing guildhest as they give you a bonus for doning them once and a bonus for doing it on that job. useing leves in Arr areas, leaving side quests for other jobs, using my squad, doing roullettes, and beast tribes. Along with eating food and anything else that I can equip or use that'll give me an xp bonus.
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I doubt I'd ever buy a boost. the point of a game is to play it.
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I prefer to level my jobs.
Levelling them helps to learn them, and its so quick these days anyway, although i wouldnt want to level from lvl 1 again, so id be unlikely to take up a ARR job unless i had road to 60.
Which is precisely what i did for an alt chatacter, to level jobs i wouldnt have levelled otherwise and to replay the story.
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It would be very situational for me. I prefer leveling a job so I can learn to play it effectively along the way and be comfortable with it by the time I get into endgame, and IMO the boosts would only be useful if you’re in a hurry to get something leveled. I’d probably only boost an alt on a job I’ve already leveled and geared on my main and don’t care to go through that process again, if I wanted to play with friends on a different server.
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I prefer to level them. No point in wasting 30$ especially when its super easy to level nowadays.
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I bought the boost when it was on sale and boosted AST.
No regrets and if I had to, I would do it again.
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My "method" of leveling classes goes something like this:
(1) Get really excited about leveling a new job
(2) Get to about level 40 and then get extremely sick of spamming PoTD vowing to never touch the job or PoTD again
(3) After about 3 months I forget why I stopped leveling the job again and level it to about 60 at which point some shiny new content comes around and I forget about leveling
(4) A month or two after the shiny new stuff wears off I wonder why I stopped leveling the job again and finish it up to level 70. Go back to step 1.
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Maybe I'm just out of touch with newer gamers, but I find leveling XIV to be super fast and easy to do. Many of the MMO's i grew up on had much more difficult lvl grinds and much harsher penalties for death. I remember my first max lvl character in DAoC taking me about 6 months to get. In ARR I got to max lvl in 23 days, and that was playing casually.