New Player - Job Level Boost

I'm new to the game having been suckered in by my friends all playing Stormblood, I have the game, both expansions and a GLA at level 25.

I'd like to speed up the process so I can join with them but I'm not sure which of the Job Level Boosts I need to achieve this.

There are 2 available (both are the same price), one of them seems to complete your MSQ progress, whereas the other seems to clear your job quests and put you at level 60 for your selected job.

In short, do I need both of these to be able to begin the Stormblood content and level up beyond 60?

If you want to go to Stormblood with a level 60 job right now, you need both boosts.

As you said, one boosts a specific job at level 60, gives a bit of gear and completes all job quests till then.
The other only completes the MSQ and all nessecery sidequests to beginn directly with the stormblood content.

Alright, fair enough. Thanks for the swift reply.

Question 2 then, if I buy the one for completion of the MSQ, does that unlock all associated duties from Realm Reborn and Heavensward? How long would it take me to level up my job to level 60?

I'm having fun with the group based stuff but the MSQ (for the most part) has been a little tedious so far.

I'd kinda be interested to know what their sales are looking like. I'm wondering if there's really anyone that buys the story boost without the job boost. I mean, maybe if you're somewhere through HW and close enough to 60, and you just want to get to SB now. But otherwise, it sounds a bit useless for anyone to buy the story boost on its own. (although, I suppose one nice perk for either one is it would skip past Castrum/Praetorium dungeons...)

Well let's look at the current system. Leveling from 1-60 takes nearly no time anymore, you can accomplish that in a couple of days, if you put enough time and effort into it. 60-70 takes a week, maybe two if you are not using the pvp method as only reliable source of exp and are watching the cut scenes and reading the dialog.

MSQ on the other hand from 1-50 takes not much time either, but then comes the MSQ hell gate, that you will have to unlock just to reach the heavensward area's and their new jobs if you're interested in that. This alone are 250+ quests, then the whole HW MSQ, we're looking at roughly 500+ quests total for both ARR and HW before even reaching SB content. SB's MSQ is another bunch of ultra long quests.

Also I do know that they did say 1 potion per account, I am not sure if that was just for the job potion, or also includes the MSQ. If that's the case, you would only be able to use one or the other. Might be wrong, however even if that's not the case, my suggestion if you do not want to dish out $50 or even more, just level via potd to 60, your friends can even help you with that since speed runs take only couple of minutes. And then spend your money on the MSQ potions for ARR and HW, I think the HW one includes the unlock of ARR and you wouldn't need to purchase both of them.

Edit: If you take your time and do some research, I've posted many comments on the other topics about that, and then exactly know what you're doing and skipping everything unnecessary in the game, including lore and cutscene's, and have 4+ hours a day on your hand, you will be able to reach 1-60 in just 7 days. Plus or minus a day, give or take. That's when running regular content, aka MSQ for a little bit, dungeons, hunting logs, Clan hunts starting with HW, daily roulette's.

If you're leveling via palace of the dead, the first 50 levels can be very slow, since you don't have another class/job at higher level. Meaning you won't get the armoury bonus that you would be getting if that's the case. However in circumstances of being DPS as example, PoTD can be faster since dungeon queue's take forever and even longer now with the expansion being released. As tank and heals you nearly get instant queue therefore, you are faster doing regular dungeons, as long as you chose dungeons at your level or one/two levels lower. Having done it on an alt, I can tell you the first 60 levels take around a week and half, maybe two. Now difference would be, if you're spending more then 8 hours a day in POTD with your friends, making runs quicker and just speed running these, still will take a good while, in comparison to investing that kind of time to the regular content, then you would be 60 within 3-5 days.

But if you don't want to go that route, then after you checked if it's possible to purchase both, that would be your only way to be able to access the current SB content as of right now. Don't make the mistake and buy the MSQ unlock before you're 60, since it opens a whole other can of problems lol

Yeah, true. I feel like spending another almost £40 having already spent £50 for the game and both expansions is a little much. Especially since I'm already almost halfway to level 60, and that didn't take me too long to do.

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Originally Posted by OmegaFluxx

Question 2 then, if I buy the one for completion of the MSQ, does that unlock all associated duties from Realm Reborn and Heavensward? How long would it take me to level up my job to level 60?

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If you're running a tank, and you understand your kit well enough to not have any serious issues and can get through dungeons easy enough, you'd probably get there in a couple weeks at most. Tanks have little to not wait time for getting into dungeons, and are near always in high demand, providing an extra exp boost when you queue into the roulette (set yourself to "Join in Progress" to probably speed things up even more).

The boost does unlock everything MSQ related, so you could literally just sit there spamming roulettes with the occasional break for job quests.

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Originally Posted by LunaFaye

but then comes the MSQ hell gate, that you will have to unlock just to reach the heavensward area's and their new jobs if you're interested in that. This alone are 250+ quests

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It's closer to, like, 100 quests, and it doesn't take all that long to get through them all.

I don't think I've been struggling so far, although I don't do great at tanking large numbers of enemies.

I'm in two minds as to whether it's necessary, if LunaFaye is saying I could be at level 60 within a week. Does the MSQ get any more entertaining? Most of it seems to be go talk to this guy, then go talk to this guy. The fighting is few and far between.

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Originally Posted by OmegaFluxx

I don't think I've been struggling so far, although I don't do great at tanking large numbers of enemies.

I'm in two minds as to whether it's necessary, if LunaFaye is saying I could be at level 60 within a week. Does the MSQ get any more entertaining? Most of it seems to be go talk to this guy, then go talk to this guy. The fighting is few and far between.

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It starts to feel more like a Final Fantasy game after you beat a level 35 boss. Otherwise early ARR is just generic boar butt tier questing. Arguably it gets the FF feel during HW but the context to why you do the things in HW you're doing is better if you know what happened in ARR prior.

OK then, I'll persevere with it for now.

Thanks to everyone for the advice!

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Originally Posted by OmegaFluxx

Does the MSQ get any more entertaining? Most of it seems to be go talk to this guy, then go talk to this guy. The fighting is few and far between.

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Most of the opinions ive heard is that the story gets better and better as you go. This tends to start in earnest for most around patch 2.3/2.4 worth of story quests. It continues climbing through the dragonsong story which has a pretty nice payoff, and the current stormblood storyline is excellent. Good villians, clear motivation, some satisfying fights. You still have "do these 3 tasks to earn the trust of soandso" type quests, but the war-related story of stormblood does lend itself to a lot of skirmishes. Edit: Forgot to add this. While the story keeps getting better, it also loops back and references itself a decent amount. If you were to skip quest A, it wouldnt mean as much later on when you deal with event B.

And as Luna said, you can get the levels fairly quickly. But assuming you read fairly fast, the quests will fly by too. Tank gets short ques for all the dungeons and trials you must face, so if you play a normal amount i could see you being caught up a month from now.

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Originally Posted by LunaFaye

Also I do know that they did say 1 potion per account, I am not sure if that was just for the job potion, or also includes the MSQ.

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I'm pretty sure it's one of each of the two basic categories: one job level boost and one MSQ story jump.

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Originally Posted by LunaFaye

Don't make the mistake and buy the MSQ unlock before you're 60, since it opens a whole other can of problems lol

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It seems as though if you're going to use it at all, you'd want to use it early (either before level 15 if you're starting off with that potion, or else at whenever point you decide to stop questing your way through the main scenario). Since most dungeons are unlocked through MSQ, if you're getting those unlocks from the Tales of Adventure potion rather than normal questing, you wouldn't have access to any of them until you use it. It'd be a lot easier to level up if the content is unlocking as you reach the levels for it. What "other can of problems" comes with that?

Hi there!

I am a new player in FF XIV.

I understand that I have to buy the job level boost and the MSQ completion to get directly to Stormblood.

The question is: I have two characters. If I purchase these items for one of my characters, can I enjoy A Realm Reborn and Heavensword's story with the other charater?

I want to discover all the secrets of Eorzea, but I would like to join to my friends in Stormblood too.

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Originally Posted by Pozandr2

I have two characters. If I purchase these items for one of my characters, can I enjoy A Realm Reborn and Heavensword's story with the other charater?

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Yes, you can. Get Tales of Adventure: Heavensward and Tales of Adventure: One <job> Journey, and give both of those to one of your characters. That character can start at 60 with Stormblood content where your friends are, while your other character starts at 1 and can go through the Realm Reborn and Heavensward storylines at your own pace.

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Originally Posted by OmegaFluxx

Alright, fair enough. Thanks for the swift reply.

Question 2 then, if I buy the one for completion of the MSQ, does that unlock all associated duties from Realm Reborn and Heavensward? How long would it take me to level up my job to level 60?

I'm having fun with the group based stuff but the MSQ (for the most part) has been a little tedious so far.

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It does unlock all duties from ARR and HW, but you will have to manually unlock all Primal extremes and Raids(sidequests). People farm these often for glamour and mounts. As far as MSQ it is very tedious and the amount of MSQ's in ARR AND HW is more like 250. Like you said most are go talk to this guy, deliver this thing get a bunch of XP then eventually run a dungeon or fight some enemies. In short i bought both boosts because i know how tedious the MSQ is.

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Originally Posted by Pozandr2

Hi there!

I am a new player in FF XIV.

I understand that I have to buy the job level boost and the MSQ completion to get directly to Stormblood.

The question is: I have two characters. If I purchase these items for one of my characters, can I enjoy A Realm Reborn and Heavensword's story with the other charater?

I want to discover all the secrets of Eorzea, but I would like to join to my friends in Stormblood too.

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If i remember correct theres a book or something inside of the Inn and you can watch every cutscene from the MSQ

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Originally Posted by Veryhotsoup

It does unlock all duties from ARR and HW, but you will have to manually unlock all Primal extremes and Raids(sidequests). People farm these often for glamour and mounts. As far as MSQ it is very tedious and the amount of MSQ's in ARR AND HW is more like 250. Like you said most are go talk to this guy, deliver this thing get a bunch of XP then eventually run a dungeon or fight some enemies. In short i bought both boosts because i know how tedious the MSQ is.

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I have been pressing on with the MSQ, but it is starting to wear a little thin at this point.

I feel like I may just buy the potion to complete it and then level up doing instances, since they're fun. That way, at least I become familiar with my chosen class.

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Originally Posted by OmegaFluxx

I have been pressing on with the MSQ, but it is starting to wear a little thin at this point.

I feel like I may just buy the potion to complete it and then level up doing instances, since they're fun. That way, at least I become familiar with my chosen class.

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Which part of the MSQ are you on? Roughly speaking? There are a couple slow periods, but if you havent done it then the story is really good.

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Originally Posted by Frizze

Which part of the MSQ are you on? Roughly speaking? There are a couple slow periods, but if you havent done it then the story is really good.

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Umm, I'm level 36, and I've just entered a snow area, Coerthas is it?

So youve fought titan, some storyline(obviously redacted for spoilers) happened at the waking sands... youve probly heard that the ixali are summoning garuda, but fighting her will be easier said then done given your current situation. You are also interacting with Coerthans for the first time, and actually starting to set up the storyline for the main part of the Heavensward expansion. Yes, this is one of the valleys in the storyline. This valley lasts until roughly level 45. There are a couple of interesting/fun/hard solo instances, and a dungeon in the midst. But once you fight garuda, you immediately move into following up on that storyline from the waking sands and that goes straight on to the end of the ARR line. So a little lull, but one that passes fairly fast.

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Originally Posted by Veryhotsoup

If i remember correct theres a book or something inside of the Inn and you can watch every cutscene from the MSQ

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Only the more graphically impressive ones. Most cutscenes (the type that are more dialog focused) are not included.