Curious...............

Was wondering if there are any players who joined a Grand Company different than the city state in which you originated.
Also concerning the Red Mage job, I know it says lev 50 war or magic, so you do NOT take a job at lev 30 right ? Say I was a lev 30 lancer I just keep leveling up to lev 50 in lancer then go pick up the Red Mage job ?

You could do that with the lancer, but you would be missing out on the vast majority of your tool kit. Dragoon has many useful, and much more powerful, skills than what you get access to as Lancer(unless they changed it since I got everything to 60).

As for the Grand Company, I know you can change them later on(and bounce back and forth every 30-days I think it is), but not sure if the initial joining of a GC can be done in a different city state than where you started.

Just join w/e GC you want, doesnt mather which city is you originated from.
After you get to lvl 50 you can choice rdm and lvl it up from there, only ast, drk and mch are locked behind of HW.

My alt ended up in Gridania like my main character so I chose Maelstrom as her Grand Company. I recently moved her to Immortal Flames to get some portraits.

If your heart is set on being a red mage then you can skip the dragoon job questline. Nothing you lose will hurt your ability to reach level 50.

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Originally Posted by Verethyl

Was wondering if there are any players who joined a Grand Company different than the city state in which you originated.
Also concerning the Red Mage job, I know it says lev 50 war or magic, so you do NOT take a job at lev 30 right ? Say I was a lev 30 lancer I just keep leveling up to lev 50 in lancer then go pick up the Red Mage job ?

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Lots of players join a different GC than the one for the origin city state.

You do not HAVE to pick up any other job prior to picking up RDM, but there is really no good reason not to.
If you are a lancer you can technically go on being a lancer until you pick up Red Mage at level 50, but it is really a better idea to pick up Dragoon at level 30 and then play as DRG until you pick up RDM. You loose nothing by taking a job at level 30, but can gain quite a bit.

A job is just an item you equip to a class. You don't lose your 30 levels of lancer by equipping it with a dragoon job stone.
No reason not to get your job!

OK, thanks for all the replies, didn't know if I could take the " JOB " or not. THANKS !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Yeah, if you want you can unlock and level up every job. A lot of people have. And what the others said was right, choosing a grand company is completely independent from your starting city. In fact you could start in one city, join the GC of a second city when the quest tells you to choose, then buy a house in the 3rd city later on(provided any are for sale).

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Originally Posted by Verethyl

Was wondering if there are any players who joined a Grand Company different than the city state in which you originated.

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My char was from Gridania, but he's on Flames (Ul'dah). That's because Flames HQ is on a convenient place for me and I liked their glam best.

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Originally Posted by Verethyl

Also concerning the Red Mage job, I know it says lev 50 war or magic, so you do NOT take a job at lev 30 right ? Say I was a lev 30 lancer I just keep leveling up to lev 50 in lancer then go pick up the Red Mage job ?

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No. You must level any class/job to 50 AND buy Stormblood. But that's valid only for Red Mage and Samurai. With a lvl 30 Lancer, you can become a Dragoon. Just do all the quests on the Lancer Guild.

I started as a Pugilist in Gridania before they made class selection the determining factor of which city you would start in. I enlisted with the Twin Adders when I went through the introduction quests to the three companies because I enjoyed how they were presented in the story more than the other two. Nowadays if you start as a Pugilist, the game will force you to start in Ul'dah, which is my least favorite of the three starting nations. If that was the case for me, I would have definitely chosen a different Grand Company rather than go with the Flames.

Since I had little else to do in the game a few years ago. I switched from Immortal Flames to Twin Adders. Then when I reached max rank on Twin Adders, I switch again to Maelstrom. I switch again back to Immortal Flames. Then a few months later, back to Maelstrom again because I spending so much time in Limsa.

Now, that you have brought this topic up, I should switch it again, now that my squadrons are levelled up.

Way back in the beginning of 2.0 I choose to level paladin(Gladiator initially) first. I'm actually somewhat irk'd that I did this due to a minor "stain" on my profile. The stain being "City-State: Ul'dah" just because I wanted to level Gladiator first, I wish this was removed from profiles or at least have an option to change it...but it's been so long...we are in 4.0 now and this minor "QoL" customization has never been properly looked at I feel. I long to see my profile say Gridania... :<

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Originally Posted by Riko_Futatabi

Way back in the beginning of 2.0 I choose to level paladin(Gladiator initially) first. I'm actually somewhat irk'd that I did this due to a minor "stain" on my profile. The stain being "City-State: Ul'dah" just because I wanted to level Gladiator first, I wish this was removed from profiles or at least have an option to change it...but it's been so long...we are in 4.0 now and this minor "QoL" customization has never been properly looked at I feel. I long to see my profile say Gridania... :<

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I know exactly what you mean - having sometimes had that wish myself.
On the other hand, there are a few NPC dialogues that change slightly depending on your starting city so I guess they need to track that anyhow, and it really is a very minor thing after all.