MRD > WAR?

New player here and I apologize for what I'm sure will be deemed stupid questions.

I'm having a bit of trouble wrapping my head around classes vs jobs. I started as a Marauder and finished my level 30 class quest so, now, I need to start the WAR quests? ...and become a WAR? What happens to my status and progression as a MRD? ...or, do I continue on leveling as a MRD, then go back and pick up WAR later? Everything I've read indicates that MRD pretty much ceases to exist at level 30 in favor of the WAR, but there are still skills and abilities past level 30 for the MRD. If I start the WAR job, does MRD level consecutively?

Also, the "one character can be everything" concept is a bit overwhelming. I would almost prefer to, at the most, have one character with all plate dps/tank jobs, one character with all cloth dps/healer jobs, and one character with all leather dps jobs ...is this viable? Does anyone else manage their stable of characters this way? ...or does everyone simply do everything on one character? I know you can't (easily) transfer stuff back and forth, I know that alot of stuff isn't account wide, etc - that's all mostly ok with me as I'd treat each character as their own separate entity. Just wanting to get opinions on this as I'm guessing there is no real "right" answer here.

Thanks for your time and assistance.

Warrior is simply the upgraded form of marauder. You keep the same level, use the same armour and weapons, and still gain "marauder EXP" from battles as a warrior.

It used to be more complicated, and you had to raise multiple classes to unlock jobs and acquire skills, but now it's a straight upgrade and there's no benefit to not doing it.

Make sure to keep up with your job quests, since most of your skills from this point onwards are locked behind completing them.

Warrior is Marauder + X. As a Warrior, you will keep all your Marauder skills and will still learn those you are still missing, but you will also gain new Warrior-Skills on top of that. There is absolutely no reason not to equip your warrior-stone once you get it and you should get it as soon as possible.

Most people just level everything up on the same character. The only time that I've seen people choose what you're wanting to do is for RP purposes where that character's personality is set up in such a way that they only have this or that leveled.

It’s much more viable to be one character for all jobs, in 99% of situations.
You seemed to want to have different ones for ranks, healers, etc. However you should realize nothing is kept when swapping jobs. You aren’t inherently more tanky when playing as White Mage just because you levelled Warrior first.

As the others have said, warrior is just a better marauder. Unlock ASAP and keep up on class quests every 5 levels.

As for each character having no limits, its only as overwhelming as you make it. Just because you can be everything doesnt mean you have to. Plenty of people only level up the jobs that theyre interested in, not even bothering to unlock the rest. And even if you are the sort of person who wants to do everything, you dont need to try to do it all at once or all right away. You can always choose to focus on one thing at a time, only switching when you "finish" what youre currently working on. As for your idea of different characters with different classes, you can do that too if you want. The biggest reason that people cite as being anti-alt is the way the game unlocks content(with item/trade restrictions probly being second). Your main character will unlock all the content that interests you by default just by playing the game. But your healer alt needs to re-play all the story quests and dungeons to get to that same point(along with gearing up). Then when you get to the DPS alt youre doing it all a 3rd time(but with worse que times). It can get to be a bit much. But as you yourself noted, there isnt a "right" answer, just one that hopefully works for you.

become what you must... a warrior..

A warrior is still a marauder, just a special type of marauder that has extra strength and skills. But since once it's unlocked, there's no advantage to ever going without that extra power, there's no reason to ever play a basic (non-warrior) marauder again past that point.

As to splitting out jobs between multiple characters, some people do it that way.

The two biggest reasons for splitting up jobs between multiple characters are RP (where people may want multiple characters to RP as) and end-game raiding (where splitting them out gives you more opportunities to gear up multiple jobs, and lets you raid with multiple groups without jeopardizing your team's loot).

The most common reason for not splitting them out, and instead doing everything on one character is that you only need to go through the story once and unlock all the content once (though buying a story skip from the MogStation on second, third, etc. alts is another way to take care of most of that if you don't want to do the story again).

It's up to you which way you want to play it. I think the biggest reason people talk about this game being set up to be played with just a single character is more about the fact that all the jobs *can* be played with a single character which isn't something very many games allow. But there's a big difference between being able to play it that way and needing to play it that way, and only the former is true. You can do everything on one character if you want to.

Thanks all for the replies. I guess I need to go get that Warrior stone ...

As for my character plan, I haven't really decided yet what I'm going to do. Right now, just working on my 1st character, 1st class/job, and 1st run-through of the main story. I'm not necessarily an RPer, but I do like my characters in games to be somewhat ...logical? It doesn't make much sense (to me) to be a plate-wearing meat-shield one minute and a delicate cloth-wearing finger-waggler the next minute. Anyhoo, it seems like I'm going to have plenty of time before I really need to worry about it. I just wanted to get some opinions.

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Originally Posted by Cranky_Pantaloons

As for my character plan, I haven't really decided yet what I'm going to do. Right now, just working on my 1st character, 1st class/job, and 1st run-through of the main story. I'm not necessarily an RPer, but I do like my characters in games to be somewhat ...logical? It doesn't make much sense (to me) to be a plate-wearing meat-shield one minute and a delicate cloth-wearing finger-waggler the next minute. Anyhoo, it seems like I'm going to have plenty of time before I really need to worry about it. I just wanted to get some opinions.

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Fair enough! I also have a collection of characters that are (at least theoretically) different job specialists - summoner, healer-bard, tank, melee fighter - though I've done all classes on my main character, and I also end up leveling a few "out of character" jobs on my alts just so I can play around with particular glamour ideas, since they all have different clothing styles that suit them as well.

Part of the fun is working out glamours that suit both the job and your character!


Also I've just noticed your character name! Fraggle Rock is fantastic and more people need to watch it. :D

Warrior is a pretty bad ass tank job but in my opinion warrior and marauder are not the same. they may use the same weapon and have an overlap in skills but changing from a marauder to a warrior will drastically change the game-play. Marauder was a class that could be selected during 1.0 and in that respect is still an aspect of the game. I personally liked the idea of classes because they were different in comparison to those of Final Fantasy Eleven, which had a different system but many of the same titles. I was curious what sort of path they were meant for.
In the context of an old-school MMORPG your in for a large amount of grind time and part of the problem they experienced with FF11 was that the gap between endgame expansions in being a new player was very difficult to close, not to mention the time investment. So i think something came about in which a duty finder was implemented in various MMO such as world of warcraft. To me FFxiv had appeared as an effort to make that gap of little consequence in a pinch of time through various in-game facilities.
This is the sort of thing you are going to have to face if you should choose not to do your Job quest, a good bit of disappointment and social pressure, but it is possible to go without it. your new skills will stop at lvl 50, leaving you thirsty for foe. I originally had chose Gladiator as a class, and when the sixth astral era ended and a realm reborn had begun i though i might become the paladin, I held out and eventually decided to leave it as is because it was a sort of original remnant.
Although with the expansion of Shadowbringers they are supposed to shift the focus towards the roles themselves, which to me seems a way to dispel the significant of any one specific job in relation to the main ideas of the story ark.
It just depends on what you want to do, If you want to spend your time High end dungeons as a tank, raiding with a savage static out in front and prowling for daunting hunt marks, and grinding out relic weapons and armor then yes, you probably want to follow your Job quests. I personally believe that players should make at least one of their gear sets strictly a Class function in order to experience the game from this perspective, because there is a sense of adventure and trill to being at a disadvantage. You will learn more about the game itself in pursuing alternate means of progress.

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Originally Posted by Rodger

changing from a marauder to a warrior will drastically change the game-play.

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Would you like to clarify what "drastically" changes between marauder and warrior (other than continuing to learn new skills as you level up)?

You already made an entire thread of philosophical rambling on the nature of soul stones. Please don't confuse new players with it when they ask about gameplay mechanics.

If anything, marauder to warrior is the least thematic change from class to job.

First of all, that is not suppose to be confusing. By philosophical you must mean "having come up with it all by oneself...", and likewise I did. Without one a player is pitted at a disadvantage as well as facing social pressure and disappointment.

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Originally Posted by Cranky_Pantaloons

As for my character plan, I haven't really decided yet what I'm going to do. Right now, just working on my 1st character, 1st class/job, and 1st run-through of the main story. I'm not necessarily an RPer, but I do like my characters in games to be somewhat ...logical? It doesn't make much sense (to me) to be a plate-wearing meat-shield one minute and a delicate cloth-wearing finger-waggler the next minute.

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i understand what you mean
generally stick to tank/melee on my dude its rare i stick with casters or Ranged dps for too long

Rodger, just no. Let's not go down the how does becoming a warrior or staying a murader effect you at a metaphysical emotional level just because you were. Cranky's questions were asked and answered. They don't need to feel like they need to go see a thereapist just because now they became a warrior.

Well it should not be that hard to explain that I am a knuckle head, and inform their decisions.