New jobs do not start at level 1

[Gilraen]

Ya so basically if you have a lvl 50 "whatever" you can do a quest and turn into a lvl 50 dark knight, engineer, or astrologan? Ummmm what?

That seems to be what people are having a problem with. And that seems, to me at least, to be exactly what's going to happen. Dark Knight will either have Paladin or Warrior as it's base Job, most likely Warrior judging from the idle pose, so as they 'level' Dark Knight (assuming they aren't 50 in the base Job's class already) they will also be leveling the class of the base Job. It sounds convoluted, kind of feels that way too, but it's not that hard to understand.

[Kuwagami]

That seems to be what people are having a problem with. And that seems, to me at least, to be exactly what's going to happen. Dark Knight will either have Paladin or Warrior as it's base Job, most likely Warrior judging from the idle pose, so as they 'level' Dark Knight (assuming they aren't 50 in the base Job's class already) they will also be leveling the class of the base Job. It sounds convoluted, kind of feels that way too, but it's not that hard to understand.

they never said the new jobs will have "base jobs". Unless you can provide a source, stop spreading misinformation thanks

Exactly. I don't get why people play some mmos / games in general, to not play the game. Why even bother if they're just going to skip 90% of it?

levelling is actually the boring 10% until you can have all your skills and rotations down the road. There is literally no point in the levelling process in FFxiv else than giving you more time to insert each skill in the rotation.

It has been said before, but FFxiv's focus is end game (ie, max level), not levelling