Level Progression Flaw in 3.0

[AskaRay]

I'm pretty sure this is Working As Intended.

[Ksenia]

Yeah, the "warrior of light can actually be a carpenter main" idea was a holdover from 1.0 and was dropped by 2.0. Your character, the WoL, needs to be a battle class. 3.0 was built along the idea of the WoL finishing the 2.0 storyline, and if the carpenter WoL hasn't done that, they don't get access to 3.0 and all its goodies.

It's true, as a primary crafter I have come to expect it in this game. While it would be an atrocity in gaming to force a Blm or Lancer to craft, forcing a Weaver to Blm or Lance is quite acceptable.

[Rumpelstiltzkin]

Stuff

Assuming you are on the same plattform where you have HW.

[Wobble]

That selling point was for playing on the same character.

This, very much this.

Edit: on a side note I really think they should make the new areas accessible to all characters account wide and just lock the advanced jobs and quests story and other behind MSQ.

[Luvbunny]

This is another dumb idea, in 2.0, you can level all crafts and gathering jobs to 50, even if your DoW or DoM class is not yet 50. All areas are not locked behind MSQ to progress, you can freely access them. Some people are not meant for the "activities" part of this game, but they love the crafting, let them be.... Don't force these groups to crowd the duty finder causing major stress for everyone else because they are not well prepared for the mechanics.

[Nekodar]

You don't technically need to be able to enter HW areas... You can use the market board to procure the items you need for GC Supply and Provisioning missions.

[Anarnee]

I have my main and three alts with HW acess. Would make no sense to be able to acess Ishgard and beyond without having done the story. Maybe in the future, like 4.0 or if we ever get new starting areas or something, but gor now... nah.

[Raist]

Have you tried the market board? I have a level 55 miner and a host of crafters around 52 to 54. The only things I've mined since HW were some odd HQ mats in 2.0 areas to craft some items whose market board prices had scaled higher then I wanted to pay for them.

Better than 90% of those levels has come from GC turn-ins...some for over 500k a pop with HQ items. If not for the odd crafting for things like ingots/whetstones to sell/craft to make items for which I didn't want to pay high MB prices, those jobs would have leveled completely off of GC rewards.

Just saying....you have options. Only have yourself to blame if you aren't using them.

[Lemuria]

I wanted to have be crafters and gathers and my Main is my DoW character. Forcing me to level these characters beyond that point or wasting time doing what you suggest defeats the whole purpose of these characters.

Ya know, from the Lodestone I see your 'main' DoW character is a level 60 Dragoon. You also have every single craft and gatherer at 50 or higher. Are you really going to pull the wool over our eyes and pretend that your 'main' is DoW only? Because it's not.

[Saggo]

This is another dumb idea, in 2.0, you can level all crafts and gathering jobs to 50, even if your DoW or DoM class is not yet 50. All areas are not locked behind MSQ to progress, you can freely access them. Some people are not meant for the "activities" part of this game, but they love the crafting, let them be.... Don't force these groups to crowd the duty finder causing major stress for everyone else because they are not well prepared for the mechanics.

MSQ progression gates affect every class/job in HW, so it's a different (if related) argument. But in 2.0, they still made the quests to unlock an area's leves a DoW/DoM leve. So even if it wasn't as strictly enforced as HW, SE has always, I would argue obviously, considered crafting second to activities in ARR. A subset of players might disagree that DoW/M is prioritized over DoL/H, but that's the stance SE is taking.