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[ZellSantal]

Yes I am back again and yea the game got me interested so I went ahead and got the game and heaven's sword which cost only about $60 for both so that was a good deal to me. Though wondering if I should go for the collector edition stuff, just not sure how much it be just to get that. Anyways I have a few questions and hope anyone could help me out.

1. So far I have gotten my goldsmith and mining to level 10, my pugilist is 12, I have yet to start my gladiator and thaumaturge. So my question is should I be leveling all my jobs and class that I think I would do well along with my crafting and gatherings or should I just go for one battle class/job first?

2. I've just seen a board asking about making gold, I'm thinking more or less of just farming low level dungons and sell all the trash. Would that be worth it or more so with the garthering and crafting stuff?

3. For leveling my other battle jobn/class should I be farming fates to help level them faster?

[ZellSantal]

By the way why is it I can only 1000 words on a post? Try to type more in but each time it keeps saying I can only do 1k, while I seen a few others that type more then that, is there a way to by pass that?

[Grant_Wilshire]

You can edit a post to get beyond the 1000 limit. The other questions can be answered by more experienced players. I like leveling all the jobs and classes, but that is because I enjoy it.

[Niwashi]

1. So far I have gotten my goldsmith and mining to level 10, my pugilist is 12, I have yet to start my gladiator and thaumaturge. So my question is should I be leveling all my jobs and class that I think I would do well along with my crafting and gatherings or should I just go for one battle class/job first?

It's largely a matter of personal preference. A lot of content unlocks at level 50 and again at 60, but it's mostly content that's only available to your level 50 or 60 job, so if you plan to then go back and level up others, you'd be taking a break from that content anyway. Some players like to get to the endgame content as soon as possible, so they focus on a single class/job first to get there quickly. Others like to spend more time on getting everything out of the earlier content, and level up several things in tandem. The game's really flexible about letting you level up as many as you want as far as you want. It's up to you when and to what extent you want to take advantage of that fact.

I'd recommend at least trying out all the classes at some point, but it's up to you when to do that and how far to take them. For whichever jobs you plan to continue into late-game (level 50 and up) content, though, you'll want to level their associated secodary classes far enough to pick up cross-class skills. For instance, once you get Pugilist to level 30 and Lancer to level 15, you can unlock Pugilist's job upgrade, Monk. As Monk, you can use cross-class skills from either Lancer or Marauder, so it's worth leveling those two (LNC to 34 and MRD to 26). If you want to advance other jobs as well, each will have its own set of secondary classes to level along with it.

Whether you decide to divide it between multiple classes or not, you should be sure to do the Main Scenario Quests (the ones with the flaming ring around the icon) as you get to them, as those unlock a lot of features. And every five levels, there's a class quest to take at your class's guild (for each class you're leveling).

Once you reach the level 15 Main Scenario Quest "The Ul'dahn Envoy" it will unlock the ability to take airships to the other two starting cities, so more classes will be available at that point. (Conjurer, Archer, Lancer, Botanist, Leatherworker, and Carpenter guilds are in Gridania. Arcanist, Marauder, Rogue, Fisher, Armorer, Blacksmith, and Culinarian guilds are in Limsa Lominsa.)

2. I've just seen a board asking about making gold, I'm thinking more or less of just farming low level dungons and sell all the trash. Would that be worth it or more so with the garthering and crafting stuff?

Either works. Gathering and crafting might get you more gil faster, but they add the extra effort of leveling the gathering/crafting classes. If you like the game's crafting system, that's the best way to make gil, but if you don't, then you can make plenty from combat rewards and loot.

3. For leveling my other battle jobn/class should I be farming fates to help level them faster?

FATEs are good. There's also the hunting log, which gives each class its own set of mobs to kill for extra XP. Starting at level 15, you can unlock dungeons that can be run repeatedly for extra XP and loot, and those are probably the fastest way to level, especially with Roulette which puts you in a random dungeon or trial and once a day gives an extra XP bonus.

[Estellios]

I would at the very least take a class that you enjoy up to 30 asap since you unlock a bunch of features along the way, most important being your chocobo as a mount and as a battle companion. It makes leveling up other classes and just playing the game in general a lot easier.

Something to keep in mind is that you will get 100% bonus experience for most activities for playing a battle class that is not your highest level one, up until level 50 where it drops to a 50% bonus. This means it's not too bad catching up on something new if you want to swap classes around for a change of pace or extra cross-class abilities.

It's typically a good idea to save crafting or gathering until you've gotten to 50 or so because you get access to the entirety of the original areas, so getting around to places you need materials from will be a lot easier. You will also have access to the Ixal quests for some nice XP for crafting. If you are enjoying crafting and gathering so far though there is nothing stopping you, crafting and gathering are pretty useful.

[Niwashi]

It's typically a good idea to save crafting or gathering until you've gotten to 50 or so because you get access to the entirety of the original areas, so getting around to places you need materials from will be a lot easier. You will also have access to the Ixal quests for some nice XP for crafting.

You get access to the entirety of the original areas at level 15, though it does take 'till 41 to unlock the Ixal quests. I can't think of anything the combat classes can provide at 50 that would help crafting/gathering.

Combat class unlocks useful to gathering/crafting:

Level 10: Ability to add additional classes (including the crafting and gathering ones).
Level 15: Airships, and with them access to all original (Realm Reborn) territory and classes.
Level 17: Retainers (These are NPC assistants who do various things for you, including storing extra items and selling items for you on the Market Boards. The first of those you'll definitely want for storing all the various materials needed for crafting, and the second lets you make gil from your gathering and crafting.)
Level 20: Grand Company supply and provisioning missions.
Level 20: Chocobos (and the mount system in general). Not needed for crafting, but useful for reaching gathering locations quicker.
Level 41: Ixal beast tribe quests. (useful for leveling up crafting classes)
Level 55: Moogle beast tribe (like Ixal, they're crafting quests useful for leveling DoH)

I wouldn't suggest waiting to start crafting beyond maybe the level 17 unlock for retainers. Otherwise just keeping your crafting and battle classes relatively near each other in level allows you both to use crafting to make gear for your battle classes and use those battle classes to get crafting materials that drop from enemies and unlock leve quest locations.

[Frizze]

A lot of good answers, ill take my own shot here. And ill try to keep this brief. For longer posts type everything you want, copy/cut out some of the text to get below the limit, edit the post, re-paste your whole text in, laugh at the silly lengths we have to go to so we can make meaningful replies.

1. This is up to personal preference. There are advantages to focusing on one class first, and there are advantages to having multiple options available. My basic advice is to find what you enjoy(possibly including crafting and gathering), and do that. If you have to try a few classes to figure out what that is, so be it.

2. Nothing says you cant try both. Or just whichever one you enjoy more.

3. Fates, dungeons, leves, hunting logs, challenge logs, hests... you get a lot of options to choose from.

[ZellSantal]

I see, with that said I think I have an idea what I will do but thank you again for all your guy's help!