Possible level/story jumps....really?

[Lambdafish]

And I don't want to skip 1-60, so a jump potion is not the "best solution for everyone". I just don't want the dang game forcing me through the same bazillion fetch quests and 54 levels worth of xp before I can get to the job I want.

The solutions that they have had before is to not make the same mistakes that were made in 2.0. My belief was that the original plan was to have it so that HW was not required to participate in stormblood. And this can still be the case, give us a summary of the WoD plot and the pre-4.0 stuff and cut out the dragonsong war, and all you need to do is complete 2.x. Guess what, thats no more than any player who joins right now, no jump potion needed.

I really don't understand why the devs cite WoWs jump potion, it was added in warlords of draenor (i.e. WoWs 5th expansion), where the player had to get through 10 years of story and slog through to level 100. As well as this, WoW is a game that promotes alts, and if people wanted to play new races and classes, they will need to start again, and level jumps help with that. XIV has none of these problems, alts are next to useless, and the game has not gotten to a point where the amount of expansions is overwhelming to a new player. People think level jump potions are ok because "WoW did it", but the two are not even comparable.

I realise that this doesn't have much to do with what you are talking about (i.e. jobs outside of expansion areas), but it still needs to be said