Can Red Mage start at level 30?

[Lexia]

Red Mage should start at level 60 and should be available the second the xpac goes live. That way those of us that want to go through the whole with the new job can rather than having to level it THEN go through the new stuff.

Edit: I also think Drk/Mch/Ast should have started at 50 also.

I'm going to quote someone from another thread I saw that sums it up pretty well.

I mean at this rate, they may as well do away with levels and do a system similar to zelda and hearts because the levels mean absolutely nothing at this point. Free lvls with drk, ast, and mch and now up to 50 with rdm and jumping potions. They mean nothing.

Also think someone else mentioned this also, is yes there people that don't like leveling and this will fit this play style but that also taking away from the people that do like that type of play style. Like some enjoy crafting/gathering over doing battle content. There also people that enjoy leveling over just rushing to get to end game and raid.

[Savagelf]

first yoshi state he isn't sure he want introduce jump potion for dark knight and other heavensward jobs. I believe lvl for new and be added jobs such should start at lvl 30 give people time to learn they jobs

[Khalithar]

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Except for the fact that everyone that goes to Stormblood has already done all the story and leveling required to be there. The potions won't be introduced until well after Stormblood has been released according to the devs and the people who get in early still have to have done the ARR/HW stuff to get the new content. Sera's post is senseless and I absolutely disagree with it. It doesn't in any way take away anything from anyone else if they started the new jobs at 60.

Also, it's becoming a common thing nowadays for new expansions to offer a character boost of some kind (for free!) that let's you jump in to the storylines right away. It's a good idea and something that should be more commonplace, I actually think we should have gotten a free level 60 boost with story completion for just buying the xpac so players coming back to the game can jump right in to the new content or those of us that say haven't played in a while don't have to slog through the old stuff. This is a practice that's becoming more common in MMO's and one I agree with as I genuinely think it's a good idea.

I stand by my assertion that the new Jobs should start at 60 so that we can go right in to the new content with it and level it to 70. I'm NOT asking for them to boost us all to level 70 with a full set of gear, I still think we should have to level to the new level the old fashioned way, but we should be able to do that on the new Jobs without having to level them from 50-60.

first yoshi state he isn't sure he want introduce jump potion for dark knight and other heavensward jobs. I believe lvl for new and be added jobs such should start at lvl 30 give people time to learn they jobs

What games with a boost do (swtor and WoW are the main ones) is give you a brief tutorial that teach you what your abilities do and how to play the class. Even barring that, I'm all for having players actually having to read tooltips and figure it out on their own but now with the content we have, if you really want the experience of leveling a job from 1-60 you can just go in to palace now.

[Bourne_Endeavor]

It's not the same, and as others have said it'll help build RDM story. Not everyone likes POTD.

Honestly people nowadays are too lazy they don't even want to level jobs. It doesn't make sense to be a trained/student RDM if your basically a high level. And this change would help new players that do not want to use leveling potions or that want to experience lower level dungeons.

It isn't necessarily laziness. Plenty of people simply find level grinding extremely boring. Personally, I want to explore Stormblood as a Red Mage, not have to go back and grind old dungeons for 30 levels just to get it up to par.

[MistyMew]

Very pleased the RDM may start at 50!!

Have no urge to level any job from 1 again, and if I ever did get in the mood to, that's what my alts are for.

GJ GJ SE!!!

[Imoen]

This past week, I feel like I'm the only person that likes leveling anymore

Not that it matters much for me, but 30 would have been an understandable place to start because that is when you get job stone.

Like, seriously, all I would have done the first hour or so was work out bars and read tool tips, could have spent that time actually playing, instead of just reading the manual.

Very pleased the RDM may start at 50!!

Have no urge to level any job from 1 again, and if I ever did get in the mood to, that's what my alts are for.

GJ GJ SE!!!

Just buy a potion I guess? :P

[Akira]

i very much like the new jobs starting at 50 especially given how much exp you will probably need from 60-70.

[FoxyAreku]

I'm mostly just worried about the Stormblood Jobs not getting fully fleshed out questlines if they start at 50 instead of 30...

At the release of Heavensward, every job had quests from 30-60. Some of them felt as though there was an unfortunate disconnect between 30-50 and 50-60, while others fared better and felt more cohesive. And all these jobs questlines will see further developments from 60-70 come Stormblood's release, I imagine.

As it stands however, Stormblood's own new jobs will only have from 50-70, giving them only half as much room for a story as every other job.

30 to 50 and 50 to 60 were always completely separate storylines. All this really means is red mage will only have 2 stories instead of 3.

[Radacci]

i very much like the new jobs starting at 50 especially given how much exp you will probably need from 60-70.

you'll also get more xp from quests, so it will only take less than 24hrs to cap for hardcore ppl - just like ppl capped mch/drk/ast 30-60 in less than 1 day.

[CompSci88]

Why anyone would like to go through leveling is beyond me. Thank gods jump potion is coming. I hope it puts me up right to 60.