Can Red Mage start at level 30?

[Naunet]

Some people enjoy leveling and learning their jobs can we start at level 30. Instead of 50 it makes more sense since jobs (including heavenward jobs) start at 30.

Yes, please! Have my like.

I've mentioned this before, but my desire to start at a lower level stems from two reasons. 1) I enjoy the leveling process. Starting at 50 means fewer levels, which means the job will be capped sooner, which means I'll be "done" with it sooner. Leveling alts is one of my primary activities in MMOs. 2) Starting at 50 means, if I want to make an alt for red mage, I'll need to grind through ARR on a class I have no interest in repeating the leveling process on. This is the same problem that the HW jobs had, and I am very frustrated, because SE ADMITTED that locking the HW jobs away was a mistake. So why are they doing it again? Sheer stubbornness? It can't be ignorance, since they've outright stated they shouldn't have done mch/ast/drk that way.

[ZhaneX]

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.

Not entirely true. As I said, some felt like a cohesive continuation of the prior story, while others felt significantly disconnected.

SCH I'd say is a good example of what felt like a cohesive continuation; working with the Tonberries you helped free of rancor to hunt down the demon who cursed them eons ago.
DRG is probably the best example of one that suffered from a disconnect with its previous story, given that story fed directly into the Main Storyline of Heavensward, leaving... not a lot interesting for the DRG Quests.