Can Red Mage start at level 30?

[Bourne_Endeavor]

How is playing red mage from 1-whatever or 30-whatever locking someone out of their preferred job? They would literally be playing the job they wanted. The system as it is, however, DOES lock people out of their preferred job - you cannot start a character and play as DRK, AST, MCH, or (in the future) red mage and presumably whatever other new job we get.

They've already acknowledged in the past that they thought the barrier for DRK, AST, and MCH was ill-thought out. I do not understand why they are repeating the issue with jobs in Stormblood.

It's not locking in the traditional sense, but in lieu of experiencing all the new content, you're grinding through old dungeons for hours. You have to keep in mind, they want to cater towards current subs with the jobs not people leveling alts or brand new characters. The issue with DRK, AST and MCH wasn't their level but the fact you had to complete the entirety of ARR and all its patches before you could unlock them. Red Mage can be accessed the moment you reach 50. A lot of veteran players don't want to grind what may be their 5th, 6th, 14th job. If you do, old dungeons and PotD recreate that option. Perhaps not to the extent you may prefer, but they were never going to please us all.

[SDaemon]

Ya really if it starts at 50 you going to miss out on red lore.

Did you miss out on job lore in ARR? 20 levels then and 20 levels now. Honestly as long as the lore is well constructed and presented 20 levels is enough.

[Naunet]

It's not locking in the traditional sense, but in lieu of experiencing all the new content, you're grinding through old dungeons for hours. You have to keep in mind, they want to cater towards current subs with the jobs now people leveling alts or brand new characters.

You can experience it when you get to 60+... No different than leveling 50-60 in that respect. If you're going to use this argument, then you may as well advocate for red mage starting at 60 - or for there to be no leveling at all.

My fundamental criticism is that we should not be locked away from playing the job we want when we start a character. If a new player is drawn in by Stormblood and the allure of red mage, they are going to be awfully disappointed when they find out they have to go through 50 levels before they can even play the job they want. (This was the frustration I had when purchasing HW, drawn back to the game largely due to AST.)

[ErryK]

Getting new classes in MMOs traditionally means you start leveling from scratch. I'm not sure why y'all are acting like doing so would be some monumental undertaking.

And they shouldn't require players to hit 50 on a different class to access other classes. That cuts out a huge chunk of the annoying grind right away.

"Traditionally" Looks like FFXIV is breaking that tradition in order to do a service for people who purchase their games. Who knew game devs would "coddle" players? As you so put it eloquently in another post.

Well that's how the game works, I'm not complaining, I have everything at 60 (and have had all at 60 since week 1 of 3.1) and if a player has to go through the MSQ and up to 50 to gain new jobs, then so be it. I put the effort and time, what's stopping others? If SE really wanted to "coddle" their players, they'd make the MSQ last 1 quest that goes from A to B and gives you instant EXP up to Lv90.

give person option to either start at 30 or 50.

Well isn't it great we have PotD and dungeons that sync you down to those levels!

[Averax]

I honestly think they should split the dif and have RDM start at 40, that still gives people 30 lvls to work with for Red Lore and all that, plus its not that far from the max level. I think starting at 40 would be a good compromise there.

You don't get more lore with more quests, you just get more filler. I remember a few job quests that dont give you anything and just send you out to kill X creature for practice

[ErryK]

Ya really if it starts at 50 you going to miss out on red lore.

Let's talk about Scholar lore... Tonberries with metal helmets yelling at Scholars.

Yes... "lore".

[Omegakiyohime]

You don't get more lore with more quests, you just get more filler. I remember a few job quests that dont give you anything and just send you out to kill X creature for practice

I cannot reiterate how much this is true. You may get 2-3 lines (maybe a paragraph) of background on the job in between having to kill X because of a conflict with Y about Z every 5 levels from 30-50 if any at all. If anything, this is going to make the lore quests more concise.

[Lexia]

It not surprising why "gamers" have the reputation/POV the world has of them.

[Valkyrie_Lenneth]

It not surprising why "gamers" have the reputation/POV the world has of them.

What, wanting it their way and everyone else's is wrong? :P

[Jkap_Goat]

I'm fine with it starting at 50