I don't think they should have separate XP bars. The reason being that Jobs are specialized and specific to party play. That would mean, or should mean, that you would need to party from level 1 and all the way up.

Partying at level 1 would probably seem pointless to a lot of people and they would just solo... then what was the point of making party based jobs just to have you solo to 15 or higher?

To reinforce this, if you solo on a job to 15-20 or higher and start partying after that why not just have the job start at level 20-25? Oh wait, you mean like level 30 when you can unlock the job?




The people who played through the past year have an advantage, think about the 600,000 or more people who quit and don't have level 50 classes. They will start partying with the jobs at level 30 as they should be. It makes sense to me.