Quote Originally Posted by Vhailor View Post
Depends what point they're starting from. If they finished, say, 3.0, and are trying to push through 3.x, yeah, I'd agree. If they're starting from the end of 2.0, it's quite a grind, patience-wise as much as anything else. And if they're wanting to start a fresh character to ease back into things (which is what I did in January), finishing by the time SB releases would almost surely trigger burnout.
If you start a new character and skip everything and only focus on MSQ and dungeon unlocks, you can get from 1-60 and even gear in ilvl 230-260 gear within 2 weeks, and that's when playing only 4 or 5 hours every day. Done it with alts lately and it isn't big a deal. With potd even faster if you chose to do that, but then you will have to back track and do MSQ/Job Quests and unlock quests, which will most likely take much longer than just rushing through with skipping.

The grind starts, if we want to call it that, if they decide to do an anima weapon or more then one till SB releases, or wanting to fully gear (ilvl270) their job or multiple. That will take a while even with the scripture cap raised to 900 per week, since you gotta bother getting upgrade materials from the 24 mans (if you're not raiding) and we all know what kind of disaster that has been lately lol.

I am not against jumping potions, more alts for me, but it's absolutely not necessary at the current state of the game.