The few minutes you spend on the boss incorporates the entirety of your abilities to that point, rather than the fast blade > savage blade > repeat rotation of paladin to 40 or the ... you get the point.
What little there is in PotD is infinitely more than what exists elsewhere.
Nobody goes out of their way to learn their job at any point during the leveling process, it happens naturally. It happens better when you have access to all parts of said job.
Of course it matters. At max level you are actually playing your class, in relevant content, normally with groups of people you know. While leveling, you are playing half a class, often by yourself, with the only aim being to get to the end.
A great many people don't play MMOs for the story. If you enjoy it, more power to you; nobody is forcing you to use jump potions. For most people, the process of leveling involves literally repeating PotD 80 or 90 times.. and that's it. There is no story aspect to repeating PotD 90 times per job for every job you want to level. There is no journey; it's exactly the same experience from the first run to the last run.As I was saying in my previous post, FF XIV is a Story based RPG where you level up your character classes. If leveling should be irrelevant then it should be completely removed from the game and every one should have the same level (or no level at all) from the start. But for me that would a different game, not anymore a game has been designed and sold as "leveling up" game.
As for considering a hybrid version where you can optionally buy job potions from the Mogstation, while keeping the leveling process intact. I am against it as well because it directly change the experience and fairness of the game based on how much one can spend on the Mogstation.
For me every player should fairly level up the same way. So either everyone can choose to freely skip leveling (which will change the base concept of the game and probably render lower area even more desertic), or nobody.
The only compromise I can understand is for new or ancient returning players who directly wants to play the last released content or join high level friends. But for that, the one unique potion existing is enough.


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