Gunbreaker starting level

[Burningskull]

My OCD wants the starting level of the new jobs to be 50. In HW they started at lvl 30. Which I thought was cool sense the new jobs didn't have a base class and you get other jobs at 30 anyway I was fine with. Then they locked them in HW areas that you had to be level 50 to get to anyway so... that was annoying. Then SB came out and the new jobs were lvl 50. I didn't like this cause the HW jobs were 30 so I wanted consistency. Now the new jobs are going to start at level 60... again triggering me... However... that triggering will be gone when they are all level 70.. unless one is a healer then it will stay at level 60 cause there is no way I'm playing a healer past lvl 50.

[Iscah]

My OCD wants the starting level of the new jobs to be 50. In HW they started at lvl 30. Which I thought was cool sense the new jobs didn't have a base class and you get other jobs at 30 anyway I was fine with. Then they locked them in HW areas that you had to be level 50 to get to anyway so... that was annoying. Then SB came out and the new jobs were lvl 50. I didn't like this cause the HW jobs were 30 so I wanted consistency. Now the new jobs are going to start at level 60... again triggering me... However... that triggering will be gone when they are all level 70.. unless one is a healer then it will stay at level 60 cause there is no way I'm playing a healer past lvl 50.

There's definitely a consistent pattern to the starting level of jobs in each expansion, it's just the level itself that isn't constant.

As I wrote in an earlier post, jobs consistently start at the previous expansion's starting level.

If having the numbers 'wrong' on your stats window is bad, maybe don't pick up the job - the greyed out text is probably less noticable than the white "not at max level" one.

Woosh, you guys. The RDM and SAM's are in the game regardless if you have the expansion or not. You can not start as them, though you can party with them, that's the point I was making. The way the game is engineered there is no way to add a job to the game that is exclusive to an expansion pack because it would prevent players without the expansion packs from even seeing them. They can put whatever prerequisite they want, but aligning it with the level cap certainly makes it so that you can't just switch to them without playing the storyline of the previous content, or skipping it with the jump pots.

They're not aligned with the level cap though. RDM and SAM are incidentally at the level cap for the area where they start from, but that won't hold true in future - Gunbreaker will apparently be available in Gridania, starting at level 60, well beyond the area cap (or the entire game cap if for whatever reason you bought only ARR at this stage).

On the other hand, someone who owned Heavensward but not Stormblood would not be able to take up RDM or SAM. The level cap isn't what's preventing them from doing that, because they're allowed to reach Lv60. They can't access the jobs because they haven't purchased the content.