New Jobs for New Characters.

[Rongway]

Don't forget GNB and DNC are tentatively going to start at lvl 60... so you may need to wade through all of HW to play those as well.

Hmm. I thought you had to have the MSQ complete up to a certain point but according some info I just looked up you just need to be level 50 for Sam and Rdm. That is still a slog to level a job you may not like to get to try another job you may not like. Where as if you could try it out at level 1 and discover you don't like it you could try another job and see if you like that one by making a new character.

If someone really wants to play through the whole story as one of the SB/ShB jobs, they just have to play through the first quest to the point that they are no longer penned and can find a postmoogle, then boost any job to 60. This would then allow them to unlock RDM, SAM, DNC, and GNB.

Strictly speaking, no MSQ is required to unlock any of those jobs, aside from being able to leave the tutorial area. However, Ul'dah and Gridania people will have to wait until the Envoy quest (Lv15) to unlock DNC because they are cut off from Vyllbrand until then, while Lominsans have to wait until the Envoy quest to unlock SAM, RDM, GNB because they are stuck on Vyllbrand until then.

But after that, you can play the whole MSQ on the chosen job.