An option for characters to start at level 50, pre-heavensward, for FREE

[Nedkel]

As a new player, I am enjoying the leveling process. I personally don't find the idea of starting at level 50 attractive in the least. WoW went this route, and they effectively killed their game. I'm pretty happy with this game's pre-level 50 quality right now, and if it's even better post-level 50, then I have something to look forward to. I don't see any compelling reasons for a boost to 50. It's not like you even need to level characters from scratch to change classes/jobs.

Lvling is easy cake in comparison to the amount of quests you will find out about.
You will be locked at lvl 50 until you are done about 300 quests.
Imagine in WoW your lvl is locked on each map and you having to finish all the quests before you go to higher lvl.

I'm highly against this. They need to cut down the number of quests for sure, but just getting handed a free level 50 is a terrible idea for many reasons.

Samurai and ninja start at 50 lvl.

[Seraphor]

Lvling is easy cake in comparison to the amount of quests you will find out about.
You will be locked at lvl 50 until you are done about 300 quests.
Imagine in WoW your lvl is locked on each map and you having to finish all the quests before you go to higher lvl.

That's not strictly true.
So long as you have the licence for HW/SB/ShB, then you can level to their level cap no matter where you are in the story. (my alt is still in HW but is level 67)
But the MSQ will gate you in terms of content you can play at those levels, and of course you won't be getting EXP relative to those levels in ARR areas so it will take you longer to get there.

[Halivel]

You will be locked at lvl 50 until you are done about 300 quests.

No, if they bought expansion. They will be about ~55lvl at HW start. Will not have bossibility to start HW dungeons though, for obvious reasons.

Also not 300, no need to so drastically exaggerate it. Post-ARR contains exactly 100 MSQ quests.

[WhiteArchmage]

Samurai and ninja start at 50 lvl.

Samurai and RED MAGE start at 50, and you need to complete The Ultimate Weapon quest (that is, base 2.0 content, so you'll already have one level 50), this was after the backlash against HW's jobs being locked behind finishing all of ARR quests and starting at level 30. NINJA starts as Rogue at level 1 and you only need to unlock the Armoury system.

[Iscah]

Samurai and RED MAGE start at 50, and you need to complete The Ultimate Weapon quest (that is, base 2.0 content, so you'll already have one level 50), this was after the backlash against HW's jobs being locked behind finishing all of ARR quests and starting at level 30. NINJA starts as Rogue at level 1 and you only need to unlock the Armoury system.

You don't need to complete 2.0 to access samurai and red mage. You just need to have Stormblood registered, and get your character to Lv50.

Blue mage is the only job implemented since Heavensward that is locked behind completing MSQ content.

[TheMightyMollusk]

Imagine in WoW your lvl is locked on each map and you having to finish all the quests before you go to higher lvl.

Imagine WoW but they care about the story.

[Ronduwil]

Imagine in WoW your lvl is locked on each map and you having to finish all the quests before you go to higher lvl.

I'm the wrong person to throw that at. I acknowledge that most players would find this incredibly annoying, but I tend to do this anyway. In fact, I'm often annoyed when I hit level cap in WoW without having set foot in half the areas.

Besides, won't that still hold true even if you get a boost to 50?