There's a Literal Army of RMT BOts Doing the MSQ

[KageTokage]

The regularity with which I see mentors in Novice Network botting makes me really wish I could remove them without fear of punishment for a "wrongful" kick because the GMs/STF haven't done squat despite me reporting them multiple times.

Hmm, I hope they're doing it for farming, and not to spam Crystarium and Eulmore with RMT Gil ads. I avoid Limsa because of them..

I've observed them at length, and their routine is basically to clear the ARR MSQ as quickly as possible by only doing mandatory quests and passing any EXP walls by spamming dungeons. Once they actually clear the MSQ, they just start spamming Amdapor Keep to farm gil from the trash mobs before the first boss until they inevitably get banned.

Some groups of farmers optionally choose to clear all of the level 50 dungeon sidequests for the chunk of gil they offer, but that seems to have started falling out of favor as of late.

I've also seen ones that will actually buy a job skip ASAP (This is evident from some of them being in full ironworks gear) then do the MSQ from scratch at level 50 to blaze through it even faster.

They really have the gil farming down to an art at this point.

[Jijifli]

I've also seen ones that will actually buy a job skip ASAP (This is evident from some of them being in full ironworks gear) then do the MSQ from scratch at level 50 to blaze through it even faster.

I would like to note you can only boost to level 70. You can't boost to 60 anymore and 50 was never possible.

You're actually seeing them grind up to 50, then farm the gear, which is even more concerning.

[KageTokage]

I would like to note you can only boost to level 70. You can't boost to 60 anymore and 50 was never possible.

You're actually seeing them grind up to 50, then farm the gear, which is even more concerning.

Will the game just straight not allow you to buy a job skip if you only have the base game then?

I've seen them doing the level 30ish MSQ stuff in Southern Thanalan at level 50 and fully decked out in Ironworks gear (Aside from one of their ring slots, which is typical of a skipped character), and I can't think of any other explanation for it because they have no means of farming poetics otherwise (To my knowledge) due to all of the level 50 dungeons being locked behind MSQ progression.

[Dustytome]

I've seen them doing the level 30ish MSQ stuff in Southern Thanalan at level 50 and fully decked out in Ironworks gear (Aside from one of their ring slots, which is typical of a skipped character), and I can't think of any other explanation for it because they have no means of farming poetics otherwise (To my knowledge) due to all of the level 50 dungeons being locked behind MSQ progression.

Maybe they're making use of recruit-a-friend features and using feathers for the gear?

[Jijifli]

Will the game just straight not allow you to buy a job skip if you only have the base game then?

I've seen them doing the level 30ish MSQ stuff in Southern Thanalan at level 50 and fully decked out in Ironworks gear (Aside from one of their ring slots, which is typical of a skipped character), and I can't think of any other explanation for it because they have no means of farming poetics otherwise (To my knowledge) due to all of the level 50 dungeons being locked behind MSQ progression.

Wanderers Palace normal isn't locked behind MSQ. Hell you can unlock it before 50.

So maybe it's that. I just know you can't boost to just 50.