Please give everyone the Road to 70 buff

[PyurBlue]

1) Character outlevels everything by a lot very quickly, but won't have gear matching their level

It can make gearing easier in a lot of cases because you just buy NPC gear that outlevels the MSQ and get synced down to maximum stats.

2) Lots of content is skipped. Doing all content on-level adds quite a bit to the understanding of the world.

When I leveled there was no Road buff but I ended up ignoring side quests because of roulettes, not primarily because of the XP but because dungeons were more fun than anything else. Side quests should stand on their own merit I feel. If people only care to do them for XP, are they even adding anything to the game?

3) Player uses multiple jobs to distribute the XP among to avoid overleveling. New players won't know how or when to do this.

Some will, some won't. It's pretty common advice in the novice network.

There is no rush to reach max-level. The journey there is 98% of the game. Why people are in a hurry to not play the game escapes me. Might as well add an "I win!" button that takes you directly to the end credits.

I know this is the common opinion but it's kind of narrow. People can play how they want. And rushing past the leveling phase is still playing. Low levels are overly simply and boring to many new players. It's no wonder some of them want to get past it.

[Morningstar1337]

When I leveled there was no Road buff but I ended up ignoring side quests because of roulettes, not primarily because of the XP but because dungeons were more fun than anything else. Side quests should stand on their own merit I feel. If people only care to do them for XP, are they even adding anything to the game?

I do them even when capped for the Lore and world-building they may provide. ..and also so that they stop littering the map.

[PyurBlue]

I do them even when capped for the Lore and world-building they may provide. ..and also so that they stop littering the map.

I've done the same, at least for the first point. The icons on the map don't bother me. I just hold the opinion that if XP is the primary motivation for doing side quests, it makes them sound pretty bland.

[lolicon09]

"the leveling experience in the game is overall grindy"

https://youtu.be/ztVMib1T4T4

Stop being lazy. Also

"if the class is two button spam until a certain level, like dragoons until level 60, as I've heard."
You should clean your eyes and ears then

[Videra]

This game vomits XP at you. Let's look at some actual alt/in general QoL issues: Having to manually unlock every single piece of past expansion content, raids, trials, 24 mans. Sure, it's actually kind of nice the first time. But once you're three alts deep? It gets grating. I'd love some sort of workaround to this, and/or if possible account-bound content unlocks, though that might be incredibly complicated.

Also just let us mail stuff to other characters I don't see why this isn't a thing.

[Seraphor]

Road to 70 (or 60 when I used it) was brilliant for levelling an alt. But I'd never recommend a new player use it. It propels you so farther forward than you ever should be, the story cannot keep up with your EXP gain.
I think I was level 30 by the time I unlocked Sastasha, level 60 before I got to Heavensward, etc.

If anything, I would have it disabled for new accounts, and only applicable to additional characters after your first one, and only active if your first character has reached that level (so in this case, level 70).

[322]

I can't fathom how nobody is bored with leveling that I got 0 upvotes. Well, that was a waste of time, enjoy the grinding then, never going to speak to the players again.

[Seraphor]

I can't fathom how nobody is bored with leveling that I got 0 upvotes. Well, that was a waste of time, enjoy the grinding then, never going to speak to the players again.

Might help to learn how to deal with differing opinions.

Also there's Job level boosts on the Mogstation if you don't want to grind.

[SnowX]

There are as many ways you can quickly level your classes. Be it with random content, PotD, free letters, etc. I wouldn't be jerking around like a little kid. Leveling is very fast if you know how. If you're not in a fc yet, go to one. There's another XP buff

[Shahi]

You are doing something wrong if you are bored while leveling. There are many ways to level, dungeons, potd, hoh, fates, leves, beast tribes, hunts, etc. I find them fun...especially with friends. If leveling just a pain to you then mmos are not for you. What's your plan after finished leveling? Because the boredom just begins when you have nothing to level anymore.