Woah ... Slow down a bit ...

[LaylaTsarra]

The idea is to get people through story faster given ARR + 3 xpacs are a lot for new players. Took many of us 6 years to do that content and new players don't want to invest tons of time into a game to catch up. That's not to say they should skip story and so on but allowing for faster progression is exactly what the developers had in mind and overall I think that is a good thing.

Relative to fast progression the one drawback I see is keeping up with gear that might be required for some dungeons depending upon your role (healer/tank in particular). I prefer to use dungeon gear or tome gear for my alts and not spend gil given there are other things I'd like to buy with it - housing for example.

I have an alt for example where I simply skipped the 60 rdm level gear I would have wanted and got 70 level gear instead with my poetics so she'd be ready when she hit 70 which didn't take all that long with the road to 70 buff. 70 level ungraded gear is fine for clearing SHB along with coffer gear and doing beast tribes like pixies. Now leveling for me with the buff centered around running alliance roulette (for which I had only ARR raids unlocked) and main story. I'm only just getting around to running the 70 level raids and that's pretty much because I want to be ready for relic when she hits 80 and clears the main Shadowbringers story.