1st time preparing for an expansion

[Jeeqbit]

If I play one job through the entire 6.0 MSQ. Would it be tough to gear up another job(s) for high-end side content?

No, not at all. The gear from your quests has no relevance to endgame gear. Once you reach max level on your desired class, this gear will be obtained with Allagan Tomestones of Aphorism at first, which you get from dungeons and then after 4 weeks we will get Allagan Tomestones of Astronomy that will allow you to get 1 piece of gear a week.

I've read a speculation that ilv 510 gear should be able to get you through 6.0. Does that mean I don't have to worry about grinding and gearing up when questing through 6.0 main story?

It could but be aware the item level the game expects you to have for it reaches 560 and you get gear coffers from the quests that you can open on a class of your choosing, so there's no reason not to do that. You can buy lower quality versions of that gear from vendors in each sanctuary or buy other people's from the market board. Remaining 510 is making it difficult for yourself but I've no doubt really good parties can still make it work.

[LitheSuxman]

Then play what you want instead of feeling like you must be PLD just because of the launch trailer. The story should be job agnostic as usual. I can't think of anything in the previous MSQs that made me feel like I should have been using one of the jobs featured in the cinematics.

I'd love to main RPR through the msq but I'm not exactly sure how bad will raid queue time affect the whole experience (I'm sure I'll do most if not all dungeons in TRUST). It feels like playing tank is the easy option, and might as well be PLD since it's the poster boy. I honestly feel bad picking up a class just because of that though

[Mikey_R]

If you want to level Reaper, then level Reaper, there is no point in going through the story as a job you don't like as you will just constantly be thinking, I wish I was Reaper.

If you want to level a tank after, then there is nothing stopping you from doing so. It doesn't even have to be Paladin since you seem to abhor it so much. There are 3 other tanks after all.

If you are worried about queues, then they are always going to be in a weird spot after an expansion launch and don't really level out again for a month or 2. Your queue times should be the least of your worries in deciding what to play.

[Yeol]

iL520 gear gets replaced by lvl 83 dungeon drops (This is the 2nd dungeon in the expansion).
iL530 gear gets replaced by lvl 85 dungeon drops (This is the 3rd dungeon in the expansion).

There are two leveling dungeons left. lvl 87 and lvl 89 dungeons. The last two dungeons are usually a pain to heal on release because people are not 100% used to playing their jobs yet + almost everyone is not well geared.

[Ranaku]

Tbh doing well in leveling dungeons has nothing to do with gear but all with skill, i can heal mt gulg as a scholar with scaven gear just fine even if the tank isn't well geared. The difference between the best set from the last expansion and the last leveling dungeon set are 18 itemlevels which boils down to literally nothing at all. Sure it's neat to equip all the new gear you get but i pray for the day to come where people stop putting so much weight into gear when it has little no literally no impact at all besides like 1k more hitpoints or some couple hundred points of damage more.

Rather focus on getting into a dungeon/trial with full knowledge of your rotation and skills and you will be just fine.

[Bsrking5]

Max ilvl of past xpac can get to x7 comfortably. 510 should get you to 85 comfortably, you really should take ever chance to gear up from dungeon drops. The first one won't have better than past xpac best, but the rest will. But gear only goes so far, skill and fight knowledge play much bigger factors. Like i can do mt gulg just fine before they gave the aug scaven gear, but i've seen sycned healers struggle with it.

[Dyvid]

If I play one job through the entire 6.0 MSQ. Would it be tough to gear up another job(s) for high-end side content?

I've read a speculation that ilv 510 gear should be able to get you through 6.0. Does that mean I don't have to worry about grinding and gearing up when questing through 6.0 main story?

I ask only because I want to save time and still couldn't decide what job to play through 6.0. Certainly I'm convinced to play PLD but I ain't a fan of its actions and its, with all due respect, terrible job backstory.

It'll be super easy to re-gear a new job while leveling. World quest and dungeon runs will get you all the gear you need. Plus you can spend your tomes on high end gear that'll last you till 83 ~ 84.

[Bsrking5]

iL520 gear gets replaced by lvl 83 dungeon drops (This is the 2nd dungeon in the expansion).
iL530 gear gets replaced by lvl 85 dungeon drops (This is the 3rd dungeon in the expansion).

There are two leveling dungeons left. lvl 87 and lvl 89 dungeons. The last two dungeons are usually a pain to heal on release because people are not 100% used to playing their jobs yet + almost everyone is not well geared.

Speak for yourself, Holminster Switch was much hard to heal then Malikah's Well. First dungeons, worse dungeons. Later on people remember that dodging is good if they wanna live. People are really relaxed on mechanics because of over gearing but by the 3rd one they fear the glare of whm on them instead of mobs.

[Jojoya]

I'd love to main RPR through the msq but I'm not exactly sure how bad will raid queue time affect the whole experience (I'm sure I'll do most if not all dungeons in TRUST). It feels like playing tank is the easy option, and might as well be PLD since it's the poster boy. I honestly feel bad picking up a class just because of that though

If you really want to play Reaper for MSQ then play Reaper. We've got so many different ways to get XP that getting it to 80 should be fairly quick. If you do end up using Trust, queue times will only be a problem for the 3 trials and you might be able to find a tank friend to help with those (I expect healer queue times to be mediocre because of Sage).

The worst thing you can is treat this like another "rush to end game" MMO. The journey is far more important in this game. Do what will be the most fun for you instead of perceived convenience. For all we know, tank queue times might end up bad with a lot of other players also deciding to go the PLD route.

[Arrhin]

Gear coffers will fall like rain, just like prior expansions. Everyone is way overthinking this. Just play the game and have fun, it's not a job interview or something