Two Players, Two Differnt Starting Towns

[ArkhamNative]

Travel between those two cities isn't impossible on foot, but there are class quests every 5 levels to deal with, and the main story quest lines are based around the starting city and different for each character. If you did meet up, the traveler would have to go back and catch up with all those quests anyway, before they could get an airship pass, enter dungeons, etc.

Tank + healer is a good combo. Form a 2-person party before registering for Duty Finder (behests Lv10+, dungeons Lv15+) and your waiting times could be on the order of seconds rather than much longer.

[MystikalFrank]

Thank you both for your information.

Am I understanding right that our Class quest lines basically taper off at or around lvl 15? Or are they every 5 levels until 50?

[gadzi_h]

Travel between those two cities isn't impossible on foot, but there are class quests every 5 levels to deal with, and the main story quest lines are based around the starting city and different for each character.

You can travel by foot between Ul'dah and Gridania. You need to go to Ul'dah > Central Thanalan > Eastern Thanalan > South Shroud > Central Shroud > Gridania. I wouldn't recommend it unless you are about level 20-25. But by then you will have an airship pass through the main story quests. You could always see if you could get a high level character to escort you.

I think your thinking of Limsa Lominsa.

[Niwashi]

You can travel by foot between Ul'dah and Gridania. You need to go to Ul'dah > Central Thanalan > Eastern Thanalan > South Shroud > Central Shroud > Gridania. I wouldn't recommend it unless you are about level 20-25. But by then you will have an airship pass through the main story quests. You could always see if you could get a high level character to escort you.

It can be done fairly easily at any level. You don't need to be leveled enough for the mobs along the path so long as you don't fight them. You just need to be able to recognize the icons indicating which mobs will aggro and which won't. There aren't that many aggroing mobs along the main path, so it's easy enough to give the few there are a wide berth and simply avoid any fights. I actually did it accidentally while I was just out exploring at around level 12 or so.

Of course, that still leaves the issue that once a pre-level-15 character gets to the other city, it's not where their main storyline quests are. The first 15 levels of main story quests are all in the city you started in. You can't do the ones from the other cities. All you'd have is side-quests.