What impacts where a player will start when creating thier character?

[Andoriel]

Title says it all. Have only one toon here so looking for pointers.

[Iymala]

Your beginning class determines where your character will start. Gridania for conjurer, lancer and archer. Uldah for thaumaturge, pugilist, and gladiator. Limsa for marauder, arcanist

[Merryl]

Not to mention if you start in limsa you are stuck on the island until level 15 envoy quest is complete. The other 2 cities you can actually run from one to the other.

[Urthdigger]

Starting location has fairly little difference. While Limsa does have the whole "literally can't leave until 15" thing going on, hitting 15 is arguably easier than walking between Gridania and Ul'dah for a new player.

The main impact it has is pre-15 content. Up until then, there's three different main questlines dealing with your home nation, before they all merge for your first dungeon and stay merged thereafter. Also, most of the sidequests outside of the city, up to level 15, are only available in your home town (More specifically, it's that most sidequests outside of town are unlocked by progress through the main story, and those are unlocked by pre-15 main story quests)

[Andoriel]

Thanks for all the replies and the insights offered.