A Question about leveling

[Shougun]

Edit: Due to some fun we three had, Anova looked up armoury bonus (posted below) so you will get a 100% exp bonus on characters below your highest leveled character until level 50 and then it will be 50% so long as you have a higher leveled character.

I still think it is easier to level one job and its subclasses and then double back on other jobs, but this is a preference based on gearing and item management time. I think this because the main story line will help take one job to level 60 and spreading it across jobs can increase the amount of pauses you experience (needing to level for the next big exp quest). Also unless you level all jobs in ideal tandem you will have multiple levels of the same types of sets increasing your inventory burden, depending on how many jobs you level and how far apart they are. Finally, having a higher leveled character can get you access to more options, like beastmen quests, gil generators, and gear generators. You will however not go wrong leveling everything a little bit if you want, I did it for the first real part of my play time in FFXIV and I had a lot of fun!

I do not recommend trying to play the game as a class all the way to 60, a lot of very powerful abilities are locked behind jobs and you get a stat bonus for being a job. You can though, I've seen it lol (level 50, haven't seen anyone do it level 60 yet).

You can go back and level whatever you want whenever, on one character, and that is a great feature of FFXIV; however, one more tidbit to add about leveling a single job first is that the main story quest is enough to take one job through without many pauses but if you separate all the exp across many classes and jobs at once you can experience a great deal of pauses on your way to end game.

At this point I have all jobs at 50 and one job at 60, I'll begin my plan to level everything else to 60 soon .