Quote Originally Posted by Lambdafish View Post

I really don't understand why the devs cite WoWs jump potion, it was added in warlords of draenor (i.e. WoWs 5th expansion), where the player had to get through 10 years of story and slog through to level 100. As well as this, WoW is a game that promotes alts, and if people wanted to play new races and classes, they will need to start again, and level jumps help with that. XIV has none of these problems, alts are next to useless, and the game has not gotten to a point where the amount of expansions is overwhelming to a new player. People think level jump potions are ok because "WoW did it", but the two are not even comparable.

I realise that this doesn't have much to do with what you are talking about (i.e. jobs outside of expansion areas), but it still needs to be said
This game, unlike wow, forces you to do all the main story quests. In wow you could get to warlords of draenor without ever setting foot in outlands or northrend. In ffxiv you have to follow the tedious train tracks untill lvl 60