Red mage coming

[Enkidoh]

I'm not surprised, I expected it.

I just think it's dumb. They might as well just remove levels and exp entirely if they are going to make them so pointless.

Leveling new jobs is fun to me. I enjoy it. And I don't get to do it in this game anymore.

I feel exactly the same way you do - unfortunately the winds of change towards more action RPG based gameplay has been blowing for quite a while now sadly, and the steady erosion of consistency in levelling is the first to be affected by that. Having said that, there were a significant portion of players who started ARR at level 50 anyway (1.0/Legacy players who started with their 1.0 levels and exp intact) so I don't know.... I can see both sides of the arguement and accept them for what they are. But I still would have preferred RDM (and the HW Jobs too for that matter) to be a case of "start the job from the beginning at level 1".

Ironically I'm now starting to think maybe SE should have stuck with the old 'physical level' in 1.0 and not scrap it in favour of separate Job levels (which were originally 'class rank'), and just have one level and equip Jobs and classes that you have to unlock as you progress through the game... but I think that ship has well and truly sailed alas.