Can Red Mage start at level 30?

[Lexia]

Red Mage should start at level 60 and should be available the second the xpac goes live. That way those of us that want to go through the whole with the new job can rather than having to level it THEN go through the new stuff.

Edit: I also think Drk/Mch/Ast should have started at 50 also.

I'm going to quote someone from another thread I saw that sums it up pretty well.

I mean at this rate, they may as well do away with levels and do a system similar to zelda and hearts because the levels mean absolutely nothing at this point. Free lvls with drk, ast, and mch and now up to 50 with rdm and jumping potions. They mean nothing.

Also think someone else mentioned this also, is yes there people that don't like leveling and this will fit this play style but that also taking away from the people that do like that type of play style. Like some enjoy crafting/gathering over doing battle content. There also people that enjoy leveling over just rushing to get to end game and raid.

[Khalithar]

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Except for the fact that everyone that goes to Stormblood has already done all the story and leveling required to be there. The potions won't be introduced until well after Stormblood has been released according to the devs and the people who get in early still have to have done the ARR/HW stuff to get the new content. Sera's post is senseless and I absolutely disagree with it. It doesn't in any way take away anything from anyone else if they started the new jobs at 60.

Also, it's becoming a common thing nowadays for new expansions to offer a character boost of some kind (for free!) that let's you jump in to the storylines right away. It's a good idea and something that should be more commonplace, I actually think we should have gotten a free level 60 boost with story completion for just buying the xpac so players coming back to the game can jump right in to the new content or those of us that say haven't played in a while don't have to slog through the old stuff. This is a practice that's becoming more common in MMO's and one I agree with as I genuinely think it's a good idea.

I stand by my assertion that the new Jobs should start at 60 so that we can go right in to the new content with it and level it to 70. I'm NOT asking for them to boost us all to level 70 with a full set of gear, I still think we should have to level to the new level the old fashioned way, but we should be able to do that on the new Jobs without having to level them from 50-60.

first yoshi state he isn't sure he want introduce jump potion for dark knight and other heavensward jobs. I believe lvl for new and be added jobs such should start at lvl 30 give people time to learn they jobs

What games with a boost do (swtor and WoW are the main ones) is give you a brief tutorial that teach you what your abilities do and how to play the class. Even barring that, I'm all for having players actually having to read tooltips and figure it out on their own but now with the content we have, if you really want the experience of leveling a job from 1-60 you can just go in to palace now.

[Averax]

People are saying "we'll miss out on more RDM story!"

Really? They know exactly what they want to tell for the story, and they'll tell it in whatever frame they're given, be it 30-70 or 50-70. 30-70 would probably leave you feeling more or less incomplete after each quest

They could also do a bunch of quests at the beginning to get you familiarized with each of your abilities, it's not the end of the world for them to start at 50, this isn't a big deal.

[ToniRomo]

I'd rather not do 1-50 content again right when the expansion launches. If the new classes start at 50 I may be tempted to roll one of them on release day since it is only 10 levels to catch up.

[Averax]

I'd rather not do 1-50 content again right when the expansion launches. If the new classes start at 50 I may be tempted to roll one of them on release day since it is only 10 levels to catch up.

That's exactly my feelings. I'd rather get the HW leveling out of the way right off the get-go, anyway, and it's easier to catch up.

[Savagelf]

first yoshi state he isn't sure he want introduce jump potion for dark knight and other heavensward jobs. I believe lvl for new and be added jobs such should start at lvl 30 give people time to learn they jobs

[ErryK]

should start at lvl 30 give people time to learn they jobs

Why should time be given to people to learn their jobs when the whole time thing is at their discretion? There's no reason to gimp everyone because some people learn slower than others.

[Laerune]

Why should time be given to people to learn their jobs when the whole time thing is at their discretion? There's no reason to gimp everyone because some people learn slower than others.

Not only that, if people want to learn the class and prefer to do low level content, they have this option to do this. When I started tanking, I stayed a bit longer in the low level dungeons so I could learn and get used to the basics of tanking. If some players want to take the time to learn and prefer to spend time at level 30 zones, then they can do this, the rest of us will start from level 50. We have 20 levels to learn the class, this is enough.

[MistyMew]

Very pleased the RDM may start at 50!!

Have no urge to level any job from 1 again, and if I ever did get in the mood to, that's what my alts are for.

GJ GJ SE!!!

[Imoen]

This past week, I feel like I'm the only person that likes leveling anymore

Not that it matters much for me, but 30 would have been an understandable place to start because that is when you get job stone.

Like, seriously, all I would have done the first hour or so was work out bars and read tool tips, could have spent that time actually playing, instead of just reading the manual.

Very pleased the RDM may start at 50!!

Have no urge to level any job from 1 again, and if I ever did get in the mood to, that's what my alts are for.

GJ GJ SE!!!

Just buy a potion I guess? :P