Job Level 1?

[Canadane]

This is gonna sound mean, but what kind of idiot would pick up a class with 30 abilities and not go learn how to play it before going to group content?

If someone can't be bothered to read tooltips and figure out a basic rotation, maybe they should stick to Candy Crush.

A surprisingly large amount of players do not know (or at least do not care to bother with) their basic rotation.

[Nestama]

And it always baffles me when I see a level 50+ BLM using a Fire III and Blizzard III spam rotation :U

[Emitans]

@ the three ppl that quoted me:

Then SE should sell a level jump 60 or 70 Potion so you don't have to grind, just pay for max level and enjoy. =)

Or you could queue for low level guildhests and dungeons or level sync to low level fates???

[Rennies]

You are correct. They would like to, in the future, remove combat Classes and replace them completely with Jobs. Apparently, it's just too damn hard to read the game prompts and learn your Job at level 30. So, they'll make it so that you can't screw that up anymore.

It's also a completely useless system. Classes add nothing of value to the game, it's just flavor text.

[Rennies]

Then never do Level Dungeon Roulette.

Well, doubt SE's gonna change their minds on this "issue" (and thank God for that). I don't wanna spend most of my time waiting for queues in old, irrelevant content when I play Red Mage. That's how you lose subs.

[Neophyte]

Then never do Level Dungeon Roulette.

Or, well, what about people who want 'the journey' just do those dungeons regardless their level.

Leveling a dps job (especially when it's hyped and queues are long):
Queue for all low lvl. dungeon around 3-4 times in order while doing fates and leves like 'Out to sea' (16k/min) and a daily levelling roulette (and guildheist).

Once 50, it's levelling/50/trial/MSQ/guildheist.

Or it's PotD right away.

You can have your journey. Just do every dungeon in order (instead of doing them 3x+fates to reach the next).

Een if you start ar lvl. 50, you have to get lvl. 60 first to even start SB MSQ. So just think of those people wjo want to play SB story with RDM.
DPS queues will be horrid anyway.. so giving people more different things to q for other than Haukke manor, lvl. 28, is a wise decision.
No one wants to sit in a 2h q for this one dungeon at SB release... spreading all those RDMs over most of the roulettes/dungeons eases that issue.

[Cyrusskorrey]

i finished reading through all the replies just now, thank you all for the bolstering amount of input. /bow

i would like to make some closing remarks before heading out.

I said the "option" to pick what level you start at. say you want to start at 1, 30, or ,50.
there were quite a few of you that assumed i was suggesting that it would be mandatory.

I love the idea of letting the players who want to start at 50 do so, and i think a jump potion option to players who want to skip leveling would be great.

i also think players who level their class/job in full without jump potions should be rewarded for it. be it glam, items, minions or mounts.

another great idea i saw was the Jump back potion, a potion that sets a job to level 1 would be a nice option to us grind heavy players.

a few of you brought up the Jobs need to start at 30 and no less. mind you, in 5.0 the class system is being removed meaning starting level will be irrelevant.

finally, OMG i loved the comment about how you would rather level a job than gear. this is 100% accurate. some would even say that the real leveling
dosnt start till you are max. im not one of them though. i believe that the leveling process is important in making an all around better player.

alright, like i said before im heading back out now. thank you all for your replies you all brought many great thoughts and opinions to the table.

take care and have a wonderful day/night

[Maero]

Leveling potions coming up would like a word, lol
I imagine there will be much players clueless about their job, even moreso then now which is scary

But honestly i do not mind that jobs start at 30 but have to say no to level 1 or 60 like some have mentioned
As someone who has all jobs but astro to 60, i do not wish to start at level 1, i am not that bored

[Rinuko]

I wouldn't mind them starting at level one like Rogue/Ninja did cause I do like leveling but I know there lot of people that will throw a fit over it and sure plenty of them will give their displeasure with it here on this thread. I would personally like to see them start no higher then level 30.

How was Rouge any different from any other class? You start Rouge at lv1 and unlock Ninja at 30 like any other starting class.

[Delmontyb]

I don't know how I feel about RedMage starting out at level 50... my hope would be it would open up at level 30, so those who are new and playing though ARR could switch over to Red Mage at that time, without the worry of having to complete ARR or hit level 50 before switching over.