New Player - Job Level Boost

[OmegaFluxx]

I'm new to the game having been suckered in by my friends all playing Stormblood, I have the game, both expansions and a GLA at level 25.

I'd like to speed up the process so I can join with them but I'm not sure which of the Job Level Boosts I need to achieve this.

There are 2 available (both are the same price), one of them seems to complete your MSQ progress, whereas the other seems to clear your job quests and put you at level 60 for your selected job.

In short, do I need both of these to be able to begin the Stormblood content and level up beyond 60?

[Legion88]

If you want to go to Stormblood with a level 60 job right now, you need both boosts.

As you said, one boosts a specific job at level 60, gives a bit of gear and completes all job quests till then.
The other only completes the MSQ and all nessecery sidequests to beginn directly with the stormblood content.

[OmegaFluxx]

Alright, fair enough. Thanks for the swift reply.

Question 2 then, if I buy the one for completion of the MSQ, does that unlock all associated duties from Realm Reborn and Heavensward? How long would it take me to level up my job to level 60?

I'm having fun with the group based stuff but the MSQ (for the most part) has been a little tedious so far.

[Hasrat]

I'd kinda be interested to know what their sales are looking like. I'm wondering if there's really anyone that buys the story boost without the job boost. I mean, maybe if you're somewhere through HW and close enough to 60, and you just want to get to SB now. But otherwise, it sounds a bit useless for anyone to buy the story boost on its own. (although, I suppose one nice perk for either one is it would skip past Castrum/Praetorium dungeons...)

[LunaFaye]

Well let's look at the current system. Leveling from 1-60 takes nearly no time anymore, you can accomplish that in a couple of days, if you put enough time and effort into it. 60-70 takes a week, maybe two if you are not using the pvp method as only reliable source of exp and are watching the cut scenes and reading the dialog.

MSQ on the other hand from 1-50 takes not much time either, but then comes the MSQ hell gate, that you will have to unlock just to reach the heavensward area's and their new jobs if you're interested in that. This alone are 250+ quests, then the whole HW MSQ, we're looking at roughly 500+ quests total for both ARR and HW before even reaching SB content. SB's MSQ is another bunch of ultra long quests.

Also I do know that they did say 1 potion per account, I am not sure if that was just for the job potion, or also includes the MSQ. If that's the case, you would only be able to use one or the other. Might be wrong, however even if that's not the case, my suggestion if you do not want to dish out $50 or even more, just level via potd to 60, your friends can even help you with that since speed runs take only couple of minutes. And then spend your money on the MSQ potions for ARR and HW, I think the HW one includes the unlock of ARR and you wouldn't need to purchase both of them.

Edit: If you take your time and do some research, I've posted many comments on the other topics about that, and then exactly know what you're doing and skipping everything unnecessary in the game, including lore and cutscene's, and have 4+ hours a day on your hand, you will be able to reach 1-60 in just 7 days. Plus or minus a day, give or take. That's when running regular content, aka MSQ for a little bit, dungeons, hunting logs, Clan hunts starting with HW, daily roulette's.

If you're leveling via palace of the dead, the first 50 levels can be very slow, since you don't have another class/job at higher level. Meaning you won't get the armoury bonus that you would be getting if that's the case. However in circumstances of being DPS as example, PoTD can be faster since dungeon queue's take forever and even longer now with the expansion being released. As tank and heals you nearly get instant queue therefore, you are faster doing regular dungeons, as long as you chose dungeons at your level or one/two levels lower. Having done it on an alt, I can tell you the first 60 levels take around a week and half, maybe two. Now difference would be, if you're spending more then 8 hours a day in POTD with your friends, making runs quicker and just speed running these, still will take a good while, in comparison to investing that kind of time to the regular content, then you would be 60 within 3-5 days.

But if you don't want to go that route, then after you checked if it's possible to purchase both, that would be your only way to be able to access the current SB content as of right now. Don't make the mistake and buy the MSQ unlock before you're 60, since it opens a whole other can of problems lol

[OmegaFluxx]

Yeah, true. I feel like spending another almost £40 having already spent £50 for the game and both expansions is a little much. Especially since I'm already almost halfway to level 60, and that didn't take me too long to do.

[Hasrat]

Question 2 then, if I buy the one for completion of the MSQ, does that unlock all associated duties from Realm Reborn and Heavensward? How long would it take me to level up my job to level 60?

If you're running a tank, and you understand your kit well enough to not have any serious issues and can get through dungeons easy enough, you'd probably get there in a couple weeks at most. Tanks have little to not wait time for getting into dungeons, and are near always in high demand, providing an extra exp boost when you queue into the roulette (set yourself to "Join in Progress" to probably speed things up even more).

The boost does unlock everything MSQ related, so you could literally just sit there spamming roulettes with the occasional break for job quests.

[Hasrat]

but then comes the MSQ hell gate, that you will have to unlock just to reach the heavensward area's and their new jobs if you're interested in that. This alone are 250+ quests

It's closer to, like, 100 quests, and it doesn't take all that long to get through them all.

[OmegaFluxx]

I don't think I've been struggling so far, although I don't do great at tanking large numbers of enemies.

I'm in two minds as to whether it's necessary, if LunaFaye is saying I could be at level 60 within a week. Does the MSQ get any more entertaining? Most of it seems to be go talk to this guy, then go talk to this guy. The fighting is few and far between.

[Yasuhiro]

I don't think I've been struggling so far, although I don't do great at tanking large numbers of enemies.

I'm in two minds as to whether it's necessary, if LunaFaye is saying I could be at level 60 within a week. Does the MSQ get any more entertaining? Most of it seems to be go talk to this guy, then go talk to this guy. The fighting is few and far between.

It starts to feel more like a Final Fantasy game after you beat a level 35 boss. Otherwise early ARR is just generic boar butt tier questing. Arguably it gets the FF feel during HW but the context to why you do the things in HW you're doing is better if you know what happened in ARR prior.