question about unlocking job

[tranquilla]

Thank you all for helping, know i understand.

but having to level every class to 30? it 's a real pain.

[Raldo]

but having to level every class to 30? it 's a real pain.

So... don't then? You don't have to unlock everything. Or if you feel that you do, there's zero urgency to do so. Spread it out over the course of a year. Personally, I suggest getting a job to level cap (once you find one that appeals to you) rather than trying to do everything at once.

[Rongway]

I don't think the Stormblood jobs, Samurai and Red Mage, have any MSQ requirement. Can anyone confirm?

They are unlockable with no MSQ requirement*.

*as long as you didn't start in Limsa Lominsa. If you start in Limsa Lominsa, you will need to advance the story to the point where you are allowed to leave the island and travel to the mainland, since Ul'dah is on the mainland. This is the Envoy section around Lv15.

[Niwashi]

but having to level every class to 30? it 's a real pain.

Well, ones you're advancing you'll end up leveling to 50, then 60 and 70, and once the next expansion comes out, to 80. Level 30 is a milestone along the way where you can turn the class into a job that changes its style somewhat (more so for some than for others). There are other points at which they'll change nearly as much again because you get an important new skill, but the level 30 milestone is the one where they get another name as well. And the story being told in the class/job quests shifts into a new story arc at that point.

[Frizze]

Thank you all for helping, know i understand.

but having to level every class to 30? it 's a real pain.

It certainly takes time, but theres no need to rush it. And not everyone does it. I only have one combat class at the highest level(with 3 others at varying lower levels), and i have no problems doing anything i want to in game. If youre liking lancer/dragoon, you can stick with that all the way to the end of the story and never need to work on anything else. Alternatively, if you want to do everything else then the quest based pre-requisites become a non-factor because youll do them once with your main class and then theyll already be done when you work on the rest. Either way, welcome to the game and i hope you continue to have fun for a long time.

[Iscah]

but having to level every class to 30? it 's a real pain.

You don't have to level every class to 30 before you can take up jobs. You just need to level the one class that becomes the job.

If you want to become a Black Mage, you just need to level Thaumaturge to Lv30 and complete its job quests (and clear the MSQ to "Sylph Management", a level 20 quest).

This was always the case, except that previously you also had to level archer to Lv15. You were never able to become a black mage just by leveling archer, it was only a secondary requirement on top of the main class of thaumaturge. That secondary requirement has been removed, and now jobs progress directly from the end of the relevant class quest.