Quote Originally Posted by Belgianbeer View Post
Do you think it's worth the effort to go into the palace of the dead to grind from 50 to 60? Or am I better of following the MSQ's?
I think it depends on the balance between your desire to unlock GNB and your desire to make it through the MSQ "growing with" the job. PotD will definitely get you to GNB faster, but then you'll be overleveled for the MSQ and probably switching to a lower job for the quests anyway so you don't feel like the quest xp will get wasted.

At this point I question the requirements for unlocking the newer jobs. Growing with your favourite job is part of the fun and just jumping in at 50 or 60 seems strange. It was dumb of me to set my sights on expansion jobs early on, it just makes my current job seem like a lesser substitute.
This is a side effect of them introducing jobs at each expansion. Their intent was that people who were already playing could unlock the new jobs and continue the story ASAP, putting them just 10 levels behind the current MSQ instead of much lower. Since continuing players have already done all that leveling (some of us on all jobs), that makes sense at the time of expansion launch, but the reasoning becomes much less relevant by the next expansion launch.

Personally, I think it'd be okay if at each expansion all the jobs from previous expansions got an additional optional unlock quest at Lv30, leaving the original unlock quests in place for those who want to unlock them starting at their original levels but allowing new players to unlock them earlier. Then only the newest jobs would be at the quick-catch-up level. Alas, to my knowledge the devs have no plans for such a change.