Quote Originally Posted by Daniolaut View Post
What I gathered, was exactly how the game currently exists, but making a bit more sense of it.

That is....

AST magically being level 30 when you unlock it. Instead of the same level as say RDM and SAM, or even GNB and DNC.

But they dont.

For no reason.

To me, now THAT is nonsense.
I know this was posted awhile ago, but as far as I can tell this still hasn't been addressed so I figured I'd shed some light on the pattern.

GNB and DNC start at 60.
They were added in 5.0 and the pevious expansions level cap was 70.
You have 10 levels to ease you into the class before you can start using it in the new expansion.

RDM and SAM start at 50.
They were added in 4.0 and the previous expansions level cap was 60.
You have 10 levels to ease you into the class before you can start using it in the new expansion.

AST, MCH, and DRK start at 30.
They were added in 3.0 and the previous expansions level cap was 50.
They gave you 20 levels to ease into them here because this is before SE decided on the "-10 levels from the previous expansions level cap" pattern.
But they did decide in Heavensward that they didn't wanna have the new classes start at level 1 (like SCH did) because they wanted players to be able to use the new classes in the new expansion relatively quickly.