Is a level skip worth it?

[Leareaux]

When the devs go to retune jobs for a new expansion they usually rework abilities to make the job feel fluid/unique/fun from it's starting expac level (in this case 70) to it's new max level. I wouldn't blame you for a second for buying a skip. Levels 1-60 of any job in this game bores me to tears.

[Jin-]

Yup 100%. Don't listen to people who say that leveling from scratch will make you a better player, that's a complete lie. Level 80 and level 70 don't even play the same!

60 and 80 you mean?

[Rongway]

I've seen a lot of people say that getting the skills one at a time makes a big difference in a player's ability to play a job, is that true?

No. Trying to learn a job one skill at a time can promote bad habits built on incomplete information. It's okay to learn a job incrementally but even when leveling from 1, people should be considering their entire action list so that they don't get trapped training themselves to use the actions wrong. The principle of specificity of training says that neurological and muscular adaptations are heavily aligned to the mode, duration, and frequency of training. If you spend too much time practicing with an incomplete skillset, you're going to be really good at using an incomplete skillset, but you might have to work harder to replace some of the bad habits once you get the complete skill set.

You definitely don't need to start at Lv1 to be able to play a job well at cap, so choose whichever way of getting to cap works best for you.

[RagingStallion]

No!! It's way too expensive and costs $25! You can buy 5 big mac meals with that money why are you wasting it on job potion

s! Just buy the big mac instead XD

[Wolwosh]

I sometimes can't tell anymore if people level jump or not. It just feels like more and more people do, because I get so many horrible groups at high level content. People at level 70+ still not knowing what role skills are, Summoners using Ifrit on big pulls. I feel that ever since potions became a thing people started playing even worse.

[Zanarkand-Ronso]

It is for ALTs if you have them.
Gets you caught up, you can start the class at just 10 levels below the max so you at least have access to most of your rotation, and your given the best gear at that level as well.
Plus I think about Half a Million in Gold Pieces. Or 1 Million if you play the long game and trade it all into the Enclave.

[LineageRazor]

In my opinion, it depends on how you, personally, are most comfortable learning.

Jumping straight to 70, you're presented with a daunting array of skills. I could easily see this as being confusing to a player. It can be bewildering finding a skill that says, "May only be executed while under the effect of Dragonderp" or whatever, and have to search all the other skills and traits to try to figure out where that damn Dragonderp comes from.

Some are fine with that, but others might benefit from being issued the skills a few at a time. The job may play entirely differently at low levels than high - but the low levels are where you learn what the skills do on their own.

If you care at all about the story and lore of the game, the job quests often have some interesting things to tell. Thanks to New Game+, you can revisit them whether or not you use a leveling potion, but I personally feel a lot more satisfaction when the next job quest is something I can work toward.

And, let's be honest here - leveling in this game is super easy. You can reach max level in like a week or two of casual play (depending on what you consider to be "casual"). It's not like FFXI, where it could take the better part of a year to get a job to max level.

In general, I tend to think it's absurd to pay for a game, and then pay them AGAIN to play part of the game for you, but hey, it's your money, and you can spend it how you please!

[Ranaku]

It just depends on how smart and skilled you are, i also bought the darkknight skip back then to have a tank on my main and instantly was able to play it after reading through a guide for like 10min. What you need isn't a long learning experience in XIV, the game is really easy (and hard to master ofc). You just need the right mindset to not be the strange blackmage that uses only icespells because it's faster, if you actually take your time after buying the skip and reading through the skills and learn it at a training dummy for a hour or so you should be completely fine. It's not math, that comes with the ridorana lighthouse raid not with the jobs. :3

[Gula]

Depends on how quick you are to adapt.

I jumped BLM just to be able to do the caster DPS story and regretted it. Even with PotD practice I couldn't grasp the job. But hey, apparently it's the easiest job to learn.

So it varies per person I'd say.

[Vahlnir]

It mostly depends on the person and their intentions. Personally, I bought a jump for each healer because I never would have leveled them otherwise. Now I can just level them up via Pixie quests to 80 and never touch a single dungeon/raid. I plan to get them to 80 and never touch them again.