Is a level skip worth it?

[SavishSalacious]

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? I'm not the type of person who would blindly run into multiplayer content with the boosted job before practicing on dummies and watching a guide of two, but is the experience of leveling manually worth the terribly long grind? Should I suck it up and level it up myself or is the potion a viable option?

So I can only speak for me as a bard:

1. Yes one skill at a time does teach you each skill as you learn to build your rotation off those. One could argue: read the tool tip stupid. But that doesn't give you the x levels of practice with it before the next unlock.

2. Yes. For more complicated classes with harder rotations (I still don't know what OGCD means, I know something global cool down) so it makes sense to do the endless grind. Because you want the practice. As you stated, both of these points are irrelevant with YouTube and dummies, but until you are in a situation where you need to know that skill, and when to use it, all these guides do is tell you "press this, that and that over there" with out the explicit why behind it.

For example I leveled my main a BLM, from start to finish and I learned each and every skill and when to use them and when not to, some by this community screaming at me, some by trial and error. Took me 6 dungeons to know how to use enochian right and keep it up to trigger other spells. I struggle on my bard, but slowly I am learning.

3. If this was an alt character which it sounds like it, you have already done the story. So you do you. But if you want to know how to really, and I don't mean YouTube, Reddit, guides, play your character then do it hard way, the reward for the hard work is well worth it over the instant gratification of "I got this, I watched the guides".

Again my opinion, do as you please. It's you're money.