How many MSQs to be able to play as Dark Knight? :(

[Jirah]

I went through the same crap with MCH back in the day when the job wasnt lobotomized.

The MSQ got trimmed and shouldnt take too long to get to "Before the Dawn" no other classes exist anymore so it starts at 30 like every other job while SB jobs start at 50 and for the dummest reasons SHB start at 60 which arent Progression gated so you can over level to 60 to get them but makes those jobs bad as most of the instances shrinks ur tool kit up until the climax.

[Iscah]

SB jobs start at 50 and for the dummest reasons SHB start at 60 which arent Progression gated so you can over level to 60 to get them but makes those jobs bad as most of the instances shrinks ur tool kit up until the climax.

They start at Lv60 for the same reason the Stormblood jobs start at Lv50: it's the starting point of the previous expansion's level range. It's set with the intent that those picking it up are at what used to be max level (so Lv70 at the release of ShB) and potentially wanting to pick up the new job to play through the Lv70-80 MSQ with it. So the starting level is set not too far below that.

You can overlevel to collect them quite early in MSQ, but that's not what the levelling plan is built around. And "overlevelling then being forced down again" happens on every job anyway.

[Stepjam]

The MSQ got trimmed and shouldnt take too long to get to "Before the Dawn" no other classes exist anymore so it starts at 30 like every other job while SB jobs start at 50 and for the dummest reasons SHB start at 60 which arent Progression gated so you can over level to 60 to get them but makes those jobs bad as most of the instances shrinks ur tool kit up until the climax.

It's so players don't enter the new expansion on a class they know nothing about. 10 levels (20 in the case of HW classes, but they go faster) theoretically gives the player enough time to know the basic ins and outs of their class before they start tackling new content with everyone else.