Quote Originally Posted by Balbanes View Post
But... Why? And my God, there exists a server where leveling is FASTER? Does the pre-endgame content just suck that badly that they want you to ignore it and rush you to the level cap? Where's the fun supposed to be in that?

I'm not saying it should be like old school FFXI level grinding (which I did...for years) but geez, there's got to be some sort of happy medium?
Consider that all the relevant content in this game is instanced. In instances you'll be level synced. So in a way, the fact that you overlevel doesn't really impact your progress negatively, since you'll still be experiencing stuff the same way. But at the same time, not having to grind xp outside of msq on your first class means you can just enjoy the story rather than having to stop in between to go grind some xp to get your next story chunk.
And as others have said, you can ust level multiple classes at once if you want, after all it's a game that expects you to eventually level all classes.

It's not so much "rushing to cap" as much as "not letting grind take out the enjoyement of story progression" since story is the main focus rather than grind. In any case you won't get to endgame any faster, since everything is locked behind msq and that's very long.