Let's Talk about Level Skipping

[NegativeS]

XIV could stand to implement something akin to WoW's class trial, wherein they explain to you the basics of your max level rotation before dumping you into an on-rails instance to learn the rest yourself. Kind of odd that they almost completely abandoned Hall of the Novice when there are novices at every level of this game. Is it a necessity of MMO design to spit on newbs?

[Rongway]

Let's say you're a Lv 1 Black Mage. You don't know how the job works, and you decide to Level and Story Skip so you can be with your friends in content later in the game. Now that you're Lv 90, you have A LOT of actions that you don't even know what to do with!

The people who skip straight to Lv90 and don't know how to make sense of any of their actions are the same people who can start at Lv1 and level all the way to 90 the long way without knowing how to make sense of any of their actions.

This is not a skip problem; it is a player skill and comprehension problem.

Any skilled player with experience in gaming with decent reading ability who cares to play a job well can put together hot bars and learn a rotation without being overwhelmed even when starting from a high level with many actions.

[Bright-Flower]

By and large there are generally two types of players.

Those who put in an effort and those who do not.

Leveling in this game does not require much skill. People can level jobs from 1 to 90 without really having a firm grasp on how they work.

People can also do a story skip and spend a few minutes on a target dummy or reading a guide to see how their job works, and get a handle on it before jumping into content.

There are bad players who didn't skip and great players who did skip.

Making someone do Hall of the Novice etc on a skipped character isn't going to make them good at their job. This would just be wasted effort imo. People will either put in an effort to learn a new job or not, and skipping or not doesn't have that big of an impact on that.