It likely will start from level 1, but don't fool yourself into thinking it's going to be anywhere near FFXI's version of bst. Look how they took the perfection of the job that was FFXI's blu and instead of trying to add to what made that so great instead decided to go the route of making it into a silly circus act that only has 1 piece of content. Cause everything in this games needs to be super cute and silly for reasons.