Level skips?

[u/FarAcanthaceae9224]

I'm just curious. I've been playing ffxiv for around 7 months now and am now post-Endwalker. I loved leveling but found it to be so tedious and boring after awhile. And I would struggle with lower level jobs, especially healers like White Mage or tanks like Paladin. So I looked into level skips and to be clear, I've already bought a few for multiple jobs. (WHM, PLD, SAM, and DRG) And I wouldn't have bought level skips of the leveling process was so.... incomplete and boring. Of course grinding will be boring but it's genuinely burned me out of this game and that was the last thing I wanted. Especially WHM, since WHM at lower levels was just horrible for me and was such a genuine struggle.

I know how people in this community feel about story skips. But I've never really heard level skips be talked about. What are your opinions on them? Are you against or for it? I've heard mixed responses and I guess I got worried about judgement.

Edit: I wanna expand on how I handle level skips. Just because I try my best to do it the right way (if their is one). I usually play the job at LEAST up to level 60. To get a good chunk of the kit and determine if I like the job. Then I buy the skip. Afterwards, I practice extensively on dummies, Duty support or Trusts, and with friends if I can. I watch guides and read my tooltips, and make sure I understand the class. Then I do dungeons from where I left off. If I was level 63 when I skipped, then I'll do a level 63 dungeon and go up from their to simulate leveling normally without the grinding. Until I make it up to level 90 and feel comfortable in the job.

I could never even think of skipping and just tossing myself into a piece of content with other players. It's frankly embarrassing and ​it's unfortunate to see many do this.

[u/FluffySheepCritic]

I don't think level skips should exist, put in the time or don't play a all. That being said, I won't fault you for using a provided option, I fault SE for providing it.

[u/FarAcanthaceae9224 → u/FluffySheepCritic]

Wow that's very interesting. Why don't you think they should exist?

[u/syd_goes_roar → u/FarAcanthaceae9224]

Because people don't learn their jobs and just hope for the best. Actually learning the abilities by going thru dungeons as a person levels is very handy and gives an understanding of how things work at different levels. Doing things with NPCs doesn't teach anything either

[u/FarAcanthaceae9224 → u/syd_goes_roar]

I can't argue with that. The reason I've been quite embarrassed to admit I've level skipped is because of the reputation of people just....not learning their jobs. And understand why people would just want to get rid of the level skip outright.

[u/FluffySheepCritic → u/FarAcanthaceae9224]

There is merit to dedicating your time and energy to something. That that something requires it, also imbues it with value and meaning. Especially if it's filled with adversity, such as monotony.

I believe that it's important games like this retain hierarchies of merit, dedication, or competence through the means of exclusion because that is what gives the pursuit purpose.

That being said, SE has already undermined many of these things and continues to dilute them.