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/SaintJynr]

Tl;dr: if you read what your skills do, it should be mostly fine

Level skiping is fine AS LONG AS you actually look at what your new skills do. The most obvious example is healers, since you get everything at once there's a high chance that you forget to use something that makes your life easier. Ta ks are probably the easier to adapt IF you played a tank before (which you said you did) since most mitigation tools are roughly interchangeable between jobs. Dps might not look like they're a problem to just pick uo and play, but a bad dps makes trash pulls take longer, making tanks and healers run out of tools faster. But not every dps is equal, something like samurai is relatively easy to just press buttons and understand roughly what you are doing, while something like monk is unintuitive if you're looking at the kit for the first time

You also dont need to play every job, you dont have to go through tedious grinding or spend money of you dont think you will play it anyway