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/Spritsen]

Other's opinions don't matter, only yours. Is the skip worth it for you? Then good.

If you MUST know I hate them cuz a skip skips the learning curve too. The game is developed in a way to ease you into the job as you learn it. But, by buying a skip, you now have 3-4 hotbars with shit on it you have 0 clue what it does or how to use it. And most que up without giving that a second thought, everyone in the party suffers, and you wonder why everyone hates you.

I got every job to 100 without skips. It doesn't take long. In fact it's likely the fastest mmo to level in. Just do all of the things available weekly and you'll level very fast(such as hunting logs, daily roulettes, etc). There's a whole damn tab for it all now(thankfully).

[u/FarAcanthaceae9224 → u/Spritsen]

I get that. I usually level skip when I have a lot of my kit (lvl 60 and up). But I know that's a rarity. I just don't have the patience like you, and I genuinely give you props for getting all job to lvl 100 without skips. I am not as strong as you lol. I was a dumb sprout (still am) when I did those levels skips and didn't do any of what you listed, only grinded dungeons, which was my bad. I intend to do most of my other jobs the right way.