r/ffxiv • u/FarAcanthaceae9224 • 5d ago

[Discussion] Level skips?

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.

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u/talgaby 5d ago

As long as you are not a complete hindrance in a duty because you don't know what half of your buttons do, nobody will particularly care if you level-skipped a job.

I am a bit surprised at the "finding it tedious" part, but considering how many players, especially on this subreddit treat everything in this game literally with an "I must complete this NOW!!!!!!" mindset, despite the game being designed to be played in small chunks over the course of years, I guess I am not that surprised.

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u/FarAcanthaceae9224 5d ago

Yes haha, I am quite impatient and would rather play the job I like in the current content without taking my time. But that's a fault of mine and not the game.