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Leveling Dilemma! Alternate Class Question...
pdavey
Member Posts: 51
Long story short, I typically play a character with my friends and play a second character with my wife. She doesn't play as much, and I like to stay with her in quest lines to make it easier for her. What I'm trying to figure out is if this method can work with the alternate class system in ff14. Personally, I'd rather have all my class on one character for obvious reasons. However, I'm guessing I wouldn't be able to keep with her as far as questing goes since I would have already been through most of them on my main class. Any pointers??
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Favorite MMO: Vanilla WoW
Currently playing: GW2, EVE
Excited for: Wildstar, maybe?
i would say do this - create a character for yourself (or use the one you already have) until you reach lvl15 and finish the travel quests and able to go where-ever you like.
then have your wife create a character on her account - whichever/where-ever she likes and when she starts just travel there and learn the same "class" (called differently in game - Guilds).
now you can level with her, and if some quests you already did - just help here out with hers and get more xp for it, also you can do FATEs and other dynamic content together.
when you are playing alone just go back to the Guild ("Class") you like and continue to level it.
Just my 2 cents...
Premium MMORPGs do not feature built-in cheating via cash for gold pay 2 win. PLAY to win or don't play.
Here's a thought;
Roll 2 characters. Have your main hero. Do all the main classes u want to play on your main. Have your alt be more into crafting, and lvl a few jobs that compliment what you're wife wants to play.
It'll prevent you from being too far ahead of her when she wants to play. And it will also give you pleanty of storage for crafting (which you'll need) if you have any interesting in that portion of the game. I know I've already started 2 toons for that reason alone.
I don't see why you can't just let her lead and just party with her on a class you haven't leveled yet (not your main one).
If you're worried that she won't be able to figure out where to go or something and you want the quests in front of you as a guide, play with your wife in a different starting area from your main class (you can roll a secondary class first if you want to start together).
Bottom line is that there are plenty of ways to make it work.
Level Sync.
Works in FATEs, Dungeons, Guildheists. No worries, and no need for an alt. You could also just designate one or two classes to play exclusively with your wife, and as such it would only level with her, but it will get an automatic XP cross-class bonus (because you will have a higher level main class or two) that your wife won't get, so you will level somewhat faster than her on it.
Open world quests NPC AI will change if you are grouped (mobs will be more aggressive, start to become social, etc), but your level difference will come in handy for that part in helping her out with her solo open world quests.
I was doing something similar with my wife during a couple of the P3 beta periods. I would level sync for FATES and instances, and for open world stuff I changed to a gathering class and would just gather in the same area while she worked on solo quests, and if she needed help I could just put on my robe and wizard hat and jump in and blow up whatever it was right fast.
The really hard quests were the solo instanced storyline quests (the L15 one in particular), and you can't bring in help for that one anyway (although I hear it got nerfed in P4, I was 90k'ed and couldn't see for myself). I ended up doing that one for her.