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A question for level 50's
PsYcHoGBR
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I want to try other classes and was wondering if it is better to use one character or make each one. Does the xp increase if you have reached level 50 make a big difference ? reason I ask is I reached level 30 on my arcanist and found trying to get thaum to 15 took a bit of grinding on leve's and fates even though the start area had all the quests I still ran out of quests as there was no main quest running. So for a smoother and more constant play is is better to make new characters or use the same one ?
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Personally, I'd level them all on the same character, but if you're not into grinding FATE's and Leves, then I'd recommend making a different character for each class
Happy gaming!
Whilst for most games id agree, doing this in ARR really will gimp your character, unless you are not interested in doing the dungeons, raids, pvp or class customisation.
There will be grinding, either way.
The advantage to doing it on one character is that you have a lot of inter-class affinities with abilities and it makes that character more powerful overall and more varied. The problem, as you have seen, is that the grinding ratchets up.
The game is grindy. It doesn't appear that way at first when you are running the storyline quest with your first class, but beyond that it's quite grindy. Same holds true for leveling crafts and gathering -- sure, you can do stuff here and there but if you want to keep it current you will be grinding quite a bit.
Some people do every quest they see on their main class but I planned in advance so I would have some quests to do on the 2nd class and 3rd. (There isn't enough for more then 3 classes for now)
I started Gridania as lancer and all gridania territory quests are exclusive to lancer only.
On Limsa I switched to marauder and all those areas quests are for marauder only.
And on Uld'ah I switched to pugilist and all those areas quests are for pugilist only.
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I am going to get dragoon to 50 first so dungeons, guild hests and main story are being done on lancer/dragoon only but whenever I pass from some limsa lominsa maps or uld'ah I see plenty of quests for my other classes.
Just try and save some quests on other maps so you will have something to do with them apart of grinding fates/leves and hunting log.
I think you made the mistake of approaching FF as just a WoW clone where you need alts. With FF you can do everything on one character (classes, craft and gather), so really to start with the only point in alts is to try other servers, which again isn't probably that productive a use of game time either right now. Similarly the 1-50 in a single class is not a race, since you have all the other options too. In this respect FF is unconventional and different from WOW, and gives the players a lot of choices with their character.
I don't see this game as a wow clone found that out in beta and this is why I bought the game and play it. I played Daoc for nearly 10 years and one of the biggest reasons I tried this game was because Yoshi said in an interview that he played Daoc for 7 years. I am in no rush to get to 50 and I am quite used to grinding I was just trying to make it so less repetitive. I don't see why the normal quests couldn't have been reset for each character seeing as they start from level 1.
I would say pick your main class and level (if you feel the need) the classes (2 I believe for each) up, at least to the point where the synergy of the cross class skills ends.
The advantages of leveling on the same character:
1. Bird to solo fight with
2. Dungeons unlocked
3. Skill from other classes (until you get your 2nd job when which limits you to using the skills of the 2 cross classes)
Disadvantages:
1. 100% grind. (the number of region specific quests begins to dwindle after 15-20 because they assume you've jumped to the next region via the airship and continued upon your merry way.)
Each would have to pick and choose. Some would argue that the potential of 'future jobs' means level them all on one. Personally I ascribe to the 'bird in the hand' logic. What is the most fun right now. Grinding isn't. We don't know the future and even if everything goes flawlessly major patches are supposed to be every 3 months (and the 1st is PvP and a dungeon afaik). So at a minimum 3 months away with the possibility of new jobs being 6months out?
Too far for me to want to grind out all those jobs...even for the 3 I might want to play.
I've done this as well, but the area quests really only get you so far -- they give relatively little XP compared to the main storyline and class quests, so while this lightens the grind a bit, it remains a lot of grind.