I would say that making it to level 50 in a month is basicaly impossible. If you make it beyond very much and don't have a subjob you can expect not to get many PT invites. Additionally if you haven't done missions to increase your rank you will get even fewer invites. This makes leveling very difficult. Basically when you get to 18 you will start over with that job as your sub job and your new main job will be level 1.

Don't fret though... once you have a sub job you can solo much better and even PT at earlier levels. You will make it back to 18 in a very short amount of time. It took me about two weeks of playing, I kid you not, 15-20 hours to get to level 18 the first time. This included doing lots of quests and missions along the way as well as farming and crafting which is all necessary. To get to 18 the second time took merely days.


Again by the time you get to 30 you will most likely want to learn and advanced job and, you guessed it, go back down to level 1. But once again it is a very quick process leveling back up. If you've been keeping up with a craft you shouldn't have many problems in the way of money which so often is the biggest problem for people.

I've put in nearly 2 weeks of solid play time... not two weeks real time. The game counts hours and I'm saying I've played enough hours to equal 2 weeks and I've just now gotten to a point where I can get an advanced job.



As for completion of the game... heh... I suppose like was mentioned that you could master all jobs to level 75 but it goes deeper than that.

-Complete every quest (over 250 and probably more coming with CoP)
-Complete every mission (around 30 and they take a lot longer than quests)
-Get every job to 75
-Get full Artifact Armor for every job
-Completely master all crafts (Not sure what the max level is but I think something like 80ish and crafts level about as slowly as your characters... 8 guilds and lots of time and money)
-Completely max all maxable stats (i.e. Healing magic, Elemental magic, Sword skills, Archery skills, Evasion, Shield, Parrying.... I assure you the list is ridiculously long and I believe each of these go up to around 255)

Now anyone that hasn't played might not think this is so impossible but I assure you that the pace is not like other FFs. Leveling is very slow. You will get almost no money from fighting monsters. You have got to do quests and learn a craft if you want to have enough money to keep yourself up to date with spells and armors. This game is truly massive.

I will absolutely agree that to actually do everything in the game would likely take several years. Not just years of ocassional plaing but years of pretty intense playing.




As for EU players... I suppose it could be good and bad. Perhaps over camped places like Valkurm and Qufim will be hell and maybe it will be good. Perhaps this will force people to level in less highly camped areas and actually make them more useful. How often do you actually see someone in Tahrongi? A good alternative to Qufim Island is Batallia Downs but for some reason you never see PTs there nor can you find one. Perhaps EU players will help us deversify the places that we level and make the game more dynamic. I look forward to it.