[Miller]

It's a three to four hour affair if you're a mage/dancer or paired with one.

If you're running duelist or rogue? It's a 7+ hour affair. If not more.

Some classes get to go through the grind relatively fast (Rebia mages, I'm looking at you). Other's don't. I'm not exactly.... keen on the idea of monetizing the grind.

I genuinely promise you, that the problem that the issue that we're seeing brought up here isn't a matter of 'first time play thru'. It's a matter of having to LE roughly 4 times, sometimes more (depending on if you want crafting levels to actually run a craft in any capacity because every craft is locked behind level 6).  It was brought up in another thread, but I'm going to just suggest the same thing from there.

I'm aware it takes longer with a suboptimal build, I mentioned optimal build for a reason. Nothing stops someone from running a grind build from 1-60 in preparation for their character beyond the always IC rule making that a bit awkward. You could even argue that this already basically exists in the form of running an evoker + lantern bearer pure power combo until 60 and then stat resetting afterward.

It's not monetizing the grind itself, it's skipping the grind; the grind is still there for anyone to do within a few hours or so, paying to not waste time is a staple in games and its especially helpful in a game where a lot of events will expect you to be level sixty.  But yes, it's as you say; repeating the grind sucks, which is what I've mentioned in my post. It's primarily that a fair amount of people want to try out new characters/races/builds. Repeating from an LE is significantly less of a pain than starting with a fresh character, in fact it takes less than three hours with an ideal grind build! I personally didn't think it would be a good idea to pay for LE inks and that should be addressed elsewhere and there's already a few suggestions on the matter.

Your suggestion ignores the existence of fluidity fruits and would completely obsolete them too.