Dear Final Fantasy XIV Devs:
I am a main class crafter. This means I craft more than anything else in XIV. It is my preferred activity and will choose to do it first above all other things in the game. I am the kind of person you were hoping to draw in by making crafters an actual class in XIV.
However, there is one thing that severely impedes my enjoyment of Final Fantasy XIV: the disparity between how many local leves there are from 1-25 and 30-50.
By the time a player reaches level 35 they have only completed roughly 25% of their character's experience progression to reach level 50. Yet about 86% of all available local leves are within the 1-35 range.
I will use Alchemist local leves as an example here to show how sparse leves get in the 26-100% experience range of a character's class. This list accounts for all possible iterations of leves, in all cities, including leves which have multiple versions of the same level.
Level 1 leves: 17
Level 5 leves: 11
Level 10 leves: 8
Level 15 leves: 14
Level 20 leves: 6
Level 25 leves: 8
Level 30 leves: 3
Level 35 leves: 2
Level 40 leves: 1
Level 45 leves: 5
Level 50 leves: 1
You can see just by looking at this list that the beginning levels are severely top heavy with leves while the later leves are starving for attention.
In addition, these leves are not guaranteed to appear each reset like battle or harvesting classes, further compounding the problem a higher level crafter faces when trying to find worthwhile leves to do.
Crafters immediately begin to experience the drying up of local leves at around level 25 and it only gets worse as time goes on. There have been many many resets that I have literally had no leves to choose from in my preferred crafting class, which happens to be alchemist. I also have a character which is a level 45 goldsmith and can attest that one is lucky if a single leve can be taken which will provide any measure of worthwhile experience. This can be pretty discouraging when you see other archetypes having plenty to do and you have wasted anima traveling to each city only to come back empty-handed.
I am suggesting that the spread between the levels of local leves be evened out, or that more leves be added to fill in the gaps. Please SE, address this.