I think I'm finished; a new player's final thoughts

Amen to that Crevox. I often forget just how many new players now populate the game. There really aren't a lot left who played before the advent of Abyssea. I see a Lv99 / R10 and don't connect those two markers of experience don't mean much anymore.

Invited a LS member to join me in Crawler's Nest this morning, a level 99 WHM R10 Bastok and I had to tell them how to get there. Nothing against the person, as all they know is Abyssea.

Another shell-mate couldn't fathom why I was soloing there when I could be in Abyssea. He could not understand that I just enjoyed playing the game...

You actually see rank ten people who are from post abyssea? Wow I just see rank 6 types

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Originally Posted by Crevox

However, what they don't understand is that in many scenarios, you can gain more experience in a party through the eminence and book objectives, by killing enemies quicker. My friends and I started doing exp parties in areas like 5-10 levels below us, on easy prey mobs. The individual mobs gave "meh" experience, but we plowed through them so fast that we were finishing eminence objectives/book objectives and receiving better EXP/hr than if we were solo.

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I agree in theory that you should be killing much faster when you party up. However, I would argue that there aren't really very many camps in Adoulin with sufficient mob density/respawn to be able to handle a real XP party with bad intentions. I would love for there to be one or ten of them, as this would give us some serious options.

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Originally Posted by detlef

I agree in theory that you should be killing much faster when you party up. However, I would argue that there aren't really very many camps in Adoulin with sufficient mob density/respawn to be able to handle a real XP party with bad intentions. I would love for there to be one or ten of them, as this would give us some serious options.

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Been to the few zones that was added in the last 2-3 updates?

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Originally Posted by Dreamin

Been to the few zones that was added in the last 2-3 updates?

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If you have a moment, please describe the camps.

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Originally Posted by detlef

If you have a moment, please describe the camps.

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Not going to give away my latest camps/areas since there are trusters all over as is and they would absolutely killed your chain if they come into my camp.

But I wont mind giving ideas of 'older camps'. For example, with the 'old' toah merit style, you can just run in loops in the 'gates' area. Won't even need to be full party, but a group of 4 (2 DDs, healer and a cor or brd would be sufficient).

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Originally Posted by Dreamin

Been to the few zones that was added in the last 2-3 updates?

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From what I have seen none of the areas offer a bird camp dense area of mobs with the couple that comes close are also the type of mobs EXP parties avoid.

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Originally Posted by Dreamin

Not going to give away my latest camps/areas since there are trusters all over as is and they would absolutely killed your chain if they come into my camp.

But I wont mind giving ideas of 'older camps'. For example, with the 'old' toah merit style, you can just run in loops in the 'gates' area. Won't even need to be full party, but a group of 4 (2 DDs, healer and a cor or brd would be sufficient).

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Okay but I run through Woh Gates with just a DD and a healer and that can't handle much more than that. Is there anything with a denser concentration of mobs?

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Not going to give away my latest camps/areas since there are trusters all over as is and they would absolutely killed your chain if they come into my camp.

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Stuff as simple as this is still kept a secret?

Hey now, MMO XP is serious business. You have to protect your spots like Coca-Cola protects their formula. Billions of XP are at stake!