Whats the point of a double xp weekend if it doesnt affect abyssea or gov?

I heard about the double xp event that is coming up soon. My question is what the point of doing this if it doesnt affect the two most popular ways of xping?

Does SE really think people will go out of their way to just xp out of gov or abyssea to do this? Especially since its already incredibly fast to xp to 99?

The only people i can see this helping are those holdouts that just refuse to do gov or step into abyssea (theres a whole ls of them on bahamut so ive met a few)

Just curious.

I was thinking it'd be fun to do an old style Dunes or Jungle PT some time during the weekend, if only for the nostalgia. But with the exp. increase that's already in effect along with say a Novennial Ring for those of us who still have or a Kupofried Ring, it could make for a fun few days.

If and I repeat *IF* it does affect dynamis XP, it could be particularly awesome for XP trials in there.

Otherwise I agree I see very little point in this weekend, altough being it a "bonus present" I dunno up to which degree we can complain.
But still, it would be a wasted chance to create a cool weekend event.

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Originally Posted by Zhronne

If and I repeat *IF* it does affect dynamis XP, it could be particularly awesome for XP trials in there.

Otherwise I agree I see very little point in this weekend, altough being it a "bonus present" I dunno up to which degree we can complain.
But still, it would be a wasted chance to create a cool weekend event.

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Im not really complaining about it myself, i just dont get where the logic for an xp weekend came from. Pre abyssea this would have been probably one of the most active weekends in years. But post abyssea... not so much.

From what i understood the double EXP is from the campaign fights in wotg only, so you can 16k+ exp fast instead of 8k exp in 5 min and to help unlocked the throne room campaign. and sounds like it a set up for the new expansion. To get people back into wotg stuff. Rumor was going need have all of wotg story done to unlocked some the new expansion stuff.

The official post points out that events that give XP will not have their values doubled, so FoV, GoV, Campaign, Besieged, and the like will not give greater rewards.

Eh, I've still got plenty of jobs to level outside so it works for me. Go go Kupofried/Novenial Ring!

Only EXP that would be affected by EXP rings gets doubled, and I'm personally fine with that.

But what about skill ups?

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Originally Posted by Ziyyigo-Tipyigo

Only EXP that would be affected by EXP rings gets doubled, and I'm personally fine with that.

But what about skill ups?



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Yeah I got my hopes high too when I read that line, but alas not goin to happen :(

Really hope this is gonna work in Dynamis, have a couple of trials I'd love to complete :D

so... with double xp and supposed double effectiveness of rings... would that stack?

example: 100xp mob doubled =200xp +(100%*2)=600xp?
or just initial values 100xp*2=200xp + (100%origional *2)=400xp

either way, if thats the case... it would be interesting'