Would introducing an atma with increased skill gain rates be too dramatic?

[Lutschfactor]

wow u want the game handed to u dont u xbobx. cap skill as soon as u lvl. u have nothing to do. i bet ur even an abyssea lvler on all ur jobs and have no idea how to play anything unless ur in abyssea. seriously. they r a business. the longer the make us wait for things the more money they make. after 9 years. i think they r doing just fine

[Dfoley]

wow u want the game handed to u dont u xbobx. cap skill as soon as u lvl. u have nothing to do. i bet ur even an abyssea lvler on all ur jobs and have no idea how to play anything unless ur in abyssea. seriously. they r a business. the longer the make us wait for things the more money they make. after 9 years. i think they r doing just fine

Seriouslly, that. had. to. have. a. few. too. many. periods...

I see nothing wrong with making skill ups 10-20x faster. You cap them once and they are done, and it only takes about 2 hrs to go from 0 to 300 with the bulk of time being in changing zones. Not to mention you can do it on about 8 different weapons at a time. There is no 'skill' involved in skilling up, it is purely a time sink to slow down fast levelers.

Which, incase you cant tell from abyssea, FFXI has shifted from the old slow grind to the new faster paced leveling system to more closely match the more popular games in the mmo market.

So it would only fit that skilling up matched the new leveling pace. Personally I have been a pup and mnk as long as I have played and still havent capped guard or parry, and it took about 2-3 days of straight skilling up to go from 300 to 365 automaton ranged attack.

Did I learn anything about my pet, become a better player, become elite? No... I watched tv and hit deploy every 30 seconds.