How does Leveling work now?

[Luvbunny]

will you people please stop outright promoting abyssea, not everyone finds it fun, not everyone likes it, telling new players to use abyssea to leech EXP is just plain ignorant, nowonder a good majority of the players don't even know the jobs they play

if you really want to learn the job don't use abyssea till lv 70+, if you just want to be a noob, well abyssea is the way to go

You are clearly delusional if you think people will learn their jobs by leveling outside abyssea to 70+ ... the old school party is dead, no one in their right mind will do the 6 ppl set up to 75 anymore, dead gone burried. The rest of the new school party is alliance style via GoV camp. If one is good players, they will try to learn their jobs one way or another. Levelling is such a moot point in this game. Learning your job is not, and you must do it regardless on how you level. Stop calling people noob when they use abyssea to level up. Everyone is a noob at one point, old school or new school, it is your willingness to learn the job you just leveled so fast is what makes a difference. Each jobs has their own plus and minus, and you can't expect to learn from fast leveling or party set up - yeah old school party is boring monotonous and super safe, meaning it also breeds lazy players. You can learn more by duo-trio or solo and fighting tons of abyssea NM, hence the entire abyssea expansion is focusing on battle system, since thats pretty much what you will do mostly, battling mobs and various NM. As other posters have said, bad players exist regardless on how they achieve their levels. Stop thinking abyssea is bad for you. Heck I can do speed level via GoV as well, ever heard of zeruhm mines and boyahda tree? With the right set up, 3 people can do the work while the rest can just leech and afk... yeah you heard me, its abyssea style, outside abyssea - it's the new deal, get used to it

[Phogg]

You are clearly delusional if you think people will learn their jobs by leveling outside abyssea to 70+ ... the old school party is dead, no one in their right mind will do the 6 ppl set up to 75 anymore, dead gone burried. The rest of the new school party is alliance style via GoV camp. If one is good players, they will try to learn their jobs one way or another. Levelling is such a moot point in this game. Learning your job is not, and you must do it regardless on how you level. Stop calling people noob when they use abyssea to level up. Everyone is a noob at one point, old school or new school, it is your willingness to learn the job you just leveled so fast is what makes a difference. Each jobs has their own plus and minus, and you can't expect to learn from fast leveling or party set up - yeah old school party is boring monotonous and super safe, meaning it also breeds lazy players. You can learn more by duo-trio or solo and fighting tons of abyssea NM, hence the entire abyssea expansion is focusing on battle system, since thats pretty much what you will do mostly, battling mobs and various NM. As other posters have said, bad players exist regardless on how they achieve their levels. Stop thinking abyssea is bad for you. Heck I can do speed level via GoV as well, ever heard of zeruhm mines and boyahda tree? With the right set up, 3 people can do the work while the rest can just leech and afk... yeah you heard me, its abyssea style, outside abyssea - it's the new deal, get used to it

Leveled my DRK 0-72 with a PLD and NIN friends static trio fighting IT mobs the entire way. Was great fun. Book burning and leeching are easier and faster, noone can argue that. But there is still a good time to be had partying old school if speed is not a concern.

[Luvbunny]

Leveled my DRK 0-72 with a PLD and NIN friends static trio fighting IT mobs the entire way. Was great fun. Book burning and leeching are easier and faster, noone can argue that. But there is still a good time to be had partying old school if speed is not a concern.

The game is definitely more fun to be played with your friends. GoV boost the exp gain when you trio, and yeah abyssea is not everything, you can easily get to 99 doing normal camp using book burning in dungeons - with much better results for skill cap. The problem is finding 5 other players to static, but the best thing about this game now, we have so many options that suits our play style Personally I like to do abyssea around level 60s-70s, I mean at the end of the day, I will still have to do skill ups either way, might as well go there with a good amount of skilled rather than start at level 30s.