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

[Camiie]

that is just pathetic, it truly is. I worked hard to get my jobs I have above 90 to that point, and I didn't burn out on them, if you do burn out on them I think you are honestly playing the wrong game

Translation: You're not like me so you're doin' it wrong.

[Fynlar]

I've been in some pretty fast book burns. dobling the kill XP absolutely would make up for loss of killspeed.

If you actually parsed it all out you'd know that isn't true, especially at lower level "traditional" camps.

[Fishyface]

I just love how the lazy people come and complain about something SE doesn't have to give us at all, I for one am looking forward to it.

GoV burns are just pure laziness, the same as leeching from lv30 in abyssea, I don't see how any of you can take pride in such laziness.

These are the kind of people that dont understand that its my 15 dollars and i can do what i want to, which includes aby burning to 99 as fast as possible. Just how these people can stay outside of abyssea and do fov pages.

I never said in my OP that leveling outside was wrong, just that this double xp weekend will hardly affect how people will xp, and your going to have to logically agree with me on this.

No worm party is going to move to a camp on boyahda tree for example just because the double xp event has started, they are going to stay right where they are and keep xping.

[wildsprite]

These are the kind of people that dont understand that its my 15 dollars and i can do what i want to, which includes aby burning to 99 as fast as possible. Just how these people can stay outside of abyssea and do fov pages.

oh no I understand perfectly its your money that you pay to play the game, I just don't understand how you can cheapen your experience doing the book burn and leech parties ending up in endgame with no skills or severely gimped skills, the time it takes to max out your skills after you level that fast is horrid.

and to be honest, you're from my home world of Bahamut where the majority of people when I left had a elitist pimp or gimp attitude, I'm surprised you get into any endgame at all on that world.

but hey don't try to explain it, its been explained and I still don't understand

[Siviard]

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

This, right here, is the reason why making Abyssea available at Lv. 30 was one of the absolute worst mistakes made by the FFXI Development Team.

And although Grounds of Valor was a terrific idea "in theory", it unfortunately is being massively exploited by players for gil, which unfortunately, includes RMT activity.

[Siviard]

Hey Fishyface, I see you're a 99 SMN, but you've probably got the skill level of a 30 SMN (most likely 20 SMN but I'm being generous). At least you'd be somewhat useful in Promyvion Holla/Dem/Mea.

But no, you wanted to get to 99 as quickly as possible. Obviously completely neglecting your Summoning Magic and other related skills. Though you have the 99, you're about as useful as toilet paper in endgame activities. I say toilet paper, because your lack of skill will most likely result in a WIPE.

[nyheen]

Hey Fishyface, I see you're a 99 SMN, but you've probably got the skill level of a 30 SMN (most likely 20 SMN but I'm being generous). At least you'd be somewhat useful in Promyvion Holla/Dem/Mea.

But no, you wanted to get to 99 as quickly as possible. Obviously completely neglecting your Summoning Magic and other related skills. Though you have the 99, you're about as useful as toilet paper in endgame activities. I say toilet paper, because your lack of skill will most likely result in a WIPE.

cant never understand these kinda people. burning smn all the way to 99 and still got the skills of a lvl 20. then joins a event with badly gimp skills that wipe partys. but hey it their $12.95. 2013 here comes the gimps!

[Demon6324236]

Hey Fishyface, I see you're a 99 SMN, but you've probably got the skill level of a 30 SMN (most likely 20 SMN but I'm being generous). At least you'd be somewhat useful in Promyvion Holla/Dem/Mea.

But no, you wanted to get to 99 as quickly as possible. Obviously completely neglecting your Summoning Magic and other related skills. Though you have the 99, you're about as useful as toilet paper in endgame activities. I say toilet paper, because your lack of skill will most likely result in a WIPE.

I can get from 1 to 99 and cap my skills faster than leveling 1 to 99 without any leeching. Whats your point? You don't like fast leveling? Making skill ups sound hard is stupid, I have BRD99, guess what, its skills are that of a level 70 after I spent about 2 hours skilling, leveling normally it would be at about 45 at best right now, and whenever I wanna play it I will actually cap its skills. People who level jobs to 99 and take them out with shit skills are fools, but so are people who think every person who leeches actually does that.

[Siviard]

I can get from 1 to 99 and cap my skills faster than leveling 1 to 99 without any leeching.

This quote above me is about as asinine as Fox News proclaiming victory for Mitt Romney.

[Concerned4FFxi]

The point is it makes EXPing otuside of abyssea more viable. It might not affect the EXP given by GOV itself but it still affects the exp from the monsters you're killing for the GoV pages.

Also note that because you're getting more EXP, you're also getting more conquest points or IS, as those are based on the EXP you earn. if you still have your EXP band from the anniversary, you'll get quad EXP (because the notice states that it stacks with that)

I think what they mean to say is "the double EXP effect stacks with the Dedication effect multiplicatively."

That's great and true and all but I feel the complaints in the OP, and from posters, is basically saying that it's not enough of a carrot to have people xp in those areas. Further more, if the concept is to get people to xp in those zones more often, one weekend is not going to change anything. What is required is a permeant fix, and not a weak attempt.