Quote Originally Posted by Rustic View Post
Then let's make it so they no longer get to those levels in the first place.

Put more soloing test barriers in the way of content and don't have an "easy button" like Maat WHM fight to get around them.

Bad players in bad gear don't get in, good players pass those tests and progress.
So rather than take an extra minute to examine the gear of someone you invite, you would rather just make everyone go back to the old slow way of leveling. I can tell you now, I only have 4 jobs left to level, PUP, SMN, RNG, and DRG. If I had to level them the old way, these jobs would never be touched, I liked the old way of xp when it was here, since then I have stopped liking it, not because its easy, but because I want to play the job at the end, not where it starts. There are many more interesting and tricky parts to a job at the end of the leveling experience than at the beginning, and I play for those parts at the end. Going back to old xp is not something I ever want to do, I would much rather just have to take an extra few minutes to check the gear of people I have never seen or heard of before.

Take into account how many good players do not want to level slowly for all of their jobs, or even take more than a few days. I have little time as it is, let alone the time it would take to go out and level an entirely new job up over the course of a week or 2 so that I can play it, and maybe not even like it.

The only real 'idiot filter' you need, is your eyes, I can spot a bad player as soon as I check them, sometimes it is less clear than others, but often it makes itself apparent. Full timing +2, using the wrong gear when you have access to the right gear, missing basic gear that all players should have simply because they do not think its worth it. Want examples? I know of a THF who has full Thaumas, but TPs in Oce/Toci's, I know another with full Thaumas who did not even have Brutal, Suppa, or Rajas, and another who has a Mandau who TPs in +2 Hands rather than Bregos, used to not have a Brutal, and uses Phasmida instead of Twilight even on mobs where the EVA/Acc is not needed. These are examples of players who have good gear putting it to shame because they use the wrong gear or are missing key important gear. Easy to spot with a 1 time use of /check.