They should implement the Abyssea monster system into the rest of Vana'diel and do away with the old ways for good. This would put an end to the "3 level difference" rule of thumb and probably level sync, too. I'm not going to go into details at this hour but it would require some thought on how to go about it, and would require letting go of the old ways and having a minor inconvenience time from time as a soloer. Technically it could work, realistically SE won't do it. Pretty sure they'd say why not just let people leech and spare us the trouble. As a matter of fact I believe one of their japanese reps answered such a question on the japanese forums and it went along the lines of "we're cool with people leeching because it's a different game now." It was kind of hard to follow. Translation tools aren't great on the internet.

So yeah, we all might want to drop our day dreams of old exp PTs returning and invest that energy elsewhere. They just aren't going to suddenly change the entry level no matter how much some of us may whine for it. Stop letting other people and how they play bother you, and worry about yourself.

The only other way to go about it is for monsters to give 500+ exp as the standard. That would make leveling pretty fast outside of Abyssea but come on, that's just crazy. But so is Abyssea exp so why the heck not....? Be great for newbies and vets a like. Especially great for mages. Food for thought.



As for the inevitable ranting about 'oh great just what we need, the entire game modeled after abyssea' I will take this time to remind those people that the only way to fix the game to your point of view of what it should be, is to erase Abyssea and the level cap raise from the game. Basically a rollback to 1 year ago. That is never going to happen, so you need to adjust already, accept it's here to stay, and come up with ideas on how to better the game outside of Abyssea instead of doing nothing but moaning. SE isn't all knowing and they don't instantly know how to fix any and everything. With these forums and them seemingly glancing through our ideas firsthand and all in one place for a change, it is more important than ever to voice your ideas and concerns to aid them and speed the whole process up.