November 2022 FINAL FANTASY XI Digest

[Alhanelem]

Meh. Maybe it is worse than leveling to L75 back in the day. . . maybe it's not. I know it took me months to get SMN to L75 as my second job back in the olden days when all I did was level. If I leveled like that now, I could M50 any job in a week. I'm not complaining either way. Nothing wrong with a little grind.

Our first job always took longer because we had all the legwork like unlocking transportation tools, getting spells and gear, and the missions and stuff to do our first time out. For experienced players leveling their 10th job, 1-75 was definitely a few days at most.

My frustration is that traditional party killing (which is still sometimes done by people without someone who can do the cleaving thing) is getting worse and worse and it seems dumb to me that SE is setting the parameters for master level based on the few people who can do it the most efficiently (and least fun-ly, if I'm being honest with you).

Also, that tank needs to be pretty decked out from what I understand. simple EXP grinding shouldn't demand the same as defeating the hardest content.