Do something about the AH and lower level gear????

[Olor]

Again all those stats can be made up for in food except lol eva for that lvl. cream puffs 7 int and you can't out level it same with sushi meat dishs what not.

The person in HQ +INT gear who is also eating food... will still majorly out-damage the NQ noob wearing crap gear... and I have to point out for a new player it is WAY more cost effective to get stats from gear than from consumables - cause even if they level through their gear quickly - they can resell it. Money sunk into food is gone forever. A stack of cream puffs costs 11K and is only 6 hours worth of stat boosts.

Even myself with friends who have given me a lot would probably choose to eat apple pies, at 2K a stack. I just can't make enough money yet (I'm not in Abyssea) to keep up with food costs approaching 2K an hour.

[Olor]

As an aside - this thread is making me want to level blm

[Ravenmore]

Why buy HQ I went from level 1 sch to 20 in one day with wearing level 1 rse gear. I just went from level 1 mnk to 12 in a hour 1/2 both of these were solo. Low level exp comes so fast now wasteing gil on low level gear is not logical. Even at 20 gear choice if rare to find anything worth the gil that you'll level out of in a few hours of game play. Not to mention that you can get food from FoV books.

[Olor]

Yeah raven noobs should just level on easy prey in lvl 1 rse until 30 - and then leech till 90. Hell they shouldn't even bother with a subjob - no one will notice.

[Ravenmore]

EPs put out 130 exp so why bother trying to find a party before level 20. Hell before the exp increase I and many I know soloed rite by the dunes. I took one job though the dunes that was enough for me.

[Karbuncle]

EPs put out 130 exp so why bother trying to find a party before level 20. Hell before the exp increase I and many I know soloed rite by the dunes. I took one job though the dunes that was enough for me.

I solo'd to 30~40+ on almost every single one of my jobs when i got my Maats cap, But I know that wouldn't have been possible on some of those jobs without proper gear. Especially if i wanted to move from getting ~75 exp/kill to 100~200+ (I leveled back before the Exp increase...). So i see your point.

Right no however, i Am leveling PUP, And i can say for sure if it wasn't for Items i had to camp the AH for like Aega's Doublet, Battle Gloves, Beetle+1 Earrings, Mighty Ring(Found this on Mannalol), etc, it would be 100x harder than it is now.

I can find all the items above though because I'm not stuck to bastok, and I have the resources (Gil, friends, Etc), but i can see that some of the new players in this game are usually stuck in junk armor, having hard times soloing/etc on things i can easily take out, simply because they are stuck in NQ junk, while i sit in the best armor for the level.

I feel like i need to continue to say it, I think the AH merger will fix a lot of problems, But if it doesnt, Thats when we should look into these other solutions.

[Olor]

yeah I am looking forward to the merger in a big way...

[blowfin]

This begs the question: if you don't want or can't get vendor/cp items, is it really all that hard to find someone who can make stuff for lower level jobs?

Yes. If you don`t have CP, chances are shouting in jeuno for a crafter ain`t really gonna be an option for you.