Fast leveling in Parties - hot spots

[Bloodrain]

Anyone remember when it used to be:

Solo 1-9/10
Valkurm Dunes 9/10-20~
Qufim 20-24/25
Yuhtunga Jungle 25/26-29~
Yhoater Jungle 30~32
Garlaige Citadel 33-36~
Crawlers' Nest 37-49~
Garlaige Citadel (basement) 49/50-54~
King Ranperre's Tomb or Labyrinth of Onzozo 55-60~
Bibiki Bay 61-68
Sky Camps 69+

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Man i miss those days

[Demon6324236]

It was fun, your 1st job or 2, then it quickly got old.

[Arcon]

It was fun, your 1st job or 2 [..]

For me it was fun until about Yhoator Jungle. I can't recall ever having fun in Garlaige Citadel, Crawler's Nest, or any of the following camps. I actually had more fun soloing PLD from 65 to 75 during Campaign Battles than I ever had EXPing. Old EXP has always been horrible for me and I'm glad it's gone for good.

[Demon6324236]

I am happy its gone in the fact it lost any fun it did have, but it would be a lie for me to say I didn't have fun the 1st couple jobs in each area, and that I didn't benefit from it.

[SNK]

It was fun, your 1st job or 2, then it quickly got old.

Screw that. Den of Rancor EXp on Tormentors until 71 was boss.

[Aethon]

I did that on whm until i got through the dunes. Then i switched to RDM and said screw other parties. I solo'ed RDM until 65. Hated the dunes and NEVER partied in the jungle. Took me longer but i learned more about playing the way i like to play than most people learn anymore.

[Bloodrain]

Well, the reason i miss those days is because you had to actually work for your jobs... I mean look at the parties today, they are usually alliances in mass areas where the party setup is nothing like it used to be, and honestly, you dont even need a strong party if you have numbers...

Back when it was like how I mentioned above, people actually learned how to play their jobs correctly and learned them well.

Don't get me wrong, you can still work to earn your levels today and learn your jobs well, but 95% of players don't.. they take the fast track to leveling and then try to catch up their skill levels and expertise on the job and it just doesn't match up to someone who earned their right to be 99 on a particular job.

Even the producer said he wants to make it even easier to obtain level 99... They are really setting up this game to be full of idiots who don't know how to play their jobs. (Aside from those of us who already know)

[Demon6324236]

The game is built around level 99s, before then you are stuck in all old content no one does anymore, why leave players in areas that are old and abandoned rather than allowing them a faster track to the place where everyone else is actually doing things.

[Luvbunny]

The new way of leveling may be extremely fast for a lot of people to a point where they barely know their roles or what the jobs suppose to do. But on the flip side, the whole game has changed. What used to be level grind via old school party has become level grind for gearing your characters via endgame activities which range from extremely casual to hardcore. You now must be able to work either solo or duo trio, when you start farming your abysea gears, or working in alliance for Voidwatch events which is rather on the casual side (other than cure bomb and status removal, you pretty much there to spam proc WS and proc spells). Then there are the fun activities such as meeble burrows where you need to work together, or neo nyzul. And finally the big one such as Legion and Neo Einherjar. In any case, learning how to play your jobs is now done via solo or small party, which for me force you to learn more and be quick since you are no longer in the safe comfort zone of 6 people old school party. And like others have mentioned, why torture players with level grind to 99 when the actual grind begin at 95-99.

[nyheen]

dont know about you guys but the new lvling way is really boring to me. just like the people was saying about the challenge,fun & stuff but now it seems people just fight easy all day at lvl 20 cap then once lvl 30, "time to key/leech" up to 99, ya i bet that fun, least back then we was moving camp to camp being around our skill lvl.

almost the same like key/leeching 4 years of high school just to get the diploma. ya forget the all the fun that you could of had (dances,first date, fights,having fun with friends, etc) just give me that diploma!