Quote Originally Posted by viion View Post
Those complaining about not being able to level the old-school way I think are taking it a bit to far.

Yes its low but I've managed to do it, and maybe not the very old-school way of valk > qifum > jungle etcetc, because that has been destroyed with level sync not Abyssea.

No new player will be able to get into Abyssea without friends which would defeat the object of "new player", and so abyssea has no concern for you, once you've dragged out levelling the old way, you probably wont want to do it another 20 times.
I am in the qufum stage. I enjoy meeting with the same group and bumping into people from the last time I played. It is a social experience and I really enjoy it. Given that it is such a small group of wandering fighters we have gotten to know one another because we fight together so much.

Just because people in my LS or my 'friends' play in Abyssea doesn't mean I am going to join them. It doesn't defeat the 'object' of 'new player' (what does that mean, anyway?) - it makes the qifum stage go away, and I don't like that. Those [people that I party with] are my friends because I play the most with them and we stay in touch and arrange to travel so far just to be in a party and have fun together. I don't understand abyssea and I like this way that I am playing now. I found a bunch of new players like me and we're having fun exploring the world. One of them joined a LS and has been going to abyssea and is now level 59. He is missing out because he will prolly never get to see the jungle now.

Do you understand what I mean? I don't want to miss out on the world because everything is focused on Abyssea now. Because I found other new players and we made a deal to explore the world I am not really threatened by Abyssea, but initially it is frustrating because the whole game pretty much goes there. I am just glad that I don't have to worry about *not* seeing any maps. When I am level 40 I am going to trade beastman seals to fight in a cool arena I hear about. That player I mentioned who joined LS and is in abyssea - guess what he's not going to experience? That is what I mean when I say abyssea should be for high levels. It robs new players of adventures and from being exposed to different parts of this game, and subsequently robs their friends of them as a contributing member to the fighting party.