WONDERING - why no BATTLE LEVES for SB & ShB?

I was wondering why SE didn't add any Battle Leves to StormBlood & ShadowBringers. For the Challenge Log, I usually do the same old HW battle levels to get those exp bonuses if I'm leveling up an alt. Not to mention getting gear, food, weapons, & vetures.

They aren't very popular and are not a good way to level combat classes when compared the other options the game has.

This makes me sad too. I really enjoyed them as a change in pace when I got tired of grinding dungeons or fates. It's always good to have more sources of exp than less.

Because laziness. It was far from the only thing they started to strip away in SB that made it feel incomplete.

Given how many quests starting from SB onward did not even have journal entries like all previous quests had, I'm going to assume that combat leves were pruned for a similar reason -- they couldn't be bothered to write up that many quest descriptions.

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They aren't very popular and are not a good way to level combat classes when compared the other options the game has.

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This isn't the reason. That could easily have been fixed if they wanted to.

Was there ever a reason to do combat leves?
FATEs are much better.

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Originally Posted by Fynlar

Because laziness. It was far from the only thing they started to strip away in SB that made it feel incomplete.

Given how many quests starting from SB onward did not even have journal entries like all previous quests had, I'm going to assume that combat leves were pruned for a similar reason -- they couldn't be bothered to write up that many quest descriptions.

This isn't the reason. That could easily have been fixed if they wanted to.

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Laziness is a cop out answer when people don't like changes. I see it a lot around here.

The reason is simple. People didn't do them, there were many alternatives, and leves are better spent on crafters and gatherers.

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Laziness is a cop out answer when people don't like changes.

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Denying it is a cop out defense when the evidence is right there in front of your face.

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The reason is simple. People didn't do them,

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People didn't do them because they didn't bother making them worthwhile. They easily could have (just look at how much more XP DoH leves give for far less time/effort), but chose not to. Seeing how much SB pruned in the way of quest descriptions/journal entries, it is really not difficult to see why.

Why didn't they make 5 expansions at once, and give us like 50 EX trials to do this month?

Just laziness I guess.

Well, not like people really did them anyway. Players mostly ran with levemetes in 1-16 level period before getting access to the first dungeon and after this just spammed Roulettes/FATEs/Dungeons because they are more efficient. Though, having levemetes for latest levels still could be good, because their descriptions can contain some lore... but no is no, I suppose.

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Originally Posted by Fynlar

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This isn't the reason. That could easily have been fixed if they wanted to.

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It is the reason. Even when they were worth doing in ARR they were not popular. So in HW when they stopped being worth it most of us that did like them stopped and switched to better leveling methods.