Any way to cease Experience Point gain?

"What?! Stop experience gain?! Are you mad?!"

I've checked Google, threads and at menus in the game. So far I haven't been able to see if there is a way that enables the player to prevent themselves from gaining Exp (Few other MMORPGs have this).

You might ask, why would anyone want to stop gaining Exp?
Some people like to maintain a certain "sweet-spot" within a range of level for a while (e.g. if they find themselves unable to keep up with gear vs. levels.)
However, why I want this is simply because I want to attend as many fates and leves as possible and be able to gather large quantities of materials from monsters, but at the same time, I don't want to out-level my girlfriend, who has less time to enjoy FFXIV than I do.
Now I'm simply levelling a different class, but I'd still like to enjoy the current tier of content that my main job is at.

Is there such a function that I'm simply unaware of, or could it perhaps be added in a future patch?

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Originally Posted by Cait-Siths-Assistant

Is there such a function that I'm simply unaware of, or could it perhaps be added in a future patch?

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I doubt they would ever add a feature like that because FATEs and dungeons are level capped and already let you sync your level if you're too high. Your only other options are to play less or play a different class.

There isn't an honestly, in this game...there's no reason for it. You will end up with no quests as it is once you get to your 2nd and 3rd classes, let alone all the others.

You're going to be doing a lot of grinding and there's really nothing you'd do as a group with your girlfriend that you won't be downleveled for.

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Originally Posted by Cait-Siths-Assistant

However, why I want this is simply because I want to attend as many fates and leves as possible and be able to gather large quantities of materials from monsters, but at the same time, I don't want to out-level my girlfriend, who has less time to enjoy FFXIV than I do.
Now I'm simply levelling a different class, but I'd still like to enjoy the current tier of content that my main job is at.

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I guess two things... one, are fates SO fun that you want to attend as many as possible while gaining no XP? two, if you want to level with your girlfriend just start another class and level that class with her. Or visa-versa. level your current class with her - when she levels - and level another class when playing without her. This is basically one of the core pieces of FFXIV gameplay.

Yeah, the silly 1000-character limit to forum posts didn't allow me to fully specify why I'd like to do stuff like FATE and Levequests with no exp gain, which is basically to still benefit from Grand Company seals, ranks, gil rewards and so on.

My main job is Paladin, so I'll be levelling up Marauder as well, which isn't so bad, as there are some abilities down the line that I might benefit from at some point on Paladin. :) (There's Conjurer for that as well).

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Some people like to maintain a certain "sweet-spot" within a range of level for a while

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There's only one sweet spot in the range of 1-50 and that's 50. If you need to catch up on gear, or want to wait for a friend, play another class in the meantime. Explore the world. Play PvP when it comes out. I can't imagine wanting to remove one of the main benefits of FATE.

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Yeah, the silly 1000-character limit to forum posts didn't allow me to fully specify why I'd like to do stuff like FATE and Levequests with no exp gain, which is basically to still benefit from Grand Company seals, ranks, gil rewards and so on.

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Use a level 50 class and level sync. Also, you can edit your posts to go past the 1000 character limit.

This feature would be a waste of time for SE to implement for the 10 people that want it.

There is one way to cease experience point gain.

Dun dun dun... Hit level 50.

Also, as other people have said you can level sync to continue playing progress. I still like to play the lower leveled dungeons and sync is perfect for that. Seeing as though you don't have many classes leveled right now. You can level other classes to unlock abilities that will help your main class in the future. Like getting stoneskin, etc. If you are against that I'm afraid the only other option is to stop exp gain is to simply stop playing. Too bad there aren't hardmode servers that have things like weapon and breaks if not repaired before zero (being destroyed) or exp loss on death. That would be perfect for you, but then again your girlfriend might not like that kind of thing. Hehe.

Just don't play the game, then you wont level up. Next stupid request....

I would suggest leveling a different class when your GF isn't playing and only playing the 'duo' class when she's able to join you.

Why You don't understand, that someone don't want exp? I grow up on Lineage 2. Exping was looong term mission.... That's how it supposed to be so You can enjoy all quests, explore world, dungeons more times, and get more experience with current class. Not just run through whole game and get max lvl for about 60 hours. Now for lvl up or even two you just need to run one dung. Plus dung lvling is so fast that its impossible to keep up with quests. I end up with lvl 48 still doing story and guild quests fo lvl under 30. so i bought story progress ... Why is it so fast? If someone is in hurry , cause he enjoy game this way ( which I don"t understand) then there is exp boost.

So again.... Is there a way to turn off/on exp gain?

No there is not, other than hitting the level cap (default without expansions is level 50, with only Heavensward installed is level 60, and with both HW and Stormblood installed it's level 70.). As the game will automatically not grant EXP if a class has reached that cap, either simply not granting any EXP at all or setting the amount of EXP rewarded automatically to zero.

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Originally Posted by Ahendor

I end up with lvl 48 still doing story and guild quests fo lvl under 30.

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That's why I would suggest that people stick with MSQ first and only do other things that give exp when needed to continue MSQ.

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Originally Posted by Cait-Siths-Assistant

"What?! Stop experience gain?! Are you mad?!"

I've checked Google, threads and at menus in the game. So far I haven't been able to see if there is a way that enables the player to prevent themselves from gaining Exp (Few other MMORPGs have this).

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I am afraid there is no way to stop gaining Exp.
However, the possibility of changing classes/jobs and thus spreading out any Exp gained among several classes combined with level-syncing for FATEs and group instances there is less need to halt Exp gains than there are in other MMOs.

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Originally Posted by linay

That's why I would suggest that people stick with MSQ first and only do other things that give exp when needed to continue MSQ.

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This is good advice! I ran into this at around level 30 when I wanted to get my job but I was on, like, level 16 MSQ quests. I had to advance the MSQ quite a bit first and ended up finishing the first job quest at level 34. From then on, I've mostly focused on just MSQ (apart from grinding up some GC ranks), and even with the Road to 60 experience buff I ended up being only a couple of levels ahead by the time I got into Stormblood. I just hit level 64 and I'm doing level 62 quests.

Leveling another class is also a great idea, especially if you don't want to advance that MSQ so you can experience it with someone else.

Levels significantly matter for two things. What is the highest tier content you can partake in and what is the gear that you can use. There is just no reason to stop gaining experience in this game since there is no such thing as highest level limit to do any content. If you are higher level you will simply be synced down.

Even playing with another person, there is barely any difference. Grinding on normal mobs is the only place where higher level interferes on its own, but all you need to do is use lower level gear. If you want to "grind" with lvl30 person as a lvl50 person, buy the normal quality, merchant-made gear that a lvl30 person can wear and you should have stats comparable to lvl30 person with good dungeon gear, because majority of stats in this game come from gear, not levels. If someone wants to stop gaining experience completely, then clearly it's not a problem for them that when they run lvl30 dungeon or FATE that they'll be getting pittance of an experience bonus as a level 50. So that's not a problem.


As for this thread...it's from 2013. Trying to make suggestions to the original poster is pointless, especially since he apparently left shortly after. Probably his girlfriend quit and he didn't find enjoyment, seeing as he still have lvl37 paladin but lvl50 warrior and disciple of land and hand classes. So yes...he won't even read anything.