XP disable

Would anyone else like this feature to be implemented? I just got my first character to 50 and I have heavensward, so as I'm doing all these story quests to catch up my character will be leveling beyond 50. I haven't even gotten to ultima weapon yet (on the quest before it...) and I'm halfway to 51. This just irks me. I'd like to start heavensward at 50 and experience it as I'm assuming SE intended it to be.

Also looking into what I'll need to do to catch up before I can even start heavensward content, it almost makes me want to stay screw it and wait until they decide to let people skip the 2.55 quests. And this is coming from someone who enjoys the MSQ (I just don't enjoy gear grind or ilevel requirements for something that should be casual).

You'll be glad for that bonus XP by the time you get to 54-55 or so because there's long stretches where you are unable to continue in the MSQ without leveling up and your most reliable source of XP comes from some truly annoying side quests and FATEs.

Then again, you're a tank. You could queue dungeons all day if you wanted.

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Originally Posted by Hrethnar

Also looking into what I'll need to do to catch up before I can even start heavensward content, it almost makes me want to stay screw it and wait until they decide to let people skip the 2.55 quests. And this is coming from someone who enjoys the MSQ (I just don't enjoy gear grind or ilevel requirements for something that should be casual).

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You dont want to skip the content patch story it's really good and 2.55 is very important and sets up the expansion.

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Originally Posted by Saccharin

You dont want to skip the content patch story it's really good and 2.55 is very important and sets up the expansion.

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This. You'll only do the quests once per character...whilst at end game you'll be set to do the same dungeons over and over and over again. So there's no real rush - the content will still be there so take the time to enjoy the ride, especially if you're a fan of the story.

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Originally Posted by Hrethnar

I'd like to start heavensward at 50 and experience it as I'm assuming SE intended it to be.

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Heavensward was designed for players at or above at least item level 100 for the most part. If you're just at level 50, you'll probably appreciate being at level 52 by the time you get into xpac content.

All of the HW dungeons sync to one level above the entry level anyway. You don't even get access to the first one until 51 so you won't be out as far as you think.

Levl up another job to 50, do the 2.1-2.55 story with that job and switch later back to your main job for HW.

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Originally Posted by Hrethnar

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As far as the ilvl requirements go the best thing imo to do is buy the lvl 50 gear from the MB or have someone pick it up cheap from Ishgard vendors. It's a full set of i115 gear so you should be able to blow throw all the content you have left without having to worry about meeting the ilvl requirements everytime.

Plus you don't have to do every single dungeon quest either just do the things the Main story makes you do so you can get to the HW stuff and you can always go back & do the things you skipped.

Enjoy the story! Things start getting crazy from here! :O

You'll get synced to level 50 for pretty much anything where your level will come into play anyway, and it's honestly better to have those levels then to do the old way and have to grind to access the next 3 quests then repeat again lol.

As it has been said, you'll appreciate it unless you enjoy being stopped and told to come back when your level 54/55/57/59 multiple times cus the story seems to stop after like 2 or 3 check points.

I was 53 by the time I got to HW. I hit 60 just about the time I finished HW. I don't think you'll feel too bad about the exp a few levels into the expansion.

fairly sure all the 2.1-2.55 story line can be don in i90 gear, which is handed to you for doing your level 50 job quest now ^^

Don't see a point to this.

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Originally Posted by Hrethnar

This just irks me. I'd like to start heavensward at 50 and experience it as I'm assuming SE intended it to be.

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That's not how they intended it to be other than day 1 players.

Considering level sync exists, and there is no PvP level ranks that can't be accessed once you pass them like WoW, it's a bit of a pointless feature.

At worst, you'll have to do a few less moogle sidequests in heavensward, and trust me, that's a blessing, not a curse.

level a monk cause they are fun and once you go monk you never go back :)

To the original poster: yes, I wish every MMO would include a toggle to disable XP gains as there are numerous reasons to want this (I, for example, would have liked to have been able to spend more time gathering my own hunted crafting drops without out-leveling friends I play with daily). Some MMOs provide this feature, but unfortunately most don't.

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Originally Posted by Ashkendor

You'll be glad for that bonus XP by the time you get to 54-55 or so because there's long stretches where you are unable to continue in the MSQ without leveling up and your most reliable source of XP comes from some truly annoying side quests and FATEs.

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That's not necessarily the case. It really depends on how quickly you try and race to level 60. Spend two weeks or more doing it and you won't have any problems with content gaps and experience because (between rest XP and the daily clan mark tasks you're assigned every day) you'll be swimming in XP (and clan marks, which you'll want a good stock of anyway). I reached level 60 in Heavensward only doing each dungeon the one required time, and to this day still have a plethora of quests in Heavensward zones untouched.

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Originally Posted by Gyson

To the original poster: yes, I wish every MMO would include a toggle to disable XP gains as there are numerous reasons to want this (I, for example, would have liked to have been able to spend more time gathering my own hunted crafting drops without out-leveling friends I play with daily). Some MMOs provide this feature, but unfortunately most don't.

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Killing stuff in the open world gives so little experience that you won't even notice a difference by the time you get to 50+, though.

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Originally Posted by FoxyAreku

Killing stuff in the open world gives so little experience that you won't even notice a difference by the time you get to 50+, though.

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That is definitely not the case for earlier levels where gil is scarce and gathering your own items is more appealing that buying them off the marketboard, and an XP toggle wouldn't just be for level 50+ characters.

I can't even agree with your comment at level 50+, as I did try to gather materials from monsters in Coerthas Western Highlands during my early 50's, and considering the poor drop rates it didn't take long at all for all that XP to start adding up as noticeable difference in progress between myself and the friends I was trying to level with. In the end I had to just stop and rely on retainer ventures for my materials just to avoid the XP gains.

An XP toggle is a good feature for those who want it, and for those that don't ever see a need to use it they're certainly free to never touch it. Everyone wins.

Thanks everyone for clearing some stuff up and making it seem less dreadful. I'm ready to dive headlong into this journey to heavensward!

It's the reason I haven't registered my copy of Heavensward yet, and won't until finishing everything from ARR. I'm avoiding the expansion because I don't want my level cap to change yet. The downside, of course, is that I can't unlock the new jobs or make an Au Ra alt, both of which I'd like to do. But I don't want either of those badly enough to be willing to get XP for everything I do with my level 50 jobs. 50 was level cap for so long that there's just a huge glut of content at that level. The leveling process works best if you can stop there long enough to do it.

(And I don't mean just the 2.1 - 2.55 MSQ. If that was all the level 50 content I was interested in, getting that much excess XP would be fine. But there are also side stories, a whole 8 tier relic system, optional dungeons/raids, and so on. If you do everything, that's a lot of level 50 content.)

Plus, an XP disable would be really helpful in the earliest levels of the game as well. Many people out-level the first 20 or so levels of the main story by quite a bit since leveling comes so fast in those early levels. If you could turn off XP whenever you get more than a level or two above your next MSQ, you could keep those quests at an appropriate difficulty level. And people who want to keep repeating a dungeon until they get all its cool drops could do so without wrecking their open-world quests in the process.

I'm in favor of this feature in pretty much every game I play. (I begged for it for years in LOTRO before they finally gave it to us.) It's nice for players to have some control over their leveling speed. Just because some players are in a rush to reach endgame doesn't mean everyone needs to be. What's more, it'll keep being a bigger and bigger issue every time SE speeds up the leveling for those players who want it faster. (Leveling additional classes is now ridiculously fast since they increased the Armoury Bonus from 50% to 100%. Just last night, I went up two full levels 18->20 in a single run of Sastasha. Level 19 lasted all of three minutes. That's not exactly a problem, but it's the sort of thing players will increasingly want some control over.)

Tbh, I think you will regret the decision to not get the xp later.

What is your fear here?

The dungeons have level sync, the open world quests aren't difficult even at minimum level, and there are some very big xp gaps later, where you will have to go catch up just to continue with the story. I think you are over estimating how far the exp will take you. It will pretty much just help you access Dusk Vigil.

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Originally Posted by Niwashi

Just last night, I went up two full levels 18->20 in a single run of Sastasha. Level 19 lasted all of three minutes. That's not exactly a problem, but it's the sort of thing players will increasingly want some control over.)

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Exactly. When I was leveling to 50 during the 2.X days I decided I wanted to get a full set of gear for my class from the Brayflox dungeon. Doesn't matter how logical or not that is, how quickly someone else could level and make the set useless, etc.. it was just an armor set I wanted to have as I advanced. Thanks to a lot of bad luck RNG-wise, it took me many levels of farming that dungeon - levels that I didn't want to race through or get, levels that were helping to make the whole point of my goal quickly obsolete.

It made something that could have been fun for me instead very frustrating, and I would have very much liked to have had the option to temporarily pause my leveling while accomplishing this goal I had set for myself. I accept that not everyone can see the value in such a feature, but it's the kind of option that is really handy for some players when they need it.

I actually wouldn't mind a way to disable exp for regular actions. I don't know how many times I've used up my rested exp on gathering instead of combat or crafting like I'd rather it be used on.