NA players dislike exp parties?

This has become quite the problem on my home server Aegis lately. Im just curious if its been this way on other worlds as well. All day durring NA playing time there is hardly ever anyone shouting or looking for players to exp grind. If you go do some leves you will notice there are quite a few people doing them but never want to join any parties. Then if you log on durring JP playing times its impossible not to find an exp party.

For example, this last week i decided i wanted to try and grind out my arc. I play in the average NA times of 4pm-11pm and if im lucky I might be able to form one PT myself (because waiting for one just doesnt work lately). Then yesterday I had the day off from work and I woke up extra early to try and catch the JP players still on. And sure enough, within 5 minutes of logging on there was shouts for all different level ranges.

This may seem like a QQ, which honestly it is lol. I'm just curious as to why NA players dont like PT grinding. The exp is better then leves, its more involved, and you can be social. I understand that many people already have all their jobs to 50, but there is also a flood of new players lately. It baffles me that people dont take advantage of this system. Instead NA players would rather repeat the same 4 leve quests over and over and over again for 10 levels before you can move to the next zone and repeat.

TL;DR I wish I could play during JP peak times and still make it to work in the morning.

Balmung has no issues

I love me some EXP PTs

If you ever played any other NA mmos you level by grinding quests which some people prefer over grinding exp mobs.

Aegis just sucks.
Plain and simple.
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Originally Posted by Fingerbox

Aegis just sucks.
Plain and simple.
:(

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Completely agree lately... Before the merge i never had this problem on figaro. I had hoped things would get even easier. But the opposite has happened. There is literally no one shouting for any kinds of PT's hardly ever.

I'll just say my best exp pties have come from JP time. Though I will say I have no prob finding a pt in any range during NA time.

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Originally Posted by Mattia

I'll just say my best exp pties have come from JP time. Though I will say I have no prob finding a pt in any range during NA time.

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JP parties are always better from my experiences. The know how to play their jobs, Dont get lazy and mooch exp, and they tend to last longer. 2-3 hour PT minimum.

Power Leveling

To be fair XP grind parties are pretty droll and boring even at the best of time.

I can't say I'm surprised by this.

Don't have any problems on Gugnir.

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Originally Posted by Rein-Yoto

..but there is also a flood of new players lately. It baffles me that people dont take advantage of this system.

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You said it yourself :)
A bunch of new / returning players.
People who have all their classes at 50 are the ones who stayed and know exp parties are more rewarding and joyful.
But Returning players don't know of any other mechanisms but leves for leveling.
New players only get introducted to leves by the main scenario too and if they look around on FFXIV related sites on the internet, they will mostly read about leves too.
My guess is that it's less about not wanting to do exp parties but more about not KNOWING about them :)

Everyone Power levels nowadays. It's so in this season. EXP parties was so 2011.

Outside of the 20-30 range my THM leveled more than quickly enough. Of course this is my first class to 50 and I had significant boosts from Storyline quests along the way so maybe the next will be slower. But honestly 45-50 felt like mere hours. Just solo'd level 50-52 kobolds in U'ghamaro for close to 1k xp each.

I think as others hath said, new and returning players may not know that XP grind parties are oft more time efficient for XP.

A returning player may alternate between leves and behests.
A new player may try to do quests (and also leves).
And I imagine a lot o' folk may not be interested in leveling their other classes with the new content for their 50s.
And the shellmates / friends who power level each other in sexy secrecy.

You may have to be direct and aggressive by the aethrytes with tells to the individual(s) and lead them toward the XP party. If they have a positive interaction with you and a positive encounter with XP gain, they will consider XP parties more often and you may be able to catch them leveling other classes as well (or persuading others to sin).

Lvl38 MRD; Lvl36GLA.. I'm down to PT.