I miss party grinding (as a viable option)

[Angelfish51]

FFXIV targets a much wider audience. To me, i just couldn't grind the XP anymore in FFXI after i have my baby. The learning curve of FFXIV is not as lengthy as FFXI that its content could already teach an average player the necessary skills to enjoy the highest level content. Making fd or chating during party grinding is just impractical as this is an semi-action base combat system. Unless one have prepared lengthy macro for the actions, otherwise, everybody is just busy pressing the action hot bar every 2.5s during combat.

[Aegis]

I agree that FATEs are boring and create don't help people learn their jobs.

Hey! You take that back.

I learnt all my SMN skills in FATEs. I bio claim each and every mob when it comes in and get gold every damn time. I think more tanks and healers need to go to FATEs, because I'm stuck at Haukke Manor because of all the crappy Healers and Tanks. I know they're crappy because I'm doing my role perfectly: I run through the first few rooms and bio claim each and every mob. There are times when I have dozens claimed at once. That's how I'm supposed to play, right?

[Moth]

I miss the days of XI leveling parties. It felt like such a journey getting out there to the camp and by the time the party was done, everyone was either really great friends or hated each others guts xD

It was just a great way to meet people on your server, unlike these duty finder dungeons. I feel like they just encourage people to act atrociously and greedy, because you will most likely never see those people every again. And if the party doesn't work immediately, what's to stop you from just leaving and jumping back in the duty finger for another party instead of trying to work things out and come up with tactics and helping each other understand the fights, etc.

[Cyberpirate]

tl;dr

idk where u guys are getting this from but infact the fasted way to lvl in this game is 8man pts chaining mobs 10lvls higher than you

that's how JP's got to 50 in like 2 days

[Crica]

I miss the days of XI leveling parties. It was just a great way to meet people on your server, unlike these duty finder dungeons.

Then why are you not forming your own groups with players from your own server if that is how you enjoy PTing?

It's what you did in FFXI, so do it here if you want to meet ppl on your server to make friends with and go XP PTing in dungeons with them instead of with random strangers.

[Sebazy]

tl;dr

idk where u guys are getting this from but infact the fasted way to lvl in this game is 8man pts chaining mobs 10lvls higher than you

that's how JP's got to 50 in like 2 days

This, overworld xp parties are actually very viable. Find the right spot with dense mobs and the proper level range and you'll get exp quicker than fates and far far faster than any dungeon. Whilst dungeons are the most enjoyable way to level imo, trash has too much hp relative to the exp it gives so it's not the greatest way to get to 50 by any stretch.

[Steeled]

Dungeons aren't the same for many reasons, although they could be:

- It's difficult to make friends. There's no cross server friend list so 90% of the people you meet, you'll never meet again.
- The XP isn't nearly as fast. Questing, dungeons, even Hunting Log farming stomp all over leves.
- The time limit.

I think more tanks and healers need to go to FATEs, because I'm stuck at Haukke Manor because of all the crappy Healers and Tanks. I know they're crappy because I'm doing my role perfectly: I run through the first few rooms and bio claim each and every mob. There are times when I have dozens claimed at once.

I was typing the reply in my head as I read this, and then I got to the end and burst out laughing! Very well delivered.

[TwoEggs]

I like the idea of making some areas of the world require group parties to gain xp .. where the mobs are as hard as dungys

[Hayward]

There seems to be a bit too many rose-colored views of the EXP experience in FFXI. I personally don't miss the idea of forced grouping for EXP because of sites like Killing Ifrit and BlueGartr ruining XI with their lol[job] memes and encouraging lazy-minded bandwagoners to exclude any job that wasn't site-approved. People who claim party-grinding was fun obviously never played DRG, SMN, BST, RDM (post-Abyssea), PUP (pre-Adoulin), or BLM (pre-Abyssea). I couldn't be more pleased to see so many choices for experience in XIV. In my view, I really think some people only miss the power they had in saying "<insert bandwagon job> only, <non-BG-approved job> {no Thanks}.

Good riddance to that rubbish.

[Hayward]

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