People who don't grind FATEs...

[Ryios]

I fated straight to 50. 1-30 I took some leve's and dungeons and occasional fate. 30-40 I did Fates in Costa Del Sol and Coerthas. 40-45 Was coerthas entirely, and 46-50 I did in Northern Thanalan after discovering the Dark Devices Fate (DD).

1-30 I got the hang of the game over two weeks. 31-50 Took me 5 days at about 5 hours a night, so around 30 hours.

My current level 22, I've been Exp Partying which I find to be faster and a little more engaging to get to 40. Imo 40-50 will always be best in coerthas + northern thanalan.

[v_jones]

People keep saying there's too much trash mobs and such, but that is the point of the dungeon. Figuring out which target is higher priority to dps down first, moving room through room cautiously so as to not aggro stuff by accident, actually exploring and finding coffers everywhere...

If this was actually reality, it would be wonderful. Unfortunately, it is not. Trash mobs in dungeons are a mindless zerg. Bosses are really the only encounters with interesting mechanics, so I would certainly not be sad if they were to remove trash mobs in their current incarnation. However, I would much prefer it if they weren't lazy, and actually designed trash mobs that required some thought to achieve their slaughter.

[helushka]

My wife and I are the same way as the OP... I really don't know why there are so many that think "I have to be the first" such as hitting 50 or the people that simply think they need to get up to 50 asap. Why? We do pretty much all the quests that we come across, dungeons, and the fates that cross our path. We are having a blast with FFXIV to be honest. We bought collectors of the original and another collectors for re-release, and we are not FF fanboys by any means. As a matter of fact this is our first FF game ever. Although we are lower lvl and I cannot truthfully comment on what happens at lvl 50 yet I really don't have any sympathy for those that hit lvl 50 a week after the game was released saying this game sucks I have nothing to do. Considering they missed 95% of the game they are cutting their nose off to spite their face.

Long story short is people need to slow down, however it just doesn't work that way with so many people, they have to have it "NOW".

[setsua26]

I have been in one fate group and had a blast, but to be honest I am mostly doing GC grinding for seals, I get pretty decent XP. I would do a small group with GC seals.

[Happysour]

I grind fates but I'm only 38/15/8/11/14 I think I leveled last night. But I don't play much with work, gym, etc. I personally feel a little bored with just fates and story quests, but at the same time I really don't want to start up doing quests again and hunting them down.

I also agree that at 50 mobs exp should replace with something else, even a small amount of seals.

[Engineer]

I totally agree with OP. Those gamers that want first everything make me sick lol. They dont realize its not a competition, its not a race to the finish. What I find hilarious is the players that get thier drops leave thier character afk with their weapon drawn just to show it off lmao. Whats even more funny is those players complained about the 30 minute auto logout feature just because they wanted to leave their characters afk showing the goods lol.

I really wish people would enjoy the game instead of burning through it skipping cutscenes using exploits as shortcuts, then complain that theres no content.


But, yeah I never grinded fates either cuz there is so much more to do. I like accepting all the quests in the area then do fates here and there when they pop up .

[AlternativeOne]

Dont concern yourself with how others play. Just do your thing and be happy. They will do there thing and be happy. Its not a race but some of us still like to be in the front. Even with 2 level 50's Im still behind many as I try to collect the best gear before moving forward.

FATE grinding is fun to me, Seeing if i can get enough golds for an achievement. Meeting people. Its all good. The questing ends at 50 you have a few high exp quest at 48 49 which will get you close to the million exp you need for the last couple of levels. But after that you have nothing but fate and dungeons. My only real issue with fate grinding is that most are content with leveling to 50 in quest or npc gear. Then they come to the primal fights or end game dungeons in that crap.

[Annah]

I can't stand fates.

It has nothing to do with the players...it's the system.

I'll be in South Shroud and all of the sudden I will see 300 people on mounts running back and forth over and over. It reminds me of a Stampede on National Geographic. They all run to a fate and in 1.9 seconds, the fate is over.

Maybe I am just insane...but I am not into leveling 50 in a few days. This is a MMO and an MMO, in my opinion, is about the adventure to get to end level.

You know all the 50s will now be stuck grinding the relics, etc and then when those are done (it doesn't take long) then they will be upset because they're bored. It's happened in every single MMO...like some kind of unwritten rite of respect to powerlevel yourself to 50...except in this game there isn't much of an effort to do so when you and 400 other people spam fates in the same zones.

[Romankimoru]

Fates are a good alternative to questing.

[BreathlessTao]

Dont concern yourself with how others play. Just do your thing and be happy. They will do there thing and be happy.

But that's just the point. They do their thing - meaning they rush to lv50 without actually completing, as pointed out, about 95% of the game content, and then they aren't happy, since it's generally those same people that keep crying about being bored...

Anyhow: {Congratulations!} and {Thank you.} to the OP. Finally someone's talking some sense in these forums. Couldn't agree more with basically everything said there.
Been playing since B4 myself, but my main is only lv43, with sub being 22, BSM 28 and BOT 18. That's it. And regardless of how we should just play the game the way we want to - it does get frustrating when more than half (and that % is getting higher every day) of the convo in your FC is about things you haven't even heard of yet. True, it can be turned off, but then might as well leave the group... and from what I see, other groups aren't that much different either. It's quite mind-boggling when someone's asking about a dungeon 10-something levels below mine one day, and then is about 10-something levels ahead of me not two days later...